The Midlife Station

On the show today we have with us Commander Bimal Raj who has served the Indian Navy and our country for 17 long years. He is indeed a multi-talented person from being an Internationally certified trainer, executive coach to being an entrepreneur and founder of Insightful Parent

Being bedridden for 2 long years in a hospital, Commander Bimal Raj is a perfect testimony to how one can develop a strong mindset.

After serving for the Indian Navy for 17+ years, he successfully reinvented himself during his midlife not only by being part of an elite team of world-class trainers and facilitators under Blair Singer, the Rich Dad Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki but also by living his passion for parenting through his own entrepreneurial venture Insightful parents

He is also 1st Indian trainer for T Harv Eker's signature and world-class life-transforming program Millionaire Mind Intensive or MMI. Thanks to Success Gyan - India's largest Seminar Organizer, today MMI is made accessible to people of India

Through this entrepreneurial venture Insightful Parent, he dreams of building better and stronger relationships between parents and their kids



Key Points we discussed:

•Experience with Serving Indian Navy and How he developed a strong mindset
•Overcome self-limiting beliefs and developing never say die attitude
•Developing a strong relationship with money
•Challenges with Parenting and how the 6C Parenting framework is helping parents to overcome these challenges

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Timestamp

•04:50 - What kind of family culture did he grow up with?
•07:03 - Reason behind being the 1st one ever in the family to join Indian Navy?
•09:08 -Experience that helped him develop a strong mindset?
•14:55 - Why does one have self-limiting beliefs?
•19:42 - How to develop a never say die attitude?
•21:20 - How did he reinvent himself post retiring from the Indian navy?
•25:26 - How to overcome limiting beliefs around money?
•30:32 - How did he pivot into the parenting field?
•35:15 - How to handle stubbornness when it comes to kid's?
•40:16 - How Parent can be friends with teenagers?
•44:34 - 6 C Framework for parenting
•51:28 - Quickfire segment

Do you try to restrict your inner true potential from coming out? Have you been guilty of not Playing it Full?

In this episode, we have with us Kapil Kulshreshtha who is is the CEO of Scintillate, a company dedicated to helping working professionals find their power zone and build a life of impact, abundance, and joy.

After 2 decades of working in senior leadership positions, Kapil felt the need to discover his inner calling and do what really matters to him. He realized that he had deliberately engineered smallness in his life by focusing on the standard parameters of success.

And in a significant leap, Kapil started on the journey of playing it full, be it losing 16 KG in 16 weeks or leaving his high paying job and pursuing his dream of helping others come out of their self-limiting beliefs and giving it all

This has been one of the most heartful discussions I have had. I found Kapil to be a person who is quite energetic, authentic and one who doesn't shy away in sharing his true inner feelings to the outside world, be it feeling of joy, pain, fears, dreams, or accomplishments.


Key Points we discussed:

•The back story behind the concept of Playing it Full
•Self-limiting beliefs and how to overcome them?
•Adopting Play it full philosophy in everyone's life
•Key elements of building a personal brand

Timestamp

•03:53 : What is the reason behind the energetic Kapil?
•06:15 : Back Story behind Playing it full philosophy?
•11:15 : Key challenges around self-limiting beliefs that Kapil faced during the corporate journey?
•16:16 : Did Kapil experience moments where he overcame self-limiting beliefs?
•22:04 : How did he transition out of job?
•26:31 : What is play it full philosophy?
•30:33 : What is the time period of transitioning into Play it Full mode?
•35:50 : What are the key elements of building your personal brand?
•38:03 : Quickfire segment

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Do you find it difficult to adopt a saving mindset or wonder how to come out of Debt or want to work on alternate sources of Income?

On the show today we have with us, Pardeep Goyal - Founder of Award-Winning Personal Finance Blog, CashOverFlow which was awarded as the best personal finance blog in 2017 by Indiblogger. He is passionate about sharing his expert insights on value investing,money-saving hacks, and creating an alternate source of income

Prior to starting Cashoverflow, he did face failure in a couple of startups during their initial year of operations. However, these failures didn't deter him from following his passion and becoming one of the key influencers in India in the content writing industry

He has also published numerous insightful articles around Entrepreneurship, PR & Growth Hacking on StartupKarma and Yourstory

Key Points we discussed:

•In the 1st half, we focus on financial challenges that come in during midlife, the challenges related to debts, savings mindset, and also around generating alternate sources of income
•In the latter half, we pick up Pardeep's brain around the future of the content industry, key success principles required in the content business, and how one can become an expert in producing content.

