Prickly Peers
Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness.
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S02E02: Ayesha Rao on pivoting from an employee to a co-founder
On day 1 of her first job, a lifelong introvert and an IT engineer Ayesha knew in her gut, the big corporate world was not for her. She then looked back at what gave her unparalleled joy in the past to guide her future. She talks to Nalini about being a female brown founder in her early twenties, why she believes twenties might be the best time to start up. Join us as she shares how she turned her two joys- helping others and video editing into a successful, bootstrapped and (now profitable) animation studio at an age most people are only just getting used to being adults! Ayesha takes us through the crests and troughs of setting up and growing a remote business IN the pandemic, the kind of people and clients she likes to have around, how zoom might have made her work life more equitable and what's next for her.
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