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Neetu Arnold, of the Manhattan Institute, joins Josh to discuss how the heavy handed, authoritarian approach that the Trump administration is currently taking when addressing problems in universities needs to change.  Instead, it should be approached in a more principled manner, by relying on reforming education within the law in order to protect our students from the intolerance of the past several years.   Neetu's article in Politico:   Opinion | Trump Is Right to Target Colleges. He's Doing It the Completely Wrong Way. - POLITICO   Follow Neetu on X and at the Manhattan Institute:   https://x.com/neetu_arnold?s=21&t=S8JoQpY3m4n6bFrTo8tLrg Manhattan Institute | Creative. Bold. Independent.   Links:   https://gml.bio.link/   YOUTUBE:   https://bit.ly/3UwsRiv   RUMBLE:   https://rumble.com/c/GML   Check out Martens Minute!   https://martensminute.podbean.com/   Follow Josh Martens on X:   https://twitter.com/joshmartens13   CB Distillery 25% off with promo code GML   cbdistillery.com   Join the private discord & chat during the show!   joingml.com  

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalists Tanzil Asif, Neetu Singh and Sagar Patel, who talk about working in mainstream media, why they quit it and decided to go independent. Legacy media, Tanzil says, only focuses on feeding their agenda rather than serving public interest, making a journalist morally corrupt. Neetu explains that mainstream media restricted her freedom to report because it lacked the guts to hold the government accountable. Some reporters, however, are just fooling people by pretending to be independent journalists, remarks Sagar. They talk of their challenges in opting to work in independent media after exiting mainstream media. Despite lack of resources, hurdles in reporting and problems in their establishing and running their organisations, they say their decision to quit legacy media was most satisfactory.Tune in.Timecodes00:00:00 - Introduction00:02:02 - Reasons for exiting mainstream media00:12:28 - Challenges for independent media00:23:24 - Hurdles for being independent journalist00:56:48 - RecommendationsRecommendationsNeetuPahalgam Attack में मारे गए Shubham Dwivedi की पत्नी Aishanya Dwivedi ने हमले के बारे में क्या बतायाSagar કણબી પટેલોના નાક વાઢવાની હચમચાવી દે તેવી કહાણી| Journalist Naresh Shah | Patidar Samaj History VideoShatranjTanzilCommon PeopleBAKKHO Documentary | A Pasmanda Muslim Story | बक्खो | पसमांदा मुस्लिम की कहानी | Bihar Caste CensusBasantWhat Killed Mukesh Chandrakar - The Reporters' CollectiveProduced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.Complaining about the media is easy. Why not do something to make it better? Click here to subscribe to Newslaundry and join the tribe that pays to keep news free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, Erika Spicer Mason speaks with Neetu Rajpal, CEO of Lilac Software, about the evolving role of AI—specifically agentic AI—in the healthcare payer space. Neetu shares how this emerging technology is being applied to streamline claims grievances, close care gaps, and support Medicare Advantage programs, all while emphasizing the importance of ethics, patient-centered design, and regulatory compliance. This episode is sponsored by Lilac Software.

In this episode of Women in Motion, Lee Kantor interviews Neetu Sadhwani , co-founder and president of Sunrise Group. Neetu shares her inspiring journey as an immigrant and female entrepreneur in the IT sector. She discusses the challenges women face in the male-dominated tech industry and emphasizes the importance of equal opportunities. Neetu highlights how […]

Have you ever wondered what it takes to turn a secondary city into a hospitality goldmine? I'm diving deep with Neetu Mistry, Chief Commercial Officer at Cycas Hospitality, who's cracked the code on making hotels hum in places others might overlook.Neetu's a powerhouse—think commercial strategies for giants like Marriott, Hilton, and IHG under her belt—and she's steering Cycas' sprawling portfolio across the UK and Europe. In this episode we're unpacking how to spark demand where it's not obvious, like in Slough, where her team turned a pandemic-era launch into a community-driven success story. If you're into flipping the script on where hospitality can thrive, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss.Travel Market Life is produced by Urban Podcasts.

What drives author Neetu Kaur Deol Jhaj to write? Who does she write for? In this episode, Lisa Umina dives into “I Shine as Bright as a Firefly”—a heartfelt book about self-love, acceptance, and gratitude. Neetu shares how her children inspire her storytelling. Tune in for an inspiring conversation on finding belonging, embracing our true selves, and empowering the next generation!

In this segment, Mark is joined by Neetu Arnold, a Manhattan Institute analyst. She discusses her latest piece which is headlined, "How Left-Wing Activism Corrupted America's Schools".

Neetu Rajpal, the CEO, and Co-Founder of Lilac Software, brings data and analytics tools to healthcare payers with a specific focus on addressing health disparities and improving benefits for Medicare Advantage members. The Medicare Advantage Star Rating program is a key incentive for health plans to be more innovative about data analysis to improve quality measures and receive financial incentives. Timely, reliable information in an accessible format and better data analytics improve decision-making, patient outcomes, and engagement with providers and patients. Neetu explains, "Health plans tend to have lots of data. They have lots of valuable tools, but those tools have data that is locked inside those tools themselves. So if you're, for example, part of an actuarial team, you may actually be getting PDFs, you may be getting spreadsheets, you may be getting access directly to a CSV file. You may get all these things on a one-off basis, and you have to make sense of all this data. The burden of cleaning and making use of this data falls on you." "This is exactly where lots of energy is lost, lots of labor costs are lost, and lots of efficiency is lost. So with Lilac, we're trying to make sure that all of this stuff of banal value is just available behind the scenes. This is exactly what tech is supposed to be doing for you. Help you operate at the top of your license. If you're an actuary, do actuarial things and let tech make sure that the data you need to do your work is available to you when you need it, and you can just rely on and trust it." "Yes, unfortunately, there is still a lot of paper in the process. Some of the paper is regulatorily required. So if you're a payer, you're required to send any of your members a directory of providers that are available. If they ask for it in paper, you are required to send them ID cards that can be paper. We all know about the fax machines and all of those things on paper." #LilacSoftware #DataAnalytics #HealthAI #AI #MedicareAdvantage #MedicareStarRating #HealthPlan #HealthcarePayers #HealthcareInsurance lilacsoftware.com Download the transcript here

