New Indian Woman

Leaving a promising career and its impact - Part 1- Episode 73

In this episode, we meet with someone who had to leave her career due to family circumstances. She talks about how she was independent before her marriage and how she supported her family. And later, what led her to leave her wonderful career, that too when she was enjoying it and was getting recognized for it. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series.
 
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Introduction to Mindful Eating - Episode 72

What is mindful eating and why anyone and especially New Indian Woman listeners should know about this ? We meet Santhilakshmy, who has expertise in this area. Passionate about creating tasty and healthy food, Santhilakshmy's journey started 15 years ago, taking her to schools and educational forums, making a case for understanding of our food better.
 
Listen to this episode to know more about mindful eating and some simple tips to start it in your own context!
 
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Entering the 4th year - Episode 71

This special anniversary episode takes us through the variety of episodes we had in the past year and..
 
Yes, it talks about how you can engage with this favourite podcst of yours, in many ways!
 
Thanks to all of you for the wonderful support!
 
Click here for more details, especially about the episodes of the past year.

Sreeranjini - This is not just a toy story - Episode 70

In Part 2  of this 2 part series, we speak to Sreeranjini to know more about her future plans around reviving ancient games. We also speak to her about the challenges she has faced and her approach towards handling them. We even examine the possibility of you, the listener, being able to engage with her and to set up something similar in your area. Alternately, if you are keen to delve into what playing some of these ancient games can do for you and your family, please do listen to this episode.
 
If you missed Part 1 where we talked about the store Kavade she has set up and the play space Attic, please click here
 
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Sreeranjini - Reviving Ancient Games - Episode 69

Sreeranjini is another of those inspiring Indian woman, who chose to follow her passion.
She felt children needed something better than the plastic or noisemaking or battery operated toys that are easily available in the market. And that led her into the path of reviving ancient games, and that too in a unique way. She has created a toy store based on this concept, a space for people to relax with a book or a gameboard and now she is taking it even further!
 
Listen to this episode to know more about her, her journey and what it means to play ancient games!
 
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Emails, how to spend minimum time and maximize returns - Episode 68

In this episode, we look at how to use Email as a tool without it taking control over your life. We examine how you can use emails effectively, regardless of whether you are someone who doesn’t use emails much. Or you are struggling with a lot of emails.
 
There are 5 important points covered in this episode - your email life will become much more simpler with this!
 
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Renu Amitabh - How to find time and support for one’s passion- Episode 67

We continue our discussion with Ms. Renu Amitabh, a senior government official, a trainer for banks and insurance companies, a motivational speaker, and so on and also a baker who has taught baking to 1000+ people.
 
Ms. Renu Amitabh talks about how she finds time, how from childhood, the discipline in her life helped her do many roles at the same time. If her discussion on time management and how she handles challenges is inspiring, you will be pleasantly surprised to listen to her plans for the future. Especially, how baking is an integral part of the plan, baking teaching and sharing the skill of baking.
 
In this episode, you get to hear the background work that goes behind every story like this, what it means to have the support of a family and how to make it happen. Listen on..
 
What the New Indian Woman podcast is about
 
As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and proposes ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  We meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitates sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the second category.
 
And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.
 
What's in this episode:
 
 
We ended the previous episode with the question on making time and balancing this passion with her career demands , considering the seniority of her role. And this is what we dive into, in this episode.
 
She starts sharing, how after her break, when she resumed her office, people continued to ask for baking classes and how she decided to make time for this. She recalls how this aspect has been there right from her childhood, balancing multiple things. She talks about the importance of planning and then, executing as per plan. She then got hooked on to baking and planned to bake almost every day. She tells how she started sharing the loaves she baked with friends and family and especially older people who may have reservations about bread.
 
She goes on to share about the bad days and how the family supports her. We then discuss about how this family support evolves over a period of time and what is crucial is that one starts,  puts in the effort, for the family to start supporting. She then goes on to talk about a baking course she did in Germany and how baking becomes meditative when you use your hands with natural elements and see how the bare essentials gradually evolve into a finished product right in front of you. She shares how baking teaches you discipline!
 
She talks about her dreams - to increase awareness about the simplicity of baking bread, about creating short videos on healthy fast food targeting young students, about reaching out to deprived and marginalized women and children to create employment opportunities through baking. She even shares her personal goals, of leaving her job in a few years(and not waiting till retirement) and starting a baking school or academy with short term and long term courses for women and she is even visualizing a chain of cafes where you could place orders for custom breads and when you come to collect them, you could choose to spend some time with music or participate in book and poetry reading sessions!
 
It is truly wonderful and her energy is so infectious, you don’t want to miss listening to the entire episode!
 
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Renu Amitabh - Teaching bread baking, simplified- Episode 66

A senior government official, a trainer for banks and insurance companies, a motivational speaker, and so on and also a baker who has taught baking to 1000+ people. And that is exactly why she is featured in this episode of New Indian Woman, as an inspiration to all of us.
 
Ms. Renu Amitabh talks about how she started baking, a very personal story there and then explains how she got onto sharing the joy of baking with a small group at first and how it has become a passion for her and her focus has been on simplifying baking for all, with basic ingredients.
 
In this episode, it is interesting to hear about her passion, determination and more. Do not miss listening to this episode, for, you may get hooked on to baking or the power of passion. Listen on..
 
What the New Indian Woman podcast is about
 
As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and proposes ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting.  Second,  We meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles  and facilitates sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the second category.
 
And in the process, my aim is to help  you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.
 
What's in this episode:
 
She starts with sharing how she is a learner for life and teacher at heart. And goes on to share her personal story on how she started baking and how it was terrible at the start. And how, with persistence, she found out how to bake a basic healthy loaf and then move on to having a common foundational recipe suited for Indian context, to make a lot of baked goodies.
 
She then talks about her first teaching session, with just 3 people, in her kitchen. She discusses why it is important to talk about failures and to share secrets.
 
We move on to how impossible it seems, to think of training more than a thousand people in 5 plus years. She explains how she started doing it in small groups, without any plan for it to grow,  and then how it evolved over a period of time. She shares how she carries yeast everywhere and offers to conduct classes wherever she goes, be it on vacation or not. She explains how this method of teaching in small groups can be done by anyone, for any hobby or interest they pursue, with just 2 hours of time set aside and without any marketing!
 
We talk about the uniqueness of her sessions wherein maids/helpers all join the learning process.  She shares her plan to make her website and Youtube into Hindi also, as currently a lot of people who do not know English are learning baking through the pictures and how she shows what needs to be done! And she reiterates the need to bust the myth around bread making being complex and how she has been doing it over the years. She calls the people who learnt baking from her, her baking family!
 
We end with the question on making time and balancing this passion with her career demands , considering the seniority of her role - and this will be addressed in the next episode.
 
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Website : http://www.renusbreadbakers.com/
Mail : renuamitabh@gmail.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1wbCrOyGXIrIWkvO3LREw/featured
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/renusbreadbakers/
 
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