Break The Cycle Podcast

It’s been a little over a year since we all ended up working from our homes and while I do prefer the ability to be able to do more things in my day thanks to a drop in commute time, the increasing work demands presented a different kind of challenge. Of course, there are several reports of people facing burnout, mental health challenges, and straight up quitting jobs to take much needed breaks from professional life. A word many of us have been seeing lately is, resilience. Resilient...

I have been obsessed with the topic of Health and Wellness for the better part of a decade and it is only over the past 2-3 years where I have begun to finally understand that there is more to this than just physical fitness and proper nutrition. We are moving towards a new paradigm where we are focusing on all the possible means available to us to live healthier, happier, and longer lives - physically, mentally, socially, spiritually, and environmentally. The trouble is, we have so much...

Those who know me and know this channel, are familiar with my love for martial arts. I have been training for the past 10 years and during this period, I have exposed myself to various systems. I have also witness debates about what martial arts represent and unfortunately, the true essence of martial arts, which is beyond (but does include) fighting is rarely discussed. So I decided to speak to the man who is the source of my knowledge - Shifu Kanishka Sharma. Most of you know him as the...

This is an episode for me! Why? Because I love the learning that a meandering conversation can bring. There is a certain level of curiosity one needs to find the nuggets of learning in most inane conversations and believe me, the lesson is always worth it. But I wasn't always like this. Thankfully, I had Adarsh to whip my ass in shape over every single phone call we had. Adarsh Nalam is a communication consultant and corporate ghostwriter by profession and (as much as he would hate me for...

The statement, "I'll sleep when I'm dead" may very well be the reason you die early. Sleep is essential for optimal health. In fact, it's a non-negotiable. But not all sleep is equal. A number of factors need to be taken into consideration when we're talking about optimal sleep. So I brought in Aprameya Rajput to help me understand how to sleep better. Aprameya is India's first BRPT certified clinical sleep health expert. He has has more than 7 years experience in patient counseling for...

It has been a while since I did this. I took a break to deal with some personal issues and now, we're back. And who better to get back to this with than Ashdin Doctor? Ashdin Doctor is a Habit Coach. He believes that awesome lives start with awesome habits. Five years ago Ashdin was unhealthy, overworked, stressed and sleep-deprived. Till it caught up with him and he found himself collapsing on the floor in a puddle of sweat unable to move. It’s then that he realised that his life needed to...

There are very few times that you end up meeting someone who has been relentless in her pursuit to rebuild herself and yet be so humble. I met Navjot in 2012. We worked together for a few months and I moved on to a different path in my life. And while we barely spoke, we stayed connected on social media and I saw her transform into the force that she is today. Navjot, like me, believes that true health and fitness is not limited to the physical realm or the mental realm. It is a complete...

There are very few times that I get to meet a person who I could call a mirror of who and what I am. I've been looking into a number of healing practices but the one I would call my personal go-to modality, would be movement. As a martial artist, movement is essential to my practice, but movement is not restricted to martial arts. In fact, movement is what all of us have been doing since the day we were born. Movement is expressive, it's healing, it's expansive, freeing, playful and so much...

Kindness and empathy are two of the most important things we need in the world right now. And seeing someone so driven to bring these two qualities back in our lives, made me want to learn from and about them. Maria Kassova is a a motivational speaker, facilitator, and executive coach and has dedicated her life to bringing Kindness and Empathy into people's lives, especially the workplace. In this episode, Maria and I try and decode what these words truly mean and why it is increasingly...

Competing in martial arts can be grueling. Running a martial arts academy in India, even more so. Team Relentless is one of the top MMA teams in the country, producing champions across the sports of Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA, not just in India, but at the international stage as well. And the man leading the charge is Jitendra Khare - Head Coach & Manager of Team Relentless and the founder of Evolution Fitness and Combat Sports Academy in Mumbai. Having met and trained with him...

