Casually Serious w/ Fazal & Abhinav: Recent Episodes
The Casually Serious Podcast
There’s enough cult surrounding the world of Entrepreneurship and that ecstatic role of being able to be your own boss. What doesn’t get the attention it deserves is how much work that goes into the BTS & truly what gets transpired in getting your idea across to the public. We have with us one individual who’s been able to do just that in his previous stint as an entrepreneur out of college!
With Economic Migration statistics at an all-time high for Indians intending to secure better opportunities overseas, the main subject of debate is pertaining to one’s choice of country to migrate to. For our 6th episode, we have with us someone who has an interesting take on finding opportunities in developing countries as opposed to already developed countries.
OUTLINE
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Background and moving to Europe post-undergrad
4:26 - Redeeming oneself from failure in 12th Grade
11:42 - Failing hard and Failing early
14:02 - Thriving in Citibank as an AVP
20:13 - Moving to Poland
22:39 - What informed your choice to emigrate to a Developing country?
26:28 - Are countries like Poland and Estonia the new norm for ease of economical migration and opportunities?
30:15 - Comparing the quality of living between a Western & a Slavic country ( Australia vs Poland )
33:02 - Final Thoughts
Imagine beginning something with all the right intentions in a particular stream only to shift careers diametrically and thrive in a program you were least trained in within years of graduating from your undergrad program. Featuring Aryan Anand today, who has precisely taken that leap, a IIITD tech grad, now a Liberal Sciences post-grad in training from one of the top-tier management institutes of India, IIM Kozhikode.
OUTLINE
0:00 - Intro
2:12 - drawing the work ethic from IIITD
5:11 - Masquerading from a Tech background into the Non-tech space
8:07 - What doors does a Liberal Science management course open?
13:37 - Why shift non-tech when already in a top engineering program?
17:31 - Are all MBAs extrovert
18:37 - The culture of IIM Kozhikode and what to expect at the LSM program of IIMK
23:20 - Final thoughts
With meta verse making the hue and cry in the news in the last couple of months it doesn’t come to notice for most that Estonia has already been working on its Digital Society project way sooner than the other countries. Inviting Hardik Tank who is thriving in this country which he once found hard to trace the location of on the map.
Check it out on YouTube for the full episode as well!
There's no denying how demanding it is to achieve the CA charter. What's even more demanding is the sheer amount of hard work it took to achieve the coveted 2 alphabets prefixing your name with an All India Rank and that too in the first attempt. Today is one such person who achieved both of the feats.
Rarely is the case when our guest takes over the ruins that we make and makes our day by speaking some genius stuff. This episode was one such case. Swapnil brought with himself this level of humbleness for all the achievements that he'd carried, as much as we have I'm sure you'd learn some valuable lessons too. Hope y'all enjoy!
Kick-starting our Season 2 Campaign with Jatinder Singh, the Marquee Opening Batsman & the Face of Oman Cricket for the ICC T20 World Cup this year. Despite Oman's unsuccessful campaign, it was history in the making as it has established itself in the conversation of the main cricketing circuit. Of which, our guest today has played a massive massive part in being the face of Oman Cricket for this world cup. Oman prides itself on its fiercest supporters no matter the outcome, I am sure this has not only inspired a wave of Omani cricketers from now on, but it has improved the morale of the city altogether after a tough testing phase due to COVID the previous year. We were truly inspired by the professional demeanor Jatinder had carried with himself off the field despite such a huge responsibility resting on his shoulders. I am sure you'll enjoy this episode as much as we have, do stay till the end!
