She Built a Cybersecurity Company With NO Tech Degree | nlsa PodcastNo funding. No technical background. A new country. Ankita Dhakar still built two cybersecurity companies and now protects some of the biggest listed companies in Australia and New Zealand.In this episode, Anuvindh sits down with Ankita Dhakar, Founder & CEO of Capture The Bug and Founder of SecurityLit, to talk about breaking into cybersecurity from zero, validating a startup idea with 43 Chief Technology Officer interviews, and why the traditional penetration testing model is dying.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT WE COVER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➜ From destroying confidential documents to founding a security company➜ The Capture The Bug origin story, real-time penetration testing as a subscription➜ How she validated the idea with 43 Chief Technology Officers before building the product➜ Landing a stock-exchange-listed client through cold LinkedIn outreach➜ The number one skill to learn in 2026: communication➜ Roadmap for beginners: fundamentals, communities, Capture The Flag challenges➜ What she looks for in a CV , real projects over certifications➜ Being asked "who's the owner?" bias, identity, and staying rooted➜ Artificial Intelligence in penetration testing and why human-in-the-loop matters➜ Social engineering, phishing, and the simple call-back rule that protects her company━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Introduction2:14 Why Cybersecurity?3:12 About Capture the bug5:04 How Capture the Bug works?6:10 Skill everyone should learn8:06 Most crucial survival habit9:40 How to get your first client?12:59 Road map to security15:12 What defines capability?16:18 Red flags in interview17:32 Challenges for women in tech18:45 Women in cyber security20:00 Advice for women in tech20:34 AI in next 5 years23:57 Useful communities25:48 Pen testing in Capture the Bug28:35 How to be secure?29:56 Vulnerable humans33:24 How Capture the Bug uses AI?35:47 Everything you learned when abroad38:41 Are certifications required?41:09 Don't judge by cover43:39 Rapid Round46:18 Why you should watch this?47:03 Learning from the past━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH GUEST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitadhakar/website : https://capturethebug.xyz/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/nlsa-podcast/id1747877449➡️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fHYMG9X7f5z0a5RAXlfKi━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW NLSA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nlsapodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Join Our Community :━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nzSubscribe for real conversations that decode success, systems, and mindset."Stories of yesterday for a better tomorrow."#NLSA #NLSAPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Tech #CareerGrowth #Podcast

What if your biggest career disadvantage is actually your most valuable asset?Meet Elle Archer, who holds 13 roles across technology, governance, indigenous development and digital equity for a blunt conversation about the nonlinear path, the age of Artificial Intelligence, and why most people are being trained as followers instead of builders.She turned nearly three decades of "not fitting in" into a way of working no one else can replicate. In this one, she breaks down how she actually does it and what it means for anyone early in their career, switching paths, or wondering if they belong in tech.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT WE COVER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━→ Why the system was never built for you and how to reshape it instead of shrinking to fit→ Adaptation and relational intelligence: reading the room and knowing what to push→ Builders versus followers: the real gap Artificial Intelligence is exposing→ The zoom-out / zoom-in framework she runs across 13 organisations→ The four skills that survive the Artificial Intelligence era→ Pattern recognition in two minutes the shortcut she compressed from decades→ A 30-day leadership-in-tech challenge you can start today━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━0:00 Introduction2:18 The disadvantage reframe4:22 Adaptation and relational intelligence7:01 Why women in tech stay few10:21 Equity, equality, unity14:09 Education for completion versus capability16:26 Builders versus followers in Artificial Intelligence19:29 The zoom-out / zoom-in framework29:10 Four skills that survive the Artificial Intelligence era43:20 Pattern recognition in two minutes46:00 Rapid round and the 30-day challenge━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH ELLE ARCHER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle-archer007/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/nlsa-podcast/id1747877449➡️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fHYMG9X7f5z0a5RAXlfKi━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW NLSA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nlsapodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Join Our Community :━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nzSubscribe for real conversations that decode success, systems, and mindset."Stories of yesterday for a better tomorrow."#NLSA #NLSAPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Tech #CareerGrowth #Podcast

Most people follow the safe path in finance. Jai Goradia didn't.He moved to New Zealand at 22 because of a cricket match, worked in investment banking, then quit to build something that had never existed anywhere in the world a platform that lets people outside India invest in Indian markets without an Indian bank account, documents, or infrastructure.In this episode of NLSA Podcast, Jai breaks down the real journey the career, the company, the setbacks, and the mindset that made it possible.==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction2:15 Why New zealand3:24 What made you interested in finance?4:42 How to be an investment banker?7:53 Role of education9:31 Building a fintech startup13:02 Biggest challenge14:46 Simple approach to invest17:07 About mutual funds21:32 Why invest in Indian market?25:07 Investment banker vs Stock broker26:46 Revolution by Indus29:04 Starting fintech business in Newzealand32:00 Skills for client relationship34:21 Rapid Round36:15 Red flags in resume38.10 Future of Indian market39.09 Frontier for fintech in Newzealand40.40 Is New zealand good for business?45.43 Get your first customers48.52 Future plans for Indus49.57 Final advice===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nz===========================Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ===========================➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: Coming Soon..➡️ Spotify: Coming Soon..

New Zealand has 5 million people. No real venture capital scene. No tech exits to point at. No startup playbook.Pete Savage heard all of that and built anyway. : https://resourcefully.io This is the conversation every ambitious Kiwi needs to hear whether you're thinking about starting something, already in it, or just tired of being told your country is too small for your idea.No fluff. No motivation. Just the real story.===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nz==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction2:53 About entrepreneurship4:10 Validate your idea6:55 Understand the market7:42 How to build a product8:50 Building an MVP10:47 How to find your first customers13:02 Price your product14:25 Understand the pricing point15:12 About Resourcefully.io19:09 Start you startup in NZ22:09 What's Bootstrapping22:32 Angel investor23:18 About Seed funding23:45 Venture Capital funds26:00 Essential skills for 202628:00 Rapid Fire===========================Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ===========================➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: Coming Soon..➡️ Spotify: Coming Soon..

