Action's Antidotes

About Action's Antidotes

This podcast is designed to inspire you to create your best possible life through sharing stories of others who already have done some amazing things. To create your best possible life requires putting yourself out there, taking risks and believing in yourself. It requires adapting the right mindset. Far too many of us are trapped in situations that are less than desirable because we hang on to limiting beliefs and poor assumptions. We all want different things and have different definitions of “success”. There is no one formula to get there. Whether our paths involve waking up at 4 A.M. or staying up past midnight, reading 100 books per year or getting all of our information from YouTube videos, the one common thing we all need, to get moving on what we really want, is the right mindset. In our day to day lives in the 2020s, many of us still frequently find ourselves in environments that encourage us to act out of fear, play it safe, not take risks and accept less than what we deserv

Publisher

Stephen Jaye

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Feb 2021

Latest episode

19 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

61 of 182 episodes have a transcript.

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   19 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   From Cybersecurity to Fashion Tech with Harish Chandramowli

   What happens when a cybersecurity engineer walks into a fashion boutique? For Harish Chandramowli, it sparked an idea that’s now helping small fashion brands save time, money, and sanity. A chance observation in a New York store became a mission to untangle problems in inventory, communication, and operations many brands struggle with. In this episode, I speak with Harish, founder of Flair Software, about how he went from working at Bloomberg and MongoDB to building a platform that fixes the messy back-office problems fashion brands face. Harish explains why seasonal inventory is a high-stakes game, how communication breakdowns can cost thousands, and why he built his solution to integrate with Shopify instead of competing against it. Tune in now to learn more. --- Listen to the podcast here: From Cybersecurity to Fashion Tech with Harish Chandramowli Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. We have a lot of technological advances, a lot of digital technology, and a lot of the efforts around it have been used primarily around digital products, primarily around some of the platforms and everything else, but there’s also an aspect that I’m hopeful around that really takes some of the digital technology that we have and uses it to enhance the physical products and the actual life that we have outside of our computers in real life. My guest today, Harish Chandramowli, is the founder of Flaire Software and he has some interesting solutions for the fashion industry and other kind of inventory-related pursuits. --- Harish, welcome to the program. It’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you for joining us. Now, first of all, kind of have your feet in both worlds, whether it be kind of our technological world as well as the world of fashion, the world of some of these in-real-life types of pursuits. Tell me a bit about your story, where you started and how you came up with the idea, what you observed that led to Flaire Software. Yeah. Just taking a step back, I am not from fashion industry. It’s all pretty new to me. I did my master’s in cyber security actually in Johns Hopkins, then I worked as security engineer in a bunch of very data-related platforms like Bloomberg, MongoDB. And MongoDB was my last gig where I primarily started as cloud security engineer but moved on to like an Atlas dedicated team where you see how lot of different people use databases. And, interestingly, there are a lot of retail companies using databases very heavily. That made me more and more curious on how software is being used in retail industry and why database is like one of the biggest line expenditures. On top of that, when I was looking into ERPs, Oracle is one of the biggest player in the ERP market, which made me even more curious on what this space is. What happens around here? Why is a database company spending so much on an ERP, on like a data workflow? Yeah. This kind of made me curious but, again, it was more like I don’t think I was into fashion or any of those things. I went to this store called ONS in Soho. It’s a great store you should check out if you are ever in like downtown area in New York. What’s the store called again? ONS. Okay. Orange, Naples, San Diego. So if you go to Soho and like downtown in the fashion districts, you will notice a lot of these small, small brands which is not your typical H&Ms or Zara. Yeah. So I was there,

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   5 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Rethinking Choices and Tech Overload with Emily Pabst

   Host interviews decision-making coach Emily Pabst, founder of Remake the Rules, about navigating choice overload and regaining control from technology.

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   29 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Tapping into Health and Water Wellness with Cydian Kauffman

   Host interviews Cydian Kauffman, CEO of Pure Water Northwest, about tap water contaminants and improving home water quality for better health.

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From Cybersecurity to Fashion Tech with Harish Chandramowli

Published 19 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's the life between a founding team member versus a founder is again very different. Yeah. And the other interesting thing is that when you become the founder, you become the CEO, when you become the CEO, kind of there's no passing anything off, you know, everything stops with you. I mean, obviously there's people you hire to do stuff, but, you know, in a, I guess, larger company environment when something goes wrong, you can bring it up to your boss. You can bring it up the, quote unquote, chain of command, even though I don't love that terminology, but you know, you can bring it up and you can escalate the issue. […]

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• Emily Pabst
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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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4.9 / 5

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