Something Bigger Talk Show

Dr. Samir shares tips on handling stress at work, finding mental health support, and taking control of your life. Watch now for expert advice!

👇 About the guest

Dr. Samir Parikh is a seasoned consultant psychiatrist with 26 years of experience, currently serving as the Director of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences at Fortis Healthcare in India.

👇 Key Highlights

✅Work-life balance and mental wellness in the workplace

- Concerns about interpersonal factors with team members and supervisors need to be addressed for a healthy work-life balance and encouraging healthy practices.

- Challenges in accessing mental health support, dealing with stigma, affordability, and easy access to mental health services are key issues that need to be tackled.

✅Seeking help for mental health

- Experts' intervention and support are essential for addressing mental health issues at the workplace.

- Recognizing functional impairment across social, personal, academic, or occupational aspects indicates the need for external help.

✅When to seek help for mental health struggles

- Functional impairment persisting for more than two weeks may indicate a need for seeking help, regardless of illness or non-illness.

- Creating a supportive culture in the workplace is essential for individuals to feel comfortable addressing mental health concerns.

✅Importance of mental health literacy in organizations

- Encouraging seeking help, self-help, lifestyle and psychological support

- Investing in people, providing the right environment, and ensuring access to mental health support

✅Stigma and promoting help-seeking behavior.

- Regular mental health literacy is important to reduce stigma and discrimination, which in turn helps in promoting help-seeking behavior.

- Organizations should make mental health literacy and Mental Health First Aid mandatory, and provide support systems to encourage help-seeking behavior and reduce stigma.

👇 Timestamps

[00:00] Intro

[00:57] Prevention of mental health issues

[03:06] Corporate culture impact on mental health crisis

[08:46] Importance of mental wellness in the workplace

[11:37] Work-life balance & Mental wellness

[16:53] Seeking help for mental health

[19:15] When to seek help for mental health struggles

[23:44] Importance of mental health at workplace

[25:52] Responsibility for mental health at work

[30:27] Organizational impact on mental health

[33:00] Mental health literacy in organizations

[37:49] Stigma & promoting help-seeking behavior

[40:17] Empathy & Kindness

👇 Connect with Dr. Samir Parikh

Learn how to build a $100 million business from VC Investor Arjun Vaidya. Get practical advice on scaling your business and reaching financial success.

👇About the guest

Arjun Vaidya, Co-Founder of V3 Ventures, built Dr. Vaidya’s into India’s leading Ayurvedic D2C brand, serving over 2 million customers before its successful exit. A Brown University graduate, he now invests in startups across Asia, mentors entrepreneurs, hosts a podcast, and leads a top D2C brand-building course.

👇Key Highlights

✅The difference between VC vs Entrepreneurship

- VC involves betting on multiple companies, allowing for some failures as long as overall performance is good

- Entrepreneurship requires all parts of the company to do well for success, limiting room for failure

✅Focus on scaling one channel before expanding to others

- Start by focusing on your own website and scale it effectively

- Once you establish success on one channel, leverage that to expand to other marketplaces

✅Achieving product-market fit and its impact on business growth.

- Product-market fit leads to increased order flow, reduced concerns about business viability, and clarity in decision-making.

- Successful scaling requires prioritizing hiring, delegation, and team-building to increase productivity and avoid capping output.

✅A pitch deck needs to be compelling and easily consumable on phones.

- The pitch deck should have a font size of 30, less than 20 slides, and should be read from beginning to end in 10 minutes or less.

- During the meeting, focus on showcasing a strong team, market potential, traction, and product-market fit.

✅Indian market offers affordable aspirational products across various categories

- Sneaker brands like Zen, Baku offering shoes that resemble international brands at lower price range of 1500-4000 rupees.

- Brands like Rare Rabbit, Bare House providing men's fashion items at 1000-2000 rupees, similar to higher priced international brands.

👇Timestamps

[0:00] Introduction

[0:56] I make about…

[02:16] VC and Entrepreneurship

[06:29] Transitioning from a large team

[08:44] Failures and the need to pivot

[12:51] Seeking advice outside your business.

[14:51] Struggles in raising money

[18:35] Achieving success after solving business problems

[20:26] Focus on scaling one channel

[23:45] Product-market fit & its impact on business growth

[25:49] Key factors for business growth

[29:24] Having a clear long-term HR plan

[31:10] The potential of the market in India

[34:46] Foreign companies looking to scale in India

[36:51] Marketing strategies

[40:52] The right time to sell the business

[42:48] Leaving the office for the last time.

[46:38] Successful companies are often mission-driven

[48:29] A Pitch Deck- 30 20 10 rule

[52:42] Startups offering coffee at lower price point.

[54:35] Zen, Baku, Rare Rabbit & Bare House

[58:23] Entrepreneurship reaching new peaks

[1:00:10]Entrepreneurship teaches valuable life skills

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Discover the inspiring story of Damodar Mall, the man behind the success of Reliance Smart Bazar. Supermarketwala shares the journey of how he transformed the grocery retail industry in India.

👇 About the Guest

Damodar Mall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Grocery Retail Business at Reliance Retail.

An IIT-Bombay and IIM-Bangalore alumnus, Damodar worked in Sales and brand roles at Unilever prior to founding a retail venture that went on to become the DMart supermarket chain. He was then with Future Group in various leadership roles and was part of Kishore Biyani’s core team.

Damodar’s book SupermarketWala: Secrets to Wining Consumer India, provides business insights for shaping consumer business and modern retail, in India. His recently published second book Be a SupermarketWala is a business primer for supermarket entrepreneurs.

