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How will you #choosetochallenge?

We celebrated International Women’s Day in March, the theme for this year being #choosetochallenge.

7 min readApr 1, 2021

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How will you #choosetochallenge?

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Manasi Soman

Google Local Guides: Pinning stories to coordinates in a pandemic

When I started contributing as a Google Local Guide at the start of 2020, I was looking forward to a year of trips. I wanted to travel to…

3 min readJan 21, 2021

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Google Local Guides: Pinning stories to coordinates in a pandemic

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Manasi Soman
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Lean In Bangalore

How to build a brand at the workplace

Consider this: There’s a new position in your company to lead a team overseas. Leadership is contemplating whom to select for this role…

6 min readSep 30, 2020

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Lean In Bangalore

Owning Your Career Break

We take career breaks for various reasons: child-care, elderly-care, pursuing side-hustles, travelling to see the world, soul-searching or…

6 min readSep 5, 2020

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Owning Your Career Break

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Manasi Soman
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Lean In Bangalore

2020 Mid-Year Books Recommendations

While discussing books in our Lean In Bangalore Women In Tech community circle, we had one of our members, Vidya, share a great list of…

8 min readAug 11, 2020

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2020 Mid-Year Books Recommendations

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Manasi Soman

Bumpers are for denting — Birthday Girl by Murakami

The book opens by taking us into the world of the protagonist who has to work on her twentieth birthday as a waitress at an Italian…

3 min readMay 14, 2020

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Bumpers are for denting — Birthday Girl by Murakami

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Manasi Soman

7 Ways to Take a Readcation and Why

I took a 7 day readcation last year, and it has been one of the best and brave decisions of 2019.

4 min readApr 16, 2020

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7 Ways to Take a Readcation and Why

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Manasi Soman

A 40 min conversation with a Cab driver that shows why we need Women’s Day

It was an average Women’s Day for me: WhatsApp forwards and brands trying to capitalise on the day by offering deals and discounts. Until…

7 min readMar 8, 2020

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A 40 min conversation with a Cab driver that shows why we need Women’s Day

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Manasi Soman
in
Lean In Bangalore

How to Negotiate Better

“What does Negotiation mean to you? What are some scenarios you have encountered at work?” We started the Power Chat on Negotiations with…

5 min readFeb 27, 2020

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How to Negotiate Better

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Manasi Soman
in
Lean In Bangalore

An evening with Lean In Leaders

This month, we at Lean In Bangalore (LIB) were delighted to host the wonderful team from Lean In: Rachel Schall Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO…

6 min readFeb 27, 2020

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An evening with Lean In Leaders

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Manasi Soman

Manasi Soman

Hello there! I write code by day and stories by night. I love travelling and collecting memories in a journal that I’ll be reading in a cozy bed at 80.

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