Less Than 9% Of Podcast Speakers Are Women. Alpha Women | Season 1 Mid-Season Recap

Less than 9% of speakers on India’s top business and leadership podcasts are women. Alpha Women, hosted by Salone Sehgal, Founder and Managing Partner of Lumikai, was built to change that math.

Five episodes in, Season 1 has brought together women redefining leadership across venture capital, law, AI, cinema and fintech:

Episode 1: Vani Kola, Founder and Managing Director of Kalaari Capital, on why success was never a finish line and why women in leadership should like themselves first.

Episode 2: Karuna Nundy, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, on cases that take decades and why hard work is what makes brilliance possible.

Episode 3: Pragya Misra, OpenAI’s Head of Strategy and Global Affairs for India, on why AI can lift the floor for women as well as the ceiling.

Episode 4: Jyoti Deshpande, President of Jio Studios and producer of Dhurandhar, on bold bets, high stakes and balancing instinct with commercial judgement.

Episode 5: Upasana Taku, Co-Founder and CFO of MobiKwik, on self-doubt, leading through the hard years and building back to an IPO.

Each conversation goes beyond the title to the decisions, setbacks and convictions behind it. If you’re figuring out your own path, there’s a lesson in every one.

Season 1 continues. Watch the recap on Spotify and YouTube.

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