Growmance with Pavi: Love your ever evolving self
By Pavi Theva
If you are anything like me, you are also passionate about holistic health, spirituality and technology. I coined this term Growmance for this passion, this process of falling in love with your ever evolving self.
Welcome to my space! This is a weekly podcast about growth journey navigating spirituality, health, career and personal growth. Listen for inspiration, motivation and accountability to design your dream life.
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Growmance with Pavi: Love your ever evolving selfApr 21, 2021
Ep 20 - Product Managers Chat: Microsoft Meets Amazon
Are you an aspiring Product Manager who wants to work in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? In this episode, Dasani who is a Product Manager at Microsoft shares her journey of transitioning to product from being a software engineer and we discuss career advice, life as a Product Manager and interview preparation for full time and internship. She has previously interned at Google and Khan Academy as a software engineer. She is also a career coach, artist, doodler, writer, blogger and as professional of a day dreamer as someone can be. You can learn more about her on her website: www.dasanidecoded.com
Please tune in to the product management series Ep 17-19 to understand the basics of product management and the different paths to product.
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Ep 19 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: Path to Product Management
Are you an aspiring Product Manager who wants to work in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at FAANG.
Pavi Theva works as a Technical Product Manager at Amazon and builds products for Amazon's Grocery Operations such as Fresh, WholeFoods and Amazon Grocery stores. In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about the the skills needed to become a Rockstar Product Manager. Pavi Theva deep dives into the different oaths that one can take in order to become a Product Manager and her product career journey. She also shares strategies and valuable resources for preparing your product manager profile.
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Ep 18 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: Skills required to become a High Performing Product Manager
Are you interested in working as a Product Manager in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at FAANG.
Pavi Theva works as a Technical Product Manager at Amazon and builds products for Amazon's Grocery Operations such as Fresh, WholeFoods and Amazon Grocery stores. In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about the the skills needed to become a Rockstar Product Manager. Pavi Theva deep dives into three types of skills: 1. Functional skills 2. Technical Skills 3. Soft skills that one needs to develop to grow in their product management career.
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EP 17 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: What is product management?
Are you interested in working as a Product Manager in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at FAANG.
Pavi Theva works as a Technical Product Manager at Amazon and builds products for Amazon's Grocery Operations such as Fresh, WholeFoods and Amazon Grocery stores. In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about the basics of product management, the primary responsibilities of a Product Manager and key questions that candidates can discuss with the hiring managers to get a clear understanding about their product management role.
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Ep 16: How a 21 year old started his spiritual journey at the age of 8
What qualifies as education for real life? What is conscious living? Saavan Patel, the Founder of boundless yoga, an Isha Samskriti alum, a trained Kalaripayattu martial artist, and currently, a student at Austin, answers these questions and much more in this episode. Saavan Patel is a professionally trained Isha classical Hatha Yoga teacher with an extremely unique educational background. He talks about his growth journey, his childhood and education, and why he founded the Boundless Yoga initiative. He passionately seeks to share the ancient science of yoga as a tool of wellbeing for the world. Saavan has conducted yoga workshops in India and the United States. He offers programs for children, adults, pregnant women, and also offers personalized combinations of practices for various health conditions. Saavan is excited to share these simple but powerful yogic tools for wellbeing and self-transformation. Listen on, to find out about his life journey as he shares a lot of valuable tips on how to practice a conscious and fulfilling lifestyle. Be sure to follow the guest Saavan Patel on IG: @saavan_patel7 as well.
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Ep 15 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your physical energy to maximize productivity
Have you been trying to work on your passion projects or side hustles after your 9 to 5 job but feel exhausted? Have you tried different time management techniques but they didn’t work after a point? After years of trying various techniques, Pavi Theva realized that the important aspect of being efficient is to manage your energy and not your time.
In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about physical energy and how one can tap into physical energy to maximize productivity. She shares her learnings and simple techniques one can implement to improve their sleeping, exercising and healthy eating habits. She leaves you with an exercise that you can implement right away to honor your natural flow of energy and build your routine.
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Ep 14 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your mental energy to maximize productivity
After being guilty of searching for time management tips online and have experimented with multiple techniques, Pavi realized that one needs to manage their energy snd not their time. While the different time management techniques like Calendar planning, Pomodoro technique all seemed to work well for a short period of time, they weren’t sustainable. They don’t work the same way everyday because every day, your energy levels are different.