Neetu Rajpal, the CEO, and Co-Founder of Lilac Software, brings data and analytics tools to healthcare payers with a specific focus on addressing health disparities and improving benefits for Medicare Advantage members. The Medicare Advantage Star Rating program is a key incentive for health plans to be more innovative about data analysis to improve quality measures and receive financial incentives. Timely, reliable information in an accessible format and better data analytics improve decision-making, patient outcomes, and engagement with providers and patients. Neetu explains, "Health plans tend to have lots of data. They have lots of valuable tools, but those tools have data that is locked inside those tools themselves. So if you're, for example, part of an actuarial team, you may actually be getting PDFs, you may be getting spreadsheets, you may be getting access directly to a CSV file. You may get all these things on a one-off basis, and you have to make sense of all this data. The burden of cleaning and making use of this data falls on you." "This is exactly where lots of energy is lost, lots of labor costs are lost, and lots of efficiency is lost. So with Lilac, we're trying to make sure that all of this stuff of banal value is just available behind the scenes. This is exactly what tech is supposed to be doing for you. Help you operate at the top of your license. If you're an actuary, do actuarial things and let tech make sure that the data you need to do your work is available to you when you need it, and you can just rely on and trust it." "Yes, unfortunately, there is still a lot of paper in the process. Some of the paper is regulatorily required. So if you're a payer, you're required to send any of your members a directory of providers that are available. If they ask for it in paper, you are required to send them ID cards that can be paper. We all know about the fax machines and all of those things on paper." #LilacSoftware #DataAnalytics #HealthAI #AI #MedicareAdvantage #MedicareStarRating #HealthPlan #HealthcarePayers #HealthcareInsurance lilacsoftware.com Listen to the podcast here

In this episode of the Vantage Influencers Podcast, Neetu Choudhury, CEO of Evolvitude Fze, keynote speaker, author, executive coach, and Idea Presentation Advisor. The session delves into the science of leadership and how the new insights from neuroscience consistently reshape the ways we understand and practice effective leadership. Neetu emphasizes how brain science offers powerful tools for leaders that help them improve decision-making under pressure and foster growth mindsets.   

Becca sits down with Dr. Neetu Sharma, a board-certified nephrologist and functional medicine practitioner, to explore the crucial connection between kidney health and metabolism. Dr. Sharma shares her personal story, the root causes of kidney dysfunction, and actionable tips for preventing chronic disease. Learn why managing stress, hydration, and nutrition are key to kidney health—and discover simple strategies to support your body naturally. Whether you're concerned about kidney stones, high blood pressure, or metabolic health, this episode offers invaluable insights to transform your health. Connect with Dr. Neetu Sharma Web | LinkedIn | Instagram ***

Neetu Arnold of the Manhattan Institute joins Josh to discuss a Real Clear Politics article she wrote about the Asian communities shift to the right in the November election.  We discuss three issues that have motivated some in the Asian community to move to the right. The Economy, Public Safety, and Education Policies.   Neetu's article in Real Clear Politics:   https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/19/heres_why_asian_americans_shifted_right_151965.html   Follow Neetu's work at the Manhattan Institute, and at Young Voices:   https://manhattan.institute/ https://www.joinyv.org/talent/neetu-arnold   Follow Neetu on X:   https://x.com/neetu_arnold?s=21&t=S8JoQpY3m4n6bFrTo8tLrg   Links:   https://gml.bio.link/   Watch GML  on Youtube:   https://bit.ly/3UwsRiv   Check out Martens Minute!   https://martensminute.podbean.com/   Follow Josh Martens on X:   https://twitter.com/joshmartens13   Join the private discord & chat during the show!   joingml.com   Bank on Yourself bankonyourself.com/gml   Get FACTOR Today! FACTORMEALS.com/gml50   Good Morning Liberty is sponsored by BetterHelp! Rediscover your curiosity today by visiting Betterhelp.com/GML (Get 10% off your first month)     Protect your privacy and unlock the full potential of your streaming services with ExpressVPN. Get 3 more months absolutely FREE by using our link EXPRESSVPN.com/GML

Set Point Shift Solution: https://alanabonnemann.com/weight-set-pointIn this highlight, Alana and Neetu unpack the intricate relationship between women's health and hormonal balance. Especially how the body communicates its needs through symptoms, and the importance of understanding hormonal dysregulation. Along with practical steps to nourish hormonal health through diet and lifestyle changes. Find out more about Neetu: https://www.instagram.com/wake_upwellness/Listen to the Full Episode:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/30eo8U0Nx6ec9I9vhtgspL?si=289c056c5c4143b7Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/essential-ways-women-can-reclaim-hormonal-health-in/id1653574866?i=1000683001501Youtube: https://youtu.be/sjgLHNgbmvkWork with AlanaGet more free resources: https://alanabonnemann.com/resourcesIf you want to get laser-focused on your individual needs, book a free 1:1 Wellness Chat: ⁠https://alanabonnemann.com/ready-to-get-started/⁠Otherwise, let's stay social: https://instagram.com/naturopath.alana

In this episode of the Health After 30 podcast, Alana sits down with Neetu Ramawald to talk about the hidden impact of modern lifestyles on women's hormonal health. They discuss the hormonal epidemic many women face today, the emotional and physical toll of imbalances, and why listening to your body is key to achieving balance. Learn how nutrition, stress management, and lifestyle changes can support your hormones and overall well-being. Neetu shares her inspiring journey and practical advice to empower women to prioritize their health and live their best lives.More about Neetu: https://www.instagram.com/wake_upwellness/Sign up for the Set Point Shift Solution: https://alanabonnemann.com/weight-set-pointWant to learn more about how to change your set points to reach your feel good weight? Head over to: ⁠https://alanabonnemann.com/resources/⁠- If you want to get laser-focused on your individual needs, book a free 1:1 Wellness Chat: ⁠https://alanabonnemann.com/ready-to-get-started/⁠Otherwise, let's stay social: https://instagram.com/naturopath.alana⁠

