Innerpreneur Journeys

Ash Abraham
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Innerpreneur Journeys:A Library of Lived WisdomWhat if the most important work we'll ever do isn't what we build - but who we become while building it? An Innerpreneur is someone who invests in their inner life with the same intention that an entrepreneur invests in building a venture -because they know who we become shapes everything we create. We live in a world overflowing with information. AI can answer almost any question. Yet many of us still struggle with the ones that matter most. Who am I beyond my achievements and roles? What does a truly fulfilling life look like? How do I navigate change without losing myself? For most of human history, we explored these questions through conversation - around dinner tables, across generations, in communities, and through stories. Today, many of us are left trying to answer them alone. Innerpreneur Journeys exists to bridge that gap. This is a living library of honest conversations exploring the inner journey behind meaningful work, purposeful living, and what it means to become more fully ourselves. Each 15 minute episode explores enduring human questions through the lens of someone who has genuinely lived it - not from a stage or a book, but through their own lived experience. We sit with founders and parents, artists and athletes, scientists and spiritual teachers, creatives and healers, environmentalists and activists, thinkers and seekers. People willing to speak openly about what life has taught them - and what it's still teaching them. Just real conversations about the questions that shape us all. Episodes are organised into thematic shelves - Identity, Purpose, Failure, Love, Grief, Belonging, Transitions, Enough, and more - so you can explore the library through the question you're living, not simply the guest you're listening to. I'm Ash, your host and fellow traveller. I've rebuilt more than once - through the kind of loss that strips away the roles you thought made you who you are - and come out the other side more myself, not less. I don't have all the answers. What I do have is a deep curiosity about what helps people live with greater clarity, courage, and authenticity. Time and again, I've found that one honest conversation, with the right person, at the right moment, can quietly change the way we see ourselves - and our lives. Because wisdom isn't about knowing the most. It's about transforming what we've lived into the way we lead, love, choose, and show up in the world. This isn't a podcast to binge once and forget. It's a library you'll return to - because each time you do, you'll be different, and so will what you discover. Welcome to Innerpreneur Journeys.

  1. Oct 6

    5.3 Shruthi Bopaiah: If AI Can Do Almost Everything, What’s Left for Us?

    If AI can do almost everything, what’s left for us? In the final chapter with Shruthi Bopaiah, Head of Customer Obsession at Axis Bank, the conversation turns to AI, human connection and what still makes us human in a world where AI can do more and more. What’s in it for you?As AI changes how we work, think and decide, what will still matter most about being human? You’ll hear why Shruthi believes passion and connection are two things worth holding on to, why face-to-face interactions still matter, and what we might lose when AI replaces conversations we would once have had with other people. Shruthi also reflects on her own relationship with AI, from using it to learn and think through problems to a growing concern: are we starting to treat AI as a source of truth? And as the conversation comes to a close, it returns to the human relationships that shape us, from the people we trust enough to see the raw version of ourselves to the small moments that keep those relationships strong. Because even as AI changes how we live and work, there are still extraordinary moments to be found in an ordinary life. Chapters: 00:00 — What AI Can Never Replace 02:04 — Why Human Connection Still Matters 02:53 — AI Can Build It, But Can It Create Belief? 03:42 — What Makes Us Human in an AI World? 05:39 — The Two Human Superpowers AI Can’t Replicate 08:57 — The Promise and the Fear of an AI Future 13:25 — Finding the Courage to Choose Your Own Life

