Attitude Makeover

Hello to all you lovely folks from episode number 2 of the Innovation series! I’m thrilled to be joined by Philippe Gluckman, an industry veteran of Animation and Computer Graphics, and currently the Creative Director of Spire Animation Studios. Having started as a traditional 2D animator in France, he soon embraced Computer Graphics as part of the core group behind such pioneering animated featur...

Welcome on board the ecosystem of innovation starting now with our Innovation Series! Helping us dive right in is Anjan Bhowmick, Executive Director of Talent & Organisation Development, Reinsurance Group of America. Innovation starts with you and your mindset. Anjan as an advocate for completely considering the self and absorbing positive inspiration from the same takes us through the basics of a...

Hello there! Foremost and for most of it, this episode is all about leadership - as a manager for teams, for individuals and for yourself - with Jeet Kumar, CEO & Co-founder at In Time Tec, a former colleague and a dear friend. With core values of humanness and courage, Jeet highlights the importance of love as the foundation for all forms of creation, innovation and growth. He defines what leader...

Hello and welcome to another brand new episode of the Attitude Makeover Show, this week’s inclusion series is women-power to empower women through and through! I am joined by Swathi Kulkarni, the co-founder and CEO of Elda Health and an advocate of awareness about menopause. If Puberty & Pregnancy are celebrated, why not Menopause? October 18 is World Menopause Day and no better way to observe...

Hello everyone, this episode translates into entering new territories quite literally. I am joined by an expert from a completely different field for me and mostly you as well - Say hello to renowned makeup artist and hairstylist Sandhya Shekar! If you're looking at how to go about discovering yourself then here's the start! As a “village girl seeking out new adventures”, her journey started from...

Another week and another conversation straight from the CXO series! I’m in conversation with MJ Rakesh, The Mic Jockey or (now retired) Prof Ulfat Sultan on Bangalore radio. Switching from customer support in corporate to the world of performing arts of many kinds, Rakesh takes us through the introspection of careers, speaking from his own roller coaster journey. This episode is a masterclass on w...

For episode number 39, I’ve got with me the wonderful Pooja Goyal, co-founder and COO at Avishkaar (her third company). An engineer from IIT Delhi, with an MBA from INSEAD, France, she is a serial entrepreneur, and now an angel investor and advisor to many startups and entrepreneurs. She’s a through-and-through framework person, as I call it. Someone who strongly believes and strives to build some...

Hello and welcome to episode number 38 - my very first virtual conversation, Bombay to Bengaluru! I’m joined by Issac John, an early-stage Founder, Former Business Leader - Discovery/PUMA and a man of multiple career reboots (4 so far). An author of two books, he’s pursued screenwriting and has held multiple leadership roles in marketing in Discovery, Puma, CNBC among other reputed organisations....

Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of the CXO series, where I am in conversation with a range of CXOs with dynamic career journeys, who come loaded with experience and expertise to share with us. In Episode 37, I have with me Nitish Chiniwar, a social entrepreneur and founder of Bridges of Sports. Having started his passion-led, entrepreneurial journey as a single-man army (“with friends as...

Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of the CXO series, where I am in conversation with a range of CXOs with dynamic career journeys, who come loaded with experience and expertise to share with us. Sayandeb Banerjee, co-founder and CEO of The Math Company joins me for a deep dive into the realm of behavioural economics with respect to supply and demand. Touching upon the fundamentals of behavi...

The AttitudeMakeover CXO series is a new segment which includes interviews with a range of CXOs with dynamic career journeys, who come loaded with experience and expertise to share with us. In this new episode, I’m joined by Sandeep Alur, Director, Microsoft Technology Center. He is my ex-colleague, dear friend and a person who has followed AttitudeMakeover from the very beginning providing me wit...

Hello and welcome to a new addition to the AttitudeMakeover podcasts: the CXO series, wherein I'm going to be in conversation with a range of CXOs with dynamic career journeys, who come loaded with experience and expertise to share with us. First up, I have with me Vidhya Srinivasan, CFO, Bata India Limited. This episode covers ALL the basics of money matters you need to know, especially if you ar...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Attitude Makeover. In this episode, I have with me the supremely talented musical siblings - singer-songwriter Bindu Subramaniam and violinist-composer Ambi Subramaniam. Together they form the two-piece band SubraMania and are the founders of SaPa - Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts. Children of the violin maestro Dr. L Subramaniam, the duo is usually described...

