To boldly #FindyourPrerna (Prerna = inspiration) with uplifting sentiments, real stories from real people doing extraordinary things, or just asking the questions that need to be asked to ignite your enthusiasm to go beyond your own limitations.If you like what you hear on the episodes, be sure to rate them and write a review. And of course, share!Share your comments on the episodes, it will be great to hear from you! Connect with or follow Arthi and her company, Prerna Advisory on Facebook, ...
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S4 E2 In conversation with Susi Astengo: Need is the mother of invention
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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Susi Astengo, Founder of CoachMatching. Susi gives us insight into her personal life and how key life changes necessitated her pivoting her career towards starting her own business. Sixteen years later, through navigating being a single mum (to a son she loves dearly and is so proud of), undergoing a major health…
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S4 E1 Enhancing our ability to work with expertise - with Dr Elizabeth Crosse
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Welcome to SEASON 4!! It's great to be back and yes, we have returned this season in style with a fabulous guest to kick off! In this first episode, Arthi is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Crosse to discuss enhancing our ability to work with expertise. Elizabeth shares her passion about lifelong learning & explains how she navigated through several learni…
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S3 E13 Tasha Ten Spotlight: David McMurtry - Partnerships & Marriage
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In episode 13 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member David McMurtry with a heart warming discussion about partnerships & marriage. David's greatest accomplishment in life is his marriage to his beautiful wife Allison. He shares how he and his wife met, started dating shortly thereafter, married, and have been living happily since t…
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S3 E12 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Gifford Pinchot- Finding Your Mojo
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In episode 12 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Gifford Pinchot III. Gifford was the obvious choice to discuss the topic " finding your mojo" because of the number of times he has tried something, failed, pivoted, exited, yet still bounced back. Gifford has had an extremely varied background through his different stages of life, from being a dairy fa…
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S3 E11 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Al Dea - Speak Up For Yourself
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In episode 11 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Al Dea, one of the newest Tasha10 members. Arthi and Al discuss finding your voice and learning how to use it to speak up for yourself. Al shares how early in his career he received a surprisingly less-than-positive performance review, even though he thought he was excelling. It was only after sharing h…
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S3 E10 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Susanne Mus - Developing Your Support Ecosystem
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In Season 3 episode 10, Arthi is joined by Susanne Mus, co-founder and CEO of Awareyess talking about developing support ecosystems. Susanne provides brief insight into her childhood and tells us how the divorce of her parents and subsequently moving to a new neighbourhood was the start of who she became as an adult and the approach she has to life…
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S3 E9 In conversation with Lara Augusta: Undoing Complicated Narratives
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In Season 3 episode 9, Arthi is joined by fellow Forbes Coaches Council member Lara Augusta, founder of Embracing Potentiality, talking about undoing complicated narratives. Lara opens up about her family & childhood where experiences led her to create a narrative in her mind of being an inconvenience and not belonging. This mindset stemmed from ha…
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S3 E8 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Stefaan van Hooydonk - Launching Your Curiosity Mindset
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On episode 8 of Season 3 Arthi is joined by Stefaan van Hooydonk, one of the newer members of the Tasha Ten and founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, based in Belgium, talking about launching your curiosity mindset. Stefaan gives us insight into his family and his world travels which include living in China, Finland, Saudi Arabia, UK and Holla…
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S3 E7 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Nobantu Mpotulo - Humanizing Leadership Through Ubuntu
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On Episode 7 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Nobantu Mpotulo, a fellow South African and Tasha10 member. Nobantu is an extremely humble, patient and thoughtful person and this is evident in the quality of the coaching she provides in the space of Ubuntu coaching, where she coaches leaders and teams to, simply put, be better humans that lead with he…
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S3 E6 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Matt Stone - There Is No Such Thing As Win-Lose
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On Episode 6 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by one of the newest Tasha Ten members, Matt Stone. Matt shares his perspectives on why the concept of win-lose is a fallacy. Matt shares this through his experiences as a family law attorney which led him to understand that instead of win-lose as the options we are familiar with in any situation, in the lo…
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S3 E5 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Siraya Kongsompong - Developing Your Mindset Shift
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On Episode 5 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member Dr Siraya Kongsompong, also known as Kay. The duo have a beautiful conversation about developing your mindset and the steps that one can take to make that shift happen. Kay explains how she is a lifelong learner and that being in a learner mindset can help one get out of the comfo…
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S3 E4 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Jamelle Lindo - Transformation Through Self Awareness.