What if the pain you feel in your relationships today is actually a call to heal the inner child you left behind? When you stop abandoning yourself, everything changes—your relationships, your confidence, and the way you show up for your dreams.Today, I sit down with my client Neetu Ramawad, who shares her deeply personal journey of healing her abandonment wound using my Inner Child Healing Process, among other tools. From grappling with feelings of rejection in relationships to reclaiming her confidence and self-worth, Neetu walks us through the profound shifts she experienced by committing to this work over time.We explore how childhood experiences with absent parents shaped her belief system and how those unconscious patterns showed up in her adult relationships, friendships, and business. She reveals the turning points in her journey, including the breakthrough moments when she realized she was abandoning herself in subtle but powerful ways. Through consistent inner work, she learned how to create new patterns of self-trust, set healthier boundaries, and embrace her power.This episode is a must-listen if you've ever felt unseen, unsupported, or unsure of how to navigate emotional triggers. Neetu's story is a powerful reminder that healing your abandonment wound isn't about perfection—it's about learning how to meet your inner child with compassion and love, over and over again.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS(00:00) Intro(01:52) In Today's Episode...Neetu Ramawad(04:27) Tools Neetu Used for Her Transformation(11:25) Neetu's Healing Journey and Inner Child Work(13:28) Understanding and Overcoming Abandonment Wounds(15:06) Navigating Triggers, Self-Worth and Inner Child Wounds(21:32) Impact on Relationships and Personal Growth(26:44) Big Shifts on The Fear of Being Seen and Self-Compassion(30:47) Understanding Behavior Problems in Children and Shifting Perspectives on Relationships and Support(34:22) Grieving Primary Relationships, Acceptance, and Neutral Mindset(37:05) Women's Health, Fertility Problems, and Nutrition Coaching(46:56) Neetu's Endometriosis Journey(49:45) Continuous Healing and Investing in Long-Term HealingCONTACT NEETUBook a 40 min consultation callFollow her on IG wake_upwellness**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD**Leave a review, send us a screenshot and get a $250 credit, you can apply to anything else in my world.Dissolve Your Abandonment Wound Transform the way your abandonment wound shows up in your life.The Metamorphosis is launching again in mid-January and we're in early bird pricing until the end of the year. Reach out to me to get the early bird code that will drop $500 off of the price.The Metamorphosis Method starts February, 2025 and you can now enroll. Master my proven methodology to guide your clients to rapidly and efficiently transmute lifetimes of familial and ancestral trauma. Email me and see if this is really a fit for you.CONTACT ALYSEJoin my FB groupIG @alyse_breathesVisit alysebreathes.cominfo@alysebreathes.com

Dr. Sharma is a mother, wife, double board-certified Kidney specialist and functional medicine expert. She is an esteemed kidney expert and well renowned name in the field of medicine.After helping thousands of patients in her 15 years of medical practice and witnessing her own uncle and mother-in-law going through dialysis, Dr. Sharma knew that the current medical system has many flaws and does not have solutions for life altering kidney diseases. As a leading innovator in functional medicine, she is committed to applying her expertise while working on the root cause to optimize health and prevent the progression of chronic diseases. She utilizes customized plans for everyone with lifestyle and nutritional changes which are proven to prevent chronic diseases and provide long term health & wellness rather than relying on prescription drugs. She is the advocate of transforming the healthcare paradigm. She is also a medical director at Health Plan. She mentors physicians on how to find cash based practice solutions or other non-clinical career opportunities along with career and health guidance to get back their vitality and enthusiasm.Some of the topics we discussed were:What positions exist for non-clinical remote careers with health insurance plansWhere to start looking for those non-clinical remote positionsWhat qualifications organizations are looking forWhat certifications are needed and how to obtain themPros and cons of non-clinical remote positions with health insurance plansIf it's possible to continue some clinical work along with these positions to maintain your clinical experience in case later on you decide to change back to clinical medicineIf the cases sent for you to review are in your area of specialization or if it's an entire variety of cases independent of specializationHow much specific training they give when you startWhat helps you find out if an organization aligns with your values prior to starting the workDr. Sharma's three main pieces of advice for physicians who are interested in pursuing a career with a health insurance planMistakes and obstacles to avoid on this pathHelpful tips for preparing your resumeIf conferences are beneficial in this path and worth attending And more!Learn more about me or schedule a FREE coaching call:https://www.joyfulsuccessliving.com/Join the Voices of Women Physicians Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/190596326343825/Connect with Dr. Sharma:LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/neetusharmamd/ Website:https://zealvitality.com Book a Call for Health Program:https://l.bttr.to/zEvk0Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thekidneywhisperer/ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@thekidneywhisperer

Neetu Arnold, Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute and a Young Voices contributor. University of Michigan spent millions on DEI efforts. They failed miserably.

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Watch young stroke survivor Neetu Mehra's inspiring journey from ischemic stroke at 44 to resilience and recovery. Click to hear her powerful story! The post Young Stroke Survivor Neetu's Ischemic Stroke at 44: A Powerful Story of Recovery and Resilience appeared first on Recovery After Stroke.

Welcome to Episode 3 of The Arun Pandit Show Season 2! Today, we have the renowned Neetu Singh, Founder and Director of KD CAMPUS PVT. LTD., KD LIVE, and KD PUBLICATION, and the acclaimed author of best-sellers like 'English for General Competition,' 'Neetu Singh Vocab,' and 'Spoken English.' Join us as we delve into the reasons behind students' struggles in Government Exams, the dark secrets of paper leaks, the rising unemployment in India, the downfall of a 200-crore company, and when to stop preparing for Government Exams. Neetu Singh also shares the easiest ways to learn English. Don't miss this insightful conversation packed with valuable insights and practical advice!

We continue with our Kapoor family series and discuss Rishi, the most famous and successful Kapoor of his generation, and his onscreen and offscreen hit jodi with Beth's favorite Neetu Singh. Points discussed: • Rishi's sequin jumpsuits in Karz • his Qawwali king status • his disappointed sadface in many movies, • his sweater wardrobe • his moppety effervescent energy and cuteness with Neetu in Khel Khel Mein and elsewhere • what Neetu brought to 70s films that other women didn't • his frankness in interviews and social media Brother Randhir makes a brief appearance as a rickshawala in this episode. Our other Rishi-centric episodes include • qawallis (https://youtu.be/wTINpaD0Htc?si=BSgC1UgDu_yRn-Iq) (with guest Sujoy from @khandaanpodcast), • his autobiography Khullam Khulla (https://youtu.be/pWpWG1nSJmo?si=5HHZwGXLrmIpPGZ4), and • playing against type (https://youtu.be/Y81uvvKEefc?si=LozMNNOrebCqmltl) And please watch the mind-bending song Main Haseen Hoon Main Jawan Hoon from Rickshawala and tell Beth WHAT IS GOING ON?!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbdsrUBm-A0 Subscribe to Filmi Ladies on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ib9C1X5ObvN18u9WR0TK9 or Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filmi-ladies/id1642425062 @filmiladies on Instagram and Twitter Pitu is @pitusultan on Instagram Beth is @bethlovesbolly on Twitter Email us at filmiladies at gmail See our letterboxd for everything discussed on this podcast. https://boxd.it/qSpfy Our logo was designed by London-based artist Paula Ganoo @velcrothoughts on Instagram https://www.art2arts.co.uk/paula-vaughan

