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Aravind Thoomu
In 2022, where millions of options are accessible at our fingerprints to make use of our every minute, this podcast keeps you a warm company. It's one of those places where the host Aravind tries to bring the listeners everything he comes across that's believed to be helpful. Starting from the story that needs to be told, the book that's good to read, the person that's worth knowing, and trends that are on the front seat today. So, join the party, listen to your fav shows, send your reviews and suggestions.
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Join us in this uplifting episode as we chat with Vinodh, a dynamic HR Professional known for his unwavering optimism and positivity. Vinodh Kumar opens up about his journey from humble beginnings to a seasoned recruiter, sharing how a positive mindset has been crucial in overcoming obstacles and fostering growth.
Discover practical tips on staying optimistic even in tough times, and hear how Vinodh approaches recruitment.
This episode is perfect for anyone seeking a career in recruitment, and this conversation will leave you energized and ready to face challenges with renewed hope.
Quote from the Episode:“Optimism isn’t about ignoring life’s difficulties; it’s about facing them head-on with the belief that we can overcome them and emerge stronger.”
Tune in and let Vinodh’s story of resilience and positivity brighten your day!
In this captivating episode of Talking Optimism, we've had the honor of interviewing the remarkable Cahill Camden, a multi-faceted individual who wears many hats. He is an author, serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to early-stage tech companies. As the CEO of Digital Vision Media Group, an agency at the forefront of web3 optimization, Cahill shared his profound insights on the evolving web3 industry and shed light on India's vibrant NFT space.
Cahill's infectious enthusiasm and unwavering belief in the transformative power of web3 technologies reverberated throughout the episode. Cahill provided invaluable insights on how web2 companies can navigate this transformative shift successfully. Drawing from his own experiences and extensive expertise, he emphasized the importance of reevaluating business models, fostering a culture of experimentation, and building strong communities to thrive in the decentralized web3 landscape.
Throughout the episode, Cahill's wisdom and deep understanding of the web3 industry shone through, captivating our listeners and inspiring them to embrace the possibilities that lie ahead. His stories and insights served as a catalyst for optimism, encouraging individuals and companies alike to embark on their own web3 journeys, armed with knowledge, determination, and a passion for innovation.
Tune in to this enlightening episode of Talking Optimism to explore the world of web3 and discover its immense potential through the eyes of Cahill Camden.
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This episode is a compilation of all the q&as from the Wisdom App. You will get to listen to me answer some personal and thoughtful questions. Now, the Wisdom app is an audio-sharing platform where you can ask questions, interact with experts in real-time, seek knowledge, listen to conversations and also, can join as a mentor and mentor someone in a craft you're familiar with. And today's podcast episode is a compilation of all the q&as I have done on it. Now, some of them are personal questions, and some are really thoughtful. And I hope it helps you understand where I am mentally and emotionally as a host and I hope it brings value to you.
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This episode is a review of the book Mask of Masculinity by the author Lewis Howes. In this episode, you will listen to me share my experience listening to the book, why I chose this book in the first place, what it taught me and why I think it's worth your time and attention. The book is about how men can embrace vulnerability. Create strong relationships and live their fullest lives. So, with over 85% of my podcast listeners being men, I thought this episode will be useful and resourceful, and overall, a positive experience for you.
If you like what you hear, subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform and follow us on social media @AravindSpeaksPodcast to see what we're up to. Whether you have suggestions or complaints, do not hold yourself back. I will appreciate your feedback, irrespective of whether it's positive or negative.
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Today's episode is the first episode in the second season of Talking Optimism. Talking Optimism is a show where we'll have a guest speaker each episode, ask them questions about their experience, and listen to their perspective and knowledge. And in today's episode, I sat down with a dear friend, Debi, asked him five questions, and listened to his perspective and experience. Debi Prasad Kar is a senior HR analyst currently working with an MNC in Bengaluru, India. He has done his MBA in Operations HR from Ravenshaw University Cuttack and his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Gandhi Institute of Excellent Technocrats. Debi is a big-time gym freak and loves Indian movies, travelling, and motorbikes. He is a huge fan of Salman Khan, and he was born and brought up in Odissa, India. I met Debi late last year and we worked on a project together. Debi shared with us how he embraced the pandemic, his pursuit of bodybuilding, the secret to his appreciable work ethic, his thoughts on Optimism and how to approach a job opportunity in today's world successfully. I hope you all enjoy listening to it. Find the link below to follow Debi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debi-prasad-kar/ Episode credits: Background Music: Pixabay | https://pixabay.com/music/solo-piano-instrument-13092021-8363/ Audio Mixing Software: WavePad
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Today’s episode is a personal monologue where I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences with fiction & literature. You can listen to me talk about what I did during Covid, and how I ended up taking fiction, and why I really think that fiction & literature as the epitome of human evolution. I got you the things I learned from writing and becoming a storybook author, throwing my hand into fiction.
