Womenlines takes pleasure to share an inspirational journey of Smita Bharti, President of Sakshi-a rights-based NGO! If you are facing challenges in life, get a big dose of motivation from Smita Bharti who has proved that there is so much to do in life and that too for others who are vulnerable and need help-
Our stories don’t always start at birth. Similarly, Smita’s story began one fine morning when she walked out of her abusive marriage holding the hands of her two children with no plan in mind, into nothingness.
In the society we live in, girls are always taught that marriage is the ultimate goal of their lives. That day in 1995 when Smita walked out of her marriage she broke this social construct that has been forced down women’s throats. That’s when her story of self-discovery and acceptance began. But even after everything she has survived, when you ask her if she would choose a different life for herself, she would stop and tell you that she has pondered about this many times and has finally realized that she wouldn’t have chosen a different life but if she had the experiences and knowledge that she has now she would have definitely done things differently. Her experiences and all the turning points of her life have transformed her into the person she is today and finally, at the age of 55, Smita has grown to love who she is.
Smita Bharti, recipient of Karmaveer Puraskar for Social Change, a Rotary World Peace Fellow, a Special Fellow WISCOMP, Senior Fellow Literature, KK Birla Foundation, is the Executive Director and President of Sakshi, a rights-based NGO. She is also a co-founder of Hungry Heart Festival, a theatre society focused on theatre for social change. She started working with Sakshi almost two decades ago as a theatre practitioner, preparing a performance with women who had survived third-degree domestic violence. And now she is directing the vision, charting the mission, crafting the action, building on the legacy that is Sakshi, today. Sakshi is a capacity-building organization established in 1992. Being a pioneer in working against Sexual Harassment and Child Sexual Abuse in India, Sakshi is now focused on The Rakshin Project, envisioning a world free of child sexual abuse.
Survivors of violence, often understand the need to create an environment where people are cherished and celebrated. And Smita has turned that dream into a reality by sharing that dream with numerous others. She believes in people, nudges them towards excellence and then watches them emerge successful with total confidence in them.
With a career spanning over three decades in Theatre and Social Art Interventions for Behavior change. Through research, training, workshops, performances, campaigns, and publications, Smita works extensively and intensively with women and adolescents in difficult and challenging circumstances, in prisons with victims under trial, with survivors in situations of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and physically and mentally challenged individuals. She has substantial experience as a senior facilitator for workshops/training/capacity building with groups across social strata ranging from the judiciary to under trials, corporate to grass-root communities. She has a strong network in many fields and skills that contribute to the analytical evaluation of options and strategic action for sustainable impact.
As the Executive Director of Sakshi, she is focused on spearheading a youth-led movement to create a social tipping point to Stop Child Sexual Abuse. Whereas on a personal level, she makes skilful use of a range of media, including film, theatre, visual art, oral narratives, and literature to create and deliver immersive experiential learning programs. These sessions are interactive and participative and require the participants to engage with the module using interactive and creative tools. Her quest is to explore the structural hierarchies and taboos, traumas, and wounded psyches within people, and draw workshop participants into a journey of co-exploration. She works with the aim to facilitate students to ask questions so that they can go on to re-define `safety’ and `security’ for themselves. This will aid them in breaking out of vicious circles of fear and choicelessness, and actively seek to transform their lives.
She thrives on the transformative and restorative justice that she has imbibed for herself, and looks to create the same for others through her work. She is driven towards keeping children safe from sexual abuse. Educating youth to take charge, helping them become accountable and practice their right to Equality which helps them create and energize preventive mechanisms to keep children and themselves safe from sexual abuse. It is an activity that carries the potential of stigma. But she is willing to take the risk of being branded in whichever language the society chooses to brand her. Today her brand is Equality. She will not let the sense of shame, helplessness, hesitation, and fear, damage the right to equality of the 50 per cent of children in this country. She will not stop till a single child is clutching thin air trying to understand the sexual abuse s/he is being subjected to. She has willed to practice her right to equality. Everyday!
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Womenlines founder Charu Mehrotra is sharing business tips for women in business based on her learning from 12 years plus entrepreneurial journey, which can help women in business to grow their business!
If you fall into the group of women in business, check out the video above to listen to my business tip for women in business and apply to your business now!
As a female entrepreneur don’t you think about your business 24 by 7? I do and it is so natural for any entrepreneur.
