I'm your host Pavi Theva, Product Manager at Amazon, Speaker, Blogger and Founder of this movement Growmance. If you are anything like me, you are also passionate about holistic health, spirituality and technology. I coined this term Growmance for this passion, this process of falling in love with your ever evolving self. Welcome to my space! This is a weekly podcast about growth journey navigating spirituality, health, career and personal growth. Listen for inspiration, motivation and accou ...
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Ep 20 - Product Managers Chat: Microsoft Meets Amazon
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Are you an aspiring Product Manager who wants to work in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? In this episode, Dasani who is a Product Manager at Microsoft shares her journey of transitioning to product from being a software engineer and we discuss career advice, life as a Product Manager an…
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Ep 19 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: Path to Product Management
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Are you an aspiring Product Manager who wants to work in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at F…
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Ep 18 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: Skills required to become a High Performing Product Manager
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Are you interested in working as a Product Manager in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at FAAN…
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EP 17 - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 101 SERIES: What is product management?
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Are you interested in working as a Product Manager in tech? Are you looking to pivot your career and get started on your Product Management journey? You're in the right place. This product management series is a free masterclass to understand the basics of product management from our host, Pavi Theva who works as a Technical Product Manager at FAAN…
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Ep 16: How a 21 year old started his spiritual journey at the age of 8
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What qualifies as education for real life? What is conscious living? Saavan Patel, the Founder of boundless yoga, an Isha Samskriti alum, a trained Kalaripayattu martial artist, and currently, a student at Austin, answers these questions and much more in this episode. Saavan Patel is a professionally trained Isha classical Hatha Yoga teacher with a…
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Ep 15 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your physical energy to maximize productivity
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Have you been trying to work on your passion projects or side hustles after your 9 to 5 job but feel exhausted? Have you tried different time management techniques but they didn’t work after a point? After years of trying various techniques, Pavi Theva realized that the important aspect of being efficient is to manage your energy and not your time.…
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Ep 14 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your mental energy to maximize productivity
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After being guilty of searching for time management tips online and have experimented with multiple techniques, Pavi realized that one needs to manage their energy snd not their time. While the different time management techniques like Calendar planning, Pomodoro technique all seemed to work well for a short period of time, they weren’t sustainable…
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EP 13 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your emotional and relational energy to maximize productivity
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Welcome to the ENERGY SERIES with Pavi Theva. How many of you feel completely exhausted after your 9-5 job with no energy left to do other things? In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about how to honor your emotional and relational energy and use that energy to feel positive, motivated and maximize your productivity. After years of trying diff…
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Ep 12 - ENERGY SERIES: How to tap into your spiritual energy to maximize productivity
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Welcome to the ENERGY SERIES with Pavi Theva. How many of you feel completely exhausted after your 9-5 job with no energy left to do other things? In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about how to honor your spiritual energy and use that energy to feel positive, motivated and maximize your productivity. After years of trying different time mana…
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In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares the realizations from her childhood and writes a letter to her younger self. She shares the pain she underwent during her childhood and talks about the important lessons she learned. Are you on a similar journey, navigating spirituality, mental health, and your career? Send me a message on Instagram and let…
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Consider this episode as a virtual launch celebration and introductory episode of Growmance! In this episode of Growmance, Pavi talks about her story, how she transitioned from engineering to product management and discovered her purpose. She talks about how Growmance came into being and the mission of this movement. Growmance means falling in love…
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EP 9: 10 Powerful Mindset Shifts That Will Transform Your Life
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Your mindset Is 80% of your success and the actual mechanics is only 20 per cent. Our mindset is so important because it affects the success of every aspect of our lives: personal, business, health. Buddha said: “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” In this episode, Pavi Theva talks about 10 powerfu…
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EP 8: Mindsets That Shape Our Lives: Fixed vs Growth Mindset
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In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares the differences growth mindset and fixed mindset, her personal experience and stories of other successful people. The growth mindset concept was coined by Carol Dweck, world renowned psychologist to describe the underlying beliefs about learning and intelligence. Most of us might have read self-help books t…
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EP 7: Monk Mindset For Dealing With Negativity
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In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares her experience on how she overcame the negative naysayers stomping on her dreams and leaves you with a monk mindset concept to train your mind to not be affected by negativity. No matter where you find yourself on the big game board of life you’re going to have people enter your life who will talk negativel…
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EP 6: Fireside Chat with Sandhya: Developing Meditation, Sleep and Exercise habits
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Are you working on building good habits to improve the quality of your lifestyle? This episode is inspired by the second episode titled 'Lifestyle design: E2: The secret to unlocking your potential and determining your future' where Pavi talks about 10 effective habits and the 4 golden laws discussed in the book Atomic Habits. Habits are the compou…
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EP 5: Closer look at Empathy: Is empathy a double-edged sword?
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In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares different philosophies on empathy. For decades, a lot of emphasis has been put on certain aspects of intelligence such as logical reasoning, math skills, spatial skills, linguistic skills etc. Researchers were puzzled by the fact that while IQ could predict to a significant degree academic performance and, …
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EP 4: Do soulmates exist? Looking within and managing expectations for a lasting relationship
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How to find your perfect partner? Is there such a thing as a soulmate? These are difficult yet important questions to ask and think about. In this episode of Growmance, Pavi dives deeper into realizing the meaning of love, knowing yourself and managing expectations. We are busy searching for a partner who matches our expectations, that we have forg…
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EP 3: Unlearning in the time of continuous learning
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Should we fail to raise ourselves up to the occasion, it will be a collective failure of our human species to evolve. Sounds audacious? In this episode of Gromance, Pavi discusses the paradigm shifts in technology, leadership and socio-economic conditions in the 21st century and the importance of learning to unlearn. Unlearning is an art of letting…
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EP 2: The Secret to unlocking your potential: Building healthy habits
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"You cannot change your future, you can change your habits and surely your habits will change your future”, Dr. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India. In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares the secret to unlocking your potential, how you can undergo paradigm shifts and change yourself fundamentally by upgrading your lifestyle. Creating habits m…
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EP 1: Life's Journey towards Fulfillment: My YCET theory for building a fulfilling life
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In this episode of Growmance, Pavi shares her YCET Fulfillment theory, which helps you embark on a journey to lead a fulfilled life. In today's world of constant stress, pressure and influences, the YCET theory will make you feel positive, energetic and focused to ultimately unlock your fullest potential. Dominant cultural narratives send us messag…
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