He is a medical doctor turned entrepreneur who is extremely passionate aboutbuilding products which create impact at scale leveraging technology. According to him we’re at an intersection wherein technology can solve a lot of challenges that mankind faces. Hence, he is excited about building / investing in products which help in elevating the healthcare, agriculture, climate, financial, mobility & real estate infrastructure around the globe. An avid reader and gardening enthusiast,...

From being an Economics and Finance graduate to working in Wall Street for 5 years, Roopa Barua is now a renowned award winning filmmaker who seeks to create nuanced cinema that goes beyond geography and human boundaries. She strives to produce useful cinema content. She is a constant source of inspiration to all filmmakers. She set the benchmark so that every other filmmaker would be the same. Find Us Online:Vishal - Linkedin  TwitterRoopa Barua  - Instagram, LinkedInCredits:- WYN Studio:...

He was born a Dutch as Alexander Luthra but now totally immersed into Indianculture and the Indian way of Life. He is now known as Swami Purnachaitanya, a name given to him by none other than Sri Sri Ravishankar. Swami Purnachaitanya is an author, life coach and a public speaker. His book ‘Looking Inward Meditating to Survive in a Changing World’ published by Penguin India is a best seller. He works at the Art of Living Foundation in Bengaluru teaching yoga around India and abroad and...

As a child he tinkered around with video games and computers. His schooling saw his extra curriculum almost entirely substituted by this fascination for gaming and at the age of 12, he started programming games. This childhood dream of gaming went on to become his career. He is none other than Anurag Khurana, Founder and CEO, Newgen Gaming. He has an overall experience of 22 in consulting, project management, system design & integration and games development. Anurag’s interests lie...

Born in a small village in Tamil Nadu, he studied under street lights in his initial schooling days. He got a scholarship to pursue higher education in a big city only to top the class further and then be a topper in CA and today he is one of the most sought-after finance guys in the country. Everybody wants to know from him how to manage their money. And strangely a man who is expected to have sleepless nights due to solving financial issues is a man who has done extensive research on...

He grew up reading English writers and novelists such as Charles Dickensand Charlotte Bronte along with being bright in academics. His parents' aim was tosee him speak excellent English. Experiences in his growing up years and schooling shaped his thinking. He strongly believes access to higher education must be democratized so that a common person never loses out to exposure. This is exactly what Akshay Chaturvedi is doing at his company Leverage Edu and impacted over 10000+ students and...

He grew up reading English writers and novelists such as Charles Dickensand Charlotte Bronte along with being bright in academics. His parents' aim was tosee him speak excellent English. Experiences in his growing up years and schooling shaped his thinking. He strongly believes access to higher education must be democratised so that an ordinary person never loses out on exposure. This is precisely what Akshay Chaturvedi is doing at his company Leverage Edu and impacted over 10000+ students...

He is an industrialist, an educationist, an academician, and an angel investor and philanthropy has been passed on to him as part of his family legacy. Based on his own personal learning and experiences of studying abroad, today he has set up an international-level private university Somaiya Vidyavihar, in the heart of Mumbai. In his free time, he loves going outdoors. One of his favourite spots to go to is Mahabaleshwar. He is none other than Samir Somaiya.Find Us Online:Vishal - Linkedin,...

He is a multi-potentialite-at-large (founder, policy wonk, activist, and OpEd columnist) and has also been given the tag of our very own desi Indiana Jones who has been snooping around to bring back to India archaeological artifacts taken out during the colonial period under his initiative India Pride project. He also believes that data when bagged by facts can tell a different story and hence started DataReveals.org. He is my friend Anuraag Saxena. You can follow Vishal on Twitter:...

He is fun-loving, gets bored fast with doing the same thing, He likes to do something new at regular intervals and the entrepreneurial streak in him has been with him since his childhood. He is none other than Akshat Rathee, a serial entrepreneur and currently the Managing Director and Co-founder of NODWIN Gaming, a venture by the NODWIN Group of Companies. NODWIN Gaming is the premier and most recognized esports company in India. You can follow Vishal on Twitter:...

He learned the art of selling and making a profit out of the sale when he was just 10 years old. By the time he was 14, he was successfully running his dad’s HMV Records dealership store. He has been a hustler throughout and has decided the title of his biography if he ever writes one would be - The Hustler. He is today an accomplished leader, pioneering business transformation specialist, and a known name in the staffing industry, he is none other than Taj Haslani. You can follow Vishal on...

He is a celebrated voice in the BFSI sector, he pivoted from science to insurance. His father has been his role model from whom he has learned how to derive happiness at work and overtime his idea of happiness at work has evolved tremendously. He also has his own podcast where he shares his views on insurance to entrepreneurship and a lot more. He is none other than Tapan Singhel, MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz. You can follow Vishal on Twitter: @VishalGondal(VishalGondal) You can follow Tapan...

