Gritty Serendipity

Episode 1 - A former engineer turned certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Neha Shah. 
She is an IIN certified science-backed nutrition counselor & a compassionate health coach. She is the founder of The Balance Chaos, she believes in ditching the drama and advocates a thoughtful approach to nutrition and lifestyle. Helping others achieve a better and balanced version of themselves is an honor & privilege she gets to indulge in daily.
Enjoy listening to her traditional approach to livelihood and how to connect back to our roots to stay healthy!
Are you ready to make your health habitual? Then sign-up for a free consultation to check if it's for you.
https://thebalancechaos.com

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I have shared the reason behind the change in charter for Gritty Serendipity and what will the new Gritty Serendipity offer to you my lovely audience! Mindset Mondays, Healthset Wednesdays and Heartset Fridays!

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Episode 5 - A reminiscing conversation with Mamtha Banerjee
About Mamtha Banerjee:
She is a Tech entrepreneur and is currently the Vice President, of Technology at Expedia Group, where she leads the AI platform architecture and acceleration for travel. An accomplished technology entrepreneur with a track record of providing technology and product leadership at both startups and larger companies. She has developed and launched 10+ innovative game-changing products on the mobile, web, and other channels for millions of users. Extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems, lean methodologies, architecture, saas platforms, and cloud services. Building and leading high-performing teams.

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Episode 4 - A candid and heartfelt conversation with Bosky, who is a mother, wife, and founder of PMDojo!
About Bosky Mukherjee:
She is the Founder of PMDojo a diverse learning community for people in Product, Design, Entrepreneurship, and Technology.

She has been in tech and specifically in product for over 20 years and is deeply passionate about making tech more inclusive and accessible.

She has been fortunate to have been part of startups and Fortune 500 companies both in Vancouver and Silicon Valley. She is an entrepreneur, a builder, an innovator, a product strategist, and a people coach.

Her superpower is cutting through all the noise and facilitation with empathetic storytelling. 

☘ You can learn more about her work and request more information at:

- PMDojo: https://www.pmdojo.me/
- Spark To Substancehttps://www.sparktosubstance.com/

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Episode 3 - An authentic and heartfelt conversation with Masha, who is a mother of two and currently working as a Tech Director!
About Masha Kubyshina:
In her own words, "While I always loved math and science, I graduated in English Philology in Barcelona (Spain). I moved to Bay Area in 2003 and worked for almost 10 years in marketing. In 2014 I decided to change careers to EdTech. I created my own startup (a tool to improve English vocabulary for professionals), went through a lot of ups and downs, learned to code in R and Python. Needed to get a full-time job, decided to apply to analytics and growth hacking jobs. Learned almost all the tech skills on the job + on Coursera, the internet, community colleges. Now I am working full-time as a Tech Director, consulting for 2 clients, and (still) building my startup in language learning with a small team"

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Episode 2 - Part 2: Dona spends her days living her purpose as Principal Advocate for Microsoft's Power Platform--a product specifically designed for tech upskilling.
Previously, she leads the global community of 17M people as the Chief #NinjaCat of the Insider Program at Microsoft.
She spends her nights:
- writing fiction and non-fiction books to help young professionals have the careers of their dreams
- running an ethically made fashion line called #PrimaDonaStyle tailored in Nigeria, Kenya, and Seattle
- coaching entrepreneurs in emerging markets on how to turn an idea into a profit
- sharing these stories on stages all over the world
- coming up with more exciting schemes
She was recently named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Productive People in Business and Cosmopolitan Magazine's Businessperson of the Year.

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Episode 2 - Part 1: Dona spends her days living her purpose as Principal Advocate for Microsoft's Power Platform--a product specifically designed for tech upskilling.
Previously, she leads the global community of 17M people as the Chief #NinjaCat of the Insider Program at Microsoft.
She spends her nights:
- writing fiction and non-fiction books to help young professionals have the careers of their dreams
- running an ethically made fashion line called #PrimaDonaStyle tailored in Nigeria, Kenya, and Seattle
- coaching entrepreneurs in emerging markets on how to turn an idea into a profit
- sharing these stories on stages all over the world
- coming up with more exciting schemes
She was recently named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Productive People in Business and Cosmopolitan Magazine's Businessperson of the Year.

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Episode 1: Nabanita De is currently a Security Engineer at Uber and currently crowned Miss India Emerald City Washington 2020. She is passionate about solving world challenges through tech and entrepreneurship. My work has been recognized on Business Insider, Washington Post, Mashable, Huffington Post, BBC News, NDTV, Fortune, Wired Magazine, and over 90% of news publications worldwide and she was invited to Forbes Under 30 by the Forbes Team.  She has won several awards from big tech companies and institutes like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Harvard, MIT, and Qualcomm. Currently, I work on defending hackers as a Software Engineer at Uber. She has a Masters in Computer Science from UMass Amherst with a full-tuition rider scholarship. 
Here is some media coverage about my work: 
1.https://www.businessinsider.com/students-solve-facebooks-fake-news-problem-in-36-hours-2016-11 
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/11/18/fake-news-on-facebook-is-a-real-problem-these-college-students-came-up-with-a-fix/ She has also been published on Hacker News, Huffington Post, BBC, CNN, Wired Magazine, Fortune, and over 90% of news publications worldwide. 
Some of the platforms that She has built using her tech skills include - 
1. www.returnships.info (helping women get back to work after a long haul in career) 
2. Project FiB  (detecting Fake News on Facebook) - https://projectfib.azurewebsites.net/ - Featured on over 90% of news articles worldwide 
3. Help Her - Providing platform for acid attack and domestic violence victims find out laws pertaining to their cases. 
4. As a 6-year-old, collected funds for Redcross India and Helpage India. 
5. Got the NCWIT grant and raised 2000 dollars for helping stem education. 
6. Built an app Pedestrian Go to aid distracted pedestrians while they are crossing the street. 
7. Volunteered and organized the biggest Women in tech conference in the world, Grace Hopper Conference. 
8. Was the first female to win the BITSAA Mantra Entrepreneur of the Year award in BITS Pilani. 
9. Won Rockstar Leadership award at Uber for saving 9 million dollars at work. 
10. Got a full scholarship for a Master's at UMass Amherst. 
11. Built an app that got over 50,000 downloads on the app store. 
12. Won 17+ Hackathons and 7 Gold Medals in Chess.

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Episode 7: Unlike some of us, Jayanthi has worked at a single company, Microsoft for 20+ years to grow from fresh graduate engineer to technology leader, managing 100+ employees. She recently made the decision to move and work for Google Cloud! She shared a ton of insights from her career.
About our guest Jayanthi Sampathkumar:
She is at present working on Data Analytics in Google Cloud. Her team works on various products of GCP including Dataproc and Data Fusion! Previously at Microsoft, she held various roles and worked on many products namely SQL Server, Bing, and Azure. She made Guinness world record in 2017 for being the first fastest women marathon runner wearing Sari - a traditional Indian attire. Her passion for solving technological problems sets her apart!

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Episode 6: Vasu shared her career blockers/challenges at each stage with finesse and addressed them beautifully! Listen to this unplugged episode.
About our guest Vasumathi Lakshmanan's:
Vasumathi is a Principal Software Engineer and a leader who is leading an engineering team to build an Expedia Group Recommendations platform for all Expedia Brands. She design, implement and deliver software products as a full-stack engineer. Her interests include visualization of analytical and scientific data.

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