Sydney Reflect: Recent Episodes
Sydney Reflect
Sydney Reflect is simply a podcast for inspiring and empowering international students in Australia.
We reflect on the life-changing experiences of international students in Australia.
House of Nepal is a one-stop shop for authentic Nepalese products in Sydney.
We recently had a conversation with Prabhu Bhetwal who reflected on the journey of the House of Nepal. They started their journey from their living room to a Garage selling to a Granny flat to a fine store in Auburn.
Chris is a progressive, strategic and determined senior leader with an innovative, entrepreneurial outlook and significant leadership experience across a number of sectors, chiefly higher education. Chris possesses a strong results orientation, outstanding commercial acumen, exceptional communication and influencing skills, and the ability to lead and engage across a diverse stakeholder base.
In 2014, when Madan Mani came to Australia, He had three main goals - To get PR, to buy a house in Australia, and to work in the North Sydney area.
Listen to his reflection to know if he was able to achieve his goal in these eight years in Australia.
Prem Acharya is the Founder of Dented Code where IT students and Graduates get hands-on experience on full-stack software/web/app development that the company loves to hire. In this Episode, Prem Acharya shared about his journey as an international student to the Day he become the founder of Dented Code.
Krishna Sen is an Internal Recruiter at Afea Care Services, She was Operations Manager at Pathfinders International, and was a former international student.
Rayan Rays is the founder and CEO of NepCine. Rayan has led the formation of a new movie production and distribution company. The visionary entrepreneur was directly responsible for developing the strategic plans, execution of such plan, setting organizational goals, and expansion of the business in the N. American market. The company was the first of its kind to target the niche market segment here in the United States. Since the launch, NepCine has been a leader and a champion providing the new opportunities for the Kollywood Industry and its artists. Recently They have been looking into copyright and royalty issues for various musicians.
Ali Hafiz Murtaza is a Software Engineer, IOS developer, and former International Student. In this podcast, we talk about various issues International Students face and some tips for better living.
Karuna Raut is a Model, Registered Nurse, and Entrepreneur. In this podcast, we talk about her journey of Modelling, Her journey in Australia, and a few issues in our surroundings.
Liviya is an International Student and A Senior Accountant at a firm. In this Podcast we talk about the Tax System in Australia, How can we reduce our taxes, and ways to invest to reduce taxes.
Stephanie is an International Keynote Speaker / Author / Social Entrepreneur & UN Award Winner for Responsible Business, Founder of Seven Women & Hands-on Development Tours.
Abhinesh is a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Life Coach, Product Owner at ReadyTech and Co-Founder of Thriving Podcast
Sunayana Yogi is a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Show Host at Nepal Reports.
Abartan Dhakal is an Ethical Hacker, Lead Pen Tester at Stickman Cyber, Ambassador at Bugcrowd, and a Bug Bounty Hunter.
Gaurab Gurung is an NDIS Local Area Coordinator at Brotherhood of St Laurence, and a Mental Health Multicultural Ambassador at Mental Health Foundation Australia.
In this Episode, the Podcast host Bikesh Lal Shrestha is having a conversation with Rakesh Maharjan, a Photographer/Videographer and a Filmmaker currently residing in Canberra Australia.
His first movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLbaulN3p7E&ab_channel=RakeshMaharjan
Urusha Kansakar, alumni of CQUniversity reflected on her life-changing experience. URUSHA KANSAKAR is from Nepal. She completed her Master in Professional Accounting from CQUniversity, Melbourne in 2018.
In this podcast, we look into the effects of Covid-19 a year ago and now. We had a deep conversation and look into the situation from the perspective of normal people and the government.
Rohit Sudhakaran and Bikesh Lal Shrestha were the social innovation champ of CQUniversity. The purpose of being a social innovation champ in the university was to make students aware of what social innovation is and how social innovation can be helpful in their life ahead.
Niraj Thapa Magar was one of the active participants of the social innovation events and in this episode, they are having a conversation about those experiences in the University and how the current and future international students can grow from being involved in social innovation.
The conversation started with our own perspective about social work and why we do social works followed by the social innovation concept and the experiences as an international student in Australia.
