The 'Inspire your Life' Podcast with Arthi Rabikrisson
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -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, Instagram or LinkedIn with @asrabikrisson, @arthirab or @prernaadvisory. Inspire your life today!www.prernaadvisory.com
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S3 E13 Tasha Ten Spotlight: David McMurtry - Partnerships & Marriage
August 23, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBIn 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 then. David believes his wife is the foundation for which all of their goals are possible & is a true partner in making a difference in their co...
S3 E12 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Gifford Pinchot- Finding Your Mojo
August 09, 2023 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIn 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 farmer & blacksmith, to inventor, author, consultant, investor, academic & coach. Gifford tells us how his writing career started after a failed...
S3 E11 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Al Dea - Speak Up For Yourself
July 26, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBIn 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 his thoughts with a manager that he learned that while working hard and doing your job was important, it's equally necessary to speak up and advoc...
S3 E10 Susanne Mus: Developing Your Support Ecosystem
July 12, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIn 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 of not shying away from anything new or challenging even when it is out of her comfort zone. Susanne beautifully shares with us one of the more...
S3 E10 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Susanne Mus - Developing Your Support Ecosystem
July 12, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIn 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 of not shying away from anything new or challenging even when it is out of her comfort zone. Susanne beautifully shares with us one of the more...
S3 E9 Lara Augusta- Undoing Complicated Narratives
June 28, 2023 22:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn 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 having to keep a massive family secret for her whole life and Lara goes into detail about how her family dynamic impacted her journey. Lara has...
S3 E9 In conversation with Lara Augusta: Undoing Complicated Narratives
June 28, 2023 22:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn 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 having to keep a massive family secret for her whole life and Lara goes into detail about how her family dynamic impacted her journey. Lara has...
S3 E8 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Stefaan van Hooydonk - Launching Your Curiosity Mindset
June 14, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBOn 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 Holland, as well as the different episodes of his career, from investment consultant to now researching curiosity in companies and working with leade...
S3 E7 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Nobantu Mpotulo - Humanizing Leadership Through Ubuntu
May 31, 2023 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBOn 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 heart and backbone. Nobantu gives us insight into her upbringing where she explains that she was brought up by her aunt who took her in when she w...
S3 E6 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Matt Stone - There Is No Such Thing As Win-Lose
May 17, 2023 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBOn 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 long run it is typically either win-win or lose-lose. Witnessing disruptive separations that were often highly adversarial brought to the fore ...
S3 E5 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Siraya Kongsompong - Developing Your Mindset Shift
May 03, 2023 22:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBOn 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 comfort zone and expand one's capabilities. Kay describes how self reflection is the first easy step to take when changing mindset and details how...
S3 E4 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Jamelle Lindo - Transformation Through Self Awareness.
April 19, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBOn 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 journey truly started, with a book recommendation “A new earth" by Eckhart Tolle from a colleague. Jamelle shares how paying attention to our tho...
S3 E3 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Bilal Sununu - The Art of Battling Difficulties
April 05, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBIn 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, which ultimately influenced his decision to join the computer science and engineering schools at a leading university in the Middle East. Bilal ...
S3 E2 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Dr Nazan Artun - the renaissance woman
March 19, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn 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, being a coach, being a former healthcare professional, and currently a medical affairs professional. Born, raised and having developed a well resp...
S3 E1 Tasha Ten Spotlight: Tasha Eurich - Owning your journey
March 08, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBWelcome 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 and there is a focus on equity. In a way, owing your journey is finding your equity, and knowing how to show it, demand it and use it for impact. T...
S2 E18 In Conversation with Andrew Tallents: Designing your life
December 08, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBAs 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 household, which brought out feelings of loyalty and duty, as well as resentment for missing out on childhood. As a result of this, behaviours ...
S2 E17 In conversation with Saba Hasanie: Finding beauty in identity
November 18, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBIn 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 mum and highly academic Indian father, in a Canada of 50 years ago where people of colour were few and far between, she had to quickly learn to t...
S2 E16 In conversation with Sara Gilbert: Living life to your own rules
October 27, 2022 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn 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 even though she tried, she knew she was actually losing more of herself in the process. Eventually, everything exploded in her life at once beca...
S2 E15 In conversation with Sarah Clark: Overcoming being your worst enemy
October 09, 2022 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBIn 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 building a career in this space, after realising that her initial foray into telecoms was not for her. She found her niche in connecting people wit...
S2 E14 In conversation with Kim Neeson: Resilience and forgiveness
September 14, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIn 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 firm. One of her colleagues at the firm she had left opted to join her about a year later and a lucrative client opted to follow her to Kim's firm....
S2 E13 In conversation with Becky Sharpe: Becoming your best version
August 31, 2022 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn 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. This meant that her journey of evolving towards her best version had a great foundation and she continues on this journey today. Using the 8 facets ...
S2E12 In conversation with Dr. Liudmila Schafer: The power of reverse empowerment
June 29, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBIn 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 this time she found that her oncology patients, staff and family members were attentive and the ones who were lifting her spirits, offering her gif...
S2E11 In Conversation with Cheryl Czach: The Yes Mindset
June 08, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBIn 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 office as a receptionist and was offered the opportunity to train in accounting and join the accounts department. She said yes to it and that led to ...