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Key Takeaways

•If you have badly stuck in debt then as the first step try segregating debts, between high v/s low-interest one. Try to close high-interest ones like a credit card, either through your savings or by selling things that you do not need. Once this gets fixed, you can move the focus on low-interest ones by using part of your income that you earn on a monthly basis


•One needs to understand the difference between Saving and Investment and shouldn't mix both of them. The primary purpose of Saving is to preserve the money by ensuring it grows at par with inflation whereas the goal of the investment is to earn money and beat inflation. If needed, always hire an investment advisor who can guide you in your investment journey


•Whether you are working on your business or for a company, consistency is the key element that separates successful people from the rest. Ensure that you are consistent in whatever you do, it may be producing content every day or doing exercise every day or taking ownership and showing up every time when there are problems or challenges that you encounter while working in your company or in your business.

Timestamp:-

•03:32 - Why Cashoverflow was started?
•04:55 - Experience and learnings from failed startups
•07:26 - Why he chose finance as a niche for content writing business?
•08:41 - What specific Finance topics Pardeep wanted to share through his writing?
•10:50 - Why do people fall into the debt trap?
•13:46 - How to come out of debt?
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Do You want to Master the Art of Public Speaking?

Our Guest Brenden Kumarasamy, is the founder of MasterTalk, that he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication.

He coaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world

Brenden believes anyone can become confident public speakers and storytellers. From students to CEO's Brenden teaches you how to master your speeches, presentations, and solicitations.

Further, He also speaks on how to present amazing online presentations and how to craft the perfect pitch.

If there's one word that describes him, it has to be Impact.

Key Points we discussed:

•Brenden's Love for public speaking
•Key elements to the structure of a speech
•How to deliver an impactful speech
•How to prepare for corporate presentation
•Importance of storytelling and voice modulation in Public Speaking

Time Stamps:

•03:50 - How Brenden discovered love for public speaking?
•05:08 - Why he chose public speaking to add meaning to his life?
•07:58 - How was his first public speaking experience?
•10:28 - What kind of fears people have for public speaking?
•12:27 - How to have good content and structure for your speech?
•15:10 - How to have an impactful introduction and conclusion?
•19:12 - Preparation that needs to be done before making a corporate presentation?
•21:50 - Exercises that one can do before heading for presentations?
•23:02 - How to get better at voice modulation and voice pitch?
•26:53 - How to use storytelling in your speeches?
•30:41 - Quickfire segment


Key Takeaways

•When preparing for your speech align it with a jigsaw puzzle. As in puzzle, you start from corners, when it comes to speech preparation, Start with Introduction and Conclusion. Practice them at least 50 to 100 times and only this single activity will make you confident than ever before when you go to deliver your speech.


•A good way to structure your speech is to open up with an idea, defend the idea in the body of the speech, and in conclusion share with the audience how the world would be different if the idea gets implemented.


•Ask yourself 1 hard question every day. You can do it in front of a mirror, Make this mirror as your accountability mirror where you become vulnerable and come up with answers to these hard-hitting questions and challenging yourself to become a better version of yourself by providing answers to these questions.

Can one live and balance a passionate life along with a Professional and Personal one?

Our Guest Sargam Mishra, an Energy Guru & Conscious Business expert is following her Passion of Pranic healing along with handling her professional and Personal life

Sargam is a successful Energy Coach and helps people curate life and business that they love using energy healing art of healing which is famously called Pranic healing. She is a Conscious Lifestyle Entrepreneur and has coached 1000+ people to live a successful and fulfilling life.

She believes that the soul grows by giving and has a mission to feed 1 Million Meals by 2025 through her community-based initiative Zero Hunger Drive that runs in 9 cities across India.

She is also an International Author and Host of The Millionaire Way Podcast.


