Stories that Impact

Stories that Impact

By Amit KhannaSociety & Culture
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Stories that Impact episodes

  • Stories that Impact #33 Coming out of debt swamp with Chetan Parikh

    Guest - Chetan Parikh - An engineer by education, Chetan worked in core manufacturing companies before realising his passion for HR. Left the corporate world to pursue my dream of building an organisation. He continues to educate himself in this field as he believes investment in education pays the best interest.  


    His Story - After having couple of successful years in the business, I went for an expansion in the recruitment business. And there was this great recession. Even before the recession seem to end I was in the debts of more than 50 lakh rupees. Once the economy started to revive, 80 % of the employees left the organisation gradually.


    Connect with Chetan - 

    • www.dcspl.com
    • www.tamarohr.com
    • 35 min
    • Stories that Impact #32 - Self Heal with Ankita Muwal and Shubhangi

      Guest - Ankita Muwal is from Chandigarh, India - She holds a Masters of Business Admin and work field now is Promoting Holistic Lifestyle. Her degrees are in science and management, but her experiences have turned her into a holistic lifestyle educator. 


      She has battled, survived, and reversed an incurable skin condition called Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Now she devotes maximum time of her living life to help, enable, empower, and mentor people to transform into living a good healthy life. She also started doing a few youtube videos, albeit not professionally but for the greater good.


      She shares how her life changed after being diagnosed with HS and how modern medicines gave up, saying that it is incurable. Her body transformation started with my mind, and then I educated myself a Holistic Lifestyle, Ancient Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, fitness, and nutrition. She helped several people, and Shubhangi is one of them.


      Guest - Shubhangi Sharan is from Lucknow - India. A girl who once was hopeless and in a lot of pain now with hope and freedom. She has battled and survived Hidradenitis Suppurativa, and she will continue to beat it at every step of life. The girl who was lost once found herself.


      Her story: This disease impacted her entire life. She has considered every possible way to end the pain, but she was not able to. Just battled even though every nerve in her body demanded to quit, she didn't and then found Ankita Muwal, and Ankita healed Shubhangi in the divine order.


      Connect with them -

      Ankita

      • YT - www.youtube.com/c/SelfHeal
      • Instagram - @u.selfheal
      • Website - https://ankitamuwal.com/
      • Shubhangi - Instagram  : _vantagold
      • #stories #storiesthatimpact #storyteller #story

        40 min
      • Stories that Impact #31 Mad(e) for each other with VijuGujju

        I am very happy to introduce Vijay & Riddhi all the way from Singapore. 

        Sales couples working in corporate for more than 15 years and madly in love with each other. Married for over 14 years now, they are famously know as VijuGujju.

        Riddhi loves to manage events and has choreographed many dances and fashion shows. She has won many titles, noticeably she won Ms. Chennai Top Model 2004 and Ms. Glitz 2005. She is one of the finalists for Mrs. Singapore Beauty Queen 2021.   

        Vijay is a Sales Director, working for a Japanese MNC. Other than his profession, he says that he loves to do anything and everything with his Gujju. Karaoke, adventure sports, playing with kids and being a DJ are some of the things that he indulges in.   

        Together their passion is to empower couples to become Power Couples.   They are launching their first book “Made for each other”  soon. Their mantra is  “Be Mad for each other to become made for each other”


        Today they share how their spending habits impacted once one of them had to take a break. They share how they worked as a team to decrease their expenses and increase their income through new avenues.


        Connect with them - 

        • Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/VijuandGujju/ 
        • Facebook community: Made for Each Other - https://www.facebook.com/groups/361984568176822 
        • YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/vijugujju

        • 52 min
        • Stories that Impact #30 Reading for Indian Youth with Amrut, the booklet Guy

          Guest - Amrut Deshmukh: Popularly known as Booklet guy, Amrut Deshmukh, who calls himself an outdated Chartered Accountant, is on a mission to cultivate the habit of reading amongst the youth of India. Mission Make India Read. He reads for India. How does he do that? For that, you need to meet him.

          He is a three times TED talk speaker and was awarded as "Youth Icon 2020".

          He has more than 1.6 million young readers who are enthusiastically reading books with him on his free mobile app called "Booklet".


          His Story - Amrut shares how he went into depression after 3 failed Startups and 1 failed relationship and what happened to come out of it and be the person he is today.

