Hosted by Karishma Khubchandani · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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What It Really Takes is for founders, creators, students, and professionals who want to grow with clarity, courage, and purpose.Hosted by Karishma Khubchandani, the podcast features honest conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, educators, and leaders who’ve lived through both success and struggle.Each episode explores real stories, mindset shifts, and the inner work behind building meaningful lives and careers.This isn’t about noise or motivation.It’s about truth, resilience, and what it really takes to build something that lasts.
Karishma Khubchandani hosts What It Really Takes, a education show with 10 episodes published.
What happens when a kid from Surat, raised in the diamond city’s discipline, chooses not gemstones, but sound? When he trades factory shifts for midnight studios, walks into Goa with only ₹5,000 and a car full of instrum
What happens when an engineer walks away from a safe job, vanishes into cryptography, writes the book he couldn’t find, and then spends years fixing what makes crypto unusable for the everyday person? In this episode of
What happens when an MBA graduate, who once thought he didn’t have it in him to be a founder, stumbles into crypto by accident, and ends up building companies that power nearly 20% of India’s crypto trading volumes? In t
What happens when a management consultant from IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta leaves behind the safety of corporate life - ZS Associates, ADKearney, Swiggy, and dives headfirst into the wild world of cryptocurrency? In this
What do you do when the path you’ve been preparing for years… stops feeling right? In this episode of What It Really Takes, Ranga Vasudevan opens up about his journey, from IAS aspirations to building his own startup to
In this raw and unfiltered conversation, serial founder and technologist Nachiket Patel opens up about the real journey behind building multiple ventures. From starting as a freelancer to leading companies that impact hu
Anirudh Kala, Founder & CEO of Celebal Technologies: From 0 to USD 500 Million in 8 years unlocking his journey of Growth, Resilience and moments of Vulnerability. With two chairs, a broom, and a six-month-old daughter a
Learn how to lead without shouting in this powerful conversation with Rafael Santiago, SVP at JFrog. Discover the strength in stillness and the trust that grows when you let others rise.TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Introduction: Si
Mohammed Basha on What It Really Takes to Build Global Tech Partnerships, Without Tech Background, Network, or Roadmap.This isn’t a story about credentials.It’s about presence, proof, and building trust without a map.If
In this heartfelt episode of What It Really Takes, we sit down with Gourishankar Mukherjee—Delivery Leader at Coforge and founder of The Listening Tree—to explore the quiet resilience behind his journey from selling fax
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What It Really Takes is hosted by Karishma Khubchandani. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 10 episodes.
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