Sushma Jacob - A 68 years old enthusiastic learner and facilitator

This time we had Saswata & Susrata Mukherjee into our #PodcastSeries, twin brothers from Bengal who are filmmakers, animators, and illustrators. They inspired us through their journey and shared insights about animation world. Here’s is the quick log of their podcast. At the end, find out link of full video and audio podcast.

This time we had Gaurav in our Podcast series who is a leading beatboxer and also worked in Gully Boy movie’s tracks to give beats. He didn’t leave any chance to amaze us with his unmatched talent and his curious journey into hip-hop and beatboxing. In the end, you will find the link of full video and the podcast. Gaurav Gambhir seems like your next door neighbour until you hear him spew beats. Started at the infancy of Indian Hiphop Movement, with sheer will and YouTube, this #Bombaylokal is now a leading beatboxer inspiring many youngsters. He won the Vice Indian Tag Team Championship(2018), performed at underground stages, pan India hip-hop fests, Tedx. Like this is not enough, he gave beats for Ranveer Singh to rap in Gully Boy. The ASLI man now divides his time producing music and teaching youngsters at The Dharavi Dream Project (TDDP).

Ankur is an NID (National Institute of Design) and CBS (College of Business Studies) alumnus. Wearing multiple hats most times, he is the head of design at the OLX group and the founder of the improv group — Nautankibaaz Improv Comedy (NIC). He has studied improv at various theatres in Seattle and NYC, including Magnet, PIT, Jetcity and Unexpected Productions. The passion for his work in a corporate design career of now 14 years has often melted into the pursuits into theatre and storytelling. Both being complimentary to each in many ways, with words like creativity, novelty, empathy, experience, audience/users, story, emotions and joy jumping across the journeys. While he knows that design thinking changes the way products and services function, he firmly believes that improv has a lot of answers to tough personal and societal questions that we face currently as citizens.

Sushma is young 68 year old enthusiastic learner and facilitator. She wore countless hats since she could remember. From conducting “culture sensitization workshops” through CEPT for school kids to teaching Business Communication to MBA and Engineering students, she has been contributing to skill development of young generation for decades. Not just in academic spheres but also for her students run NGO called Prayaas. As National executive member of SPICMACAY, she divides her time, between helping the Gujarat chapter expand flourish and making pickles.

What is StopBeingBoring?  StopBeingBoring is an offline community that offers a safe space for one improve his/her soft skills through performing-art based workshops such as standup, improv, playback theatre,  dance etc.   Tenets of the Community: We intend to build this community on two foundational values, learning and creating. As a part of the learning series, these podcasts will explore the workshop-organisers in Bangalore and learn from their experiences.   Who's our first guest?  Snehil Basoya This first episode features Snehil Basoya. He is the typical Indian middle class kid born in the 80s & 90s. Hardworking parents who believed education is the way out of the "middle class" so pushed their kids to excel at everything. Snehil has kicked ass in all his academic endeavours IIT-D, IIM-A, Agri tech startup etc.  But, what sets him apart is his artistic pursuits such as Improv, Playback Theatre, Poetry, Clowning, Poetry &  Writing.   In this episode, we talk about his childhood, his definition of soft skill, its importance in the workplace, the obstacles and ways to over come them.  We learnt a lot from Snehil and we hope you do too.   Join our Community! www.medium.com/StopBeingBoring   - Team, StopBeingBoring, Anvesh, Devesh, Melissa, Moses #SoftSkills #PersonalityDevelopment #OfflineCommunity #StopBeingBoring