Feeling disconnected and alone? You're not the only one. Today, Charlotte is joined by Neetu Argarwal, is a breast cancer survivor ( given a title a walking miracle ) and Founder of Enlightening Souls and we're diving into the topic of loneliness…. In this episode, you'll discover: Why loneliness is a universal experience, even with many friends. The difference between being alone and feeling lonely. How self-awareness, self-love, and authenticity can combat isolation. The surprising ways technology can both exacerbate and combat loneliness. Practical tools and strategies for fostering meaningful connections. The power of nature and self-care for promoting mental well-being. Ready to break free from loneliness and build deeper connections?  Be sure to follow Neetu's work here: https://www.instagram.com/_enlighteningsouls https://youtu.be/3VeAaDNhXHE?si=TPEc2aRcYCWL1p9H Your Hosts, Charlotte  & Jonathan www.thewellnesstheory.com P.S.  Would you like to stress-less and thrive more in all areas of life? Take the Free Stress-Less Scorecard and find out how.  Answer 24 questions in less than 2 minutes to get personalised results. The scorecard will assess: Your day to day stress-management,  How your body is coping with stress Identify the core of where your stress is stemming from   It's designed for high-performers who are looking to get a clear picture of how to optimize their wellbeing and nip unhealthy stress in the bud once and for all. Here's the link you'll need: https://www.thewellnesstheory.com/stress-less-scorecard

We all live in a Ken and Barbie world. When you're a little girl, you're playing with these perfect dolls, beginning self-discovery, and having a conversation with yourself. Sometimes, even starting at age three or four, you're already telling yourself a negative story. Somebody who's trying to change the conversation around beauty inside and out is my next guest, Neetu Rishi, the CEO & Founder of The Success Door.

In this episode, Gaelle Blake interviews Neetu Kholsa Multicultural Chair and Social Value Manager at Amey. Neetu talks about making a career change into her current role and what she's learnt along the way.

