Happy & Human
The podcast for over-educated, busy, and ambitious South Asian professionals and entrepreneurs. In each episode, Seema and Dinesh will dive into the philosophies, strategies, and tools that can help you live happier, healthier, productive, and fulfilled lives with more success.
They will be talking about things that help you think, do, and be better in wide-ranging areas around the five pillars of a good life: health, wealth, love, happiness, and impact — to empower you to reach your highest potential without compromising what’s important.
Dr. Seema Desai is a dentist, certified professional coach, and author of the book, “Connected: Discovering Your Inner Guides.” She is also a devoted wife and proud mother to two children, as well as an advocate for creating learning equality in children in underserved countries through her work with Pratham USA.
Dinesh Melwani is a law firm partner, author, speaker, and certified success and results coach. He is an internationally-recognized patent attorney that works with hi-tech clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 clients. He also believes deeply in the potential and capability inside of everyone. In addition, he is a loving father and husband.
Join Seema and Dinesh each week as they explore, from the male and female South Asian perspectives, what makes you individually and uniquely happy and human, and what tools and insights allow us to reach that next level and beyond. You will learn how to level up your mindset, develop the needed leadership skills in your career and personal life, and learn how to live up to your potential.
Happy & Human
Your Primal Intention is to Uplift - Elevating Communities with Vidya Moorthy
Join Seema and Vidya Moorthy in this episode where they discuss the value of a genuine interest in others, finding courage to dismiss preconceived rules and notions and more. Vidya shares why she believes we all have the responsibility to make it easier for someone else in some way and why our primal intention is to uplift others. They discuss the challenges women in particular face when it comes to expectations and the power in choosing the values and rules we actually want to instill - both for ourselves and those around us.
Vidya Moorthy is President of Austin Business Woman and Founder of Austin-based Clural LLC, is a communication strategist, public speaker and a specialist in geopolitics, cross-cultural training, professional development and inter-personal communication.
She served as vice-president of Client Services at Bassett & Bassett, Incorporated, a strategic communication management firm head-quartered at Detroit, Michigan, where worked closely with community leaders, local media, legislators, lobbyists, and organizations on both corporate marketing campaigns as well as grassroots public information campaigns.
She then served as the Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Operations for Bassett & Bassett. Dedicated to making a meaningful contribution to the field of education, she founded Bassett Education India, a Life Skills training solution for students, teachers and professionals. Recognizing that effective communication is the key to professional and personal success, she is an expert trainer in psychological skills, emotional skills, non-verbal communication, networking, email etiquette, global sensitivities, media relations and nuances of different styles of communication across cultures. During her expansive professional career she has worked with teams from all over the world including European, Japanese, American and African teams. She relocated to Austin in 2021 and her company, Clural LLC provides training programs and strategic communication services for organizations and college students. Clural offers specially designed campus-to-corporate program for international students that helps them merge with their adopted country and accelerates their careers.
Connect with Vidya Moorthy:
Website: www.austinbusinesswoman.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidya.moorthy.5/
Links:
Dinesh Melwani http://www.dineshmelwani.com IG @dineshmelwani
Seema Desai http://www.drseemadesai.com, IG @dr.seemadesai
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