Vibha Kagzi is the Founder and CEO of ReachIvy.com. ReachIvy is a student assistance platform for high achievers that guides young minds in various facets of their education. In this episode, she shares her journey. Coming from a diverse educational background, including studies at prestigious institutions like Harvard. She also reflects on how her upbringing in a Marwadi family shaped her path. Additionally, Vibha discusses her book, 'Break the MBA Code,' published by Jaico Publishing House, and its ongoing impact on the future of aspiring professionals.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
1. Navigating the world of education and career guidance.
2. The power of determination and diverse experiences.
3. Insights into studying abroad and building a successful career.
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Saumya Kabra is the CEO & Founder of Confetti Gifts. It is a company located in Jaipur, India. The brand is known for its premium gifting services. The gifting company has collaborated with big companies like Amazon and LivSpace. And you know what? They were the official gifting partner in our favorite #Vikat wedding that is Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif's Wedding. Saumya shares her journey of starting this gifting company from a corner of her bedroom and scaling it to what it is today in this episode.
Key Takeaway from this episode:
1. Do's and Don't in a gifting business
2. Family support and entrepreneurship
3. The dark side of being an entrepreneur
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Music Credits:
Song: VDGL - New Age Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/U5p74jLGfsI
Song: Ikson - Lights (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music promoted by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/bqk80OOCxOQ
Shilpa Ajwani is the founder of UnoMantra.
Shilpa carries an extensive corporate experience of working as a manager and director with firms like Oriflame and Tupperware. Yes, the same lunch box brand that we all are obsessed with! She left her full-time job to start a business strategy consultancy firm named Unomantra.
Unomantra uplifts companies by giving them the way to create their go-to-market.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. The four D's of conducting a business consultation call
2. Things to keep care of while creating a strategy for a business
3. Discussion on the investment world being a male-dominated space
4. Investors helping women-founded businesses
Some names mentioned by Shilpa in the episode:
- Anisha Singh (She Capital)
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Gunjan Jhunjhunwala is the founder of Sandbox clothing.
Gunjan left her corporate life that includes companies like Airtel and Google to start a business with her husband. But sadly, she lost all the rights on her first business to her husband as her marriage fell apart in the first five years. It took extreme courage on her part to stand tall again.
She established Sandbox clothing from the scratch all on her own. Sandbox is a premium kid's clothing brand that envisions bringing out the unique identity of every child through clothes. It is listed as a top kid clothing brand on platforms like Ajio, Flipkart, Amazon, Nykaa, and many more.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
1. Finding your USP in a saturated market
2. Setting distribution channels in the apparel industry
3. Ranking your products on leading platforms like Nykaa and Ajio
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Vidisha is the founder of Shahr Lifestyle. Shahr Lifestyle is a new-age Instagram store with a following of over 16K. The store caters the latest fashion and clothing demands of Gen Z. Vidisha is also a final year undergraduate student at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. She manages her Instagram business with the help of her three interns.
Instagram stores are currently the favorite spot to buy customized fashion clothes and accessories for customers located worldwide. Instagram shops have become a great source to follow the latest fashion in the past few years. A lot of people wish to set up and grow Instagram stores at this time, especially where this marketplace is at a peak.
But one needs to know certain technicalities before setting up a successful Instagram store. This episode could be the best help for you if you are thinking to set up an Instagram store.
Key highlights of this episode:
1. How to set up an Instagram Store
2. Things to take care of when creating content for your Instagram store
3. The secret of blowing up your Instagram store
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Divya Singhal and Trishla Pareek are the founders of ShareALittle.
ShareALittle is a nonprofit B2C crowdfunding platform that connects potential patrons to mid-sized NGOs. The platform streamlines the donation process. ShareALittle offers a three-click process to donators. And you can also file a tax return for your donation with their platform. It is a quick, hassle-free, and transparent place for donators.
Divya and Trishla are proud chartered accountants and mothers of ShareALittle. They share their journey of being friends for over 18 years to becoming co-founders in this episode. You will have a great time listening to this power-packed partnership.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
1. Process of setting up a crowdfunding platform in India
2. Revenue model of donation platforms
3. Scaling a donation platform
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Arielle Nisenblatt is the founder of Ear Buds Collective. A newsletter made to support independent podcasters. She has a following of over 7000 on Twitter. Her face is also associated with premium podcasting platforms like Squad Cast.Fm In all she is the right person to hear today if you are willing to learn the technical side of podcasting that includes production, monetization, sponsorship, podcast awards, and getting featured in international newsletters.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. Untapped podcast marketing tips
2. Getting sponsors for your podcast
3. Must follow podcast newsletters
4. Podcast Awards to participate in
Resources mentioned in the episode
1. Podcasting platforms
- Squad Cast.FM
- Stitcher
- Cast Box
- Pocket Cast
- Libsyn
2. Podcast sponsorship platforms
- Podcorn.FM
- Podgo
3. Podcast newsletters
- Inside podcasting
- Pod News
- Sounds Profitable
- Podcast The Newsletter
- Podcast Marketing Magic
- Podcast Brunch Club
- Find that Pod
4. People to follow in podcasting space
- Lauren Passell
- James Cridland
5. Podcast awards
- The Ambies by The Podcast Academy
- Discover Pod Awards
- The Webby Awards
- Podcast Seriously Award
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Ishika Nirula is a 21-year-old CEO and Founder of Women in Business.
