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Mindful & Driven

Amardeep Parmaramardeepsparmar.com

All about how to chase your dreams whilst not losing sight of what really matters along the way. We have so many competing pressures in our lives and it's easy to feel lost and overwhelmed.

Amardeep Parmar interviews a wide variety of guests to understand how they find balance in their lives. We hear the vulnerable stories of when they've struggled and their advice for other people in the same situation. We're all in this together.

Amardeep himself recently left the corporate world to rebalance his life and introduce more creativity. His writing has millions of views and he hopes to help more people through this podcast.

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Website: amardeepsparmar.com, Instagram: @amardeep.s.parmar, Twitter: @amardeepsparmar, LinkedIn: @amardeepsparmar, Medium: @amardeep

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Episodes

MAKE TIME FOR PLAY and Self-Care to Boost Your Energy Levels and Productivity w/ Fab Giovanetti

Welcome to episode 26 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 26’s guest is Fab Giovanetti. She is the founder of Creative Impact Co, a collective of hundreds of creatives all trying to make a difference on the planet. Through her community and her work as a founder of a marketing school, she has reached over a hundred thousand people all across the world. She is a keen speaker, writer, published author ...

Dec 14, 202134 min

LEAN INTO SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS to Find the Motivation to Make Things Done w/ Jon Brosio

Welcome to episode 25 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 25’s guest is Jon Brosio. He is the founder of tribeloyal. Jon originally was a server at high-end restaurants where he serves celebrities in Los Angeles before deciding that he wants to become his own boss for his online business world. He has achieved this and much more. Jon is now an established online writer with millions of views and thou...

Dec 07, 202136 min

Live By Your PERSONAL STANDARDS to Make Your Life More Exciting w/ Shivali Bhammer

Welcome to episode 24 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 24’s guest is Shivali Bhammer. She's not your average person who works in an investment bank. She's a devotional singer who has released three albums, including two that topped the Apple charts. She's also a dancer and was classically trained at the Royal Academy of Ballet in London and holds a first-class diploma in Kathak. She's acted in and...

Nov 30, 202132 min

You DON'T NEED TO WORK HARD to Earn More Money - Find What Comes Naturally to You w/ Dipanshu Rawal

Welcome to episode 22 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 22's guest is Dipanshu Rawal, a life-purpose coach based in India. He lost his job a year ago after failing to turn up to work on a Sunday on which he wasn’t contacted to turn up anyway and this really made him think about what was important to his life and whether or not he was living alongside the values that he believed in. He decided to be...

Nov 26, 202127 min

Know Who YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE to Find What You Are Supposed to Do w/ Ryan Fan

Welcome to episode 23 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 23's guest is Ryan Fan. He is a special education teacher based in Baltimore. On top of this, he is an avid marathon runner, he is studying for a master's degree and he is a well-known content-creator having published hundreds of articles in the last few years. Somehow he manages to juggle all of these at the same time and that is why he is a ...

Nov 26, 202125 min

Learn to SWITCH OFF FROM WORK to Stay Connected to Your Inner Goals w/ Mara Cimatoribus

Welcome to episode 21 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 21's guest is Mara Cimatoribus. She's a hugely popular yoga instructor and a massive content creator. She has over 500 hours of yoga teacher training and has other specialties such as Reiki. She was raised in a small village in Italy and initially found life difficult when she moved to London, overwhelmed with the big city. Despite starting yo...

Nov 23, 202129 min

Value The CONNECTION Between MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH to Achieve True Balance w/ Kaki Okumura

Welcome to episode 20 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 20’s guest is Kaki Okumura. She’s a Japanese wellness expert. She particularly focuses on how the relationship between physical health and mental health are so connected and weakness in one or sickness in one will lead to sickness in the other two. At the same time, if you can improve your health and improve your physical health, there are als...

Nov 16, 202133 min

CALCULATE YOUR RISKS to Minimize Failure and Increase Your Chances of Success w/ Imran Dean

Welcome to episode 19 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 19's guest is Imran Dean. He is the founder of The Money Cog. It’s a website that aims to break down complex financial information into easy-to-digest data. The aim is to make it easy for anybody to start investing without a huge amount of prior experience. The Money Cog aims to make everybody take on a long-term, sustainable mindset. In his d...

Nov 09, 202134 min

QUESTION EVERYTHING You Hear Online - Pick Only What Applies to You Right Now w/ Sinem Gunel

Welcome to episode 18 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 18’s guest is Sinem Gunel. She’s a successful online content creator with millions of views and tens of thousands of followers. She has since founded and ran multiple successful businesses including the Medium Writing Academy, Personal Growth Base, and the Freedom Business Accelerator. The latter is an intensive coaching program over six month...

