Episode 6: Stories of Unconscious Bias, Season 4 featuring Indira Ahluwalia

Indira Kaur Ahluwalia is an activist and entrepreneur turned advisor, coach, and now an author. She’s worked in federal government contracting, particularly international development, to build equity, accountability, and sustainability.

As Indira fulfilled her life’s passions and professional obligations, she was diagnosed with stage IV advanced breast cancer with bone metastasis at age 38. Her fight, and the lessons she learned, led her to write Fast Forward to Hope: Choosing to Build the Power of Self — a memoir to enable others to face and walk beyond their own issues.

"But you know, whether it's the cancer in terms of the disease, or the cancer of racism, or the cancer off infidelity, or the cancer of other conflicts or challenges. You know, it's our choice. When something happens to us, regardless of the conditioning, regardless of the programming that the world does for us. We're stuck in the box, and it's our choice to become conscious about our ability to break the box. And it doesn't have to be a grand gesture, it has to be a decision in my mind. And I think that was a fundamental point in in my journey. There was no question about whether I was going to live or die. There was absolutely that was not up for debate, even with God. It was a decision I had made. I was going to live."