Leaders Creating Rukus
Welcome to "Leaders Creating Rukus" hosted by Aashi Arora. Here we dive into the minds of innovators, disruptors, and change makers who aren't afraid to shake things up. Tune in as we converse with leaders who are challenging the status quo and making waves in their industry. Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and even a little uncomfortable as we explore what it takes to create a positive "rukus" in today’s world.
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April 19, 2026 • 48 mins
Shayla Higginbotham has spent 20+ years navigating the complexity of healthcare, building, advising, and challenging systems from the inside out. Raised in a small town in West Virginia, she learned early what it meant to be different and that success requires more than hard work. It takes thinking differently.A minority woman in male-dominated spaces, Shayla did not just find her voice. She created space for others to have one. To...
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April 12, 2026 • 50 mins
She grew up the daughter of immigrant physicians in Ohio, expected to follow a traditional path.
She didn’t.She tried finance. Pivoted to law. Fell in love with healthcare policy.
And along the way, she kept asking one question: How do we actually make healthcare work better for women?This Sunday at 4 PM PST, Leaders Creating Rukus sits down with Priya Bathija, founder and CEO of Nyoo Health, healthcare strategist, and a leading voic...
She didn’t.She tried finance. Pivoted to law. Fell in love with healthcare policy.
And along the way, she kept asking one question: How do we actually make healthcare work better for women?This Sunday at 4 PM PST, Leaders Creating Rukus sits down with Priya Bathija, founder and CEO of Nyoo Health, healthcare strategist, and a leading voic...
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April 5, 2026 • 50 mins
He nearly lost his life to a sudden, devastating illness. He came back with a deeper understanding of what it truly means to lead, with humanity, not just expertise. In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus Aashi sits down with Dr. Bijal Patel, board-certified nephrologist, healthcare leader, and a voice for redefining leadership through service, connection, and compassion.An executive leader with Balboa Nephrology Medical Group, ...
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March 29, 2026 • 50 mins
She was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at 31. She had a newborn. And she still found her way back to leading with purpose. In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus, Aashi sits down with Parul Somani — speaker, author, and mindset coach who turned a career crisis into a roadmap for resilient leadership. MIT and Harvard Business School grad. Bain alum. Silicon Valley executive. And someone who knows what it means to lose ev...
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March 22, 2026 • 45 mins
What if the reason you’re not getting promoted isn’t your performance but how your leadership is being interpreted? In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus, Aashi Arora sits down with Maddy Viswanath, career coach and former HR leader. With 20+ years in HR, Maddy shares how she went from being overlooked and underpaid to increasing her compensation by over 110 percent simply by changing how she communicated her value. From naviga...
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March 8, 2026 • 48 mins
What if protecting your reputation in a crisis meant telling the truth faster, clearer, and louder than the chaos around you? In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus host Aashi Arora sits down with crisis communications expert Dave Oates, founder of PR Security Service, whose career spans more than three decades of navigating some of the most high-stakes reputational challenges organizations can face. From his early days as a U.S...
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March 1, 2026 • 48 mins
What if hiring felt less like a black hole and more like a human conversation powered by intelligence?In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus, Aashi Arora sits down with brothers, founders, and AI innovators Raihan Dadabhoy and Azam Dadabhoy, co-founders of Sensiply, a fast-growing AI-powered hiring platform transforming how employers and candidates connect.Born and raised in Southern California and shaped by their time at the Un...
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February 22, 2026 • 49 mins
What if the most powerful pivot in your life wasn’t about doing more but about finally surrendering and listening? In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we sit down with Dr. Katie W. Chu, optometrist, author, speaker, and founder of Chu On What Matters, for one of our most heartfelt and transformational conversations yet.For nearly 30 years, Dr. Chu has served four and a half generations of families through her private practice...
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February 15, 2026 • 49 mins
What if the friction in your organization isn’t a people problem but a design problem? In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus as we sit down with organizational efficiency engineer and founder of Belleview Consulting, Belle Walker.Belle takes companies from friction to function, helping leaders rethink how their teams are structured, how work flows, and how strategy actually gets executed. With a Mechanical Engineering degree fr...
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February 1, 2026 • 48 mins
What if growing your business didn’t mean chasing every trend, but scaling with intention instead? In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we sit down with product and marketing strategist Anika Sharma, founder of Crescera Consulting. With over 15 years of experience in product marketing and portfolio strategy, Anika has led high-impact initiatives across education technology, healthcare, and consumer goods, launching multimillio...
