Unstoppable Woman is where leadership meets inner work.
Hosted by Shailja Saraswati, the show brings together founders, leaders, creators and changemakers for honest conversations about identity, reinvention, self-trust and the decisions that shape extraordinary lives.
Beyond achievements and accolades, each episode explores the invisible journey behind visible success—offering practical wisdom for anyone navigating change, leadership and personal growth.
From Teaching to Healing: When Your Inner Calling Changes Your Path | Poonam Sharma
What happens when you’ve built a life, you’re grateful for, but something within you tells you there’s more to discover?
On this episode of Unstoppable Woman, Shailja Saraswati Varghese sits down with Poonam to explore her journey from 19 years of teaching to discovering a deeper calling in spiritual healing and guiding others towards clarity.
Through their conversation, they unpack what it means to listen to your inner voice, understand yourself beyond the roles you play, and use tools like astrology and numerology without giving away your own power.
They also explore Inner Authority, self-trust, self-love, and the idea that not every sacrifice is an act of love. Because transformation doesn’t always begin with a crisis. Sometimes, it begins with the quiet feeling that your current life is good, but your journey isn’t over.
This is a conversation about finding your purpose, giving yourself permission to begin again at any age, and discovering that being yourself is what makes you unstoppable.
In this episode, we explore:
* Finding a new calling at any stage of life
* Moving from confusion to clarity
* Using spiritual tools without outsourcing your decisions
* Self-love, boundaries, and why not every sacrifice is love
* Inner Authority and learning to trust yourself
* Why you don’t need a crisis to begin your transformation
Because you can be grateful for the life you’ve built and still be ready to grow beyond it.
Chapters:
0:00 Highlights of the Episode
1:36 Meet Poonam Sharma
2:37 Three Keys to Being Unstoppable
6:43 Childhood: The Shy Girl from Shimla
8:06 The 2019 Divine Calling
12:55 COVID & the Journey Within
13:43 From Interior Design to Numerology
17:39 Finding Her Guru
20:49 What Healing Really Means
24:02 Live Numerology Reading
26:38 Client Success Story
31:25 Faith, Surrender & the Sciences
34:46 Role Reversal: Poonam Interviews the Host
38:21 Decoding Transformation
40:29 Women, Identity & Self-Worth
46:10 Self-Love, Gratitude & Age
49:47 Inner Universe & Daily Routine
53:19 Intuition vs. Fear & Self-Trust
57:29 The Healing Farm Vision & Quick Bites
61:50 What Makes a Woman Unstoppable
63:33 Closing Thoughts
Watch the full conversation on Unstoppable Woman.
#UnstoppableWoman #Poonam #ShailjaSaraswati #InnerAuthority #WomenEmpowerment #SelfTrust #SpiritualGrowth #FindingYourPurpose #PersonalGrowth #SelfLove
30 Sept 2026
She Thought Good Work Would Speak for Itself. It Didn't. | Madhu Dutta
For more than two decades, Madhu Dutta built some of India's most recognisable brands - Tanishq, Raymond, Pantaloons and more - and believed that the work itself would be the validation. Then came a harder realization: good work does not always speak for you, titles are transient, and waiting for someone else to vouch for you can carry a cost.
In this episode of Unstoppable Woman, Shailja Saraswati sits with Madhu to trace the inner operating system behind that realization: a childhood shaped by storytelling and observation, rowing and resilience, the leaders who taught her what support actually looks like, and the moment she stopped treating visibility as vanity and started seeing authorship as responsibility.
The conversation moves through:
why Madhu learned to value the work more than the title
the hidden price of believing someone will eventually notice and reward good work
why women need to become their own brand ambassadors without becoming performative
what losing her father young taught her about uncertainty, ownership and self-reliance
the small leadership gestures from Harish Bhat that she still remembers
why the butterfly became the symbol of House of MSD after 24 years of corporate life
what Raymond taught her about masculinity and vulnerability
Chapters:
0:00 Highlights of the Episode
2:19 The Hardest Transition
3:21 Three Key Questions
6:06 Childhood & Storytelling
8:32 Sports, Resilience & Influence
12:57 Early Career in Advertising
18:19 Leading Major Brands
21:51 Personal Branding & Cacophony
26:55 The Entrepreneurship Plunge
29:38 Resilience & Self-Reliance
34:38 Authenticity & Inner Operating System
36:27 Women in Advertising
40:22 Raymond & The Complete Man
43:59 Brand Reflections & Mentorship
48:17 Building House of MSD
53:45 Entrepreneurship Realities
56:10 Women, Visibility & Assertiveness
59:22 Inner Authority & Self-Authorship
1:01:55 Self-Promotion vs Self-Authorship
1:03:28 Navigating AI
1:10:13 Quick Bites
1:12:42 Closing Thoughts
This is a conversation about invisible excellence, visibility without theatre, and the difference between the chair you are given and the authority you carry when the chair changes.
#unstoppablewoman #MadhuDutta #ShailjaSaraswati #WomenInLeadership #InnerAuthority #SelfAuthorship #PersonalBranding #Leadership #Advertising #Entrepreneurship #BrandStorytelling #AIandCreativity
16 Sept 2026
How to Build a Life That Still Feels Like Yours | Tanvi Ghate, Founder of OLAK
How do you keep building, growing and changing without losing the feeling that your life is still yours?
That became the deeper thread in my conversation with Tanvi Ghate, Founder of OLAK.
Her journey moves through law, venture capital, women’s stories, Indian craft and eventually building a new lingerie brand. But underneath those milestones I kept seeing an operating system: Do. Discover. Become.
Build capability before chasing confidence. Stay a student even after you earn the title. Remain a seeker even when success gives you reasons to settle. And keep asking whether the choices shaping your life are still genuinely your own.
By the time we reach OLAK, the business feels less like a career pivot and more like the convergence of the woman Tanvi had been building all along.
This conversation is about agency, capability, culture, curiosity — and what it takes to live and build on your own terms.
Chapters:
0:00 — Intro: Living Someone Else's Success
1:56 — Meet Tanvi Ghate
3:14 — Three Keys Questions
6:06 — Childhood & Family Influences
12:25 — Law School & Exploring Every Path
15:51 — The Accident & Recovery
23:23 — First Job & Finding Herself in Bombay
27:08 — Confidence Comes From Capability
31:18 — From Law to Venture Capital
33:02 — Three Tracks: Role, Student & Seeker
35:04 — Work Is Life: No Balance Needed
36:40 — Building Sakhee: Women's Stories
38:40 — Traveling India's Textile Towns
40:54 — Celebrating Women & Emotion as Strength
45:33 — The Surrender Experiment
47:42 — Legacy at 80
49:01 — The Birth of OLAKH
50:04 — Why Lingerie?
51:07 — Building From Scratch: Factories to New York
57:06 — OLAKH Launch & Milestones
64:52 — Quick Bites: Rapid Fire
71:03 — Closing Reflections
#UnstoppableWoman #ShailjaSaraswati #TanviGhate #OLAKH #InnerAuthority #Agency #SelfTrust #Leadership #WomenFounders #IndianDesign #PersonalGrowth
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