Hello everyone! It is my absolute pleasure to host Kumudha Chandrasekaran, a beautiful dancer, teacher and choreographer associated with The Temple of Fine Arts, Bangalore. She has also pursued her research studies in Dance Education at the Royal Academy of Dance, London. Setting the context of a dance practitioner’s personal point of view on unlearning, and how it shapes her own artistic pursuit,...

Hello everybody, welcome to the Attitude Makeover Show! My guest for the day has a fan in me and most of you’ll I’m sure. It was an absolute pleasure to be in conversation with Sonu Venugopal - a digital creator known for being Uncle Sheshadri, Krithika, or just a humorous mirror of everyday realities! She is also an amazing stand-up comic, improviser, and an actor in the making based out of Benga...

Hello everyone! This episode of The Attitude Makeover Show is as unique as it gets. It’s my absolute pleasure to have been joined by Karan Raju, Martha Kreuberg and Inga Floer - three psychologists and amazing personalities in a healthy polyamourous relationship in the Netherlands. This episode really looks at the dynamic from three useful perspectives in a non-judgemental way and offers a warm, i...

Welcome back to another fresh episode of The Attitude Makeover Show. Today I am joined by Madhurima Agarwal, Country Head - Microsoft for Startups, India. She also heads the Global Startup Program and is also an angel investor within her personal capacity. Having started out as an entrepreneur herself, with a passion for finance and years of experience on her side, Madhurima has established hersel...

Hello dear viewers and welcome to the latest episode of The Attitude Makeover Show! My guest for the day is the incredible Raja Chidambaram, a change and leadership enabler - a man who has been helping organisations and people transform and stay ahead of the curve for 24+ years now! Pivoting from a family business into a journey of self-discovery, he tapped into a niche area that may have been a p...

Hello from a brand new episode of The Attitude Makeover Show! Today, I have with me Lalitha Indrakanti, Head of Global Business Operations at Ingka group, IKEA. An unconventional leader with a strong business focus, she’s held several leadership roles across business lines over 20+ years. As a small town girl with a different upbringing, she started working at 17 with a core belief of never giving...

Hello everybody, welcome to The Attitude Makeover Show. Today, I’m in conversation with Sundeep Rao - India’s Funniest Partially Blind Stand-up Comedian who is crystal clear when it comes to his many views, observations, opinions in life. Diagnosed with juvenile macular degeneration, a retina disorder when he was nine years old, Sundeep chose to switch to stand-up comedy and use the stage to accep...

Hello everybody, in this episode I've got Tathagat Varma, also known as TV. Not only is his name unique, but so is his career journey and personality. He is a PhD scholar in AI Business. Previously, an ex-Computer Scientist with Defence Research and Development Organisation, he was the youngest member of the 13th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica in 1993-95 for 16 icy-cold months. The exp...

Hello from Episode No. 24 of The Attitude Makeover Show! Today, I have with me Dr. Gurmeet Soni Bhalla, an experienced Consultant Paediatrician with extensive experience in Allergy, Immunology, Health & Nutrition. And there's more, she's a runner who has completed marathons in all seven continents. As a working mother who has cracked the work-life code and become a pro at it, Dr. Bhalla puts toget...

In episode 23 of The Attitude Makeover Show, I'm delighted to have with me the wonderful Samyukta Hornad - an actor, artist, animal activist and an old soul in a young body who's all over the place, as she likes to put it. In this one we mainly talk about finding your identity amidst fame. Having started out at the age of six with art in her blood, Samyukta found her form of expression and passion...

Hello dear viewers and welcome to Ep 22 of Attitude Makeover! Girl Power all the way as I present to you my guest for the day, Sapna Gurukar - The Woman in the Machine better recognised as India's first female off-road racer. We talk about how she finds it important to keep holding on to a sense of individuality in relationships. She's made of something different and you'll know it right from the...

Hello everyone, welcome to p 21 of The Attitude Makeover Show. My guest for the day is Akshay Bharadwaj - an ace poker player and a product engineering expert in the world of gaming holding the position of VP & GM at Zynga. Akshay is truly a master of his trade and has given himself the full flywheel experience right from the time he passed out of B-school. We talk about how one can Skill Tran...