Fearless Career Moves with Richa Bansal
by Richa Bansal
How Women Can Lead In The AI Era: 5 Leadership Habits with NVIDIA…
About this podcast
How do I overcome imposter syndrome?
How do I stand out in a competitive job market?
How do I manage a demanding career with little ones at home?
Am I too late to make a career change?
If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place.
Fearless Career Moves is a practical, workshop-style podcast for ambitious women who are redefining success and building careers and lives they love on their own terms.
Your host, Richa Bansal, is a career coach and brown immigrant mom who spent over a decade at Schlumberger and Amazon and has seen firsthand the challenges women face while rising through corporate North America. She landed five promotions in ten years, graduated top of her MBA class while working full-time and expecting her first child, transitioned into a multi-six-figure tech role without traditional tech experience, self-petitioned for her EB1A green card, and built a thriving coaching business — all while working full-time.
Whether you want to advance into leadership, find a role that pays your worth, or pivot into something entirely new, this show delivers expert interviews, battle-tested strategies, and the real behind-the-scenes of a working mom's career, so you can ditch imposter syndrome for good and make your own fearless moves.
Women can have it all. We're here to show you how.
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Episodes
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- How Women Can Lead In The AI Era: 5 Leadership Habits with NVIDIA Director Mahnaz Milani · 49 minLeadership in the AI era runs on judgment, not hours. In this episode, I sit down with Mahnaz Milani, a Director at NVIDIA who started 22 years ago as a process engineer in the…
- How Women Can Navigate Today's Job Market and Stand Out To Recruiters with Elaine King · 40 minThe job market is not bad. It is different, and what got you noticed three years ago will not get you noticed today. In this episode, I am with Elaine King, my head of programs…
- The Only 5 Leadership Stories Women Need to Crack Their Next $300k+ Job Offer · 32 minYou can do the job, so why do the words disappear the moment an interviewer asks why you are ready for the director role? In this episode, I break down why women with years of…
- Women, Stop Settling: How to Win in the 2026 Job Market and Beyond · 50 minYou are not lucky to have the job. Any company is lucky to have you, and until you believe that, no resume trick will land the offer you deserve. In this episode, I break down…
- The New Job Market Playbook for Women: 4 Advantages That Landed 54 High-Paying Offers · 48 minIs the job market really broken, or have the rules just changed? In this episode, Richa Bansal makes the case that 2026 is not a temporary slump but a permanent structural shift…
- From a 7-Year Career Break to Tech Founder: How Women Can Find Their Next Career Pivot · 44 minWhat does it actually take to build a company from zero to one, especially after leaving one of the biggest tech companies in the world, twice? In this episode, Richa Bansal…
- Job Offer Negotiation for Women: 3 Strategies That Added $200K to a Client's Offer · 37 minMost clients come to Richa Bansal with the same question when an offer lands: should I negotiate? In this episode, she explains why the answer is almost always yes, and why the…
- The Three Interview Engines Applications, Referrals, and Inbound · 44 minJob seekers keep asking what they are doing wrong this year. Richa Bansal's answer is that the market itself changed in 2026, and her own numbers back it up: over 5,000…
- How High-Achieving Women Can Redefine Success, Avoid Burnout, and Build Their Second Act with Colleen Pimentel · 53 minHigh-achieving women can earn the title, build the career, and still wake up wondering why success no longer feels fulfilling. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa…
- Women in Tech: How to Build Technical Expertise, Influence & Leadership in the Age of AI with Rachel Wu · 50 minFor women trying to break into AI, real credibility does not come from reading every newsletter or sounding technical overnight. It comes from building, experimenting, sharing…
- How Women Can Build a Personal Brand That Opens Career Doors with Divyaa Ravishankar · 45 minA personal brand is not vanity. It is how people remember a woman when she is not in the room. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa Bansal sits down with Divyaa…
- Stop Waiting for Permission: How Women Can Speak Up & Advocate for Themselves with Dr. Jean Latting · 44 minConfidence is not something women can simply command into place. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa Bansal sits down with Dr. Jean Kantambu Latting, organizational…
- Every Role Is a First Time: Rebuilding Career Confidence After a Layoff with Rathi Gnanasekaran · 45 minFearless is not built by waiting until every step feels safe. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa Bansal sits down with Rathi Gnanasekaran, a senior technical program…
- How to Build Executive Presence in High-Stakes Conversations · 43 minExecutive presence is not just how someone sounds in the room. It starts with whether they have given themselves permission to be there. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves…
- How to Ace Your Next Job Interview Using the SOARR Storytelling Framework · 26 minThe strongest interview answers do not just explain what happened. They show why the problem mattered and why the candidate was the leader who could solve it. In this solo…
- Motherhood Is Not A Step Down: Owning Your Ambition After Becoming A Mom with Nikita Kawdiya · 39 minMotherhood should not be treated as a reason for ambitious women to shrink. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa Bansal sits down with Nikita Kawdiya, a product leader…
- Why High-Performing Women Still Get Overlooked For Promotion · 36 minHigh-performing women are often told they are doing great, but doing great is not always what gets them promoted. In this solo episode of Fearless Career Moves, Richa Bansal…
- How Product Managers Can Stay Relevant in the AI Era with Aakash Gupta · 52 minAI is changing product management fast, but not every PM needs to panic, pivot, or chase the same role. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, I sit down with Aakash Gupta…
- Redefining "Having It All": Career, Motherhood & Raising a Neurodivergent Child with Anjali Goyal · 45 minSome of the most ambitious women carry the heaviest invisible loads, and the world keeps telling them the answer is to want less. In this episode of Fearless Career Moves, I sit…
- The Path to Leadership Starts with Courage, Not a Job Title w/ Itishree Swain · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 6In this heartfelt and unflinchingly honest conversation, Fearless Career Moves host Richa Bansal sits down with Itishree Swain—a marketing executive, first-gen immigrant, and…







