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Akshay Birla
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The Spotlight
Crypto vs Stocks vs Gold: What Should You Really Invest In? | Raghvendra Nath(Ladderup) Explains
Stop thinking about your wealth like a startup. Your biggest strength as a founder - your bias for high-risk, high-growth, and breakneck speed - is your biggest liability when managing your own money. The instinct that built your company can easily destroy your personal wealth. This episode is the antidote. In this episode, host Akshay Datt sits down with Raghvendra Nath, a 30-year veteran of the Indian financial markets. After a stellar 18-year corporate career in senior roles at the Aditya Birla Group, Raghvendra co-founded Ladderup Wealth Management in 2011. He has since grown the firm to...
2025-08-05
1h 15
The Spotlight
Building the medical safety net for corporate India | Kulin Shah @ Onsurity
Inspired by his Gujarati family's business background, Kulin Shah of Onsurity, shares his entrepreneurial journey. His journey began during his college days, where he and a colleague attempted to start a business in exporting wedding cards and an EdTech platform, both unsuccessful.In this episode he shares how he pivoted from the early business ventures and his roles at Aditya Birla group and Reliance, Free Charge and Acko to create Onsurity, a holistic platform for health and wellness, including mental wellness plans, gym memberships, and insurance options.Kulin shares his key learnings that helped him t...
2024-11-07
1h 27
Marketing with Vani
Digital strategies for the new normal | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #5]
Digital transformation is the current industry buzzword, but is the industry ready for true digital transformation, or is it merely paying lip service? Tune in as Vani and Shiv discuss digital in detail and what it actually means for the future of marketing.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!🍒CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via the website www.cherrypeachplum.in to get marketing solutions that work in the real
2022-09-08
14 min
Marketing with Vani
Digital Strategies For The New Normal | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #5]
Digital transformation is the current industry buzzword, but is the industry ready for true digital transformation, or is it merely paying lip service? Tune in as Vani and Shiv discuss digital in detail and what it actually means for the future of marketing.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!🍒CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via the website www.cherrypeachplum.in to get marketing solutions that work in the real
2022-09-08
14 min
Marketing with Vani
How traditional companies must reinvent to stay ahead | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #4]
Shiv and Vani discuss why, in today's context of digital, FMCG companies or 'Fast Moving Consumer Goods' companies are in fact slow! Listen on for some great pointers on how traditional large companies must reinvent to keep pace with the digital newbies.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!🍒CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via the website www.cherrypeachplum.in to get marketing solutions that work in the real wo
2022-09-02
11 min
Marketing with Vani
How Traditional Companies Must Reinvent To Stay Ahead | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #4]
Shiv and Vani discuss why, in today's context of digital, FMCG companies or 'Fast Moving Consumer Goods' companies are in fact slow! Listen on for some great pointers on how traditional large companies must reinvent to keep pace with the digital newbies.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!🍒CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via the website www.cherrypeachplum.in to get marketing solutions that work in the real wo
2022-09-02
11 min
Marketing with Vani
The B2B manual for winning digital | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #2]
Go digital, get growth- the pandemic has changed rules for the B2B segment. How to better address pain points? Will branding become indispensable?In this episode, industry expert Shiv Shivakumar speaks about what it would take for B2Bs to make the cut!📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!This show is sponsored by CherryPeachPlum Growth Consultancy. 🍒 CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via www.cherry...
2022-08-18
07 min
Marketing with Vani
The B2B Manual For Winning Digital | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #2]
Go digital, get growth- the pandemic has changed rules for the B2B segment. How to better address pain points? Will branding become indispensable?In this episode, industry expert Shiv Shivakumar speaks about what it would take for B2Bs to make the cut!📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!This show is sponsored by CherryPeachPlum Growth Consultancy. 🍒 CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business results. Get in touch via www.cherry...
2022-08-18
07 min
Marketing with Vani
Decoding digital | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #1]
Out with the old, in with the new- companies must pull their socks up if they want to succeed in a digitized world!In this episode, Vani speaks with Shiv Shivakumar who lays out his new theory on digital and shares golden insights on how companies can pivot to thrive.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!This show is sponsored by CherryPeachPlum Growth Consultancy. 🍒 CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business r...
2022-08-11
10 min
Marketing with Vani
Decoding Digital | Shiv Shivakumar @ Aditya Birla Group [S02, #1]
Out with the old, in with the new- companies must pull their socks up if they want to succeed in a digitized world!In this episode, Vani speaks with Shiv Shivakumar who lays out his new theory on digital and shares golden insights on how companies can pivot to thrive.📄 Click here to read the transcriptEnjoyed the episode? Please consider listening to the other episodes and subscribe to “Marketing with Vani” on this platform!This show is sponsored by CherryPeachPlum Growth Consultancy. 🍒 CherryPeachPlum is a marketing-focused business consultancy that delivers business r...