👇 Key Highlights

✅ Embracing entrepreneurial spirit within a corporate setting

- Initiating innovative projects outside of designated roles

- Enjoying the entrepreneurial journey amidst corporate structure

✅ Seizing opportunities and scaling up smart Bazaar stores

- A specialist's input led to the ambition of launching 200 stores in a year, creating a separate pipeline for growth.

- The journey from the launch of the first Smart Bazaar store in 2016 to reaching the thousandth store in 2025 was described as an impressive accomplishment.

✅ Modernizing home consumption of coconut water

- Identifying inefficiencies and efforts in obtaining and consuming coconut water

- Plans to modernize packaging and create brand loyalty through form and feature changes

✅ Accelerate your plans and tap into the large domestic market in India

- India's increasing purchasing power and desire for branded products present a lucrative opportunity for global players

- Large corporations have flourished by upgrading and marketing hair oil products in the domestic market

✅ Reliance focusing on consumption opportunities in India

- Expanding through various channels like physical stores, e-commerce, quick Commerce, and outlet malls

- Involvement in creating new brands and empowering mom and pop stores for a unique consumption mix

👇 Timestamps

[00:00] Introduction

[00:52] Entrepreneurial Journey : Damodar Mall

[07:04] Successfully implemented changes in stores

[09:24] Scaling up smart bazaar stores

[14:33] Coconut water

[17:09] Brands simplify the act of choosing for consumers

[21:48] Culture & Incomes.

[24:19] Supermarkets vs Kirana Stores

[29:02] Strawberries and Dry fruits

[31:18] Key to business success in India

[35:55] Tap into the large domestic market in India

[38:28] Indian consumer behavior trends

[43:26] Fusing Indian retail and digital access

[45:57] Reliance focusing on consumption opportunities in India

[50:40] Consumer behavior varies across different retail channels

[53:02] Simplicity and customer connection

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Sangram Singh's life story is a testament to the power of resilience and determination. Despite battling Rheumatoid Arthritis from a young age, he overcame insurmountable odds to become an international wrestling champion, motivational speaker, actor, and philanthropist.

👇 Key Highlights

✅Overcoming adversity with mother's determination

- Struggles with rheumatoid arthritis since childhood

- Mother's belief in healing through wrestling and their journey to find a cure

✅Consistency in routine is key for good health

- Start the day with yoga, reading, and basic activities like drinking boiled water with turmeric for natural antibiotic benefits.

- Incorporate oil pulling with coconut or mustard oil before starting a daily 4-5 hour workout routine for a healthy lifestyle.

✅Carrying homemade ingredients for health reasons.

- Explaining the reasons for carrying ghee, turmeric, and pink salt.

- Talking about shining from within and helping people with mental health issues.

✅Work hard, believe in yourself, value time, and stay positive.

- Sangram shares his experience of intense workouts and meetings in Dubai, emphasizing the importance of physical work for good sleep.

- His message to young people is to believe in themselves, not fear making mistakes, and value time.

✅Donating organs and selfless giving

- Decision to donate organs after a friend's death and arranging the donation with the help of a friend

- Advocacy and promotion of organ donation, and celebrating birthdays by planting trees and helping the needy

👇 Timestamps

[00:00] Introduction

[00:56] Overcame a life-threatening illness at a young age

[02:47] Rheumatoid arthritis since childhood

[09:13] Facing and overcoming life's challenges with principles

[12:10] Balancing various pursuits and embracing life's journey

[17:42] Believe in yourself and improve daily

[20:11] Yoga, Reading, Turmeric & Oil pulling

[25:34] Carrying homemade ingredients for health reasons.

[27:59] Work hard, believe in yourself, value time, and stay positive.

[33:16] Donating organs and selfless giving

[35:49] Tea can be harmful to health

👇 Connect with Sangram Singh

Overcoming Adversity: Amin's Journey from Childhood Abuse to Survival.

This is an incredible story of Amin who faced extreme hardships as a child, including r@pe and abuse, which taught him survival skills and made him question the value of education and wealth in society.

👇Key Takeaways

✅5 yr old on streets of Mumbai

- At the age of five, Amin was forced to live on the streets and experienced rape, violence, and hunger, which taught him how to beg, rob, and protect himself

- Started by picking food from garbage and cleaning plates in restaurants

✅Working with Eustus Fernandis transformed my life.

- Initially, Amin struggled with communication due to language barriers.

- Eustus' mentorship and kindness helped him improve my language skills and confidence.

✅Transformed from a "Garbage Boy" to a successful author and café owner

- Amin Self-published book with friends' help and earned 85 lakh rupees

- Used past experiences to inspire and successfully sold 26,000 copies of the book

-Bombay To Barcelona Library Cafe success

✅Empowering underprivileged youth through education and housing

- He operates a school in India focused on child-centric education, employing 30 staff members across different initiatives.

- Initiated a project to provide housing to at-risk youth, aiming to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.

✅Inspiring message about building a better future

- Amin's sister, Sabira trains boys and girls in cooking skills, showcasing strength and determination

- Encouraging the world to bring positive change and create a better future for children

👇Timestamps

[0:00] Introduction

[1:01] 5 yr old on streets of Mumbai

[02:24] Hardships and challenges

[07:12] Finding a lost sister

[09:30] Transformation with love and change

[14:15] Finding hope

[21:29] Struggle to achieve dreams

[23:29] Eustus Fernandis transformed my life.

[27:56] Desire to go to Spain

[30:02] Travel & Freedom

[34:41] Finding freedom and strength in identity

[40:47] Transformed from a garbage boy to a successful author & café owner

[42:53] Started a successful cafe in just 8 days

[47:13] Empowering underprivileged youth through education and housing

[49:15] Encouraging self-discovery and personal growth

[53:27] Bringing happiness to children in need.

[55:33] Belief in oneself is crucial for success

[59:46] Inspiring message

👇Connect with Amin