Nov 02, 202137 min

Learn When to IGNORE ADVICE and You'll Stand Out From the Crowd w/ Nileeka Bose

Welcome to episode 17 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 17’s guest is Nileeka Bose who is the Creative Director & Founder of The Bollywood Co (IG) which is an elite South Asian dance group based in London. Over the ten years, she's overcome many obstacles to now be working alongside some of the world’s most elite clients and brands. Today the company is thriving, teaching a packed weekly schedu...

Oct 26, 202134 min

Overcome YOUR SELF-DOUBT By Finding Your Minimum Viable Fear w/Tiago Henriques

Welcome to episode 16 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 16’s guest is Tiago Henriques. He’s a Brazilian content creator with over a quarter of a million Instagram followers. He uses a unique and playful tone in which his audience loves. He has recently released a book and he has his own podcast too but unfortunately, all of it is in Portuguese. He is hoping to make the leap to English content where...

Oct 19, 202136 min

How to ASK YOURSELF THE RIGHT QUESTIONS to Keep Improving Every Day w/Randy Wolken

Welcome to episode 15 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 15’s guest is Randy Wolken. He has been the President of The Manufacturing Association of Central New York for over 20 years. They are representing over 300 businesses with over 50,000 employees. It has been Randy's passion to understand these businesses and provide them with the tools, people, information, and resources that they need to thri...

Oct 12, 202133 min

How to LIVE EVERY MOMENT Fully and Create New Memories w/ John Mashni

Welcome to episode 14 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 14’s guest is John Mashni. He’s a full-time writer with four kids. He’s also written the best-selling children’s book called Cinder Toot. He had a miserable corporate career initially but an intervention with his wife encouraged him to change careers. She encouraged him to go back to law school where he reinvented himself and refound his joy. ...

Oct 05, 202134 min

When to GO FULL TIME with Your SIDE BUSINESS and Why it Can be Your Best Decision w/ Nikita Ladwa

Welcome to episode 13 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 13’s guest is ​Nikita Ladwa. She’s the founder of the Naked Laundry. She built the company all by herself and she’s been featured in both Netflix and Pop Sugar. Her previous career was in marketing and she kept the Naked Laundry, the clothing brand as a side hustle until August 2020. She said that quitting her job is the best thing she’d ever ...

Sep 28, 202128 min

FREE TIME is GOOD for PRODUCTIVITY Because It's When You Get Creative Insights w/Niklas Goeke

Welcome to episode 12 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 12’s guest is ​Nik Goeke. He’s an online writer with over 600,000 followers across platforms and over 50 million views. He’s been featured in Business Insider, Fast Company, and CNBC. He’s also the founder of Four Minute Books where he and his team produce over 800 book summaries that are available online for free. He’s the former editor-in-ch...

Sep 21, 202136 min

MANAGE YOUR PRIORITIES Better to Balance Your Life in the Long Term w/ Ashley Simon

Welcome to episode 11 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 11’s guest is ​Ashley Simon. She’s the director of creative marketing at Medium. She’s in charge of the strategy of several hundred thousand writers on the massive online writing platform. Over her career, she’s worked at MTV, Foursquare, and Upworthy before spending some time as a marketing consultant. On top of all of this, she’s a qualified...

Sep 14, 202132 min

Picture YOUR LIFE AS A STORY and Act Like its HERO to Bounce Back from Hardships w/ Jordan Gross

Welcome to episode 10 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 10’s guest is ​somebody who inspires me, Jordan Gross. He’s the best-selling author of three books including What Happens in Tomorrow’s World. He used to be a mentoring consultant and was flying high but then realized his job wasn’t making him happy. What he really loves is story-telling and he likes to use his imagination to motivate people t...

Sep 07, 202128 min

Make Time to DO GOOD For Others and You'll Benefit as Well w/ Raj Mendhir

Welcome to episode 9 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 9’s guest is Raj Mendhir, a serial entrepreneur. He runs his own consulting firm called Wippd and an Ed-Tech platform called Eqwippd. He started his career in both consulting and M&A before taking the leap to build his own business. His ed-tech platform aims to provide soft-skills education for the underprivileged backgrounds to help them n...

Aug 30, 202133 min

Use a PERSONAL SYSTEM to Overcome Procrastination and Adversity w/ Sean Kernan

Welcome to episode 8 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 8’s guest is the insatiable Sean Kernan. He’s an online writer with hundreds of millions of views across thousands of articles in both Quora and Medium. He’s personally one of my favorite writers because he’s so creative and he brings humor to his work. He used to work in finance for many years and was just writing on the side for fun but he ju...

Aug 23, 202137 min

Be MORE MINDFUL Every Day by Listening to Your Senses w/ Rachael Kable

Welcome to episode 7 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 7’s guest is one of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to​ - Rachael Kable. She’s a mindfulness coach, the author of The Mindful Kind book, the host of the Mindful Kind Podcast, and an award-winning blogger. Her podcast attracts tens and thousands of people each week. She delivers solo episodes where she walks people through di...

