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Unstoppable Woman with Shailja Saraswati

Unstoppable Woman with Shailja Saraswati

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Unstoppable Woman is where leadership meets inner work. Hosted by Shailja Saraswati, the show brings together founders, leaders, creators and changemakers for honest conversations about identity, reinvention, self-trust and the decisions that shape extraordinary lives. Beyond achievements and accolades, each episode explores the invisible journey behind visible success—offering practical wisdom for anyone navigating change, leadership and personal growth.Shailja Saraswati & Dentsu Podcast Network Self-Help Social Sciences Success
Episodes
  • Your Job Is Not Your Worth: How to Rebuild Confidence After a Setback | Arunima Jha

    Your Job Is Not Your Worth: How to Rebuild Confidence After a Setback | Arunima Jha
    Oct 28 2026
    Your job is not your worth. If one setback at work makes you feel like a bad person, not just a bad day, this conversation is for you. Host Shailja Saraswati sits down with lawyer Arunima Jha to talk about what happens when work becomes your identity, and how to rebuild your confidence, your voice and your self-worth after a setback. Arunima grew up a shy, lost child and was told that people like her should not even think about the college she wanted. She answered with hard work, found her voice in writing and law, and got her first real validation at a national moot court. Later she learned what it costs to treat a workplace like home: the quiet belief that you exist only while you are performing well. Shailja reads the pattern underneath it all. A job is a label, a wrapper, and you are larger than the vessel. In this episode: Why your instincts are data When a bad day starts to feel like a verdict on who you are What burnout really is, and who HR actually works for Your rights at work: getting your contract checked and asking about policies Why women are conditioned to see ambition as unfeminine and asking for money as unspiritual AI, layoffs and why leaders need inner authority under pressure Why your data is your biggest asset Arunima's definition of unstoppable "It's a label. It's a wrapper. It's not really constant. What is constant is you." — Shailja Saraswati Has a job title ever decided how you saw yourself? Tell us in the comments. Share this with someone who is rebuilding after a setback. Subscribe to Unstoppable Woman, hosted by Shailja Saraswati. Chapters: 0:00 Highlights of the Episode 1:22 Guest Intro 2:14 Three Keys: Rapid Fire Questions 5:00 Childhood & Early Years in Kolkata 8:01 From St. Xavier's to Law School 10:19 Finding Voice Through Writing 11:07 Realities of Being a Woman in Law 13:41 Standing Up to Ragging in Law School 15:52 Personal Experiences with Abuse 18:35 Workplace Lessons: You Are Not a Label 22:26 Corporate Culture & Red Flags 24:25 The Three Payslips Philosophy 26:08 Burnout vs Tiredness: HR Reality 27:30 Know Your Rights: Contracts & Labor Laws 32:09 Women, Ambition & Conditioning 33:27 POSH Cases & Fighting Stigma 38:31 AI's Impact on Women in the Workforce 43:01 Data Privacy & AI Ethics 48:18 Closing Thoughts #UnstoppableWoman #SelfWorth #WomenAtWork #ShailjaSaraswati #ArunimaJha
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    51 mins
  • From Teaching to Healing: When Your Inner Calling Changes Your Path | Poonam Sharma