  2. Oct 6

    5.2 Shruthi Bopaiah: What If You Don’t Want the Life Everyone Expects?

    What if your life doesn’t follow the usual script? In episode 5.1, Shruthi Bopaiah, Head of Customer Obsession at Axis Bank, shared how she built a career without having it all figured out. In this chapter, the conversation gets more personal, moving into loss, relationships and one of the biggest choices she has made in her life. What’s in it for you?If you’ve ever questioned a life choice that seemed obvious to everyone else, or wondered whether you might regret choosing differently, there’s a lot to take from Shruthi’s story. Shruthi also opens up about her decision not to have children, including the years of “Should we? Shouldn’t we?”, watching friends become parents, wondering if she might change her mind, and eventually reaching a place where she can say she has no regrets. The conversation also explores what that choice means for a relationship. Does a marriage need children to feel complete? Where else can nurturing and meaning show up in your life? And how do you separate what you genuinely want from what you’ve simply grown up believing you should want? Chapters: 00:00 Choosing a Life Without Children 00:28 Meet Shruthi Bopaiah 01:43 What Grief Taught Me 04:08 Choosing Not to Have Children 07:17 Will I Regret Not Having Kids? 09:43 “Do I Really Want to Be a Mother?” 10:35 Advice for Women on the Fence 12:28 Does a Relationship Need Children? 14:02 Building a Life Together, Separately

  3. Oct 6

    5.1 Shruthi Bopaiah: Taking the Shot, Playing to Your Strengths & Building a Good Life

    What if you didn’t need to have your whole life figured out before taking the next shot? Shruthi Bopaiah is Head of Customer Obsession at Axis Bank, with a career spanning HR, communications, digital marketing, sales and banking. But there was never a grand career plan behind it. Her path was shaped by opportunities, relationships, instinct and a willingness to take the next shot. What’s in it for you? If you’re figuring out your career, questioning your next move, or simply wondering what you want a good life to look like, there’s a lot to borrow from Shruthi’s story. You’ll hear why playing to your strengths can matter more than following a predetermined path, the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, and how genuine relationships can open doors you may not even know exist. You’ll also hear a refreshingly simple way to think about life: do your best where you are, make time for yourself, stay connected to the people and things you love, and find ways to give back. And perhaps most importantly, don’t wait until you’re completely certain. Sometimes, you just have to take that damn shot. Chapters: 00:00 Just take that damn shot! | Highlights 00:13 Welcome to Innerpreneur Journeys 00:37 Meet Shruthi Bopaiah 01:50 Extraordinary moments in an ordinary life 02:08 What sports teach us about life 03:53 Why team sports matter 04:44 Inside Customer Obsession 07:28 A career without a straight line 08:29 Mentors vs. sponsors 10:00 Building genuine relationships 11:14 Advice that stayed with her 12:31 What makes a good life? 13:31 Playing to your strengths

  4. Sep 14

    4.5 Shruti S: Learning to Listen & Trust Your Intuition

    Chemistry major. Then finance, at Merrill Lynch in New York. Then — barely a year in — gone. Shruti Shibulal has rebuilt her working life roughly every five years since: co-founding a restaurant company in Bangalore in 2008 while taking an MBA at Columbia, building The Tamara Coorg on a 170-acre working plantation, growing Tamara Leisure Experiences tenfold as CEO between 2018 and 2025, and then choosing to step out of the CEO seat and into the Executive Vice Chair role to steward what she'd built rather than run it. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and now sits on the board of an AI company rethinking how hospitality makes decisions. What connects all of it isn't ambition. It's a pattern of noticing, early and honestly, when a chapter is done. In this episode of Innerpreneur Journeys, Ash opens Shruti's book: how you choose change instead of waiting to be changed, what a calling actually sounds like when it first shows up, and how you raise children who can handle a world that won't hold still. We dig into: Choosing change — the difference between accepting it and embracing itWalking away from finance a year in, and what it taught her about callingTrusting intuition when the obvious next step says otherwiseLeading through disruption, and what changes when you stop being the one in chargeDreaming big while raising independent kids — and helping children navigate change without absorbing our anxiety about itThe one page from her story she wants you to live this week Innerpreneur Journeys is a library of lived wisdom — stories from people who walk the talk, make conscious choices, and rewrite scripts. Open a book, borrow a page.