Neetu Arnold is a Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars and a Young Voices contributor. Follow her on X @neetu_arnold. Biden Needs To Give Up on Student Loan Forgiveness | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/biden-needs-give-student-loan-forgiveness-opinion-1888639 Links: https://bit.ly/gmllinks WATCH on Youtube: https://bit.ly/3UwsRiv Join the private discord & chat during the show! joingml.com Like our intro song? https://www.3pillmorning.com Enroll in Constitution 101: the meaning and history of the US Constitution or one of the many other great FREE courses at hillsdale.edu/GML Get your complimentary bottle of Nugenix by texting GML to 231-231 Monetary Metals offers A Yield on Gold, Paid in Gold® https://www.monetary-metals.com/GML Protect your privacy and unlock the full potential of your streaming services with ExpressVPN. Get 3 more months absolutely FREE by using our link EXPRESSVPN.com/GML Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stu Burguiere breaks down the abortion situation in Arizona and reveals that a very small, select group of leftists are speaking the truth about the right to life: stand-up comedians. Then, Neetu Arnold from Young Voices joins to break down the unconstitutionality of Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness. And Mike Johnson makes a choice regarding the future of funding in Israel and Ukraine. TODAY'S SPONSORS   BESPOKE POST Get a free Mystery Gift with your first monthly shipment when you sign up at http://www.BoxOfAwesome.com and enter the code ‘STU' at checkout   BALANCE OF NATURE When you go to http://www.BalanceOfNature.com, you'll get 35% off PLUS $10 off any additional sets with your first order as a preferred customer by using the discount code: “STU”. That's limited to five sets, but you'll save a ton of money while getting the fruits and vegetables you need in your diet   REAL ESTATE AGENTS I TRUST For more information, please visit http://www.RealEstateAgentsITrust.com   JASE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ANTIBIOTICS Go to http://www.JaseMedical.com today and enter code “STU” at checkout for a discount on your order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I speak with Neetu Arnold, Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars and a Young Voices contributor, about the recent responses of U.S. colleges to the attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7th. We discuss the hesitancy of these universities to condemn the attacks, which has led to backlash from many major donors. We also delve into the issue of student loan reform under Joe Biden's administration and explore the trade-offs involved in these reforms. Biden's student loan plan saves colleges, not students - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/bidens-student-loan-plan-saves-colleges-not-students Campus Hamas Support Reveals a Harsh Truth about Higher Ed - https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/campus-hamas-support-reveals-a-harsh-truth-about-higher-ed/ Transcript - https://share.descript.com/view/poppsbBeXg4 https://youtu.be/dOidhDpQ39Q Do you have comments or questions about this episode? Visit it on ChrisSpangle.com and leave one! --- Join our Patreon now for commercial-free shows, bonus content, and our complete archives - https://www.patreon.com/wearelibertarians --- Join our Facebook Group to meet other listeners. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/walnutssociety --- Visit Chris-Spangle.com to see my other podcasts and projects or to add me on social. www.Chris-Spangle.com --- Looking to start a podcast? Download my podcast Podcasting and Platforms now, and check out my recommendations for buying the right equipment. Chris Spangle and Leaders and Legends, LLC edited and produced this podcast. If you want to start a podcast or take yours to the next level, please get in touch with us at LeadersAndLegends.net. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, August 15th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by welcoming Consumer Choice Center's Deputy Directory Yael Ossowski back to the program. Yael walks us through his piece in USA Today about the FTC going after Amazon, how this is just a new version of a long-running debate between government and the biggest retailers/companies around, the difference between good regulation and bad policy, how "the curse of bigness" isn't the same as antitrust or a monopoly, and how legitimate issues of Amazon doing wrong for consumers gets glossed over by government overreach. Plus, we have Neetu Arnold from Young Voices joining to talk about the student loan debt relief debate. Neetu discusses how the recent court cases are reshaping efforts to address student loan debt but not doing much to solve the core problems, how student loan debt doesn't get the protections for the borrower other loans do, the predatory system that is making it worse, and how there won't be a one-size-fits-all answer to the issue.All that and more on this edition of Heard Tell.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.comPlease make sure to follow to @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Neetu Rajpal is the CTO of Oscar Health. Oscar aims to make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all by refactoring healthcare to make great care cost less. Chad talks to Neetu about working for a relatively new insurance company, reorganizing its structure by getting people into the right positions, and how incorporating large language models and generative AI is an inflection point that will help move things forward. Oscar Health (https://www.hioscar.com/) Follow Oscar Health on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OscarHealth), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/OscarHealthInsurance), Twitter (https://twitter.com/OscarHealth), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oscarhealth/), or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/oscar-health/). Follow Neetu Rajpal on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/neeturajpal/), or Twitter (https://twitter.com/Nee2D2). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel. And with me today is Neetu Rajpal, the CTO of Oscar Health. Neetu, thank you so much for joining me. NEETU: It's great to be here. Thank you very much for having me. CHAD: I want to talk about your role at Oscar Health, and your history, and everything that you've done. But everyone listening might not be familiar with Oscar Health. So let's start there; what is Oscar Health? NEETU: Yes. Oscar Health is a health insurance company. We sell health insurance, primarily on the ACA marketplace across 20 different states in the U.S. We have just over a million members. So we basically sell health insurance to people. One of the big, unique things about Oscar Health has been it's a very relatively new insurance company. So it's only been around for about ten years. And it was founded as a pretty standard tech startup. We've built all of the infrastructure for acquiring supporting members and providers, and brokers in-house. So we're fully cloud-native, distributed systems hosted on AWS and GCP with a giant data lake that supports all of our workflows. And this is a pretty unique integrated solution in terms of health insurance companies. So we're very much a tech-focused health insurance company. I've been at Oscar for about three and a half years. I came to Oscar not from a healthcare background but just really mission-oriented and motivated to go help something in the healthcare space. I've spent most of my career building software, first at Microsoft and then at Conductor and WeWork. And I'm really excited to be here. It's really, really rewarding to be at a company that's serving primarily an underserved market in the ACA space. CHAD: Well, I suppose full disclosure is in order. Oscar and thoughtbot have been working together for a long time now, actually, with Oscar as a client of ours. So I appreciate you joining us on the show, and I appreciate you working with us over the years. I think we worked...we started working with Oscar maybe when you were just in one or two states. And so, how have you handled that growth? And I think that's one of the complexities of the insurance space, right? Is every location is different in important ways. NEETU: Yeah. Actually, it seems like Oscar and thoughtbot have worked longer than Oscar and myself. CHAD: [laughs] NEETU: So I think that's a pretty exciting, interesting statistic. And even during my time, it's been a great experience working with thoughtbot. One of the big premise Oscar had was to build software that was segregated enough and isolated enough but composable enough that you could, in fact, bundle the full healthcare tech stack and then bundle it back together as you needed with configuration and scale it as you needed with, like, smart built-in scalability. And I think our ability to grow into multiple states and multiple counties has been, like, a good proof point of the fact that you can, in fact, do that. In most cases, adding a new state is sometimes, at least from the tech perspective, from the software perspective is a combination of identifying the right configuration settings, mapping it to the features, and then just configuring the software to be able to support that new service area that we've just added. And that, I think, has been, like, a huge value add in terms of being able to add new locations to serve our members, add new providers, add new contracts. And our premise of building stuff or to unbundle and then bundle it back together as needed has really proven out a lot. CHAD: I assume there have been some challenges along the way. What do you think have been among the biggest? NEETU: I think the challenges have been an interesting combination of just learning the insurance business landscape then building software that aligns with it. So each county you might go into, each state you might go into, have its own set of regulatory requirements, have its own set of, like, reimbursement requirements, have its own set of, like, plan requirements, and these are...as a new insurance company, I think along the way, we really did have to learn a lot of these things and sometimes by trial and error and that, you know, it's a pretty sometimes a long cycle with insurance. So that has been interesting and challenging. CHAD: So not necessarily a technical problem but more, like, even just figuring out what it should...how it should work. NEETU: Yeah. I think definitely the business problem has been interesting on the technical side. So I started at Oscar about three and a half years ago. And my first questions as I was going through the interview process were, "Like, I don't understand why you built all of this stuff in-house, like, why aren't you just [inaudible 05:18]?" And those were rather naive questions to be asking a tech-focused insurance company. Many years ago, when Oscar chose to use Elasticsearch, it wasn't a BAA-compliant solution. So you couldn't actually use a managed version of Elasticsearch. So we ended up hosting our own Elasticsearch cluster. We were one of the first or the first few people to actually sign a BAA with AWS a long time ago. So, technically speaking, I think the challenges have been around you don't always have the same set of tools available to you; at least, that used to be the case. This is rapidly declining rapidly. The