Conversation For Change: Recent Episodes
Khushi Verma
ConversationForChange presents a series of episodes that are made to feel a change in terms of mindset and opportunities & rise above the level where you are at. Change is the only constant we can have in life, with new technology and startup culture let's contribute a bit from our side. Every episode is designed to get a learning experience from the industry experts. Stay tuned, every week.
Welcome to the latest episode of Conversation For Change, where we take up conversations that matter and create an impact.
For today's episode, we have Yogesh Agarwal as our guest, the founder of One Percent Better Club, LinkedIn Wizard, Personal Branding Expert, Storyteller for Founders, and Mentor for millennials.
This a must-listen-to podcast if you are in your early 20s and figuring out what to do next. Don't feel bad if you aren't from tier 1 or 2 colleges, we have a surprise for you. As the world is changing, you have to evolve as well and the same goes for your career as well.
Connect with Yogesh:
LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter & Join 1% Better Club.
Connect with the Host (Khushi):
LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter & Website.
Stay tuned for more such episodes!
In this episode, we have Tanya Bahl, a writer, and an alum of Shri Ram College of Commerce, who works with Mamaearth as a product developer and has also been featured as the LinkedIn Top Voice 2022. Tanya has built a community of 55k on LinkedIn by sharing her own experiences and journey since she was in school and after 2 years of consistent hard work, LinkedIn invited her to be a part of their Creators Accelerator program.
Tanys shares amazing tips on how one can ace the personal branding game on LinkedIn and make the most out of college life. As an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, she believes it is important to be active in your college days and grab the opportunities to make the most of them. It is a must-watch podcast for all aspiring creators.
Connect with Tanya: LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram.
Connect with the host (Khushi): LinkedIn,Twitter, Instagram & Website.
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In this podcast episode, we have Dr. Mukesh Setia as our guest, the co-founder of AVTE, Teacher, Author, Life Coach, and Mentor. He started teaching at the age of 18 right after completing his schooling and after a while, he decided to start his education institution AVTE along with his brother Vipin Setia. Its been 32 years of the teaching journey and along with this, he has served as a mentor for students as well.
Apart from that, he is also working on his new venture Chalti Chai and guides startup founders as well. He has also conducted sessions for Delhi Government Schools for student welfare and upliftment as he believes that knowledge has no restriction and to facilitate that he is creating this change through his work.
Here is the book written by Dr. Mukesh Setia.
As a student of AVTE, it was an honor to interview Dr. Muskesh Setia on my channel and this will always be a special episode for me.
The video I was talking about was at the end of the video.
Subscribe to the AVTE channel for classes 9-12th updates.
Connect with Dr. Mukesh Setia:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook & Instagram
Connect with Khushi Verma:
Website, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram
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In this podcast, we have Jatin Saini as our guest. Jatin did B.Tech in Computer Science and MBA in Marketing from Lovely Professional University in the year 2018. As a college student, he did internships with Denziti Media, High on Startup, and Crescendo Global. Jatin also started his Youtube channel as 'Kuch Bhi Reviews' and created some fun content as well.
Currently, Jatin is your Friendly Neighborhood Host and already hosted 35+ audio events on LinkedIn, every Wednesday, and Sunday. He is a community builder and content guy with a 17k LinkedIn family.
You can find him below:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube & Instagram.
Find me here:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram & Website.
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In today's episode, we have Disha Taneja as our guest, Disha is an 18 year old student at the prestigious Australian National University, is currently a Chancellor’s International 50% Scholarship holder , Mental Health Advocate, MindSpeaker Alumni , Founder of Diva’s Planet and ThePsychologyTimess , Co founder of Shoppers Wardrobe , An International Book of Records holder for participating in the largest twist dance , Author of the blogs on self love and special education, Co Author of the book Complicated , Bullying Activist and was featured by Seen TV , 91.9 Radio FM , Fortis Mental Health , Beautiful You Podcast and was a speaker at St.Theresa’s Convent Sr Sec School . She is a socialist, a member of NGO SARTHI , was a volunteer for March for Mental Health 2021 and was awarded bronze medal for collecting funds for cancer patients .
