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Aditi Shirali, Reframing Parent-Teen Conversations in Adelaide. Episode 178 #TheNainaExperience Podcast

Listen to this episode on Spotify & YouTube Aditi Shirali is a psychologist in Adelaide. She did her bachelor’s in Mumbai, her master’s at Bangor University in Wales, her internship…

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Joseph Freeman Learned Hindi and Went Viral Down Under

Listen to this episode on Spotify & YouTube There’s a version of this story where Joe never learns Hindi at all. He grew up in Sydney’s northern beaches, a part…

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Aishwarya Mishra, Swapping Software for Interior Design in Adelaide

Aishwarya Mishra spent 12 years as a software test engineer before she enrolled at TAFE Adelaide and switched to interior design. She now runs Aishmi Design in Adelaide, working on…

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Manka Mishra, Reinventing Career and Culture from Sweden to Paris

Manka Mishra joined me from Paris for Episode 174. She is from Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Delhi University, post-graduation in Pune, a short stint in Mumbai, six and a half years in…

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Sabreen Haziq, Building Brand Equity on LinkedIn from Boston

Sabreen Haziq is based in Boston, works on the production team at Buffer, and has posted on LinkedIn every single day since June 2024. She grew up in New Delhi,…

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How to Build a Thriving Indie Comics Platform (Without Selling Out). Saurabh Bhatia, Comix.One

Saurabh Bhatia has spent 20 years in tech, but comics have been with him since his father handed him an issue of X-Men in 1990. Growing up in India in…

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Deepika Jindal, Teaching Women to Honor Themselves in Sydney

Episode no. 169 of The Naina Experience Podcast. Deepika Jindal runs Circle of Calm out of Sydney – she is an empowerment coach and meditation teacher who works primarily with…

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Swapna Namboodiri, Turning Ocean Plastic into Art in Adelaide

Swapna Namboodiri spent 6 years as a software engineer at Infosys. After office hours, she painted. She made things. The creative practice wasn’t waiting in the wings – it was…

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Jane Richards, Eight at the Gate Wines, Coonawarra

I first met Jane Richards at a wine tasting at the Australian Ambassador’s residence in India. She was one of the South Australian wine producers invited to showcase their wines…

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Saurik Dheer, Redefining Storytelling and Entrepreneurship in Adelaide

There is something genuinely refreshing about talking to someone who is actively figuring things out in real time – and doing it with total clarity about who they are and…

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How an IIT Delhi Dropout Built a Successful Software Company in London. Ravi Sagar, SPARXSYS

One of the things I love most about these conversations is when you finally get to properly talk to someone you’ve known online for years but never actually spoken to.…

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Haridwar’s Hidden Boutique Hotel: Varun Bajaj of Amrit Bhawan on The Naina Experience Podcast

I recently had a conversation on Instagram Live with Varun, the founder of Amrit Bhavan — an 8-room boutique hotel in Haridwar, right by the Ganga — and I walked…

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