Enduring a divorce is one, but living through the stigma that the society puts you through is another. Destigmatizing divorce and the various labels that comes along is what Shasvathi has been working hard towards banishing for over 3 years now. Moreover, extending support that not just addresses the right resources required for one to go through the immediate and mid-term after-effects of divorce, but also the fact that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that it is okay for one to thrive in a post-divorce life is Shasvathi's mantra with the support group that she is actively building. 

It takes patience and perseverance to be successful in a business even if you have all the talent. This episode of Project Spark digs into the story of Preethi Sriram who found her Ikigai in New Bord Photography. As a mother, a founder, a business woman and an artist, she tells our co-host and her sister, Pooja Sriram, how she does it all with a smile. 

This is a Children's Day Special Episode, where listeners get to win something interesting by answering a question at the end of the episode. Listen in! 

From doodling on rough paper, to printing her first bunch of christmas cards and to now working on a 2023 calendar, Rehna Abdul Kareem, the founder of Paper Planes Doodles is working towards becoming a children’s book illustrator. As a former journalist, she’s always had a knack of putting some pretty powerful stories out there with very few words and now with Paper Planes Doodles. 

Listen in as Smriti speaks to Rehna on her journey as a self-taught illustrator who is now working super hard towards her goal of becoming a children’s book illustrator, while she continues to invest in herself (and significantly cutting down some expletives, which makes me truly, madly, deeply sad truth be told). 

Project Spark unearths interesting stories where people share a small snippet of their journey with us. In this episode, Anjali talks about her love for food and how she ended up becoming the co-founder of a Home bake Shop, The Breadheads even though she had never really stepped into a kitchen until the pandemic 2 years ago. She can surely inspire you in these 20 minutes. 

This is the second part to our conversation with Kavita Arvind, where she delves deep into how she deals with emotional labour of being a mentor for a variety of cohorts. She also speaks about a specific routine that works well for her and gives her the energy to show up every single day. Most of all, she touches upon how she manages to keep the motivation going day in day out. 

Listen in to this 20-minute episode on how Kavita has been sharing her love for visual storytelling by empowering many more to hone that skill in their own way.

This is the first part of our conversation with Kavita Arvind on her journey towards becoming a children's book illustrator, a design educator, an artist and so much more with that one common thread - her love for what she does and why she decided to share that with other people. Kavita goes on to speaking about how one can tap into that creative energy pool by doing the things you ultimately love and continue nurturing and kindling that side of you that you never knew existed. 

This #WorldVeganDay, former vegan, Smriti, speaks to Namita Satheesh on her vegan journeys an animal lover and as a chef. Someone who has decided to share her love for plant-based and vegan food, Namita also dons the hat of a nutritionist and breaks down several myths about going vegan. 

No the earth will never get overpopulated with animals if we don't eat them and there is not research (as yet) that plants indeed have a nervous system to supposedly feel pain. 

Listen in to this episode as Smriti and Namita get candid about their own vegan journeys. 

This episode is Smriti's conversation with Preet Bhatti, co-founder at Mynd, and her sparkable on how she serves as the gatekeeper for suicide prevention on one hand, while working relentlessly towards creating basic awareness about mental health on the other hand via Mynd.

Preet touches upon why organizations need to account for mental healthcare provision as a critical component in their annual budgets and moreover, why they should focus on democratizing access to mental healthcare by creating several touchpoints. With HR as a minor in college, Preet has been able to bring in some interesting perspectives to Mynd where they are in the middle of a transformative journey towards solving for access to therapy by identifying communities in need.

In this episode of Project Spark, Pratiksha talks about her love for art and how she went beyond odds to keep that spark alive within her and even made a business out of it. Listen in as Project Spark's co-host, Pooja unearths the challenges in Pratiksha's journey and celebrates her learnings that are sure to inspire many others! 

Defining a persona has been at the heart of every marketing and communications strategy. “Target and re-target till you get it right” is every marketer’s mantra but this needs to be backed by data as per Varnika Hathi. 

As the co-founder of Mynd, a two-year-old mental health startup, Varnika has shifted her focus towards curating a strategy that addresses every cohort with a subtle difference in the messaging. Listen in as she breaks down her personal journey in changing her specialisation to consumer behaviour and how marketing psychology has been her calling in the last couple of years.