Be Brand Wise HT Smartcast

In this episode, Ashutosh Garg converses with Shobha Mohan, Founder, RARE India. Shobha is a Zoology graduate who pursued Journalism later on.

Shobha talks about her early life and career. She talks about how moving to Delhi from Vizag turned her life around. Being a travel enthusiast, she talks about how she started RARE India, a unique travel company.

Shobha defines the term ‘conscious luxury travel’. She tells how the experiences are more important than the destination itself. Experience is 'the new luxury'- she introduces the concept of ‘experiential hotels’.

In this episode, Ashutosh Garg engages in a conversation with Poornima Vardhan, Founder and CEO- 335th Clothing. 

Poornima reminisces about her early career and learning in life. She shares the success story of 335th, her startup in premium clothing. She inspires us by telling the tale of building a brand brick-by-brick. She talks about the challenges she encountered before entering the league of successful entrepreneurs.

In this episode, Ashutosh Garg engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Niru Kumar, a medical doctor, psychologist, and a ‘diversity and inclusion’ consultant.

Niru explains ‘diversity and inclusion consultation’ and its significance. He talks about working as a doctor for 28 years and then moving on to coaching. She tells how the rich experience helped her excel in coaching.

Niru proceeds to talk about the ‘women leadership program’. She shares the challenges she faced in her career. She analyzes the role played by the millennials and Gen-Z in today’s world.

Rupak Agarwal went from 26 years as a corporate professional to an entrepreneur in the AI field, as well as a coach to young leaders. His venture, EvueMe is a selection robot that simplifies the hiring process and weeds out candidates based on several technical and behavioural attributes. It is completely redoing the recruitment process by making it a lot more efficient and clinical. 

“Have you ever had a situation where you ended up making the wrong choice, even after three to five rounds of assessments? Now imagine if there was a way in which all your potential candidates are ranked on all competencies required for the job. The amount of time and effort you will save. So EvueMe is your on-demand robot interviewer for your candidates which does various kinds of assessments with them through a robot. Ranks them on all competencies required for the job using artificial intelligence.”

On today's episode, host Ashutosh Garg engages with an extremely talented and accomplished woman, Mrs. Puja Bhakoo. Mrs. Bhakoo is a Tapestry Artist, a writer, blogger as well as a poet!

Talking about the new generation, Mrs. Bhakoo mentioned that since tapestry making is labour intensive, not a lot of people consider it as a commercial option. Mrs. Bhakoo's inspiration is life itself. She suggests learning from failure and to keep moving forward!

Ashutosh Garg engages with Mr Litesh Gumber on the show today. Mr Gumber is the founder of QuadB, a completely customisable apparel brand.

Mr Garg and Mr Gumber engaged in a very interesting conversation about customised apparel and it's procedures. They also discussed the competition in the textile industry. Mr Gumber explained the division of with through a very interesting virtual assembly system.