The Midlife Station Rupesh Nahar

On the show today we have with us Commander Bimal Raj who has served the Indian Navy and our country for 17 long years. He is indeed a multi-talented person from being an Internationally certified trainer, executive coach to being an entrepreneur and founder of Insightful Parent

Being bedridden for 2 long years in a hospital, Commander Bimal Raj is a perfect testimony to how one can develop a strong mindset.

After serving for the Indian Navy for 17+ years, he successfully reinvented himself during his midlife not only by being part of an elite team of world-class trainers and facilitators under Blair Singer, the Rich Dad Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki but also by living his passion for parenting through his own entrepreneurial venture Insightful parents

He is also 1st Indian trainer for T Harv Eker's signature and world-class life-transforming program Millionaire Mind Intensive or MMI. Thanks to Success Gyan - India's largest Seminar Organizer, today MMI is made accessible to people of India

Through this entrepreneurial venture Insightful Parent, he dreams of building better and stronger relationships between parents and their kids



Key Points we discussed:

•Experience with Serving Indian Navy and How he developed a strong mindset
•Overcome self-limiting beliefs and developing never say die attitude
•Developing a strong relationship with money
•Challenges with Parenting and how the 6C Parenting framework is helping parents to overcome these challenges

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Timestamp

•04:50 - What kind of family culture did he grow up with?
•07:03 - Reason behind being the 1st one ever in the family to join Indian Navy?
•09:08 -Experience that helped him develop a strong mindset?
•14:55 - Why does one have self-limiting beliefs?
•19:42 - How to develop a never say die attitude?
•21:20 - How did he reinvent himself post retiring from the Indian navy?
•25:26 - How to overcome limiting beliefs around money?
•30:32 - How did he pivot into the parenting field?
•35:15 - How to handle stubbornness when it comes to kid's?
•40:16 - How Parent can be friends with teenagers?
•44:34 - 6 C Framework for parenting
•51:28 - Quickfire segment

Do you try to restrict your inner true potential from coming out? Have you been guilty of not Playing it Full?

In this episode, we have with us Kapil Kulshreshtha who is is the CEO of Scintillate, a company dedicated to helping working professionals find their power zone and build a life of impact, abundance, and joy.

After 2 decades of working in senior leadership positions, Kapil felt the need to discover his inner calling and do what really matters to him. He realized that he had deliberately engineered smallness in his life by focusing on the standard parameters of success.

And in a significant leap, Kapil started on the journey of playing it full, be it losing 16 KG in 16 weeks or leaving his high paying job and pursuing his dream of helping others come out of their self-limiting beliefs and giving it all

This has been one of the most heartful discussions I have had. I found Kapil to be a person who is quite energetic, authentic and one who doesn't shy away in sharing his true inner feelings to the outside world, be it feeling of joy, pain, fears, dreams, or accomplishments.


Key Points we discussed:

•The back story behind the concept of Playing it Full
•Self-limiting beliefs and how to overcome them?
•Adopting Play it full philosophy in everyone's life
•Key elements of building a personal brand

Timestamp

•03:53 : What is the reason behind the energetic Kapil?
•06:15 : Back Story behind Playing it full philosophy?
•11:15 : Key challenges around self-limiting beliefs that Kapil faced during the corporate journey?
•16:16 : Did Kapil experience moments where he overcame self-limiting beliefs?
•22:04 : How did he transition out of job?
•26:31 : What is play it full philosophy?
•30:33 : What is the time period of transitioning into Play it Full mode?
•35:50 : What are the key elements of building your personal brand?
•38:03 : Quickfire segment

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Do you find it difficult to adopt a saving mindset or wonder how to come out of Debt or want to work on alternate sources of Income?

On the show today we have with us, Pardeep Goyal - Founder of Award-Winning Personal Finance Blog, CashOverFlow which was awarded as the best personal finance blog in 2017 by Indiblogger. He is passionate about sharing his expert insights on value investing,money-saving hacks, and creating an alternate source of income

Prior to starting Cashoverflow, he did face failure in a couple of startups during their initial year of operations. However, these failures didn't deter him from following his passion and becoming one of the key influencers in India in the content writing industry

He has also published numerous insightful articles around Entrepreneurship, PR & Growth Hacking on StartupKarma and Yourstory

Key Points we discussed:

•In the 1st half, we focus on financial challenges that come in during midlife, the challenges related to debts, savings mindset, and also around generating alternate sources of income
•In the latter half, we pick up Pardeep's brain around the future of the content industry, key success principles required in the content business, and how one can become an expert in producing content.

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Key Takeaways

•If you have badly stuck in debt then as the first step try segregating debts, between high v/s low-interest one. Try to close high-interest ones like a credit card, either through your savings or by selling things that you do not need. Once this gets fixed, you can move the focus on low-interest ones by using part of your income that you earn on a monthly basis


•One needs to understand the difference between Saving and Investment and shouldn't mix both of them. The primary purpose of Saving is to preserve the money by ensuring it grows at par with inflation whereas the goal of the investment is to earn money and beat inflation. If needed, always hire an investment advisor who can guide you in your investment journey


•Whether you are working on your business or for a company, consistency is the key element that separates successful people from the rest. Ensure that you are consistent in whatever you do, it may be producing content every day or doing exercise every day or taking ownership and showing up every time when there are problems or challenges that you encounter while working in your company or in your business.

