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Send us Fan Mail Episode 188 — The Future Is an Inside Job Guest: Dr. Shalini Lal, Future Minds What if the very things that made you successful are also keeping you from seeing what comes next? We spend a lot of time talking about being future-ready: learning new skills, embracing AI, staying curious, becoming more agile. But future readiness may not be just about what we need to learn. It is als...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 187 — The Lost Art of Being Heard Guest: Julian Treasure, Founder, The Sound Agency | Author, Sound Effects We live in perhaps the most connected age in human history — everyone has a platform, everyone has a voice, and increasingly, even machines can speak for us. But are we actually getting better at communicating? Julian Treasure has spent decades exploring two deceptiv...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 186 — Everyone Is a Designer Guest: Saurabh Gupta, Founder, Zeux Innovation We live in a world where answers are becoming easier to find. AI can generate ideas, analyze information, create options, and increasingly do things that once required years of expertise. So perhaps the advantage is no longer simply in having the answer — perhaps it's in noticing what others m...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Kavi Arasu is the founder of Flyntrok, a change consultancy built around deep listening, reframing, and human-centered organizational change. He writes the weekly Friday Fable series on LinkedIn and has kept a personal blog since the early days of blogging.   Part 2 of our conversation with Flyntrok founder Kavi Arasu goes somewhere more personal. We get into the discipline...

Send us Fan Mail   Guest  Kavi Arasu founded Flyntrok, a change consultancy built on deep listening, reframing, and human-centered organizational change. He spent two decades in leadership, talent, and organizational development roles inside large companies before going independent.  Episode Notes  We talk about organizational change as if it's a project — define the future state, build the r...

Send us Fan Mail  Episode 184 — The Champion Builder ft. Sanjeeva Singh  He learned archery by watching. As a schoolboy volunteering at the 1982 Asian Games, Sanjeeva Singh had never held a bow — he spent his days fetching targets and water for the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese archers training on the field he was assigned to. He watched. He applied his Class 11 physics to what he saw. Within two...

Send us Fan Mail Certainty Is a Trap  ft. Rhea D'Souza Sixth Anniversary Season · Inspire Someone Today Rhea D'Souza has spent nearly three decades inside the messy reality of organizations and leadership — and has spent most of that time looking for answers in places most consultants wouldn't think to look. She's looked at how forests regulate themselves without a CEO. How ant...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Inspire Someone Today , Srikanth sits down with Shrinath V — product strategist, startup coach, Google Developer Expert, and the writer behind the Substack Blind Spots to Big Bets — for a conversation that refuses to let you off the hook. Shrinath has lived through two layoffs at companies “built to last”—Motorola and Nokia—and turned those career disruptions in...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 181 — The Inspired Leader ft. Anil Sachdev Anil Sachdev wrote his life's mission statement at 19. He is the Founder and Chairman of the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), founded Eicher Consultancy Services and Grow Talent, and has spent five decades helping individuals and organisations discover what they are truly capable of. His new book — The Inspired Leader: S...

Send us Fan Mail What makes someone feel truly at home — in a hotel, a homestay, or their own life? For this 6th-anniversary episode, Srikanth sits down with Priya Vishwanathan , who gave 35 years to the Taj and IHCL, helped build the ama Stays & Trails homestay business, and then did the hardest thing of all: walked away at the top to find out who she was without the badge. This is a conversa...

Send us Fan Mail A résumé can look inevitable in hindsight, but the human story is usually messier and far more useful. I sit down with Jack Madrid , whose career spans Citibank, Ayala, MTV Philippines, Yahoo, Multiply, and now IBPAP , the organization that represents the Philippines' IT-BPM industry. We talk about what actually travels across industries when your job title changes, and why r...

Send us Fan Mail Your brain is designed to keep you safe, not to help you change, and that single fact explains why so many goals stall, so many training programs flop, and so many leaders feel stuck repeating the same patterns. We sit down with Desikamani (Mani), founder of Mental Learning and creator of result-oriented learning engineering, to explore behavior change through an unusual lens: met...