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On Episode 4 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member, Jamelle Lindo where he outlines why self-awareness can be so transformative. Jamelle shares beautiful insights into his upbringing and he tells us how despite growing up in a religious household he had so many unanswered questions. Jamelle explains how his own self awareness jour…
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S3 E3 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Bilal Sununu - The Art of Battling Difficulties
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In Episode 3 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Bilal Sununu, a #TashaTen family member based in Saudi Arabia. Bilal is such a gentleman and a deep thinker, brimming with insights and ideas, and always open to sharing his wisdom and expertise. Bilal was raised in Jordan, in the Arabian Gulf and learned to program computers from his father, in 1982, wh…
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S3 E2 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Nazan Artun - the renaissance woman
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In Episode 2 of Season 3, Arthi has a inspiring conversation with guest Dr Nazan Artun about being a renaissance woman, a term give to her by the respected Dorie Clark, who is her mentor, and also Tasha Eurich, who we featured in the previous episode. Nazan has a multitude of interests, experiences and expertise, leading her to being a musician, be…
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S3 E1 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Tasha Eurich - Owning your journey
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Welcome to Season 3 of the Inspire Your Life podcast! Host Arthi Rabikrisson kicks off the season with a spotlight series on the individuals that are part of the Tasha Ten. In this first episode, Arthi has a motivating discussion with the #TashaTen creator Tasha Eurich about owning your journey. How poignant given it is International Women’s Day an…
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S2 E18 In Conversation with Andrew Tallents: Designing your life
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As we round out the year 2022 with Episode 18 Arthi invites guest Andrew Tallents to share his journey of designing his life so that it may inspire your own planning for 2023 and beyond. Having grown up in very modest circumstances, Andrew learned about putting in hard work in order to achieve success. At age 15 he took on the responsibility of the…
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S2 E17 In conversation with Saba Hasanie: Finding beauty in identity
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In Episode 17 of Season 2, Arthi and guest Dr Saba Hasanie explore the richness and beauty to be found in identity, even though it may be a difficult journey at times. Saba lives in Singapore now but was born and grew up in Canada, into what she calls a confusing context because of being unclear on where she belonged. Born to a spiritual Pakistani …
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S2 E16 In conversation with Sara Gilbert: Living life to your own rules
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In episode 16 of Season 2, Arthi has an inspiring conversation with guest Sara Gilbert about living life to your own rules. Sara shares her fascination about wanting to know what makes someone take action. From a young age she challenged everything that came her way, including her parents beliefs. As a result, she never did “fit into the box”. And …
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S2 E15 In conversation with Sarah Clark: Overcoming being your worst enemy
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In episode 15 of Season 2, Arthi has a lovely conversation with guest Sarah Clark where Sarah shares her own experience of being her own worst enemy when she took up a key leadership role as the Dean and Head of the University Library for La Salle University. Sarah share a bit of her journey that brought her into the field of library science and bu…
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S2 E14 In conversation with Kim Neeson: Resilience and forgiveness
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In episode 14 of the Inspire your Life podcast, Arthi has an inspired conversation with guest Kim Neeson, about resilience and forgiveness. Kim shares her story about having left the freelance court reporting firm she was employed at after having some really difficult run-ins with the new manager that was appointed, she opted to started her own fir…
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S2 E13 In conversation with Becky Sharpe: Becoming your best version
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In episode 13 of the Inspire your Life podcast, Arthi has a connected and deep conversation with guest Becky Sharpe, about how one can become ones best version. Becky shares insights into her experiences from her life's journey of openness, tolerance and understanding differences that allowed her to explore far more than what most others would. Thi…
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S2E12 In conversation with Dr. Liudmila Schafer: The power of reverse empowerment
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In Episode 12 of Season 2 Arthi has a enlightening conversation with Dr Schafer about the power of reverse empowerment. Dr Schafer, an astute and passionate oncologist, broke bones in her ankle in an on-campus fun activity. She experienced what it was like to switch roles of no longer just being a physician but now being cared for instead. During t…
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S2E11 In Conversation with Cheryl Czach: The Yes Mindset
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In Episode 11 of Season 2 Arthi has a motivating discussion with Cheryl Czach about how powerful the YES Mindset is not only for ourselves but others too. Cheryl started off with an unconventional career path, where for example, college was not in her path after graduating from high school. Instead she started working, got a part time job in an off…
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S2E10 In conversation with Melissa Leich: Embracing change skillfully
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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 resul…
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S2E9 In conversation with Yuri Ramkissoon: Making your life's passion your blueprint
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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 gove…
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S2E8 In conversation with Alvina Peat: Taking control of your career
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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 …
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S2E7 In conversation with Reena Khullar: Leading for success in the pandemic
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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…
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S2E6 In conversation with Leang Chung: self-awareness as a solopreneur
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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 achi…
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S2E5 In conversation with Rose Pillay: Purposeful Career Pivots
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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 …
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S2E4 In conversation with Divya Parekh: The joy of impacting others
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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 …
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S2E3 In conversation with Nadine Hack: Humility and Connectedness
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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 imbue…
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S2E2 In conversation with Susan Heaton-Wright: Thriving beyond limiting beliefs
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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 intro…
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S2E1 In conversation with Santa Meyer-Nandi: The power of Ikigai
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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 ca…
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In conversation with Joyel Crawford: Bouncing forward from burnout
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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 pand…
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In conversation with Sahar Andrade: Making fear your friend
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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 neg…
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In conversation with Michael Thiemann: defining vision through values
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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…
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In conversation with Sujata Gupta: In pursuit of the dream
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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, …
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In conversation with Harumi Gondo: Stepping up boundaries for business success
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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 t…
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In conversation wit Ryan Lahti: Dealing with blame, uncertainty and risk
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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…
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In conversation with Erin Urban: Elevating your path from setbacks
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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 d…
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In conversation with Christine Rose: Surviving and thriving beyond gender violence
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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 …
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In Conversation with Ali Dunn: Creating personal growth beyond motherhood
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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 he…
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In conversation with Claire Boscq-Scott: How to rise stronger after a fall
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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 …
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In conversation with Jennifer Helene Popken: Shifting emotional health for career success
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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 emotion…
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In conversation with Csaba Toth: Rising from failure towards an uncommon mindset
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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 ow…
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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 a…
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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…
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In conversation with Neshica Bheem: Resilience is a choice
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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…
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In conversation with Gretchen Ki Steidle: How self discovery catalyses social change
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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Gretchen Ki Steidle, the founder and President of Global Grassroots, a US based NGO that operates a mindfulness-based social venture incubator and women's leadership program in post-conflict East Africa . Gretchen gives us insights into her journey of self-discovery, from the young age of 9, knowing that her priv…
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In conversation with Able Wanamakok: The 'No' of kNOwing and caring for self
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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Able Wanamakok who shares her experience of how she was able to set boundaries with those she loves, by being able to say no. Able takes us back to her upbringing and childhood and how her family's expectation was the overriding factor that shaped her life at that stage. The realisation that she was depleted and …
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