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Inspired by the punjabi roadside resting place, DHABA is a podcast that invites pause, perspective, and peppered wisdom. Each episode brings together cooks, caretakers, bridge-builders and makers whose craft speaks louder than credentials. DHABA is a resting place for restless minds, where experience is the spice and conversation the fuel.

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Charmaine Wyland Customer Journey Fixes That Actually Stick

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Johnson Kanjirathingal A Traveller’s Guide To Indian Football Culture

Send us Fan Mail Indian football doesn’t feel like one story, it feels like thousands of local ones happening at once. That’s why we sat down with Johnson Kanjrethingal, founder of Sportfolio Productions, to trace the game where it actually lives: in schools, village tournaments, crowded stands, and communities that keep playing even when the system makes it hard. If you’ve ever wondered what “football culture in India” really means beyond highlights and hot takes, this conversation gives you a vivid, on-the-ground answer. We dig into Sportfolio’s documentary series Traveller’s Guide to Indian Football, filmed over nearly two years across multiple states. Johnson breaks down what makes each place distinct: Kolkata’s deep identity and history, Punjab’s athlete-first mindset and academy pipeline, Hyderabad’s fading heritage that still refuses to disappear, Kashmir’s football as escape and opportunity, and Sikkim’s festival-like tournaments plus a rare look at Baichung Bhutia’s journey. One of the most memorable moments comes from a plan that fell apart and turned into the purest footage they captured: a group of 40+ mums in Sikkim training for an Independence Day final created so they could have fun and compete. We also get straight into the difficult questions around the Indian football ecosystem: the confusing pyramid, league uncertainty, sponsorship hesitation, and the leadership vacuum that leaves clubs, federation, and commercial partners pulling in different directions. Johnson shares why youth wins like Minerva Academy’s international results matter, but also why the real test is converting talent into senior success. If you care about grassroots football, Indian football documentaries, football sponsorship in India, and what it will actually take to build a sustainable future, you’ll leave with sharper context and more hope than you expect. If this conversation adds something to your view of the game, subscribe, share it with a football friend, and leave a review so more people find these stories. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Vito Turitto Reading The Pulse Of Prices

Send us Fan Mail Most people glance at a price and move on. Vito Turito looks at that same number and sees a heartbeat: volatility, risk, and the hidden story of how markets actually feel. From our shared days around energy benchmarks to his work as a quant strategist and published researcher, Vito breaks down why the “vibration” around price often matters more than the price level itself. We get practical about what it takes to turn modern market data into decisions you can stand behind. There’s no shortage of information in crude oil, diesel, LNG, freight rates and derivatives, but there is a shortage of interpretation. We talk about statistics, econometrics, options implied volatility and why volatility is both threat and opportunity for commodity trading, hedging strategies and real-world risk management. We also tackle AI in finance head-on: what machine learning is great at, what large language models cannot do without training, and why paywalls and intellectual property make a fully open “all-knowing” model unlikely. Vito shares a more realistic future: internal analytics, private agents, and humans staying responsible for the “why” when things go wrong. If energy and shipping markets feel more chaotic than ever, this is a clear guide to thinking about uncertainty with sharper tools and stronger discipline. Subscribe, share this with a colleague who lives with price risk, and leave a review with your biggest question about volatility. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Shriya Lohia - India’s Teen Formula 4 Trailblazer

Send us Fan Mail A 17-year-old racing driver from India looks you in the eye and says her goal is Formula One and suddenly your idea of what “normal” looks like changes. I’m incredibly proud to be joined by Shriya Lohia, a female Formula 4 driver who started racing at nine after a family road trip detour into a go-karting track and never looked back. She’s already made history in Indian F4, and she talks with refreshing honesty about what it takes to keep progressing when the sport is expensive, the pathway is uncertain, and the stereotypes still hang around. We get into the real craft of racing, not just the headlines. Shriya explains why driver-engineer communication is a competitive weapon, how small set-up changes matter in a spec series like Formula 4, and why her dad’s best advice is to “go annoy the engineer”. Off track, she shares the routines that keep her steady on race weekends: music that flips her mindset from pressure to focus, plus meditation and journalling to clear mental clutter before she straps in. Then we zoom out to the bigger question: what would it take for motorsport in India to truly scale and for Formula One to return? We talk fan culture, sponsorship, investment, the Buddh International Circuit dream, and why backing Indian drivers can be the catalyst for an entire ecosystem. If you care about Formula 1, Formula 4, women in motorsport, or the future of Indian sport, this one will stick with you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves racing, and leave a review with your take: what’s the single biggest thing India needs to unlock its motorsport potential? Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Martin Dowson Transformation Design Leader - Designing Trust

Send us Fan Mail You can feel it when a system is built to extract rather than to serve. The language sounds caring, the journeys feel cold, and every “customer first” promise collapses the moment incentives kick in. That tension drives our conversation with Martin Dowson, an interim design leader and adviser who’s spent decades helping executives change how their organisations make decisions, not just how their products look. We move from boardroom strategy to street-level research: what happens when a bank takes its purpose seriously and asks ordinary people what “prosperity” actually means. Martin explains how human-centred design, service design, systems thinking, and ethnography can reveal the real barriers that stop organisations delivering good outcomes. We also dig into why financial health connects directly to mental health and physical health, and how treating every person in arrears as the same “process” quietly creates harm. The conversation doesn’t dodge the hard bits. We revisit the PPI era as a cautionary tale about box-ticking compliance, then connect it to today’s AI governance debate and the risk of a new scandal built on “we didn’t know” while the warning signs were visible. Along the way we explore principles-based regulation, outcome-based regulation, consumer duty, and why “visibility is accountability” is more than a slogan. If you care about design leadership, customer centred transformation, trust in banking, and building ethical technology with real governance, this one will give you language, stories, and practical ways to think. Subscribe, share with a colleague who owns decisions, and leave us a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Maya Sellon Accessibility & Inclusive design specialist Design for everyone