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You can buy my first fictional storybook below:
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References:
https://blog.ed.ted.com/2021/04/26/how-literature-can-help-you-better-connect-with-others/?fbclid=IwAR3hFv3fhpk3bb-XDe6DHBhrVxO06Gcz3ceTtUCwaYjNxUGser-OaMrNDOg
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This episode is an unedited version of a recent talk Aravind did on the Wisdom audio platform as a Top Mentor.
It’s a continuation of the previous talk, sustaining well following your passion. Basically, in this episode Aravind explains the importance of eliminating comparisons, collaborating with others, socializing with the people you admire, and maintaining a healthy relationship with money. Along with that, he also talks about the positive outcomes of doing charity, hard work and upskilling, and practicing gratitude.
If you enjoyed listening, do subscribe to the show on the platform you are listening to and share the episode with a friend who you think will find it useful.
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Today’s episode is an unedited version of a recent talk Aravind did with the community on the Wisdom App. In this episode, you will be listening to Aravind shares his thoughts about the winning odds of making a living following your passion in 2022. It was a live talk with the community on Wisdom and there are live interactions with a few of the inspiring individuals and collectively sharing the knowledge.
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Link to the original live talk -> Here.
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In today's episode, I will be explaining all I know about NFTs. Starting from what does NFT stands for, and what's fungibility and why do they make sense in this ever-evolving technology world.
Apart from that, I will be talking about my NFT collection that is called ''Apex Personas''. So, in simple terms, what are Apex Personas, and why are they special to me and why did I draw them in the first place, and also, how can you own one of these Apex Personas. It'll be fun, so, let's jump onto the episode.
Useful/Recommended Links :
What are NFTs ? -> https://www.one37pm.com/nft/art/guide-to-nfts-beginner
How to setup a crypto wallet ? -> https://www.one37pm.com/nft/tech/how-to-set-up-metamask-wallet
What is Opensea.io ? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBN6B99Mzx4&ab_channel=HowItHappened
Checkout Apex Personas -> https://opensea.io/collection/apex-personas
*98% of the NFT projects may fail. Please Do Your Own Research Before Investing!**
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In today's episode, I put my experience of reading ''Inner Engineering'' in front of you. How I have felt during reading the book, and what the book has to offer you, and why I really think reading ''Inner Engineering'' is good for yourself.
Timestamps
Episode Intro: 00:00
Author's Introduction: 01:13
Book Review: 02:33
Announcements: 13:34
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In today's episode, I will narrate to you all the 10th part of my storybook, "Adventures of Riley & Coco". It's called, " The Biggest Takeaways" and it's a collection of all the good things that you can takeaway from the storybook. Hope you find something good and something you would love to try. Have a great day!!!
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Hello everyone, I am back and I am back after a long hiatus. Today's episode is another book recommendation and review. In this episode, I will narrate to you what I think of the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo. Tidying and organizing your home is underestimated. It is one of those tasks that make your life pretty much happier. I take this opportunity to recommend you to read the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo and become the person you love. If you want to buy the book, here is the Amazon Link. Background Music from Pixabay.com Music 1 Music 2 Looking forward to coming up with a new episode and until then stay safe, stay happy and keep up your good work. Facebook Profile Link: https://www.facebook.com/AravindKThoomu LinkedIn Profile Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-k-thoomu-b095a819a/ Twitter Profile Link: https://twitter.com/AravindKThoomu Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/aravindspeakspodcast/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AravindSpeaksPodcast/ Website : https://aravindspeaks692043549.wordpress.com/ Email me: aravindspeaks@hotmail.com (For Free Collaborations)
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In today's episode, we will be listening to Raaj Eesh speak about his love for the books and movies, and the challenges he had to overcome and he also shared his perspective about where the technology opportunities could be in the up & coming years. Do not forget to share the episode if you think if your friend needs to listen to this!
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In today's episode, as usual, I will be sharing my thoughts on learning skills, and performing them and adjusting to the market, and adjusting to the environment is important??? I hope this episode comes off useful for all the listeners and if you liked it and believe it's true, or even if you have any additional opinions, please feel free to share them with me. Have a great day, and have fun.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the fourth episode of ''Talking Optimism''. Once again talking optimism is a series of episodes where I will sit down and talk with a guest speaker every episode, asking questions and listening to their perspectives. Today's episode is another q&a for which I sat down and asked Robert Arcaz a few questions. Robert is an experienced project management professional with expertise in multiple domains including software development and is also a passionate musician. Robert has previously performed across Romania, UK, and Ireland.
In this episode, Robert talks us through his driving forces, and how he sees the current state of the world during the pandemic, the challenges that come along, and shares his view of higher education.