In this episode, Pavi talks about how to tap into your mental energy to maximize productivity. Pavi shares some tips and tricks that can help you become more efficient and talks about healthy habits one could incorporate in their daily routine to honor their mental energy.
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EP 13 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your emotional and relational energy to maximize productivity
Welcome to the ENERGY SERIES with Pavi Theva.
How many of you feel completely exhausted after your 9-5 job with no energy left to do other things? In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about how to honor your emotional and relational energy and use that energy to feel positive, motivated and maximize your productivity. After years of trying different time management techniques that weren't sustainable, Pavi has realized that managing our energies can open doors to unlimited possibilities. While most people think of energy in physical terms such as nutrition, sleep quality, exercise, and fitness. there are actually different kinds of energy in all of us. In this episode, Pavi talks about the meaning of emotional and relational energy and how to tap into them to maximize productivity and live to our fullest potential. Pavi walks you through her learnings and some daily practices and habits one could incorporate in their daily routine to honor these energies.
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Ep 12 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your spiritual energy to maximize productivity
Welcome to the ENERGY SERIES with Pavi Theva.
How many of you feel completely exhausted after your 9-5 job with no energy left to do other things? In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about how to honor your spiritual energy and use that energy to feel positive, motivated and maximize your productivity. After years of trying different time management techniques that weren't sustainable, Pavi has realized that managing our energies can open doors to unlimited possibilities. She shares reflection exercises on how to find the purpose of your life and align yourself to your core being.
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Ep 11 - A Letter To My Younger Self
In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares the realizations from her childhood and writes a letter to her younger self. She shares the pain she underwent during her childhood and talks about the important lessons she learned.
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Ep 10 - The Story of Growmance
Consider this episode as a virtual launch celebration and introductory episode of Growmance!
In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about her story, how she transitioned from engineering to product management and discovered her purpose. She talks about how Growmance came into being and the mission of this movement. Growmance means falling in love with your ever evolving self.
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EP 9: 10 Powerful Mindset Shifts That Will Transform Your Life
Your mindset Is 80% of your success and the actual mechanics is only 20 per cent. Our mindset is so important because it affects the success of every aspect of our lives: personal, business, health. Buddha said: “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about 10 powerful mindset shifts you can consciously practice to transform your life and reinvent yourself.
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EP 8: Mindsets That Shape Our Lives: Fixed vs Growth Mindset
I'm your host Pavi Theva. I'm a Product Manager at Amazon, Speaker, Blogger and STEM Career and Wellness Coach. Visit my website www.pavitheva.com and my Instagram page www.instagram.com/growmance_ to checkout my content. Your review means a lot, so please share your feedback.
EP 7: Monk Mindset For Dealing With Negativity
In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares her experience on how she overcame the negative naysayers stomping on her dreams and leaves you with a monk mindset concept to train your mind to not be affected by negativity. No matter where you find yourself on the big game board of life you’re going to have people enter your life who will talk negatively, hurt your feelings and pull you down. In fact the more successful you are and the more you challenge the status quo, the more you hear these negative comments. Pavi shares a monk mindset that you can cultivate for developing inner peace and pleasantness within you and not letting other people’s actions control what’s happening within you and focus on creating your own success and in turn being an inspiration for others.
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EP 6: Fireside Chat with Sandhya: Developing Meditation, Sleep and Exercise habits
Are you working on building good habits to improve the quality of your lifestyle? This episode is inspired by the second episode titled 'Lifestyle design: E2: The secret to unlocking your potential and determining your future' where Pavi talks about 10 effective habits and the 4 golden laws discussed in the book Atomic Habits. Habits are the compound interest of personal growth. In this episode, Pavi and Sandhya discuss three habits that they are both exploring and developing : (1) Meditation (2) Sleep (3)Exercise. They deep dive into why these three habits are important to them and how they are implementing these habits in their daily lives. Working on your daily habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. Listen to find out how two friends working in Tech are developing healthy habits toward a fulfilling lifestyle. Follow IG: @growmance_ and my website www.pavitheva.com to leave your comments. Follow the guest Sandhya IG: @sandhyaram9
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EP 5: Closer look at Empathy: Is empathy a double-edged sword?
