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All hands on deck as The Lifeboat sails into deeper waters in Season 3
MUMBAI: When success stories start sounding too polished, The Lifeboat prefers choppier seas. The long-form conversation podcast, ideated and hosted by Vinayak Burman, is returning for its third season on December 30, 2025, promising deeper dives into resilience, reinvention and the quiet moments that rarely make it to LinkedIn posts.
After strong engagement across its first two seasons, Season 3 widens the emotional lens. The new chapters move beyond career milestones to explore vulnerability, purpose and the internal recalibrations that shape founders, creators and leaders when the spotlight fades. The intent this time is intimacy over instruction, reflection over rhetoric.
The upcoming season features a diverse slate of voices spanning entrepreneurship, investing and creative industries. Among those stepping aboard are Karan Motwani, Gynoveda founders Rachana Gupta and Vishal Gupta, Neo Group founder and managing director Nitin Jain, and actor-turned-entrepreneur Pooja Bedi, alongside others. Each episode traces not just professional decisions but personal value systems, inflection points and moments of unlearning.
The Lifeboat first launched in November 2023 as a candid space for entrepreneurs and investors to speak plainly about the realities of building businesses. Season 1 featured founders such as Shashank Kumar of Dehaat, Vikas Lachhwani of mCaffeine, Josh Talks co-founders Supriya Paul and Shobhit Banga, Smriti Chandra of Abler Nordic India, and Kaushik Mukherjee of Sugar Cosmetics, with conversations centred on navigating early uncertainty and growth pressure.
Season 2 pushed the format further, shifting focus to leadership, communication, spirituality and personal evolution. Its guest list included Shweta Shalini, Priyavrata Mafatlal, Arjun Vaidya, Vineet Rai, Koreel Lahiri, Geetanjali Saxena, Aditya Hegde, Rohan More, Mrunalini Deshmukh and Avanne Dubash, signalling a move from boardroom lessons to inner work.
Burman says the third season raises the bar on honesty and depth, with more diverse perspectives and stories that feel less rehearsed and more lived-in. The aim, he notes, is not motivation-by-numbers but conversations that linger after the episode ends.
Season 3 of The Lifeboat will stream across Youtube and all major podcast platforms, inviting listeners once again to step away from smooth sailing and listen to what happens when the waters get real.
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Schneider Electric launches One Unit Mission for Women’s Day
Green Yodha 2.0 urges every Indian household to save one unit of electricity daily.
MUMBAI: Schneider Electric just flipped the switch on savings because this Women’s Day the brightest idea isn’t a new bulb, it’s turning one unit off. Schneider Electric launched the second phase of its Green Yodha initiative, ‘One Unit Mission’, on International Women’s Day 2026, calling on every Indian household to save at least one unit of electricity daily. The campaign was flagged off in Delhi by chief minister Rekha Gupta, actor and sustainability advocate Bhumi Pednekar, and other dignitaries.
Rekha Gupta said, “Delhi’s journey towards clean, resilient growth begins with how efficiently we use the energy we already have. Green Yodha 2.0 reminds us that every citizen is a stakeholder in India’s energy future, and saving one unit of power today is an act of nation-building for tomorrow.”
Schneider Electric India zone president, MD & CEO Deepak Sharma added, “India is entering a decade of unprecedented growth, and that growth will require enormous amounts of energy. The real challenge is not just how much power we produce, but how intelligently we use it. If every Indian household saves just one unit of electricity a day, the impact would be equivalent to planting billions of trees or taking millions of cars off the road.”
Schneider Electric India, vice president of marketing Rajat Abbi noted, “Sustainability becomes real when it is simple and measurable. The One Unit Mission is about turning awareness into everyday action.”
In FY 2023–24, India’s energy-efficiency programmes (PAT, UJALA, S&L, SLNP, CAFÉ) collectively saved 53.6 million tonnes of oil equivalent, avoided 321 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions, and reduced energy expenditure by Rs 2 lakh crore equivalent to nearly 6 per cent of national primary energy supply.
The initiative aligns with government efforts on efficient cooling, appliance standards and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency’s state-level SEEI FY 2024 framework, emphasising demand-side efficiency as a cost-effective complement to new generation capacity.
In a nation sprinting toward brighter, bigger tomorrows, Schneider isn’t selling more power, it’s quietly handing every household a daily superpower: the ability to save one unit and help light up a cleaner, more efficient future, one thoughtful switch at a time.