Reshma Baral is a life coach and a career coach. She helps her client to build an unshakable confidence to become high performers in their career.
In this episode, we had a deep conversation regarding what confidence actually is, how could we build that unshakable confidence and sustain throughout our life so that we can bring a massive change in our life.
Listen to Reshma Baral only on Sydney Reflect.
Bikesh Lal Shrestha is a civil engineer, TED talk speaker, social champ of Social innovation club of CQUniversity, Finalist of Big Idea Competition, a Photographer and many more. He completed his Master of management for Engineers from CQUniversity, Sydney.
In this episode, we had an honest conversation about our life, about our purpose, how we found our purpose, about our mental health challenges, our love and relationship and our career. This was one of the longest and deep dive conversation I ever had with my guest.
Saroj Basnet is the first TED Talk event organiser of CQUniversity. In this episode, he reflected his journey from getting an idea to finally organising the TED Talk Event in CQUniversity, Sydney.
Sudikshya Thapa, a former student and Lecturer of CQUniversity, Sydney campus shared about her life experience after graduating from University. She reflected about how covid-19 challenged her to adopt a new career in her life and how her life has changed after coming to Sydney.
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Raunak Koirala is currently working as a Client Service Officer in Dye and Durham Corporation, Canberra. Before He was Compliance Analyst in National Australian Bank.
In this episode, Raunak reflected about his initial journey regarding how he started looking for opportunities after graduation and at one point, even his application was rejected more than 100 times but still he had that mindset where he pushed himself further looking for more opportunities by recovering his early mistake. He also shared about the importance of CV and Cover Letter while applying for any opportunities.
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About Music Track:
"John Bartmann - Happy African Village" is under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 3.0) license
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-african
Follow us on other platforms:
Sydney Reflect | FacebooK |
Blog - Sydney Reflect
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Mayush Shrestha likes to introduce herself as a creative writer. She is an Author of book called "SEA" which is available in Amazon.
In this episode, Mayush opened up about her journey as an international student in Sydney and how she fought back with the mental challenges that most of the international students passed through. She also reflected about how she is gradually taking her path towards creative writing even she had a Business Accounting degree. She completed her Master degree from CQUniversity, Sydney campus.
She recently launched her personal blog called Galleries of Words.
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Sydney Reflect | Castbox | https://castbox.fm/ch/2467585
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Connect with Mayush:
Mayush Shrestha | LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayushrestha
Mayush Shrestha | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/cacopho_ny/
Mayush Shrestha | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/mayuch.shrestha
Connect with Niraj:
Niraj Thapa Magar | LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/niraj-thapa-magar-24379488/
Niraj Thapa Magar | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/niraj_blog/
Niraj Thapa Magar | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/magarniraj046
Pratiskha Basnet joined Sydney Reflect to share her experiences of being international student in Sydney. She openly shared about how she feel about Sydney, what were the challenges and struggles she faced during her beginning days in Sydney and more than that how did she cope with all those challenges and started seeking out opportunities by getting out from the fear of becoming vulnerable and failures.
Pratiksha Basnet is currently working as a Case Manager in The Salvation Army Australia. She completed her Master in Social work from Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney.
Follow us on other platforms: Sydney Reflect | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/sydneyreflect
Listen to our podcast on various platforms:
Sydney Reflect | Anchor | https://anchor.fm/sydneyreflect
Sydney Reflect | Apple Podcast | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sydney-reflect/id1565066764
Sydney Reflect | Castbox | https://castbox.fm/ch/2467585
Sydney Reflect | Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/53zud6CtAYlJWAGyBLAKNp
Sydney Reflect | Radio Public | https://radiopublic.com/sydney-reflect-with-niraj-8gREEp/episodes
Connect with Pratiksha:
Pratiksha Basnet | LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratiksha-basnet-12403b119
Pratiksha Basnet | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/pratiksha_basnet/
Connect with Niraj:
Niraj Thapa Magar | LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/niraj-thapa-magar-24379488/
Niraj Thapa Magar | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/niraj_blog/
Niraj Thapa Magar | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/magarniraj046