Robert's New Set: https://m.soundcloud.com/robert-arcaz/robert-arcaz-tuluz-2021-full-set Episode's Background Music Credits : Music by TattooedPreacher from Pixabay.com If you are interested to join me for an episode of Talking Optimism, please ping me on social! Either on https://www.facebook.com/AravindKThoomu or https://twitter.com/AravindKThoomu Have fun listening, and wish you all a wonderful day!
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In this episode, you will listen to me share some of my knowledge on the topic of ''Virtual Reality in business''. In 2019, I happened to attend one of the technology immersion events in Dublin organized by Digital Hub during which I got the opportunity to meet and speak with one of the finest VR producers in the country of Ireland.
We have been demonstrated, the success story of Virtual Reality Ireland. So, you can listen to me decipher ''VR for Training'' to you. If you have any questions or reviews on this episode please feel free to write to me.
Useful Link on the topic is here.
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In this episode, I will narrate to you all the final part of my storybook The Adventures of Riley & Coco and it is called The End. I hope you all enjoy this episode and I will be back soon with another story very soon. And until then, have fun and have a wonderful year!!!
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Hello everyone, welcome to the third episode of ''Talking Optimism''. Once again talking optimism is a series of episodes where I will sit down and talk with a guest speaker every episode, asking questions and listening to their perspectives. Today's episode is another q&a for which I sat down and asked Meera Aashika a few questions.
Meera is a web developer and a travel blogger living in Dublin, Ireland. And in this episode, Meera walks us through her journey during the pandemic, how does her passion for writing and travelling started, and how studying abroad could shape an individual for good and a lot more.
And check out her page on Instagram - @letzexploreireland, I am sure you will love it.
If you are interested to join me for an episode of Talking Optimism, please ping me on social! Either on https://www.facebook.com/AravindKThoomu or https://twitter.com/AravindKThoomu Have fun listening, and wish you all a wonderful day!
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In today's episode, I will narrate to you all the eighth part from my story book, ''Adventures Of Riley & Coco''. In the eighth part, we will listen to how Coco, Riley and Mark, saved their home from a burglary. You can also read the book here! In the next episode, I will narrate to you the final part of the storybook, ''The Adventures of Riley & Coco''. Till then, have fun and have a great day!
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In today's episode, I will be narrating to you my recent write-up on medium. From Zoom schooling to social selling, how the consumer internet can be your aid to amplify your livelihood. You can read the blog here! Feel free to share your thoughts and feedback. My Twitter Handle: @AravindKThoomu Wish you all a great day! Have fun.
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In today's episode, I will narrate to you the 7th part of my storybook Adventures of Rile & Coco. You can read the book here for free. And you will get to know how the stars of Oughterard helped their dad gain business success. So, please do listen to the episode and let me know what you all think. My Twitter ID is : AravindKThoomu Background Music: Epidemic Sound - Intro - Part1 - Part2 - Part3 Have a great day and have fun!
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In today's episode, I will narrate to you the 6th part of my storybook Adventures of Rile & Coco. You can read the book here for free. And you will get to know how our Oughterard's new stars saved someone from drowning in the river. So, please do listen to the episode and let me know what you all think. My Twitter ID is : AravindKThoomu Have a great day and have fun!
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Hello everyone, we are back with another narration of the storybook Adventures of Riley & Coco. In today's episode, we will listen to 5th part of the book that's called '' Oughterard's New Stars''. How Riley, Coco, and Mark, has become the new stars in their town Oughterard.
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Thank you for listening and have a great day, have fun!!!
I will be back with another story in the next episode of Storytime With Aravind.
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Hey everyone. In today's episode, I share my thoughts about how can small businesses in rural India evolve and sustain during this global advancing world of technology. These are clearly my thoughts and beliefs and if you have any feedback both positive and negative feel free to share with me on Twitter. You can reach me at @aravindkthoomu BGM: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/search/?term=Come%202gether Have a great day, and have fun! You can follow me on LinkedIn here! You can follow me on Medium here!
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Storytime With Aravind. In today's episode, I will narrate to you the 4th part of my storybook Adventures of Riley & Coco. You can read the story here! And today, we will get to know about how Riley and Annitta got to know about social media and what they did with Coco on Instagram and Takatak. Hope you have a great day, and have fun.
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In today's episode, we will listen to the 3rd part of the storybook "Adventures of Riley and Coco'' and it's called Riley, Coco, and the Oughterard. Read the story here! Background Music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/FnCfwPFOOV/ Have fun! Byee...