Key Points we discussed:

•Road to Passion Discovery
•Balancing between Personal, Professional, and Passion life
•Pranic healing & its benefits
•Key to learning a subject and going from being a novice to becoming an expert
Time Stamps:

•03:46- How was childhood culture while going up?
•06:06- How did Sargam discover a passion for Pranic healing?
•12:40- What is Pranic healing?
•14:33 - Can Pranic healing heal things that science may still find difficult to?
•17:22 - Can anyone learn the art of Pranic healing or is it only for a select few?
•18:26 - How to learn a subject as to go from a novice to being an expert?
•21:37 - How to keep the focus on learning in a way where one doesn't get distracted with the plethora of information available on the internet?
•24:50 - Struggles faced in balancing passion, work, and personal life?
•30:20 - How Pranic healing helps in stress management
•35:28 - How Pranic healing can be used to get better t health day 2-day basis
•37:56 - The millionaire way podcast- what is it all about
•40:10 - Quickfire Round


Key Takeaways

•It is possible to leave a passionate life along with your professional and personal one. The key is to first optimize and detach yourself in areas where work can be delegated or replaced and then work towards not living 3 different lives but instead combining passion, professional and personal life into one single life


•Learning never stops. Quick hack to learn about your new found passion area is to find 10 to 12 successful people in that niche and study them, follow them, find mistakes that they did and best practices they followed. - Remember you can always emulate their success by eliminating the mistakes they did in their journey


•For our well being, While we may usually be aware and have a focus on our physical aspect, it is equally important to have that focus and alignment on the remaining 3/4th portion as well which is nothing but our Spiritual, Mental, and emotional aspect, Kindly Don't neglect them and ensure they are in alignment by connecting yourself with your body, soul and energy through meditation or any other techniques so as to keep these areas healthy as well as blissful

Let's finally welcome the New Year 2021 with new hopes, new dreams, new outlook & new stories.

With this episode, I thought of doing a recap of the key learning that we have had from the path-breakers who came to the show. There was one thing in common in all of them and that's what I plan to share with you in this episode.

Let's ring in 2021 with the goal of being a transformed version of ourselves and work on having our Version 2.0 much better than our Version 1.0

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From living in a leaking house to becoming a Growthpreneur, this is a story of a person who after getting laid off in his late 30's, decided to take control of his life in his own hands and since then has never looked back.

He has rapidly grown, reinvented and transformed himself in last 2 years and have impacted lives of 1000+ mid-level professionals to transform their career.

Today he is on a mission to RAISE THE BAR of 25 million lives to unlock their full potential and create life filled with wealth, influence & growth

Born in a poor backward class family, with father a textile mill clerk, Raakesh continued with the values of Growth & Leadership that he imbibed since childhood, having handled the family responsibilities since the age of 10 years.

From Struggling to speak in English, he went on to become a Gold Medalist from National Institute of Technology, Surat, & worked for Global Multinationals. He had a strong professional career of 18 long years where grew from being a trainee to an Assistant Vice President.

In this era of information overload, he believes the challenge is to Transform to stay relevant and RISE BEYOND AVERAGE.

This has been one of the those insightful episodes where guest will get you in a thinking mode with regards to your career, so please listen the entire episode right till the end.

Key Points we discussed:

•Struggles and Challenges faced during childhood
•How he faced lowest phase of his life after getting laid off and came out stronger to become a Growthpreneur
•Career planning for a mid-level professional & how to overcome professional challenges
•His passion around helping mid-level professionals come out of SISI Zone

Time Stamps:

•04:16 - Emotions felt after breaking the wooden board during Tony's Robbin program
•07:28 - Challenges faced during childhood days and attitude towards those challenges?
•10:42 - Was there an impact to studies due to challenges faced during childhood
•14:27 - Moment when Raakesh got determined to come out of poverty
•17:15 - Suggestions on how one can become better at articulation in professional environment
•22:37 - Best practice that he followed for growing in his corporate career that can help mid-level professionals
•28:32 - How can a mid-level professional re-plan their career at this stage?
•34:19 - How can a professional articulate his/her work better to leadership
•38:34 - Moment when you were laid off and attitude towards the situation?
•44:54 - What actions did Raakesh take post getting laid off
•46:31 - How did he find his mission and managed time for it along with job?
•52:20 - How is Raakesh helping mid-level professionals to become a Growthpreneur
•57:45 - Book Raakesh is working on ?
•59:36 - Quick fire segment

