Our Future STRONG

I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about their own potential – and yes, I’m aiming to win the Nobel in December 2044 for contributions to...

Here are the links I used in this podcast: https://futurestrong.org/2019/11/06/this-is-how-tech-billionaires-parent/https://futurestrong.org/2025/04/19/how-tech-billionaires-raise-screen-free-kids-the-shocking-parenting-secrets-you-need-to-know-%f0%9f%93%b5/https://futurestrong.org/2026/02/22/tech-billionaires-dont-trust-their-own-tech-the-screen-time-secrets-theyre-hiding-from-parents/https://www...

I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about their own potential – and yes, I’m aiming to win the Nobel in December 2044 for contributions to...

I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about their own potential – and yes, I’m aiming to win the Nobel in December 2044 for contributions to...

I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about their own potential – and yes, I’m aiming to win the Nobel in December 2044 for contributions to...

I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about their own potential – and yes, I’m aiming to win the Nobel in December 2044 for contributions to...

Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. I love to help people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. This video has been generated using Notebook LLM using an essay I've written on Sagan's work. You can read the essay here: https://futurestrong.org/2026/01/31/carl-sagan-didnt-just-expla...

A reflection on silence, stillness, and the freedom of a quiet mind — an exploration of why stepping away from noise can help us reconnect with ourselves.-------------------------------------Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppa...

Hi, welcome, I've used Notebook LLM to create this video based on an article I've written about scaling AI projects from pilots to production ready. Read the full article HERE.https://futurestrong.org/2026/04/23/beyond-genai-pilots-how-enterprises-build-scalable-ai-with-governance-and-trust/I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’...

Through Breathless, I capture fleeting moments of desire and intimacy, weaving cosmic and everyday imagery. These micro-poems are tiny jolts of electricity, meant to be felt when words fail and emotions can’t betray us. Read the full poem HERE.https://futurestrong.org/2026/03/15/breathless-a-poem-by-rachana/I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+...

Kryptonite is an exploration of that high-voltage space between a professional facade and private vulnerability, where an "iron will" dissolves into the blue light of a smartphone screen. This isn't just an audio rendition, it’s the sound of the internal shift from boardroom resolve to midnight ruin. Press play to enter the room. Read the full poem HERE .

I’ve written this from the perspective of a mid-lifer, about how we get infinite chances at reinventing ourselves only if we’re looking for those opportunities. My children play video games and they have this permadeath feature where you can “press reset” repeatedly. What we lived real life like that? What if we could shed old versions of ourselves, forgive our own mistakes, and drop toxic habits...

Hi thank you for listening to my essay on the Dahshur pyramids and the Sahara desert. See the pictures of my travel here. https://futurestrong.org/2026/01/07/a-speck-on-the-sahara-sipping-tea-above-egypts-bent-and-red-pyramids/I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of...

Hello, the name of the poem is "That Will Leave a Mark." In a locked hotel room, two people are orbiting each other in loaded silence. There is desire, there is restraint, and there is the tyranny of civility. They choose not to act, and that becomes the bruise that lingers the longest. Thank you for listening. You can read the poem here: I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry an...

Hello, this is my audio rendition of my poem Cohesion — a raw, unapologetic celebration of insatiable desire and the kind of intimacy that refuses to end. Thank you for listening. You can read the poem here: https://futurestrong.org/2026/01/13/cohesion-a-poem-by-rachana/I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock...

I have to write great opening lines if I’m going to become the most famous writer in the world. I don’t remember the exact moment I started calling myself a writer, but I do remember the night I decided to start a blog. I had only learned what a “blog” was a few months earlier, and suddenly it felt like my turn to have one. Read the article HERE. https://futurestrong.org/2025/12/10/becoming-a-writ...

Thank you for listening! Find the full essay here. https://futurestrong.org/2025/11/09/the-festival-in-my-heart-how-i-learned-to-live-between-rage-and-grace/ Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To co...

This essay is about travel, wanderlust and our perennial need for discovery. I wrote this while staring at a glorious sunset. As the golden hour sky gets swallowed into the borrowed moonlight, I try to find my way home. But I’m beautifully, hopelessly lost. Read the essay on FutureSTRONG.org. Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve...

Hey, I've used AI to create this video. Of all the digital junk that gets forwarded, this one is my favorite. Hope you like it too. Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better...

Of all the habits I have to break, I never thought a person would become one. With you, whatever I resist digs deeper. The weather isn’t helping, and I keep adding more sugar to my chai, as if sweetness could settle the unrest inside. Read the prose here. https://futurestrong.org/2025/12/14/wish-i-had-never-met-you-a-prose-poem-by-rachana/Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essa...

I hope you know by now. I’m crushing hard on you. You are the shiny object I’m trying to get away from, yet there’s nothing else in the world that commands my attention the way you do. And I’m going all in. Read the prose here. https://futurestrong.org/2025/11/24/arrested-by-your-gravity-a-philosophical-freefall-into-desire-nsfw/Hi, I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our...

This is my audio rendition of the poem on forbidden love and longing. Thank you for listening. I’m Rachana, and I write short stories, poetry and essays on our enduring humanity. For 15+ years I’ve been helping people unlock their highest potential and build lives of purpose, resilience and unstoppable momentum. My big dream? To consciously create a better future where everyone is excited about th...

Read the poem here: https://futurestrong.org/2014/12/30/child-bearers-of-the-world/

And so you sit up straight,wring your hands. But the weight of silence,makes you wonder,Can darkness be a gift? This silence that’s so violent —can it be a precursor to words yet unborn? Read the full poem HERE: https://futurestrong.org/2017/04/25/why-darkness-can-be-a-gift/#Poetry #Rachana #Writing

I came home and couldn’t go back to bed without cleaning my kitchen countertop with my hands. As I cleaned, I thought of Brandon and how he was a human like me and not a hand that refilled my hot water, brought me extra napkins, or cleared out the empty plates on our table. Read more HERE: https://futurestrong.org/2025/11/17/writer-at-large-the-invisible-brandons-among-us/For more podcasts and vid...