The AboutHer Show with Sangeeta Relan

Who decides who leads? On The AboutHer Show, Dr. Sangeeta Relan speaks with Pankaj Raj, Co-founder & Director of Search Value, about leadership, power, accountability, and allyship. They discuss barriers women face in leadership, boardroom allyship, and Pankaj’s journey in executive search. Plus, The Reveal, where the little things tell us more. 🎙️ The AboutHer Show is a Feedspot Top 10 Women’s Podcast, where women are centred and men show up as allies. For more detailed insights, read the f

Finance meets storytelling in this episode of The AboutHer Show. Urmi Hossain, a CFA and CAIA charterholder, mentor, and host of the podcast Stories Beyond Borders, joins Sangeeta to discuss building a career in finance while staying rooted in identity, mentorship, and self-growth. As an Italian-Bengali woman based in Montreal, Urmi shares how culture, language, and community shaped her path, and why she lives by the philosophy "Invest in Yourself." Ranked Top 3 on Feedspot's list of Indian Wom

She runs a family shipping business, founded the world's largest gender equality conference in maritime history, has advised heads of government on ocean action, and now sits on India's apex shipping policy body. All in an industry never designed to include her. In this episode of The AboutHer Show, I sit down with Sanjam Sahi Gupta — Director of Sitara Shipping, Founder of Maritime SheEO, and gender expert at the IMO and UN ESCAP. She talks about the women who showed her what was possible, wa

What does it look like to build two extraordinary lives and refuse to let either one shrink? Shravani Dang has spent three decades doing exactly that, rising to Vice President at Avantha, serving on global boards, & simultaneously collecting art, founding ArtAdda, documenting food history, & writing fiction. In this conversation, she talks about the instinct that built a creative community, what the corporate world taught her that art never could, & why culinary heritage is a story worth telling

What if the kingdom that gave women the most freedom existed centuries ago, right here in India? Preetha Leela Chockalingam, author of the Girls of India series (Penguin Random House), joins Sangeeta Relan to talk about the matrilineal Kerala that history forgot, the ancient queens and ordinary girls who held power long before the modern world caught up, and why she is determined to bring those stories back to life. From her debut as an eight-year-old plagiarising Enid Blyton to writing historic

She ran the world's largest public broadcaster. She dismantled a system built on middlemen. She navigated a Cola war live on air. And then she retired — and started over on Instagram. Vijayalaxmi Chhabra spent 35 years at All India Radio and Doordarshan, rising to Director General at a time when institutions like these weren't built for women like her. In this conversation, she talks about the career she chose when girls didn't choose this, the mid-career pivot that raised every eyebrow in the