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Ready Set Do
by Naman Pandey
A podcast about how successful people got unstuck.Each episode goes back to the moment they were stuck and walks through what they actually did to move.Their story is proof the door opens. What you do next is yours.
Episodes
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How to Get Hired for Microsoft AI Roles Without Applying in 2026 using Recruiter Inbound Playbook - w/ Shrey
Shrey Shah never applied to Microsoft. Microsoft executives watched him give a talk on AI coding workflows, then reached out. Meta came knocking not long after, asking for something similar. Here's the part that stings a little: that wasn't luck. It traces back to a decision he made years…
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How to Start With AI When You've Already Decided It's Too Hard (13 Year Google Veteran POV) - w/ Aishwarya
Thirteen years at Google. Trust and Safety in Hyderabad first, then the Bay Area, then most of the back half inside YouTube — finance, then analytics, then managing YouTube inventory and monetization. Then Aishwarya Raghavan quit. No job lined up. Two months later a friend referred her to a…
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How to Decide if a US Masters Is Worth It in 2026 (Purdue MBA Director POV) - w/ Prof Dunford
Should an international student still move to the US for a master's right now? That's the question sitting in thousands of inboxes and WhatsApp groups this admissions cycle. Not "which school," not "what score." Just: should I go at all? Naman put it to someone who has watched this play out for...
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How To Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha
Somewhere it's 3 a.m. and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works. He'll never know how close that was. Keeping him from finding out is Sai Joshitha's job. She's a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Visa. Here's the part I care…
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How To Escape The Family Business Trap in 2026 & The Real Reason Your Brain Fears Success - w/ Abhinav
Picture running a resort deep inside Jim Corbett National Park. Tigers on one side of the fence, guests on the other, and a family business you never actually applied for... That was Abhinav Jindal's twenties. The business did fine. He didn't. That gap — doing well on paper, feeling hollow off it…
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How To Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI Development Team In 18 Months - w/ Kunal
Here's the description, formatted for RSS/Spotify (timestamps on their own lines with spacing so they don't collapse): Seven years ago, Kunal Mishra was a summer intern at DRDO, facing the choice every engineering student knows: take the safe campus placement, or bet on the harder thing. He bet…
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How To Write A Resume Big-Tech Recruiters Can't Ignore
I still have the exact one-page PDF that got me shortlisted for a Program Manager role at Apple. No headshot. No skill bars pretending "80% Excel" means anything. And here's the part the chapters give away early: I didn't get the job. (We get into why at 13:15, and it's the most useful thirty...
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How to Build an AI Governance Career Without Writing Code ( Lawyer -> AI Architect POV) - w/ Aashita
Aashita Jain's H-1B didn't get picked. She was on an L-1 visa at Informatica, working against a clock that wasn't hers to control. Most people in that spot panic and start mass-applying to any job that will sponsor them. She built an O-1 visa case instead, and turned herself into an AI governance...
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How to Get Attention Online: What a Magician Knows That Marketers Don't - w/ Jimi
I asked Jimi Gibson how attention actually works. Ten minutes later he'd named a card I picked inside my own head — live, on camera. (I've rewatched the clip. Still can't explain it.) Here's the part that pays rent: that trick and a LinkedIn post that blows up run on the identical script. Jimi...
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How to Become a Graphic Designer (Your Portfolio Doesn't Have to Be Real) - w/ Cynthia
Cynthia Wagner almost quit art in high school. Not because she lacked talent — because building a portfolio felt so intimidating she figured she'd rather not try. (If you've ever stared at a blank page and talked yourself right out of something you actually wanted, you already know the feeling.)...
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How to Leave Chicago after a Masters in Public Policy, Return to Bihar, and Build for India - w/ Shreya
Shreya Shravini graduated from the University of Chicago with a masters in public policy and had every reason to stay in the US. Good job market, OPT STEM extension, a real shot at sponsorship. She packed up and went back to Patna instead, to work inside the Bihar government. If that sounds like...
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How to Get Into Public Policy & Development Economics (Harvard Economist POV) - w/ Jishnu
What do you think the richest 5% of urban India earns in a month? I guessed ten lakh. The real number is twenty thousand rupees — about $200. And that was the least surprising thing Professor Jishnu Das said to me. This one rewired how I see my own country. We started with a health insurance plan...