Aarti Ahuja is a founder of Amplify with Aarti which helps youth amplify their life and business through training and coaching. She has 20 years of industry experience and holds an MBA and B.Tech. She is an Entrepreneur Coach, a Soft Skill Trainer, and a Start-up Expert with a commitment to helping youth to achieve holistic success in every aspect of life.
Apart from this Aarti also provides sex education to raise awareness on topics that are considered taboo. She believes through awareness we can create an impact in our society.
You can find her on LinkedIn, Instagram and Youtube.
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Divyansh Tuteja is a Self-improvement content creator on Instagram with 40k followers and a Co-Founder of Two2Projects which is a Graphic Designing Agency. He is a perfect example of how one can address problems in their life as an opportunity to grow.
Here's the list of books that are a must-read for everyone:
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a fuck by Mark Manson
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The Almanac of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
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Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo
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Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
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Attitude Is Everything by Jeff Keller
You can connect with Divyansh on Instagram, Linkedin and Youtube.
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Shubhangi Madan Co-Founded The People Company in January 2022, which aims to provide Creative Personal Branding services. By profession, Shubhangi is a Personal Branding Specialist with 16M+ Views on LinkedIn.
In this podcast, Shubhangi has explained her journey about why she got into content creation, what kept her going, and why each of us should have a bold social media presence.
You can reach out to her on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.
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In this episode with Rohan Dubey, learn about why coding is a necessity for every business and how anybody can start learning coding with free resources available on the internet. Rohan currently, works as a Business and Content intern with Blockverse and is also a part of neogcamp for their upcoming cohort. He is an upcoming Full Stack Web Developer and apart from this, he also creates content on Linkedin. He believes learning and sharing is the best way to grab concepts when it comes to coding.
Feel free to reach out to him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Ankit Uttam started his corporate journey in 2008 with TCS as a trainee. Along with his job, Ankit wrote 3 books part-time. In 2013, he went on to do MBA in marketing, and post that he worked as a marketer in the service industry. In 2017, indie published his 4th book, and soon after he wrote 3 more books. In 2020, Ankit quit his job and turned into a solopreneur, and by 2021, revenue from books rose, and alongside worked on a few marketing projects in a startup. By 2022, Ankit is the author of best-selling amazon books and has written 10+ books in his career.
Here's his LinkedIn post that went viral and got featured in Mint, Times of India, HindustanTimes, Indiatimes, News18, and ABP.
Join his newsletter subscribed by 10k readers.
Reach out to him on LinkedIn to get in touch and stay tuned for more such episodes!
Ritika Saraswat is a founder of Re-Defined, a Board of Directors for Teenvisor, a Career Consultant, a Social Entrepreneur, and a ChangeMaker. She manages all of these things along with a full-time job at Deloitte as a Business Analyst. Right after class 12th, Ritika moved to Canada to pursue her undergraduate from The University of British Columbia. She has explained how moving out at such a young age helped her to learn everything on her own and be independent within 6 months. Her insights are must listen to all the students who are starting their college life.
You can reach out to her on Linkedin.
Vrinda Gupta is a Soft skill and Corporate trainer and public speaker. She is also a Josh Talk speaker and her journey has also been featured on SheThePeople. Apart from this previously she was a Vice President Educator at ToastMasters and Hosted various events too.
We all are aware of the inspiring story of Vrinda and how she overcomes her toxic marriage. She believes when you have people around to support you, you can do wonderful things.
You can find her Josh Talk and SheThePeople featured posts. Connect with her on Instagram and Linkedin.
Stay tuned for more such episodes.
For today's podcast, we have Rajat Taneja as our guest who is a professional writer with 10 years of experience and exploring his standup comedy as well. He has worked with brands like Filtercopy and CoinDCX too. In the past decade, Rajat has 8 years of experience in switching various jobs. After engineering, he dropped his MBA plan and started his career by working in a startup. He first does various things and if interests him, he continues doing the same otherwise with the new hope he searches for a new opportunity.
Here's 5000 words article which he wrote a long time ago.
You can find him on LinkedIn and follow his relatable content on Instagram too.
