The 'Inspire your Life' Podcast with Arthi Rabikrisson

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 10 of Season 2 Arthi has an inspiring chat with Melissa Leich, helping us understand the importance of being able to embrace change skillfully. Melissa’s multicultural upbringing and love for diversity started in childhood, resulting in her studying in the UK and being able to try out new experiences throughout Europe and Asia as a result. She has made some difficult de...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 9 of season 2, Arthi welcomes long-time friend, and human and environmental rights activist Yuri Ramkissoon to the show. Yuri shares her context of growing up in an activist family, experiencing childhood and teenage-hood in the KZN South Industrial Basin, and bearing witness to the disregard and impunity from the private sector and government to remedy the pollution. ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arthi has an interesting discussion with guest Alvina Peat about how one can go about taking control of ones career. Alvina worked in mortgage finance for many years and the company underwent a re-organisation, leaving her with a decision to make: reapply for her role or take a leap of faith. Through a mindset shift, she took this juncture as an opportunity to rei...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 7 of Season 2 Arthi has an inspiring chat with founder Reena Khullar, who began her business in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic! Reena wanted to try something new and she figured she could go back to a 8am-4pm job at some stage if she wanted to but for now the conditions were right: everyone was working from home, everyone was looking for new ways to manage this envi...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 6 of this season, Arthi has an insightful conversation with Leang about how we need to raise our self-awareness as solopreneur. Leang shares how she was someone who always had to do things first in her family, being a role model to cousins and one of the eldest in her generation, she set the bar of what they could consider doing and achieving. It’s quite a responsibilit...

Send us Fan Mail In the 5th episode of Season 2, Arthi is joined by gest Dr Rosetta (Rose) Pillay, a woman who's journey to her purpose is filled with career changes and choices. Rose shares context about her traditional upbringing and extremely humble background, with expectations around what her career should be. She boldly selected choices that were out of line of those expectations, and a...

Send us Fan Mail As we begin #womenhistorymonth in March 2022, Arthi speaks to guest Divya Parekh about the joy of impacting others. Divya shares about her career inflection point as a result of watching her colleagues being laid off and how this catalysed her thinking about the impact this on her own esteem and health, and what she could do to ensure next time it was not her being retrenched. Aft...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 and as part of spotlighting the focus on Black History Month, Arthi is joined by guest Nadine Hack, to talk more about Humility and connectedness. Nadine recounts her awareness of ubuntu (the African philosophy of 'I am because we are') as something that she came into the world into, and thereafter being drawn to other  people who imbued connectedness as the...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 2 of the second season of the Inspire Your Life podcast, Arthi explores the positive side of limiting beliefs, and how one can thrive beyond it, with guest Susan, who has had to overcome tremendous limiting beliefs imposed by others, at a young age, and became her burden to carry and fend off. And fend off she did, despite being an introvert. She found the courage on a...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of Season 2, Arthi explores more about # Ikigai , the Japanese philosophy of purpose, with guest Santa, who has been using this philosophy since being a graduate. She shares a number of personal stories of her journey of finding herself without a job in the financial crisis, to cultural expectations of what she should do as a career, to being undervalued for...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of Season 1, Arthi has a meaningful conversation with the inspiring Joyel Crawford about how we can not just move past burnout, but actually bounce forward from it. Joyel shares how 2020 was the year she was looking forward to, from a business and professional perspective, with a number of key projects lined up, until the pandemic hit, causing cancellations a...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Arthi has a meaningful conversation with Sahar Andrade about how growing up in 7 different countries as a child was laden with both negative and positive experiences. On the positive side, she met people who were so diverse, that she became accepting and non-judgemental of who they were. Thus very open-minded as a child.  On the negative side, it created a lack of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arthi has a purpose and value-based discussion with Michael Thiemann, who shares some of his personal journey where he reached a tipping point in a very successful corporate career and made the decision to live more purposefully based on his values. A positive impact from the financial crisis, would you believe! Michaels shares his personal vision, which is inspir...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Arthi has an inspiring conversation with Sujata Gupta, the creative head and founder of fashion boutique Nandni Studio in India. Sujata reached her 40's and realised that this 3rd phase of her life needed to be purposeful and meaningful to her, not based on others expectations. Being a seasoned IT specialist in the corporate world,  it was a chance sighting of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arthi has an eye-opening conversation with Harumi Gondo, about knowing the value of the business you conduct, and how to set those all important next step boundaries. Harumi shares her personal business experiences of growing her NPO and business and how having a low pricing model hindered her success, until she became self-aware that this needed to change. With c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Arthi has a conversation with Dr Ryan Lahti about how one can deal with blame, uncertainty and risk.  In this VUCA environment, we face these threats regularly and often are ill equipped to handle them with success. Ryan shares his personal experience of dealing with  blame, uncertainty and risk in a client context and shares insights on how to navigate these as sk...

Send us Fan Mail Arthi's guest on the show  is career coach Erin Urban. Erin shares how a poor performance review gave her much needed insight about why she was not moving ahead in her career towards the desired leadership role. This catalysed her to reflect and with the support of both her CEO and mentor, began a self-awareness journey that culminated in what she does today. Erin offers idea...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Arthi has a deep and impactful conversation with Christine Rose, about her experiences with gender violence in childhood and how that impacted her into teenage and adulthood. She shares how with support and guidance, she was able to heal from the trauma and returned to her authentic self again. She has dedicated her life to service for others, be it via coaching or...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Arthi has a deep conversation with Ali Dunn about the (internal) barriers that come into play once women become mothers, both on the personal and professional front. Because women play many roles in their personal and career lives, there is often guilt around time management and prioritisation between these two areas. Ali shares her personal story of grappling wit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arthi talks with Claire Boscq-Scott, who shares how her realisation that her life was heading out of control, both personally and in her career, made her take the brave decision to take her power back, So, she quit her stressful job, moved to the island of Jersey, even got divorced and had to find her feet again. But it gave birth to her successful entrepreneurial...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Arthi invites guest Jennifer Helene Popken to share more about her emotional health and how reaching that difficult place actually catalysed her towards a now successful career. Jennifer shares her framework for success called emotional stamina which has the triad pillars of fitness, food and mindset. She shares how food and emotional health is linked and also advo...

Send us Fan Mail Arthi is in conversation with Csaba Toth, a British/Hungarian entrepreneur, researcher and coach based in the UK.  Csaba shares how through some of his business failures arose the opportunity to disrupt the common mindset, at a business, culture and self-awareness basis. Listen to his key advice and learning from his journey to-date, to make your own disruptions possible and oppor...

Send us Fan Mail In this birthday episode , Arthi shares some reflections from the past year.  In a pandemic , there is a new normal in now in place, and even me-time and self care looks very different to pre-pandemic times. Arthi shares how she had to adjust to a new home life, and had to have a new lens on her business too. From collaborators and partners she met along the way, she learned about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Arthi speaks about the need to understand and fortify one's emotional resilience to cope with stress, anxiety, frustration, guilt, but also to be able to be truly empathetic, and offer kindness. In a world where words and actions can be easily misunderstood or misrepresented, showing emotion can become a double-edged sword. Thus the perceived judgement by othe...

Send us Fan Mail Arthi is joined by guest Neshica, who shares her personal story of resilience. Having been in a near-fatal car accident, Neshica had to find the courage to overpower mental distress in order to recover.  Her sheer tenacity, along with support from loved ones, ensured that she recovered fully and is able to lead a normal life. However, her resilience was tested many times over the...