Welcome to Episode Number 51! 

It’s my absolute delight to have Devi Mani as the guest for this episode who drove the point that there’s nothing more impactful than ‘conversation’. Devi is a corporate professional turned entrepreneur and the founder of Skooc, a health tech start-up focussed on children's health and well being. With her own core values and experiences reflecting in all the work she does, we delve into a conscious conversation about the space and power mental health holds in our society.

Expanding from the core lens of being an ambitious woman entrepreneur, she wonderfully articulates her own journey driven by career, marriage, parenting and more. From power holding structures to financial independence, she helps deconstruct concepts of guilt, loneliness, female friendships and personal integrity. 

Every theme we touch upon — be it masculinity, bullying or about having a yearly ‘Manifesto’ – is underlined by the sensibilities of what an empowered perspective really can do to move the needle towards better personal and collective mindset growth.

"Deliberate intervention is a must for well-being"…and an Attitude Makeover starts here. Tune in!

Table Of Content: 

00:00

Introduction 

The Conversation That's All Thing About Mental Health

2:55 

Stripping off The Titles 

Who's Devi after all? Digging Deeper Into Her life and The One Short Drive That Changed Everything for her 

5:43 

Mental Health: An Underexplored Territory 

The Daunting Stats of Children's Mental Health in India and How it's not merely a "Western Issue"

7:27 

The Driving Manifesto 

How A Personal Manifesto Keeps Things Grounded When the Expectations Surpass 

12:36 

The Turnaround of Responsibility 

The juggle between pursuing the passion and having an open conversation with the family 

18:08

The Power You Lose 

The Candour of Parenting: Devi's Conversation with Her Daughter Regarding Her Plunge 

20:45 

The Forbidden Conversation 

Do Men Talk About What They Really Feel? 

22:35 

From the Ground Up

How Do Men Initiate Conversation From The Scratch? 

26:56

The World of Upbringing Is Changing 

One needs to put in the effort in Parenting to make it Flourish 

28:13 

No Blurring Boundaries 

Initiating Conversation With Parents and Children to Ease off the Burden of Unexpected Expectations 

29:41 

The Burnt of Bias 

Reminiscing about an incident, Devi talks about the unhealthy expectations usually from Men 

33:13 

The Normality Curve 

Why is being ordinary just not accepted anymore? 

34:53 

Opening the Doors

It's time that Men Initiate Conversations about what's bothering them 

36:22

Role Rebalance and Equal Partnership 

38:42

Abusing Power: An Insight Into School Bullying 

46:17 

It all narrows down to your personal integrity 

Closing Words by Devi and How Everything eventually depends upon your personal integrity and values 

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