Figuring Out with Raj Shamani

A 17 years old school dropout turning himself to be India’s youngest Billionaire and co-founding India’s leading financial services company, Zerodha at the age of 24, Nikhil Kamath shares the most crucial yet important parts of his journey with us. The right approach to listen to this podcast would be to keep a pen and a paper with you and note down some of the excerpts you feel you can apply in your life.

Here are some extracts from this knowledge-packed conversation-    

• How to Build Trust
• His journey while he was a broker.
• Fintech startup
• Childhood 
• How to gain the family approval
• Asset Management    
• His Top Book recommendations
•  His interest in Psychology and History       
• The real man behind Zerodha
• His Future plans and fields he’d bet on

What exactly is happening in the crypto world?
Why do prices fluctuate just because of someone's tweet or appearance in a live show?
 Where do Bitcoins come from? What is an NFT?
 
If these questions bother you, we have a special guest today for you in this podcast.

 Nischal Shetty is the Founder & CEO of India's very own Crypto-asset exchange WazirX.  He's software engineer turned serial entrepreneur and has been already listed under Forbes 30 Under 30.
In this podcast, he talks about 

• All the developments the cryptocurrency up-till now and their causes.
• NFT
• Bitcoin Mining
• DogeCoin and much more.   

Like every youngster, anxiety and arrogance have been a part of Sarvesh’s life too. 
But what made him win 6 different awards in just one year? 
Was it an overnight success? 

Sarvesh Shashi aka Sarvesh Shashi Kumar Nayar is the founder of SARVA & DivaYoga, a Yogi, and an ex-cricketer. He holds a vision to connect seven Billion breaths which means to build a global community about Yoga, breaking all the myths related to it and preach how yoga can become transformational by retaining its authentic self.

Here's an overview of this value-packed podcast holds for you -

• Just like everyone, how anxiety, arrogance has been a part of Sarvesh's childhood.
• 6P's of Business and Life. 
• What does Yoga teach you?
• 3Ds of Life.
• Things one should not do when they are young.
• 6 things Sarvesh is always ready to fund - very important.

"If the world can shed 0.1% of Love, Kindness and Gratitude, it's great."
If you felt the change inside you by just reading this line, this podcast is for you..

Do you want to grow your followers thoughtfully? 
Do you want people to follow you and love your content?
Well then, you need to know the audience’s likes and dislikes and their thought process while consuming content. And that’s what Siddharth has spoken about in this podcast. 

He says, “If you have the knowledge and can’t express it, it comes out as jargon” and for that, you need good communication skills. And then as a speaker myself, it made me wonder, what’s exactly responsible for communicating well with the audience? How does one bring out the best content piece? What part of the brain involves understanding these things? Yes! I’ve asked him these, and his answers will blow your mind off. 

Eventually, he also talks about, what makes COMMON SENSE, and why is common sense not so common, haha. 

Tune in to hear Siddharth Warrier talk about content consumption, creation and tonnes of things that revolves all-around your thought process while you’re on social media.

 “There is no finance person and Accountant is the only non-finance person”, if you understand this statement, then this podcast will give you a deeper insight into it your finance and stock market. And if you don’t understand this statement, then this podcast is just the thing you need to kickstart your journey in the same.

Our guest, Dr Anil Lamda is a CA, bestselling author, financial literacy activist, an international corporate trainer and a Doctorate in Taxation. He has conceptualized and is actively engaged in the implementation of ‘Financial Literacy for All’, a movement towards creating a financially intelligent India.

Here’s an overview of what comes in the package of this podcast for you 

1.   Principles of saving and investing for your retirement.

2.   How to not lose money in the stock market.

3.   How to start investing in your 20’s.

4.   Unheard stories from the world of Finance.

5.   Choosing your consultant carefully.

6.   Books for you to give a head start in Financial Literary.

7.   How to control your desperation and FOMO while investing.

“Spend what is left after saving” is the biggest insight he gives in this podcast. But here’s a gold piece of advice that he gives us in the podcast – “When you come to the stock market, there are no permanent ups downs. You need to be a long term investor and “Patience is the key.” 

