Women Making Impact - India

After finishing her business studies from Australia, Swati was all determined to join her family business in Kolkata.  Hailing from an affluent Marwari family of Kolkata, Swati soon realized that she is not fit for this number crunching role in the metal trade. She was more of a people’s person and found her calling in spreading happiness and positivity. She started painting and enrolled her...

Sahiba has provided her services to schools like Carmel Convent & Pathways, Colleges of GGSIPU & Khalsa College of DU. With working professionals being the epicentre through Ameriprise Financial, Max Life Insurance, LawSikho, Rotary Club Aurangabad, Bar Association Jalna District amongst many more. Having a wide spectrum of training deliverables, she has empowered over 600 individuals.&nbs...

A Delhiite, Vidhi Puri has always been a social butterfly, she’s known for hosting some of the best parties right from her high school. She studied literature from Jesus & Mary College. For post-graduation, she chose Gender Studies as a specialisation from Ambedkar University. She is a young visionary who founded The Cocktail Story, India’s first Cocktail Community in 2018. Quite popular for i...

In a professional career spanning over 30 years, Pearl has been associated with the not-for-profit, educational and corporate sectors. A post-graduate from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Pearl’s early job profiles ensured a close association with urban and rural development issues, inclusive development and as faculty at TISS before joining the corporate sector. Mid-care...

CashKaro ’s Co-Founder,  Swati Bhargava  is a global entrepreneur, who along with Co-Founder, Rohan Bhargava has turned around India’s online shopping landscape. Together they ensure users save money in the form of Cashback whenever they shop online and make CashKaro a household name. A  Fortune 40Under40 entrepreneur , Swati is an exemplary leader with over 15 years...

Chinu’s journey started at the age of 15 when her first job ever was to work as a Door to Door salesperson. This was one of the most challenging jobs but at that age, this was the best that she could get. Along the way she faced many challenges and for many years she did multiple part-time jobs thus working almost 16 hours every day. She recounts that during her struggle period having 3 meals a da...

Paramita is a certified Sports Nutritionist cum Entrepreneur with diverse experience in the field of Nutrition Science. She has been practising yoga for more than 15 years now as a disciple of Sadhguru. Prior to focusing on nutrition science, she was a business analyst for nearly 12 years. Shifting from corporate to being a certified nutritionist and fitness coach, the journey was emotional and tr...

Manjula Nairr is the Founder of A Buzz Company and has an overall 25 years of experience in the field of Marketing and Communications. Manjula is an active startup mentor for over 400 startups and has interviewed around 800 startups. She is an official mentor for ‘Google Startup Weekend’ and official sponsor for ‘Google Startup Grind’ & ‘Founder Institute’. She founded A Buzz Company to help S...

Mrs Mansi Gupta is a woman with a strong aura to her name, with determination and talent being a few remarkable traits. The co-founder of the lifestyle brand ‘Tjori’ founded in January 2013 in India. She created this brand with the idea of promoting the traditional Indian handicrafts with the touch of modernism to get global recognition. A plan built on the whiteboard in a room of the Wharton univ...

Isha Bhandari is an International Social Scientist, Chairperson DSB Foundation, India, Global Goodwill Ambassador India, Advisor to National & International Charities, A Campaigner, Speaker, Panelist &Moderator. She has to her credit National and International Campaigns on Women Health. She has voiced many forums in India and abroad at House of Commons and House of Lords, UK and...

Dr Kruti Khemani, a specialist in sports physiotherapy has many accolades to her name having extended this specialisation into her own physiotherapy clinic Continuum. Kruti has completed her Masters in Sports Physiotherapy from the University of Sydney and has been working in the field as an expert for the last 14 years. In this podcast, we talk about her fascinating journey in physiotherapy from...

Aishwarya Ganji is the Founder and CEO of Mahila Saksham Foundation. A firm believer in education as a driver of social and economic change, Aishwarya has worked towards this cause with pioneering NGOs such as Pratham Education Foundation, Ann Foundation Inc. and AIESEC. A graduate from Mumbai's prestigious Dhirubhai Ambani International School, she holds a Masters Degree in English Literature. Wi...

Stuti is an award-winning entrepreneur, young achiever, internationally recognized as an emerging woman leader –founded Crosshairs Communication when she was 23 years old. She recently founded  WIN - Women Inspiring Network ( https://since1700.com/stimulus ) that is powering up women with information and builds networks and creates ecosystems for women to thrive lead & create.

In this podcast, I speak with Rashi Menda who is the CEO of IS.U. Rashi has had an illustrious career with E&Y prior to starting up on her own. She discovered that women are bombarded with choices when it comes to online shopping and thus built a technology platform which adjusted itself as per the browsing history of the shopper and only showed relevant options. Her next big move was launchin...

This interview is with Corolyn. She has been working as a voice-over artist for 5 years now. In this interview, we discuss how patience is a very important thing while starting something new. She also stresses how we only become proficient in any activity only with relentless practice. She started baking as a way to feed healthy food to her kids but her recipes have been very famous with moms acro...

In this podcast, I interview Pragya Batra who graduated from IIT Delhi joined Bain & Company. She worked there for four years and later went on to study at INSEAD for MBA. She again came back to India to join Bain & Company again, got smitten with the startup bug after 2 years and joined InMobi in Bangalore working closely with one of the co founder.  Incidentally, her sister was also in Bangalore...