    From Teaching to Healing: When Your Inner Calling Changes Your Path | Poonam Sharma
    Oct 14 2026
    What happens when you’ve built a life, you’re grateful for, but something within you tells you there’s more to discover? On this episode of Unstoppable Woman, Shailja Saraswati Varghese sits down with Poonam to explore her journey from 19 years of teaching to discovering a deeper calling in spiritual healing and guiding others towards clarity. Through their conversation, they unpack what it means to listen to your inner voice, understand yourself beyond the roles you play, and use tools like astrology and numerology without giving away your own power. They also explore Inner Authority, self-trust, self-love, and the idea that not every sacrifice is an act of love. Because transformation doesn’t always begin with a crisis. Sometimes, it begins with the quiet feeling that your current life is good, but your journey isn’t over. This is a conversation about finding your purpose, giving yourself permission to begin again at any age, and discovering that being yourself is what makes you unstoppable. In this episode, we explore: * Finding a new calling at any stage of life * Moving from confusion to clarity * Using spiritual tools without outsourcing your decisions * Self-love, boundaries, and why not every sacrifice is love * Inner Authority and learning to trust yourself * Why you don’t need a crisis to begin your transformation Because you can be grateful for the life you’ve built and still be ready to grow beyond it. Chapters: 0:00 Highlights of the Episode 1:36 Meet Poonam Sharma 2:37 Three Keys to Being Unstoppable 6:43 Childhood: The Shy Girl from Shimla 8:06 The 2019 Divine Calling 12:55 COVID & the Journey Within 13:43 From Interior Design to Numerology 17:39 Finding Her Guru 20:49 What Healing Really Means 24:02 Live Numerology Reading 26:38 Client Success Story 31:25 Faith, Surrender & the Sciences 34:46 Role Reversal: Poonam Interviews the Host 38:21 Decoding Transformation 40:29 Women, Identity & Self-Worth 46:10 Self-Love, Gratitude & Age 49:47 Inner Universe & Daily Routine 53:19 Intuition vs. Fear & Self-Trust 57:29 The Healing Farm Vision & Quick Bites 61:50 What Makes a Woman Unstoppable 63:33 Closing Thoughts Watch the full conversation on Unstoppable Woman. #UnstoppableWoman #Poonam #ShailjaSaraswati #InnerAuthority #WomenEmpowerment #SelfTrust #SpiritualGrowth #FindingYourPurpose #PersonalGrowth #SelfLove
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • She Thought Good Work Would Speak for Itself. It Didn't. | Madhu Dutta

    She Thought Good Work Would Speak for Itself. It Didn't. | Madhu Dutta
    Sep 30 2026
    For more than two decades, Madhu Dutta built some of India's most recognisable brands - Tanishq, Raymond, Pantaloons and more - and believed that the work itself would be the validation. Then came a harder realization: good work does not always speak for you, titles are transient, and waiting for someone else to vouch for you can carry a cost. In this episode of Unstoppable Woman, Shailja Saraswati sits with Madhu to trace the inner operating system behind that realization: a childhood shaped by storytelling and observation, rowing and resilience, the leaders who taught her what support actually looks like, and the moment she stopped treating visibility as vanity and started seeing authorship as responsibility. The conversation moves through: why Madhu learned to value the work more than the title the hidden price of believing someone will eventually notice and reward good work why women need to become their own brand ambassadors without becoming performative what losing her father young taught her about uncertainty, ownership and self-reliance the small leadership gestures from Harish Bhat that she still remembers why the butterfly became the symbol of House of MSD after 24 years of corporate life what Raymond taught her about masculinity and vulnerability Chapters: 0:00 Highlights of the Episode 2:19 The Hardest Transition 3:21 Three Key Questions 6:06 Childhood & Storytelling 8:32 Sports, Resilience & Influence 12:57 Early Career in Advertising 18:19 Leading Major Brands 21:51 Personal Branding & Cacophony 26:55 The Entrepreneurship Plunge 29:38 Resilience & Self-Reliance 34:38 Authenticity & Inner Operating System 36:27 Women in Advertising 40:22 Raymond & The Complete Man 43:59 Brand Reflections & Mentorship 48:17 Building House of MSD 53:45 Entrepreneurship Realities 56:10 Women, Visibility & Assertiveness 59:22 Inner Authority & Self-Authorship 1:01:55 Self-Promotion vs Self-Authorship 1:03:28 Navigating AI 1:10:13 Quick Bites 1:12:42 Closing Thoughts This is a conversation about invisible excellence, visibility without theatre, and the difference between the chair you are given and the authority you carry when the chair changes. #unstoppablewoman #MadhuDutta #ShailjaSaraswati #WomenInLeadership #InnerAuthority #SelfAuthorship #PersonalBranding #Leadership #Advertising #Entrepreneurship #BrandStorytelling #AIandCreativity
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    1 hr and 15 mins
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