Shafkat Alam works with rag-picker children in Kolkata through Tiljala Shed, which means this conversation gets far past the glossy version of internet charity. We talk about MrBeast, poverty, education, and what actually changes when the camera leaves but the work still has to continue.
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Life Experiments - 19 Episodes
Solo travel, spirituality, culture-centered nutrition, relationships, and the strange corners of a life lived with intention. Come here when the question on your mind is bigger than your job title. 19 episodes inside.
How do you build a community of 600,000 people who want to be alone? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Black , the founder of The Female Traveler Network , to reveal how she turned a simple travel blog into a global empire and a safe haven for half a million women.
Are you an NRI, student, or expat living in the USA who feels sluggish, bloated, or heavier despite "eating healthy"? Millions of Indians move abroad and immediately switch to a diet of salads, cold sandwiches, and protein bars, thinking they are making better choices.
This conversation is not about that kind of trip. This is about the kind of travel that changes what you think a vacation is for.
Why Astrology is More Than Fortune-Telling — A Raw Conversation with Poonam Dutta What happens when you put a professional astrologer and spiritual scientist in the hot seat and ask the hard questions? In this episode of the Ready Set Do Podcast I sit down with Poonam Dutta — an expert in the Vedas, Sanatan Dharma, and Vedic astrology — for a multi-faceted, super-raw conversation that cuts past clichés and goes straight to the reasoning behind belief.
Travel stories get boring fast when they only exist to confirm what the traveler already thought. This one is better because the surprise is the point: what India looks like through the eyes of someone seeing it properly for the first time, and what that says about expectation, culture, and the stories we drag around before we arrive.
For over the past five years, Abhay has been working out consistently - at first at home, and then in an actual gym. The question Abhay and myself have tried to answer here today is "Why should someone that has never worked out start working out and how can they do so?" Beginner-friendly workout plan: Abhay: All my social links:
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How To Cook & Eat Home-Cooked Meals To Lose Fat And/Or Build Muscle (Busy Bachelors POV) - w/ Gaurav
Does "healthy eating" mean boiled chicken, tasteless broccoli, and zero happiness? For most busy bachelors, the choice is usually binary: Order takeout and feel guilty, or try to cook "healthy" and end up eating cardboard.
Ved keeping with our theme of learning from somebody that’s just two steps ahead instead of an expert, my goal with this episode is to explore the mind and musings of a young boy - and how the timeless optimism of childhood can indeed be discovered by anyone of any age. By the end of this episode, you will walk away with a perspective on why the child-like curiosity is the greatest treasure we possess, and yet something we all discard as we grow this episode we also witness the Conventional Mind in Robert Greene's Mastery, the concept of the Conventional Mind describes how societal pressures, practical demands, and conformity erode the innate openness and curiosity we possess as children.
Most people talk about yoga like it is either wellness content or a neat philosophy deck. This conversation goes into the messier middle: what happens when a tradition gets flattened for the internet, how someone actually becomes a guru, and why criticism of Hinduism does not fit into the tidy little boxes people like.
Most people think funny people are just born with it, which is a nice way to avoid the awkward part where you actually have to learn timing. This conversation gets into how to write something sharp without trying to cosplay as a comedian, which is usually where the whole thing goes off the rails.
What happens when you move back to India after a master's in the US? Ratik Dutta talks through reverse culture shock, the job market for returning graduates, and the strange work of settling back into a place that is already supposed to feel like home.
Originally from Moscow, Russia, Mayya recently graduated from a Masters of Arts degree from DePaul University but for the purposes of this episode - we’ll be deep-diving into how Mayya kickstarted her DJ career from scratch. We go over the onset of Mayya’s musical pursuits, how she learnt mixing - which is the fundamental skill every DJ must learn, and how she landed her first gigs.
A lot of diversity talk gets flattened into slogans and conference-panel language. This one is better because it stays close to the actual arguments: CAT, economics, reverse brain-drain, and what people mean when they say they want a better pipeline but never explain the pipeline.
In this episode, my guest is Melissa Weinmann. Melissa is a huge travel enthusiast, with her current tally of countries and territories visited being 44 at the time of recording.
Money questions get weird fast when you are an NRI on OPT or H-1B and everyone around you has a different opinion. A CFP walks through the stuff people usually learn too late: how to think about investing, what actually deserves attention, and where the common traps are hiding.
A lot of Dubai talk is either glossy or cynical, which usually means it is not very useful. Kaushik cuts through that and talks about moving to the UAE for a PhD, what living there actually felt like, and why the Gulf makes sense for some people and not for others.
Moving to France sounds glamorous until you are the one trying to build a life there in real time. Devendra talks through SPJIMR's global management program, the move to Paris, and the small frictions that shape a new country more than the postcard version ever will.