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Message for Young Indian Women from Prof. Jayanthasri - Episode 57

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We welcome the New Year with a 3 part series of interactions with Prof. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan. Her motivational talks, specifically focusing on women have been quite popular for many years now. It is a true honor to have Prof. Jayanthasri on New Indian Woman podcast.
 
In Part 1, we address questions pertaining to women in the 20s to 30s, who is likely to be starting on so many new things in life -a career, a relationship, a family and so on. The idea in this episode is to get Prof. Jayanthasri's guidance on how a young Indian woman should go about identifying her own freedom and rights. This is a long episode, for, her thoughts on this age group are so powerful and we got into the details of many aspects. I did not want to edit the episode just for the sake of brevity. The points here are so valuable. Regardless of the age, you will find pointers that inspire you, that make you think and even trigger some actions.
 
So, 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 propose 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 facilitate 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:
 
Prof. Jayanthasri starts talking about entitlement and the danger of freedom without accountability.  She talks about the importance of understanding that whatever we enjoy today has been given to us by people who walked before us. They could not even dream of what we have today. She explains why it is important to know this, have a sense of accountability, to give to women who will come after us. She talks about how this is true for all kinds of independence, political, social, academic and so on.
 
And based on this thought, she explains how we may misinterpret entitlement, for empowerment. She feels it is the onus of all is us to make the question of freedom vs entitlement, irrelevant, in future. And she explains how freedom and autonomy are different. And how this sense of accountability changes you as a person, regardless of your gender. Your thought, your vocabulary and finally, your actions. She gives practical tips on how this journey starts, regardless of the age of the person. She goes on to explain how this is different from education as we know it, how this has to come from inside.
 
We then move on to the topic of aspirations, and she says aspirations do not change over generations, they just express themselves in a different way. She explains the difference between desire and dream and why it is important to know the difference. She talks about how it is important to use true education to start from a point of desire, to chisel your dream, to shape it, with a lot of patience and then form an action plan for the dream.
 
She goes on to how she considers present day parents have either become supermarkets or doormats for their children. The importance of goodness has been lost and hence aspirations have turned into entitlement. Focus on comfort has been detrimental. She talks about the importance of going back to understanding these differences.
 
We then discuss the importance of being grounded. She stresses the importance of this in terms of how you can become your dream through this. And talks about the need to think about one's society as the starting point for this. Without the grounding, it will be just desires hanging in mid air. Prof. Jayanthasri gives many practical examples of this, on how children naturally are inclined towards being grounded. And the importance of making children have roles in the family and giving them responsibilities.
 
And then she goes on to talk about the importance of young women starting from their own homes first, having cultural sophistication and here also, she gives real life examples that one can relate to. She takes the example of a pupa's transformation to a butterfly and explains how each one has to figure out the realities and adapt for the same and in that process build resilience. She explains the importance of understanding life as a package - one cannot remove what one doesn’t like and customize with one's own desires.
 
She explains the importance of seeing challenges as opportunities which one has to approach in a unique manner. She says if one is grounded, one is likely to look around and be thankful for many things. And then she explains how each of these could be good starting points.
 
I am convinced my summary doesn’t do any justice to Prof. Jayanthasri's articulation in a very clear and crisp manner. I invite you to listen to this episode fully and learn from it.
 
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Magic of using Checklists - Episode 56

Checklists - yes, these are not your ordinary lists. There is something special about them. Once you discover the magic of using checklists, you are bound to find more and more scenarios for using them. It is a simple tool, but powerful in terms of freeing up your mind.
 
In this episode, we look at what checklists are ? We also discuss a few examples, that will get you going. You could start creating one with just pen and paper.  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 propose 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 facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first 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 start the episode with how I came across the use of checklists. Especially people who have done programming would not be strangers to this term. I share how I tried to adapt this into my daily life.
 
We then move on to what a checklist is and the primary advantage of using checklists - to simplify our life. It will help us relax more, about the things we need to do often and will help us instead to focus more on the things we love to do.
 
