Having grown in a household where the power balance was equal, becoming a feminist was pretty much the only way to go for Smriti Lamech and it continues till date. As a woman of her word, it was only fair that she decided to kick off a movement that came to life pretty much overnight, with her feminist rag dolls aka bommais as she fondly calls them.

Seeing Wonder Woman crash through the ceiling was enough for her to reiterate her belief that it was important for children to have strong women role models.

Listen in to the episode to know how The Smritsonian has made several of our women role models from around the world, household names.

Nature is at the very core of any living being's survival and the irony of human being ignoring this very component and instead thinking of various other ways to survive leaves Sara pretty perplexed.

A certified early years educator and a professional nature and animal communicator, Sara's purpose in life is to create a silent revolution of compassion. And to do so, she believes that it is important to 'start them young'.

Listen in to this fascinating sparkable of Sara's on how she is working towards raising ecological awareness among children of various age groups via many interventions she is creating via Sara's Stories.

Shivani decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge when her daughter was still an infant and close to two years on, Rashki is a brand with the vision towards building lifestyle products specifically for women. Catering to the women of the age-old multitasking era, the brand's purpose is to ultimately hand over the power to women to truly be themselves at the workplace and in fact, practically anywhere.

Shivani's sparkable on being young parent-entrepreneur is one that each of us need to listen to, only to realize that the sky is the limit.

As a graphic designer by qualification, Sudipta Basu, over the years has found her niche of how she can bring in her love for design and art to life with Due To Hue. Her spark to bring this to life on multiple surfaces while experimenting with different textures took over and thus, Due To Hue was born. But the twist to the post comes in where she believes it is pertinent that everything she does today has to have an artisan's touch. Marrying their craftsmanship to her design was what I saw in the form of a rug that a friend had purchased on Instagram and Sudipta's just begun this journey.

Sudipta's mission is to be able to create a directory of artisans from across India as a dedication to the melting pot of culture that our country is, with the single-minded purpose of making every artisan rich and getting them the attention they rightfully deserve.

When Amritha's dad father decided it was time to have one of his daughters take on the reigns of Hindustan Trading Company, Amritha made sure it was important for her to learn on-the-job as she did when she first started counting cash at the age of 11. There's been no looking back ever since. HTC--as residents of Chennai call it fondly till date--is at the core of the art scene in India; from creating access to the best and the finest of art supplies from across the world, to bringing together artists from across the country for people to learn from, Amritha's passion and gumption is a force to reckon with.

Subadra discovered her love for art and colours about 8 years ago when she was actively looking for a hobby. Having found a niche in giving Indian art forms her own twist with a bit of her personality, Subadra today sees colours everywhere and is constantly wondering how that palette can translate to a canvas. Her relationship with art is slow but steady, something that gives her joy, something that she will never take the joy away from. Her mantra is to not pressurise herself to churn out piece after piece, and definitely not wait to perfect it!

Mathangi Kumar was all of 7 years old when she started cooking in the kitchen with her mother. Fast forward to today, that's where she gets her energy from. Having graduated from Le Cordon Bleu at the age of 23 and starting That Madras Place less than a year later, this formidable chef was hardly spending any time in the kitchen, cooking up a storm. She was now not a chef, but a business owner that had its own set of reality checks that did not give her any joy.

Mathangi made a choice one fine day, to go back to the kitchen and do what she loves the most - change the way people look at food; there's been no looking back ever since.

As two scientists by training, Gayatri and Sanjana felt it was important to provide the right kind of information to women--specifically about midlife health--in the light of COVID. Women have always been curious about their health but don't know where to look for this information and thus, Miyara Women was set up to address this gap. However, as we all know, old habits are hard to change, and thus Miyara Women is all about empowering women with a community-led approach to address their needs.

Women's health needs to become a mainstream conversation and not an afterthought according to both, Gayatri Muthukrishnan, Ph.D and Sanjana Rao, Ph.D, Co-founders of Miyara Women.

In this unfiltered conversation with Abirami Dusshyanth, Founder of HonestPad, we've dwelled deep into a subject that unfortunately still needs to be spoken about - period stigma. One one hand, HonestPad is all about being 100% safe and transparent about what goes in making each and every pad which is INR 2 more than a Whisper pad and on the other, Abirami's larger vision of creating access to information and products via Project Shakti is truly commendable. 500+ women from the grassroots are now part of this mission towards creating access to a 100% safe and healthy tomorrow.

Hailing from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, Nikhat Sheikh decided it was important for her to respect her parents' wishes and decided to build her business from home. Seven years on (and counting), Nikhat is one of the few successful surface pattern designers in the country today. While she runs an extremely successful business, nothing has stopped her from sharing her purpose-filled passion with those who aspire to be surface pattern designers. Talk about passion, resilience and persistence, all jam-packed in this 26-odd minute episode!