Interview - Goal for the Mindful Leader Practices podcast?

Arjun Sundararajan: thing, like, know you're own monetizing right now and, like, that's not what your think is. But tell me a little bit more about, like, the ultimate goal of this part asked What did you start out as... Hey, I mean, you're from Microsoft. What is the smart call, the simple measurable way that you decided, like, you know, this is what my podcast should be doing. You started it and, like, how is that going along for you?

Anu Arora: Oh, I have... You know, I have aspiration. Now smart gold for say lot of pressure of making it achievable. Achieving well realistic time time given. Right? Aspirational, I want to reach one million people. So I have a aspirational code. And I have I have aspiration goal to write a book along with. And so this becomes a kind of supplement to a book. Right? And so that is a two to three year plan. I just haven't created

Arjun Sundararajan: Right.

Anu Arora: smart goals around it, would definitely need smart goes. I started a blog post also

Arjun Sundararajan: Nice.

Anu Arora: there is a mindful leader's info

Arjun Sundararajan: Of course.

Anu Arora: and I'll I'll give you a link of for that. As a leadership again, mindful leadership blogs, which have been writing very closely related to the podcast of episodes. For example, when I talk about self compassion, practice, then I talk right about it in the blogs also.

Arjun Sundararajan: Nice. Okay. This is great. I mean, it almost seems like for you, this is a great way to, like increase the awareness of your person as well as, like, your company's brand at this point of time. Where you also, like, interested in, like, using this as a platform to generate more people towards your business? Is that like, was this like, a lead generation platform for you as well?

Anu Arora: Lead it it... Yeah. You want people to get interest it to see value to come to you to, you know, get the health they need. Right? Use the resources, make these

Arjun Sundararajan: Yep.

Anu Arora: these resources are only useful. If they reach people. Right? If they if they've

Arjun Sundararajan: Right. Right.

Anu Arora: become another, you know, is another bit of data.

Arjun Sundararajan: Right.

Anu Arora: On the web. That doesn't help. There's enough

Arjun Sundararajan: Yep.

Anu Arora: enough data, which will take live lifespan to go through. But if this data becomes easy, accessible, usable, valuable, then it makes it worth it.

Arjun Sundararajan: That makes a lot of service. Yeah. I'm sure there's another... You probably built a network talking to as well in this field, tell me a little bit more about that where you know, connecting to people to bring them on a especially guest for your show, how much has that enriched your practice as well as, like, your learning about this process as well.

Anu Arora: It is so interesting thing Urgent. This... This is the most... Would you say miraculous part of this show is the serendipity of meeting people who are in the same field who are doing similar stuff or just already made their way and have have rich information which they are willing to share. Openly. So usually, it starts with I'll do a Linkedin post. Somebody comment on it, and I would look at their profile and I'm like, whoa. This sounds very similar. And then I'll reach out to them

Arjun Sundararajan: Alright.

Anu Arora: And within a couple of days, we are together chatting, or we do an episode... I do an episode for them. They do an episode for Visa.

Arjun Sundararajan: Guys.

Anu Arora: Thing like that, or we talk about how are they

Arjun Sundararajan: Right

Anu Arora: what are they finding in their work, which I I learned from. They are finding from my work, they learn from it just become such a rich? Platform just by by the virtue of this podcast. And it's been

Arjun Sundararajan: Right. Right. Right.

Anu Arora: meet with three months. Practically three months since I started it. And I have constant the stream of downloads which are happening. People I'm meeting average two or three people a week.

Arjun Sundararajan: Right.

Anu Arora: I'm like, wow.

Arjun Sundararajan: Yeah. Now whole network aspect is what everybody like, talks about is, like, you don't realize how much that enrich is your life. I love it. I love hearing that story. You mentioned about, the serendipity surrender of it, love it.