Born and brought up in Jharkhand, she grew up to be a timid girl with lots of inferiority complex due to being tall and dusky. From being an introvert to breaking all shackles to walk tall with her head held high and a smile on her face today, she is a TEDx Speaker, an intimacy coach, and a sex educator. That’s Pallavi Barnwal, who has traveled miles in her journey to reach this stage. Let us hear her story in her own words. You can follow Vishal on Twitter:...

She is lively and full of life. She has been a child artist and is now a model, a digital marketeer and has started her entrepreneurial journey in Canada. Extremely passionate about what she does, she continues to be a content creator, voice-over artist, a Podcast host herself and a live stream VJ and am I proud to say she is a GOQii Play coach and has many followers. You can follow Vishal on Twitter: @VishalGondal(https://twitter.com/VishalGondal) You can follow Vishakha on...

One of India’s finest orators and storytellers, Roshan Abbas has been TV & radio host, film & theatre director. author of the bestseller book on public speaking 'Speechless'. Roshan founded and led Encompass (now Geometry Encompass) as Managing Director into becoming India’s largest, most awarded experiential marketing agency. He was also an initial investor in and continues to be a mentor-partner at The Glitch. Both ventures have been acquired by WPP.He has won seven national-level...

Get Mickemised !! One look at him and he can give any young guy a run for his money with his energy, fitness levels and exuberance, Dr. Mickey Mehta, 59, is an author, a leading global holistic health guru, a legendary Fitness and Life coach to Bollywood superstars, top politicians, India Inc. and several Miss Worlds and Miss Universes. He was the first personal trainer of India, fitness columnist and fitness tv and radio presenter in India. He preaches the concept of hostile health and...

Born to parents who were corporate professionals, Bollywood was not the first career option for him but his family lineage to famous Bollywood producers probably got him interested in filmmaking. He went to start his career as an Assistant director on Sudhir Mishra’s film ‘Is Raat ki Subh Nahi’ and went on to direct films like Kal Ho Na Ho, Salaam-e-Ishq”, Chandni Chowk to China, to name a few. Today, he is a producer and screenwriter. He is co-founder of Emmay Entertainment, a motion picture...

A jovial and a voracious reader who reads one book a day and has read over 12000 books till date. Armed with several educational degrees -an alumnus of Harvard Business School, IIM Calcutta and ESSEC Business School Paris, Rahul Narvekar is the founder of the Startup Studio India where he wants to create 1 Million entrepreneurs in the next 3 years. He has had an incredible and inspiring journey so far. From Mumbai slum to being a CEO and an Angel Investor, he talks of his childhood, his life...

C. Pallavi Rao Narvekar hails from a family of journalists but chose to pursue her bachelor’s degree in Geography. Her childhood love for radio got her to also pursue a full-fledged career as a Radio Jockey and also doing Voice Overs. Everything was going on well in her life when one day she was told she cannot speak. Imagine a Radio Jockey with no voice. She was diagnosed with cancer and she lost her voice post her Thymectomy surgery, one of her vocal cords got paralyzed. The doctor sealed...

On this week's episode, host Vishal Gondal is joined by Kiran Khalap, Co-Founder of chlorophyll.in. Kiran is a school teacher turned copywriter, a brand guru who founded a brand consultancy firm, a writer from his teens and now an author of two books with the third soon to be published and a passionate rock climber who has proven that there is a life beyond advertising and brands. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on...

On this week's episode, host Vishal Gondal is joined Jasleen Sobti. She's armed with a double Masters in Physics (one from Mumbai University and one from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, she worked with the US Navy as a Research Engineer for 13 long years. She has sailed on every fleet ship that the US Navy has except the Submarine. She almost applied and got Top Security Clearance but, withdrew her application....

On this week's episode, host Vishal Gondal is joined by Akancha Srivastava, Founder of Akancha Against Harassment - India's largest social impact initiative to raise awareness against cyber harassment. Akancha is an independent, confident and tough woman. From wanting to be an IAS officer to being a brand strategy consultant to starting a movement against Cyberharassment and Cyber Safety, she has come a long way. Today, she is totally dedicated to helping and building more awareness about...

He has come a long way in life, from delivering milk and morning newspapers for his college fees to a successful software support engineer and now to one of the most charismatic health experts online. This samosa-pav loving, son of Gujarati-Marwadi parents is healing people by enabling them to embrace their roots in this ancient traditional exercise and meditation technique we call Yoga. He is the reason you don’t need to burn a hole in your pocket while trying to learn Yoga at an expensive...

Sarita Pereira is an ex-advertising professional who quit her successful career to pursue her passion for food and become one of the most innovative culinary chefs in the country today. She has trained and worked with a Michelin Star chef in Spain. Her profound knowledge of cooking techniques coupled with a mad scientist-like desire to push the boundaries of cooking has led to an entrepreneurial journey so unique, that it is rightly called “The LoveFools”. You can listen to this show and...