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Personal Finance Coach & Founder of India’s leading personal finance blog Jogo Investor, Manish Chauhan talks about factors that causes us to spend more, financial concepts every layman must be aware of and common misconceptions about money. List of all the resources mentioned in the episode can be found at www.thebreakschool.com/17 .

Important questions from the episode - 

1. Why did you start Jago Investor ( 02:48)

Author, award winning blogger and founder of The Himalayan Writing Retreat, Chetan Mahajan talks about bad habits that stops people from writing well, how to get feedback as a writer, powerful writing communities, impact of technology on writing, Questions you must ask before you start writing a book and a lot more!

Important Questions from the episode -

1. How did writing help you in your most difficult phase in life? (04:12)

Related Episodes - 

1. The Art of Blogging and teaching online - https://thebreakschool.com/sumit-20bansal/

2. The Art of Story Telling with Geeta Ramanujan - https://thebreakschool.com/Geeta Ramanujam/

3. Building a Writers Paradise in Himalayas - https://thebreakschool.com/Chetan Mahajan/

On Oct 29th this year, an IIT Hyderabad student killed himself by jumping of his hostel. He wrote to his friends that he did not find life interesting and his courses were not going great. This is the 3rd suicide at IIT Hyderabad this year.

The incident made me wonder,

Why do we need to score high marks, Earn more money ? How do you make life interesting? Why do we do what we do? What is really the purpose of our lives?

I often ask these questions. I feel miserable because I have never had a convincing answer. But a few months ago a simple sentence from a random book helped me deal with the question “what is the purpose of my life?”

No! This snippet will not answer your question. Rather, It will compel you to change your question!

Story Teller and World Champion of Public Speaking Aaron Beverly talks about finding his voice as an introvert, 4 powerful ways to sharpen your public speaking skills, listening to what people are not saying, being authentic and Breaking norms as public speaker.

List of Questions - 

1. Why was your world championship speech on diversity and acceptance? (02:35)

2. What made you believe a story about an Indian wedding ritual would appeal to an international audience? (04:26);                                                                                                                                                     

3.  Why did you start learning Public Speaking? (07:46); Importance of mentoring in overcoming your fear of public speaking? (12:30);

4.  Importance of Feedback (14:40);

5.  Any specific feedback that has immensely helped you? (16:46);

6.  What has been your approach to learning public speaking? (23:50);

7.  What makes a meaningful speech? (28:20);

8.  How do you measure if your speech really led to some action? (30:17);

9.  What goes in to making a good persuasive speech? (32:42);

10.  How do you make your message clear? (34:33);

11.  How do you balance between stories and hard numbers in a regular corporate presentation? (35:47);

12.  Why is authenticity important? (37:40);

13.  What is more difficult – 7 Minutes speech or an hour long presentation (41:50);

14.  Don’t you think too much practise makes a speech sound robotic? How do you balance between practise and spontaneity? (43:16);

15.  How do you bring elements of surprise in your speeches? (47:15);

16.  Importance of humour in speeches? (51:06);

17.  In what ways has public speaking made your life more meaningful? (54:54);

18.  Please tell us little about your initiative SPEAK & BE YOU ? (56:38);

19.  Summary of takeaways (01:02:50) 

If you like to listen learn more about Public speaking then also consider listening to episodes on story telling with Mehak Mirza Prabhu (https://thebreakschool.com/mehak-mirza-prabhu) and Geeta Ramanujan (https://thebreakschool.com/geeta-ramanujam)

In this episode, Story Teller, Coach and writer Mehak Mirza Prabhu talks about fundamentals of Story telling, developing characters, balancing between practice and spontaneity and pursuing a career in story telling.

List of Questrions -

1. What is a story? (02:45)

Please find the list of all questions and other details @ http://thebreakschool.com/mehak mirza prabhu/

This is our second episode in the Story telling series. A few weeks back we had International award winning story teller Geeta Ramanujan speak on the art of story telling. Listen to her on http://thebreakschool.com/geeta-ramanujam/

This is our 3rd snippet on consistency.

In the 1st snippet (www.thebreakschool.com/TBS01) we discussed the primary reason for our inconsistency – Our dependence on emotions. We act only when we feel certain emotion, like feeling great, feeling miserable, jealous, or inspired. Because our emotions are unpredictable, our actions are equally unpredictable and inconsistent.

In the 2nd Snippet (www.thebreakschool.com/TBS02) we discussed Time blocking Method, a simple and powerful way to stop depending on our emotions and take action consistently

In this snippet I discuss the inversion method, a simple and powerful to achieve long term consistency.

This is the second TBS snippet on consistency.

In the 1st TBS snippet (Listen here - thebreakschool.com/TBS01), I discussed the primary reason for our inconsistency - our dependence on certain emotions, i.e. most of us take action when we feel great, or miserable, or jealous or inspired. The key is, to stop depending on these emotions (because you cant get rid of them, of course). 

In this snippet I discuss, 1st simple yet powerful method to attain consistency in the long term. You can continue listening to this or start with the 1st snippet.

You can find the complete transcript of this episode @ thebreakschool.com/TBS02

India's youngest sky diving coach, Rudra Bhanu Solanki talks about sky diving, becoming a coach and building India's premier sky diving company, Sky High India Ltd. 

Important Questions from the Episode - 

2. What convinced you to take up sky diving as a full time career? (5 min, 08 sec)

3. How did you convince your parents? (7 min, 20 Sec)

4. How did you learn sky diving & get certified as a coach? (8 min, 20 sec)

5. How much does it cost to become a sky diving coach? (13 min, 25 Sec)

6. How can someone coach you mid-air? (14 min, 32 sec)

7. How did you deal with the regulatory challenges? (19 min, 20 Sec)

8. How did you finance Skyhigh India? (23 min)

9. Are people interested in investing in Skydiving? & how do you convince them to invest? (24 min, 32 sec)

10. How did you build your skydiving team? (26 min, 32 sec)

11. Specific questions about different kinds of sky diving. (30 min, 50 sec)

12. What are your source of income? (36 min, 50 sec)

13. How do you ensure safety and security of sky divers? (38 min, 49 sec)

14. How can anyone learn sky diving in India? (41 min, 13 sec)

15. How has the skydiving scene changed since you started? (41 min, 58 sec)

16. How does it feel after 270 Jumps? (44 min, 39 sec)

17. Are there any sky diving communities in India? (47 min, 50 sec)

18. 3 Big Take aways (51 min, 51 sec)

For detailed shownotes, list of questions and time stamps visit http://thebreakschool.com/rudra-solanki/

On this Episode we have Story Teller, Coach and founder of International Academy of Story Telling (Kathalaya), Geeta Ramanujan talks about fundamentals of Story Telling, letting go of your inhibitions and how she built a globally recognized Academy of Story Telling.

List of Questions -

1. What is a story? (02:45)

For detailed shownotes, list of questions and time stamps visit http://thebreakschool.com/geeta-ramanujam/ 

This is the first episode in the our story telling series. In the second episode we continue our conversation with the fictional story teller mehak Mirza Prabhu. Listen to learn more - http://thebreakschool.com/mehak mirza Prabhu/ 

Serial Blogger, Ms Excel Expert and Blogging Coach Sumit Bansal talks about fundamentals of blogging, building credibility as a blogger, finding your audience, creating online courses and earning fulltime by blogging and teaching online.

List of Questions - 

1.  What got you hooked to Excel and Blogging? (04:34)

You can find the list of resources mentioned by Sumit and Sumit's contact details at http://thebreakschool.com/sumit-bansal/