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Mr Anup J Kattukaran, or Anup J 'Kat' as he prefers, is a photographer, cinematographer and founding partner of 1st December films - a production house based out of Mumbai, which has created several award winning advertisements. 1st December films has worked with some of the biggest agencies and brands in the country, and has won several awards including 7 Cannes lions.  Anup himself is India's first ever Director of Photography to have won a Clio award. Anup has filmed ads for Nike, Star Sports, Google, Sony and other brands starring Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor and other big names in the entertainment industry. 

In this episode I try to understand what an ad film shoot looks like, the day to day of a director of photography and fundamentally how production houses function. Anup is also one of the few photographers in the country who dabbles with underwater photography and has done quite a few successful shoots so we also get into the details of that for a bit. 

Enjoy!

 ** Monopoly,  Ludo,  Catan,  Dominion,  Poker,  Scythe, Scrabble **

James Earnest condenses almost 3 decades of his experience in the board gaming industry for us in this extremely informative episode. While I ask a million questions about  board game ideation, themes, styles and game mechanics,  James more eloquently adds to his answers his perspective of having been a freelancer, having started his own company ie Cheapass Games, starting a new company ie Crab Fragment Labs and finally even helps me design a quarantine board game!

We also cover play testing, marketing, distribution and how Kickstarter has had an enormous influence in this industry. If you like playing board games or would like to create one, definitely stay tuned till the end of the episode where James talks about the pros and cons of dipping your toes into this industry in 2020. 

About James: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjCmpvtkNPrAhVmFTQIHfSbBP8QFjAAegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJames_Ernest&usg=AOvVaw28UNSVy4D6jH3w1FHmK9gD

*This episode has a mix of English and Kannada.

You can take the person out of Bangalore but not the slang out of the Bangalorean.

Ikyatha Yerasala has worked as been a movie reviewer, a journalist, a features reporter and a sub-editor in prominent publications like Midday, Deccan Chronicle and Deccan Herald  and most recently started "Slangaluru" an Instagram/Twitter based social media brand which captures Namma Bengaluru's spirit. 

This episode has 2 blue Bangaloreans reliving their childhood days in the Garden city. We talk about the Bangalore we grew up in, darshini culture, playing cricket in vataras, the period before Christ College got a dress code, the period after Forum was constructed, eating capsicum bhajji at VV Puram and more about being 90s kids in Bangalore. It's a lovely trip down memory lane for those of you who miss 'Luru from the early 2000s. Get off one cup of maggi and settle in, this is going to be a nostalgic one.

While golfing has been stereotyped to be the old white man's game,  it's actually one of most involved, difficult sports of all time. 

In today's episode we decontruct MaryLou Mulflur's 40 year stint in golfing out of which she spent 37 coaching the UW women's golf team. Her players are phenomenal and have gone on to win the NCAA National Championship in 2016. 

We cover the rules of golf, how it has evolved over the years, life as a coach, her coaching philosophy, borrowing strategies from game plays and creating a winning team year on year. We also learn about physical and mental fitness for players and preparation leading upto golf tournaments. 

As a UW alumni and former husky, it was an absolute pleasure talking to MaryLou.  Go dawgs! 

TLDR; If "Tiger Woods" is all you can remember about golf, this is the podcast episode you never knew you needed. 

Brb ordering golf clubs on amazon.

So you find someone in cardiac arrest on the side of the street, what do you do? Would you hesitate if it were a woman? What if it's a child?

Before you re-watch that episode [S05E15] of The Office, let's catch up with the multi-faceted Marion Leary, who is the Director of Innovation at University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing. She was Philly's Geek of the Year in 2017,  Philadelphia Inquirer's Health Influencer in 2019 and has been a resuscitation science researcher for many years now. We talk about innovation, design thinking, how Philadelphia is more than just the Rocky Memorial and her attempts to reduce the social and economic disparity in healthcare offerings in the US.  Be it TikTok videos or Improv, Marion has adopted creative ways of getting across research and findings to the general public! Somewhere in the middle of the episode is also a clip of Michael Scott grooving to the BeeGees as Marion explains briefly about how to perform CPR. Tune in to this interesting, fact-based yet mildly funny episode which Marion refers to as "her best podcast interview" ever. This is definitely the podcast you never knew you needed! 

Follow Marion on Twitter: @marionleary

In this episode Dr Ishan reflects on his journey from studying to become a practicing doctor to switching to a management consulting job to finally finding himself thrive in the startup arena. 

In Part 1/2 of this podcast episode we breakdown stages of studying medicine in the UK, startups and what it means to be a doctor putting together power point presentations at work. We also cover the stages he went through in piecing together his latest startup, Hello Eeva, which is solving the problem of loneliness, all over London. Take a walk and listen to Dr Ishan school us about making career choices at 17 and being definitely okay with not sticking to them. 

Ever heard from someone who went from holding a scalpel to making an elevator pitch? This is information you never knew you needed! 

2020 has had calamities of epic proportions and this pandemic has beaten us to a pulp.  We have gotten ripped apart yet are learning to come together. People across the globe have never been more united and we couldn't have done so without the examples set by healthcare workers on the front lines. This episode has Dr Theresa, a nurse who is also a writer giving us the deets on the reality of being a nurse.  Apart from the daily  7PM cheers from our balconies the least we can do is empathize with these amazing people who are risking their lives to save ours. Nurses are strong, compassionate and champions of working under pressure. Let's celebrate them with this epic episode filled with details you never knew you needed!