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How To Get Hired For AI Agent Roles In Big Tech (2026) - w/ Sohil
I walked in ready for the usual "AI is coming for your job" sermon. Then a PayPal AI engineer — a guy who's also logged time at TikTok and JPMorgan — looked at me and said he's never once watched good code make anyone a dollar. One sentence, and the whole hour reset. Sohil is early enough in his...
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How To Get Real Press in 2026 (Without Paying For Forbes.. Ex-CBS Journalist POV) - w/ Vaishali
Someone slid into your inbox last week offering Forbes for a thousand bucks. Maybe you almost said yes. 😅 Vaishali Gauba spent years inside CNBC, NBC and CBS newsrooms before starting her own PR agency, and she'll tell you flat out: that yes quietly costs you the exact people you were trying to...
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How To Get a Remote DevRel Job From India in 2026 (Step By Step) - w/ Saurav
Saurav is twenty-six and lives in Delhi. For five years he's worked fully remote for companies in Israel and the Czech Republic, and he gets flown out to developer conferences across three continents. The part that stopped me cold: he's never once clicked "apply" on a job portal. Not once. So how...
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How To Get A Master's In Germany For $0 in 2026 & MUST-KNOW Hiring Rules - w/ Shriya
Shriya left India for Germany to do a master's in Human-Computer Interaction. Her tuition bill came to zero. (Read that again. Zero — not "discounted," actually free.) If you've been stress-googling "masters abroad" at 2am, stuck in the loop most Indian students hit after a B.Tech, this is the...
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How To Get Paid As a Creator With an Audience Smaller Than Yours (Harvard Speaker POV) - w/ Alisha
Six thousand followers. That's the number that should not work. Most people would look at Alisha Gupta's Instagram and assume she's stuck. Too small for brand deals. Too niche to get booked. The kind of account you scroll past on your way to someone with a verified checkmark. She's spoken at...
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How to Turn LinkedIn Posts Into Career Opportunities - w/ Daniel
Most people treat LinkedIn like a résumé site. Daniel Greenberg thinks that is exactly why they stay invisible. Daniel has racked up 8 million impressions on LinkedIn and co-hosts Connection Accepted, a show about communication and online influence. So when he says the feed now behaves more like...
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How to Turn a Civic Frustration Into a Viral Product (NammaKasa Bangalore Founder POV) - w/ Jyothish
Picture this. You spend a few weekends building a small web app to track garbage piles in your city. You post about it once on LinkedIn. You go to sleep. You wake up to 250,000 users and your local government quietly using your tool to clean the streets. That's Jyothish's actual 2025. The app is...
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How to Choose Between Duke and Purdue MEM in 2026 - w/ Fiza & Bhushan
Picking between Duke MEM and Purdue MEM is the kind of decision where Reddit threads contradict themselves. Program brochures sound identical. And the people who actually survived it have already moved on with their lives. So I tracked two of them down. Fiza Patel finished Duke MEM in 2025 and...
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How to Make $80K on Upwork (From a Top 3% Freelancer) - w/ Anas
Two years ago, Anas lost his full-time UK job. He went back to Upwork — the platform he'd already used to make over $80K while studying — and within months landed an 18-month Swedish contract that generated over $5M in client revenue. His unfair advantage? A 60-second intro video that gets him...
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How To Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do. So what actually gets you hired in 2026? I sat down with Surya...
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How to Build a Global Health Career (Public Health Master’s, Oxford & WHO Africa) - w/ Dyuti
How do you go from running tuberculosis programs in rural Bihar to studying at Oxford and eventually working with WHO Africa? There is no clean answer — and that is sort of the point. In this episode, I sit down with Dyuti Sen to talk about what a public health career actually looks like when you...
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How to Vibe-Code 20 Production Apps in 13 Days - w/ Avi
Twenty apps. Thirteen days. Some already making money. That's what Avi Pilcer actually shipped while most of us were still picking a domain name. And the wild part? He didn't do it alone. He built an autonomous system called System Zero that does the heavy lifting for him. If you've been told "AI...
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How to Get Hired for Applied AI Roles in Fortune 500 Companies (Target Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Sowmya
Picture this: it's 2023, ChatGPT just dropped, every Fortune 500 suddenly needs an "AI strategy," and the job postings want 5 years of experience in a technology that's barely 18 months old. How does anyone actually get hired in that mess? Sowmya Podila figured it out. She's now a Senior Data...