OUTLINE
0:00 - Intro
2:18 - Humble beginnings & growing up in Muscat
5:57 - Journeying through middle school cricket into the national side
9:19 - Massive Growth of Oman Cricket over the years
14:45 - Making a mark in the ICC T20 World Cup
16:15 - An Apnapan Love for Oman
18:18 - Mental Prep against Big Names
21:14 - An Opening Batsman's philosophy
23:36 - Choosing Cricket professionally
28:15 - Some Philosophical Thoughts & conquering Social Media Bias
32:15 - Final Thoughts
OUTLINE
0:00 - Intro
1:43 - Initial Interactions
3:20 - Life in Kota
8:30 - Kota being an enigmatic city
10:00 - Difference between Kota and Delhi
11:10 - Starting Up a Shoe Business in the first year ( Sneaker Reselling ) + Throwback to PIS course of IIITD
24:04 - Getting the right clients + Rise of Brands Reselling
28:05 - First tryst with Cryptocurrency Investing
35:06 - Maintaining Balance
37:31 - Final thoughts
We featured a couple of our friends from the USA, Canada and what better way would it be to add another feature to our Season 1 hat, with someone coming from yet another Western Country, Australia. Unlike the rest of us, Aamir never actually got the chance to come back during the COVID pandemic and meet his parents, which made him experience an all together insane adulting learning curve. The both of us got the rare chance to make someone have an insanely thoughtful conversation about really have gone through so much in a short span of time. Do stay till the end to really understand his opinions upon what informed him to really choose Australia and his plans for settling down there.
INTERESTING NOTE :- Our personal favorite from Aamir was his take on how Parties are Networking hubs in most colleges and why an individual must make the most of it! Also, he had some interesting opinions on the many layers of getting independent.
OUTLINE :
0:00 - Intro
1:58 - Transitioning from School to Australia
5:00 - A 3 Day Work-Week at Unis
10:44 - The many layers of Independence and Adulting Quick
16:28 - Starting from Scratch and moving to a more western society
23:18 - A casual take on ranking colleges according to their Party Scenes
26:08 - Cuisine Culture down under
29:45 - On Immigrating and settling down
36:35 - What would you have done any differently? While casually making Aamir emotional xD
42:15 - Final Thoughts
This week we bring to you one of our closest friends growing up. Someone the both of us would not be shy to admit is far more responsible and mature than the rest of us who have grown up together in the same school. Adulting did not seem like a thing to the both of us until Raksha began educating us on how important it was to learn some crucial skills in the same way we are expected to pursue our education and much later our professional lives. All the more didn't seem important enough to think about since we have all been in the comfort of our parents our entire teenage years that basic domestic skills like cooking isn't given enough credit.
OUTLINE :-
0:00 - Introduction
3:40 - Raksha's Background
5:40 - About Waterloo and it's Co-Op Program
12:00 - Pressures of an Over-Achieving Smart Girl xD
13:20 - What is your Major
15:08 - How has school life in ISM aided your Canadian experience?
17:50 - Weighing on Homesickness and what would you do any different
22:30 - On Being Independent
29:05 - Work Culture
32:30 - On Global Outlook
35:10 - Ease of Immigration and Future Plans
38:55 - Virtue of Just Hanging in there
43:10 - Final Thoughts
Today we bring to you a rather interesting person who took it upon himself to complete his Bachelor's Coursework within 3 years instead of the acceptable 4 years by most accredited Institutions. He was able to share some interesting opinions of embracing the suck and the Hustle Culture of the USA. Something most people ( including ourselves ) were ignorant of. Do tune in to all the interesting clips we will be posting throughout the week!
For our 4th Episode, we decided to spice things up! Bringing you Marcelo with his Unique Perspective coming from a Latin American country towards maneuvering social life in the USA! What genuinely impressed us was his deep thoughtful quotes in most of this podcast episode, a personal take away for the both of us co-hosting this episode to embrace the suck and move on with life's trials and tribulations! I am sure y'all listening to this podcast would be able to learn the same and relate with it too! Hope y'all love it too as much as we loved shooting this episode!
Bringing y'all the 3rd Episode of the Casually Serious Podcast! We are sharing Kamya's experiences of being able to navigate several different cultures while at the same time staying relevant with each successive place she ended up migrating in her life so far. Further, she shared some of her many views concerning being a Medical Student in the USA, and how would it have been any different if she chose to pursue it in India. We particularly emphasized on the aspect of being an Expat living in Dubai and how it is not all roses and sunshine in this expensive city as it is rather depicted and assumed to be from outsiders.
