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Send us Fan Mail Ravishankar Venkateswaran is the author and director of Punyakoti, India's first crowdfunded and crowdsourced animated feature film in Sanskrit. He started his career as a copywriter after a Master's Degree in English Literature. He was a pioneer and was instrumental in creating the first interactive multimedia CD-ROM based on Indian fables way back in 1995.  In this epi...

Send us Fan Mail Children are born with all the power in the world; it is the external environment and the interactions children have that restricts their natural Gifts and hence their development. By providing a “Nurturing and Stimulating” environment we can support raising their intelligence and potential to keep learning”. “NO-LIMIT CHILDREN” This Is Just Not A Belief – That’s The Way It Is Joi...

Send us Fan Mail A futurist, business strategist, keynote speaker, businessman and entrepreneur, Anton engages with clients around the world in strategic conversations on the future.  Anton is a partner in Futureworld International, having joined the global Futureworld network in 1991.  He has gained step-change business experience in a varied and successful professional, entrepreneurial and busin...

Send us Fan Mail Pooja Rai’s NGO, Anthill Creations , builds sustainable playgrounds for kids “Playgrounds should not be a luxury”. It is something every child should have access to for free.” And that is when the then 23-year-old student of architecture in IIT-Kharagpur made her first playground for children within her institution’s campus, using colourful tyres from cars and two-wheelers repurpo...

Send us Fan Mail Siddharth Rajsekar set out on his path to becoming a digital coach in 2018, he was very clear on his motive. After spending years strategizing for some of the best names in the industry like Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Robert Kiyosaki, he decided to shift gears from being a digital marketer to clearly focusing on his main mission - redefining the education system of India. Siddhart...

Send us Fan Mail Flashback 10 is a bonus episode. This is an amalgamation of the last 10 episodes in a concise form bringing in key lessons from the last ten guests. Inspire Someone Today featured the following guests as part of this Flashback 10 - Engineer turned Doctor - Jhanavi Rao , CEO of Titan Wearables - Suparna Mitra , Renowned Rehabilitation and Cancer expert - Vani Phawa , Sleep expert -...

Send us Fan Mail Marketer by profession, an entrepreneur by heart, that’s Pratik Thakker. From a young kid selling firecrackers to pickles, a teenage salesman to a stock analyst, sailing through storms, from India to Israel, this is an extraordinary success journey of a digital and tech entrepreneur. Pratik, a young entrepreneur and LI influencer shares the roots of his entrepreneurial journey, th...

Send us Fan Mail Deepthi Bopaiah is the CEO of GoSports Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2008, which supports junior, emerging, and elite athletes in Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. In 2019, the Foundation was awarded the ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Award - National Sports Encouragement Award’ by the President of India , for identifying and nurturing young talent in sports. Deept...

Send us Fan Mail Major D.P. Singh is a retired officer of the Indian Army. He is a Kargil War veteran and is known as India's first blade runner.   After his amputation, he gradually started running using a prosthetic limb and has run in 26 half marathons in his running career. This includes 3 HM in extremely high altitude as high as 11700 ft in Leh. The Limca Book of Records added his name t...

Send us Fan Mail Anjali worked in senior corporate roles in Australia, Singapore and India for more than 18 years. Her diverse corporate experience gave her an in depth understanding of strategic issues companies face as well as issues that employees face in delivering their best work. Armed with that knowledge, experience and understanding, in 2012, Anjali founded Narrative: The Business of Stori...

Send us Fan Mail SPEAKER. EDUCATOR. STORYTELLER. Sam Thiara , through his tireless work,continues to be committed to the betterment of communities as a speaker, educator and storyteller. In 2016, Sam received the Governor General’s Sovereign’s Volunteer Medal as a past recipient of the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. Also, in 2012 he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Ric...

Send us Fan Mail Sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. Damon West on this episode of Inspire Someone Today, shares his personal story of a flourishing life squandered due to drugs and how he was able to reinvent himself through the jail term. The genesis of being a coffee bean story, finding hope from a hopeless situation and the pay it forward work, that he...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Monika Sharma, Founder of Sleep Moksha, Consultant and Researcher, Behavioural Sleep Medicine, having spent over 13 years in sleep academia at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital; Max Super Specialty Hospital; etc., India and University of Pennsylvania; VA Medical Center; Brown Medical University, USA and the voice behind Sleep Moksha- A Sleep wellness Institute. On this episode Sleep Matt...