Women in a Business is a nonprofit organization with a close-knit community of young female entrepreneurs. The initiative was started with a bunch of students from Delhi University and now there are over 32 females working with this organization. She is presently completing a graduate degree in economics from Delhi University, working as a full-time employee at Cred, and also running a full-fledged business. I bet this line is enough to convince you why she is just the perfect person to hear today.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. Time management tips for students
2. LinkedIn tips for students
3. Importance of networking as you step out of school
4. Interaction tips for an introvert
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Swathi Kulkarni is the founder of Elda Health. Her business has recently raised a funding of $1.5 Million. Elda Health is established with the aim to provide the necessary holistic support to women in their mid-40s. They have a proper team of highly qualified doctors to achieve the same.
This episode is extremely important irrespective of your gender. How many of you actually know what it means to go through menopause - a phase that every woman goes through in her late forties or early fifties. A woman goes through a lot of hormonal changes during this phase. Improper care and neglected vigilance during this phase could lead to severe depression. Therefore, I don't want only women to understand the biology behind menopause through this episode but I also want boys and men who might have their mothers and wives going through this phase to listen to this episode.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. What is Menopause
2. Effects of Menopause on Women's health
3. Taking the right care while going through menopause
4. Ways to avoid hot flashes while menopause
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Ms. Ranjani Manian is the founder and CEO of Champion Woman. It is a non-profit organization that helps women to regain their confidence level and helps them to re-enter the workforce with great enthusiasm. They do so by conducting workshops and programs for women.
Ms. Ranjani has been working for more than 40 years. She is a multilingual person. She can speak languages varying from French to Tamil. She is known for helping companies like Ford and BMW to enter the Indian Market.
Key Takeaways from this episode
1. Importance of understanding global culture for a business
2. How women can re-enter the workforce
3. Biggest strengths that women can leverage to restart their career
4. Raising a daughter as a confident individual
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Nida Khan is the founder of Nash FinTechX. She realized during her Ph.D. research, which dealt with applications of blockchain and finance — that emerging technologies have not yet been understood by many people. Nash FinTechX was launched to come up with a software solution. The company utilizes emerging technologies while keeping human psychology at the core of its offering. The organization also seeks to empower corporate with the optimum software to achieve progress and sustainability.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
1. Understanding the concept of decentralized currency
2. NFTs explained in an extremely simple language
3. What is an ethereum wallet
4. Islamic finance laws for cryptocurrency
Tanuja Gomes is the co-founder of the Furtados School of Music and has made it synonymous with music education in India. She wears multiple hats through the day—entrepreneur, mother, and wife. Gomes, a graduate of NMIMS left a sixteen-year-old career as a banker to become an entrepreneur. Her goal is to reach out to other female entrepreneurs and build a thriving community that inspires more people. Gomes is also a core committee member of the CII Indian Women Network.
It was an experience beyond happiness to learn about the present music landscape in India and how her organization is leading it presently.
🔴 Key takeaways from this episode
1. Shifting an offline product to an online platform
2. Her story of taking a leap into entrepreneurship after 16+ years of banking experience
3. Reviving business in the pandemic after the organization saw negligible revenue in the pandemic
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ABOUT THE PODCAST:
'The Women Stories' is a podcast through which I am trying to build the largest online community of female entrepreneurs. It features women who have been breaking stereotypes through their ambitions. You will be learning different business principles from women around the world who have proved themselves again and again with their excellence in the business world.
I hope I will find a community on YouTube to support me. 👩🏿🤝🧑🏿👩🏾🤝🧑🏼👩🏽🤝🧑🏽👩🏽🤝🧑🏽
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Music Credit
Song: Ikson - Lights (Vlog No Copyright Music)
Music promoted by Vlog No Copyright Music.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/bqk80OOCxOQ
Chahat Aggarwal is the founder of Impact Study Biz. She is also the women forum member at Forbes and the Indian president of Poland Business Council.
Impact Study Biz helps companies solve complex business problems in an ever-evolving market with limited resources. They aim to assist their clients to gain more market share, increase profits and reduce costs. There is a lot of focus on collecting the right data at Impact biz and churning it into digestible and scalable bits.
KEY TAKEAWAYS from this episode:
1. Understanding nudge marketing
2. Application of AI and data analytics for small businesses
3. Brand marketing and data analytics
4. How companies like Oyo and Dominos make data-centric decisions to increase sales
Chahat’s LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chahataggarwal-ceo/
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ABOUT THE PODCAST:
'The Women Stories' is a podcast through which I am trying to build the largest online community of female entrepreneurs. It features women who have been breaking stereotypes through their ambitions. You will be learning different business principles from women around the world who have proved themselves again and again with their excellence in the business world. 👩🏿🤝🧑🏿👩🏾🤝🧑🏼👩🏽🤝🧑🏽👩🏽🤝🧑🏽
Love love❤
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Adela Strakova is the co-founder of Chezuba.