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Hello everyone, welcome to the second episode of ''Talking Optimism''. Once again talking optimism is a series of episodes where I will sit down and talk with a guest speaker every episode, asking questions and listening to their perspectives. Today's episode is another q&a for which I sat down and asked Vijay Aditya a few questions. Vijay answered about the toughest challenges he faced to be where he is today, and how he was keeping himself productive, and active during the Lockdown in Ireland. Vijay is one of my dearest friends from Ireland, we both had some great moments together like any other 2 besties. And this is, however, a different outset for sure. So, you will listen to something definitely new and could come useful! Vijay's Instagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/thebrownhodophile/
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Hello podcast listeners, welcome back to another episode of our new show Storytime With Aravind. And today, I will be narrating to you the second part of my storybook, Adventures of Riley And Coco, and it is called ''Rile Meets Coco''. It is again, a very very short episode, so give it a listen. And if you would like to have a readable version instead, please follow the below link. Adventures of Rile And Coco Have a great day, take care, and have fun.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the new show Storytime with Aravind. This is a show where I will narrate to you all some stories I have written. In today's episode, we will listen to the first part of my storybook, Adventures of Riley & Coco. It is called ''Finding Coco In The Cloosh Valley''.
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Have fun, have a great day!
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Hey everyone. This episodes will let you know what are coming up next on the podcast. In a nutshell,
There will be audio stories every now and then and it's called, 'Story Time with Aravind'.
There will be audio blogs, where I will read narrate you the blogs I am writing or the ones I wrote.
And you already know about 'Talking Optimism'.
And lastly, 'Book Reviews'.
Do follow the Instagram page, so you don't need to listen to all these updates!
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Hey everyone. Today marks the first episode of the show ''Talking Optimsim''. Firstly talking optimism is a series of episodes where I will sit down with a guest speaker every week asking questions and listening to their perspectives.
Today's episode is where I sat down and collaborated with Sean T Rose, one of my dearest friends from Ireland. Sean opens up about his biggest challenges growing up, how he is keeping himself productive these days, and his current role, and more. Sean was one of the nicest and refined human beings I got the opportunity to meet during my stay in Ireland. I had a great time interacting with him.
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So, here is my take, opinion of the book Algorithms To Live By - The Computer Science Of Human Decisions. And also, why the name "Aravind Speaks" and why I am doing it.
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This episode is the 4th and final one of the Radical Candor Book Review. In today's episode, I will brief a few of the great points mentioned in the 5th - 9th chapters of this book (Audible) and will give you all a hint of what you can expect to listen to and learn from this book. Along with that, I have shared a couple of announcements for you all on this episode. Moreover, I will give you a conclusion of listening to Radical Candor. Hoping that this book review has become useful for you all, as it definitely made me introspect a lot. In fact, there were plenty of moments I recalled from the work environments I grew up in, while reading/listening to this book. This one definitely made me feel grounded, and it's so deep that I believe that people would notice. Hope this one comes off useful for you too. Much love!!!
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In today's episode, you will hear me dissect Kim Scott's book Radical Candor. This episode is a review of the chapters 5 & 6 on audible. These chapters deal with the tough and effective part of giving praise, criticism, and direct feedback. You will learn what Radical Candor proposes and also explains, and what obnoxious aggression is?, and what ruinous empathy is? I really really hope you find it useful. Moreover, if you lead a team or own a company I highly recommend you to read the book itself.
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Here I am again with the review part 2 of the book, Radical Candor. Here I will be dissecting chapter 4 and 5 of the book and you can expect me speak about what I resonate with in the book and what I think of some of the best practices she speaks off. If you are liking these episodes, feel free to forward it to a friends. It's still early days, and hopefully the podcast will be more appreciative and entertaining. Have a great day. If you want to leave your feedback or have some suggestions dm me on Twitter, my Twitter handle is @AravindKThoomu.
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So, I came across this much recommended book called Radical Candor. From the last year or so, I have always wanted to read it and finally when I got the opportunity to listen to the audio book, I instantly felt like sharing it with you all. This is the book, I wanted to read, so I came up with the idea of reviewing it online making it an active read for me personally. Hope you all find it useful, and feel free to give me some feedback on my Twitter-@AravindKThoomu Have a great day!
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In today's episode, I will be giving away the top tips for you to perform well in your role, the advantages that come with working in a restaurant and some real suggestions that are curated from great voices across the globe and from some of my personal experiences. Finally, you get to listen to my Alexa! And Alexa has a wonderful complement to you all too.
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In this episode, I will be giving you brief backdrop of my beginnings in the industry and insights into the role and industry of customer service. I will be talking about the best ways to land a job as a waiter in this post Covid world. And what you can expect from the role and how it can make you feel like an entrepreneur and some key elements you do not want to miss and my personal experience of getting a good tip. #Waiter #Waitress #Restaurant
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This is a narration to one of my Medium write ups from 2020. I really really think that this audio would give you an insight into networking and what's so great about it and why should network in the competitive world we live in. Give it a listen, and I really really think that this will be useful for a set of people that is lacking the strategy to network with people to make things happen.
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Here, I will be talking about my experience in Ireland. You would know my first impression of the country, and of course what I did, how I felt during the 6 years.
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