availability of tools is almost the same now. And two, the ecosystem that you live in. We still definitely have a service that has easy availability to a fax machine, and I think there are a few companies that are able to say that. But it's also the ecosystem that you live in, that you're trying to bring along with yourself, and also ecosystem you're using to support and build the tech stack. Both of those things have been rather interesting. In terms of actually building the software, that's, like, pretty standard regular set of software challenges. CHAD: How big is the Oscar engineering team at this point? NEETU: Oscar engineering team has fluctuated between 300 and 400 people over the past few years. I think we're about 350 or so right now. CHAD: Generally speaking, how is the team organized to perform at that scale? NEETU: I am actually a pretty big believer in first building a tech strategy that is tied to the business strategy before building the org structure. So, even at the Oscar engineering and tech team org structure, it has probably fluctuated quite a bit based on what the business needed. As of right now, we have dedicated folks that are aligned along individual set of audiences that we are supporting. So we have a group of people who focuses primarily on the members and the member applications. We have a group of folks who focuses primarily on the provider and all the needs of the providers. And then we have a group of people maybe focused on just growth in general. And that could be growth through enrollments with brokers, enrollments without brokers, direct exchanges, or even some of our +Oscar business work. So we've tried to, at this moment, align ourselves with the audience that we're serving. And, of course, like, no engineering team is purely vertical or purely horizontal. So we also have an infrastructure platform team that supports all of the areas. CHAD: Do people sort of opt in, or are their roles advertised in each of those places? Or, as you reorganize into those structures, have you seen ways that work successfully in terms of getting people into the right position? NEETU: Like, at the larger level in terms of the audience space, there tends to be pretty standard set of roles. As you might imagine, when the companies are smaller, there's a lot of investment or need for really, truly full-stack developers and full-stack engineers. As we've grown larger, there is a bit of specialization towards either the front-end portion of the house or the back-end portion of the house. And we do have roles posted, and the roles some of them concentrate more towards the front-end tech. Some of them concentrate more towards distributed computing, and back end, and data engineering roles. And some concentrate more towards infrastructure engineering. And, as the teams always get bigger, there tend to also be, like, the supporting functions around technical product management and technical program management that are also part of the equation at the moment. We do post all of these roles in those terms, with clarity around what the expectations are. As we re-org, we always prioritize internal candidates. We have a big enough team. People like to work on different set of problems and happy to align passions with our business needs because that tends to work out really, really well. CHAD: Well, there's a reason why I'm asking about this particularly for you because one of the things that stood out to me about your background was the length of time that you were at Microsoft and the movement that you did between a variety of different roles across the organization. So that's an experience that you bring to the table. Was that something that you did intentionally? NEETU: Yeah. I was at Microsoft for 18 years. And I think every couple of years, I did a new thing. And while I would like to very much say, yeah, I totally figured out that I wanted to be an engineer... CHAD: [laughs] NEETU: And then a product manager, and then, you know, an engineer again, or then a product manager again, or a leadership role again, or even the stack as in work on small APIs or work on full enterprise-grade products or cloud...I would like to very much say those were very thought through, you know, clearly pre-planned career moves; they were not. And particularly, in my case, they were very much I chased problems. And I would get very obsessed or interested in a particular problem. And then, I would go dive deep into that problem and aim to go solve it. And by the time I had figured it out and solved it, there was always a new problem. And this was the wonderful promise of Microsoft where, you know, it is so large, and there are so many different ways to think about different problems, or different ways you can bring software to market, or problems in the world you can solve with it, that I particularly took full advantage of it. And that hasn't really changed in terms of how the rest of my career post-Microsoft has gone, either. Every couple of years, I find myself in a space that is completely scary, completely new, completely different. For me, that tends to be my happy place, to be working on super difficult things that are very scary. Mid-Roll Ad: When starting a new project, we understand that you want to make the right choices in technology, features, and investment but that you don't have all year to do extended research. In just a few weeks, thoughtbot's Discovery Sprints deliver a user-centered product journey, a clickable prototype or Proof of Concept, and key market insights from focused user research. We'll help you to identify the primary user flow, decide which framework should be used to bring it to life, and set a firm estimate on future development efforts. Maximize impact and minimize risk with a validated roadmap for your new product. Get started at: tbot.io/sprint. CHAD: It does sound like even though you might not have some grand plan, [chuckles] you are driven to seek out challenges. NEETU: Yeah. I heard something really, really long time ago that kind of has stuck with me always, which is don't let your curiosity die. So, if you are curious, don't just let it shy away; just indulge in it. That's how you're always moving forward. For me, that's been a big theme as in, I really, really enjoy always learning. Always finding myself not to be the smartest person in the room is really, really great. And always moving forward and pushing hard, and solving bigger and bigger problems. CHAD: So, when you were deciding to join Oscar Health, how concerned were you with the particulars of the individual position that you were applying for? Or was it more, like, I've identified this space and this problem that I want to be a part of? NEETU: Yeah, that's a really, really great question. And I think it's one of the ones that when I mentor people, I tell them about as well, which is, I had a role with Conductor that was this head of R&D, CTO, and CPO, and a very traditional ladder style path to the next step or something along those lines or bigger. But I personally am not motivated by titles as much as I am about potential impact I can have. My walk into healthcare out of MarTech or out of just, like, platform was very personal in terms of I have a healthcare story. Everybody really has a healthcare story. And I wanted to go do something in this space, utilize all of the skills that I already have, and then try to push the space forward. And so, when I joined Oscar, I was not really that motivated by what the title was going to be. I was really looking for is, is there going to be an opportunity to have an impact? And is there going to be space for me to have impact? Am I going to be surrounded by a group of people who I can have impact with? That was the primary concern. And I did join Oscar as a VP of engineering. And that didn't last very long. Within the next year and a half, I was already promoted to CTO in that role. And each one of those steps was very much motivated by will I actually be able to have impact? Will I be empowered to have impact? Was I equipped to have an impact? And was I going to learn a lot in that role? Those were my primary motivators. And that's always been the case. It's also a hard-won lesson. Like, when I had my first kid, it was a really difficult time, personally. I had really bad postpartum depression. I had really hard time dealing with what is going to happen with my career, and I had to take a step back. And as somebody who was, like, super ambitious and wanted to go straight up, that was a really challenging thing to do. And that was a long time ago, and I've been able to rebuild, quote, unquote, "rebuild" my career back multiple times over. So it's actually been, like, a hard-won lesson where it doesn't kind of matter what part of the rocket ship you have a seat on, as long as you have the seat on the rocket ship. And by rocket ship, I wish I was only talking about stock price; I'm not. I'm just talking about the ability to have impact. If I can be in this right group and I can have a voice, then it didn't matter what my title was. CHAD: Yeah, thank you for sharing. And I think it feels like the pace of change accelerates. But in growing organizations, so much changes all of the time. So what you are doing...or the roles that exist will change as well. And the other thing...I often get asked by clients, "Should we be hiring a VP of engineering or a CTO?" I'm like, the definition of those roles varies so much between company, and team size, and everything. It's like; it really is difficult to answer that question because it is so different. It all depends on the needs of the organization. NEETU: Yeah. I've done both of those roles, at least twice each time, twice now. And I've personally discovered that A, those roles don't really have a defined, like, there is no clear definition for either one of those roles. The other thing that I think is more important is I don't think the organizations know what they want out of those roles most of the times, either. In my experience so far, VP of engineering is a little bit easier to define because it has a very heavy management component to it. And so I've ended up just defining those roles for myself every time, and so far, so good. And the way I define those roles is very much, like, a CTO role is a half-business half-technical role. It's the role where you understand the business strategy and turn it into a tech strategy that supports the business strategy and pushes the business forward, and acts as the competitive advantage for the business. And your role is, in fact, to be the person who takes tech and applies it to pushing the business forward. That's one direction. And the other direction, it is the role to take the business strategy and translate into technical terms so that you can bring and coalesce your whole team's motivation around it and bring the whole team around it. And I definitely find this very much at Oscar, where most people who join Oscar engineering and Oscar tech they all come motivated outside of Oscar already to help push the industry forward in one way or another. So actually keeping that motivation in the right place all the time with authenticity and truth about what it is, how we're pushing the business forward. And helping the business move forward is an extremely valuable skill. So, from my perspective, the tech role is definitely half-business, half-tech with some variable sprinkling of management attached to it, and I think that's