NGOs and other nonprofit initiatives often face the problem to find volunteers to keep the show running. Chezuba helps NGOs to get corporate volunteers who are experts in their domains. Adela is the head product manager in the organization. She successfully made Chezuba an AI-driven platform with the help of her team. The interesting part is that she has a non-tech background.
Chezuba can be an extremely useful platform for everyone who is trying to provide independent services but is unable to find clients. You can sign up yourself on the platform and can serve registered NGOs. This will help you to make a solid portfolio which full further helps you find high-ticket clients. Feel free to check our guest’s profile from the link provided below.
Link to Adela's LinkedIn profile
Register yourself on Chezuba
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MUSIC CREDITS:
Song: Acn8 - Your Design (ft. Ollie Wade) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/dr4otvuPCS0
Sanchita Daswani is a Hong Kong-based child nutrition consultant with Indian roots. She is on a mission to empower parents with the knowledge they need to enhance their child’s lifestyles, diets, and most of all, their baby’s needs. She believes in making every meal experience for a child memorable in a good way. Visit her website.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. Taking care of your child meal in the first year
2. Things to take care of in a child's lunch box
3. Quick meals that can give all the essential nutrition to a child
4. Indian spices and its importance in a meal
5. Making a career as a child nutrition consultant
MUSIC CREDITS
Song: Marin Hoxha - I See You Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/wZH5Rh4M8iY
Shalini Gupta is the head of strategic partnerships and a founding member of Sajhe Sapne. Sajhe Sapne is a start-up led by an all-women team aiming to provide the best of best education to girls in every corner of India. The founding team includes four people out of which three are IITians. These people saw the potential in the dreams of rural Indian women. But they also observed the lack of resources as a hindrance to letting these village women be the version of themselves. Therefore they build Sajhe Sapne - a place where every rural woman upskill.
Key Takeaway from this episode:
1. Rural India - The untapped potential of India
2. Stories of courageous women from villages
3. Convincing parents to start something different
4. Crowdfunding and its process
MUSIC CREDITS:
Song: Atch & MusicbyAden - Sunrise Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported Video Link: https://youtu.be/CcjiVefqbvU
Aarushi Sethi is working as a business head at Pollen (Zoom media). Pollen is the largest influencer marketing agency based in India. It has helped brands like Maybelline, Cred, Netflix, etc. to skyrocket their sales through influencer marketing. Aarushi has worked as a celebrity manager in some blockbusters Indian shows like Jhalak Dikhlaja and KBC. Apart from this, she has a rigorous experience of working with Foxymoron (Parent company of Pollen) to generate amazing insights from complex data. The CRED ad with Rahul Dravid came out so well under her leadership at Pollen. There is no other person who can explain influencer marketing better than her.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
1. True essence of influencer marketing
2. Generating insights from data to find the right influencer
3. Influencer marketing landscape in India
4. An end message to young women
MUSIC CREDITS
Song: InRp - Daydream Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/daGHzcnKRyU
Amelia Sordell is the founder and CEO of a personal branding agency named Klowt. She is the most beloved B2B marketing expert on LinkedIn with over 70,000 massive followers. She says that she brand people but not businesses. Amelia started as a recruitment marketing specialist and realized how powerful personal brands were. Finally, one day in 2020 she decided to start a personal branding agency from a small corner of her bedroom. And now she is already working with numerous clients and has a robust team helping her to achieve bigger goals.
Key Takeaway from this podcast:
1. Mistakes to never commit on LinkedIn
2. Growing a LinkedIn company page
3. Humanising B2B marketing
4. Learning from failures as an entrepreneur
Amelia's LinkedIn Id: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliasordell/
MUSIC CREDITS:
Song: Markvard - Show Me Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported Video Link: https://youtu.be/kPZeQo-ufY4
Neha Seth has devoted her entire life to the improvement of kids between two to five years. She is an award-winning early childhood educator and speaker known for enjoying holistic development in early childhood years. She's also the founder of Neha Seth Academy. She has worked with various institutions like Mother’s Pride, MSD World School, Makoons and Pudle to awaken the natural curiosity of young minds and provide them holistic approaches for better development. She is also an active member in planning and creating pre-primary curriculums with fun activities and integrated learning. This conversation will help you to learn the exact psychology of kids and their parents and how it has evolved during the last years, with the pandemic taking over the entire world.
KEY TAKE AWAY FROM THIS EPISODE:
1. Change in the learning curve in kids amidst the pandemic
2. Dealing with a frustrated kid
3. Exercises to activate the cognitive side of your kid
4. Keeping your kid engaged without the help of technology
MUSIC CREDITS:
Song: Vendredi - It's Friday Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported Video Link: https://youtu.be/Eb6ZmFL-gpM