118: Entrepreneurial Podcast Breaks the Borders, Builds Community

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Rohit Gandrakota is a supply chain professional and part time podcaster. He moved to the US from India in 2008 to earn his Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering. An avid podcast listener, he channeled his passion into his own podcast, Breaking the Borders, which features immigrant entrepreneurs. Learning from podcasts, Rohit “was blown away by how much you can learn from others’ experiences.” A light bulb went on when a comment on one of his favorite shows said, “When you interview a guest from my part of the world, I feel more connected.” His Breaking the Borders podcast was born.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 118. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:19.7	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work
0:25.2	he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:30.3	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Rohit Gandhra Kota.
0:35.3	Welcome, Rohit.
0:36.6	Thank you, Don.
0:37.5	Glad to be here. Rohit, are you usingota. Welcome, Rohit. Thank you, Dan. Glad to be here.
0:39.4	Rohit, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:42.7	Yes.
0:43.7	We want to hear the whole story.
0:46.3	Rohit is a full-time supply chain professional and a part-time podcaster.
0:52.1	He moved to the United States from India in 2008 with a master's in
0:56.3	industrial engineering. Like many other Indians, he is trained as an engineer, but he has other
1:02.1	interests too. He was an avid podcast listener who converted his passion for podcasting into his
1:09.0	own podcast, Breaking the Borders, which features immigrant
1:13.2	entrepreneurs. That's a quick summary of your life to date, Rohit. Tell us what you're doing now
1:18.4	that has you engaged and excited. So currently I'm working on a podcast called Breaking the Borders,
1:24.9	as you said, featuring immigrant entrepreneurs.
1:33.9	And when I started listening to podcasts earlier this year, I fell in love with the format. And I started indulging in them.
1:37.7	And I was simply blown away by the fact that you can learn so much from others experiences.
1:46.2	And some of my favorite podcasts like Mixerji and Entrepreneur on Fire, I used to go to the
1:52.4	past episodes and look for guests who are from other parts of the world, not just from
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