Episode 8_ Arranged Marriages, Family Traditions & Setting Your Own Expectations

We talk about the following:

Arranged Marriages and Cultural Traditions

The women in her traditional South Indian life who were the hidden secrets of her confidence

The concept that if we ‘have it better than our grandmothers’ then we should stop striving for more

Becoming a ‘self-made’ woman

How motivation doesn’t have to come from an external source, it can come from inside of you

Women bringing their whole selves to the work place, not just pieces

Lalitha’s #1 Culture-Hack: Just because someone else has an expectation of you, you don’t have to live up to it. You can have your own expectations and live a life of no regrets.

About Our Guest:

Lalitha Bhojanapalli is the Director of Business Intelligence working at ASSA ABLOY Door Group. She was born and raised in India in a very conservative family. Her husband and she moved to United States 20 years ago. She has a masters in Math from India and an EMBA from Vanderbilt. You can easily say she is a feminist and loves challenging herself. She believes in hard work and makes a difference in her world every day.

Lalitha’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalitha-bhojanapalli-4547835/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

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Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

Read my story here: https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/

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