Divya & Kahran come back together on the interesting ideas we learned from Meghana Srinivas & Samhita Arni in episodes 7 & 8 of this season 4: rituals, success, perception and identity.

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Divya and Meghana discuss about Meghana's journey from being a cancer researcher to a startup founder, and her experience of working in an industry that requires a lot of emotional labour and how she finds her balance through rituals. They also discuss her uncanny ability to bring the most nurturing and safe groups together.

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Kahran and Divya come back together to share their thoughts on our two remarkable guests -- Aditi and Fran -- and how both seem to share a very different view of the notion of identity, and how that has shaped their lives.

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya talks this week with Aditi Dimri, co-founder of http://cranberry.fit, about starting her career in academia and microeconomics before finding her desire to for fulfillment took her to more direct desires to help — first to more actionable projects, and then to starting a company herself! Fascinating to see how small a role a sense of identity played a role in her life, as different then computational mama or Manasi K in our first two episodes this season!

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Kahran talks this week with Fran Dunaway about her careers before she she started her company, TomboyX, and how she has found her identity outside of her career, or perhaps, better said, found her identity in all of her careers.

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya and Kahran come together to share their insights from the interviews with Manasi Khare in episode 31, and Computational Mama in episode 32.

Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya talks with Computational Mama about her journey into coding; finding herself as a coder after being a designer; ideas of identity; how art, culture and coding intersect, as well as Computational Mama's journey in the moniker being born, having a son, and introducing coding and design to many others, from museums to live streams to workshops in GenAI and also to teaching other mothers about coding and the possibilities for fun within the coding world.

⁠⁠Theme music is by Steve Combs⁠⁠, available here: ⁠https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Steve_Combs_Premium_Preview_EP_1325/06__Steve_Combs_Through__Theme/⁠

Kahran & Manasi Khare have a sweeping conversation about law, pretending to be someone else, systemic thinking in the Indian context, and what it means to be a patriot.

Manasi Khare is an in-house advocate and formerly was a practicing litigator at a law firm. She has been involved in public policy research with a standing parliamentarian.

She is a lover of the mountains, and lives in Bangalore with her husband Harsh. She can be reached on LinkedIn and loves to connect with people who work for a better India.

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With season 4 we will be interviewing guests on their approach to life, thinking and the models they use to make sense of the world.

Theme music is by Steve Combs, available here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Steve_Combs_Premium_Preview_EP_1325/06__Steve_Com

In the interlude before starting Season 4, we pull ep 16 from the archive this week. There's some interesting ideas about how to think about sightless, how vignettes shape your experience, and, as always, the role of expectations in outcomes.

We weren't quite as good at editing or audio production back then, but rest assured, Akshay, our sound engineer, will be back for Season 4!