Season 2
Why You Should Keep Repeating Yourself
In the pursuit of perceived uniqueness, we often tend to avoid being repetitive. If you think about the most famous, impactful pe…
This Is How I Consistently Create Content
In the digital world, content is the currency that works. To ensure a steady stream of income (read: content) in this case, one h…
Train Your Mind to Look at the Bright Side
Our mind is a powerful tool. Creative thinkers have channeled this power for centuries to build architectural marvels, invent tec…
Pause But Don’t Stop Moving
We are all dealing with our own demons and fighting battles every day. Somedays we lose big, everything feels tougher, and the te…
The Real Reason Behind Your Anxiety About the Future
We all worry about the future. Its uncertain nature, its ability to throw curveballs, and the resulting worry about whether we ar…
Is Your Indecisiveness Deciding Your Future?
In our growing-up years, the chance to make our own decisions seems like the ticket to freedom we all crave. However, as we move …
Good Decisions Needn’t Be Perfect
We often find ourselves weighing our options before every decision. Our hands get clammy, we have sleepless nights, we overthink …
How to Make Better Decisions (Listen to Your Body!)
Our body is an intuitive and efficient machine. Along with performing so many functions, it is also deeply attuned to our true em…
The Thin Line Between Passion & Stress
When doing something we love and enjoy, the passage of time and the volume of effort we put in seem immaterial. We want to contin…
How Slow Growth Helps You Progress Fast
The very act of our inception was a race! Since then, we have just been running through life, chasing our next destination, the n…
Try This Effective Way to Accomplish Your Goals
If you had to list down everything you want to achieve, how long would the list be? The expectations we set for ourselves can som…
Successful People Have Struggles Too!
How many times have you seen a success story and thought to yourself, why not me? How many times have you compared yourself to so…
Provide Support Through Listening
Our first instinct when we know someone is struggling is to ensure we give them support. We state similar instances from our live…
7 Lessons That Changed My Life
Our lives are filled with moments that can alter its course. It is upto us to decide whether to take the path in front of us, or …
The Formula for Fighting Your Fears
When you think of the word “fear”, what comes to mind? Is it a collection of small things, or just one large looming emotion pert…
Why We Only Remember the Winners!
Do you know who the first man on the moon was? The first Indian to win the Olympic gold? History is notorious for honouring only …
Finding Balance In Short Term vs Long Term Thinking
A question most of us have heard often is, ‘what is your 5-year plan?’ While we may have some semblance of what we want to achiev…
The powerful method to find confidence without letting your ego win
You can Order Varun’s book “Everything is out of syllabus: An instruction manual for life & work “ at https://amzn.to/335QKow Fol…
Make Your Impossible Goals Possible! Listen Now
We all have big plans for our lives and our future. The enormity of our goals can sometimes be extremely overwhelming. The How’s …
How I Build Deeper Connections, Organically!
Conversations are the currency of the networking world. Every interaction comes with a subtext, a silent agenda. The way to navig…
Why You Should Own Up When You're Wrong
When you own up to a mistake you’ve made, you indicate that you’re willing to change and rectify things.This may come with its ow…
Uncomfortable Conversations: Your Key to Better Relationships
Each time you avoid an uncomfortable conversation, you end up creating a bigger problem for another day – a day that is bound to …
How You Can Get Past Your Fears
None of us are born fearful. But we all develop different fears over time. Our fears usually stem from one bad experience that we…
Hustling ≠ Happiness
Does working longer hours really lead to more productivity? Does pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion really lead to happ…
How Much Planning For The Future Is Too Much?
Do you find yourself constantly planning your future? Do you also find yourself constantly anxious? Now take a pause, do you thin…
Hustling isn’t the key to growth. Slow Growth is
We’ve all experienced life in the fast lane - fast-tracked careers, working 10 hours a day, rushing from one thing to the next, n…
Self-Love: The Key to Security, Confidence and Happiness
There is no harsher critic than the voice in your own head. It calls you out for past mistakes and holds you back from reaching y…
Ankur Warikoo on How to say No
Why do we often say yes, when we really want to say no? In this episode, Varun and Ankur talk about the importance of being able …
Learning is Not a Straight Path
Have you ever taken a road trip? While the excitement of the destination is what everyone’s focused on, sometimes the journey can…
Shifting Your Perspective = Better Results
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time. Aspiring writers can only dream of emulating his creative…
Learn how to be your confident self
Is confidence inherent or can it be developed? Is confidence all that it’s made out to be? Maybe there are a few other factors th…
Anita Bhogle on what’s stopping women from corporate success
Welcome to APause Book Club! Here we talk to authors and try to understand the unique process that went into creating the book. W…
Assert your Ideas, Not Your Voice
We’ve all been in brainstorming sessions where there are two kinds of people. One who is just sprouting ideas constantly and the …
Prakhar Gupta on Tackling Trauma
Have you been told to move on, look at the positives, be happy when you’re at a low phase in your life? What if experiencing that…
Feedback loop
You can Order Varun’s book “Everything is out of syllabus: An instruction manual for life & work “ at https://amzn.to/335QKow Fol…
Prakhar Gupta on why you should stop being nice
Do you find yourself often swallowing your opinion? Do you not feel confident enough to share your thoughts with the world? Maybe…
Is Hustle Good or Bad?
You’ve often heard the terms, ‘I’ll sleep when I die’, ‘I work 24/7’ or ‘Fake it till you make it’. Collectively these are all pa…
Dev Raiyani on (Not) Seeking Validation Online
What do you need to be a successful YouTuber today? Is simply having an internet connection and decent editing skills enough? Or …
Rethinking What It Means “To Sell”
“Sales”, the term, is often followed by a shadow of negative emotions. Sales are an integral part of winning both businesses and …
Making Time Work For You
Do you constantly find yourself chasing deadlines? Does your to-do list overwhelm you? In this episode of Take aPause, Varun shar…
Happiness is a Bonus, Not the Goal!
Have you heard the saying “Aim for the stars, and you might get to the moon”? Well, it sets us up for an eventual disappointment.…
Leeza Mangaldas on Why Don’t We Talk About Sex in India
In this episode of Take aPause, Varun and Leeza discuss the hush-hush way sex is discussed in Indian society. Leeza presses upon …
“What we radiate is what we reflect and feel”
If you had to equate yourself to an object, what would it be? Do you have an answer? Shonda Rhimes, in her book Year of Yes, shar…
How I remember what I have learnt!
The podcast revolution has definitely given non-readers something to binge on, especially for the generation that has grown up t…
Build a System of Co-Creation With The Power of Interdependence
We have all entered meetings with certain expectations. Either we expect to leave the room with all our ideas heard and accepted …
Change your life & mindset with these 5 quotes from Ryan Holiday’s Th…
We are often burdened by problems that we truly cannot control. We worry about things that we cannot change. In this episode of T…
5 powerful learnings from Journaling & how you can start your journey…
Journaling doesn’t have a specific process; everyone chooses their own time and purpose for it. Varun self-admittedly journals sp…
Varun Mayya on dropping out of college & the Entrepreneur mindset
In this episode of Take aPause, Varun Mayya and Varun Duggirala discuss their entrepreneurial journey and choices. While Mayya as…
Why create a Goal Board
We often struggle to keep the evolving nature of our careers, life and the world around us in constant sync with our goals. And w…
Unlock your Confidence
Being a public personality does not always mean that it guarantees public speaking confidence. Varun talks about an incident from…