Prickly Peers

Aug 03 2024
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Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness.

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S02E10: On Purpose - Season Wrap with a bonus 'find your purpose' framework

Aug 03 2024 23 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Join Ankita and Nalini as they reflect on the key insights and lessons learned from this season's prickly guests. From a lawyer pivoting to a new career in the Indian armed forces, to a successful HR leader taking a well-being sabbatical, and an engineer who knew from day one that being an employee wasn't for her - these guests have all made purposeful change

S02E09: Namrata Kohli on surviving a near death experience and finding purpose in telling her story

Jul 19 2024 32 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Namrata thought of herself as an average corporate woman with a loving partner & family, no children (by choice) and a travel bug but with no real story to tell, till one day, she and her husband were caught and injured in one of the worst earthquakes Taiwan had ever seen. How did they come out of it alive? Did a fight-or-flight body response actually kic

S02E08: Naomi Sheedy aka haalchaal project on recognizing burnout, finding meaning everyday through yoga and ayurveda

Jul 06 2024 28 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Naomi grew up as confident Indian girl in a protected environment who mostly went with the flow for everything, from her education, career in banking and places she lived. Despite wanderlust, moving multiple countries from India to UK, US, Hong Kong for jobs she didn't particularly choose, left her physically incapacitated to go through life on auto-mode. She

S02E07: Ananya Sabharwal on taking a sabbatical and coming back to a purpose-aligned job & life

Jun 13 2024 30 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Beyond from her day job of being an HR leader at Unilever, Ananya was always curious about self-discovery. So, she decided to take an unpaid leave from her very supportive employer to find herself. She tells us how this helped her find the love of her life, apart from getting to know herself and the world a lot better. Looking back at that year and her childh

S02E06: Krati Tandon (founder, filmmaker, poet, PM) on how many goals are too many

May 30 2024 30 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Growing up between her hometown Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh and her boarding school Mayo College, Ajmer, all Krati wanted was A JOB with financial independence and to NOT be an entrepreneur like her dad. 30 something years later, she finds herself extremely fulfilled as the founder and CEO of Boond fragrances after leaving her dream job at Amazon and moving back t

S02E05: Sonali on quitting corporate law and joining the Indian Armed Forces

Apr 04 2024 23 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Would you trade a lifetime of high paying corporate law jobs in air conditioned offices across the world to parade and roll bareback on hot concrete roads in South Indian summer? Sonali did, with a smile on her face, because she couldn't bare the thought of staying away from her destiny, that called out to her every time she tried to picture a happy future.Gr

S02E04: Neha Molugu on finding her soul-aligned career curating retreats, shedding her 'insecure overachiever' corporate identity

Mar 16 2024 25 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Neha Molugu was your average overachieving Hyderabad girl, who went to top schools SRCC Delhi, INSEAD Paris and worked at top companies like Google and L'Oreal to make her parents and the academically oriented society happy. But one day on the metro to work in Paris, she questioned- "was this all there was to life?"This question changed her life and 7 years i

Endometriosis Awareness Month Special: Which is harder- fighting Endo or a society that doesn't believe you?

Feb 29 2024 22 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Would you be able to define endometriosis? We couldn't. Not until we spoke to Rashmi Bhutani, an endo-warrior.Join us as we chat with Rashmi about her experience and learn a little more about what she learnt when she decided to fight back against notions that extreme period pain is not normal and painful sex is just part of the deal. By the end of the episode

S02E03: Honey Pamnani on being an eternal optimist and living to find unadulterated happiness

Feb 15 2024 33 mins  
Send us a Text Message.While pursuing her engineering degree, Honey Pamnani just knew she wanted to do something meaningful with her life to bring about societal changes. That led her to take up a law degree right after! Since then, she designed a multitude of pivots in her life to align herself better with what really made her happy. This quest took her on a journey of different c

S02E02: Ayesha Rao on pivoting from an employee to a co-founder

Feb 01 2024 31 mins  
Send us a Text Message.On day 1 of her first job, a lifelong introvert and an IT engineer Ayesha knew in her gut, the big corporate world was not for her. She then looked back at what gave her unparalleled joy in the past to guide her future. She talks to Nalini about being a female brown founder in her early twenties, why she believes twenties might be the best time to start up. J