Send us Fan Mail What if accessibility wasn’t a hurdle at the finish line but the spark that makes products shine for everyone? We sit down with accessibility specialist Maya Selin to unpack how inclusive design moves from checklists to genuine human impact—and why that shift boosts creativity, market reach, and team morale. Maya traces her path from early web days and brand governance to a people-first practice rooted in standards like WCAG and ISO, yet animated by real user insight. She explains how audits rise with new regulations such as the European Accessibility Act, but enforcement alone can’t replace empathy. The breakthrough comes when teams see that options beat perfection: strong structure, semantic HTML, clear labels and contrast form the base, then flexible controls, captions, and keyboard flows open doors for more users and more contexts. We explore AI’s double edge. Tools like Be My Eyes with GPT can expand independence by describing scenes and guiding tasks, yet models also inherit bias, over-weight dominant languages, and sometimes hallucinate. Maya makes the case for resilient, multi-modal experiences that serve screen readers, magnifiers, voice, text, and keyboard alike—because accessibility that helps assistive tech also improves AI parsing and overall usability. Along the way, we talk culture change: moving accessibility from an afterthought to a shared habit across discovery, design, and engineering, with real users involved early and often. If you build digital products, lead teams, or care about customer experience, you’ll find practical ways to embed inclusion from day one and avoid costly rework later. Come for the standards, stay for the joy: accessible products are not just compliant—they’re clearer, faster, and more humane. Enjoy the conversation, then subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review telling us one change you’ll ship this week to include more users. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Dr. Gyles Morrison MBBS MSc Clinical UX Strategist From Ward To Wireframes

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Dr Giles Morrison, a former NHS doctor turned clinical UX strategist, to unpack why healthcare needs a distinct approach to design and how better products can make care safer, kinder and fairer. We explore burnout, equity, AI’s limits and the craft of behaviour change that sticks. • Coining clinical UX as a distinct discipline focused on clinicians and patients • Why generalist UX transfers but requires deep healthcare learning • Frontline medicine pressures, burnout and human factors • Push and pull from practice to design and strategy • The role of HCI training, mentorship and shared language • Health inequality, policy and the moral duty of inclusive design • AI strengths in synthesis and risks of bias and overconfidence • Cultural nuance, informed consent and the danger of half‑knowledge • Behaviour change beyond notifications, designing humane nudges • Joy, self‑care and sustaining impact beyond the ward • Where to find Giles and how to connect Find me on LinkedIn: search for Dr Giles Morrison. You know it’s me because there’s a stethoscope emoji at the start of my name. I’m happy to offer my support and help with you on your journey in this career. Whether you’re new to UX as a clinician trying to get into digital health, please do reach out. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Jose Coronado and Martin Dowson FRSA - Design’s Pendulum: Staying Relevant In Turbulent Times

Send us Fan Mail What if design could move at the speed of AI without losing its soul? We sit down with two veteran leaders, Martin and Jose, to explore how teams can stay relevant when the pendulum swings from hype to hard results. From early usability labs to enterprise-scale delivery, they unpack how human-centred practice earns trust when it aligns with strategy, operations, and measurable business outcomes. The conversation hits the big levers. We dig into AI fluency as a new material of production and how Agentic workflows turn a design brief into a working, branded prototype in an hour—connected to code and ready for stakeholder review. That speed matters if it creates space to think ahead, so we draw a sharp line between continuous improvement and bigger bets that demand deeper qualification. Ethics isn’t a slide at the end; it’s part of the operating model. We talk outcomes-based regulation in Europe, human responsibility for agents, and why “move fast” must come with transparent decisions, harm awareness, and consequence management. We also get practical about enablement. Jose breaks down design ops as a context-driven function: securing compliant tools, fixing onboarding and engagement, standing up QBRs that show impact, and making portfolio health visible. Martin challenges leaders to spread core design skills beyond the team—journey thinking, customer exposure, and light research—so capability survives market cycles. Together they argue for blending product and design ops around discovery and delivery, and for investing in apprenticeships and entry-level growth so the next generation builds judgment, not just outputs. If you’re a design, product, or engineering leader navigating AI, regulation, and quarterly pressure, this conversation offers a clear path: experiment with new materials, protect human values, and use the time saved by automation to design the future, not just ship the next ticket. Enjoy the episode, then subscribe, share with a peer, and drop us a note with your biggest leadership challenge—we’ll tackle it next. Support the show DHABA Brewed slowly. served warmly. crafted with care

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Inspired by the punjabi roadside resting place, DHABA is a podcast that invites pause, perspective, and peppered wisdom. Each episode brings together cooks, caretakers, bridge-builders and makers whose craft speaks louder than credentials. DHABA is a resting place for restless minds, where experience is the spice and conversation the fuel.

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