97. Roshni Pandey: Embracing freedom and openness for creativity and risk-taking

Roshni Pandey, who is Indian by ethnicity, Fijian by birth, Australian by citizenship, & Singaporean by residence, explains how her experience of freedom, imagination and creativity as a youngster influences her work today as a creative strategy consultant, angel investor and social entrepreneur. She reflects on how self-imposed limitations can get in the way of new idea generation, and how a desire for planning hindered her own ability to follow her passions. Roshni is Founder & Managing Partner Lexicon; Co-Founder BlueBox and Founder of TRIBE. She specializes in creative problem solving and strategy delivery and firmly believes in the balance between art and science, and intuition and data. With an innate ability to align consumer, market and business needs with creative solutions, Roshni uses her experience to take a project from articulation of business challenge, to design, assessment, planning & embedding solutions in order to drive sustainable business value. Amongst Roshni’s accolades she was recognised at the 2015 World Brand Congress’ as “Asia’s Most Influential CMO”; gained SME of the Year Award in 2015 for one start-up; and Best Leader Award (2013) IHG AMEA for leadership & talent development. Connect with Roshni Pandey via LinkedinKey QuotesI was born in Fiji in a city called Lautoka. You were bare feet 90% of the time.I think living on an island, you just feel the warmth, whether it's from the sun, or from the people.Growing up I thought I could be whatever I wanted to be, because there was nothing that you weren't allowed to do if you were interested in doing it.In Fiji life is basic, but it's never boring because you invent your own fun. A lot of great ideas are often preceded by a silly idea. I don't think good ideas just happen. I think they're built. I got a tattoo when I left my job, and it says, ‘if you desire something just ask the universe’. The comfort zone that we think we have is created only in our minds, because we've imagined the other parallel world to be so difficult or so scary. If I spend enough time exploring something, it will become comfortable and not scary anymore.Often our subconscious mind is our biggest saboteur. If you are not aware and in tune with your intuition or your gut feel, you often miss a lot of wonderful things.This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Find out more at squadcast.fm Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-to-inspiration--4156820/support.