47. The Power of Combining Tradition and Technology with Padma Ayala

08/12/22 • 36 min

The She Leads Podcast | Rewriting the Rules of Entrepreneurship

💃 CEO but also a dancer, poet, book publisher, and founder of two nonprofit organizations. 01:12
🤯 Padma’s journey from rural India to the urban USA due to arranged marriage: losing confidence, being a mother, risk taking artist, and serial entrepreneur. 02:38
👩🏽‍💻 Upgrading her skills to a software engineer and working in big companies: her service mind and care couldn’t flourish in corporate. 06:56
👩🏽‍💼 The customer-focused consulting company become an AWS partner in data engineering, AI, and ML projects: good data is essential for making the right decisions. 08:24
📈 Being a female entrepreneur without mentors was hard: growing slowly, learning, and embracing remote working. 09:50
🖥️ Challenges with recruitment and inflation: core values for success of women in IT. 13:31
✨ Diversity is very important because of different perspectives on problem-solving: biased data is not good. 15:53
🛕 Passing ancient Indian knowledge to the next generations through non-profit: teaching kids art, old languages, traditions, and dance. 18:18
😍 Empowering women and children in Indian villages in an organic way: When women are strong, families are strong. 22:33
🙏🏽 The human race was not born yesterday—learn by looking into nature and at human experience: we learn to listen, think, and imagine using art and help from our ancestors. 26:06
🤩 Padma respects all the help she got from gurus, teachers, and an amazing team of women surrounding her: “When you want to do good, good will come back in many forms.” 29:41
💎 Padma recites one of her poems in the Telugu language: the irrelevance of the material world and the richness of nature and art. 31:34

🌸 Connect with Padma: https://www.virtuetechinc.com/

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🌸 Connect with Padma: https://www.virtuetechinc.com/

😇 Chanakyaleaders https://chanakyaleaders.org/index.php

🤩 Lakshmi Grama https://www.linkedin.com/in/lgrama

🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

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Previous Episode

46. Creating a Movement with Magic Moments with Kylee McGrane

🧚‍♀️ Kylee’s fairytale started in a family deeply involved in the community: a big kid at heart. 02:31

🤡 Hospitals are too sterile for kids so Kyle got an idea to change it: “Oh, you kind of look like Elsa.” 04:04

🤩 Creating a movement: gathering college students who are passionate and driven to serve their communities. 05:36

💚 The driving force behind Kylie that helped her tremendously is family, professors, mentors, volunteers, and friends. 06:38

😇 Asking for help and learning the power of teamwork. 08:04

🆓 Non-profit with no barrier to entry: making services available to families free of charge. 09:21

📈 Growing from grassroots fundraising, charitable, corporation grants to government funding. 11:02

😷 The entire business model was disrupted during COVID: the solution was face timing in costumes with kids that were isolated in hospitals.12:02

💡 Streaming services and new creative solutions created from the pandemic. 13:22

🧑‍🎓 Magic Moments have branches all over the USA: students are the backbone of the organization. 15:44

🦸‍♀️ Costume as a vehicle for their mission: impacting volunteers and families with the cutest confidence booster. 17:47

🎯 The goal for A Moment of Magic is to never say no to a family in need: join their team. 20:34

👧 From a personal hobby to a serious organization: Kylie’s realizations in supporting children’s mental health. 22:34

🌸 The power of play and movement in expressing feelings and processing trauma for the youngest children is huge: more volunteers are needed! 26:29

👩‍💼 Kylee’s experience with She Leads Conference: having the support of women mentors beyond belief. 28:47

🌟 Connect with Kylee: www.amomentofmagic.org

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Next Episode

48. Building Financial Freedom with Tamar Hermes

💲 Tamar guides women to become financially free through real estate investing. 02:29
🤔 Make sure that you have a handle on your finances: deciding between passive or active investing. 03:34
🤓 How to identify a credible person to partner with for passive investing? 04:47
👩‍💼 The deals are called syndications: 30% of investors are female. 07:10
🏘️ Tamara was an executive in the entertainment industry who decided to stop paying the rent: learning and getting deep into real estate. 09:34
✨ Breaking barriers and fears around the money: sharing vs. protecting. 11:17
💎 Most people only say more and chase more: find out how much money you need to have for your financial freedom. 16:30
🏝️ Getting property in Hawaii through different strategies: don’t be ashamed of your goal. Be bold and claim it. 19:18
📱 There is no reason not to create what we want to create: information and opportunities at your fingertips. 23:17
🤑 Money mindset: the inspiration vs. the perspiration. 24:49
👠 “Step into the vision of the kind of person you want to be in order to create what you want to create.” 25:58
🦸‍♀️ It takes a lot of stamina to achieve your dreams and to build wealth or a successful business. 28:44
📈 Finding opportunities in real estate nowadays: interest rates are climbing, and the market is increasing inventory. 32:29
📚 Tamar’s book: The Millionairess Mentality: A Professional Women's Guide to Building Wealth Through Real Estate 34:31

Links

🔗 Connect with Tamar: https://wealthbuildingconcierge.com/

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