2022-08-11
10 min
SoulBrews with Sheba
Ep 52 - Sheba and Rita Bibra share a coffee
Presenting a soul conversation with Rita Bibra. Rita is an Educationist and an Administrator. Rita is Secretary-General (Retd.) of the Vidya Mandir Society that manages the Educational Institutions of Shri SK Birla.
2021-09-01
57 min
SoulBrews with Sheba
Ep 27 - Sheba and VR Shankar share a coffee
Sheba Maini shares a coffee with V R Shankar, President & General Counsel, Hindalco at Aditya Birla Group. More about him is on Linkedin.
2021-03-10
40 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
27 | Ilya Zaritskiy built a PE firm from credit cards
Ilya Zaritskiy arrived in Los Angeles as a refugee from Ukraine. He was a child, in middle school, perhaps. There were tanks on the streets in LA – the 1992 Rodney King riots were happening. Neither he nor his family spoke any English. This podcast is the story of how one immigrant kid used the […]
2018-10-04
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
25 | Rohit Chopra and the history of Indian media
Rohit Chopra is the co-host of the podcast India Explained and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University. We talk about journalism in India and it’s evolution from the days of Doordarshan to the cornucopia of (mostly bad) options available today. Through our conversation I was introduced or reintroduced to a number of people and bodies […]
2018-09-20
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
24 | Jim Tanner
Jim Tanner founded Just Good Advice with the goal of providing sound financial advice to ordinary people. In the story that takes him to Just Good Advice, we talk about his first fin-tech company from when the best way to transmit data was the fax machine; Morningstar, where Jim ran the sales team; and the […]
2018-09-06
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
23 | Adam Greenberg on the Peace Corps, Zambia, and Living
Adam Greenberg shares his journey to become a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia via AmeriCorps and other random travel. For someone so young, he’s certainly lived in a lot of places by his own choosing; this conversation was great. We need to all think more about the impact of student debt on the labor market […]
2018-08-23
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
22 | Jon Peeples on Psychiatry, Public Health, and Writing
Dr Jon Peeples takes us behind the scenes into the world of psychiatry for a fascinating conversation around mental health, being a smarter consumer of psychiatric care, and public health. We talk about encounters in the ER and serving some of the poorest and most vulnerable populations. As he observes, Prozac is not going to […]
2018-08-09
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
21 | Brian Hart Explains Homelessness in America
Brian Hart is the co-founder of Lighthouse DC, a non-profit that helps people transitioning from homelessness in turning empty spaces into homes that are welcoming and functional for their families. We talk about homelessness in the capital of the world’s richest country, how to talk about homelessness to people with a spectrum of views on […]
2018-05-10
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 20 | Tova Levin on Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Tova Levin has worked closely with two of the most prominent economists of our generation – Steven Levitt and John List – serving as Levitt’s Chief of Staff for several years before joining Humana as a leader in their behavioral economics division. We nerd out about so much in economics – Gary Becker (read the […]
2018-01-11
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 19 | Katy Dickinson on Technology, Mentoring, and Religion
Katy Dickinson has been around the tech-block. Hired by Eric Schmidt at Sun Microsystems, she literally wrote the book on the software development lifecycle that Sun used for release of almost 10,000 releases. She is a technologist, entrepreneur, mentor, and writer. In our conversation Katy talks about her work as a technologist on creating processes: […]
2017-12-28
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 18 | Phill Keene on Building Sales Teams
Phill Keene builds insides-sales organizations for companies that are selling to other companies (“B2B”). We jam about what it takes to build a successful inside sales organization, staying relevant in a world that’s changing quickly because of technology, podcasting (he co-hosts a very successful podcast, #RealSalesTalk), and what I’d think of as flourishing or living […]
2017-12-14
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 17 | Avi Patchava on India’s Future with Artificial Intelligence
I stumbled upon Avi Patchava because of his recent post, “The 5 unexpected reasons why Indians make it as CEOs of global companies,” and I was surprised that it was so sincerely reasoned. Avi graciously agreed to jam with me and we talked about his journey from London/McKinsey to InMobi, the tech scene in India […]
2017-11-30
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 16 | Jodi Kovitz – One of 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada
Jodi Kovitz. I didn’t realize this at the time I invited Jodi to be a guest on this show, and I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have even tried to have her on the show if I did, but Jodi was named as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada this year because of […]
2017-11-23
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 15 | Kathryn Hume on AI, 17th Century French Philosophy, and Intellectual Curiosity
Kathryn Hume is a technologist and philosopher. She’s the VP of Product at integrate.ai, Venture Partner at ffVC, and writer at Quam Proxime. If you’re nerdy enough, she’ll talk about her PhD research on the 17th and 18th century version of “fake it till you make it” which she does here (score!). In this episode […]
2017-11-02
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 14 | Srishti Handa, on being a solopreneur woman in India
