The Brand Called You

In this insightful conversation, Tushar Kansal—Founder & CEO of Kansaltancy Ventures—shares his journey across marquee institutions, his philosophy on venture capital, and hard-earned lessons on resilience, trust, and mentorship. From evaluating founders to navigating investor dynamics, this episode offers grounded wisdom for entrepreneurs building for the long term.

00:32- About Tushar Kansal

• Tushar is the founder and CEO of Kansaltancy ventures. 

• He's a venture adviser with many VC funds and contributes to a portfolio of over 400 companies in more than 60 countries.

A remarkable journey from rural grit and early entrepreneurship to pioneering digital health innovations. This episode traces how integrity, service, and relentless curiosity shaped a healthcare innovator who is redefining remote patient care, empowering seniors and veterans to live healthier, longer lives at home.

00:09- About Kent E Dicks

• Kent Dicks is a seasoned entrepreneur and digital health innovator with over 30 years of experience building scalable technology platforms in healthcare and enterprise services.

• He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Life365.

A deep dive into how Microsoft for Startups has evolved into a powerful global ecosystem—accelerating founders from idea to scale—through insights from Sally Ann Frank, author of The Startup Protocol and The Unicorn Protocol.

00:09- About Sally Ann Frank

• Sally Ann Frank is Global Lead for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft for Startups, driving digital health and life sciences innovation and supporting founders with strategic growth, technical enablement, and go-to-market acceleration.

• She brings over 25 years of experience in high-tech business development and startup ecosystems and is the author of The Startup Protocol and The Unicorn Protocol, offering practical guidance for founders at every stage.

In this powerful episode of “The Brand Called You,” host Ashutosh Garg welcomes Amber Hollingsworth, an addiction recovery specialist and content creator from South Carolina, USA.

Amber shares her journey from an unexpected entry into addiction counseling to founding the Hope for Families Recovery Center, where she emphasizes the often-overlooked role of families in recovery.

Learn about her Invisible Intervention Method, the truth about relapse, how digital addictions mirror substance addiction, and how technology—including AI—is reshaping recovery support.

Amber also discusses her YouTube channel “Put The Shovel Down” and introduces Amber AI, a virtual assistant offering 24/7 guidance based on her expertise.

If you or someone you love is affected by addiction, this episode offers clarity, compassion, and practical insights.

Welcome to another inspiring episode of The Brand Called You!

Host Ashutosh Garg sits down with Hanna D. Bauer, Founder & CEO of HEARTnomics Enterprises, to explore the powerful intersection of leadership, operational excellence, and love.

Hanna shares her remarkable journey—from overcoming a life-threatening childhood heart condition to building a leadership framework that aligns human potential with profitability.

• How fulfilled human potential drives profits
  

• Why love is essential to high-performance leadership
  

• How the Baldrige Framework supports sustainable transformation
  

• Why culture always eats strategy
  

• Practical tools for bridging strategy, culture, love, and execution
  

Welcome to another inspiring episode of The Brand Called You! Host Ashutosh Garg sits down with Ashu Khanna, Founder & CEO of Arka Leadership, spiritual teacher, and bestselling author.

In this deep conversation, Ashu shares her journey from corporate success to spiritual awakening and explains why true happiness comes from within. Learn how to distinguish intuition from ego, bring awareness into professional life, and shift from striving to flowing.

If you’re seeking clarity, inner peace, and authentic success, this episode is for you.

In this insightful episode of The Brand Called You (TBCY), host Ashutosh Garg speaks with Daniela Dragomir, Executive and Energy Leadership Coach, about how energy leadership can transform the way leaders show up—at work and in life.

• Philosophizing about life’s purpose from a young age

• Observing how differently people respond to challenges at work

• Noticing the ease and flow with which some individuals navigate career milestones

In this compelling episode of The Brand Called You, futurist and author Richard Yonck explores the fragile boundaries between truth, technology, and human agency. From AI and surveillance to free will and the future of society, Mindstock offers an unsettling yet hopeful vision of what lies ahead—and why we must actively shape it.

00:39- About Richard Yonck

• Richard is a futurist speaker and an author of a book titled Mindstock. 

• He's the founder of Intelligent Future Consulting. 

A deep conversation with G. Shankaran Nair reveals how boredom sparked disruption, how entrepreneurship accelerated learning, and why people remain at the heart of business. From early struggles in a VC-less India to the furnace of practice that shaped his leadership, Shankaran shares candid insights on failure, creativity, and the evolving challenges of an AI-driven world.

00:34- About G Shankaran Nair

• Shankaran is the partner of Slingshot Accelerator.

In this insightful conversation on The Brand Called You, historian and author Scott Badler traces John F. Kennedy’s evolution from rebellious youth to wartime hero and transformative leader. Drawing from his latest book, Becoming JFK, Badler explores Kennedy’s resilience, pragmatism, family influence, and enduring public fascination, offering leadership lessons that remain relevant today.

00:34- About Scott Badler

• Scott is a historian. 

• He's an author of three nonfiction books, which are titled What's So Funny About Looking for a Job? , Oh, Brother!: (And Other Revelations on Family, Relatives, Pets and Sex), JFK & the Muckers of Choate and his latest work Becoming JFK - John F. Kennedy’s Path to Leadership.