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Diving deep into the journeys of trailblazing South Asians. To date, Host Simi Shah has interviewed Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Zarna Garg, Raj Shamani, Ananya Birla, Vas Narasimhan -- from founders to Fortune 300 CEOs, comedians to congressmen.
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- 5 days ago1h 2m
Intel's CLO Aparna Bawa & Author Kamini Ramani: A New Playbook for Powerful Women
How do the most powerful women in business actually rise? It's not by mimicking the men, nor by just following the advice to Lean In. In this episode, Simi Shah unlocks the new playbook for powerful, ambitious women. Simi speaks with Aparna Bawa — EVP and Chief Legal & People Officer at Intel, and the COO who saw Zoom scale from 10 million to 300 million users — alongside Kamini Ramani, Author of Lotus Leadership: A Modern Playbook of Ancient Wisdom. Together, they share fresh takes on fe...
- 2 weeks ago35 min
Neerja Birla: The Matriarch Building India's Mental Health Movement
Simi Shah speaks with Neerja Birla, matriarch of the storied Birla family, about how she's taking on India's most taboo topic: mental health. Content Warning: Mrs. Birla briefly references her work with victims of sexual violence. The reference is contextual and non-graphic. Mrs. Neerja Birla is the Founder & Chairperson of the Aditya Birla Education Trust, the force behind her organization, Mpower. Founded in 2016, Mpower is a full-stack mental health care and advocacy organization servi...
- Oct 7, 202634 min
Founder Garima Shah: How She Scaled a $10M FinTech in 5 Years
Simi speaks with Garima Shah, Co-founder & President of Biller Genie, on scaling a fintech to $10M+ in revenue. Biller Genie tackles a simple key problem: helping small businesses (SMBs) get paid faster. The company has doubled every year since 2022, and takes the average small business from 47 days to get paid down to 8. In an era where the glorification of venture capital has convinced a generation of founders that revenue is optional, Garima Shah wants to set the record straight on bui...
- Sep 25, 202628 min
Actor Ankur Rathee: From Princeton to Bollywood and Hollywood, the Road to Best of the Best
Growing up, Ankur Rathee only saw South Asians on screen playing age-old tropes. This week, he plays Ronak in Netflix's Best of the Best, a South Asian leading man written as a true hero, something Hollywood has rarely put on screen. Simi sits down with Ankur to trace his unconventional journey to acting. It runs from a family of farmers in Haryana, to a California childhood spent reenacting Bollywood dance numbers, to Princeton, where he couldn't stay off the stage. From there, it's te...
- Sep 16, 202630 min
Hasan Minhaj, Lena Khan & Prashanth Venkataramanujam: Inside the Making of Netflix’s Best of the Best — Bringing Bollywood to Hollywood
Six years ago, Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam asked a question: How has a movie about the South Asian college dance team experience not been made? Together, they made Best of the Best — a coming-of-age comedy about two best friends — played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia — who join their college’s competitive Bollywood-fusion dance team — out Friday, September 18 on Netflix. Simi speaks with Hasan Minhaj (comedian, producer, actor), Prashanth Venkataramanujam (...
- Jul 1, 202629 min
Karan Bhagat: How India Creates & Passes On Wealth | CEO of 360 ONE, India's Leading Wealth Manager
Simi speaks with Karan Bhagat, Founder and CEO of 360 ONE — one of India's largest wealth and asset management firms, advising nearly 9,000 of the country's top families with almost $80 billion in assets under management, including industrialists, tech founders, Bollywood stars, cricketers, and some of India's most prominent public figures. Recorded at the India Conference at Harvard, this conversation traces Karan Bhagat's extraordinary journey from cold-calling Delhi's wealthiest families a...
- Jun 17, 202625 min
Sakshi Sindwani: The Curve Model & Creator Redefining Beauty Standards in Indian Couture
Sakshi Sindwani is one of India's most prominent curve models, content creators, and body-positivity advocates who has built a community of 700,000 women. In 2021, she became the first curve model to appear in a Manish Malhotra bridal couture campaign, and in 2026, the first Indian creator to walk the Grammys red carpet. Recorded at the India Conference at Harvard, Simi's conversation traces Sakshi's path from growing up hearing "You're fat, you're never going to be worthy of love" to e...
- Jun 3, 202635 min
Sid Sriram: A.R. Rahman's Protégé & Coachella's 1st South Indian Artist on How We Get Our "Bad Bunny" Moment
Simi Shah sits down with Sid Sriram — one of the most distinct voices in global music — for a live-recorded conversation at Harvard. Born in Chennai, raised in Fremont, trained at Berklee, mentored by A.R. Rahman, Sid Sriram has spent 15+ years alchemizing Carnatic and R&B music and putting Eastern and Western music "in conversation with each other." He was the first South Indian artist to perform at Coachella and took NPR's Tiny Desk by storm. With over 3.8 billion+ Spotify streams alon...
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Diving deep into the journeys of trailblazing South Asians. To date, Host Simi Shah has interviewed Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Zarna Garg, Raj Shamani, Ananya Birla, Vas Narasimhan -- from founders to Fortune 300 CEOs, comedians to congressmen.
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