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How to Get a UK Work Visa With No Lottery (H-1B Lottery Reject POV) - w/ Hari
Hari Prasad Renganathan got rejected from the H1B lottery three times. Most people in that situation spiral. They scramble for a second master's, beg their company for an internal transfer, or start mentally preparing to go back home. Hari texted 10 YC startups, got callbacks from four of them,...
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How To Crack Your First US AI PM Internship (With No Prior PM Experience, Purdue MEM POV) - w/ Aryan
Two weeks into my first semester in the U.S., I remember sitting at my desk refreshing LinkedIn like it was a slot machine. Apply. Refresh. Apply. Refresh. Zero replies. At some point you start asking yourself the obvious question: is this just how it works here… or am I doing it wrong? This...
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How To Publish 100 Podcast Episodes (10 Lessons I Wish I Knew on Day 1)
Two years ago, I was lying in an ER bed, scared enough to get brutally honest with myself. And the thing that bothered me most was not some giant life philosophy. It was embarrassingly specific. I had still not started the YouTube channel and podcast I had been talking about for way too long.…
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How to Future-Proof Your Tech Career in the Age of AI Agents (3x UiPath MVP POV) - w/ Naveen
Everyone's hyping autonomous AI agents. Your corporate IT department is quietly building a blacklist. That gap — between the hype and the reality inside enterprise walls — is exactly what this episode is about. Naveen Chatlapalli, a three-time UiPath MVP and seasoned .NET developer, has watched…
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How to Get a Job by Just Showing Up (Moving to SF With Nothing) - w/ Deep
Most people grinding through a tough job market send 300 applications and wait. Deep Suchak bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco. No offer. No contacts. No couch lined up past the first week. Just a read on where the opportunities actually were — and a conviction that showing up in person…
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How to Open a US Company from ANYWHERE in 24 Hours (0% Tax) - w/ Bobby
Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start a business from your laptop in Kolkata: the company setup is the easy part. It's the tax side that'll keep you up at night. (Ask me how I know.) In this episode, we unpack the entire Business Anywhere model — what it actually does, who it's for…
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How To Build Expert Authority Online (Without Spending ANY Money) - w/ Christine
Do you really need a massive following to make a massive impact (and income)? If you're an entrepreneur, coach, or creator, you've probably felt the pressure to go viral. You're told you need 10,000 followers, perfectly polished Instagram reels, and a big budget just to be taken seriously. But…
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How to Humanize Your AI Copywriting (Ex-DC Journalist POV) - w/ Joshua
Beyond the Bot: Why Your AI Marketing is Failing (and the Journalist’s Fix) In the noise-saturated landscape of 2026, the barrier to entry for content has never been lower, but the barrier to trust has never been higher. Everyone has access to the same LLMs, the same prompts, and the same…
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How To Engineer Your Path to an O-1 Visa - w/ Harsh
Every year, hundreds of thousands of international students and tech workers face the same terrifying math: there are 85,000 H-1B seats and over 400,000 applications. The odds are not in your favor. But what if you didn’t have to play the lottery at all? In a recent episode of the Ready Set Do...
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How to Pivot from Hollywood Writing to AI Disruption ( AI Apps for Neurodivergent People) - w/ Victor
What happens when a Marvel writer loses $500,000 on his first tech deal? In this episode of Ready Set Do, I sit down with Victor—a legally blind, albino filmmaker and founder who is disrupting the AI space. We dive into the first few steps of his transition from Hollywood to tech, his unique...
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How To Help Rag-Picker Children in Kolkata Escape Poverty thru Education & Empowerment - w/ Shafkat
Is Beast Philanthropy a Scam? The Reality Behind the Viral Video When the world’s biggest YouTuber hands over a check, the internet asks one question: Is it real? Joining us on Ready Set Do is Shafkat Alam, the Joint Secretary of Tiljala Shed and the man who stood face-to-face with MrBeast’s team...
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How to Unite 600,000 Strangers Who Want to Be Alone - w/ Amanda
How do you build a community of 600,000 people who want to be alone? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Black, the founder of The Female Traveler Network, to reveal how she turned a simple travel blog into a global empire and a safe haven for half a million women. If you have ever felt the...