Any passionate female entrepreneur wants to put her heart and soul in her business and wants to grow it as she has envisioned it. Especially if you are a solopreneur then you have to be a real multitasker. There are many deliveries related to your business, whether it is marketing, sales, branding, finance, or product development. All require equal attention and action. Throughout my 12 years entrepreneurial journey, I have learned something every day and there is so much to share with fellow women in business. I strongly believe in the superpower of sharing and applying knowledge. It will be my pleasure if my business tips can help female entrepreneurs to grow their business.
Imagine if you come to know exclusive tricks of the trade, how to enhance your brand visibility, how to amplify the reach out of your brand, how to have digital branding for your product or service, then you can advance your business to next level in less time.
Female entrepreneurs can achieve their dream of growing their business by following certain action plan which is specific to their business. The tip shared in the video above can help you to get more visibility for your brand.
Get branding campaign for your product or service at Womenlines. Email neha.vij@womenlines.com to know the details!
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Mary Pagano, a prior exec tech leader in fortune 50 space from New York in ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ show. Currently, Mary is a board advisor and angel investor to several female-founded companies. Listen to her powerful insights in the video above, about women empowerment and details about various global projects which can do wonders in empowering women!
Mary Pagano
Born in mid-west US, Ms Pagano graduated with a BS in Finance from Central Missouri State, MBA from Webster University & MIT and pursued her academic and professional experiences in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Miami.
In the last 25 years, as a female P & L leader in a male dominated tech industry, Ms Pagano has worked at large Fortune 30 companies, such as Motorola, AT&T, GE and tech starts up in many capacities with a focus of driving and building new businesses and revenue, valued from $100M to $3B. Roles include leading many businesses and organizations, such as; Founding Partner, SVP Global Sales, VP Strategic Marketing, Strategic Alliances/Partnerships, VP Business Development, VP Product Development and Strategy, working with all market segments, such as Education, Large Enterprises, Government, Entertainment, Technology and Consumer segments.
Mary has an uncanny ability to help companies & charities to see their potential vision and achieve it using the best technology or services to surpass their goals in customer acquisition and satisfaction. Technology solutions such as; Intelligent environments, industrial IoT, big data, social media marketing, cloud computing, Smart Buildings, Work Place of the Future, Smart Cities, sustainability, mobility applications, etc.
Mary has mentored and is on advisory boards for several tech companies & charities, such as Hera the light of Women https://www.heracity.org , Fem Foundry , WICCI & Wellness Match. Mary is also leading the development of the Hera TV channel. In addition, she is an angel investor in female-led companies and is very enthusiastic about uplifting women in all capacities of living their best life and surpassing their dreams and full potential.
HERA https://www.heracity.org where we are building a smart green city for the future of humanity in honour of women.Fem Foundry https://www.fem-foundry.com is a new safe & secure social mobile platform for women around the world to unite on all subjects with a focus on female empowerment. Think…Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, with TV, podcasting and education. A place for all females & female organizations and businesses to support each other.
Mary Pagano
Womenlines team wishes success to Mary Pagano for all her future endeavours!
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Womenlines presents a talk show where viewers are going to learn various ways how to harness the power of gender neutrality in the present world. In Episode 2, a video shared above, understand how defining ‘Sacrifices’ beyond gender can stabilize the society-
It is such a pleasure to start a show with the founder of Poornam Foundation and Researcher Rajaashri Rajashekhar on the topic of gender neutrality. In this show, Rajaashri is going to share her amazing knowledge regarding how the understanding of gender neutrality can help organisations lead to a higher level of overall productivity and how certain mindset strategies from past which we have almost forgotten can empower us to lead a better life.
Rajashri Rajashekhar is the founder of Poornam Foundation & Researcher of Gender Neutrality. Her journey of 28 years of work experience has added value to her being as an Entrepreneur, Educationist, Researcher, People Person, Writer, Speaker, Counsellor, Trainer and a Game Changer.
Poornam Foundation is Rajashri’s passionate venture where she focuses on providing training on Gender Neutrality. She strongly believes we can create Gender Neutral Workplaces, Gender Neutral Mindsets and Gender Neutral Society. She has done detailed research about mindset strategies that have helped people in past and how those solutions can extremely help us in our day to day challenges. Rajahshri emphasises that normally we focus on the physical aspect of the organisation only, but if we also simultaneously work on the mindsets that drive the entire process beyond just business norms and instructions. This can create higher levels of productivity and creativity, leading to strong outcomes.
Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Dr Sumiran Passey, MD (Sports Medicine), Director and Medical Doctor, Aktivhealth, New Delhi, India, as a Guest Influencer for Fitness segment at Womenlines! In this informative article, Dr Passey is sharing about ergonomic benefits of a standing desk and what you have to take care while using it-
Workstation ergonomics is the new fad in establishing a healthy work environment. Companies focus on increasing the efficiency of employees by promoting health and wellness. “Sitting is the new smoking” was promoted by many healthcare individuals to reduce the sitting hours, which is a well-established public health concern. A sedentary lifestyle associated with prolonged office-based sitting has been liked to an increase in morbidity, obesity, and chronic cardiometabolic diseases.
Work from home with extended work hours has spiked the queues of low back and neck pain cases with physicians and physical therapists. Along with numerous musculoskeletal issues, psychological sanity has taken a great toll too. Past researchers have reported a high incidence of depression and anxiety, with prolonged sitting and a sedentary lifestyle.
Sit-stand computer-based workstations are been extensively used and are a good ergonomic change to overcome the musculoskeletal issues.
The long term use of sit-stand workstations has shown significant improvement in cardiometabolic parameters, such as improved glucose levels, increased HDL and reduced cholesterol levels as well as homeostatic balanced blood pressure. Those who have experienced long hours of sit-stand variations reported improved posture and significant core stability. The psychological benefits are still been studied, but changes in depression and anxiety scores are encouraging. A study in an elementary school in the United States of America has shown high mean energy expenditure using a standing desk among children.
Ergonomics of a standing workstation
· Forward-facing posture
· Desk height should be below elbow height, to support forearms while you use a keyboard. (Wrist straight, hands at or below elbow)
· Arms should be close to Your body
· Monitor should be such positioned that you do not arch your head and neck and your eyes should be at top of the screen and placed at least at arm’s length away from you.
· Those who use bifocals, lower the monitor by just a few inches for better viewing.
· Change your complete orientation if using multiple screens so that the prolonged stress to neck muscles is reduced.
· Extensive phone users should avoid cradling the phone between your head and neck.
How to switch to a sit-stand workstation.
· Our body needs frequent postural change to avoid fatigue and a permanent slouch.
· Whenever you feel fatigued, standing for short periods (~10 minutes every office hour)
· Increase standing time gradually till you hit your comfort zone.
· After acclimatization switch between sitting and standing more frequently.
So here are a few things you can do right at your desk
Stretch and Rotate the neck
Bend your neck to try and touch your ear to your shoulder, but make sure you don’t touch the two. Hold for a few seconds; repeat for the other side.
Turn the Torso
Towards your right and left, each time holding it for a few seconds.
Stretch
Your hands interlaced, reach for the ceiling, stretch your body upwards.
Extending your right hand, bending it over your head to the left, and then stretch.
Hold for a bit and then switch sides.
Bend over your knee or Hug your knees
By bringing them to your chest and grasp both your ankles; bend your head between your knees and hold for a bit.
Stretch the chest
Take both your hands to the back and grasp, sit up straight and hold for a10 seconds.
Tucking your tummy and squeezing gluts.
The “ideal” way to stand is with your feet forward instead of flared out, actively try to “screw” your feet into the ground, glutes and abs slightly contracted, and shoulders externally rotated
To maintain a good standing posture, muscle fatigue should be overcome by maintaining a good base of support and balance as well as by strengthening the spinal muscles around the trunk (core and gluteal muscles). Stabilization exercises should always be gradually progressive and if required supervised. These could later be incorporated even while standing along with breathing exercises.
Remember good footwear (low heeled with comfortable cushioning or customized insoles) plays an equally important role in maintaining a good standing posture.
Long-standing also comes with many vascular issues involving lower limbs and affects those with underlying cardiovascular conditions, so take rest, stretch and sit at intervals. Weigh the benefits of standing over prolonged sitting and sedentary lifestyle at work.
Dr. Sumiran Passey
MD (Sports Medicine)
Director and Medical Doctor,
Aktivhealth, New Delhi, India
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Educational Research Scientist Tazeen Siddiqui awarded outstanding scientist award for her theories Tazeen Taxology and Multiple Intelligence’s 54 at 2nd International Research Awards on Science, Health and Engineering! Listen to her motivational words to womenfolk across the globe in the video above-
A social entrepreneur, passionate educator, trainer, and a beautiful soul Dr Tazeen Siddiqui is Managing Director
Mansha Educational society by profession. She lives her life with a vision for people to rise together with excellence through quality education, irrespective of whether someone lives in a rural or urban area. She has created her own educational theory, which is called Tazeen Taxology and is being implemented in various schools across India.