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January 25, 2026 • 48 mins
In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we sit down with California licensed attorney, legal educator, and academic success expert Aparna Agnihotri, J.D. Founder of Academic Advantage JD and creator of LawBubu, Aparna is redefining how law students learn, think, and succeed. Her journey was not easy. Law school and the bar exam pushed her to the brink, testing her confidence, resilience, and sense of belonging. But instead of wal...
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January 18, 2026 • 49 mins
What if building your career meant amplifying who you already are instead of starting over from scratch?
In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we welcome back keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and LinkedIn authority Sheikh C. Ali.A former medical student who pivoted away from a traditional path, Sheikh is now the Founder and CEO of SC Medical Media, where he helps clinicians and healthcare executives transform their LinkedIn presen...
In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we welcome back keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and LinkedIn authority Sheikh C. Ali.A former medical student who pivoted away from a traditional path, Sheikh is now the Founder and CEO of SC Medical Media, where he helps clinicians and healthcare executives transform their LinkedIn presen...
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January 11, 2026 • 53 mins
What if true leadership wasn’t about becoming more—but becoming more of your authentic self? In this episode of Leaders Creating Ruckus, Aashi Arora sits down with Nidhi Kathuria—social entrepreneur, senior executive, and impact-driven leader—for a powerful and deeply human conversation on courage, reinvention, and purpose-led success.With over 20 years of experience across fintech, blockchain, healthtech, and the social impact sec...
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December 29, 2025 • 52 mins
Some career shifts start not with dissatisfaction, but with a deeper awareness of what constant pressure is doing inside. On this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus, we’re joined by Dr. Sahana Sharan, a nervous system–based leadership strategist who helps high-performing leaders expand their internal capacity so they can lead with calm, clarity, and impact in high-pressure environments.A former physician and Fortune 5 corporate exec...
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December 21, 2025 • 45 mins
This week on Leaders Creating Rukus, we’re joined by Sweta Patel, founder of Sadhna Legal Nurse Consulting. Sweta is an OB-trained nurse with more than 16 years of experience spanning Labor & Delivery, NICU, infusion therapy, infectious disease, medical device integration, and travel nursing.Her work today lives at a rarely seen crossroads. After years at the bedside and in clinical leadership roles, Sweta now partners with att...
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December 8, 2025 • 47 mins
In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus Aashi Arora sits down with Kim Jones, an executive coach, former Divisional CIO, and educator who has spent twenty-five years helping leaders rise to their full potential.Kim’s career began inside Fortune 250 companies, where she moved through finance, risk, operations, and IT before stepping into a senior role at Farmers Insurance Company. Although she succeeded in highly complex environme...
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December 1, 2025 • 50 mins
This week, Aashi Arora sat down with Dr. Saba Fatima, a pediatric hospitalist, researcher, writer, and creator of Muted in Medicine, for a conversation about identity, grief, belonging, and the hidden emotional labor carried by people in healthcare.From her childhood in Karachi, to medical training in Philadelphia, to caring for hospitalized children in Kansas, Saba’s story offers a close look at what happens behind the curtain of ...
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November 23, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus, Aashi Arora speaks with Rania Chami, a nutrition and life coach whose story reaches from wartime Beirut to coaching rooms in the United States. The episode follows her journey through immigration, motherhood, divorce, and professional reinvention, then shows how these experiences shaped the work she brings to women navigating midlife changes.Rania explained how food, identity, and hormones...
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November 16, 2025 • 48 mins
What if parenting and leadership were really two sides of the same lesson? In this episode Aashi has an illuminating conversation with parenting expert, positive psychologist, and licensed educational board-certified behavior analyst Reena B. Patel.
For more than two decades, Reena has worked with families and children, guiding them through the emotional, academic, and social layers of growth. She helps parents and educators build p...
For more than two decades, Reena has worked with families and children, guiding them through the emotional, academic, and social layers of growth. She helps parents and educators build p...
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November 10, 2025 • 48 mins
What if leading your business felt less about tracking numbers and more about building steady, intentional growth? In this episode Aashi Arora sits down with Rush Shah, Chief Financial Officer, founder of Modern CFO Services, and trusted advisor to companies aiming to scale with purpose.With more than twenty years of experience in finance across Providence, Kaiser Permanente, and NAPA Center, Rush has guided organizations in health...
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