Episodes

  • Unlearning Silence: Finding Power in Your Voice with Elaine Ling Hering

    Unlearning Silence: Finding Power in Your Voice with Elaine Ling Hering
    Jul 15 2024
    In this episode, Ambika sits down with Elaine Ling Hering, author of “Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent and Live More Fully.” Together, they dive into the dynamics of silence, voice, power, and leadership. Elaine shares her journey and insights on how silence can stifle or empower us. They unpack the nuanced […]
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures with Sahaj Kaur Kohli

    Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures with Sahaj Kaur Kohli
    May 28 2024
    Ambika sits down with Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MAEd, LGPC, founder of @browngirltherapy and author of “But What Will People Say” to discuss (as her book’s subtitle so perfectly articulates), navigating mental health, identity, love, and family between cultures. This episode centers South Asian experiences, but topics apply to intersectional multicultural and immigrant experiences. Show Notes00:24 The […]
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    1 hr
  • The Common Language of Motherhood with Mother Tongue Magazine

    The Common Language of Motherhood with Mother Tongue Magazine
    May 2 2024
    In this episode of Corner Office Breakdowns, Ambika speaks with Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin, the co-founders of Mother Tongue Magazine, who sought to fill a gap in maternal narratives in media. They discuss the magazine’s mission to include diverse, authentic stories of motherhood, transforming the genre into one that resonates deeply and universally, regardless of one’s direct experience […]
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • The Discomfort of Wanting Wealth

    The Discomfort of Wanting Wealth
    Apr 17 2024
    Guest: Sarita Walsh Being Coach, Sarita Walsh joins Ambika to explore our cultural relationship with money. Our simultaneous fascination and distaste of wealth and the wealthy, and how we can stop and/or start connecting our worth with how much we’re worth.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Compromising with Reality — a Jungian perspective on careers and callings

    Compromising with Reality — a Jungian perspective on careers and callings
    Apr 2 2024
    Guest: Lisa Marchiano Exploring the intersection of career and vocation with Lisa Marchiano in our new podcast episode. A thought-provoking discussion that challenges the way we view our professional lives and personal callings. Industry leaders, professionals, and dreamers—this conversation is for you. Listen now.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Corner Office Breakdowns: Live from AWNewYork!

    Corner Office Breakdowns: Live from AWNewYork!
    Nov 7 2023
    Join Ambika Gautam Pai for a live recording of Corner Office Breakdowns, a podcast that reconciles humanity and the workplace, part of the Advertising Week podcast network. As a mom of two, a first-generation South Asian American and the Chief Strategy Officer advertising agency, Mekanism, Ambika Gautam Pai is an experienced feeler and expert at […]
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    36 mins
  • I Left My Job in Advertising

    I Left My Job in Advertising
    Oct 3 2023
    Ambika reflects on the decision to leave her job as Chief Strategy Officer.
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    9 mins
  • Amber Rae – “We All Have a Story to Tell”

    Amber Rae – “We All Have a Story to Tell”
    Sep 6 2023
    In Corner Office Breakdown’s season one finale (!!!), Ambika speaks toAmber Rae. Amber is an international best-selling author, writingmentor & story doula who believes in the healing power of the writtenword. She helps people find the stories within and then shepherds theminto existence by teaching that belonging, acceptance, and connectioncome from allowing ourselves to be fully seen, […]
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    1 hr and 12 mins