  5. Sep 14

    4.4 Shruti S: Navigating Transitions & Leadership Through Disruption

    Chemistry major. Then finance, at Merrill Lynch in New York. Then — barely a year in — gone. Shruti Shibulal has rebuilt her working life roughly every five years since: co-founding a restaurant company in Bangalore in 2008 while taking an MBA at Columbia, building The Tamara Coorg on a 170-acre working plantation, growing Tamara Leisure Experiences tenfold as CEO between 2018 and 2025, and then choosing to step out of the CEO seat and into the Executive Vice Chair role to steward what she'd built rather than run it. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and now sits on the board of an AI company rethinking how hospitality makes decisions. What connects all of it isn't ambition. It's a pattern of noticing, early and honestly, when a chapter is done. In this episode of Innerpreneur Journeys, Ash opens Shruti's book: how you choose change instead of waiting to be changed, what a calling actually sounds like when it first shows up, and how you raise children who can handle a world that won't hold still. We dig into: Choosing change — the difference between accepting it and embracing itWalking away from finance a year in, and what it taught her about callingTrusting intuition when the obvious next step says otherwiseLeading through disruption, and what changes when you stop being the one in chargeDreaming big while raising independent kids — and helping children navigate change without absorbing our anxiety about itThe one page from her story she wants you to live this week Innerpreneur Journeys is a library of lived wisdom — stories from people who walk the talk, make conscious choices, and rewrite scripts. Open a book, borrow a page.

  6. Sep 14

    4.3 Shruti S: Dreaming Big While Encouraging our Kids too

    Chemistry major. Then finance, at Merrill Lynch in New York. Then — barely a year in — gone. Shruti Shibulal has rebuilt her working life roughly every five years since: co-founding a restaurant company in Bangalore in 2008 while taking an MBA at Columbia, building The Tamara Coorg on a 170-acre working plantation, growing Tamara Leisure Experiences tenfold as CEO between 2018 and 2025, and then choosing to step out of the CEO seat and into the Executive Vice Chair role to steward what she'd built rather than run it. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and now sits on the board of an AI company rethinking how hospitality makes decisions. What connects all of it isn't ambition. It's a pattern of noticing, early and honestly, when a chapter is done. In this episode of Innerpreneur Journeys, Ash opens Shruti's book: how you choose change instead of waiting to be changed, what a calling actually sounds like when it first shows up, and how you raise children who can handle a world that won't hold still. We dig into: Choosing change — the difference between accepting it and embracing itWalking away from finance a year in, and what it taught her about callingTrusting intuition when the obvious next step says otherwiseLeading through disruption, and what changes when you stop being the one in chargeDreaming big while raising independent kids — and helping children navigate change without absorbing our anxiety about itThe one page from her story she wants you to live this week Innerpreneur Journeys is a library of lived wisdom — stories from people who walk the talk, make conscious choices, and rewrite scripts. Open a book, borrow a page.

  7. Sep 14

    4.2 Shruti S: Finding & Following Your Calling

    Chemistry major. Then finance, at Merrill Lynch in New York. Then — barely a year in — gone. Shruti Shibulal has rebuilt her working life roughly every five years since: co-founding a restaurant company in Bangalore in 2008 while taking an MBA at Columbia, building The Tamara Coorg on a 170-acre working plantation, growing Tamara Leisure Experiences tenfold as CEO between 2018 and 2025, and then choosing to step out of the CEO seat and into the Executive Vice Chair role to steward what she'd built rather than run it. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and now sits on the board of an AI company rethinking how hospitality makes decisions. What connects all of it isn't ambition. It's a pattern of noticing, early and honestly, when a chapter is done. In this episode of Innerpreneur Journeys, Ash opens Shruti's book: how you choose change instead of waiting to be changed, what a calling actually sounds like when it first shows up, and how you raise children who can handle a world that won't hold still. We dig into: Choosing change — the difference between accepting it and embracing itWalking away from finance a year in, and what it taught her about callingTrusting intuition when the obvious next step says otherwiseLeading through disruption, and what changes when you stop being the one in chargeDreaming big while raising independent kids — and helping children navigate change without absorbing our anxiety about itThe one page from her story she wants you to live this week Innerpreneur Journeys is a library of lived wisdom — stories from people who walk the talk, make conscious choices, and rewrite scripts. Open a book, borrow a page.

