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Hosted by Sivaraman Swaminathan · business · EN-US · 108 episodes
Hosted by Sivaraman Swaminathan (Swami), this show decodes what goes on behind the minds of people who strive to achieve mastery, excellence, and success in their business or profession. It explores their life purpose, motivations and inspiration, and attempts to understand their personal growth journey. We try to understand the why behind what they do and how they are successfully accomplishing what they set out to do in their lives. You can discover the mental models of these high performers, who are career achievers and leaders in their own right and seek to learn from their practices and experiences. The conversation dives deep into their lifelong learning methods, personal development and self-improvement strategies that they work on, their workplace rituals or practices that have made them successful in their business, startup, or entrepreneurial journey. These conversations will inspire you, open your mind to new possibilities and help you r
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosted by Sivaraman Swaminathan (Swami), this show decodes what goes on behind the minds of people who strive to achieve mastery, excellence, and success in their business or profession. It explores their life purpose, motivations and inspiration, and attempts to understand their personal growth journey.
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence is hosted by Sivaraman Swaminathan. The show has published 108 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Annie Vella - AI Can Write Code. Engineers Need to Solve Business Problems (#072)" (29 September 2026, 44 minutes), "Jeremy Stevenson on The 12 Levers for a Better Life (#071)" (3 September 2026, 68 minutes), and "Kelly Swingler on How to Stay Ambitious Without Burning Out (#070)" (13 August 2026, 61 minutes).
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 108 episodes.
Booking probability for ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence's contact route on record: public web form.
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Sivaraman Swaminathan hosts ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence, a business show with 108 episodes published.
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ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! As AI takes on more of the coding, where can software engineers make the biggest difference? In this episode of ContraMinds, engineering leader and researcher Annie Vella joins...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! What if more than a century of self-help advice could be distilled into just 12 practical approaches? In this episode of ContraMinds, Swami speaks with clinical psychologist and...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! Burnout rarely arrives without warning. Burnout expert Kelly Swingler explains how to recognise its early physical, emotional and cognitive signs—and why the body often senses...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! AI is changing how customers discover brands - and making marketing attribution far more complex. In this episode of The Super CMO Show, Swami speaks with Scott Desgrosseilliers...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! In this episode of the ContraMinds Podcast, Swami is in conversation with Logan Yonavjak , Co-founder and CEO of Readiness Engine, about a question that most organisations rarely...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
Let's know what you liked and learnt! Burnout is often treated as a personal problem, but what if the real issue is the way modern work is designed? In this episode of ContraMinds, leadership researcher and author Nick...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p><b>What does it really take to become a modern CMO?</b></p><p>In this episode of The Super CMO Show with Swami, Megha Agarwal shares why she calls herself a...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>What does it really mean to build wealth as an entrepreneur? And more importantly, what happens after success?</p><p>In this final episode of ContraMinds Timeless Wisdom...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p><b>Markets don’t just test intelligence. They test temperament.<br/></b>In this Timeless Wisdom episode, Shyam Sekhar breaks down the psychological traps that quietly...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>Most founders treat capital as the fuel that powers a business. But in this conversation, Shyam Sekhar flips that idea on its head—capital is not fuel, it is a bridge. A...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this conversation with Swami, B. Joseph Pine II explains the shift from the Experience Economy to the Transformation Economy, where the real value lies in helping...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this episode of ContraMinds, Shekhar Natarajan explains why the biggest challenge in AI today isn’t intelligence—it’s trust. As AI systems become more powerful, they...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this episode, Swami is in conversation with Professor T Prasad of IIM Bombay also known as ‘Mandi’ Sir. Prof Prasad challenges the conventional model of higher...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In the final episode of the Contra Minds Timeless Wisdom series, Swami explores a radical idea from Kumar Vembu: <b>leadership is not a role — it is a continuous act of...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this episode of the ContraMinds Timeless Wisdom series, Swami revisits his conversation with Kumar Vembu to explore how organisations can be intentionally designed to...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this timeless conversation from 2021, Kumar Vembu reflects on how enduring organisations are built—not through control, pedigree, or process-heavy management, but...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>Across a year of conversations on ContraMinds and The Super CMO Show, a pattern quietly emerged. No matter the domain—AI, careers, marketing, health, or leadership—the...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this powerful conversation, Prof. Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty of IIT Kharagpur breaks down something we all struggle with — how to really learn. Most of us study for exams...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p>In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, Professor Vasant Dhar( @NYUSternBusiness ) NYU professor, AI researcher, investor and author of Thinking With Machines—breaks...
ContraMinds Podcast - Unlocking Personal Growth and Professional Excellence
<p>Let's know what you liked and learnt! </p><p><b>The 10 Permissions: From Stuck to Self-Directed in a Fluid World</b></p><p>In this thought-provoking conversation, author and change-maker <b>Jillian Reilly</b> joins...
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