In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares different philosophies on empathy. For decades, a lot of emphasis has been put on certain aspects of intelligence such as logical reasoning, math skills, spatial skills, linguistic skills etc. Researchers were puzzled by the fact that while IQ could predict to a significant degree academic performance and, to some degree, professional and personal success, there was something missing in the equation because research showed that people with fabulous IQ scores were doing poorly in life by thinking, behaving and communicating in a way that hindered their chances to succeed. The missing part in the success equation is emotional intelligence, a concept made popular by the groundbreaking book by Daniel Goleman. In this episode, Pavi shares David Goleman’s framework for emotional intelligence and discusses how it can impact our career and personal lives. She also shares interesting concepts of empathy inspired by Paul Bloom, author of “Against Empathy” and Jamil Zaki, author of “War of Kindness: Building empathy in a fractured world” and whether it is actually doing more harm than good.
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EP 4: Do soulmates exist? Looking within and managing expectations for a lasting relationship
How to find your perfect partner? Is there such a thing as a soulmate? These are difficult yet important questions to ask and think about. In this episode of Growmance, Pavi dives deeper into realizing the meaning of love, knowing yourself and managing expectations. We are busy searching for a partner who matches our expectations, that we have forgotten the meaning of true love and taking love beyond words to make it an enduring quality within. We all want marriages or relationships to last for a lifetime and take a vow to commit ourself to the relationship, but not all marriages last for a lifetime, why is that so? The moment some expectations and requisites are not fulfilled, we are not able to live happily with the other person and things fall apart. Love is a sweet emotion that we experience within ourselves. Love is not about someone, it is someone you become. The expectations that most people are creating are such that there is no human being on the planet who could ever fulfill those expectations. In this episode, Pavi shares a short story, talks about her experience and discusses the teachings of Sadhguru, an Indian Monk and founder of Isha Foundation.
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EP 3: Unlearning in the time of continuous learning
Should we fail to raise ourselves up to the occasion, it will be a collective failure of our human species to evolve. Sounds audacious? In this episode of Gromance, Pavi discusses the paradigm shifts in technology, leadership and socio-economic conditions in the 21st century and the importance of learning to unlearn. Unlearning is an art of letting go of old knowledge, skills, information or habits in order to make a room for new ideas and learning which might be better for success in life. We have to recognize and accept that the old techniques, knowledge and perception on which we have been relying on are no longer effective or relevant. This is most challenging because most of us are sublimely unaware of our mindset and perceptions. We just employ them and those remains on auto pilot mode. In addition to this, it can be difficult to accept that your existing model is getting out-dated. Many of you have built your reputations and careers on the mastery of these old models. Letting go may seems to you like starting over all again and losing the authority, status, or even your sense of self. Since the world is changing at the speed of thoughts, developing qualities like adaptability, feeling comfortable and accepting new challenges and changes around you, practicing mindfulness and staying curious will help you achieve success.
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EP 2: The Secret to unlocking your potential: Building healthy habits
"You cannot change your future, you can change your habits and surely your habits will change your future”, Dr. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India. In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares the secret to unlocking your potential, how you can undergo paradigm shifts and change yourself fundamentally by upgrading your lifestyle. Creating habits makes reaching your goals easier and they last for the long haul. Habits are the compound interest of personal growth. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent. In this episode, Pavi shares the 10 healthy habits that she has been focusing on and the 4 golden laws to build lasting habits that was discussed in the book Atomic Habits.
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EP 1: Life's Journey towards Fulfillment: My YCET theory for building a fulfilling life
In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares her YCET Fulfillment theory, which helps you embark on a journey to lead a fulfilled life. In today's world of constant stress, pressure and influences, the YCET theory will make you feel positive, energetic and focused to ultimately unlock your fullest potential. Dominant cultural narratives send us messages that we are not enough and true happiness comes from wealth and having a successful career. No matter how much success we see in our professional lives, there is always something better. The truth is happiness doesn't come external things, fulfillment comes from witnessing your own growth. When you're able to hit the pause button and reflect on substantial changes in your life, you feel a sense of meaning and purpose. Listen to this episode to find out what YCET stands for and how you can apply this theory in your daily lives to lead a fulfilled life.
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