Corner Office Breakdowns

May 02 2024 3
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Ambika takes the strategic skillset she spent 15+ years cultivating in advertising, and applies it to evolving challenges in our modern worklife. From questions of parental leave to privilege paradigms. From leading with instinct to navigating life through a feminine lens. From the under-investment in women’s healthcare to the under-reported realities of maternal mental health.

In Corner Office Breakdowns, she intertwines these topics with conversations about success, leadership, and modern work to imagine a more diverse, equitable, humanity-first future of work.

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The Common Language of Motherhood with Mother Tongue Magazine

May 02 2024 75 mins  
In this episode of Corner Office Breakdowns, Ambika speaks with  Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin, the co-founders of Mother Tongue Magazine, who sought to fill a gap in maternal narratives in media. They discuss the magazine’s mission to include diverse, authentic stories of motherhood, transforming the genre into one that resonates deeply a

The Discomfort of Wanting Wealth

Apr 17 2024 86 mins  
Guest: Sarita Walsh  Being Coach, Sarita Walsh joins Ambika to explore our cultural relationship with money. Our simultaneous fascination and distaste of wealth and the wealthy, and how we can stop and/or start connecting our worth with how much we’re worth.

Compromising with Reality — a Jungian perspective on careers and callings

Apr 02 2024 76 mins  
Guest: Lisa Marchiano Exploring the intersection of career and vocation with Lisa Marchiano in our new podcast episode. A thought-provoking discussion that challenges the way we view our professional lives and personal callings. Industry leaders, professionals, and dreamers—this conversation is for you. Listen now.

Corner Office Breakdowns: Live from AWNewYork!

Nov 07 2023 36 mins  
Join Ambika Gautam Pai for a live recording of Corner Office Breakdowns, a podcast that reconciles humanity and the workplace, part of the Advertising Week podcast network. As a mom of two, a first-generation South Asian American and the Chief Strategy Officer advertising agency, Mekanism, Ambika Gautam Pai is an experienced feeler and expert at “breaking” shit down. Her ca

I Left My Job in Advertising

Oct 03 2023 9 mins  
Ambika reflects on the decision to leave her job as Chief Strategy Officer.

Amber Rae – “We All Have a Story to Tell”

Sep 06 2023 72 mins  
In Corner Office Breakdown’s season one finale (!!!), Ambika speaks toAmber Rae. Amber is an international best-selling author, writingmentor & story doula who believes in the healing power of the writtenword. She helps people find the stories within and then shepherds theminto existence by teaching that belonging, acceptance, and connectioncome from allowing o

Closing the Gap(s): Women’s Pain & Intuition

Aug 22 2023 77 mins  
In the ninth episode of “Corner Office Breakdowns,” Ambika talks to Anushay Hossain, the author of “The Pain Gap” and a feminist policy analyst who has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, and more. They start by discussing the healthcare field and its limited understanding of women’s bodies and then shift to the idea that dismissing women’s experiences

Why We *MUST* Embrace Ego

Aug 01 2023 65 mins  
In episode 8 of Corner Office Breakdowns, Ambika partners up with Amani Duncan, a highly awarded executive who has worked across beauty/fashion, media, advertising, music/entertainment, and manufacturing. Together, they unpack how and why the idea of “ego” has become so negative. They reframe ego as critical to both achieving progress and fulfilling corporate&n

Rethinking Power and Privilege

Jul 12 2023 77 mins  
In episode seven of Corner Office Breakdowns, Ambika speaks to Alfa Demmellash, the CEO of Rising Tide Capital, in what she says is one of the most goose-bump-inducing, profound, heart-wrenching, and inspiring conversations of her lifetime. Alfa breaks down the topic of privilege – not in the sense of race or wealth – the privilege of being loved. She then im

The Double-Edged Sword of External Validation

Jun 27 2023 64 mins  
In Episode Six of Corner Office Breakdowns, Ambika speaks with Erin Gallagher, the CEO and Founder of Ella, and the creator of the global #hypewoman movement, about the double-edged sword of external validation. Why do so many of us yearn for it? When is it a powerful accelerator versus a detrimental detractor? And how can we seek it out in the right ways, from