Welcome to The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland!
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, hosted by Adrienne Garland, is the podcast for women leaders and women entrepreneurs who are sick of sugar coating what they say and how they say it. Each week, Adrienne explores entrepreneurial stories, businesses, and challenges that women entrepreneurs face with a wide range of guests who are open to sharing their authentic stories in a refreshing and real way. For far too long, women have been sugar coating our voices, thoughts, and opinions, but that stops here and now! The She Leads Podcast, formerly Sugar Coated, is the place where women leaders can express their brilliance without sugar-coating anything. This podcast offers a platform for super-practical, actionable advice for women to overcome challenges and to make a significant impact on our families, our communities, and our world. Adrienne Garland, CEO of She Leads Media - entrepreneur, media producer, and adjunct professor rejects the notion that women must be deferential to those currently in power and pull back our opinions. Join Adrienne as she dives into raw conversations with brilliant women leaders and entrepreneurs - sans Sugar Coating!
August 12, 2022

The Power of Combining Tradition and Technology for Entrepreneurial Success with Padma Ayala

“Technologies can be learned, but it is the attitude, it is the value system, these things are timeless.” Padma Ayala is the CEO of VirtueTech, Inc. But she's not just the CEO of a company. She's also a classic dancer, a poet, a book publisher, and a

The Power of Combining Tradition and Technology for Entrepreneurial Success with Padma Ayala
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The Power of Combining Tradition and Technology for Entrepreneurial Success with Padma Ayala

“Technologies can be learned, but it is the attitude, it is the value system, these things are timeless.” Padma Ayala is the CEO of VirtueTech, Inc. But she's not just the CEO of a company. She's also a classic dancer, a poet, a book publisher, and a

💃 CEO but also a dancer, poet, book publisher, and founder of two nonprofit organizations. 01:12
🤯 Padma’s journey from rural India to the urban USA due to arranged marriage: losing confidence, being a mother, risk taking artist, and serial entrepreneur. 02:38
👩🏽‍💻 Upgrading her skills to a software engineer and working in big companies: her service mind and care couldn’t flourish in corporate. 06:56
👩🏽‍💼 The customer-focused consulting company become an AWS partner in data engineering, AI, and ML projects: good data is essential for making the right decisions. 08:24
📈 Being a female entrepreneur without mentors was hard: growing slowly, learning, and embracing remote working. 09:50
🖥️ Challenges with recruitment and inflation: core values for success of women in IT. 13:31
✨ Diversity is very important because of different perspectives on problem-solving: biased data is not good. 15:53
🛕 Passing ancient Indian knowledge to the next generations through non-profit: teaching kids art, old languages, traditions, and dance. 18:18
😍 Empowering women and children in Indian villages in an organic way: When women are strong, families are strong. 22:33
🙏🏽 The human race was not born yesterday—learn by looking into nature and at human experience: we learn to listen, think, and imagine using art and help from our ancestors. 26:06
🤩 Padma respects all the help she got from gurus, teachers, and an amazing team of women surrounding her: “When you want to do good, good will come back in many forms.” 29:41
💎 Padma recites one of her poems in the Telugu language: the irrelevance of the material world and the richness of nature and art. 31:34


🌸 Connect with Padma: https://www.virtuetechinc.com/

😇 Chanakyaleaders https://chanakyaleaders.org/index.php

🤩 Lakshmi Grama https://www.linkedin.com/in/lgrama

🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com