Send us Fan Mail If someone audited your life like a portfolio, would it show only a career or would it reveal real compounding assets like health, relationships, curiosity, and courage? I sit with that question and share what changed for me after six conversations in the Portfolio Life series, because the biggest insights weren’t about collecting titles. They were about building a life that stays...

Send us Fan Mail Money can be the one topic we avoid the most, even while it shapes nearly every choice we make. We wanted to change that, so we invited Anu Seth, financial coach and co-founder of Paid Forward, for an honest conversation on financial confidence, leadership, and the portfolio life many of us are already living. Anu shares how she became an “accidental investor” after starting out i...

Send us Fan Mail He started as a software engineer, tried building systems on the side as a fresher, and once quoted a potential client four motorbikes as payment. That mix of boldness and curiosity becomes the throughline of our conversation with M D Ramaswami , an engineer turned entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and ecosystem builder who keeps evolving long after most people settle into one lane....

Send us Fan Mail Most careers are built like ladders. Nikki Barua argues for something braver: a portfolio life built like a constellation, where every role points back to one central quest. We sit down with Nikki to explore how insatiable curiosity can become a life design strategy, and why the point is not stacking credentials but getting radically clear on what you are here to unlock. Her hub-a...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of this 2-part conversation with Professor Rajiv Vaidyanathan. Two invisible forces shape almost every awkward moment, workplace conflict, and relationship argument: we want to feel good about ourselves and look good to others. When either one feels threatened, we snap, defend, withdraw, or blame. We sit down with Rajiv to unpack how behavioral science and self-awareness ca...

Send us Fan Mail You can be smart, informed, and highly motivated and still fail to do the things you swear matter most. That’s not a character flaw; it’s often a pattern. I sit down with Rajiv Vaidyanathan, a professor and researcher in behavioral decision science, to unpack the intention-action gap and the hidden forces that pull us away from our own best plans. We get practical fast: why “life...

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Nikita Jain to talk about Portfolio Life in real time, where career, identity, and values are still being built under constraints. We explore what makes public policy work humane, why implementation fails, and how writing and proximity create durable judgment.  • rebuilding system literacy after moving countries  • building judgment in complex systems  • using wri...

Send us Fan Mail A polished career can hide a quiet price. When you spend decades in newsrooms, close to ministers, bureaucrats, elections, and crisis, what happens to your inner life when your outer life never slows down? We kick off our Portfolio Life Series with Rakesh Khar, a veteran of India’s leading news brands, to talk about resilience that is not performative. He opens up about being disp...

Send us Fan Mail Clarity is overrated. The real beginning of change is that uneasy feeling you keep trying to outgrow, ignore, or rationalise away. We close our Changemakers series with a reflective summary of the conversations that lingered long after recording ended, and the seven lessons that reshaped how we think about agency, purpose, and impact.  We talk about what it looks like to live full...

Send us Fan Mail A single whispered conversation about periods during COVID became a wake-up call and a launchpad. We’re joined by Palakh Khanna, founder of Break the Ice, a youth-led nonprofit that creates spaces for honest dialogue around the topics many communities still treat as taboo: menstruation and period poverty, mental health, gender equality, sustainability, climate action, and youth em...

Send us Fan Mail What if the life you want begins the moment you give yourself permission to start again? We sit down with Archana to trace a quiet, insistent nudge that grew into a full second act—one grounded not in escape, but in intention. She opens up about leaving a successful corporate career, confronting imposter syndrome head-on, and replacing the comfort of titles with the steady courage...

Send us Fan Mail Grades get the spotlight; the child gets the shadow. We sit down with Manoj Krishnan, founder of the Compass Team, to unpack a different way of helping students thrive—through comprehensive assessments that look at emotional health, cognition, speech and language, hearing, nutrition, and more. Instead of chasing scores and hype, Manoj shows how early, standardized screening plus t...

Send us Fan Mail What if love isn’t enough when care gets real? We sat down with Bhavana to trace a bold pivot from corporate certainty to building Caregiver Sathi, a mission grounded in lived experience, practical skills, and the quiet courage to act. The journey starts with an unlikely spark—a return to motorcycles that rekindled agency and joy—then unfolds into a deeper inquiry about living a d...