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The SoapyRao Show episodes

  • The big release: The power of laughter ft. Albert Nerenberg
    Albert Nerenberg is an acclaimed director, hypnotist, and one of the world's top experts on laughing. Nerenberg directed “Laughology”, the first feature documentary about laughter for CTV, and developed his own laughter exercise technique called Laughercize.

    He was recently named “Laughter Ambassador” by Madan Kataria, founder of the Laughter Yoga movement. Nerenberg's TEDx presentation “Is Hypnosis Fake?” is one of the most-watched demonstrations of hypnosis to date. 

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    2 hr 5 min
  • Making connections: Unleashing the power of your Brain ft. Jill Taylor

    Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. Dr. Jill is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (published in 2008 by Viking Penguin), which is still often the #1 book about STROKE sold in the Amazon marketplace. In addition, her second book WHOLE BRAIN LIVING: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life was published in May of 2021 by Hay House and is now readily available.

    In 2008, Dr. Jill gave a presentation about her experience with stroke at the TED Conference in Monterey, CA, which was the first TED talk to ever go viral, and within six weeks of presenting that TED talk, she was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

    Dr. Jill remains the National Spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Harvard Brain Bank)


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    1 hr 20 min
  • Keep at it: Finding success on YouTube ft. Tabby BG

    SabbyBG is an Indo-Canadian Influencer & Founder of "The SabbyBG Show", the No #1 North American-based Online Entertainment Show targetting people of Indian diaspora from all over the world. "The SabbyBG Show" has seen exponential growth in the last few years, with over a quarter-million Subscribers on YouTube and a highly engaged audience on all other Social Platforms. Sabby has become a known face within the NRI and Indian Community serving his fans with Consistent, Congruent & Family-Friendly Content. Sabby also started SabbyBG Media in 2020 with the intention to help companies and brands leverage Video. With 40+ employees, the company has served over 100+ clients worldwide in helping them influence and build their own tribe. Sabby is a speaker and currently writing a book on Crushing it on YouTube which should be available by end of 2022. 

    The SabbyBG Show: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSabbyBGShow


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    1 hr 13 min
  • Changing lifestyle: The secret to longer healthier life ft. Raman Manglorkar
    Raman Mangalorkar started his career at A.T. Kearney, a leading management consulting firm. Post his management consulting career, he spent some time in the private equity space and then was the CEO of a large hypermarket retailer where he was brought in to lead the company's turnaround.
    Raman has helped numerous companies get healthier and chose to use his experience as a meta researcher and a data synthesizer to focus on improving his own health. Although not a doctor or a medical practitioner, he has been sharing his personal journey with others to enable them to get healthy. He is passionate about being a personal transformation catalyst to enable people to be healthier across all dimensions of their lives and live to their fullest potential.

    Raman completed his Masters in Business Administration from Indiana University (Kelley School of Business) with specializations in Finance and MIS. Raman has studied Nutrition Science at the Stanford Center for Health Education and runs a startup in the health-tech space.

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    2 hr 30 min
  • The unseen obstacles: The barriers for a blind journalist in India ft. Subramani Lakshminarayanan
    Subramani Lakshminarayanan is one of the very few totally blind journalists in India with twenty-three years of experience in reporting, feature writing, copyediting and products/book reviewing. He lost his eyesight aged 18 due to a genetic condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (R.P.) and was told he'll be useless because of his disability. Also, many told him that he was “crazy” to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. But in April 2003, he became an editorial staff with the famous daily Deccan Herald in Bangalore In India. He has since written a memoir on his blindness called “Lights Out: The True Story Of A Man's Descent Into Blindness” published by Random House India in 2014, besides expanding his writing portfolio to include blog writing, ghostwriting books and online content writing.
    His Blog: https://grapplingwithrp.wordpress.com/
    His book: https://www.amazon.in/Lights-Out-Story-Descent-Blindness-ebook/dp/B00HNOP3XK

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    2 hr 9 min
  • Board games: Rediscovering the joy offline ft. Phalgun Polepalli
    Phalgun is working as Co-Founder & CEO at Dice Toy Labs. DICE Toy Labs was founded in 2018 by Phalgun Polepalli and Shwetha Badarinath, a husband and wife duo.
    DICE Toy Labs is on a mission to create cool board games for India. We are passionate about licensing games from local inventors and are quick to champion the work of other designers. We enjoy telling different Indian stories through board games.

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    2 hr 11 min
  • Getting stuck: The importance of an attitude makeover ft. Sowjanya Shetty

    Sowjanya Shetty is the founder of Attitude Makeover. Her incredibly diverse career spans 25 years during which she has been a chip-designer, an assembly level programmer, worked in interactive television, been the Chief of Staff at General Electric, worked in product management at Hewlett-Packard, managed a full retail store, been a sales executive at Microsoft, setup and run two of her own businesses and been a radio jockey!

    Attitude Makeover is a career-centric initiative for mid-career professionals built on an integrated framework of a blog, podcast and masterclass. The subject matter of our blog pushes you towards career reflections while our Vodcast gives insights into different professional journeys and the hidden values in pursuing one's passion. These consequently feed into our workshops which are designed to help you construct a holistic perspective and build hard and soft skills for your winning career portfolio!

    https://www.attitudemakeover.in/


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    1 hr 36 min
  • Experience simplicity: The joy of enhancing your life ft. Rev Walter Mwambazi
    Rev Walter Mwambazi is a Thought Transformation Leader, Networker, Digital & Traditional Marketer, Published Author, Copywriter, Columnist & Blogger, Life, Neural-linguistic & Cognitive Enhancement Coach, Raio & Television Personality, Social Influencer and TEDx Speaker

    His Social media handles and latest book link: https://linktr.ee/revwalter

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    1 hr 48 min
  • A guide to the future: Understanding your country’s past ft. Anirudh Kanisetti

    Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan. Holding a first-class honours degree from BITS Pilani and having previously worked at the Takshashila Institution, he is currently an Editor at the Museum of Arts and Photography. He has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts, and his writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, LiveMint and ThePrint, among others. He hosts two critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India and Yuddha.

    Book description:

    The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a large part of modern-day India was ruled by a single sovereign. There is an obsession with foreign invasions and the polities of the Gangetic plains, while the histories of the rest of the subcontinent have been reduced to little more than dry footnotes. Now, in his brilliant and critically acclaimed debut book, Anirudh Kanisetti shines a light into the darkness, bringing alive for the lay-reader the early medieval Deccan, from the sixth century CE to the twelfth century CE, in all its splendour and riotous glory.

    It is a world of bloody elephant warfare and brutal military stratagems; of alliances and betrayals; where a broken king commits ritual suicide, and a shrewd hunchbacked prince founds his own kingdom under his powerful brother's nose. This is a world where a king writes a bawdy play that is a parable for religious contestation; where the might of India's rulers and the wealth of its cities were talked of from Arabia to Southeast Asia; and where south Indian kingdoms serially invaded and defeated those of the north. This painstakingly researched forgotten history of India will keep you riveted and enthralled. You will never see the history of the subcontinent the same way again.

    Buy Lords of the Deccan on Amazon or from your local bookstore. Bookworm in Bangalore delivers nationwide. 


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    1 hr 30 min

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Welcome to The SoapyRao Show, where we dive deep into the questions of life with a touch of humor and a whole lot of heart. Join your host, Sundeep Rao, a remarkable stand-up comedian with a knack for…