Key Takeaways

•Are you living in intelligent ignorance zone ? It is a zone where you feel you know everything, they have everything and can do everything on their own. It is not the knowledge but illusion of knowledge that is bigger issue. So it is important that we come out from intelligent ignorance zone and face the reality because that's when we will be able to take right steps


•Its not about job but its about career. Plan your career path and professional goals every 3 years. Then have risk appetite to create the career path and most importantly act proactively towards it rather than waiting for the trigger to happen and then acting desperately


•Take some time out of your busy schedule for self-discovery. Ask questions t...

Many people in this world want to do something meaningful in their life, but how many of them actually do it ?

Our Guest Rahul Sharma, though he had completed his graduation in Economics & Statistics, but he primarily worked as an IT professional for major part of his life. In his flourishing career, he had opportunity to work in different countries & travel across various continents.

But inspite of all the glitters and stability, Rahul had a strong urge to do something meaningful in his life.

All of this prompted Rahul to leave behind his 18 + year old cushy job and pursue his passion of producing high quality chemical free food to people of India

During last 4 years, Rahul has successfully transformed himself and has built an authority and deep expertise in areas of Organic farming such as Green manuring, Crop rotation, nitrogen fixation & Bio diversity to name a few

Further , he also delivers lectures in schools and colleges to promote urban farming and create awareness among students. He also provides advisory services to agriculture startups and also works with NGOs and Organic farmers market

Key Points we discussed:

•Early part of his life and why he chose IT career
•Quitting high paying cushy job and moving onto organic farming in his 40's
•Details and Deep Insights around Organic farming and differences when compared to traditional farming
•Advice for people looking out to pivot onto totally different field or unrelated industry

Time Stamps:

•04:51 - What kind of childhood and environment did Rahul grew up with ?
•07:10 - Any exposure to farming during his childhood days ?
•08:30 - Why did Rahul chose IT career inspite of being an Economics graduate ?
•14:14 - Why did he think about doing organic farming and rather not continue with stable IT career
•19:46 - How did family react to decision on pursuing a career in organic farming and leaving IT job
•23:05 - Difference between organic farming and traditional farming ?
•29:00 - Ways in which soil can be kept active in natural farming?
•35:36 - Why is soil not kept active in traditional agriculture?
•44:00 - Challenge and struggles Rahul faced when he switched from IT to organic farming
•49:14 - Initiatives taken around educating students on organic farming & community supported agriculture
•53:17 - Advice for people who want to pivot to something totally different than what they are doing currently
•56:34 - Quick fire segment

Key Takeaways

•If you plan to pivot to something different than your current line of work, then it is imperative that you come out of the bubble and take action towards your goal. Have a bit of craziness and insanity so that you can quickly switch yourself out from planning into actual execution mode

•Organic or natural farming is needed to keep our food system healthy . Instead of relying on pesticides and chemical fertilizers that may damage the plants and food , organic farming focuses and relies on keeping the soil active and giving the nutrients back to soil through methods like crop rotation and Green maneuvering. It is important to be aware of these differences as we go about our food consumption


•It is equally important for each one of us to identify and solve at least 1 real problem that world is facing today to whatever capacity we can as this will help in making the country a better place to live in not only for us but also for our future generations.

Are you struggling to get that interview call? Do you feel you are at cross roads? Is your career plan past it's expiration date?

Meet Nimrata, the force behind NimTalkingTalent, a boutique career coaching and people advisory firm which provides world class Resume, LinkedIn, Career Coaching, Interview Coaching and Organization Design and Career Model interventions.

On a career break after a long journey in HR post XLRI which saw her leading HR, L&D and Leadership Development agendas for leading firms, her moment of epiphany was when she realized that people often failed to project their stories or were struggling to script the next page in their stories.

Helping individuals understand their true north, craft winning propositions and welding the power of human performance with organization design are her forte.

