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Untether Your Life
Many of us lead very fragmented lives. If we're lucky, we set aside a couple hours a week to what really lights us up in between our busy "9-to-5"s and hectic social and family obligations.
I find it very inspiring, therefore, to connect with people like this week's guest Sharanya Rao, who succeed in "bringing their whole selves" to their day to day and follow their passion.
Happy & Human
In today’s episode, we have Sharanya Rao sharing her experience and insights on where we need to shift our perspective as a society, why we should start calling soft skills core skills, and more. Seema and Dinesh have a conversation with Sharanya on what true leadership looks like, and how we can make more active decisions to lead. They talk about the importance of actually taking the own advice we give our children and the value in pursuing our own passions in life.
Syncreate
Sharanya Rao is a leadership, team, and career coach with an emphasis on equity and inclusion. She’s also the Artistic Director of Leela - An Indian Community Theatre in Austin, Texas. Her current project, Anklets in the Boardroom, gives voice to South Asian women’s experiences in the workplace. Her project is a living example of creating in community, in service of positive social change, which is one of Syncreate’s core principles. Our conversation in this episode focuses on how she’s brought together a “confluence of passions” with her work in coaching, DEI, and theater, culminating in Anklets in the Boardroom.
Reviews on
Anklets in the Boardroom
What did you enjoy about the show?
" The interactive part is brilliant and that a different reasoning/videwpoint is welcomed in the discussion."
" I brought my 11-year-old and he loved it. I appreciate the thoughtful audience responses and how Sharanya built the infrastructure for that in her facilitation."
" The discussion of ideas, the quickness of the actors adapting to the suggestions, the facilitator guiding the discussion and her ability to pull out the heart of what the audience was expressing, the conveyance that it was a discussion and a safe place to exchange ideas."
" Faciitator was so good at creating safe space. Loved the participation and learnings from audience perspective."
" The format of intervention. This was my first time and I loved it.I really enjoyed the honesty of the situations and the audience's interventions were very informative."
" The concept of us interjecting was really nice. It almost seemed therapeutic for some people and should be explored this way."
"It is amazing to see how the intervention worked so well.
I enjoyed the dialogue between the characters and also enjoyed observing the change."
Reviews on
The Uninvited Guest
" The play's writing was original and thought-provoking, and the actresses did a brilliant job overall. The play is intense, resonates with people post-pandemic, and is very timely and well thought out. The use of color, light, shadows, and nuances helped to give the audience a sense of the intense feelings and emotions portrayed... Kudos to Sharanya, Lindsay, and the wonderful troupe of Austin Leela! for a highly relatable piece of artistic presentation! The team worked hard on this!"
- Suchitra Chander
"You guys put on an AMAZING show! I was enthralled from the start. What a beautiful, thought-provoking, and skilled performance from your team. And kudos to Lindsay and Sharanya for the script! It's worth traveling to Austin for this show. Five stars."
- C.B.
"The Uninvited Guest was a well-executed, thought-provoking play! It was a good reminder that we blazed through the last 3 years of pandemic and pandemic recovery without allowing ourselves to process our experiences and emotions. We all need to pause our hectic lifestyles and have a conversation with our emotionally-struggling inner selves to reconcile."
- Arvind Raman
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