Arti is one of the most inspiring women I've come across in my life. While she may keep a low profile on social media, she leaves a mark on everyone she meets. In this episode we discuss entrepreneurship, health, networking and more. A must watch. Arti has been one of the reasons I have been able to do so much in the last few years and for that I will be always grateful to her. Love to have your thoughts on this episode and Arti's shares. You may connect with Arti on L...

Merry Christmas. This is an episode about our own Santa Claus. Someone who is giving back with the gift of education and 10X-ing the lives of thousands of children. A must listen to episode. Vandana Paul or Bindu as she's also known by many has had a profound impact on me growing up. She's someone who despite everything life has thrown at her has never given up. Today she's helping more underprivileged children then ever before with education at her school in Kolkata, she'...

Puneet Aggarwal is one of the most knowledgeable people when it comes to the world of investing. He knows his fundamentals, mastered his technicals and creates great wealth leveraging the markets. Puneet Oberoi has been in the financial planning space with a balanced approach on wealth creation for 2 decades. Both of them bring a unique perspective to this episode of the Smashed Bashed Yet Not Dashed Podacst. You can connect with them on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirogam/...

Elena Cardone is one of the most exceptional women I have ever met in person over the last few years. She has been instrumental in pushing Grant in achieving his Billionaire status and apart from that has been an exceptional mother to Sabrina and Scarlet Cardone. All of this despite having a very traumatic teen experience and lots and lots of disappointments in life. This is one podcast episode where Elena opened up on so many things and such valuable advice to all listeners. &n...

Saumya is one of the finest emotional, mental wellbeing coaches I've met. She was recently picked as BWBusinessWorld 40 under 40. It's an episode of the SBYND podcast that's different. While in the past we've spoken a lot about struggles around money, business and the likes. This episode covers a different area and talks about overcoming the mental and emotional challenges that people face and gives some real world advice and perspective on what can be done about that. A v...

Some would call Aditya quite the risk taker. He grew up in the small town of Meerut and the odds of him running the multiple businesses that scale the globe were slim. He has achieved this through an amazing mindset and further lives his passion for adventure and even scaled Mt. Everest in 2019 after turning 50. Aditya and his companies today touch thousands of lives in India and around the world and the lessons, insights and advice in this episode a...

Colonel Sunil Prem may have started out against the odds in the beginning of almost every journey that he took. Be it at the back of his class as a 7-year-old or at the age of 16 when he decided to join the army. However, he eventually topped his class, won the president’s gold medal at the Indian Military Academy and also achieved a 10 on 10 CPA at IIT Kanpur. He spent 27 years in the Indian Army and won many accolades and has also authored 2 best-selling books and runs multiple companies th...

Pradyot Voleti is a man on a mission. He has empowered thousands of under privileged children across India to aspire for a better life and he's doing it through the power of basketball. Children that have gone through the dribble academy could barely pay for a basic education let alone dream of scholarships to some of the country's best schools and even the Junior NBA. He has had his challenges and success and stays more determined then ever to achieve all his goals. Watch this inspir...

This was actually a book interview with Deep, days before the pandemic locked us all down. Truly a story of perseverance and not throwing in the towel. Such great insights shared by Deep, I just couldn't deny the world of these golden nuggets. Makemytrip is a Nasdaq listed company and I've the good fortune of knowing Deep Kalra and Sachin Bhatia right from the start. Hope you enjoy this podcast and the format. In future the smashed bashed podcast will be in the same format. Recorded...

Tarun Mansukhani on the SBYND Podcast. Acclaimed Director on life in Bollywood & the ups and downs. You will love this episode with Tarun, he had an amazing start to his Bollywood journey working with some of the biggest names and movies in the industry. Working with Karan Johar as an assistant director and then as a director himself he tasted success early and in dues course also had to taste failure and even went bankrupt and went through a divorce. A true example o...

A candid conversation with Advaita Kala, the very talented author, broadcaster and columnist. In this episode we discuss women empowerment, social causes, Bollywood, procrastination, life and more. Advaita and my friendship goes back 25 years and her shares on this podcast episode would be appreciated by all. The otherwise very private Advaita shares some interesting moments from her life, vulnerabilities and more. You can follow Advaita on twitter on https://twitter.com/A...

Avi is an exceptional person and is truly ahead of his time. The more I speak to him the more I realise on how he sees things differently from most. In this episode Avi talks about being vulnerable, being bullied, spending time away from his family, struggling at work and then overcoming it all to move forward. Don't miss his thoughts on social commerce and how social media has not even scratched the surface in the world yet. Things are just getting started and everyone nee...

Siddharth Rajsekar or Sidz is one of those people I refer in a heart beat to everyone. Intentional and driven by purpose. He's one of those people who will transform the world we live in for the better. Do listen in to our interaction on the smashed bashed yet not dashed podcast. Am sure you will be really inspired as well. You can follow Sidz on his YouTube channel as well on https://www.youtube.com/c/SiddharthRajsekar

Season 2 Episode 12. Papa CJ in a candid and compelling conversation with GB. Watch this episode and do share your feedback. Truly one of the best episodes of the Smashed Bashed Yet Not Dashed Podcast till date. For those of you who didn't know him, Papa CJ is a world-renowned stand-up comedian and has won awards for both Asia’s and India’s Best Stand-up Comedian. He has performed over 2000 shows in over 25 countries and has had numerous appearances on NBC, BBC, Comedy Central,...

This conversation with Bani J was one of the most amazing interactions I have ever had. Bani is an actress on the Emmy nominated hit Amazon show "four more shots please" , she also debuted as a gritty contestant on the Hit MTV show Roadies in 2006 and has never looked back since. On this podcast, Bani talks about her life journey, her love for pets, the importance of fitness and also her future plans. What stood out the most for me was her deep i...

This is a tribute the legendary Milkha Singh and some other great people who we lost in the past 2 months. Truly a trying time and many have been taken from us too soon. That said we owe it to these legends to ensure that we stay in action and be a demonstration of what they would have expected from us.

Rakesh Kochhar, Executive Director BNI Gurgaon and Regional Director BNI Faridabad sharing his amazing journey and vision on the SBYND Podcast with GB. Rakesh is one of the most brilliant people you'll come across and going from a small town boy in Jamshedpur to the leadership of Oracle India and then to being critically ill and bouncing back to create one of India's most sought after entrepreneurial forums. This is a must listen for everyone. Love to have your feedbac...

Nikhil Kamath, the founder of Zerodha is an exceptional entrepreneur. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and discovered the art of trading in the stock markets. The passion soon turned to profession and today Nikhil is India's youngest self made Billionaire. In this episode I ask Nikhil some interesting questions that he's probably not been asked in too many of his interviews before. That comes from the perspective of me being so passionate about...

Richard Dolan is one of the most inspirational people I've come across in my life. We first met 18 months ago, when he came on as head of licensing for Grant Cardone and since them I've had the pleasure of interacting with him a lot more. For some one who has trained Le Bron James, Mike Tyson and has shared numerous stages with Tony Robbins, a podcast was bound to have lots of value. We thought we would spend 20 minutes and we went on till 50 and could have carried on for longer. There ...