the CTO role. And the VP of engineering was very heavily bent towards management, I think, yeah. CHAD: Well, so in that CTO role, we'll often be faced with understanding how industry changes, or new technology, or whatever can help the business. Obviously, we have a big one happening right now with artificial intelligence or large language models and machine learning. I have a couple of questions around this area. But, like, is there something in particular with that that you're either thinking about now in terms of Oscar or have already incorporated? NEETU: Yeah. I think large language models and generative AI, in general, is definitely an inflection point. And I think it's an inflection point that is going to help push so many things forward. And I think healthcare is very interestingly poised towards pushing in that direction. There is everything from, like, shortage of providers or shortage of mental health providers to just a large availability of data in the healthcare space that can help discover things that may not be the easiest to discover through humans looking at it. So I think there's a huge opportunity. I also think it needs, like, a bit of cautious evaluation. We are dealing with something that you can't break, so you can't move fast and break things when you're dealing with people. But there are interesting use cases where you could use generative AI and have it maybe not make a decision for a person but assist the provider to make a decision. Or you can use it in areas, at least in healthcare space, where there is a lot of inefficiency because of too much to do. And you can actually optimize a whole bunch of that. So examples could be, you know, there's the standard examples of chatbots as in, is this doctor part of my network? Can I have an appointment with this doctor? Can I have an appointment and a prior auth with this doctor immediately? Like, those are, I think, a little bit more accessible use cases. And Oscar, also, we're exploring and figuring out which one of those makes most sense for us in our business. And there's tons of excitement and tons of, like, thought being put behind it. As of right now, I probably can't say all the things that we're working on at the moment. But yes, absolutely, this is a very big deal. CHAD: So, speaking more generally around exploring new ideas, you mentioned at Conductor, you were in an R&D role combined...like, is there strategies that you've seen that work particularly well for doing research and development within an organization, exploring new ideas, figuring things out? NEETU: Yeah. It definitely depends on which portion or which portion of the maturity stack you're on. If you're building software that is going to be sold to enterprises, you have to have some version of a promise of a date, and then you have to keep your promise. So, if you're selling enterprise software, you have to be predictable because your partners on the other side are relying on you. And you can't actually get predictability without having enough stability in your team, and enough stability in your roadmaps, and enough stability in your tech environment [inaudible 22:30] So that you can figure out what you're going to build, you can figure out where you're going to build, and how you're going to build it. You can figure out what teams and resources you're going to allocate to it. And you can also have some confidence that when you're ready to send code out to production, there is some automated CI/CD system that is, like, going to help you make sure that the number of errors that you are sending out into the world is as few as possible. And that superpower of being able to, like, churn out code and features and products like a machine on a pretty regular basis has the potential downside of not being able to disrupt yourself. And I think there are definitely a couple of strategies to do that. One of them is to allocate enough space by filling it with P2s as opposed to everything being a P0, that if you were to, like, displace the P2s with something that is new and available now, then you're going to be okay because you can live without the P2s. We had to have enough of those. There is also the whole skunk works model, which I think works pretty well. I think it does need to be set up carefully so that you're not, like, destroying the motivation of everybody in the team. You do have the opportunity to do the skunkworks model. And, like, the generating ideas portion, we do this at Oscar, and I think this is also done elsewhere. We have pretty regular hackathons that are dedicated amounts of time, and we put them on the schedule. And, during that time, we just go explore and dream and go build other things. And we build it collaboratively with the rest of the business. And there are definitely still, like, stories of things that were developed in a hackathon that served us really well for years on end. And I don't think that's ever going to change. But anything that is, like, a real solid enterprise production stuff probably needs a dedicated skunkworks something or the other so you can...I don't think it's a bad thing to have solid schedules. I think it's a really huge superpower to have solid schedules. I do think you have to have the discipline to be able to disrupt yourself; otherwise, somebody else will. CHAD: Right. And so figuring out a structure, you can do that. And, like you said, you know, you don't want to ruin the morale or the excitement of the entire organization where people say, like, "Well, it's not my job," you know, or, "I wish I could work on this, but it's this team's." And you're not set up to capture that individual person's excitement over generative AI, for example, who is the one who's actually going to make it happen. And you're squashing that because they're not, quote, unquote, "supposed to work on it." I think that's a really difficult balance to strike. NEETU: Yeah, I think it is. But I don't know; there are very few things in the healthcare space that anybody does that is easy. CHAD: Yeah, that's a good point. Now that you've been in the role, well, at Oscar for a few years, what's next? What are the things that, like, you feel like are sort of motivating you each day you come to work? NEETU: Oscar is in the ACA space, which serves primarily underserved communities. There have been, like, some recent examples of where people had to shutter doors in the ACA space. So the fact that we're still around and the fact that we're successful, like, we don't take that for granted. It's a really valuable thing to be able to survive in this market and to be able to grow. We launched a mission-driven tech-focused company ten years ago based on the belief that you could build your own tech stack and be successful in a very tightly controlled market. And I think this is the year that we actually had to just, like, really prove out the use case. So, this year, Oscar is 100% focused on being insure co profitable. And once we finish proving that out, next year, we're going to prove out that it is... Holdco can be profitable, which is all of our tech stack, in addition to all of our insurance business. And I'm very, very much looking forward to Oscar being successful this year in the mission, where I think it's just proving out that you can build a successful business and ACA-powered by your own tech stack. And not compromising on the outcomes for our members is really valuable and keeps me very motivated. And then, looking at the future, looking at being able to be 100% full company profitable and potentially selling our software for others so they could also bring this efficiency to their businesses is extremely motivating for me. And, as of right now, this is what the whole company is focused on. And we're all super excited about it. CHAD: Yeah, oftentimes, having a clear goal that everyone knows about and is working on can be really empowering for an organization, even if it's hard. NEETU: Yeah. Like I said before, I think almost everybody I've interacted with at Oscar didn't come to Oscar, assuming it was going to be easy. They came to Oscar with full knowledge that it was going to be hard, but they were going to try anyway. So we are so close. CHAD: Yeah. And, you know, that's one of the things that, at thoughtbot, we skew to working with clients that do positive things for the world, that deserve to exist for precisely this reason, is when you have a positive purpose in your organization, it makes working hard easier, [laughs] or solving big problems easier because you know that you're going to have a positive impact when you do. NEETU: Yeah. The personal healthcare story was a motivating factor towards going to go do something that was, like, going to be, like, positive for the world. I wish I could say, yes, I'm going to solve all of healthcare's problems and [inaudible 29:02] not that way. CHAD: Yeah. Well, that was actually what I was going to ask you about next is that's the thing about healthcare. And I've seen people almost get demoralized for it because you actually can't solve every problem. It's really difficult to solve all of healthcare. So, how do you sort of exist within that environment and not get demotivated? NEETU: I think the more you dig into the problem, the more you realize how interconnected the way in, like, society, politics, money, power, and tech it really is. And it seems like if you try to solve the whole thing, it almost feels like you're going to boil the whole ocean. And it is definitely a blocker from even trying. And, for me, it was just like, does that mean I stop? Do I apply the boy scout rule of, like, just trying to leave it better off, a whole lot better off, as much possible better off than I found it? I could do that. Or I could just go do something completely different. But there is no guarantee it's going to be as motivating or potentially as impacting. So, for me, it's very much about, like, if I could make even small changes, I know they'll be part of a greater whole. So I will just try to make those small changes because, alternatively, I may be neutral for the world at most. CHAD: Well, Neetu, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing with us. I really appreciate it. NEETU: Thank you very much for having me. It's been a great conversation. CHAD: If folks want to get in touch with you or follow along, where are the best places for them to do that? NEETU: I am easy to find on LinkedIn. I do have a Twitter account, but I'm not very active. It's @Nee2D2, and I look forward to hearing from people. CHAD: Awesome. You can subscribe to the show and find notes for this episode, along with a complete transcript, at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you could find me on Mastodon @cpytel@thoughtbot.social. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks so much for listening, and see you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com. 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In this episode, Neetu talks about some signs and traits of toxic parents. She talks about the South Asian experience and why these signs may be easy to relate to. Join her in this fun conversation!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatzsoneet/TikTOK: ThatzsoneetSouth Asian Therapists near you:https://southasiantherapists.org/Disclaimer: This is an opinion-based podcast and all opinions, thoughts, and views expressed are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated in the future.

