Chaitanya’s love for animals has moved from mere empathy to a state of deep understanding and oneness. She is an animal whisperer who learns unique life lessons from the way animals behave and interact and shares them regularly with the rest of the world on her blog “Live Learn Reflect Grow” https://chaitanyavembar.wordpress.com/. In this podcast she discusses with Vinesh Sukumaran what it means to be happy, the importance of your parents’ pearls of wisdom and how even a simple gift life a diary during your childhood could kickstart a lifelong relationship with journaling. She also shares some of her personal secrets of getting through tough times and following your bliss.

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It isn’t easy to start and run a business at any age in life. But here’s someone who got into a family business in his teens and started and ran a couple of others after that. And he’s still not done. All this while having time to do some other things that really mattered to him like learning Salsa and competing in the World Salsa Congress, spending time with family, having his weekend drink with friends, reading his favourite comics and watching the Rocky series. Watch this interview where Sunil Khemchandani shares his business and life secrets with Vinesh Sukumaran in his rather nonchalant and laid-back style.

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People get influenced and inspired in an instant and sometimes that influence and inspiration can last weeks, months, years or even a lifetime. While Aadarsh Hariharan’s early influences of Nietzsche and Hermann Hesse among others embedded ideas that shaped his thinking, he shares in this interview the other lessons that he learnt through rich life experiences. While the man is an elite educational and corporate pedigree, he clearly values the small and simple things in life. He shares in this interview with Vinesh Sukumaran some of the secrets to a good life and meaningful pursuits to go after. Even if it’s just taking a walk with his wife Chaitanya or getting licked by his dog Imli. I hope I didn’t get that the other way around. Watch to find out.

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It’s not unusual for people to work hard, get a good job, slog in it for years and find their way up the corporate ladder until suddenly they find themselves close to retirement with a lot of their dreams still not realized. Vinod Sukumaran decided to play the game slightly differently and has cracked the code in his own style. He transitioned from the mundane IT career path into a job and working style that suits his taste. One that allows him to pursue what really matters in life. Even his early career dreams of buying a Mercedes by 40 don’t resonate with him any more because he’s realized what really matters in life and also what we should be telling our children. That’s what he shares with Vinesh Sukumaran in this interview.

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If you’re from Bangalore, you should know something about IT and have a pretty good threshold for traffic. While Rohini Vinod relates to these two stereotypes, her connection with what the city brought into her life go far beyond the that tip of the Bangalore iceberg. If you want to know the secrets of being an awesome mom, wife, friend, daughter and extended family member while working in rigorous IT jobs and making career transitions, listen to what she has to say. All this while keeping up with her other passions like travel, watching movies and embracing the people and faith that mattered to her. She shares in this interview with Vinesh Sukumaran what it takes to marry your childhood sweetheart and adapt to a foody family while still reading the books of Richard Bach.

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What do you think it takes to be a single mom? Oh yes, while working a full-time job and being successful at it, maintaining a clean, tidy, warm and beautiful home and raising two wonderful children and sustaining a social life while you’re at it. The point is not how difficult or easy it is, the point is that it’s possible to do with grace. The story and secrets of Sajala Sinha is one of grit, discipline, hope for a bright future and happiness. In this third season of the positive behaviour podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran elicits for his guests the positive behaviours of this super mom who lives and works in Bangalore, India. Also get a glimpse of the role books and movies play in our lives through this interview.

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Have you ever thought about how much time you might be spending day dreaming every day? Now think about being able to use those moments when you zone out several time a day to your benefit. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran talks about daydreams as states of consciousness and explains an easy-to-use method to get the best out of them. What you day dream about says a lot about what might be going on in your life, and if applied consistently, the technique explained in this podcast can help in changing your life for the better.

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While it’s possible to be on a well-planned vacation that was long awaited and end up having a lousy time because of all sorts of reasons, it’s also possible to land up in an unexpected weekend break some place and have an awesome time. In this podcast Vinesh emphasizes the role that the things that we do play in a vacation experience and specifically highlights ways to carry that back home. The place or location in a lot of cases just ends up being a sort of venue for your vacation.