I then share where all I use checklists in my life. These examples would definitely help you identify some areas in your life where you could implement and enjoy the benefits.
 
I also refer a very interesting and famous book on checklists.
 
We then discuss how to implement checklists and how to maintain and keep them current.
 
These are simple tips that would clearly make a big impact in your life. Hope you enjoy this episode. Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode. And I will look forward to you sharing your experiences of using checklists with me, so that I can share it with the larger audience of the podcast.
 
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Balancing Work and Home Part 2

In Part 1, we examined challenges faced by young Indian women w.r.t balancing work and home. What about older women ? What kind of challenges do they face ? Does it get easier as the children grow up and one is more comfortable or experienced in handling the responsibilities at home ? But what about the increased responsibilities on the career front ? How does the balancing work ?
 
Are there ways to address some of the challenges ? Are there learnings that one can use in one's own context ? 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 propose 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 facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first 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:
 
In this episode also, there are 3 questions I focus on,  with both the guests, as relevant. What are the top 3 things they do to manage work and home well as a woman, their top productivity tip and about child care options.
 
Our guest who is a lecturer in an engineering college, talks about the need to be systematic and well organized. Later we delve into the details of what this means, from a day to day perspective. She talks about the importance of spending time with the family and seeking their support. She also goes into how simple and small steps can make a huge difference in our quality of daily life.
 
Her top productivity tip is not any specific tool - but about the mind.  And how to change your guilt feeling about not spending enough time with the family.
 
She shares how the demands of the time only increase when the children grow older. She then goes on to talk about the importance of not being in separate worlds!
 
We discuss the child care options or the lack of them and here she shares the struggles she went through and what worked for her and how she had to adapt continuously to cater to the child care situation.
 
She talks about the importance of understanding if the workplace environment is hostile, telling us there are lot of opportunities if one is intelligent and competent enough.
 
She goes on to share more details of the kind of challenges she went through and how she had to take professional help. She says the advice that helped her the most is about the need to accept that one cannot change others.
 
She stresses the importance of self-care, open communication and the need to adapt and accept things with more maturity. Plus, identifying where one needs help and then asking for the same.
 
Then, we move on to someone who is working in a senior position in IT with a son in college.  To the same questions, her response is about support system, importance of nurturing ourselves and to keep learning always. Her productivity tip is again very different and it is all around the awareness of what works best for oneself.
 
On child care, she shares how it is important to work towards building a support system. I cannot agree more when she says, it will not come and sit in your life.
 
It was interesting to also hear about their take on the guilty feeling that moms who are pursuing careers often go through.
 
These discussions are intended to let us understand and appreciate these perspectives. Plus, these should be prompts for us to examine our own challenges.
 
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Balancing Work and Home Part 1- Episode 54

We speak to three young women from  the IT industry and it is amazing to hear from them what they consider are the challenges they face at home. What does it mean to balance work and home, for today's young woman ?  What kind of challenges do they face ? And what techniques for them ?
 
Some of these challenges may resonate with you. You may have tried some other ways to address them. Or, maybe these inputs will help you. Or, you may want to share your own tips. How ? 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 propose 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 facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first 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:
 
There are 3 questions I focus on, in this episode, with all the 3 guests, as relevant. What are the top 3 things they do to manage work and home well as a woman, their top productivity tip and about child care options.
 
Ramya talks about how we try to create this perfect wife or daughter in law image which is not sustainable and then she talks about what is the most effective way to do the balancing. And she indeed has a very different productivity tip.
 
Then we meet someone who has a toddler and the challenges only increase and are of a different order. She talks about her priority of spending quality time with her toddler and that influencing everything in her day. We see her stretching her hours to make sure she is able to get time with her toddler. Her top productivity tip is also influenced by this perspective.  And then, we focus on child care options available and the challenges around that and how money doesn’t seem to help matters. There is some wishful thinking also here. We also talk about her expectation from other members of the family. I wonder what would that be for you ?
 
