Empowering Indian Expats: Create more Impact & Influence, beyond just making a living

The less traversed path comes with unique challenges that change the way we think.

The guest of this week, Jaya Vaidhyanathan, has stretched her boundaries to show that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to.

Jaya was listed in the top 10 most influential women in tech and has also been named India's most trustworthy CEO.

She started her career as a computer science graduate.

She wanted to work with people rather than syste...

Do you want to start a side hustle?

Do you want to shift from corporate to entrepreneurship?

Then this episode is the answer to your questions.

From finance to sales,

From banking to cybersecurity, 

Tinesh Chhaya has experienced it all.

He started his journey in finance but soon realized he needed to switch.

He moved to sales, where he sold address verification software door to door.

It didn't take him long to realize there was...

Starting as a programmer, Malik Irfan has evolved into a Serial Entrepreneur and Innovation thought leader. Today, he runs a Start-up Accelerator as well as a successful IT Consulting Company. He is also the president of AIBC (Australia India Business Council – a 30+ years old non-profit organisation).

There is a lot to learn from Malik’s experience – both in entrepreneurship as well as a corporate career.

Malik’s journey in shor...

We often find it difficult to pursue our passions.

This week's guest Fatema Kudrati shares how a medical school graduate got into child tutoring, development, and NLP training.

In 2004, her son was diagnosed with ADHD, and that's when she realized it's not a learning difficulty, it's a teaching difficulty, and all brains can learn.  

She then started helping neurodivergent kids to build self-esteem and self-confidence in themselv...

Most of us find it challenging to manage a job along with family.

This week’s guest Akash Kannegulla shares how he manages a full-time job and a start-up alongwith a family.

He is a perfect example of living his passion, working for a cause and perseverance.

While pursuing his Phd in nano-photonics (heard of it before?), he ventured into the world of entrepreneurship and developed a cloud-based product for researchers to help c...

Establishing your own company can be a little intimidating at times. 

Shifting to a new country is often challenging.

Isn't it?

Naheed dealt with all of it and is now a Transformational Learning and Development Consultant and a Co-Founder of Futurwits.

She started her journey way back in 2004 as a Sales Trainee Manager at Bajaj Life Insurances.

And eventually moved to SBI as a Training Manager, where she started applying NLP concep...

Success leaves clues.

It's intriguing how a Chef can become CEO of an airline.

Not only that, Koustab became an authority in starting full-service airlines from scratch in the Build-Operate-Transfer model.

As a hotel management graduate, Koustav started as a chef and grew rapidly into leadership positions in the hospitality industry.

By a twist of fate, Koustav sat next to Sahara Airlines chairman in a flight. That conversation led...

Are you keen to build your career around marketing?

Does psychology excite you?

Are you a parent dealing with a mental health issue?

This episode might be the answer to all your questions.

From medical school dropout to psychology graduate, 

From practicing marketing and digital innovation to building his own startup on parent-child psychology,

Through his journey, Vijay expresses his desire to serve parents and children struggling...

Are you considering starting your own company??

Are you ready to have a paradigm shift in the way you perceive things?

This episode has the answers to your questions.

From HR graduate jobs to Analytics and Data Science Recruiter,

From slacking off on science tests in school to owning an analytical firm,

His journey demonstrates his passion for learning, his drive to find his purpose, and his desire to maintain a work-life balan...

Are you feeling stuck in your job and unable to find a way to grow.

Then this episode has got the answer you might be looking for.

From being a doer to becoming a thought leader, From a data analyst to becoming CDO at a leading financial services organisation,

Kshira Saagar demonstrates his passion to learn, his drive to apply, and his determination to help others, through his journey.

He started his career as a Data Analyst after ...

Are you interested in building a brand on LinkedIn?

Whether you are a new startup or a full-fledged business, a student or professional in any field, this podcast will help you build an impressive online presence on LinkedIn.

Graduating in Computer Science to becoming a Personal Branding Strategist,

From self-doubt to self-discovery,

Her journey illustrates her desire to help others build their brands, her determination to maintain...

Are you feeling stuck in your career?

Are you planning to become an entrepreneur?

Then this episode might be the answer to your questions.

From living in a conservative and protective family to being the first working woman in her family,

From not choosing the traditional path to owning her business,

Her journey showcases her passion to accept challenges, her purpose to mentor, and her determination to create a benchmark.

Vinit...

Do you want to switch career?

Do you want to enter into management roles?

Then this episode is the answer to your questions.

From being a doer to entering into management roles,

From being an Executive Manager to becoming an Associate Partner at IBM,

Her journey showcases her passion to learn, her purpose to implement, and her determination to achieve.

Anu Kukar was born and raised in Denmark and has an Indian background. Soo...

If you are struggling in finding the purpose of your life, 

then this episode might be the right place to tune in.

From being a door to door salesman to becoming the operational manager of the company,

From failing in 6 startup ideas to owing his full-fledged finance academy,

His journey showcases his hunger to learn, his passion to explore, and his drive to experiment.

Mr. Chinmay Ananda started his career as a civil engineer....

If you are battling with self-doubt,

This episode might help you to get out of that dilemma.

From moving to Australia to spending almost 24 years there,

From getting pregnant in the middle of the training period to becoming Head of AI and Data Science at HCL,

Her journey showcases her passion for learning and her Determination to become better.

Aruna Pattam was born and raised in Chennai, 

she is currently serving in HCL as Hea...

If you think you need a degree to pursue your dream in any field, 

Then this episode might help to debunk this thinking.

From a rare disease since childhood to becoming a TEDx speaker,

From a suicidal attempt to becoming the founder of a company,

her journey showcases her passion for life, purpose to live, and determination to achieve.

Dr. Kamala is currently demonstrating her talent in multiple domains like Biology, Artificial...

If you are feeling stuck in your career,

this episode may be just what you needed to listen to.

From a hopeless student to building a career, most professionals would envy,

Jay Hira's journey represents passion, drive, purpose, and lots of practical strategies.

Starting his career as a Pen Tester, Jay currently serves as the Security and Compliance Advisor at Salesforce.

In this episode, Jay shared his life story in three sta...

This is by far the most relatable episode 

I have had on the Empowering Indian Expats podcast.

He started as a typical IT professional in India and currently working as CTO in Australia.

At a very young age, Prakhar has shown the importance of both hustling and stability in his life.

At the age of 19, he started finding out his interests and building his surroundings accordingly.

While doing his side hustle with his better half, he...

This is by far the most practical and comprehensive

Career, Start-up and Business conversation

I have had on the Empowering Indian Expats podcast

At such a young age, Anto has demonstrated a very high level of competency and success both in his career as well as in running a business.

Whatever be your ask... Want to build a career Want to be an intrapreneur Want to start a fintech company

Anto has revealed valuable strategies, best...