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On one hand it’s great to hear people use the term zen in an almost casual fashion in social conversations. Terms like “being zen like”, “finding your zen” or even “zen tangle”. On the other hand, there’s a hoo-ha about diving deeper. As if zen is this deep abyss or state of profound enlightenment the any person seeking self-realization must aspire for. In this podcast Vinesh Sukumaran introduces you to an easy way of understanding zen. A lot of listeners even love the interesting comparison that he makes in this podcast between zen and tasting honey.

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This is an idea that’s been liberating for several people who Vinesh has coached. It didn’t just end up empowering those people but lightened the load on them especially with respect to their interactions with others. We often don’t feel like doing certain things and that’s alright. What’s more important is the way we deal with that. Some go on a guilt trip; some feel that they aren’t doing something right and some others push themselves completely against their will again and again. Here’s an approach that is easy, light and practical.

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In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran talks about an interesting phenomenon called “The Musk Deer Effect”. It’s something that all of us have faced at some point in our lives. It’s also what might cause people to encounter the same kinds of jobs, bosses, problems and challenges in life again and again. This podcast explains a clear solution and workaround to get more out of life and not be trapped by the “Musk Deer Effect”. Listen to find out if you’re a musk deer or if you’ve been able to look inward and make actual positive changes in your life.

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Even if you’re doing exactly what you love in life and are blessed to be in the right area of work, it’s unlikely that every moment of every day is fun. On the contrary, there might by things that you’re doing on a day-to-day basis that are enthralling but they’re taking you nowhere. This podcast explains Vinesh Sukumaran’s umbrella theory that has helped a lot of his clients make sense of things like passion, ambition and doing what you love while coping effectively with the things you hate.

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This podcast explains a clear insight that has helped a lot of people who Vinesh Sukumaran has coached, to overcome doubt and get into a state of clarity and conviction. The feeling of doubt, as real as it might seem while it exists has one or two definite characteristics. Clarity and conviction on the other had have certain other characteristics. This podcast gets to the heart of what exactly to do to overcome doubt and how action can be the right antidote to the feeling of doubt.

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The title of this podcast is a casual quote that Vinesh Sukumaran posted on social media recently. Of course, people who’ve had migraines and hangovers related to it but the idea implicit in it is a lot deeper than just that. This is about waking up to and appreciating the good things in your life. This podcast clearly outlines a real application of positive psychology that helps in exercising gratitude, noticing and feeling good about what’s going well in your life.

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Think of all the things that you wanted to do at different points in your life but didn’t really get down to doing. Those awesome ideas that you later saw someone else bring to life. Here’s one big thing that ends up holding a lot of people back or even distracting them when they’re just on the verge of making their dreams come true. Vinesh also talks in this podcast about what you should be doing the next time that happens to you.

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While a lot of cultures and schools of thought across the world have prescribed this idea, Vinesh alludes to the time when he was struck by it when he read it in Randy Pausch’s book “The Last Lecture”. More importantly, Vinesh relates the “People are more important than things” idea to instances from everyday life especially the ways in which they unfold in terms of us having to make a choice between people and things. As always, inspiring his listeners to develop positive behaviour.

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This is a way of looking at and living life that is more aligned to what most of us seek and want to experience. In other words, feelings and emotions like happiness, peace, bliss or even the feeling of being successful. The “Be Do Have” philosophy is something that is extremely useful and yet least understood. Partially because of poor explanations but also because it’s so counter intuitive to what we’re told or taught to do throughout our lives. Here’s a lucid and crisp account.

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Are you among those people who would go on a fitness regime or diet plan to get fitter and lost weight, only so that you can start eating junk food again or sit around in the couch being lazy again. In this podcast you’ll learn about one of the most effective mindsets to approach anything in life with. One that doesn’t just ensure better but permanent results. More importantly, people who subscribe to this mindset often reach a point where they do things for the sheer joy of doing it and the results sort of become a natural by-product of that.

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For a lot of people, trust is like an on off game. You either trust or you don’t trust someone. And if trust is lost it’s often a one-way ticket. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran explores the phenomenon of trust in the light of what he’s observed in a particular display of the Cirque Du Soleil. One of the best ways to understand trust is to study people who demonstrate a high level of trust with each other and derive lessons from the contexts in which those people trust each other the most. Here are three lessons about trust from the Cirque Du Soleil.

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