Gritty Serendipity

This bonus holiday series was requested by you, my dear listeners, who were curious to know more about the books I read and my fitness regime. It consists of 7 episodes, where 6 episodes focus on my takeaways from the top 6 books and the 7th episode is all about my 5 pillar model to fit and happy life.

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Hello everyone, you are listening to the introductory episode of the new podcast called "Gritty Serendipity". I'm your host, Chetana Desai. Before I share my motivation to starting this podcast, let me introduce myself, once again my name is Chetana Desai, I passionately describe myself as creative by heart, pragmatic by the brain, and a Technology and Business leader with 15 years of experience. 
Now that you know a bit about me, let me share 3 key reasons behind starting this podcast!
Reason Number 1, my own lived experiences
Reason number 2, the opportunity
Reason number 3, creative satisfaction
My aim is to foster a community for women who are at all different stages in their career and in their life to come together, join hands, and support each other!
My Call to Action for you is: Please do share your questions & topics that are of value to you, recommend either a colleague, friend, or even yourself, who would make a great guest on this podcast, and finally don't forget to share your feedback & subscribe for this podcast to get future episodes!
My 3 step mantra:

Trust & work on your superpower
Iterate on risk to reward ratio 
Share your success

What next:
Stay tuned to my upcoming new series dedicated to demystifying incredible women from our very own technology companies and startups around us!
I want to leave you with this:
Hardship can hit anyone at any time so always be kind when you meet someone!
This episode is dedicated to Jason Young, host of the "MSDevShow" podcast & Mario Gerard, the host of "The TPM Podcast" who nudged me in the right direction. And also to my inspirations, the authors Shellye Archambeau and Laura Huang.