Aug 17, 202132 min

Why Being Kind is Bad -- Be Understanding Instead w/ Andrew Gold

Welcome to episode 6 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 6’s guest is Andrew Gold. He’s presented and produced documentaries for both the BBC and HBO. The most famous is about an exorcist in Argentina. He now has a podcast called On the Edge which is listened to by tens of thousands of people each week. He interviews these outrageous people all over the world with stories that you just wouldn’t belie...

Aug 10, 202135 min

EP 6 Trailer: Andrew Gold

In episode 6, I am joined by Andrew Gold who has made documentaries for the BBC and HBO. He's the host of the On The Edge podcast where he interviews people with outrageous stories. Originally from the UK, he has lived in Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and Germany but is returning home for the first time in many years soon. Website: mindfuldriven.com Instagram: @amardeep.s.parmar Twitter: @amardeepsparmar LinkedIn: @amardeepsparmar Medium: @amardeep -------------------------------------------------...

Aug 08, 202157 sec

Reframe Your Negative Thoughts to Overcome Your Fears w/ Tim Denning

Welcome to episode 5 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 5’s guest is the massively popular online writer, Tim Denning. He has over half a million followers across LinkedIn and Medium. His articles have been viewed over half a billion times. He used to work in finance and struggled with mental health his entire life. This included an eating disorder and paranoia but he’s working through that and he’s...

Aug 03, 202131 min

EP 5 Trailer: Tim Denning

In episode 5, I am joined by Tim Denning who is an online writer with more than half a billion views. After struggling with his mental health, he turned his outlook on life around and is a strong optimist. He used to work in sales at a bank in Australia but is now full time in his creative pursuits. Website: mindfuldriven.com Instagram: @amardeep.s.parmar Twitter: @amardeepsparmar LinkedIn: @amardeepsparmar Medium: @amardeep -----------------------------------------------------------------------...

Aug 01, 202157 sec

Recover from Heartbreak by Adopting a Mindfulness Journaling Habit w/ Komal Kapoor

Welcome to episode 4 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 4’s guest is Komal Kapoor. She’s an author, poet and writing coach based in LA. She was a management consultant and she started writing short poems on the side, anonymously thinking nobody would ever read them but she now has hundreds and thousands of Instagram followers. She signed a book deal and released her first book Unfollowing You. Much ...

Jul 27, 202132 min

EP 4 Trailer: Komal Kapoor

In episode 4, I am joined by Komal Kapoor who is a poet, author and writing coach. She’s a former management consultant who initially wrote in secret but blew up as so many resonated with her thoughts. She has a unique way of using journaling and rituals to help her to find balance in her life. Website: mindfuldriven.com Instagram: @amardeep.s.parmar Twitter: @amardeepsparmar LinkedIn: @amardeepsparmar Medium: @amardeep ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Jul 26, 202157 sec

Life is Like Science: You Should Be Open to New Experiments w/ Nick Wolny

Welcome to episode 3 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. Episode 3’s guest is Nick Wolny. He was named 40 under 40 by the Houston Business Journal and has taken part in over 60 live interviews with places such as NBC, Fox, and CBS as a mindful technology expert. He started his career in marketing and since expanded to take over his own company called the Hefty Media Group. This helps people to build their ow...

Jul 19, 202135 min

EP 3 Trailer: Nick Wolny

In episode 3, I am joined by Nick Wolny, the founder of Hefty Media Group. He's appeared in over 60 live interviews including NBC, CBS and FOX as a 'Mindful Technology Expert'. His first business went bust and he blew his life savings but has bounced back spectacularly. He shares the lessons he learned from being burned after chasing his passions. Website: mindfuldriven.com Instagram: @amardeep.s.parmar Twitter: @amardeepsparmar LinkedIn: @amardeepsparmar Medium: @amardeep ----------------------...

Jul 19, 20211 min

How to Achieve More Balance by Living Your Life in Seasons w/ Zulie Rane

Welcome to episode 2 of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to not lose sight of what really matters whilst chasing your dreams. My first ever guest on this podcast is my good friend, Zulie Rane, who's an online creator with five-figure followings on both Medium and YouTube and does all of this in only 20 hours of work per week. She used to work in the tech industry and left about a year ago and she hasn't looked back again since. A lot of her content is about how to help people...

Jul 19, 202124 min

EP 1: The Pilot & 7 Ways I Will Judge Life Success

Welcome to the very first episode of the Mindful & Driven podcast! It's all about how to chase your dreams whilst not losing sight of what really matters along the way. We have so many competing pressures in our lives and it's easy to feel lost and overwhelmed. I'm going to explore ways to find the right balance so we can lead both happy and healthy lives. In this episode, I talk about why I started the podcast, give you a little background into who I am then tell you 7 ways I will judge wha...

Jul 18, 20219 min
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