Sudharsanan Ganapathy started learning about personal branding a decade ago and now he is the CEO and founder of a successful agency- The Social company. At Social Company, they help people become brands. Apart from this, Sudharsanan is also an angel investor. He believes that we cannot succeed alone, we need the community to survive and that community is built by serving people around us. According to Sudharsanannever take risks that put your family at risk, take calculated risks that are bearable.
You can connect with him over LinkedIn and stay tuned for more such episodes!
For today's podcast, we have Shikha Bhat as our guest who is a Momtastic Storyteller who believes Mental Health is a foundation of a happy, healthy, and successful life. Also helps founders and companies in providing personal branding services. You can find her on Linkedin.
Today we have Akshat Jain as our guest, who completed the CA final with an All India Rank of 4. Currently, works as a Government Consultant at Deloitte and creates content on Youtube and Linkedin. He believes that hard work can make things possible. You can find him on Linkedin and YouTube.
We have Rahul Arora as our guest who is a Chartered Accountant by profession and currently, works as a Senior Associate at Flipkart. He likes to create content on Linkedin and started a community of LinkedIn creators - "Komyunity". Apart from that, he also likes to create memes on Instagram related to corporate life and current affair. He believes if you want to achieve anything in life, you have to sacrifice another thing too and this approach helped him to ace the CA exam with determination and hard work.
You can connect with him over LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
Today we have Keerthi Bajaj as our guest who is a Chartered Accountant by profession with AIR 22 in CA finals and currently, she works as an Investment Banking Analyst at JP Morgan. Along with this, she is a content creator on Linkedin and believes in learning each day. Coming from a science background, CA as a career option and corporate exposure fascinated her to take this course. She gave her best on the first attempt and just had this belief- "If I am unable to clear this at once, then this is not meant for me."
You can reach out to her on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
Stay tuned for more such episodes.
Bhawna Kaur is a Co-Founder of Sfity Tech Industries, a Content Writer, and can help you with creating content, marketing your content, video creation, editing, ghostwriting, and book writing. Her journey from overcoming depression to helping people to get a kick start in her career again will definitely inspire you. She believes consistency can take you to the next level if you stick to it and trust yourself. Providing valuable content and engagement is the essence of personal branding.
As Bhawna mentioned:
"Plans without actions are always plans."
Let's take action toward our goals so that we make our dreams come true.
You can reach out to her for any work-related query at bhawna@sindustries.co.in and stay tuned for more such episodes.
Today we have Siddhant Garg as our guest who is a content creator and finance professional. In this podcast, he shares his journey from quitting a full-time corporate job to starting to create content and help people with his services as a freelancer. His simple piece of advice for all the creators out there is to stay consistent with your work and let people say whatever they want to. He likes to travel and had people who inspire him to stay consistent with his work.
He believes in the vision as follows:
"Promote yourself online daily"
You can reach out to him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
In this podcast, Akansha Yadav gave us deep insights into why the education system is a bit problematic in India. As a teacher, relating with a child and learning from them is part of her life. She has a knack for identifying a problem and working on it mindfully to reach a solution that makes her remarkable in her field.
Akansha is an Alum of Gargi College, Delhi University, and her previous experience includes education support mentoring at Make a Difference, Bridge program Volunteer at Teach for India, Intern at Niti Aayog, and much more. Currently, she is pursuing master's in education from Ambedkar University, Delhi. This episode is filled with positivity, ideas, emotions, and much more.
You can find her on Instagram and reach out on LinkedIn to know more.
Nandini Satija started teaching at the age of 15 and bagged the National pride teachers award for being the youngest teacher. She scored AIR 9 in class 12 and moved Delhi to pursue undergraduate degree in psychology & political science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. As days went by, she struggled with mental health issues and dealing with it was not easy. she realised the need of mental health awareness in our society and that led to starting of The Samaritans Foundation. She believes that life is all about enjoying the journey rather than gearing toward for destination.
Know more about her project UMEED.
You can find her on Instagram and feel free to connect with The Samaritans Foundation whenever you feel any kind of anxiety or share with your friend who is in need of such support.