          41 min
        • Stories that Impact #29 with Cherish the relationships that truly matter with Ramya Sivakumar Bala

          Guest - Ramya is a career Coach helping mid to senior-level professionals globally in a career transition to driving their career ownership


          Ramya shares how coming out of the grief of her father's death and finding herself using Art of Kintsugi - a Japanese technique helped her mold her life. She learned that she cannot please everyone and spent her time and energy to focus on herself.


          She is at a point where she has her own business, "Drive Your Career Ownership," and loves to help and guide people.


          Connect with Ramya - 

          LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ramyasivakumarbala

          Instagram: careerempetus

          33 min
        • Stories that Impact #28 Seeds of Intentions with Alokk Joshi

          Guest - Alokk Joshi is a  creative personality, Passionate about creating new ideas and always seeking creation than competition


          Alokk shares a story where he was punished in front of entire school for plucking tamarind which was actually hurting people walking on the street. An innocent mistake led Alokk learn a valuable lesson where he turned himself 360 to be the school captain for an entire year.

          34 min
        • Stories that Impact #27 - Caring about Caregivers with Swati Vyas

          My today's guest is a Highly educated, gold medalist, Ph.D. in Biology, researcher by nature and education. Reinvented herself from a carefree bird to a dedicated caregiver for her aging parents. But Creative minds cannot be limited by any circumstances. A dedicated scientist finds solutions to all problems. So did she. She empowered her mother Digitally and now is on a mission to empower 10 million Senior citizens to live their lives with dignity and self-sufficiency. Reclaiming the POWER of GREY HAIR!!!

          From losing her father and her mother suffering from oxygen therapy, Swati shares how difficult it was to manage her emotions and handle her mother. She realized that she needs to be a pillar to her mom and not only found a way to remember his father forever, but she also went on to reinvent herself.

          Connect with Swati - https://linktr.ee/swativyas

          Connect with me - 

          • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AmitKhanna
          • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkhannapm
          • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/storiesthatimpactak
          • #Storiesthatimpact #storytelling #story #impact #PHD #caregiver #breathingwarrier

            44 min
          • Stories that Impact #26 - WHO AM I with Myra Hope

            A simple girl born and bought up in a very protective joint family who has not seen the world, one who doesn't have her own dreams or choice of life. She got married at a young age and had to take some harsh decisions in her life. She went on her journey to unearth herself and know her purpose and meaning in life.

            Today Myra Hope is a successful is an author, certified Life coach, International trainer and speaker, an Entrepreneur and a theatre artist.

            Connect with me and watch us LIVE at

            • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AmitKhanna
            • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkhannapm/
            • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/storiesthatimpactak
            • #Storiesthatimpact #storytelling #story #impact #trainer #speaker #coach #enterpreneur #theatre #womenempowerment

              32 min
            • Stories that Impact #25 - Only a Wish don't work, Will is important with Davinder Juneja

              Humans always want something better for their life. We have more than 50K thoughts and most of us day dream or wish many things to happen; however, nothing works if you do not have the will and an action taking attitude.

              My today's guest Davinder is a Mind shift coach, Motivator helping people unearth the challenges in their history, not letting them grow. She helps younger generations work on their upbringing issues and learn to provide their kids' best upbringing.

              Today she shares how Ups and downs in Life have shaken her many times, but a strong upbringing always helped her bounce back. Lost job a couple of times due to people's politics, and there was a setback for a while, but she bounced back.

              Connect with me and watch us LIVE at

              • YoutTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AmitKhanna
              • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkhannapm/
              • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/storiesthatimpactak
              • #Storiesthatimpact #storytelling #story #impact #mindshift #motivation

                33 min
              • Stories that Impact #24 - Do you intentionally experiment with life? with Vinay Sharma

                Imagine for a moment that you are dismissed for sharing healthy habits in your organization.

                My today's guest went through a similar situation. Vinay Sharma is a corporate professional having 15 years of experience in various Organizations and also a Yoga Teacher. He has experienced his life as a roller coaster ride with a lot of ups & downs. He has chosen these rides for himself to explore & experiment with life. According to him, life is beautiful only if you know your thoughts, emotions & actions.

                Let us listen to his story, share his life-threatening accident and how he came out of it, and start his new life journey.

                Connect with me https://linktr.ee/amitkhanna

                • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AmitKhanna
                • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkhannapm
                • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/storiesthatimpactak
                • #Storiesthatimpact #storytelling #story #impact #management #yoga #teacher

                  41 min

                About Stories that Impact

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                Humans are made of stories and we are remembered with stories. Welcome to Stories that Impact. A place where we get ordinary people to share their extraordinary stories.