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Career Small Talk: Work | Play | Build — 103 episodes

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S7E29: Inside an Athlete's Mind And Elephant's Heart [Sports Mini-Series] w/ Dr. Chaitanya Sridhar

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S7E31 The Watercooler Gap at Remote Workplaces

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S7E30 Career Transition: The “Safe Career” Lie Is Over

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S7E29: Participation to Performance [Sports Mini-Series] w/ Deepthi Bopaiah & Saumil Majmudar

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S7E28 The First-Time Manager Identity Crisis

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S7E27 Mid-Career Crisis or Crossroads?

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S7E26: The Silent Crisis Among Men:Strong, Successful, Still Alone with Srini Ramaswamy & Nikhil Damle

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S7E25 Who Are You Without Your Job Title?

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Apparently, Women Ruined The Workplace! | Small Talk S7E24

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S7E23 Creating Spaces That Change Lives: Building community & scaling impact w/ Saraswathi & Meghana

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Dear 2026: Here’s What We Want From Work, AI, and Life... S7E22

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S7E21: Gen Z, Raised on Algorithms, Joins the Workforce!

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S7E20: Power Meets Nurturing: A Blueprint for Leaders with Nirupama Subramaniam

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S7E19: Money, Careers & Self-Worth: The Conversation No One Taught Us to Have

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S7E18: What's Next In Your Career? How to Find Hidden Skills That Pay

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S7E17: Teens, Tech & Turmoil: What AI is Doing to our Mental Health with Kashyap Kompella and Sujata Kelkar Shetty

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S7E16: Workplace Communication- The Silent Superpower of Career Growth

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S7E15 - Not All Bullies Shout: Spotting Toxic Spaces at Work

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S7E14: How Stories Can Save a City: The Fight for Bengaluru’s Future? | Harini Nagendra

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S7E13: Good, Bad, and Coldplay: How to avoid workplace fiascos

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S7E12: Dance Like Everyone is Watching! - How to Thrive in a Creative Career

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S7E11 - Stakeholder Blindspots: Why Good Work Still Gets Stuck

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S7E10: Feeling Like a Fraud? Imposter Syndrome Hits Again!

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S7E9: When Leadership Feels Personal - What It Takes to Build Creatively Today

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S7E8: Why Networking Feels So Fake: Awkward, Overrated, and Absolutely Necessary?

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S7E7: Saying No Without Guilt: Set Boundaries at Work and Home

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S7E6: Why Engineering is the New Cool - Aerospace, Space Missions & Women on the Shop Floor

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S7E5: Will AI Take Your Job? Truths You Need to Hear!

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S7E4: Success Metrics Are Changing - Are You Keeping Up?

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S7E3: Why Workplaces Need a New Playbook with Maya John - Small Talk Work| Play | Build

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S7E2: Building a Business at the Bottom of the Ocean - Small Talk Work| Play| Build

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S7E1: The Death of DEI after working 70 hours a week - Small Talk Work|Play|Build

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Trailer - Small Talk: Work | Play | Build

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Visibility Matters: How Sharing Achievements Fuels Growth

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Gain Visibility at Work or be the Turkish Olympic Shooter!

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Taking the First Step from Idea to Action

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The Bridge Every Vision Needs

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The Strategic Pivot: Seeing the Big Picture

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Trailer: Careers are Curvy - a Small Talk production

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Career Lift-Off: Best Moments from Small Talk in 2023

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Choosing How to Shape Your Year

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Job Search Strategies for Mid-Career Professionals

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Brewing Flexibility: Decoding Coffee Badging at the Workplace

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Redefining Failure and Embracing Growth

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How to Influence with Impact - Answer the ‘So What?!’

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Crisis Management: Who are you in a crisis?

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What makes a great mentor, and how can you find one?

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Silo-Busting Strategies: Building a Collaborative Workplace

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Insights and Strategies to Navigate Career Transitions

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The Best Career-lifting Conversations of the Season | Highlights of Small Talk Season 4 | Career Growth Podcast

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S4E11 - How to ‘elevator pitch’ a good story about yourself

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S4E10 - Why Startups Need a People Strategy

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S4E9 - How to enhance your career by cultivating Executive Presence

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S4E8 - Dealing with difficult bosses, clients, and colleagues

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S4E7 - It's not always about the money!

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S4E6 - What To Do When Your Manager Needs Managing

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S4E5 - “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

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Holiday Crossover: Damn Good Storytelling

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S4E4 - Can we do goal setting differently this year?

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S4E3 - How not to take a layoff personally

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S4E2 - Why do I struggle to delegate? Here's a mindful approach for every busy professional

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S4E1 - Your career doesn't need the pressure of being your passion!

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Bonus - Serena and Sebastian and Identity Clarity

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S3E21 - It's OK to Quit, Right?

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S3E20- Small Talk with Neeraj Kakkar- Drinks, memories, and selling a story at scale

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S3E19 - The Challenge of Building and Changing Careers

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S3E18 - Being a multipotentialite and curating your digital presence - with Nandita Iyer

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Bonus Episode - WeCrashed, Work Cultures, and where the best-laid plans go awry

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S3E16 - Do you know how to say No?

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S3E15 - Creating Organisational Resilience by Being a Perpetual Learner - with Srideep Kesavan

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S3E14 - Are you a new face at the old workplace?

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S3E13 - Why does a voice inside my head keep telling me I'm not good enough?

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S3E12 - Getting Smart About Artificial Intelligence - with Kashyap Kompella

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S3E11 - Going from Zoom to the Room

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S3E10 - Building a Sustainable Business, One Toy At a Time - with Meeta Sharma Gupta

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S3E9 - Why is giving and receiving feedback so difficult?

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S3E8 - How to slow down and still grow your business with Shailaja Vishwanath

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S3E7 - How to recognise and deal with burnout

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S3E6 - How to hit your goals out of the park - with Yash Mishra

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S3E5 - How many thoughts does it take to become a Thought Leader?

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S3E4 - Law in the times of Social Justice - with Jayna Kothari

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S3E3 - How to focus when you’re chronically distracted

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S3E2 - How Positivity can be your Superpower - with Sonia Saini

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S3E1 - How to be Curious and not Judgemental

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S2E10 - With The Best of Intentions

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S2E9 - Building A Team Without Hunting for Mini Versions of You!

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S2 E8 - Where do you draw the line? Drawing boundaries in a virtual world.

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S2 E7 - Connecting the Dots with Kartik Hosanagar

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Notes to Self - Ep 3 - It's ok to not be ok

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Notes to Self - Ep 2 - Letting grief remind me of his legacy

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Notes to Self - Ep 1 - Why the CIA missed 9/11 and building teams that don't always agree.

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S2E3 - Communication zen and the art of asking questions

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S2E2 - Going impromptu, in the spirit of Clubhouse!

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S2E1 - Own Your Productivity

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S1E8 - Five Years Of RainKraft, and what we got right

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S1E7 - Hiring Virtually: Lessons from dunnhumby India with Manoj Madhusudanan

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S1E6 - Content Marketing 101 for Small Businesses and Solopreneurs

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S1E5 - How to make LinkedIn worth your while

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S1E4 - Getting Hiring & New Gigs Right In A Virtual World

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S1E3 - What is really wrong with so many resumes today?

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S1E2 - Are you tired of playing Meeting-Meeting?

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S1E1- Starting Off with Small Talk!

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S1E0 - The Small Talk About RainKraft