Key Points we discussed:

•Key aspects anyone should posses for career progression
•Building world class resume & Importance of cover letter and executive Bio
•Powerful Networking technique for Job search
•Interview preparation and Importance of Mock interview
•How to do Interview Follow up

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Time Stamps:

•00:14 - Nimrata passion discovery for HR
•03:38 - Top 3 key aspects that are overlooked by professionals when it comes to career progression
•09:16 - Common pitfalls one tends to miss while preparing an impactful resume
•16:01 - Is it important that resume aligns with the company's vision
•17:58 - How do keyword and ATS work
•19:38 - Tips on making resume stand out wrto format etc
•21:34 - Does the length of the resume matter?
•24:06 - Difference between cover letter and executive bio
•28:16 - Steps one can take for job search once we have an impactful resume
•36:32 - Tips on pre-interview preparation like mock interviews?
•44:05 - Common pitfalls to avoid when it comes to body language for video interviews
•45:14 - What kind of questions to ask an interviewer
•46:50 - Follow up technique one can adopt post the interview
•49:20 - Quickfire segment

Key Takeaways

•For career progression you should continuously focus and plan on filling out any knowledge gap that may come along your way, work on getting better at the art of persuasion & develop that strong urge and ambition that shakes yourself out of the comfort zone.


•Recruiter looks at your resume for max 6 to 8 secs, so keep it to max 2 pages and ensure the hot zone is covered that includes name, title or target title, summary , your top achievements and Your unique selling proposition


•Networking is key element to any job search . To develop effective network, Shortlist your friends & colleagues - pick up the phone , call them up and ask them to provide at least 2 contacts who can help you here. Be persistent with this approach for 30-40 days and soon you would have a solid connection of 200+ people whom you could bank on for your job search

Imagine if you become a reason for bringing that glittering smile on the faces of the people living in thatched-roof houses of remote villages?

While being employed in corporate world, Ram and his co-founders Karthik and Narayanan had this huge passion and inclination towards serving villages and making an impact to the lives of people living in rural India.

It was this passion and dream that made them leave behind their lucrative jobs and start Boon Box - eCommerce Venture of Inthree Access Services, during their early 40s

Chennai-based Boonbox is a logistics startup (last mile logistics network), that focuses on delivering products at the doorsteps of consumers living in towns and villages that have a population of 30,000 and below. Some of them even live in thatched-roof houses

Further, they have scale to deliver products to 3 lakh villages across 16+ states

Ram was also recently facilitated by Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with Inspirational role model award @ CII Connect Awards 2020 for work that Boon Box is doing during these unprecedented pandemic times

Ram is also a fitness freak and an eco-warrior.

Key Points we discussed:

•How one can develop an entrepreneur and an innovative mindset
•Learnings from the corporate world
•The story behind Boon Box inception in his early 40s and scaling it to 3 lakh villages
•How to build world class team and decision making process he follows
•Advice for people who are in midlife and are thinking about entrepreneurship

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Time Stamps:

•04:42 - What do we mean by having an entrepreneur mindset?
•06:44 - How one can develop an innovative mindset?
•11:01 - 3 learning's Ram had while being in a corporate world
•13:36 - How was the idea of Boon Box was born?
•15:42 - Was Ram determined to go all out right from the word go?
•18:34 - What steps one who is in middle age can take if he wants to do something different?
•24:30 - What does Boon Box as a company do?
•26:29 - How was the initial phase when you got started being on your own?
•28:09 - How did Boon Box went ahead building a world-class team?
•32:14 - Boon Box operations and business model?
•34:30 - Exotic locations that Boon Box has delivered?
•35:55 - Consumer story that touched his heart wrto how Boon Box is making an impact?
•37:20 - Major setback and how he navigated through it?
•39:18 - Decision-making process that Ram follows?
•41:39 - How Boon Box looks at threats from competition like Amazon's and Flipkart's of the world?
•43:12 - Vision for Boon Box going forward
•43:55 - Quickfire segment

Key Takeaways

•It's key to always maintain an entrepreneur's mindset irrespective of whether one is in a job or on his own. Take complete ownership and do what is right for the company and not just for sake of looking good in front of others.


•Be creative and try to innovate- innovation is only for few brilliant folks is a myth. The key is to develop a questioning mindset and back yourself with full confidence. Go out and question every single assumption that you come across, we humans right from our birth are gifted with a ques...