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Reverse and OnwardEpisode 12 - Revisiting and Spreading Health and Happiness with Mugdha Pradhan - Functional Nutritionalist and CEO, iThriveMugdha Pradhan, a Functional Nutritionist, TEDx speaker, and recipient of the 40 over 40 award, is the driving force behind iThrive. Despite holding a Master’s degree in Food Science and Nutrition, her health took a downturn in 2019. This challenging period led her to the world of Functional Medicine, marking a pivotal turning point in her life. Armed with a combination of modern functional medicine principles and ancient nutritional wisdom, Mugdha proactively addressed the root causes of her health issues, successfully overcoming a myriad of health challenges.
Having personally undergone a transformative journey with Functional Medicine, Mu...2023-12-2138 min
Brain Box - The Leadership Podcast74. Akhil Minocha, Vice PresidentOn the latest episode from Brain Box Media's TECH TITANS, Kaushik hosts Akhil Minocha, a seasoned tech leader with over two decades of experience.across CAST Software, Persistent Systems, Intel and more.The discussion dives into the technical topics of #application modernization, #cloud migration and assessing applications' readiness for the cloud.He also provides insightful explanations of important emerging technologies like #AI, machine learning, large language models, and how APIs power many aspects of our digital lives.They discuss the promise and challenges of generative AI tools like #ChatGPT and what may come next.The role of AI in jobs and caree...2023-10-1715 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 11 : Ajay Naqvi - From an Advertising Chief to a Blueberry Farmer - Fitness of the Body, Mind and SoulAjay Naqvi and I date back to our days at graduation. Though we were in different courses and separate academic years, we connected well and kept in touch through the years.
Ajay is an Advertising Chief turned organic Blueberry farmer and is now based in Romania for the last few years. Having run a unique Pre-order, Direct-to-Home, Fresh organic blueberry business, his brand – the Blue Renaissance is now evolving into a house of brands. Having launched 100% blueberry juice that’s ready to drink, nothing added, not even water, and organic certified we are metamorph-ing into a Beverage comp...2023-10-0538 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 10 - Simplifying Health and Wellness - Dr Usha SachdevaDr Usha Sachdeva started her career as a demonstrator in Physiology at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in the year 1969. Only involved
in teaching and research, she continued there as faculty since 1971 and took a premature retirement in 2003. She completed her MD in 1971 and her Ph.D in
1985 and embarked on the next phase of her professional life shifting to Bahrain after retiring from AIIMS, as a Professor of Physiology at Arabian Gulf University in 1998. Today, since 2017, she works as a Part-time faculty at the same University, which makes 52 years of teaching!
At an age near...2023-05-1735 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 9 - Playing the infinite game of mind, body , soul and wellness within - Rohit AdlakhaA Thought Leader, AI and Digital Revolutionary, Entrepreneurial Visionary, Inspirational Leader and Sustainability Evangelist.
Introducing Rohit Adlakha, ex-Chief Digital and Information Officer at Wipro Limited and Business Head at HOLMES™️ (Wipro's Artificial Intelligence platform). With over 15 years of leadership experience, he is a Board member at the School of Inspired Leadership, a vanguard of change in shaping the future of India through education. Rohit has also pioneered CXO as a Service; he is a trusted advisor to Vector Center, a company that harnesses the power of AI to deliver real-time, decision-grade water intelligence where he serves as an e...2023-04-2039 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 8 - A Chat with Ritu Soni Srivastava - 2x tech entrepreneur! Fitness junkie who loves PringlesRitu is a 2x tech entrepreneur…Formerly the Founder & CEO of a digital healthcare start-up called Obino, a fitness junkie, and a person, who like most of us, loves junk food, especially Pringles!
Ritu has chased corporate dreams, branched off, and decided to bloom & grow in the start-up world.
She successfully exited her first start-up and is now driving her 2nd dream, an Emotion Ai initiative called TheLightbulb.ai…all this along with being a fitness junkie and a food freak like many of us.
I got to k...2023-03-3037 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 7 - The Girl Next Door - Anuradha RohitAnuradha Rohit or Anu as we can call her is the girl next door – well that’s exactly what she is! She’s been my neighbor in the same condominium for the last few years and that’s how I got acquainted with her and witnessed her journey of transformation. She is someone who you would find running day after day and lifting weights at the gym. Her commitment to herself is commendable.
