Faisal Anwer is the co-founder of Brandslane, a marketing agency and a fanatic for anything E-commerce.

Abhinav Arora is the Chief Marketing Officer of Avalon Labs in Bengaluru, a startup founded by Varun Mayya and Shashank Udupa. Avalon has also launched a revolutionary Digital University by the name of Avalon Meta which has a community of over 7000 students on telegram. Abhinav has been playing a crucial role in the building of Avalon meta. 

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Arnold has spent his professional career working across casinos & hotels, large-scale concerts & events, online media & broadcast.

NOW, he is working on an initiative called Lokyatha to help young adults live better, more fruitful lives.   We are all at different points in our individual journeys - with school or college, a new job or even a new relationship. These are big, scary life events and they raise up questions that Lokyatha helps in answering.

Tanya Chadha is determined to devote herself to the upliftment and to create a free world for women in Delhi, India. Her journey began when she herself faced issues that are a part of every woman's life in India. She stood up and decided to fight against these issues and to protect others from sufferings. She dreamed of a day when each and every girl will step out of her house without any fear. She believes it is possible if everyone contributes that no girl will live with a fear or any eve practices.   Achievements  Worked as President in National Service Scheme (NSS). Worked as Coordinator at Women Development Cell (WDC). Gender Champion – Shivaji College, University of Delhi 2017 as per the guidelines of MHRD. Worked as a coordinator at the “Ek Saath National Campaign” in collaboration with DMRC. Awarded by Lions International Club for Indomitable Spirit on International Girl Child Day 2018. Awarded by Action Aid, Times Foundation and Indraprastha Gas Limited – 2018 Women in Excellence, Special Recognition by Sh. Vijay Sampla former Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in India.    Commended by Sh. Devesh C.Srivastava, Joint commissioner of Delhi Police Department for tremendous work in gender sensitization and awareness programs. Awarded with The International Diana Award 2019 - one of the most prestigious awards to be awarded for the contribution towards society.

Trying to be the mentor for you that I never had! - Tanay Pratap

Tanay is an engineer at Microsoft, a coding freak turned mentor to over 50,000 students across India. He has over 30,000 followers on Instagram, 8000 on youtube and 13000+ on Linkedin.

He teaches coding for free to students, acts as a mentor to them and is influencing the education sector of India in a way we can't imagine.

In this podcast, we talk about why your life will change as soon as you take responsibility for it but we don't stop here. We discuss how we can take responsibility of life, why Gen-Z procrastinates, how you can be action-driven and many more things.

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Prema Iyer, 78 years old, was born into a traditional middle-class Iyer family. Her father was a Central government employee, and her mother, a housewife. From the age of three, Prema has lived in Delhi

Married at the age of 18 to an Indian Air Force officer B.R.Iyer, Prema looked forward to building a life with him, it had other plans for her. Before the marriage hit its two-year mark, she lost her husband in an accident. Recounting the day, she says, “On the morning of the day he passed away, I had a heated argument with him and urged him to work on the ground, since we were expecting our first child (eight months pregnant). He told me death could come anywhere, not just when he was flying.”

After his untimely death, Prema recounts the initial state of shock she was in. I was like a dead person, I didn’t care if I ate, got any sleep, and nothing mattered. She even contemplated suicide – but there was life inside her that kept her alive.

She says she had two choices before her – either live under the charity doled out by relatives or make something of her life ahead. Prema was offered a job with the Indian Air Force on compassionate grounds, where she served in the Civilian Administrative Organization for 20 years and took voluntary retirement after her daughter was married. “It was extremely difficult in the beginning to walk into a place where I was a junior to many of those who reported to my husband. But nothing deterred me.”

Even at 78, her enthusiasm for life has not reduced. In the year 2013, she joined the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) in Dehradun as their in-house counselor called ‘Campus Nani.’ Her role here, as the name suggests, is to be an alike doting grandmother to all the students. To listen to the students, teachers, and even parents, and help them overcome their issues. One of Prema’s students, who wish to remain anonymous, at the college says, “It was only because of Nani that I was able to face my fears and emerge stronger. I was being stalked and didn’t know where to turn.”

Prema wakes up by 3:30 am every morning with a deep sense of gratitude. When asked how she manages to see the silver lining in everything, she says, “for me, gratitude is not an attitude, it is an overwhelming sense of thankfulness.”

Prema’s mission in life is to reach out to as many people as she can. She welcomes calls, e-mails, and even meeting people and just talking to them.

Saurabh Maheshwari is the man behind the famous news focused youtube channel Gyan zara hatke which recently crossed 500k subscribers. He is from Indore and runs a software company for a living. In this podcast, he reflects why he started a youtube channel, how media is biased and what he envisions for himself.

Yash Sharma is a former state-level footballer. Now a Fitness- Coach, Author & YouTuber. He has 8 years of experience in strength training and transformed over 100 clients. He aims to educate people about fitness and help them achieve their best version. Yash Sharma Body transformation has inspired lakhs of people to work on themselves, work hard and achieve their goals. This channel aims to provide you with the best exercise science knowledge combined with actionable Yash Sharma Motivation.

Aditya Agarwal, a Business Economics graduate from the College of Vocational Studies started his e-commerce journey in 2nd year of college and within 3 years, he hit the 1 million dollar mark.    He talks about his innovative E-commerce company with a stronghold in digital marketing. He has developed certain proprietary funnels and algorithms for customer acquisition which give us a major edge over the other e-commerce giant. A feat difficult to achieve.

Ayush belongs to Varanasi. He is passionate about building a business that has a great impact on society. He is very bullish about new tech disrupting the old and traditional industries and he enjoys being a part of it. Challenging the Status quo is fun.  He co-founded Pesto with Andrew Linfoot.  Pesto is on a mission to turn global software engineering wages into a meritocracy, regardless of where someone is born. Today they are focusing on upskilling India’s 5 million software engineers and pairing them with the world's top tech companies.