Stop "selling" and start influencing. Jay Kaur and Jong Lee join the NLSA Podcast to break down the mindset of a top-tier closer. Whether you're in sales or building a business, these skills are non-negotiable.They reveal exactly what separates the 1% from everyone else. One conversation. No filter. Pure blueprint.Universal sales and trust psychology, No fluffIn this video, you’ll learn:✅ Why selling is the foundation of every successful startup and career.✅ The secret to building trust and "Aha moments" with high-end clients.✅ How Jong transitioned from professional rugby to real estate dominance.✅ Jay 's strategies for maintaining 5-star service and a powerful social media presence#SalesMindset #skills #2026 #career #BusinessStrategy #nlsa #nlsapodcast ==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction1:10 Why should you watch this?3:38 The AHA Moment5:30 Steal your super power6:29 Planning Success8:16 Make 10K easily13:42 Handle rejections15:23 Bad experiences16:58 Tricks to convince someone18:29 How to sell?21:38 Resources you can use24:41 AI in sales27:00 AI opportunity27:28 Rapid Fire29:07 Some takeaways29:45 Super skills for success===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️ Website : https://www.nlsa.nz➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nz===========================Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ===========================➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: Coming Soon..➡️ Spotify: Coming Soon..

Fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence, MCP systems, data privacy, and security solutions exploring how innovation is reshaping the way we protect and move information in a digital world.🔍 What you’ll learn in this episode:- The future of AI and data security- What makes MCP and data masking solutions unique- Real-world challenges in data privacy and compliance- Why entrepreneurship is the new career path for tech-driven graduates- How digital transformation is reshaping financial ecosystems- University Student turned Entrepreneur stories🌎 Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, AI professional, or aspiring founder this conversation will open your mind to how AI and innovation are redefining global data and money movement.💡 Our guests : - Grant de Leeuw - Co-Founder & CEO at DataMasque - https://www.datamasque.com- Woori Bae - Founder JJobs==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction0:36 About Vision1:27 About Synthetic Data3:22 MCP Explained5:29 Challenges Faced6:21 Different Approach7:31 Ignite The Idea8:25 AI Agents10:11 Advertisement10:51 Vision & Mission11:28 About JJobs12:58 Fuel the Idea13:40 Key Difficulties14:13 Skills that Matter14:50 Insights for you15:44 Book of Choice16:30 Conclusion===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.beehiiv.com

In this episode, Anuvindh sits down with Andrew, Managing Director AU/NZ of Orange Business, to explore how Orange Business is helping New Zealand companies grow and thrive in today’s digital world.Together, they dive into:- How Orange Business supports NZ businesses to scale and innovate- The role of AI in shaping the future workforce- Addressing the carbon footprint and driving sustainable growth- The knowledge and skills you need to stay competitive in the AI era- The best advice Andrew received that shaped him into a thoughtful leaderThis is a powerful conversation about leadership, technology, and the future of business in New Zealand.✨ Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more inspiring episodes!#AI #Leadership #OrangeBusiness #FutureOfWork #Sustainability #NLSAPodcast #Anuvindh===========================This Episode brought to you with :===========================www.nimbal.ai : AI-Powered Scans & Test Reports of Websites and Web Applicationswww.resourcefully.io : Streamline your contractor hiring process with Resourcefully===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.beehiiv.com

We are exploring how smart cities could reshape the future of New Zealand. From solving Auckland’s traffic bottlenecks to creating new job opportunities in urban tech and planning, we ask what it really takes to build a smarter, more connected country.Our guest, Mark Thomas, has worked with governments across the globe and brings sharp, practical perspectives on what New Zealand can learn — and lead — in the race toward smarter cities.We also talk about the housing crisis, how data and AI are being used to fix broken systems, and why the next wave of jobs might not be where you expect.#smartcity #nlsapodcast #anuvindh #entrepreneur #jobs #ai #smarthouseConnect with Mark Thomas : https://www.serviceworks.co.nz===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.beehiiv.com ==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction1:40 How I began3:10 Why Smart City?4:20 What makes a city smart?8:12 Technologies to improve people's life10:44 Future of New Zealand11:41 Business opportunities for young entrepreneurs14:32 Is Christchurch the most prepared city?14:50 The smartest city17:16 What's happening in Wellington?18:02 What's Digital Twin?20:40 Housing Crisis22:41 About Modular Housing23:30 3D printed houses24:16 Why should GenZ or millennial care about Smart City?25:40 Biggest challenges for Smart Cities28:07 Favourite Book29:25 Conclusion===========================Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ===========================➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: Coming Soon..➡️ Spotify: Coming Soon..

In this episode of the nlsa Podcast, we talk about building AI agents, launching businesses with Gen AI, Future ready for AI agents and how agentic apps are reshaping the future of work. Whether you're a techie, entrepreneur, or just curious, this conversation will open your eyes to what’s possiblehttps://www.nimbal.aihttps://nimbal.ai : 20% off with nlsa PodcastCoupon for nimbal.ai = NLSA0020Connect with experts : https://www.seekersandadvisors.com

What you MUST include to pass ATS filters and stand out in Cloud, AI, Cybersecurity, and Data roles.Learn how to craft a job-winning resume, tailor your application, and avoid getting ghosted by recruiters. Whether you're a student, graduate, or experienced professional, this episode is your ultimate guide to cracking the NZ IT job market. 🇳🇿💼