For me, each one of us who has had an inflection point and achieved what made us transform as individuals is a winner in the true spirit. And that...2023-03-1614 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 6 - The Satya-Su Episode - Satya, Akhil and Suvarchala in conversationThe 6th episode of the Reverse and Onward - the Satya-Su episode, brings together two different perspectives - On one end there is Satya Puppala, a Tech Executive and an ace marathoner who works for a global Tech Giant and is based out of Dallas in the United States of America. He shares his experience resorting to fitness for tackling depression. On the other hand, we have Suvarchala Vardhan - a Clinical Embryologist. Trained and qualified from Monash University, Australia and Leeds University, UK; has had a career both demanding and fruitful and shares her views on what drives her t...2023-03-0236 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 5 - Diabetes can be reversed ! A living example - Colonel Gautam GuhaI chanced upon getting to know Colonel Gautam Guha a few years back in 2020 when he was at his best sharing his learnings and impacting lives.
Col Gautam Guha is an Infantry Officer from the Indian Army of the 1990 NDA batch. Like any other military man, Gautam had served in varied operational locations throughout his service including the lofty heights of Siachen Glacier, and also served on deputation with the elite NSG (Black Cats). His health deteriorated after a spinal injury in 2013. He started to put on weight after that and was diagnosed with D...2023-02-1733 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 4 - Positivity and Fitness - A Fun Dialogue with Sandeep RaiI have known Sandeep since my college days, and we have been close friends for close to three decades now! Sandeep, who is a fitness enthusiast, was instrumental in inspiring me to write this book. I decided to launch a podcast first and the book is in the baking! Over the years, I have always seen Sandeep follow a very disciplined life and fitness has always been an integral part of it. He is a marathoner & an ultra-runner and running is now a part of his daily routine. This is something that inspired me when I embarked on my own...2023-01-2615 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 3 - Well Being through Yoga and Meditation with Deepa D'SouzaDeepa D’Souza is a certified Hatha and Yin yoga teacher whose unique perspective has been shaped by her incredibly diverse background. She comes from a multi-faith family and has been exposed to diverse cultures through her extensive travels and her time living in India, Singapore, and London. These experiences have helped mould her thinking and have taught her valuable lessons in the importance of understanding, accepting and celebrating cultural differences. Although she initially trained as a Chartered Accountant, she found her calling much later in life through Yoga, which she has used to help better herself and now uses to...2023-01-0521 min
Reverse and OnwardWhat’s next in Reverse and Onward ?So, whom am I covering next at Reverse and Onward ? I have a special guest who’s a certified Hatha and Yin Yoga teacher . She’s grown up in a multi faith family practicing Hinduism and Sikhism , married to a Christian family and has lived in a Buddhist Monastery. She practiced meditation and has got some awesome tracks that you would love, available on sound-cloud…
Tune in on the 6th of January 2023!2022-12-1900 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 2 - Unravelling an IronMan - A Talk with Hetal SonpalUnraveling an Iron Man...When I first talked to Hetal for this podcast, he was already a Half-IronMan. As he had promised me then, he completed the FULL IRONMAN in August 2022 and now adorns the title for life. He plans to climb Mount Everest among many other audacious dreams.....
Hetal is someone I have always admired for his passion for achieving a never-ending list of milestones in life.
Since we were colleagues at a tech MNC, I have seen him grow from strength to strength in living his dreams. An IronMan, Marathoner, Technology Strategist, Author, Ang...2022-12-1619 minReverse and OnwardWhat’s next in store in Reverse and Onward?Hi , you’ve reached the Reverse and Onward Podcast Series by Akhil Minocha. In these podcasts, I cover people who have had Impact and influence on my reverse and onward health journey .
What’s the next episode in store …well , I am covering an Ironman who is also a marathoner, A Strategist, An Author, An Angel Investor, An avid book reader, A speaker and now working on completing at Ph.D. Tune in on the 16th of December to learn how our rockstar balances his life. Cheers !2022-12-1200 min
Reverse and OnwardEpisode 1 - Reverse and Onward with Shivnath MazumdarShivnath or Shiv as we call him is in a Sales and GTM leadership role at Deloitte. I had interacted for this episode with Shiv when he was leading Partnerships for Persistent for Asia Pacific previously. He lives with a condition called spondylitis and he's really been inspirational in finding a balance on how to live with it and get better with the passage of time and that's exactly what interested me to speak to Shivnath and find out more about how he balances his life and his profession.
Shiv and I were colleagues in the previous c...2022-11-2520 min
Master of SalesMaster of Sales | Ep-1 (Featuring Akhil Minocha - VP of Sales, Asia Pacific @ Persistent Systems)Learn more about the guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilm/
The best sales advice from around the world - to share stories and strategies that helped them grow from zero to 100. On each episode, host Mohit Ambani - Unotag Founder - proves a theory about how people have reached the status of master of sales while guests share how they grew and what skills helped them grow. Master of sales is a Sales Podcast that does not sound like Sales Podcast.
For our maiden episode, we had the absolute pleasure of hos...2021-08-2740 min