In this bonus episode, Karthika explores seven habits of successful entrepreneurs and businesses derived from Steven Covey’s 7 Habits Of Highly Successful People and all the amazing entrepreneurs she has spoken to during Season 02 of the podcast. These 7 habits address both personal and business related concepts that can help creatives and business owners achieve long term sustainable growth and success instead of just short term gains.

In this bonus episode, Karthika talks about community over competition, one of the most common terminologies used in the business world today. She also shares practical ways you can incorporate this in your life and business. Competition gets a bad rep in terms of how it can lead to unhealthy feelings of anger, jealousy and fear. But when competition is looked at as a force of good, as a way to band together to serve the broader collective.

Karthika shares a bonus episode around the Japanese concept of Ikigai. Ikigai is described as a tool to finding one's purpose in life - the reason for being. This word is derived from its literal translation of iki, meaning life and kai, meaning the realization of hopes and expectations. According to Japanese culture, everyone has an ikigai. There is also a simple Free downloable worksheet to help you find your own Ikigai - your reason for being - be it in life or in business.

Karthika interviews Jody Daunton and Rachel Taylor, the creative duo behind Another Escape. Another Escape is publication that celebrates outdoor lifestyle and creative living. Jody and Rachel share their entrepreneurial journey in launching Another Escape into what it is today - a high quality lifestyle publication, which is generally read by people who are curious, creative and outdoorsy.

Karthika chats with Hannah Beasley of Hannah Rose Creative, a graphic designer focused on providing thoughtful and strategic branding for creatives. Hannah is really passionate about helping brands and companies refine their brand identify to match their core values, mission and vision instead of just visual aesthetics.

Join Karthika as she interviews Dr. Karen Bartuch, the executive director for the center for innovation and entrepreneurship at North Central College in the Chicagoland area. Dr. Karen has prioritized innovation and creativity throughout her career which has taken her down many interesting paths and roles and she truly believes that these two skills are extremely important for any entrepreneur to succeed in today’s global economy.

Karthika interviews Katie Davis the founder and creator of Ponderosa and Thyme where she teaches other creatives, artists and florists the art of creative process. Katie is a creative powerhouse and she believes that using creativity as a foundation for business success is important no matter the industry. Creative skills are something that every entrepreneur needs to develop.

In this episode, we explore Culture and Entrepreneurship as I chat with Uppma Virdi the founder Chai Walli, an Australian based business that is promoting the Indian culture of chai with signature Ayurvedic chai blends. Uppma is a lawyer by profession but a chai enthusiast who learnt the importance of Ayurveda from her grandfather, an Ayurvedic doctor in India. Today Chai Walli hand blends many Ayurvedic spices in their chai. Her goal is to bring the culture of chai mainstream all over the world.

Join us as we explore Travel and Entrepreneurship with Liz Schaffer, the founder and editor of Lodestar Anthology, a travel magazine based out of London. Liz got the idea to start a travel magazine dedicated to one country at a time.

She attributes a lot of her success to that insatiable drive to make it work. Lodestar Anthology which stated as just a way to showcase one or two country is now up to its 11th issue and Liz has throughly enjoyed the entrepreneurial journey so far.

Karthika interviews Ari Krzyzek, the co-owner of Chykalophia, a graphic design studio she co-founded with her husband and business partner. Ari truly believes in community over competition and believes that everyone should do what they are most passionate about. She encourages other business owners to stop thinking about completion and instead think of collaborating - we are stronger together than we are apart, especially as women business owners.