In Tazeen’s own words-
My journey as an Educational Research scientist has been amazing, I was leading the prestigious NASA International space App challenge 2020 with great projects across the globe and was awarded the stellar lead NASA award for leading the prestigious NASA event amazingly and have also been awarded the Outstanding scientist award for my theory Tazeen Taxology on which I have a course at International long Term Economy forum and for Multiple Intelligence’s 54 presented at Harvard University.
Tazeen believes-
” Learning is ignited with the passion at heart, vision in eyes and perseverance in thoughts to rise at the zenith of Excellence “
Womenlines team wishes success to Tazeen Siddiqui for all her future endeavours!
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Womenlines brings to you a special collection of dresses to meet women’s office wear need to help them to stand out in the crowd!
Are you an entrepreneur, professional, or women in business, who counts every minute of the day? As life is getting busier it is difficult to take out time to shop for oneself mindfully. Power Dressing section of Womenlines brings to you a collection of smart dresses to help you to save your time and shop from the comfort of your home.
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Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Vani Shukla as an Influencer for Yoga at Womenlines. In this episode, Vani is sharing Yoga for energy!
Life is getting busier with time and thus people have to look out for various ways they can enhance their energy levels. Yoga expert Vani Shukla is sharing yoga for energy this month for our busy professionals!
Vani has been into Yoga and Fitness for more than 18 years. She is a post-graduate in Yoga therapy from India. Presently she lives in Adelaide, Australia for the past five years and runs International Yoga Retreats and workshops.
After a busy month of X mas parties, and new year celebrations, we all want to get back into our routine to start our year with new energy!
Here we present you a Yoga practice sequence to energize your whole body and mind to start your day with a lot of energy and joy.
- Practising these poses opens energy channels and improves the flow of Prana (vital force) in the whole body
- It will take 15-20 minutes to finish the sequence, morning is the suitable time to practice
- Take it slowly in the beginning and increases the repetitions gradually
You can also follow me for more information at-
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Vani has been into Yoga and Fitness for more than 18years. She is a post-graduate in Yoga therapy from India. She was among the first few female fitness experts in Delhi to qualify American Council on Exercise exam in 2011. Presently she lives in Adelaide Australia for the past five years and runs International Yoga Retreats and workshops.
Visit Yoga Begins With to follow and know more about yoga from Vani!!
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Womenlines founder Charu Mehrotra is sharing business tips for women in business based on her learning from 12 years plus entrepreneurial journey, which can help female entrepreneurs to grow their business!
If you fall into the group of women in business, check out the video above to listen to my business tip for female entrepreneurs and apply to your business now!
As a female entrepreneur don’t you think about your business 24 by 7? I do and it is so natural for any entrepreneur.
Any passionate female entrepreneur wants to put her heart and soul in her business and wants to grow it as she has envisioned it. Especially if you are a solopreneur then you have to be a real multitasker. There are many deliveries related to your business, whether it is marketing, sales, branding, finance, or product development. All require equal attention and action. Throughout my 12 years entrepreneurial journey, I have learned something every day and there is so much to share with fellow women in business. I strongly believe in the superpower of sharing and applying knowledge. It will be my pleasure if my business tips can help female entrepreneurs to grow their business.
Imagine if you come to know exclusive tricks of the trade, how to enhance your brand visibility, how to amplify the reach out of your brand, how to have digital branding for your product or service, then you can advance your business to next level in less time.
Female entrepreneurs can achieve their dream of growing their business by following certain action plan which is specific to their business. The tip shared in the video above can help you to get more visibility for your brand.
Get branding campaign for your product or service at Womenlines. Email neha.vij@womenlines.com to know the details!
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Nalini Dheer from India as a guest contributor for ‘Healthy Recipes for Healthy You’ segment of Womenlines. Check out a healthy recipe of Baked Cajun Baby Potatoes –
Do like Insta Page’I am Oorja‘- for many more healthy recipes which can help you to boost your health!!
Nalini shares a passion for life and loves to express that through food. Nalini has travelled all over India and abroad with her husband who was a doctor in the Indian Army and now retired. Nalini has avidly experienced and learnt the cultures and food across India while travelling across the country as an Army wife. She also recently retired as a kindergarten teacher to enjoy the wonders of being a grandparent!
Nalini is now keen to build a community of like-minded folks with a focus on sumptuous tasty and healthy food through “Oorja”. She would love to share with busy mothers and busy households, the beauty of the dynamic Indian cuisine and western Indian variations. Her endeavour is to make her recipes crisp & concise that is quick to follow and healthy for today’s on the go modern woman.”
Visit – Oorja – https://www.instagram.com/iamoorja/?hl=en