  8. Sep 14

    4.1 Shruti S: Intro, Accepting & Preparing for Change

    Chemistry major. Then finance, at Merrill Lynch in New York. Then — barely a year in — gone. Shruti Shibulal has rebuilt her working life roughly every five years since: co-founding a restaurant company in Bangalore in 2008 while taking an MBA at Columbia, building The Tamara Coorg on a 170-acre working plantation, growing Tamara Leisure Experiences tenfold as CEO between 2018 and 2025, and then choosing to step out of the CEO seat and into the Executive Vice Chair role to steward what she'd built rather than run it. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and now sits on the board of an AI company rethinking how hospitality makes decisions. What connects all of it isn't ambition. It's a pattern of noticing, early and honestly, when a chapter is done. In this episode of Innerpreneur Journeys, Ash opens Shruti's book: how you choose change instead of waiting to be changed, what a calling actually sounds like when it first shows up, and how you raise children who can handle a world that won't hold still. We dig into: Choosing change — the difference between accepting it and embracing itWalking away from finance a year in, and what it taught her about callingTrusting intuition when the obvious next step says otherwiseLeading through disruption, and what changes when you stop being the one in chargeDreaming big while raising independent kids — and helping children navigate change without absorbing our anxiety about itThe one page from her story she wants you to live this week Innerpreneur Journeys is a library of lived wisdom — stories from people who walk the talk, make conscious choices, and rewrite scripts. Open a book, borrow a page.

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Innerpreneur Journeys:A Library of Lived WisdomWhat if the most important work we'll ever do isn't what we build - but who we become while building it? An Innerpreneur is someone who invests in their inner life with the same intention that an entrepreneur invests in building a venture -because they know who we become shapes everything we create. We live in a world overflowing with information. AI can answer almost any question. Yet many of us still struggle with the ones that matter most. Who am I beyond my achievements and roles? What does a truly fulfilling life look like? How do I navigate change without losing myself? For most of human history, we explored these questions through conversation - around dinner tables, across generations, in communities, and through stories. Today, many of us are left trying to answer them alone. Innerpreneur Journeys exists to bridge that gap. This is a living library of honest conversations exploring the inner journey behind meaningful work, purposeful living, and what it means to become more fully ourselves. Each 15 minute episode explores enduring human questions through the lens of someone who has genuinely lived it - not from a stage or a book, but through their own lived experience. We sit with founders and parents, artists and athletes, scientists and spiritual teachers, creatives and healers, environmentalists and activists, thinkers and seekers. People willing to speak openly about what life has taught them - and what it's still teaching them. Just real conversations about the questions that shape us all. Episodes are organised into thematic shelves - Identity, Purpose, Failure, Love, Grief, Belonging, Transitions, Enough, and more - so you can explore the library through the question you're living, not simply the guest you're listening to. I'm Ash, your host and fellow traveller. I've rebuilt more than once - through the kind of loss that strips away the roles you thought made you who you are - and come out the other side more myself, not less. I don't have all the answers. What I do have is a deep curiosity about what helps people live with greater clarity, courage, and authenticity. Time and again, I've found that one honest conversation, with the right person, at the right moment, can quietly change the way we see ourselves - and our lives. Because wisdom isn't about knowing the most. It's about transforming what we've lived into the way we lead, love, choose, and show up in the world. This isn't a podcast to binge once and forget. It's a library you'll return to - because each time you do, you'll be different, and so will what you discover. Welcome to Innerpreneur Journeys.

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  • Creator
    Ash Abraham
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Ash Abraham
  • Show Website
    Innerpreneur Journeys