OUTLINE:-
0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Kamya's Background
6:54 - Pace in Bombay vs Dubai
9:10 - Reality of Living in Dubai :D
11:10 - Fun Stuff in Dubai xD
16:58 - Dubai and its flex.
20:00 - Being culturally Schizophrenic
31:00 - Maintaining friendships across borders
38:20 - About Pre-Med and why USA for Pre-Med
42:00 - Flexibility of Pre-Med compared to an MBBS
43:20 - Medical School expenses
48:00 - Final Thoughts
Bringing y'all another episode of the Casually Serious Podcast with Fazal and Abhinav. This time with one of our closest friends of Abhinav's growing up! It is interesting to see our peers pursuing different things in different corners of the World. Keeping that in the picture, we invited Pranav to share his experience of having pursued Mechanical Engg. in NIT Trichy so far and how much of a shock he must have felt both academically and non-academically.
OUTLINE:-
0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - Why did we invite Pranav? Our Schooling together in ISM
10:16 - NIT Trichy vs Oman
14:15 - Benefits of Linguistic + Regional Diversity
16:50 - Soft Skills learnt in ISM that remained
19:10 - Experience in NIT Trichy
20:43 - Goals post-BTech in NITT + Mechanical Engg Course
21:30 - "Traditional" Syllabus being followed
23:18 - Traditional vs Updated Syllabus in Institutions/Universities
25:20 - Choosing between Locational Preference or Brand Value for Undergrad?
31:20 - Language Barriers in Tamil Nadu
32:45 - Buffalos Running around + Taming Pets in NIT Trichy
35:25 - Transitioning to a Less Urbanised Area ( From Muscat to Trichy )
37:20 - Defining to others "Where" Oman is on the map?
38:45 - What could have been taught better to us in our school to prepare for life in India
40:00 - Street Smart Skills and Takeaways from a Degree in India
42:00 - Quality of a Solid College Pedigree
44:00 - Final Thoughts
Our podcast is a cumulation of a month's planning but a half a decade long dream for really producing content film we wished we watched ourselves during our adolescence. Nihar could not have been a more perfect person to have accompanied us in kickstarting our podcast journey. We learnt a great deal about the creative process that went through in his short youtube journey where he was able to scale his Youtube channel to 1000 subscribers within 1 year of consistent content production in his passion for aeronautics.
Acknowledgement:- We cannot thank enough to all our friends and mutual friends for having been an integral support to all our plans, we personally are indebted for their unconditional support to our crazy idea of beginning a podcast.
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Yo Guys!
We decided to begin with a short introduction-like trailer video before our Season 1 to specifically address why we began all of this.
NOTE:- Apologies for the abysmal camera quality. We are improvising on it on the fly! :)
Acknowledgement:- We would like to personally thank Anisha and Brahadeesh for being really a crucial part of our inception. Anisha was responsible for our visually pleasing illustrations! And Brahadeesh for his amazing music composition perfectly replicating what we really had in mind! Both of their child-like excitement during our brainstorming sessions with our requirements was infectious and indeed felt like we were in safe hands. Thanks a ton!
Anisha - https://instagram.com/anishhaaaaaaa?utm_medium=copy_link
Brahadeesh - https://instagram.com/bradyboy__.__?utm_medium=copy_link
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Podcast
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Abhinav Gudipati
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Fazal Khan
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What we use.
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Razer Seiren Mini Mic - https://www.amazon.in/Razer-Seiren-Mini-Ultra-Compact-RZ19-03450100-R3M1/dp/B08WBK92PJ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=razer+seiren+mic&qid=1623424795&sr=8-
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Boom Arm Stand:- https://www.amazon.in/Juarez-JRZ16MS-Microphone-Scissor-Suspension/dp/B088P6G2BK/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=boom+arm+stand&qid=1623425724&sr=8-5
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Recorded with Macbook Pro Webcams (720p)
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Pop Filter:- Probably any normal pop filter will do.
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For editing - iMovie
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For Graphics - Adobe Photoshop CC
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Music - Credits to Brahadeesh. ( Music to be released soon on our channel! )
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Logo - Credits to Anisha
