Ketaki Tanaji Golatkar is a global communications leader, a DEI advocate, and the founder of GoodDay PR and Strategic Communications. She has worked across agencies in Bombay and London, led a diplomatic project on Indo-German relations, and spent a decade in international sports — including heading Global Comms for the International Cricket Council. In this episode, she joins Sabiya for a conversation that moves between the boardroom and the deeply personal — what 22 years of living abroad teaches you about home, identity, and the rooms women of colour are still fighting to be heard in.
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 releases Sunday, 10 May.
In this episode, we explore:
- What "home" really means when you've lived in four countries — and why values, not geography, become the thing you carry - The difference between being an expat and being an immigrant — and why the same person can feel one in Dubai and the other in Germany - How leaving India is often what teaches you to see it clearly — casteism, colourism, body shaming, and the things that stay invisible until you step outside them - Why the song "Saare jahan se accha" quietly shapes how Indians see the rest of the world — and what it costs us - The global beauty industry built on women hating their bodies — from fairness creams in India to the Botox shops on every Dubai corner - What it takes for a woman of colour to be heard in rooms built for white men — and the cost of working twice as hard to not be called a "diversity hire" - Why so many women in leadership pull the ladder up behind them — and the scarcity mindset that keeps women small - What it really means to leave a 21-year corporate career and build something of your own after 40 - The difference between being in the room and being at the decision-making table - Why the people who get heard are the ones with the audacity to speak in rooms that don't welcome them
Rooted and Routed is a global mobility and cross-cultural storytelling podcast hosted by Sabiya Pathan Withoeck. New episodes every week.
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