On this Podcast, we have Ashish who is the Founder & CEO of IndWealth, an AI-based Wealth tech platform. He is also the Founder & x-CEO of 'ibibo Group' (Goibibo, redBus & PayU India). Prior to founding "ibibo Group", Ashish was the 'Country Head' of 'Google India', wherein he set up the India facing operations from scratch.


This podcast revolves around the following questions:

1. Is there anything that you wanna do now?
2. What is the right question and how can someone ask the right questions?
3. You said that one needs to make decisions then & there, do you think that kind of learning comes from your appetite to try sports and be very competitive in the sports world or do you think it's something your parents who have instilled in you from the beginning?
4. Why do you think India has such a rage against wealthy people? How an individual who is very impatient and has been conditioned to not dream big, not create wealth. How can that person create wealth?
5. What is compounding, can you explain in 60-120 seconds?
If I have 100 rupees should I put 10rs in 10 months, or should I put 100rs? When should I invest during the next 10 months?  What does it take to build a startup?
6. Would you personally invest in cryptocurrency?
7. What is it that is keeping Indians poor and stopping them from creating wealth?
8. What do you think are the major differences between startups and MNCs and hence people should join a startup?
9. 3 things an individual can do to grow themselves
10. If you want to start a new business but you don’t know which sector to choose for your new company, who would be the 3 founders or 3 people who would be a part of your dream team? Not names but you can talk about what you would look in the talent
11.How do you get high energy? What’s your specialty mantra? What should an individual do?
12. You don’t believe in influencer marketing, why do you think it’s not good, or it’s not worth the money?
13. What do you think should be the ground approach for all of us the aspirin…. Ground rules of approaching people
14. Where do you see the biggest opportunity for a creator like me?

Aspiring Fitness trainers this one's for you. 
Today we have Pranit Shilimkar with us and he is a fitness trainer. 
This podcast will give you insights on what Pranit's routine looks like, how he struggled to become what he is now, which incident motivated him and filled him with aggression which he has channelized to become what he is today.
He shares how he started training different celebrities and is also seen in different celebrities' stories everyday :D. 
Pranit explains the logic behind the 37-day challenge and addresses if being spontaneous is a bad approach. He spoke about his college days & how he learned from observing & doing rather than reading.
Pranit answers the following questions & I felt like I was being attacked by Pranit in this podcast.

We talk about:

How one should listen to their gut feelings?

How Raj earned 30 crore revenue in lockdown?

Is being complete a myth?

What is the best thing you can give yourself this Valentine's?

How can you be humble yet superior with few etiquettes? 

Self-love is being Toxic.

What’s the most underrated strategy to win over someone?

Why is leaving your comfort zone Important? 

Are we living in acceptance or denial? 

Elon musk vs Jeff Bezos. 
Is Mukesh Ambani a villain?

And our views on Valentine's DAY.

We talk about how one should listen to their gut feelings, How Raj earned 30 crore revenue in lockdown. Why core values are important? Is being complete a myth. The best thing you can give yourself this valentine. How Paying attention to details is important. How can you be humble yet superior with few etiquettes? Toxic yet self-love. What’s the most underrated strategy to win over someone. Importance of time. Why is leaving your comfort zone Important? Are we living in acceptance or denial? Elon musk vs Jeff Bezos. Is Mukesh Ambani a villain?  And our views on V DAY.

Do you have a hard time learning English? 
I know I have been there.
Learning English nowadays is not an option if you want to comfortably fit in and enjoy the globalized era we live in.
I struggled a lot, but I had a vision. A clear vision of myself speaking English in the future. That vision never faltered.
Listen to the podcast to know I learnt to speak in English