Timestamp:-

•03:32 - Why Cashoverflow was started?
•04:55 - Experience and learnings from failed startups
•07:26 - Why he chose finance as a niche for content writing business?
•08:41 - What specific Finance topics Pardeep wanted to share through his writing?
•10:50 - Why do people fall into the debt trap?
•13:46 - How to come out of debt?
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Do You want to Master the Art of Public Speaking?

Our Guest Brenden Kumarasamy, is the founder of MasterTalk, that he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication.

He coaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world

Brenden believes anyone can become confident public speakers and storytellers. From students to CEO's Brenden teaches you how to master your speeches, presentations, and solicitations.

Further, He also speaks on how to present amazing online presentations and how to craft the perfect pitch.

If there's one word that describes him, it has to be Impact.

Key Points we discussed:

•Brenden's Love for public speaking
•Key elements to the structure of a speech
•How to deliver an impactful speech
•How to prepare for corporate presentation
•Importance of storytelling and voice modulation in Public Speaking

Time Stamps:

•03:50 - How Brenden discovered love for public speaking?
•05:08 - Why he chose public speaking to add meaning to his life?
•07:58 - How was his first public speaking experience?
•10:28 - What kind of fears people have for public speaking?
•12:27 - How to have good content and structure for your speech?
•15:10 - How to have an impactful introduction and conclusion?
•19:12 - Preparation that needs to be done before making a corporate presentation?
•21:50 - Exercises that one can do before heading for presentations?
•23:02 - How to get better at voice modulation and voice pitch?
•26:53 - How to use storytelling in your speeches?
•30:41 - Quickfire segment


Key Takeaways

•When preparing for your speech align it with a jigsaw puzzle. As in puzzle, you start from corners, when it comes to speech preparation, Start with Introduction and Conclusion. Practice them at least 50 to 100 times and only this single activity will make you confident than ever before when you go to deliver your speech.


•A good way to structure your speech is to open up with an idea, defend the idea in the body of the speech, and in conclusion share with the audience how the world would be different if the idea gets implemented.


•Ask yourself 1 hard question every day. You can do it in front of a mirror, Make this mirror as your accountability mirror where you become vulnerable and come up with answers to these hard-hitting questions and challenging yourself to become a better version of yourself by providing answers to these questions.

Can one live and balance a passionate life along with a Professional and Personal one?

Our Guest Sargam Mishra, an Energy Guru & Conscious Business expert is following her Passion of Pranic healing along with handling her professional and Personal life

Sargam is a successful Energy Coach and helps people curate life and business that they love using energy healing art of healing which is famously called Pranic healing. She is a Conscious Lifestyle Entrepreneur and has coached 1000+ people to live a successful and fulfilling life.

She believes that the soul grows by giving and has a mission to feed 1 Million Meals by 2025 through her community-based initiative Zero Hunger Drive that runs in 9 cities across India.

She is also an International Author and Host of The Millionaire Way Podcast.


Key Points we discussed:

•Road to Passion Discovery
•Balancing between Personal, Professional, and Passion life
•Pranic healing & its benefits
•Key to learning a subject and going from being a novice to becoming an expert
Time Stamps:

•03:46- How was childhood culture while going up?
•06:06- How did Sargam discover a passion for Pranic healing?
•12:40- What is Pranic healing?
•14:33 - Can Pranic healing heal things that science may still find difficult to?
•17:22 - Can anyone learn the art of Pranic healing or is it only for a select few?
•18:26 - How to learn a subject as to go from a novice to being an expert?
•21:37 - How to keep the focus on learning in a way where one doesn't get distracted with the plethora of information available on the internet?
•24:50 - Struggles faced in balancing passion, work, and personal life?
•30:20 - How Pranic healing helps in stress management
•35:28 - How Pranic healing can be used to get better t health day 2-day basis
•37:56 - The millionaire way podcast- what is it all about
•40:10 - Quickfire Round


Key Takeaways

•It is possible to leave a passionate life along with your professional and personal one. The key is to first optimize and detach yourself in areas where work can be delegated or replaced and then work towards not living 3 different lives but instead combining passion, professional and personal life into one single life


•Learning never stops. Quick hack to learn about your new found passion area is to find 10 to 12 successful people in that niche and study them, follow them, find mistakes that they did and best practices they followed. - Remember you can always emulate their success by eliminating the mistakes they did in their journey


•For our well being, While we may usually be aware and have a focus on our physical aspect, it is equally important to have that focus and alignment on the remaining 3/4th portion as well which is nothing but our Spiritual, Mental, and emotional aspect, Kindly Don't neglect them and ensure they are in alignment by connecting yourself with your body, soul and energy through meditation or any other techniques so as to keep these areas healthy as well as blissful

Let's finally welcome the New Year 2021 with new hopes, new dreams, new outlook & new stories.

With this episode, I thought of doing a recap of the key learning that we have had from the path-breakers who came to the show. There was one thing in common in all of them and that's what I plan to share with you in this episode.

Let's ring in 2021 with the goal of being a transformed version of ourselves and work on having our Version 2.0 much better than our Version 1.0

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