In Conversation with Ashwin

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  • Casual conversations about things that matter with ordinary people around me who are doing extraordinary things.
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Episodes
  • S1 Ep16: Episode 16- Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Blue Flag Project (feat. Nimmi Roche)

    S1 Ep16: Episode 16- Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Blue Flag Project (feat. Nimmi Roche)
    Dec 24 2019
    On Episode 16, we discuss Nimmi's early childhood and how that influenced her choices, early on. We discuss her MBA experience at Harvard (and why everybody from Harvard resists mentioning the name of their institution) and the cool corporate jobs that she held at Goldman Sachs and American Express. Finally, we dive into what trigerred the inception of Blue Flag Project-an all-purpose sustainable men's shoewear.

    About Nimmi Roche-

    Nimmi worked as an Associate in Hedge Fund Consulting at Goldman Sachs for 5 years before she decided to pursue her MBA at Harvard. Upon graduating, she worked at American Express in the payments division and at Adaptly as a product manager. She finally decided to go solo with her entrepreneurial venture- Blue Flag Project

    Blue Flag Project in 2minutes-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzvd3_Qhpz0&t=7s
    Blue Flag Project website- https://blueflagproject.com/
    Washington Post Article about the Israeli startup(UBQ) capitalizing on the plastic use case-https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/climate-solutions/israeli-startup-ubq-turning-trash-into-plastic-products/
    Nimmi's LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimmi-roche-035b7513/
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    35 mins
  • Episode 13- Gender roles, women in sports and the corporate world. (feat. Rashi Kakkar)

    Episode 13- Gender roles, women in sports and the corporate world. (feat. Rashi Kakkar)
    Dec 21 2018
    On the show, we discuss Rashi’s journey of vagabonding across different cities in India as an army kid and how that helped her to embrace change and even thrive in it. We discuss how the army life exposed her to sports early in her life, her tennis adventures and why she decided not to pursue a career in sports. We get her take on women and gender diversity in the corporate and sports arena. We talk gender conditioning and how it is important, yet difficult, for women to be unapologetic about pursuing their ambitions. How women can and should be helped to become great sportswomen. Rashi’s definition of ‘progressive thinking’ and her gratitude towards her family for being progressive. Her push on ‘What would you with your life if you weren’t afraid?’ To close, we discuss her favourite books and her dog Bruce who has an Instagram handle of his own (Whether you listen to the podcast or not, you must take a look at Bruce. As Rashi says, in our conversation- He is a happy ball of fur).

    You can find Rashi on-
    Rashi’s articles on Firstpost- https://www.firstpost.com/author/rashikakkar
    Twitter- @rashi_kakkar
    Rashi was identified as a stereotype defying candidate by a top MBA blog, Poets & Quants
    https://poetsandquants.com/2016/08/31/introducing-mba-class-2018/15/

    Books-
    Lean in
    Why Nations fail
    Sapiens
    Man on a high castle
    Harry Potter
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    56 mins
  • S2 Ep3: Water you thinking ft. Abishek Narayan

    S2 Ep3: Water you thinking ft. Abishek Narayan
    Oct 3 2024
    On this episode, I have Abishek Narayan who is currently working as a researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Water Institute in Zurich. Abishek has PhD in Environmental Engineering from ETH Zurich and a Masters from Oxford in Water Science, Policy and Management. After checking privilege at the door and discussing his early upbringing in the modest city of Chennai, Abishek talks to us about his tryst with the Adyar river and the restoration efforts he was engaged in through the Clean Adyar Initiative and Resilient Cities project funded by the Rockerfeller Foundation. Taking his learnings from studying and working at Delft and Ethiopia, Abishek learnt that the solution to a social and political problem cannot be solved by engineering alone. He further learned water planning and the nuances surrounding it in policy and engineering at Oxford and ETH, Zurich. From the 20th minute, Abishek talks about what happens to the water when you flush it down your WC and how that water gets cleaned (or is supposed to) in treatment plants. He talks about how his team helped influence and incentivize a commercial microcosm of Bangalore to treat waste water and speaks about the fundamental problem when it comes to waste water management. He leaves us with some actionable advice to pay our dues when it comes to being responsible with water. And as is custom, we end with his favorite quote ("You can't do everything that the world needs but everything you can do, the world needs") and his favorite book (Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall ). In the first 10 mins of the episode, we also discuss the Indian education system and his introspective 5 day (first) bike trip along the Rhine river. I know Abhishek from my debating days in school cultural fests back in 2010 and we recently reconnected with he was visiting to attend and speak at the World Water Conference in Toronto earlier this year. We bonded over some vegan sliders after a walk and sit around Trinity Bellwoods park :) This episode is anything but dry ;)

    Books mentioned - Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
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    44 mins

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