For people stuck on the first move
This show came out of one unexpected day in the ER in Feb 2024, when I realized I had one regret I was gonna take to my (presumed) grave: I still had not started the ONE thing I kept saying I would. For many years. (A little dramatic, yes. But also 100% true.)
Ready Set Do is the podcast for people stuck at the first rep, the first upload, the first ugly draft, or the first move to a new country with no safety net. We talk to do-ers and focus only on the early parts of these journeys, when everything still feels expensive, awkward, and unfinished.
Host
Naman PandeyNaman Pandey hosts Ready Set Do, a podcast about first moves in careers, immigration, content creation, and life.
Inside the show
Choose your starting line
Pick the mess that feels closest to your real life and start there. (Yes, even if the timing feels a little cursed.)
Layoffs, job interviews, recruiter tactics, networking strategy, and the moves that actually turn applications into offers. If the job market feels brutal right now, start here.
H-1B, O-1 visas, OPT deadlines, study abroad decisions, and the real logistics of moving to the US, India, or somewhere else without losing momentum.
LinkedIn growth, personal branding, content strategy, audience building, and turning online attention into career leverage.
Non-linear career moves, switching functions, and breaking into new roles without sounding lost in the process.
DJing, spiritual leadership, full-time art, nonprofit work, travel, and every other pursuit that refuses to fit in a standard career box.
Breadth
One week it is a recruiter. Next week it is a spiritual teacher, a founder, a kid, or someone trying to rebuild life in a new country. That mix is the whole point.
Conversations with people in motion, not polished gurus looking backward.
Lines worth stealing before you commit to the full conversation.
A weirdly mixed room, which is exactly why it works.
Other rooms where the same conversation keeps going.
Stories crossing India, the United States, Europe, and beyond.
One feed. A lot of ways to build a life.
Geographies represented
Who shows up here
Recruiters, founders, creators, students, operators, guides. The mix is the point, so the layout should read cleanly instead of crashing into itself.
Latest episodes
These are the newest conversations, which usually means the advice still has some sweat on it.
Two weeks into my first semester in the U.S., I remember sitting at my desk refreshing LinkedIn like it was a slot machine. At some point you start asking yourself the obvious question: is this just how it works here… or am I doing it wrong?
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.
Everyone's hyping autonomous AI agents. Your corporate IT department is quietly building a blacklist.
Most people grinding through a tough job market send 300 applications and wait. Deep Suchak bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco.
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.
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.
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 "perfect" prose.
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. But what if you didn’t have to play the lottery at all?
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.
Elsewhere
Topic hubs
Some people come here because work feels shaky. Some because the internet is calling. Some because immigration paperwork is eating their week. Pick the lane that feels closest to your real life.
OPT timelines, O-1 visa strategy, H-1B alternatives, visa interview prep, and study abroad decisions for international students.
Job interviews, recruiter strategy, layoffs, networking, career fairs, and getting hired when the market is rough.
LinkedIn growth, personal branding, audience building, writing online, podcasting, and turning attention into leverage.
AI roles, machine learning, robotics, software careers, product work, and the part of tech where the job still has to survive real constraints.
Startup launches, fundraising, product shipping, event planning, app development, and building something from scratch.
Solo travel, spirituality, nutrition, meaningful vacations, relationships, and the strange corners of a life lived with intention.
Guides
Episodes are where the conversation breathes. Guides are where the answer gets tighter.
Guide
A transcript-backed guide to the O-1 visa for engineers: what counts as evidence, when to start, and how to stop acting like the path is only for celebrity researchers.
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A transcript-backed guide to surviving an OPT layoff, rebuilding momentum, and getting your next shot without letting the panic run the whole week.
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A transcript-backed guide to LinkedIn growth, public proof, and getting known before the follower count looks impressive.
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A transcript-backed guide to AI career pivots, machine learning transitions, product moves, and figuring out what still matters when AI starts changing the job itself.
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A transcript-backed guide to getting hired in the US as an international student, with episodes on career fairs, interviews, networking, recruiter signals, and what to do when the market feels cruel.
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