In this episode, Neetu talks about some of her goals for 2023! She goes into how she set these goals and what she is going to do to meet them (maybe). Join in on this fun topic and let her know if you have made any goals for yourself!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatzsoneet/TikTOK: ThatzsoneetSouth Asian Therapists near you:https://southasiantherapists.org/Disclaimer: This is an opinion-based podcast and all opinions, thoughts, and views expressed are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated in the future.

In this episode, Neetu answers questions in her anonymous forum! She reflects on 2022 and all the things that have happened. Join her in this fun and reflective episode! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatzsoneet/TikTOK: ThatzsoneetSouth Asian Therapists near you:https://southasiantherapists.org/Disclaimer: This is an opinion-based podcast and all opinions, thoughts, and views expressed are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated in the future.

Student debt cancellation is a bandaid on a much bigger problem. The root cause the government's loan scheme, which give almost endless amounts of money to people with little to no chance of reaping the benefits from their investment. Neetu Arnold is a Senior Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars and the author of Priced Out: What College Costs America. Her work has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Spectator USA, and RealClear Policy. https://twitter.com/neetu_arnold https://www.young-voices.com/advocate/neetu-arnold/ A Legislative Agenda to Fix The Student Loan System | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/legislative-agenda-fix-student-loan-system-opinion-1760709 This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.  Give online therapy a try at Betterhelp.com/gml and get on your way to being your best self.    Join the private discord & chat during the show! joingml.com   Invest in your future & your human capital today  natescrashcourse.com   Like our intro song? https://www.3pillmorning.com Advertise on our podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all know the healthcare space has undergone dramatic changes in recent years, and this episode is all about exploring the industry's rapid evolution and technological advancements. In this episode, Paul sits down with Neetu Rajpal, the Chief Technology Officer at Oscar. As the first health insurance company built around a full-stack technology platform, Oscar maintains a relentless focus on serving its members. In her role, Neetu oversees Oscar's fully cloud native distributed software stack and the IT infrastructure. During the episode, she shares why she's passionate about improving the healthcare experience for members, providers and partners. Neetu also explains why she's always on the lookout for ways to move the needle in the health insurance industry, and how she uses the resources she has available to create positive change in the world. Interested in learning more about the show? Check out our website: https://www.transformitforward.com/

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, 26 October, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we to discern the times we live in by dispensing with the old adage about not being able to talk about religion & politics since the two are not only inseperable but usually tell you plenty about a person or group when taken together, guest Neetu Arnold of the National Association of Scholars and Young Voices discusses her Wall Street Journal piece on National Resource Centers, and RJ Lehmann returns to the show to argue with host Andrew about which pie is supreme and his own top ten list thereof.All that and more on this Wednesday edition of Heard Tell.- - - - - - - - - -Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.comPlease make sure to subscribe to @Heard Tell , like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest Neetu Arnold of the National Association of Scholars and Young Voices discusses her Wall Street Journal piece on National Resource Centers, what they were designed to be, what they are now, and what to do about it.--------------------Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.comPlease make sure to subscribe to @Heard Tell , like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Two neighbors from the same village fall in love and elope to a shelter for couples that break caste norms. A Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, drawing the ire of Hindu nationalists. Two women start a lesbian relationship. These three couples are the protagonists of Mansi Choksi's The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (Atria Book, 2022). This work charts the lives of Dawinder and Neetu, Monika and Arif, Reshma and Preethi, who all break social norms in their relationships, and are forced to endure the sometimes-violent consequences—not always successfully. In this interview, Mansi and I talk about the three couples in her book—and what their struggles tell us about love, relationships and social pressure in today's India. Mansi Choksi is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and two-time Livingston Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and more. She lives in Dubai with her husband and son. The Newlyweds is her first book. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Newlyweds. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Two neighbors from the same village fall in love and elope to a shelter for couples that break caste norms. A Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, drawing the ire of Hindu nationalists. Two women start a lesbian relationship. These three couples are the protagonists of Mansi Choksi's The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (Atria Book, 2022). This work charts the lives of Dawinder and Neetu, Monika and Arif, Reshma and Preethi, who all break social norms in their relationships, and are forced to endure the sometimes-violent consequences—not always successfully. In this interview, Mansi and I talk about the three couples in her book—and what their struggles tell us about love, relationships and social pressure in today's India. Mansi Choksi is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and two-time Livingston Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and more. She lives in Dubai with her husband and son. The Newlyweds is her first book. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Newlyweds. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Two neighbors from the same village fall in love and elope to a shelter for couples that break caste norms. A Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, drawing the ire of Hindu nationalists. Two women start a lesbian relationship. These three couples are the protagonists of Mansi Choksi's The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (Atria Book, 2022). This work charts the lives of Dawinder and Neetu, Monika and Arif, Reshma and Preethi, who all break social norms in their relationships, and are forced to endure the sometimes-violent consequences—not always successfully. In this interview, Mansi and I talk about the three couples in her book—and what their struggles tell us about love, relationships and social pressure in today's India. Mansi Choksi is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and two-time Livingston Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and more. She lives in Dubai with her husband and son. The Newlyweds is her first book. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Newlyweds. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Two neighbors from the same village fall in love and elope to a shelter for couples that break caste norms. A Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, drawing the ire of Hindu nationalists. Two women start a lesbian relationship. These three couples are the protagonists of Mansi Choksi's The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (Atria Book, 2022). This work charts the lives of Dawinder and Neetu, Monika and Arif, Reshma and Preethi, who all break social norms in their relationships, and are forced to endure the sometimes-violent consequences—not always successfully. In this interview, Mansi and I talk about the three couples in her book—and what their struggles tell us about love, relationships and social pressure in today's India. Mansi Choksi is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and two-time Livingston Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and more. She lives in Dubai with her husband and son. The Newlyweds is her first book. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Newlyweds. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Two neighbors from the same village fall in love and elope to a shelter for couples that break caste norms. A Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, drawing the ire of Hindu nationalists. Two women start a lesbian relationship. These three couples are the protagonists of Mansi Choksi's The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (Atria Book, 2022). This work charts the lives of Dawinder and Neetu, Monika and Arif, Reshma and Preethi, who all break social norms in their relationships, and are forced to endure the sometimes-violent consequences—not always successfully. In this interview, Mansi and I talk about the three couples in her book—and what their struggles tell us about love, relationships and social pressure in today's India. Mansi Choksi is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and two-time Livingston Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and more. She lives in Dubai with her husband and son. The Newlyweds is her first book. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Newlyweds. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies