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Three years ago, I was told: ‘Good girls don’t bring up women’s health in product management interviews.’ I get into the details in my blog ⬇️ DIVYASRIRAMPATEL.SUBSTACK.COM I genuinely want to hear from my network of accompl
Three years ago, I was told: ‘Good girls don’t bring up women’s health in product management interviews.’ I get into the details in my blog ⬇️ DIVYASRIRAMPATEL.SUBSTACK.COM I genuinely want to hear from my network of accomplished PMs: How would you approach answering the classic interview question, ‘What’s your favorite product and why,’ with a women’s health product? #productmanagement #productmanager #interview #womenshealth #femtech #interviewtips #tech #healthcare
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Can Google’s new AI tool help me learn faster? Testing it out with my latest deep dive into FemTech 🚀📚 DIVYASRIRAMPATEL.SUBSTACK.COM #AI #FemTech #research #blog #tech #science #womenshealth #women
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substack.com/divyasrirampatel Image is a screenshot taken from an email sent from Oura. #womenshealth #femtech #oura #health #tracking #data
Ebbs and flows of happy and intrusive thoughts. * 🎨 My new therapist does art therapy. I actually find it quite helpful. * 🧋 Using left over jalebi sugar syrup to add to chai. * 🌇 I love the sunshine in our little terrace. * 🎃 Saavan got the
Ebbs and flows of happy and intrusive thoughts. * 🎨 My new therapist does art therapy. I actually find it quite helpful. * 🧋 Using left over jalebi sugar syrup to add to chai. * 🌇 I love the sunshine in our little terrace. * 🎃 Saavan got the cutest pumpkin dish for his birthday from his friends. I may steal it. * ♟ Ok this photo is to document the fight we got into. I'm not a good sport, I'm working on it. * 🧖🏾‍♀️ Back to spa season in Montreal. * 🔐 Idk how this safe is meant to keep anyone out...hahah
Hallo-wali / Diwal-oween week! * 💡 Husband and I put up some lights to kick off the season * 🍫 Got lots of chocolates because we give out candy by the handfuls. And got some peanut free stuff too, gotta be inclusive. * 📃 To make it very clear t
Hallo-wali / Diwal-oween week! * 💡 Husband and I put up some lights to kick off the season * 🍫 Got lots of chocolates because we give out candy by the handfuls. And got some peanut free stuff too, gotta be inclusive. * 📃 To make it very clear that we are a Halloween house. * 👀 Adding googly eyes because we didn't have time to carve. * 🎃 Our little pumpkin family is ready to welcome you for treats. * 🥭 These drinks smacked. * 🍭 Jalebiiiiiis. * 🪔 Tea lights are the best diwali vibes. * 🖼 Carrying on traditions and making our own.
Love being back home without any travel plans. Just lazying around Montreal weee. * 💎 I'm in love with my modern style mangasutra. Thankful to my mom (new mom) for getting me this lovely gift. And how cool that I got to design it with Saavan's famil
Love being back home without any travel plans. Just lazying around Montreal weee. * 💎 I'm in love with my modern style mangasutra. Thankful to my mom (new mom) for getting me this lovely gift. And how cool that I got to design it with Saavan's family in the diamond business. Who needs friends when you've got family Shane & Co, hehe * ☕️ The barista told me they loved my style, and I'm still on the moon about it. * 🧣 Scarf & peacoat weather. * 📸 Passport photo aka mug shot. * ✍🏽 Because I'm changing my name, I need a new signature. I was not prepared for this. Practicing options haha * 📪 Passport is off to get my name changed! Scary to be without a passport in a non US country 👀 * 🛒 It was a teeny tiny cart!! * 🍏 Saavan's experiment to freeze clear ice cubes with fruit was pretty successful, definitely beautiful. * 🍂 Fall walks.
Glad to be home and staying put for a while. * 🎃 Our neighbors set up this pumpkin for spooky season, adorable. * 🔥 This was the restaurant we were going to eat at...until we realized it was burned down. Spooky also. * 🍎 Not to worry, we went t
Glad to be home and staying put for a while. * 🎃 Our neighbors set up this pumpkin for spooky season, adorable. * 🔥 This was the restaurant we were going to eat at...until we realized it was burned down. Spooky also. * 🍎 Not to worry, we went to the restaurant next door and the apple crisp was 🤤 * 🍩 Jet lagged Saavan = apple cider donuts. * 🧈 Yummmm. * 🍿 Ready for October vibes. * 🍽 Our friends joined us to try a new South Indian restaurant in Montreal -- they had an unlimited dosa + breakfast platter deal. None of had more than 1 plate lolol. * 🛣 Just got our Nexus cards, so we drove across the border just to test them. * 🧀 Aged cheddar and these olive crackers...divine.
Indiaaa trip! * 🌴 coconut water street side. * 🍽 Theplas >>> plane food. So Mom got us 20. She's the best. * 🇮🇳 All feels and sweats when you land. * 🛍 Consumerism hits different in the motherland. * 🍀 OG compostable plates. * 👴🏽 G
Indiaaa trip! * 🌴 coconut water street side. * 🍽 Theplas >>> plane food. So Mom got us 20. She's the best. * 🇮🇳 All feels and sweats when you land. * 🛍 Consumerism hits different in the motherland. * 🍀 OG compostable plates. * 👴🏽 Great grand uncle at 97 with the kiddos as his family grows <3
This is a special belated sabbatical post for my husband, Saavan Patel's, 30th birthday. This birthday was extra special because we got to celebrate with his family &amp; friends in Boston. *I* got such a special gift on his birthday. Several of
This is a special belated sabbatical post for my husband, Saavan Patel's, 30th birthday. This birthday was extra special because we got to celebrate with his family & friends in Boston. *I* got such a special gift on his birthday. Several of his family friends gave me physical photos they had of Saavan from ~29 years ago. These are not films that were recently printed. These were photos that were printed almost 3 decades ago and kept in some photo album. They dug through everything to find these specific photos and gave me the copies to keep. How special is that?! 😭 Check out the timestamp on pic 4, it's from his 1st birthday in 1995 🥺 To make things more special, we got Dr. Patel's printed doctoral thesis!! How cool is it to physically hold the work Saavan did for 6+ years of his life. I hope he's as proud as we all are of him. You're so so so loved @saavan94.
🆕 ✍️ NEW BLOG! substack.com/divyasrirampatel
🆕 ✍️ NEW BLOG! substack.com/divyasrirampatel
Bisi bele bath for Diwali dinner! 🪔 #vegetarian #indian #indianfood #diwali #bisibelebath #food #foodporn #thalaideepavali #deepavali
Instant jalebi mix situation was actually excellent 👌🏽 Happy Diwali! 🪔 #diwali #jalebi #jalebibaby
The week of calm before the storm! * 👫 Look closely: his soul has left his body already. Just kidding. Love when we're matching for events ◡̈ * 👃🏽 Sorry for the jump scare. Was craving waffles and they had a deal on uber...so I had to get 4. No
The week of calm before the storm! * 👫 Look closely: his soul has left his body already. Just kidding. Love when we're matching for events ◡̈ * 👃🏽 Sorry for the jump scare. Was craving waffles and they had a deal on uber...so I had to get 4. No regrets. * 🎁 Giving Saavan his birthday present early. * ✈️ Poor kid's so tired on the first of our many hours of flying. * 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 🍕 Family dinner at Prince Pizza. How does every city have a designated pizza spot that every Indian family has claimed as the "spicy" Indian veggie 🤣 * 💛 Grahashanti vibes. * 🟡 Haldi time for Saavan - yellow yellow dirty fellowww * 👣 Saavan's haldi was definitely memorable...left some marks on the carpet oops 🙊 * 🍂 A little 4 mile fall walk around a lake in Winchester to decompress.
* 🌳 My favorite park stroll picture of the week * 👽 Best meme from the presidential debate * 🍬A midweek pick me up * 📚 Wine studying at a new coffee shop * 🍪 TIL that chips ahoy makes muffins?! * 🍷 Wine flight for today&rsquo;s class * 👨🏽&
* 🌳 My favorite park stroll picture of the week * 👽 Best meme from the presidential debate * 🍬A midweek pick me up * 📚 Wine studying at a new coffee shop * 🍪 TIL that chips ahoy makes muffins?! * 🍷 Wine flight for today’s class * 👨🏽‍🏫 Wine class! * 🍛 Solo lunch date * 🚧 Construction literally at our doorstep making things a wee bit tricky this week
* 3️⃣ 0️⃣ 🥳 * 🎤 Rang in midnight at a mix over episode of a friend&rsquo;s birthday karaoke celebration and my birthday! *
* 3️⃣ 0️⃣ 🥳 * 🎤 Rang in midnight at a mix over episode of a friend’s birthday karaoke celebration and my birthday! *
Three years ago, I was told: &lsquo;Good girls don&rsquo;t bring up women&rsquo;s health in product management interviews.&rsquo; I get into the details in my blog ⬇️ DIVYASRIRAMPATEL.SUBSTACK.COM I genuinely want to hear from my network of accompl Can Google&rsquo;s new AI tool help me learn faster? Testing it out with my latest deep dive into FemTech 🚀📚 DIVYASRIRAMPATEL.SUBSTACK.COM #AI #FemTech #research #blog #tech #science #womenshealth #women substack.com/divyasrirampatel Image is a screenshot taken from an email sent from Oura. #womenshealth #femtech #oura #health #tracking #data Ebbs and flows of happy and intrusive thoughts. * 🎨 My new therapist does art therapy. I actually find it quite helpful. * 🧋 Using left over jalebi sugar syrup to add to chai. * 🌇 I love the sunshine in our little terrace. * 🎃 Saavan got the Hallo-wali / Diwal-oween week! * 💡 Husband and I put up some lights to kick off the season * 🍫 Got lots of chocolates because we give out candy by the handfuls. And got some peanut free stuff too, gotta be inclusive. * 📃 To make it very clear t Love being back home without any travel plans. Just lazying around Montreal weee. * 💎 I'm in love with my modern style mangasutra. Thankful to my mom (new mom) for getting me this lovely gift. And how cool that I got to design it with Saavan's famil Glad to be home and staying put for a while. * 🎃 Our neighbors set up this pumpkin for spooky season, adorable. * 🔥 This was the restaurant we were going to eat at...until we realized it was burned down. Spooky also. * 🍎 Not to worry, we went t Indiaaa trip! * 🌴 coconut water street side. * 🍽 Theplas &gt;&gt;&gt; plane food. So Mom got us 20. She's the best. * 🇮🇳 All feels and sweats when you land. * 🛍 Consumerism hits different in the motherland. * 🍀 OG compostable plates. * 👴🏽 G This is a special belated sabbatical post for my husband, Saavan Patel's, 30th birthday. This birthday was extra special because we got to celebrate with his family &amp; friends in Boston. *I* got such a special gift on his birthday. Several of 🆕 ✍️ NEW BLOG! substack.com/divyasrirampatel
Bisi bele bath for Diwali dinner! 🪔 #vegetarian #indian #indianfood #diwali #bisibelebath #food #foodporn #thalaideepavali #deepavali
Instant jalebi mix situation was actually excellent 👌🏽 Happy Diwali! 🪔 #diwali #jalebi #jalebibaby
The week of calm before the storm! * 👫 Look closely: his soul has left his body already. Just kidding. Love when we're matching for events ◡̈ * 👃🏽 Sorry for the jump scare. Was craving waffles and they had a deal on uber...so I had to get 4. No * 🌳 My favorite park stroll picture of the week * 👽 Best meme from the presidential debate * 🍬A midweek pick me up * 📚 Wine studying at a new coffee shop * 🍪 TIL that chips ahoy makes muffins?! * 🍷 Wine flight for today&rsquo;s class * 👨🏽& * 3️⃣ 0️⃣ 🥳 * 🎤 Rang in midnight at a mix over episode of a friend&rsquo;s birthday karaoke celebration and my birthday! *

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