Stories that Impact

Purpose or knowing the WHY is fundamental for everyone humans and organizations. That's one reason why some people excel in their roles and organizations flourish.

My today's guest is a well known person in Project management and Agile world. 

Priya Patra, a mother of two, Author, Blogger, Women Empower believer, Dreamer, Creator, and Futurist, An Agile Evangelist and Program Manager spearheading digital transformation, digital quality assurance, and quality engineering program for a large conglomerate in the Lifesciences Domain.

She is a speaker for national and international conferences on IoT, Agile, and Project Management. Since Jan 2020, she has been building a women's community Women PowerUp Network – a virtual community of around 450 women worldwide. #BeingGoodEnougIsAmazing #WePowerUP She is also a faculty member of The PM Circle, a unique community of project leaders, agilists, coaches, and consultants. A circle of competence, knowledge, and unique global perspectives

Today Priya shares her childhood where she tried many things but excelled in none and how it took her 13 years to understand what is in it for her. She realized that there is no passion without purpose, and without passion, there is no success.

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My guest shares comes from a humble Maharashtrian family in India. Despite working in hospitality for 24 years, he decided to moved out of this comfort zone and follow his passion and creativity and started his own international Interior design Studio as LJIDesign. His hunger to give back the society got him to start Jagruti Abhiyan / D3 Dream Design Deliver. He He is also an Advisory board member of Architect Hub and Maharashtra Professional Forum.

Today he shares how he feels that talent in India is sometimes underrated when it comes to interior design. He believes that India is the "land of art creators"; however, losing touch with the art as its moving towards urbanization.

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Leaving your comfort zone is a big step; let alone moving to an unknown country could scare you. It gives comfort in your mind and to your loved ones when you have someone who can guide you, help you, and even get you settled with a job.

Today's guest is a well-known person in Australia and is a mentor, coach, and friend. Vinesh is a Software Developer by profession, helping migrants and International Students. Vinesh lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Today he shares his frustrating journey when he moved to Australia to struggle for eight months to get a job. Unlike others, he decided to help people, so they make the same mistake. He founded Job Hunt 2.0 to spread the message on 'How to Job search' and organized over 50 events to help job seekers. These events emphasize the importance of networking. 

He believes and lives up to his passion, where He wants to give everything to people, so they don't feel alienated and alone during these challenging times. 

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What happens when you cannot breathe properly? We can go without food and water for days; however, living without Oxygen is next to impossible. 

My guest Madhu Vyas is a breathing warrior. At 65 years and is living with remarkable resilience and positivity despite dealing with COPD(long-term Breathing problem) and social isolation.

Today, Madhuji shares her story about her breathing problems from early childhood and how medicines' side effects got a tube in her nose forever. She is on Oxygen therapy for the last three years. Despite her health problems, losing her husband, she ensured that she would be a strength to her children and not their weakness. 

She worked on herself and came out of it. Adapted Resilient mindset and decided to help others so that they can fight their own battle.

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We humans make mistakes from time to time, recognizing the mistake and changing it for better takes efforts.

My guest has done something like that - Let me introduce Abhijeet Farane, who enjoys his role of developing automation Frameworks for Web Based Apps.

He is the one who can easily relate to common issues faced by IT employees from Junior to mid-level management and is willing to help his juniors to maintain Work Life balance & become more productive at personal and professional level.

Today he shares how he realized about his poor lifestyle that was dragging him into problems and how he managed to come out of the swamp and be better at handling life situations.

Note - He can be approached for mentoring on Life Skills & Productivity Improvement. With his mindfulness techniques ,he can also provide help to those who are suffering from addiction

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Career transformation could be challenging especially during these times, having someone who can guide you is a blessing.

My Guest - Olga has 20+ years of experience in HR management, recruitment and talent acquisition, and career coaching. Olga worked across Eastern and Western Europe, the US and Australia. Olga helps people get the dream jobs they want and build successful careers they deserve to have. 

Her mission is to help build transparent and manageable career strategy frameworks that would bring you from uncertainty and frustration to financial stability and a job with an impact and career with a meaning. Everyone deserves to be heard, seen and hired.

Today she shares her major transformations that happened to her, in particular, changing countries (the latest one was 4 times in 2 years) leaving the corporate environment and becoming a full-time entrepreneur.

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My Guest Col Venkat Raman (Retd) was an army engineer and currently is a faculty in a B School.

He shares his experience during this time at the National Defense Academy the Armed Forces that helped him to shape in the person he is today. He began to look at life as an adventure and a challenge. It developed the fighting spirit in him. He learned to look at bigger picture of life.

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Stories are impactful and can change people's lives.

Before I welcome my guest. Let me welcome my audience to another episode of Stories that Impact. A place where we get ordinary people to share their extraordinary stories.

My mission is to impact people (even if it is one person) with these amazing real-life motivational stories.

My today's guest is Rupak Shah is the co founder of LearnAur is a modern-day Panchatantra with a vision of combining education with entertainment. We create videos with engaging story line which have  a moral. Their YouTube channel has overall 50 lakh plus views and have 25,000+ subscribers.

Their Short Films regularly selected in many short film film festivals.

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Stories that Impact #13 - Girls compete, Women empower with Arzna Goswami

She is the type of woman you go to war beside and not against. Today she would discuss about girls and women. Though used almost interchangeably "girl" and "woman" imply 2 distinct ideas of what it means to identify as a female.

For Example 

Women are classy to be said in a word. They seek love whereas girls seek attention.

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Children are like clay, and adults mold them with their words and actions. When you sow the right seed into a child's mind, you help them to be 

My Guest, Vandana, is a Mindset Coach. She works with individuals and groups to develop an empowering mindset, gain self-leadership, and build emotional resilience. She conducts 1:1 and group coaching sessions to help you decode the power of your thinking.

Vandana today shares her childhood story, which helped her into the person she is today. Let's hear from her on what happens when someone believes in you.

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