The AboutHer Show with Sangeeta Relan
Welcome to The AboutHer Show, where we spotlight remarkable women worldwide. I'm your host, Sangeeta Relan. Together, we celebrate extraordinary women, aiming to inspire, uplift and empower.On this podcast, we break stereotypes and embrace our true potential.
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S4E164: Invest in Yourself: Urmi Hossain on Finance, Identity, and Building a Life Beyond Borders (opens the original)
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Finance meets storytelling in this episode of The AboutHer Show. Urmi Hossain, a CFA and CAIA charterholder, mentor, and host of the podcast Stories Beyond Borders, joins Sangeeta to discuss building a career in finance while staying rooted in identity, mentorship, and self-growth. As an Italian-Bengali woman based in Montreal, Urmi shares how culture, language, and community shaped her path, and why she lives by the philosophy "Invest in Yourself." Ranked Top 3 on Feedspot's list of Indian Wome
S4E163: Sanjam Sahi Gupta: Building Maritime SheEO and Fighting for Gender Equality in Shipping (opens the original)
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She runs a family shipping business, founded the world's largest gender equality conference in maritime history, has advised heads of government on ocean action, and now sits on India's apex shipping policy body. All in an industry never designed to include her. In this episode of The AboutHer Show, I sit down with Sanjam Sahi Gupta — Director of Sitara Shipping, Founder of Maritime SheEO, and gender expert at the IMO and UN ESCAP. She talks about the women who showed her what was possible, walk
S4E162: Shravani Dang on Art, Corporate Leadership, and Building ArtAdda: A Life of Two Worlds (opens the original)
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What does it look like to build two extraordinary lives & refuse to let either one shrink? Shravani Dang has spent three decades doing exactly that, rising to Vice President at Avantha, serving on global boards, & simultaneously collecting art, founding ArtAdda, documenting food history, & writing fiction. In this conversation, she talks about the instinct that built a creative community, what the corporate world taught her that art never could, & why culinary heritage is a story worth telling b
S4E161: How Ancient Kerala Gave Women More Freedom Than Modern India | Preetha Leela Chockalingam (opens the original)
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What if the kingdom that gave women the most freedom existed centuries ago, right here in India? Preetha Leela Chockalingam, author of the Girls of India series (Penguin Random House), joins Sangeeta Relan to talk about the matrilineal Kerala that history forgot, the ancient queens and ordinary girls who held power long before the modern world caught up, and why she is determined to bring those stories back to life. From her debut as an eight-year-old plagiarising Enid Blyton to writing historic
S4E160: Vijayalaxmi Chhabra — The Woman Who Led Doordarshan and Refused to Disappear (opens the original)
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She ran the world's largest public broadcaster. She dismantled a system built on middlemen. She navigated a Cola war live on air. And then she retired — and started over on Instagram. Vijayalaxmi Chhabra spent 35 years at All India Radio and Doordarshan, rising to Director General at a time when institutions like these weren't built for women like her. In this conversation, she talks about the career she chose when girls didn't choose this, the mid-career pivot that raised every eyebrow in the r
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