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Episode 15LXME · 12 October 2026
From Anand Rathi to LXME: Priti Rathi Gupta on Financial Confidence
Priti Rathi GuptaLXME
Coming 12 October
“A man is not a financial plan.”
Priti Rathi Gupta, LXME
Show notes
What is in this one.
- 00:00Who Priti is
- 01:17It takes someone who faced the problem to see it
- 03:57Women aren’t risk averse. They’re risk aware.
- 07:15Failure, and not being afraid of it
- 11:35Why men carry the burden of it too
- 17:00Where gender equality actually is
- 18:52Storytelling as the most powerful medium
- 22:12Social media can make you or break you
- 26:52How to actually think about investing
- 31:05Perfection, and waiting until you are ready
- 35:30The pressure to multitask
- 37:45Menopause, and what nobody says about it
- 40:13What does success mean to you?
- 41:28The one thing I have that Elon Musk doesn’t
What I took from it
I’m a one litre cup. I can’t fit 1.5 litres in, and that’s completely okay.
- Financial ownership isn’t a man’s job to hold for you.
- Be less harsh on yourself. The expectations weren’t reasonable to start with.
- I’m a one litre cup. I can’t fit 1.5 litres in, and that’s completely okay.
From this episode
The lines worth keeping.
About the guest
Priti Rathi Gupta
Founder of LXME, a platform helping women in India become financially confident and start investing, and co-promoter of the Anand Rathi Group, one of India’s leading financial services firms. Harvard Business School. Also works in storytelling and filmmaking.