I've been working in the communications industry since 2012 and in that time, I've loved it, hated it, questioned it, avoided it, gotten back to it, loved it some more and questioned it again. And this time, I decided to ask the man who has shaped the lives of many professionals like myself when it comes to strategic communications. Frank J. Oswald is a communications strategist and writer who has worked with the likes of Yahoo and Accenture, to name a few. Frank is also a lecturer at the...

Here we are at episode 20. It's been a while. We started this in January and your support has been instrumental to our success and consistency. Thank you so much for your response to show. In this episode, I take a look at the year so far, what has happened since episode 10 and where we are headed. We will be back with more guests soon. As always, your feedback is appreciated and we hope the show is serving you as well as it is serving us in our journey. Do share your feedback on the show...

I have had a love/hate relationship with the communications industry for about 8 years now. I have questioned it, expressed my disdain, realized what it has given me in terms of learning and opportunities, fallen in love with it, questioned it again....you get the idea. So I decided to find my why by talking to a man who has helped me navigate this relationship with my profession. Tushar Bajaj is a Senior Vice President at one of the largest PR firms in the country and also, my boss and...

I look at combat sports, tactical combat systems, and traditional martial arts as ONE PART of a larger whole. And I have been lucky enough to be trained by a man who has explored the arts in pursuit of truth. But martial arts has been riddled with politics, whataboutery, chest-thumping, and a whole lot of bullshit. So I decided to speak to a man who is on a mission to keep martial arts, and martial artists HONEST. Paulo Rubio started two of the top martial arts exploration channels on...

Food can heal. Correction, the right food can heal. But what is right? How do we know? I decided to try and find out by asking my friend Jayati. Now, Jayati is not a nutritionist by profession. Dr. Jayati Dureja, MBBS is an Obstetrician-gynecologist by profession who decided to utilize her medical training to understand nutrition and its effects on healing the body with respect to PCOS, cardiovascular conditions, and weight loss. Since this is just an overview, we are going to do more...

Healing looks different for everyone. For a lot of us, healing is a physical experience. For others, it is mental. But there are many who would look at healing from a spiritual lens. I was quite the cynic when it came to esoteric practices until a very dear friend said, "absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence". And my meeting with Jas was all about that statement. Jaspreet Bhatia is an NLP practitioner, a corporate psychologist, and trainer, but that's not the fun part. She's also a...

We often find ourselves trying to suppress/repress our emotions instead of dealing with them. We often confuse the behavior we elicit in reaction to emotion as uncontrollable. The truth of the matter is that our emotions are essential to survival and truly feeling them makes our life so much richer. Also, we can always and should consciously choose our reactions and make them appropriate to the situation. We can never control/ suppress our emotions and neither should we even try. They leak...

Our first episode ever was about self-love. In today's time, when we have so much time to ourselves, a lot of us are introspecting a lot more. That makes this the perfect time to ask ourselves, do we really love ourselves? And what does it mean to love ourselves or rather, what does it mean to unconditionally love ourselves? Let's dive in. You can find me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/anchoragecounsellingservices/) or write to me at tanviibhandari@gmail.com. (Description by Tanvii...

We're experiencing an unprecedented time. There are several reports that people are working a lot more, now that they are working from home. This is started to take a toll on us and that is why it is important to establish and enforce boundaries with our clients and our colleagues. And Divya is here to talk about just that. Divya Khanna is the AVP for Strategy and Insights at one of the top Communications Agencies in the country. She's been working in the industry for 12 years now and has...

Mark Pollard is one of the leading media and communication strategists of our time. He founded Australia’s first full color hip-hop magazine called Stealth in 1999. He’s worked with Leo Burnett, TBWA, McCann and many more agencies. He has consulted the likes of Apple and VaynerMedia to name a few. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As the host of Sweathead and the author of strategy is your words, Mark Pollard has a unique take on strategy. In this episode, we look at his journey, his...