Great Minds - A Podcast from Frisco, Texas

The greatness of a man is not how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively - Quoted by Jamaican singer Bob Marley Today my guest is Susan Thomas, CEO and founder of Taking Care of Business Concierge Services. A fellow Toastmaster and a friend for ever. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Today my guest is Amanda Thrash, a Fellow in American College of Healthcare Executive and also Vice President - Operations and Support Services with Texas Health - Plano. Listen to her discussing about Health Desert, Child Abuse, Equitable health care and how this pandemic has changed the way health care is operated. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Today my guest is Felixia Colon, Senior Vice  President Operations at SCP health. She is also Treasurer Board of Directors and a Board Member for American College of Health Executive of North Texas. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Today my guest is 2021 Frisco City Council place 3 candidate, Sai Krishna. Sai Krishna is a registered nurse for the past 13 years, a Master's in Business Administration from a prestigious university and a Frisco resident for the past 3 and half years. Sai has a passion of serving the community and was also a candidate for Place 6 last Nov 2020 election and secured more than 14 thousands votes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Today my guest is Gaurav Sekhar. Gaurav Shekhar is the Program Director of the Graduate Business Analytics Program and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Information Systems at UT Dallas. He enjoys working with students and works with them across academic and non-academic areas. He has been instrumental in setting up student and corporate engagement programs at UT Dallas. He is one big believer in the concept of Servant Leadership which is the base of most of his initiatives. Gaurav Sekhar is also a Distinguished ToastMaster and Immediate Past District Director of District 50 Toastmasters International --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. And Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. My guest is my friend, my well wisher and my college mate,  Hemalatha Bhaskaran who has  recently honored with 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Hema has been teaching at James M. Bennett High School (one of the Wicomico county public schools) since 2004. In her classroom, she focuses on developing 21st-century skills through real-world scientific exploration and problem solving. This is not the first time that Hema has been recognized as an outstanding teacher. She has also secured the 2014 Maryland’s Environmental Science Teacher of the Year. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. And Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. My guest is my friend, my well wisher and my college mate,  Hemalatha Bhaskaran who has  recently honored with 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Hema has been teaching at James M. Bennett High School (one of the Wicomico county public schools) since 2004. In her classroom, she focuses on developing 21st-century skills through real-world scientific exploration and problem solving. This is not the first time that Hema has been recognized as an outstanding teacher. She has also secured the 2014 Maryland’s Environmental Science Teacher of the Year. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. And Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. My guest is my friend, my well wisher and my college mate,  Hemalatha Bhaskaran who has  recently honored with 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Hema has been teaching at James M. Bennett High School (one of the Wicomico county public schools) since 2004. In her classroom, she focuses on developing 21st-century skills through real-world scientific exploration and problem solving. This is not the first time that Hema has been recognized as an outstanding teacher. She has also secured the 2014 Maryland’s Environmental Science Teacher of the Year. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.  It's important that you are being here now. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; As Mahatma Gandhi quoted, The future depends on what you do today. Today I have four wonderful teen aged boys who have started experience the reality of life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.  It's important that you are being here now. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; As Mahatma Gandhi quoted, The future depends on what you do today. Today I have four wonderful teen aged boys who have started experience the reality of life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Creativity is the ability to generate and communicate ideas and appreciate the nature of beauty. It fosters imagination, innovation, and a sense of aesthetics. Many children don’t recognize their own creativity. They limit the idea of creativity to art or poetry. But creativity is a process in which everyone participates and benefits. Some of us express creativity in the way we dress, the recipes we write, the doodles we create, or how we make people laugh. I have five young creative minds, who are ready explore their creativity. I have 5 middle school going kids, Nithya, Gaurang, Negha, Aasrith and Samyukta. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Creativity is the ability to generate and communicate ideas and appreciate the nature of beauty. It fosters imagination, innovation, and a sense of aesthetics. Many children don’t recognize their own creativity. They limit the idea of creativity to art or poetry. But creativity is a process in which everyone participates and benefits. Some of us express creativity in the way we dress, the recipes we write, the doodles we create, or how we make people laugh. I have five young creative minds, who are ready explore their creativity. I have 5 middle school going kids, Nithya, Gaurang, Negha, Aasrith and Samyukta. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. When we think about how kids communicate, we often think about how they speak to adults. This podcast is focused on how young people speak to themselves, their internal dialogue. While children build their identity, question the world around them and identify their strengths, how they talk to themselves plays a major factor when it comes to determining the life they will lead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. When we think about how kids communicate, we often think about how they speak to adults. This podcast is focused on how young people speak to themselves, their internal dialogue. While children build their identity, question the world around them and identify their strengths, how they talk to themselves plays a major factor when it comes to determining the life they will lead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. When we think about how kids communicate, we often think about how they speak to adults. This podcast is focused on how young people speak to themselves, their internal dialogue. While children build their identity, question the world around them and identify their strengths, how they talk to themselves plays a major factor when it comes to determining the life they will lead. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Karthee Vidhya a.k.a Kartheeba Kandeeba Kathirava Prasanna Deepan Chakrawarthy. Yes, a name with 6 words and 52 characters. Karthee is the CEO and Founder of Team Everest, one of the biggest youth-run NGOs in India. They have more than 15,000+ volunteers focusing on making a difference by providing quality education to financially challenged children through volunteering. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Karthee Vidhya a.k.a Kartheeba Kandeeba Kathirava Prasanna Deepan Chakrawarthy. Yes, a name with 6 words and 52 characters. Karthee is the CEO and Founder of Team Everest, one of the biggest youth-run NGOs in India. They have more than 15,000+ volunteers focusing on making a difference by providing quality education to financially challenged children through volunteering. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Aparna Valluri is the Founder and Program director of Shining Speaking Stars, a public speaking and personality development program that was established in January 2016. She is a very passionate proponent of public speaking, especially for school going kids, and she absolutely loves empowering them. She is also an avid contestant in international speech contests conducted by Toastmasters.  She appeared on the district stage five times, placing second in 2014 and third in 2018, beating competition from 1,000+ contestants and. In 2010, she placed first in the district speech evaluation contest. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Aparna Valluri is the Founder and Program director of Shining Speaking Stars, a public speaking and personality development program that was established in January 2016. She is a very passionate proponent of public speaking, especially for school going kids, and she absolutely loves empowering them. She is also an avid contestant in international speech contests conducted by Toastmasters.  She appeared on the district stage five times, placing second in 2014 and third in 2018, beating competition from 1,000+ contestants and. In 2010, she placed first in the district speech evaluation contest. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support

Aparna Valluri is the Founder and Program director of Shining Speaking Stars, a public speaking and personality development program that was established in January 2016. She is a very passionate proponent of public speaking, especially for school going kids, and she absolutely loves empowering them. She is also an avid contestant in international speech contests conducted by Toastmasters.  She appeared on the district stage five times, placing second in 2014 and third in 2018, beating competition from 1,000+ contestants and. In 2010, she placed first in the district speech evaluation contest. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bala-subramanium/support