We proceed with the same questions with someone who has slightly older children, of early school going age. She shares about her journey and how she had to decide to switch off from work when she spends time with her kids. She shares her reflection on how she and her husband had to become aware of, discuss and let go of something that was affecting them a lot.  She also shares her productivity tip and what she struggles with.  The child care option that she engaged in and the challenges therein are also interesting to note.
 
These discussions are intended to let us understand and appreciate these perspectives. Plus, these should be prompts for us to examine our own challenges.
 
Hope you enjoy this episode. Please write to me at krishna@thenewindianwoman.com or reach out to our social media pages to share your views on this episode.
 
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Switching Career after a break - Episode 53

Women often decide to leave their careers for the sake of family - be it to take care of young children or to move to a new location where the partner is posted. Meet Radhika, who, happily made such a choice and then felt disappointed when she was unable to find a job aligned with her skillset and experience at her new location. She chose the next best option available for her, namely, to switch to a completely different career.
 
We chat with Radhika Vardhan in this episode. She takes us through her decision to leave and what gave her the power to make such decisions. She talks about leaving a successful IT career and then deciding to set up a real estate firm, the challenges she faced, how she handled the challenges and the points that influenced her thinking and journey. She shares tips based on her journey from corporate to starting her own business. She has a clear message for young women in the early stages of their career, and I tell you, this is an interesting one.
 
You are sure to find this episode exciting!
 
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 propose 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 facilitate 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:
 
Radhika starts off explaining why she had to leave her first career and the factors that influenced the decision. She talks about how our perspectives change based on our roles and what has been the mantra for her to help in the decision making process. She has an interesting response to my question on whether it was assumed she will leave her career, as is common in many households.
 
She talks about experiencing the little joys of staying at home in the initial months and what triggered her to look for jobs again.
 
Then she goes on to clarify what led her to ask her property manager for job options and those initial feelings of wanting to start a business on her own. Like many other women featured in this podcast, she grabbed every opportunity that came her way and looked at innovative ways of approaching people, when faced with a NO.
 
Not just that, during the pandemic, she went all out to start a business, seeing an opportunity in the hit many businesses were experiencing during the lockdowns.
 
Radhika then goes on to share her thoughts at that time, identifying what one needs the most during such a transition, the learnings around the transition itself, the role of confidence and what triggered her to be active and engaged. She talks about the what she learnt from the women around her and what she thinks every individual should do.
 
The message she shares for young women, is very practical and well though through - you would find these very useful.
 
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Smart ways to use your phone - Episode 52

Do we know how to make best use of our smart phones ? Most often, we get sucked in into using the phone for various purposes. At the same time, we may not be using it enough, as a tool, to help us. The phone could be your most powerful tool. And you need not know anything about technology to use your phone in a smart way.
 
In this episode, we go thru the various categories of usage. Some of these you may be aware of already. You may learn about new categories of usage and adapt it to your context. Or, you may know more and this episode will serve as a trigger for you to share the various other categories you use it for. Discover which of these is applicable for you by giving this episode a listen.
 
With the advancement in technology, the various categories of usage will only keep on increasing day by day! In addition, there are do's and don’ts as well as tips for using the phone in specific scenarios.
 
 
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 start with why you don’t need to know technology to use your phone in a smarter way. And then, we examine various categories of usage -
For appointments and reminders
Capture Tool
Self improvement
Reading/Listening
Video/Streaming
Photos
Travel
Shopping
Finance
Written Communication
 
Then we examine the Do's and Don’ts, right from monitoring usage to controlling usage for certain categories, what should or should not be in the home screen, using Internet or not, Whatsapp notifications and more. We also look at what needs to be done to take care of the phone.
 
Yes, we look at tips for some specific scenarios that you would find most relevant. And at the end, there is a very important tip, for all of us.
 
 
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Episodes referred
 
https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/best-practices-for-device-usage-across-age-groups-episode-40
https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/tips-to-relive-good-memories
 
 
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Poonam Bir Kasturi - has she influenced your home already ? - Episode 51

Why would someone with a background in design want to focus on something that everyone wishes to hide away in a corner of the house ? And that too, when she is one of the founding Faculty member of the reputed Shrishti School of Design in Bangalore ?
 