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How to Mass Produce Humanoid Robots (The Neo @1X Blueprint) - w/ Ritwik
Everyone is obsessed with the viral videos of robots folding laundry. Almost no one is talking about the absolute nightmare of actually building the hardware. In this episode, we sit down with Ritwik, the supply chain lead at 1X Technologies—the company behind NEO, the humanoid robot currently...
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How to Survive the AI Wave as an Engineer (IIT Kharagpur Grad POV) - w/ Aayush
Episode Title: Why He Rejected the US for IIT Kharagpur: The AI Career Blueprint Description: Is the "American Dream" still the only path to success for Indian engineers? In a world where the standard advice is to "get a GRE score and leave," Aayush Sugandh did the unthinkable: he stayed. Despite...
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How to Plan a Sold-Out Fundraising Event (Step-by-Step) - w/ Roger
If you think running a nonprofit fundraising event is just about booking a venue, finding a caterer, and collecting auction items, you’re in for a rude awakening. The landscape has shifted beneath our feet. The days of relying on the same 200 people in a ballroom with paper bid sheets are fading...
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How To Deal With A Lay-Off While on OPT (& Get A New Job Within 90 Days) - w/ Aman
Laid Off on OPT? How He Stopped the Clock & Got Hired in 40 Days (The Blueprint) Description: Getting laid off is a punch to the gut. Getting laid off on an F1 Visa with the 90-day unemployment clock ticking? That is a full-blown emergency. If you are currently staring at a termination letter and...
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How to Grow from 0 to 100k Followers on LinkedIn (Step-by-Step) - w/ Sai & Sohan
Are you afraid to hit "post" on LinkedIn? Do you worry that your employer might judge you, or that you don't have anything valuable to say? In this episode, we sit down with two of the biggest Indian Study Abroad creators on LinkedIn: Sohan Sethi and Sai Kumar Bysani. These two haven't just built...
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How To Stick To Culture-Centered Nutrition (& Why It Matters for NRIs) - w/ Neha
Are you an NRI, student, or expat living in the USA who feels sluggish, bloated, or heavier despite "eating healthy"? You are not alone. Millions of Indians move abroad and immediately switch to a diet of salads, cold sandwiches, and protein bars, thinking they are making better choices. Yet, the...
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How To Take The Most Meaningful Vacation of Your Life - w/ Kimberly
Most people take trips to relax. Beaches. Cocktails. Photos for Instagram. This conversation is not about that kind of trip. This is about the kind of travel that changes what you think a vacation is for. It is about showing up in a small community somewhere in the world and leaving it a little...
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How To Switch From Software Dev to Machine Learning Engineer (Amazon SDE -> Tiktok MLE POV) - w/ Umang
In this episode of Ready Set Do, my guest is Umang Chaudhary, a Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok and former Applied Scientist at Amazon. Umang’s story is one of momentum — a reminder that you don’t need decades of experience to reach the top tiers of tech. What matters more is the mindset:...
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How To Convert Career Fairs/Networking Events into Job Interview-Generating Machines - w/ Hrohaan
In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. If that sounds lucky, it isn’t. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great…
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How to THRIVE As An International Student (Grades Don't Matter) - w/ Bhushan
Moving abroad for studies often gets reduced to a checklist: applications, visas, internships, and landing that first good job. In this episode of Ready Set Do I sit down with Bhushan Chougule, a graduate student at Purdue University studying Engineering Management, to talk about what most...
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How To Get Hired Despite the Most Brutal Job Market Ever (Ex-Microsoft, Amazon & TikTok Recruiter POV) - w/ Shreya
If you want a ruthless, recruiter-grade breakdown of how to actually get hired in 2025, press play. This episode features Shreya Mehta — professional growth coach and former recruiter at Microsoft, Amazon, and TikTok — and she does something rare: she publicly evaluates (nay, lovingly roasts) my...
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How To Pivot To Product Management From The Medicine Field (or Any Field) - w/ Jackie
"You need experience to get the job, but you need the job to get experience." It is the classic Product Management "Death Loop." If you are a doctor, a teacher, a marketer, or a salesperson, you are constantly told that you don't have the "technical DNA" to be a Product Manager. You are told to…
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A podcast about how successful people got unstuck.Each episode goes back to the moment they were stuck and walks through what they actually did to move.Their story is proof the door opens. What you do next is yours.
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