Transform with Kashi

Kapil Kulshreshtha & Shilpa Kulshreshtha
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Kapil Kulshreshtha and Shilpa are the founders of Transform with Kashi, a career coaching podcast for professionals who want to get promoted, increase their salary, and finally move ahead at work. On Transform with Kashi, Kapil and Shilpa reveal why hard work alone doesn't get you noticed, and what does: career strategy, workplace visibility, salary negotiation, and the mindset shifts that separate top performers from everyone else. Each episode answers real career questions from professionals across 21 countries, covering promotions, career clarity, executive presence, salary growth, and personal transformation. Follow for practical career advice, promotion strategies, and mindset coaching to help you get ahead faster.

  1. 14 hrs ago

    10 Promotion Mistakes That Cost People Years

    Sixteen thousand hours of coaching, more than a thousand professionals, and two corporate decades of his own, including being passed over twice. Kapil has seen every way a promotion gets lost, and made half the mistakes himself. Here are the ten that cost people years, from treating it as one conversation to accepting praise as payment, and the one question to ask yourself at the end.

    10 Promotion Mistakes That Cost People Years

  2. 3 days ago

    "I'm Either Condescending or a Pushover." Leadership Questions

    Something new. For the first time, Kapil opens a listener's own words on air. A professional chasing a leadership role who wrote in with rare honesty: I come across as condescending without meaning to, or I say yes to everything, and I need a middle path. On why those two extremes are secretly the same wound, why the condescension is really fear wearing expertise, and the one sentence shape that holds the middle: soft on the person, firm on the point. Send your own question in, the email is in the show notes.

    "I'm Either Condescending or a Pushover." Leadership Questions

  3. 5 days ago

    How You Lost Yourself (And the Narrative That Keeps You Buried)

    You started as a diamond. Curious, fearless, full of energy, no idea what failure even meant. Then came the corrections. Family comparing you to the cousin. The focus on everything to improve, never on what to appreciate. The boss who said you were too much. The partner who arrived with their own blueprint for fixing you. Everyone trying to help, and every bit of it teaching one quiet lesson: I am not enough. Kapil traces the slow burial of who you actually are under decades of other people's expectations, why motivation videos and even promotions never fix it, and the one fundamental thing that does. The narrative you built long ago, still running your life today. Plus an invitation, if you're ready to find yours and change it.

    How You Lost Yourself (And the Narrative That Keeps You Buried)

  4. 10 Sept

    We Wait to Live

    Two weeks after the accident, Kapil's surgeon showed him the photo. A tendon cut clean through, a nerve repaired with four micro stitches under a microscope. One thin thread, holding a whole hand together. A short, raw episode on the realisation that followed. That life hangs by exactly that kind of thread, and still we wait. We wait for tomorrow to fix today, wait for the weekend to live, wait for the apology before we love, wait to matter. And one question to sit with tonight: what are you actually postponing, and is your reason real, or just a rationalisation?

    We Wait to Live

  5. 6 Sept

    The beast of balance that is eating your present and future!

    Kapil and Shilpa, together, take apart the goal almost everyone walks in with. Balance. Shilpa on how a perfectly balanced, perfectly structured life quietly kept her in the average lane for years, and why inviting the right imbalance is how you build your best life. Kapil on the famous study that tracked thousands of people for decades and found stress itself was never the killer, believing stress is bad for you was. Plus the accident that taught him what all that multitasking masculine energy was costing, where presence actually lives, and this week's assignment: a conversation about imbalance with someone you love.

    The beast of balance that is eating your present and future!

  6. 4 Sept

    Why Being Underestimated Is the Best Thing That Can Happen to You

    The accent. The quiet person. The name they cannot pronounce. Everyone tells you to fix it. Kapil on the boss with a thick accent who turned being underestimated into the sharpest weapon of his career, and why the only thing spoiling your advantage is your apology for it.

    Why Being Underestimated Is the Best Thing That Can Happen to You

  7. 2 Sept

    Why Envy Is A Valid Emotion You Have

    You feel that small, hot twist when someone else gets the thing, and you bury it immediately, because you were taught envy is ugly. Kapil on why that twist is the most accurate information you own, why your goals list lies and your envy never does, and a one-week audit that turns the emotion you're ashamed of into a map of what you actually want.

    Why Envy Is A Valid Emotion You Have

  8. 31 Aug

    The Severe Accident Last Monday That Gave Me a Second Life

    A week ago, Kapil nearly lost his hand, and it could have been far worse. On the phone, distracted, wrestling a stuck dishwasher, a knife went fifteen millimetres into his hand, a fraction from an artery. On the three ifs that make this a second life, what a stranger's story in the hospital taught him about time, why the go-getter was not the one who got hurt, and the one shift he is carrying out of it.

    The Severe Accident Last Monday That Gave Me a Second Life
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Kapil Kulshreshtha and Shilpa are the founders of Transform with Kashi, a career coaching podcast for professionals who want to get promoted, increase their salary, and finally move ahead at work. On Transform with Kashi, Kapil and Shilpa reveal why hard work alone doesn't get you noticed, and what does: career strategy, workplace visibility, salary negotiation, and the mindset shifts that separate top performers from everyone else. Each episode answers real career questions from professionals across 21 countries, covering promotions, career clarity, executive presence, salary growth, and personal transformation. Follow for practical career advice, promotion strategies, and mindset coaching to help you get ahead faster.

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  • Creator
    Kapil Kulshreshtha & Shilpa Kulshreshtha
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kapil Kulshreshtha & Shilpa Kulshreshtha 2026
  • Show Website
    Transform with Kashi