Venturing Beyond 9to5 - Exploring Freelancing

Ep 13 ft. Nupur Agarwal  

Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Ultimate 120, Serial Social Entrepreneur   

We discuss learnings and experiences studying abroad, being a social entrepreneur, misconceptions about working in the social space, and what approach to professional networking is effective and meaningful

This episode is about all things job search and hiring/ recruiting, with Harshad Bhagwat, a Career Strategist. We also discuss the importance of communication skills, networking and professional career building!

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Harshad Bhagwat is a CEO and Founder of WordsMaya; an EdTech startup aiming to empower students and professionals with communication skills. Harshad is an ex-scientist at TATA Research Development and Design Center.

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This episode is about all things job search and hiring/ recruiting, with Harshad Bhagwat, a Career Strategist. We also discuss the importance of communication skills, networking and professional career building!

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Harshad Bhagwat is a CEO and Founder of WordsMaya; an EdTech startup aiming to empower students and professionals with communication skills. Harshad is an ex-scientist at TATA Research Development and Design Center.

If you've ever dreamed of becoming a researcher, getting a PhD degree or wondered what it's like to pursue a career in academia and research is like, then this is the podcast for you! 

Our guest is Stephen Turban, the co-founder of Lumiere Education; a PhD student (organizational design) at Harvard Business School. 

Announcement: Founded by Harvard & Oxford researchers, the Lumiere Research Scholar Program helps high school students work one-on-one with a world-class scholar on an independent research project. At the end of the program, which runs for 3 months, you'll develop an independent research piece that you could use for college admissions or future studies. In the 2020-2021 school year, over 1500 students applied to the program. Application link here. To learn more, you can reach out to one of the directors, Stephen Turban, at [email protected] or go to lumiere-education.com

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In this episode, we have with us, Kabir Sehgal, who is a Multi-Grammy & Latin Grammy Award winner, New York Times bestselling author of 16 books, US Navy veteran, and former JPMorgan banker.

We chat about Kabir’s journey of building his portfolio career, creating a personal brand online, and what it takes to balance multiple careers at once.

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Listen in to this episode of Venturing Beyond with Rohan Bilimoria, as we discuss the importance of taking care of our mental health, and of having conversations about it - taken especially in relation to the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in relation to the field of law.

Rohan also shares more about the community he's formed and the lessons he learnt from his efforts in helping legal professionals and students through his business Law Ninjas.

Rohan Bilimoria is the Founder of Law Ninjas, a senior legal counsel at a big 4 bank in Australia, and an international attorney.

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In this 2 part episode, we have with us Urvashi Prasad who works at NITI Aayog, a premier public policy think tank of the Government of India.  We chat about career opportunities that Covid 19 brought to the forefront. The career options outside of studying medicine that exist for individuals interested in biology/ life sciences as a subject. Her experience of working in public health during the pandemic, being involved with WHO, WEF and the UN in various capacities, what it entails to work in development industry, her decision to move back to India after several years in the UK.     

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Part 1/2 In this episode we have with us Urvashi Prasad who works at NITI Aayog, a premier public policy think tank of the Government of India.  We chat about career opportunities that Covid 19 brought to the forefront. The career options outside of studying medicine that exist for individuals interested in biology/ life sciences as a subject. Her experience of working in public health during the pandemic, being involved with WHO, WEF and the UN in various capacities, what it entails to work in development industry, her decision to move back to India after several years in the UK.     

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What does it take to leave a comfortable corporate job to venture into something new? What is it like to make a career switch, even after a few years of working in the corporate world? What is the non profit life like? Tune into this episode of venturing beyond as we seek answers to these questions and more! 

In this episode, Myria Antony - the Development Manager at EMpower, the Emerging Markets Foundation - talks us through her thought process as she made her huge career transition. 

Myria has had a wide array of experiences in business - covering everything from Business Strategy, Consulting and Finance, to Marketing Analysis and Brand Strategy, to Sales and Business Development! 

She is here with us now, to talk about how she made a decision to shift from the for profit corporate world, into the highly mission oriented, non profit world. 

To learn more about EMpower, go to: https://campaigns.empowerweb.org/event/jatw/home 

To connect with Myria, email her at: [email protected] 

Tune in to our brutally honest conversation with Suzanne Smetana - currently the Head of ESG Investment Integration at one of the largest asset managers in the world - as she shares stories and lessons learnt from her 25-year-long career journey. Suzanne has worked across the financial industry - in everything from sustainable investing, accounting services, and venture capital; to business strategy & planning, and investment product development - so listen in as she offers her thoughts, interesting perspectives, as well as some pragmatic advice about taking career decisions, and following one's passion.