This week I jam with Srishti Handa on her journey as a solopreneur woman in India, and talking about her experience in starting, and then closing, The Temperamental Chef, a frozen food business in India. If you’re not familiar with India, you might find this surprising, although it did make me wonder on how frequently […]
2017-10-05
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 13 | Jim Dickie forecasts a revolution in B2B sales
This week’s guest, Jim Dickie, has had a front-row seat in the changing sales landscape, and after years of skepticism he’s convinced that a world of AI-enabled sales is here. We jammed on sales, technology, the future, and privacy in age of an advertising-driven anti-privacy arms race. The sales process is there for one thing […]
2017-09-28
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 12 | Kurt Metzger explains sales operations
My guest this week is Kurt Metzger, the Director of Sales Operations at Walgreens. We talk about what sales operations is, how this function supports the sales team, what sort of business problems sales operations professionals (sales operators?) help solve, and how to recruit and retain for this role. I was also surprised to learn […]
2017-09-21
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 11 | Azeem Zainulbhai explains the Indian tech scene
My guest this week is fellow UChicago alumnus Azeem Zainulbhai, who quit being an international financier to be a tech entrepreneur in India. I spoke with him about his journey and stories, from co-founding Restaurant Week India (successful exit) to Housing.com (there’s lots on the internet about that story) to ShopX, his current professional home. […]
2017-08-24
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 10 | David Akinin is helping urbanize Namibia
This week’s guest, David Akinin, spoke to me from Namibia, where he has boldly embarked on the mission to help urbanization. Unlike the mindset of foreign intervention, aid, or charity, David’s motive is to satisfy customers (small as the promises might be) and deliver good returns for his investors. (The token reference to Namibia if […]
2017-08-03
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 9 | Suheil Tandon is using sports to transform India
My guest this week is Suheil Tandon, the Founder and Director of Pro Sport Development, an NGO in India with the lofty mission of using sports to transform India’s youth. This group first showed up on my radar when they were raising money to buy shoes for children/youth in one of their projects so that […]
2017-07-27
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 8 | Caitlin Tulloch evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions
Caitlin Tulloch is a policy economist at the International Rescue Committee where she studies the cost effectiveness of policy intervention. It’s the sort of thing that wouldn’t initially seem to be, but actually is, novel in the area of humanitarian interventions. Caitlin’s background and work experience at JPAL also provides very useful context and understanding […]
2017-07-20
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 7 | Pete Kalenik will fundamentally alter your perspectives on policing
An alumnus of the Chicago Public Schools, Concordia University Chicago, The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyala University Chicago, Pete makes for a very unusual police officer. But his range and depth of perspectives from academia, the US Army, and the Chicago Police Department make him uniquely qualified to help […]
2017-07-13
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 6 | Sarah Costa will make you believe in libraries again
If you aren’t at a college or university, and don’t have children, the chances are that you haven’t been to a public library recently. Most of my neighbors don’t even know that we have a public library right down the street! So I thought I’d talk to a librarian about whether public libraries are still […]
2017-07-06
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 5 | Greg Nance
I spoke with Greg on what was a very early Shanghai morning and late Atlanta evening, and had just so much fun jamming about what Greg has been up to. Greg Nance is an entrepreneur, an ultra-marathoner, and a passionate champion of people-to-people diplomacy (although he doesn’t say as much). Some show notes: Moneythink: is […]
2017-06-29
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 4 | Ngiste Abebe
I had a lot of fun jamming with Ngiste Abebe, fellow UChicago alum, author of Bidding for Development: How the Olympic Bid Process Can Accelerate Transportation Development, Co-Found and COO of Aulenor Co, and a campaign organizer in Virginia and the District of Columbia. Our conversation spanned sports (ok, not really), politics, fantasy and sci-fi, […]
2017-06-23
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 3 | Life of the Mind with Joe Sroka
There are some conversations that you cannot plan, and this was one of them. I thought that my guest Joe Sroka would be interesting to chat with about finance (he is currently the Chief Investment Officer at NovaPoint Capital) and his career in/through finance. But Joe ended up giving me (a foreigner) a tour of […]
2017-06-18
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 2 | Life of the Mind with Keenan Pontoni
I got incredibly lucky and had a chance to jam with Keenan Pontoni, a fellow UChicago alum. We talked a lot about UChicago and if you went elsewhere… well, let’s just say we’re #happyclients and you might spend the first few minutes in envy. But this conversation went deeper than I’d have anticipated on statistics, […]
2017-06-18
00 min
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
Episode 1 | Life of the Mind with Neal Idnani
In my first conversation for Life of the Mind, I jam with Neal Idnani, Founder of Naan Stop, a chain of fast-casual Indian restaurants in Atlanta. We talk about the way in which Neal built his business and the struggles of growing a business while balancing the instinct to grow quickly against the risk of […]
2017-06-18
00 min