Ashutosh and Naren, two young adults from Bengaluru, took 6 years of research and absolute hard work to bring a humoungously impactful line of stationary to keep us using the stationary exactly the way we do, at the same cost and still be sustainable.

They show us, its possible to save large number of trees and thousands of gallons of water by just switching to Rescript stationary because they’re made from recycled paper and cardboard.  

https://www.rescript.in/

Engineer, founder, and passionate about solving large scale and complex problems effecting our world.

Founder of parentune, focused on bringing about a positive change in child development, parenting and parent-child support ecosystem. Had the privilege of leading winning teams for change initiatives in my stints in Healthcare, FMCG and Education. I am compassionate about the challenges faced by parents today and moreover in bridging the missing support ecosystem for parents. Parentune's vision is to be the must-have-support for each parent.

Natalie is a former national team & world tour snowboarder, current competitive CrossFit athlete, and lifelong creator & entrepreneur. She hosts the ‘ALL IN with Natalie Allport’ podcast, and is a passionate advocate for athlete mental health & women in sport.

Natalie has amassed a growing online audience of over 200,000 followers, through sharing her story, athletic training, and unique perspective on sport and life, as well as being authentic in her motive of empowering others. She believes in creating the content you want to see in the World, and creates / speaks on her experiences with mindset, mental health, fitness, wellness, gender equity (women/girls in sport), body image, and sports.

Mike Valente has great experience and the humbleness to share it with me in this interview. A truly inspiring photographer who does not yet completely believe in social media presence.

Pete Cohen is a Speaker, Author, Podcaster and most of all, Britain's #1 Lifecoach.

https://petecohen.com/

Dr Srihari has done his MD (doctor of medicine) in pediatrics. Meaning, he is specialized to treat kids like you and
me. And to top it, he has done his fellow in nutrition from The University of La Trobe, France. Not just
that, he even won an award as an iconic doctor in 2019 for North Bengaluru.

Christina floyd has been researching and sharing some golden nuggets to other parents, through her blogs and her popular facebook group called ‘Sustainable toys.

https://thebabypenguin.com/

Chaitsi Ahuja, an Environmentalist who turned into a sustainability leader in business helps us understand how her love for mother earth is still the core of what she does.

https://brownliving.in/

Patti Dobrowolski, a 4 times TED Speaker, an Author, business coach and founder of upyourcreativegenius guides us on how we could arrive  at the 3 bold steps to achieve our dream.

https://upyourcreativegenius.com/

Matt Nuccio @mi_chiamano_nooch the president of Design Edge, Inc @designedgeinc , a toy and game development company and licensing agency whose clients include Mattel, Hasbro, Spin Master and Fisher-Price to name only a few.

For 4 years, Matt co-chaired the Toy Association (TA), on their associate panel, representing all designers and inventors within the toy industry.
Currently, Matt sits on the board of directors of the United Inventors Association of America (UIA).

Brig Sushil Bhasin is now a Leadership and Time Consciousness Coach, Keynote and TEDx Speaker, Trainer, and Author.
He brings Army values to everyday life from his 51 years of training in the Army, Corporate and Educational experience.
He is an author if 6 books including 'Design Your Life' and 'Million Dollar Second'

https://brigsushilbhasin.com/

G'Ade Born in Nigeria but migrated with her Parents at a very young age to Jamaica where she grew up, then Migrated to the U.S.
She's an Author, Social Worker, Entertainment Manager and Host for my her Podcast.

http://theunfilteredbygade.com/

Azaan Feroz Sait is the Founder and Chief Happiness Officer of @thehubbengaluru . Azaan is the driving force behind Safina Ventures- the startup studio behind brands like Safina Banquets, Safina Plaza, Safina Motors.

My guest on this Women's Day, is pioneering the effort of bringing sustainable toys to the lives of children. After having a PhD from Harvard and working in corporate jobs, she chose to start a toy company of her own!! It's called @shumeetoys

https://www.shumee.in/

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Ajay Kumar (born 2 October 1962) is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, of the batch of 1985. He is currently the Defence Secretary of India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota and was awarded separate two fellowships by the University of Minnesota. ^[1]

He is accredited to scale up defense exports to approximately 13,000 crores for 2021-22 with the introduction of modern warfare capabilities and disruptive technologies and innovations. ^[2] He established the iDEX initiative to help create a conducive and cost-effective defense start-up ecosystem that fosters innovation and technology development. ^[3] He is in charge of Project 75I, which is developing next-generation submarines and fighters and laying the groundwork for a future marine and aerospace industrial ecosystem in India

An eminent Indian Toy Designer, post graduate of National Institute of Design (NID) with her specialization in Toys and Children products. She is also a TEDx speaker. She has done Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs from IIM, Bangalore.

She designs the surprise toys found inside Kinder Joy for Indian / global market, sports toys for Disney, India and break-time playthings for ITC Foods. Suhasini was approached by the creators of the character Chota Bheem to build the strategies for promotional toys and merchandise. She is the brain behind many sassy board games for kids produced by FRANK and instrumental in setting up a new board games company for Brijbasi Art Press Ltd., a renowned printing press in Delhi.

She is the first toy designer in the country to have her name imprinted on the games designed by her for Indian and global clients. In 2015, SNAPDEAL, which is India’s Largest Online Shopping Portal collaborated with her as a Toy Expert.

She has worked extensively on rubberwood toys, new designs of which are launched every year at various Toy Fairs across the globe.

Her success lies in taking concepts to reality by connecting the right resources with the people she works with. Thus, been able to serve quite a number of toy manufacturers, helping them accelerate their business growth. Her services as a toy designer are sought after by toy companies in India, China, Thailand, Italy, UK, USA, Turkey and France.

She has been a Young Creative Entrepreneur Award Finalist organized by British Council. Her work has been honored by Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi as a Designpreneur in 2005 and President of Taiwan Mr. Ma Ying-jeou in 2010.​

She is a visiting faculty at NID, NIFT. Jury member at NIFT Delhi. Speaker at several design events and appears on NDTV chat show, “Bringing up Baby”, to share her perspective on choosing and buying age-appropriate toys for children. Also to talk about special needs toys, developmental toys, and toy safety. Suhasini also collaborates with red dot winning industrial designer and her husband Paul Sandip, for development of certain projects. They together run PAUL STUDIO in India.