by Manoj Radhakrishna
Ever wonder what makes people take the leap and follow their dreams? That's what RareErth Podcast is all about. I sit with people who followed an idea into the unknown. Founders, artists, tinkerers, and quietly brilliant misfits. Some have Wikipedia pages; many don't. All of them changed how I see the world. Learn more at https://www.rareerth.com/podcast
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June 14, 2026
<p>Some people don't choose their calling, they get rerouted into it. My guest in this episode is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mel.ambler" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Melanie Ambler,</a> a professional cellist and a Stanford-trained physician whose work lives at the rare intersection of music and medicine. </p><p>She studied neurobiology at Brown, researched music and dementia on a Fulbright in France, and then, when the pandemic pulled her out of that research life, found a new calling at the bedside: improvising live, personalized cello for people facing serious illness and the end of life. </p><p>This episode is a little different from the deep-dive interviews you may have already heard her give. We don't retrace every chapter of her story. Instead, we sit with the texture of the work itself, what she reads in a room before she plays a single note, what the dying have taught her about living, and why grief and love are closer than we think. Along the way, Melanie improvises a piece live on the show, the first musical performance ever on RareErth.</p><p><strong>Core Ideas:</strong></p><ul><li>The pandemic as a turning point: from researching music and dementia in France to improvising cello at the hospital bedside.</li><li>The "musical fingerprint": reading a person's comfort, history, and emotional state before choosing a single note.</li><li>Why grief and love sit on the same spectrum, and what people near the end of life reveal about living fully.</li><li>"Sonder": the realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.</li><li>Protecting your art when it becomes your work: boundaries, "night float," and making the practice sustainable.</li><li>Musical Rounds: turning consented bedside recordings into a weekly podcast of patient stories and improvised soundtracks.</li></ul><p><strong>Connect with Melanie: </strong></p><p><a href="https://melanieambler.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Website</a> </p><p><a href="https://musicalrounds.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Musical Rounds</a></p><p><strong>Show notes</strong> for this episode can be found <a href="https://www.rareerth.com/podcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </p>
May 8, 2026
<p>Meet <strong>Anjali</strong>, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at 78Health, a leukemia survivor, a polymath, and someone whose story found me through one of the more unlikely routes: a voice on Air Chat, a mixtape I made from it without asking, and <strong>Naval Ravikant </strong>somewhere in the middle of it. </p><p>In this episode, Anjali traces her path from a first-generation immigrant childhood in the Bay Area, through more than two decades in tech, to a 2019 leukemia diagnosis that put her in the hospital for 80% of that year, reshaping how she thinks about a few things that came after. </p><p>We get into her roots, her parents, the books that keep her grounded, the near-death experiences she describes as a soft light lullaby, and the company she's now building with her cofounders to fix the gaps in care she lived through. </p><p>Expect honest reflections on faith, fear, the things people get wrong when someone they love is sick, and what it actually means to feel unafraid.</p><p><strong>Core Ideas</strong></p><ul><li>Roots are not where you were born, they're what you carry. Anjali says it’s like being a moving tree.</li><li>Why "why not me?" is a more useful question than "why me?" when life turns upside down</li><li>The single most important thing you can do for someone who is sick and the one thing you should stop saying to them.</li><li>How a single thread of purpose can pull you through 10 months of chemo when nothing else can.</li><li>Reading as a mood, not a task and why no book has to be finished.</li><li>Building a healthtech company in a market where Amazon, Google, and OpenAI have just arrived and what differentiates 78Health</li><li>The redefinition of health after illness: stop punishing your body for how someone makes you feel.</li><li>Why the most essential skill nobody calls a skill is simply liking other people for no reason other than that they made it here too. Anjali says: “making an effort to see the best in others is a <strong>superpower</strong> “</li></ul><p>Anjali</p><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/ThatGirl_Moxie" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">X (Twitter)</a></li><li>Company website: <a href="https://www.78health.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">78Health</a></li><li>Email: <a href="mailto:info@78health.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">info@78health.com</a></li><li>Company <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/78health" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn: 78Health</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/primary-by-78health/id6740557020" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Primary on Apple Store</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.health78.primary" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Primary on Google Play</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Listen to Dastan <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/59d5KDEIa57kN5Hpv1efnI?si=IBVRQdlqRaeR6_55p9soFQ" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a></p>
April 11, 2026
<p>Meet Harsha Venkatesh, an investor, engineer, and serial entrepreneur who has lived across three continents and built a life at the intersection of technology and finance. </p><p>In this opening episode of Season 4, Harsha traces his journey from childhood visits to the Bangalore Stock Exchange with his father, through a decade-long semiconductor career spanning Germany and the US, to becoming one of India's top-performing portfolio managers. </p><p>We dig into his investment philosophy shaped by Buffett, Munger, and Pabrai, the low point of navigating SEBI regulations as a first-time fund manager, and his deeply practical approach to teaching his children about money. Expect sharp thinking on India's economic future, the changing face of warfare through drones, and why the best investment you can make is in the people around you.</p><p><br></p><p>Core Ideas:</p><ul><li><p>The power of curiosity as a compounding asset and why being an all-rounder is an edge in investing.</p></li><li><p>How cloning the best investors' frameworks (not their stock picks) builds a durable investment practice.</p></li><li><p>Why the people around you-spouse, friends, business partners are the single most important factor in long-term success.</p></li><li><p>India's non-threatening positioning on the global stage as a structural economic advantage.</p></li><li><p>The intersection of AI and wealth management and what it means for the next generation of investors.</p><li>Teaching children money management from age five through pocket money, incentives, and real stock portfolios.</li></li></ul><li><p><br><a href="https://www.rareerth.com/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><br></a><br></p></li>
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Ever wonder what makes people take the leap and follow their dreams? That's what RareErth Podcast is all about. I sit with people who followed an idea into the unknown. Founders, artists, tinkerers, and quietly brilliant misfits. Some have Wikipedia pages; many don't. All of them changed how I see the world.
Learn more at https://www.rareerth.com/podcast
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