In this episode, we chat with Poonam Bir Kasturi, the founder of DailyDump. Her work has directly impacted more than 75,000 homes and she is a wonderful example of a person who chose to pursue a vision, with a lot of intention. Her products are all about composting at home. So what ? Doesn’t everyone do composting ? If that is what comes up in your mind, it is likely that without even you knowing her, she may have impacted your thinking process. . Yes, that is why you should listen to this episode.
 
 
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:
 
Poonam starts off with an introduction and a declaration -"we have done what we wanted to do". She is referring to making home composting a household term in India!
 
Her foray into the world of design has always been with a lot of intention - trying to relate to the larger world we live in.  She talks about how she single handedly went around the city talking in all kinds of forums about composting - and this was more than 20 years back!
 
She talks about trying to go by intuition and looking at patterns of how society works and the need to insert a lever in a strategic place, to create an impact.
 
She goes on talk about the importance of aesthetics in the design and how the design is different when done by a woman.
 
We talk about how she brought the waste bin to the balcony and made it look beautiful, while focussing on composting. And then she says something very powerful - the need for subtle/understated elements and how this is not perceived as a threat.
 
She moves on to talk about a different kind of freedom when one starts something new after 40. She also explains how this product influenced the lives of potters, about being open about the design and then she asks us to examine waste from a very different perspective.
 
Poonam explains the concept behind sending only 10% waste outside the house and how this can influence the health of the family. At the same time, she highlights the need for newer community based models what will facilitate more free time for women without impacting health of the family.
 
She explains how one can never know everything and hence it is important to start!
 
Poonam shares how important it is for us to adapt to our scenarios and figure out what we can do, despite our own challenges. We go on to talk about the importance of choosing not to fight some battles and here she shares some tips that will definitely help all of us and a very important message for us.
 
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Website : https://www.dailydump.org/
Mail : hello@dailydump.org
FAQ : https://www.dailydump.org/pages/about-dailydump#shopify-section-dd-faqs
Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/dailydumpcompost/
https://www.facebook.com/compostwali/?ref=br_rs
https://www.youtube.com/user/pbkasturi
https://twitter.com/compostwali
https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dump/
 
 
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Handling Challenges after Restarting Career - Part 2 - Episode 50

Imagine resuming your career as a fresher after having worked for 9 years ? Working with senior colleagues who are much younger than you and peers who are of the next generation! It is not easy, worse, it has all the elements to pull you down on a daily basis..
 
What was Uma's way of handling these ? How was she able to resume her 2nd innings like this and then grow to become the Assistant Vice President at a multinational bank within the next 10 years ? We continue our chat with her. In Part 1, we talked about her journey till she resumed her career and in this episode, we look at how she adapted and more importantly, what we can learn from this.
 
Listen to find out more.
 
 
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:
 
Uma talks about why she decided to negotiate even though she had only rejection letters in her kitty. She shares her frustration about the bank not valuing any of her 9 years' experience and  offering to employ her as a fresher. But again, she decided to concede defeat in the negotiation, but made sure that she took it upon herself to prove to them they were wrong. She talks about how she felt it is her responsibility to move up the fast lane.
 
She shares about her conversation with her supervisors on this and them giving her a promotion within 1.5 years.  She narrates the challenges at workplace and how she decided to use all her skills to make herself more visible, apart from the core job requirements. She then goes on to talk about how she shared with her family on her resolution and clarified how she expected them to support her. She explains why it is important for women to stop self-criticism.
 
Prior to that she had to make arrangements to resume her job and that meant making herself more redundant at home, expecting her children to handle many things. And like, we have heard with so many other inspiring women in our podcast, she called out for help, from her husband.
 
Uma talks about how to make support systems work, how striving for perfection is not something to feel proud of and she also tells us her secret behind managing work and home - and this one is going to surprise you.
 
If this makes you think it is all work and no play….. Uma surprises us again by saying she is a fun loving person and we have a good laugh over her interests and hobbies. And then she says bye with a beautiful message to all and surprise, surprise, a wonderful song.
 
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