Absolutely Write with Aditi Surana Aditi Surana

In the very last episode of the Absolutely write podcast, Aditi shares her top 5 lessons she learnt in her 2 years as a podcast host. 

The Absolutely write podcast will be back next week with a brand new name and vibe. The conversations will be in 'Hinglish' and will stay real, authentic and based on high performance. 

For the one last time, Happy Writing! Tune in

The very last episode of Absolutely write podcast wouldn't have been complete without our producer, Rasshi Ganeriwal and 2 phenomenal listeners and friends of the podcast, Anupama Mandloi & Arshdeep Kaur.

Tune into the last episode of the podcast in this current avatar and learn some never heard before secrets about how the Absolutely write podcast came into being. Aditi shares some behind the scenes trivia and some hacks for new & upcoming podcasters.

Our guest this week on the Absolutely Write podcast is Ashutosh Kumar - Founder of Jagriti. Ashutosh is an entrepreneur at heart with 10+ years of experience of building communities and brands focused on the next billion. He joined the founding team of Jagriti Yatra - a crazy unique idea well ahead of its time - to empower the ‘next billion’ young entrepreneurs in 2008. A logistical mammoth, Jagriti Yatra is designed as a 15-day, 8000-km entrepreneurship train journey. It brings the best of design thinking, experiential education, and entrepreneurship together.
 
He is now building a community of 5500+ ‘next billion’ youth; 28% of them with their own startups.
 
Aditi analyses Ashutosh's handwriting and talks some interesting aspects of his personality including what makes him such a good and keen listener & leader. Ashutosh shares his love for rural India and all the work his team and him have been doing to create a social impact and empower people from all over our country.

You can make more money if you do good to the world.
Our guest this week on the Absolutely Write podcast is Pratik Gauri.  Pratik is a serial Indian social entrepreneur, investor, public speaker and writer widely known as the Creator of the 5th Industrial Revolution. He has been championing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and helping transition the world from a for-profit economy to a for-benefit economy for more than a decade.
As the Founder & CEO of 5ire.org ( pronounced FIRE ), Pratik believes that the service of humanity and social good can work hand-in-hand with business. Pratik has founded 8 companies prior to founding 5ire, which is a blockchain ecosystem that brings forward Sustainability, Technology & Innovation to build the 5th industrial revolution.
Aditi analyses Pratik's handwriting and talks some interesting aspects of his leadership & personality including what makes him a keen listener, observer & analytical entrepreneur. She talks about his passion to do the unfathomable and stay hungry to create more impact.  Pratik shares his story of what made a successful entrepreneur at the age of 16 and some tips and hacks to how sustainability can lead to profitability.
Keep a notepad handy for this fabulous episode. 

You can't get better at something you don't start!
Our guest this week on the Absolutely Write podcast is Bijay Goutaum . Bijay is the Co-founder of WYN Studio, a creative content studio specializing in audio storytelling and podcasts. He hosts one of the top podcasts in India- The Inspiring Talk reaching over a million people. On this podcast, he chats with top entrepreneurs, best-selling Authors, Thought leaders, and celebrities about their journey. His podcast has gained wider accolades from his listeners and media and was a finalist for Asia’s Best Podcast Award 2019.

Before all this began, Bijay was working as a Research Scientist in a leading Pharmaceutical Company. He was clearly losing motivation and drive in his life and that's when he started The Inspiring Talk. Within 15 months of starting his podcast, he quit his job to follow his passion for podcasting and inspiring people through his podcast.
Aditi analyses Bijay's handwriting and talks some interesting aspects of his personality including what makes him a unique and go-getter entrepreneur and what makes him step into the uncomfortable, ever so often. Bijay shares how people can they become more of their authentic self as a content creator. 
Which is your favourite lesson and why? Share in the comments section. 

Our love for textiles and art forms and a strong will to empower very talented and deserving artisans made us quit and take a big step towards our dream. The magic of thread drew us like a magnet.
Our guests on this week's Absolutely write episode are Sujata & Taniya Biswas. 
The sisters take pride in complementing each other’s skill sets while having the same vision. Sujata says that she is the brain and Taniya confesses to being the heart. Together, the beautiful symphony of their energies plays out perfectly to become Suta.
An alumnus of IIFT Delhi, Sujata always felt something was missing in her job. She was with Essar, Jindal & IIT before SUTA. Whenever she went back to visit her parents, she came across a lot of traditional weavers with whom she used to end up chatting and they used to pour their hearts out about lack of work and menial wages.
Taniya, an engineer and IIM Lucknow graduate, worked for almost three years with the Tata group and IBM. She calls herself an observer and loves to watch how everything in life is so beautifully intertwined with nature and the world around us. This kindled the creative streak in her to paint and to take photographs. After quitting her cushy corporate jobs, she grappled with many ideas, even tried her hands at product photo-shoots, before realizing that her true potential was not in the pictures but in the products itself. “I had designed a few clothes and had posted them, but instead of getting requests for shoot we were asked about the products.”
Together they run this organisation that supports & empowers over 16000 weavers across India. 
Aditi analyses their handwriting and talks about some of their some unique & opposite aspects of their personality including what makes them such different leaders and what makes them such a good solid team. Sujata & Taniya share some stories, lessons and takeaways that can be implemented starting today.
Which is your favourite lesson from today's episode and why? Share in the comments section.