S2E10 In conversation with Melissa Leich: Embracing change skillfully
May 25, 2022 22:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIn 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 decisions with transformational change results, from leaving her support structures to start afresh in a new count...
S2E9 In conversation with Yuri Ramkissoon: Making your life's passion your blueprint
May 11, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBIn 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. A chance selection of environmental science as a filler subject in university ignited her passion in this space ...
S2E8 In conversation with Alvina Peat: Taking control of your career
April 27, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBIn 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 reinvent herself in a way that she wanted to, and hence the start of her business. She didn’t have a business plan ...
S2E7 In conversation with Reena Khullar: Leading for success in the pandemic
April 13, 2022 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBIn 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 environment as the workforce was changing due to evolving roles. Reena decided to go for it, with a ‘nothing to lose’...
S2E6 In conversation with Leang Chung: self-awareness as a solopreneur
March 30, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn 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 responsibility to shoulder of course, and it is very typical of many Asian communities for this to happen. Leang had always...
S2E5 In conversation with Rose Pillay: Purposeful Career Pivots
March 16, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIn 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 at times without her family's knowledge, purely because her innate sense of awareness guided her towards testing the a...
S2E4 In conversation with Divya Parekh: The joy of impacting others
March 02, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBAs 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. After some reflection, and knowing her joy of working with people, she opted to undertake coaching certification and...
S2E3 In conversation with Nadine Hack: Humility and Connectedness
February 16, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIn 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 key to meaningful life, and who exuded humility in their power as changemakers. These global icons such as Nelson Mandela,...
S2E2 In conversation with Susan Heaton-Wright: Thriving beyond limiting beliefs
February 02, 2022 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBOn 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 number of instances, which she shares with us in the episode, but the one that sticks out is the courage to reac...
S2E1 In conversation with Santa Meyer-Nandi: The power of Ikigai
January 19, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBIn 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 her skill - yet she has been daring and courageous to put herself out there, despite being turned down, until the ...
In conversation with Joyel Crawford: Bouncing forward from burnout
December 06, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBIn 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 and clients business to dry up. This caused anxiety and fear but also opportunity, thanks to her network, which...
In conversation with Sahar Andrade: Making fear your friend
November 22, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBOn 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 real connection with people, aided by a heightened self-awareness of her weight. She shares a personal story o...
In conversation with Michael Thiemann: defining vision through values
November 07, 2021 22:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBIn 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 inspiring and some of the personal development he has done, and offers others too, such as founders and senior execut...
In conversation with Sujata Gupta: In pursuit of the dream
October 21, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBIn 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 a billboard for a fashion design course at the leading school in India that catalysed Sujata into action. From undert...
In conversation with Harumi Gondo: Stepping up boundaries for business success
October 03, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBIn 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 courageous conversations, she set and reinforced boundaries that have allowed her to thrive both personally and pr...
In conversation wit Ryan Lahti: Dealing with blame, uncertainty and risk
September 16, 2021 22:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBIn 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 skillfully as possible - with finesse! By learning and practicing how to 'finesse the grey', one can learn an effec...
In conversation with Erin Urban: Elevating your path from setbacks
September 02, 2021 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBArthi'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 ideas about why we may be held back in our careers, which can be based on fixed mindsets that may be in place, along with...
In conversation with Christine Rose: Surviving and thriving beyond gender violence
August 19, 2021 22:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBIn 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 other initiatives, and she have thrived and become successful (and nationally celebrated!) because of the impac...
In Conversation with Ali Dunn: Creating personal growth beyond motherhood
August 05, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBOn 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 with this and how she has been able to diminish these negative thoughts and push through to do what is now her purpo...
In conversation with Claire Boscq-Scott: How to rise stronger after a fall
July 22, 2021 22:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn 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 journey. That was 12 years ago. However Claire experienced a severe business setback due Covid-19 last year, whe...
In conversation with Jennifer Helene Popken: Shifting emotional health for career success
July 08, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn 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 advocates practical ideas on how we can bring back the fun in how we move. Being more mindful about how we treat our...
In conversation with Csaba Toth: Rising from failure towards an uncommon mindset
June 24, 2021 22:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBArthi 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 opportunities to be unlocked from setbacks and failures. Csaba is the founder of ICQ Global, a people development org...
Reflections and Gratitude
June 14, 2021 22:00 - 12 minutes - 8.41 MBIn 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 investing in oneself for a longer term payoff, to the power of the virtual platform to reach so many more people...
Strengthen your emotional resilience
May 23, 2021 18:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIn 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 others is what leads most people down the path of finding some neutral ground of managing how they show emotion. It is fa...
In conversation with Neshica Bheem: Resilience is a choice
May 06, 2021 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBArthi 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 years and at each stage, she's taken away learnings and used them to strengthen her resolve, but also to make the...
In conversation with Gretchen Ki Steidle: How self discovery catalyses social change
April 22, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBIn 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 privilege needed to be used for the better of humankind and specifically women. Through her travels across the world, she transformed herself by turn...
In conversation with Able Wanamakok: The 'No' of kNOwing and caring for self
April 08, 2021 22:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn 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 actually didn't know herself and her true nature set her on a path of self-awareness and self-care and the ability to create new boundaries in her...