Annanya Chaturvedi started writing at the age of 13 years, she is not just any random student of LSR doing English (Hons). she is a feminist, podcaster, editor, creator, writer, photographer and creative professional. A few days back she started her first independent campaign #nomorelabels breaking the stereotype of society. Questioning the culture that is going on for so long in society is necessary and this girl has the guts to not accept things as it is. The courage to change someone's perspective starts with you. Annanya is truly an inspiration to me and this amazing conversation just blew my mind.
Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/annanya-chaturvedi-6b5294194
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/annanya.chaturvedi/
Podcast- https://open.spotify.com/show/2qq6i7drJNIroZTvbmQm3A
Today, we have the founder of Crease Design Works Lavanya Trehan on the show. Lavanya did her undergrad from Gargi College in B.Com(H) and then, went to Kings College London to pursue M.Sc in International Marketing. Currently, she is working on her startup with the mission to create an impact. At Crease Design Works, they help brands with the UI/UX interface to make it more attractive and build brand identity. They also have their e-commerce gift stores where you can get ideas to gift your loved ones. As a part of the creative industry, there are ups and downs but her determination to do the work has helped her to overcome all sorts of challenges.
Manasi Khanna is the founder of Tastytalks, which is a dine at home venture where people connect over home-cooked authentic cultural cuisine. Her journey of career started as an Auditor at Deloitte and voluntarily worked in the social sector also. She moved to Amsterdam with her husband and rather than looking for a job, she found a gap when there is no one to share and talk with at the dining table. Tastytalks started with just one event, where Manasi received an amazing response and then she went on to expand this to other nations too. Tastytalks has seen both good and bad times, even in bad times Manasi's passion and willingness to don't stop helped her.
I really like this line:- "When you start a business you fail every day".
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manasi-khanna-036b8432
Instagram: https://instagram.com/tasty.talks?utm_medium=copy_link
Shaon did her graduation from Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University in BA-Psychology Hons. Be it web designing, editing videos, podcasting, writing, singing, marketing, skincare or anything, this girl has the solution if all your problems. By profession, She is a makeup artist and the knowledge of makeup is not just limited to that, she has her program where she teaches make-up from a beginner to a professional. She believes in the fact that knowledge expands as you share it with more and more people around you. Not just that, she also has another space for people struggling with self-doubt that is 'The Safe Space' where you can express your vulnerability and be yourself. You can connect her with help of the links provided below.
Instagram-https://instagram.com/shaaaon?utm_medium=copy_link
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaon-chatterjee-3b5b7a124
Website- https://shaonchatterjee08.wordpress.com
Podcast- https://open.spotify.com/show/6VNehccMhEKZmqTR7wx6J3?si=DasSVIn1QKmivm_f78zkbQ&utm_source=copy-link
Medium- https://medium.com/@shaaaon
An Engineer by qualifications but Jithu refuses to fit in the corporate world. Jithu Ganesh currently works at Amazon as a Process Associate, but his creative hustle is unbeatable. He started sketching last year and now, he has launched his program where you get to learn sketching as a beginner. Even after a 9-5 full-time job, he struggles to find out enough time for his creative work. Jithu is a perfect example of a professional who shows up no matter what. A true leader who is definitely going to do big in his career.
Aakash Rathi has previously worked with startups like Schbang and Rizzle and currently, he is working at Google as a Digital Marketing strategist. A job doesn't mean you are stuck in a 9-5 routine, you need to have a balance between your work and personal life. As humans, each of us needs to keep our body moving and with today's episode, you would get to know how much it is important in the long term. Experimenting and exploring help us to open doors of opportunities every day.
We have Anshuman Sharma on the show, from being an engineering background to a professional story writer. The journey of overcoming self-doubt and trusting ourselves. He believes in the process of creation without focussing on the outcomes. He has launched his program where he helps people like us, to be more professional and a space where you could pour your thoughts on the paper. I am sure you gonna enjoy this conversation.
Today let's deep dive into the journey of a guy who was a dropout in the eyes of society. But his determination to do something big in life helped to cross all the boundaries. Rahul Dass is a founder of Gryffindor, which is an ed-tech startup and marketing company. He is a digital marketing consultant and web designer, he pointed out the problem of lack of practical exposure in the field of Digital Marketing for college graduates and designed his courses which provide 100% practical experience. He believes that mindset plays a very crucial role in your career.