Episodes

Jan. 15, 2025

How To ACE Digital Marketing for Businesses (Strategy + Execution) - …

In this episode, featured not-expert is Emma Jackson. Emma is the creative director at The Idea Farm - https://www.youtube.com/@thejourney-tif, which is a marketing consultancy with over 50 years of history that seeks to help...

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Jan. 8, 2025

How To Build (& Get Funding For) A Sleep Tech Startup As An Internati…

In this episode featured not-expert is Supreeth Reddy. Supreeth is the co-founder of Serene AI, which is an sleep-tech startup. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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Jan. 1, 2025

How To Sustain A Livelihood As A Full-Time Artist in 2025 - w/ Zhanna

In this episode, featured not-expert is Zhanna Biletska. Zhanna is a Chicago-based artist whose work has been featured on many prominent galleries and art conferences. The topic for today’s discussion is how to sustain a com...

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Dec. 25, 2024

How To Forge A Career in the AI Regulation & Safety Space (& Bug Boun…

In this episode featured not-expert is Aashka Patel. Aashka is the founder of various initiatives all focused on AI regulation, including her podcast @onairwithaashka , while also being a freelance bug bounty hunter for Anthr...

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Dec. 18, 2024

How To Break Into (& Upskill for) Product, Project And/Or Program Man…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Farah Fallah Toosi. Farah is an Engineering Mgmt student at Purdue with extensive experience as a program slash project manager professional in organizations such as Apple and Capital O...

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Dec. 11, 2024

How To Forge A Career In AdTech (Track + Store/(Steal?) User Data) - …

In this episode featured not-expert is Vishwas Shanbhag. Vishwas is the head of Revenue Strategy at VerSe. The subject of today’s discussion is AdTech. Vishwas takes us thru the fascinating and cash-strapped world of ad tech...

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Dec. 4, 2024

How To Write Comedy (Fiction Novel + Material For Stand Up Comedy) - …

In this episode featured not-expert is Rohan Gautam. Rohan is the author of the book Romeo, Juliet and Hitler; an up-and-coming stand-up comic and is about to drop his first non-fiction venture as well. We discuss Rohan’s adv...

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Nov. 28, 2024

How To Design Generative AI Features For Adobe Acrobat (& Break Into …

In this episode, featured not-expert is Nikhil Pentapalli. Nikhil is a Sr Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe, working with building cutting-edge Generative AI features on Adobe Acrobat. Nikhil references his experiences and ...

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Nov. 20, 2024

How To Deal With Reverse Culture Shock (Moving Back To India After Ma…

In this episode featured not-expert is Ratik Dutta. Ratik is a Marketing Ops Assistant Manager at SEED Global Education, which is a role he recently started after returning to India - having finished his Masters in Marketing ...

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Nov. 13, 2024

How To Build For AR/VR (& Mass Deploy XR Content At Scale) - w/ Tom

In this episode, featured not-expert is Tom Shannon. Tom is a co-founder at Omnia, which is a one stop-shop for deploying XR content at scale. Another way to think of Omnia is simply the YouTube for XR creators and brands. To...

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Nov. 6, 2024

How To Realize The Ultimate Rendition Of The American Dream (Journey …

In this episode, my guest is Sanjeev Sharma. Sanjeev is a principle engineer at SpaceX and perhaps one of the most illuminative flag bearers of what the American Dream looks like in practice. We begin with Sanjeev’s time with...

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Oct. 30, 2024

How To Kickstart Your Singing (& Music Composition) Career In Bollywo…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Trishita Recs. Trishita is an award-winning playback singer and songwriter whose work has been featured on Netflix, HotStar and Zee5 among other notable places such as live events and c...

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Oct. 23, 2024

How To Utilize Diverse Channels Of Passive Income As A Content Creato…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Pritesh Jagani. Known more commonly as Yudi J online, Pritesh has built and grown his youtube channel to over 280k subscribers - leveraging his knowhow and lived experience to share ama...

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Oct. 16, 2024

How To Break Into Designing "Inclusive" Microsoft LLMs + Navigating B…

In this episode, featured not-expert is @AdvityaGemawat . Advitya works on Responsible AI at Microsoft as a Machine Learning Engineer 2. I am extremely stoked to present this incredibly nuanced discussion on the ethics and r...

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Oct. 9, 2024

How To Be An Ace Big-Tech Software Developer - w/ Hemant

In this episode, featured not-expert is Hemant Pandey. Hemant is a Sr software engineer at Meta and has extensive experience as a SWE in companies like Salesforce, SAP, Tesla and Amazon. We go over a day in the life at Meta, ...

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Oct. 2, 2024

How To Kickstart Your DJ Career (Self-Taught DJ PoV) - w/ Mayya

In this episode, featured not-expert is Mayya Perova. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Mayya recently graduated from a Masters of Arts degree from DePaul University but for the purposes of this episode - we’ll be deep-diving ...

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Sept. 25, 2024

How To Get Into An Ivy League Masters Program (Cornell Engineering Ma…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Unnati Deshwal. Unnati is a fresh MEM graduate student at Cornell University, which is an Ivy League school. She also got admits from Purdue University, University of Illinois, and many...

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Sept. 18, 2024

How To Be A Professional Career Coach & Accelerator (Top 1% In The Wo…

In this episode my guest is Melissa Grabiner. Melissa is a global HR and talent acquisition leader. Melissa is within the top 1% of Job Seeker Coaches on Topmate and has been ranked among the most widely followed LinkedIn Cre...

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Sept. 11, 2024

How To Teach Economics & Game Theory (Indian Institute Of Mgmt Ahmeda…

In this episode, my guest is Prof Viswanath Pingali. Prof Vishwanath is a professor specializing in Game Theory and Microeconomics at IIM Ahmedabad. We begin our discussion by going over Professor Viswanath’s experiences wi...

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Sept. 4, 2024

How To Break Into A Career In Data Analytics (Without Any Prior Exper…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Sai Kumar. Sai is the Lead Data Analyst at Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. Coming from an electrical engineering background, Sai managed to not only get into a top Data Analyt...

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Aug. 28, 2024

How To Write, Publish & Launch Your First Non-Fiction Book - w/ Sound…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Soundarya Balasubramani. Soundarya is a founder at unshackled.club and the author of two books - Unshackled and Admitted. Today’s discussion is for anyone who wants to write and publish...

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Aug. 22, 2024

How To Crack Your First US Internship (& Transition to Product Manage…

In this episode, featured not-expert is Maya Mishra. Maya is a Masters student at Purdue University that has cracked the internship code. She secured offers from Amazon, Tesla (Engineering Program Manager), Walmart (Product ...

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Aug. 14, 2024

How To Accelerate & Sustain Growth As A Content Creator - w/ Parth

In this episode my guest is Parth Vijeyvargiya. Parth is one of the biggest study abroad creators coming out of India, and arguably the first of his kind. Having followed his content on YouTube for many years now, it was just...

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Aug. 7, 2024

How To Write A Viral Research Paper (& Get a US EB1 Talent Visa) - w/…

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Aditi Paul. Dr. Aditi is an ex-tenured professor, published author, and founder of Dr. Paul & Co., where she helps Indian immigrants take charge of their immigration journey - by means of se...

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