From Doing to Being | Ruchika Sikri on Mindfulness, Connection & Tech That's Good for Humans - The Future Is How | Lyssna här

Ruchika Sikri spent 25+ years in tech (Google, Microsoft, Cisco) and led wellbeing and mindfulness learning at Google for 15 years, scaling programs like Search Inside Yourself and the gPause community of practice to more than 120,000 employees with a community of 400+ volunteers. Today she is a Founding Partner of Wisdom Ventures - which recently closed an oversubscribed 77.7 million dollar fund, with Dr. Vivek Murthy joining as a partner - and the author of Brain Fitness Blueprint, which connects ancient wisdom with modern science. This episode is a future built from within: clarity, compassion and connection as the foundation for navigating what's next - the Future-ready Mindstate, turned toward how we work, lead and care for each other.

Chapters
00:00 Cold open: congratulations on the book and the 77.7M fund

02:45 The geodesic dome: why no one builds anything alone

06:09 How it began: a heart palpitation and 20 painful minutes of sitting

08:35 Finding gPause and Search Inside Yourself at Google

10:35 Scaling mindfulness: Thich Nhat Hanh fills Charlie's Cafe with silence

14:34 Guardrails: keeping it secular, science-backed and real

16:16 What worked: growing wait-lists, quiet rooms, Googlegeist results 18:10 Caring for humans at work (and the "nine-to-nine" worry)

20:57 Teachers: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Jack Kornfield's candle

27:10 Practices she's experimenting with: cooking, roots, connection

29:35 From doing to being

31:16 Loneliness: what's really underneath it

38:51 Why Wisdom Ventures - and how a 2M plan became a 77.7M fund

44:27 What she looks for in a founder: sincerity and "jugaad"