Send us Fan Mail Vani B. Pahwa is a wellness entrepreneur and coach who dons multiple hats. A seasoned and recognized Indian Classical Dancer , she has acquired an inherent knowledge of the importance of holistic wellness and functional fitness from a very young age. With close to two  decades of experience in Wellness & Functional Fitness, Vani strongly believes that one should “train for lif...

Send us Fan Mail Suparna is the Chief Executive Officer - Watches and Wearables division at Titan . She has a degree in electrical engineering and a post graduate from IIM, Calcutta. She has extensive sales and marketing experience, mainly in the lifestyle / retail marketing area in companies like Hindustan Unilever, Talisma Corp and Arvind Brands Ltd. She has been Global Marketing Head – Titan wh...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Janhavi Ajit Rao, our next guest on Inspire Someone Today. A highly successful IT professional saw her career impacted when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Her response to it was nothing short of spectacular, stuff dreams are made of act! Janhavi shares her life story that prompted her to give her IT career and start afresh as a trained doctor at the age of 43....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode #22. This is a bonus episode, Flashback 10 and is a summary episode for episodes  12 through 21 with key nuggets. Success seems overnight and the bearings of it is always behind the scenes. These last 10 episodes have outlined the key overtones for success. Starting with defining success from the Internationally acclaimed Cricket Umpire Simon Taufel who beautifu...

Send us Fan Mail Payal Nanjiani is a top leadership speaker and one of the world's renowned leadership experts who to date has helped a million people and numerous organizations lead and succeed against all odds. Her work is embraced by Fortune 500 companies, large 0rganizations, government officials, and many celebrity CEOs.  On this 21st episode, Payal shares leadership lessons through her...

Send us Fan Mail Janat Shah is the founding director of IIM Udaipur. Under his leadership, IIM Udaipur has become the fastest growing management school in the country. IIMU arrived on the global education stage by getting accreditation from the AACSB in merely eight years of its establishment. With this achievement, IIM Udaipur has joined the elite group of 5 percent of the world’s B-schools to be...

Send us Fan Mail Simon James Arthur Taufel , (born 21 January, 1971)* is a former Australian cricket umpire who was earlier a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel . He won five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards between 2004 and 2008, and was generally considered to have been the best umpire in the world during his time. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 26 September...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Taryn Marie is a foremost international expert on resilience, in both leadership and life. She is the former Head of Executive Leadership Development at Nike, Global Leadership Development at Cigna, and founded Resilience Leadership, where she serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), leveraging over a decade of research on resilience, that gave birth to the empirically-ba...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nisha is a tourism practitioner, consultant, lecturer and corporate trainer with more than 20 years extensive management experience in the Tourism and Hospitality industry. She holds a Masters in Business Administration, specialising in Hospitality and Tourism Management, by the Nanyang Business School, Singapore. She holds a PhD from the Murdoch University (Australia) in the...

Send us Fan Mail Hema Hattangady, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce, with the tenth rank in Karnataka University. She did her post-graduation in management from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata in 1987. She also has a post-graduate diploma in French from Karnataka University. She started her career as Client Service Executive at Bangalore advertising firm Adwit India. She be...

Send us Fan Mail SRIKANTH VISWANATHAN, is Chief Executive Officer of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy. There are several challenges in our cities that can be solved only through civic learning (essentially the learning of civic sense) and civic participation at scale. About Janaagraha - Janaagraha is a non-profit organisation based in Bangalore that works on combining the efforts of...

Send us Fan Mail A man who has seen the growth of Indian sports and its stars in close quarters gives interesting anecdotes and life lessons through the lens of this much-acclaimed journalist. Rajaraman , is a respected sports journalist who has seen the journey of Indian sports and sporting heroes in close quarters. Raj is among a handful of sports communication professionals with diverse multime...