Interview of Monica Ingudam by All India Radio, Imphal, Manipur

October 30, 2016October 30, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

Location of the family of FindingTheVoices

Thanks to all our listeners and viewers all over the world. Today’s map covering statistics showing locations of our listeners. A big hands for our top 5 viewers in India, USA, Canada, Singapore,Kuwait and Bahrain. It’s exciting to see the statistics and hits coming in from different countries, countries I have never been to. Thanks for your support and message.

I want to share the interview covered by All India Radio, Imphal, Manipur featuring FindingTheVoices during my visit in Manipur way back in 2014. It was a great honor to be interviewed by Eche Bijaya Yumlembam, and be a part of radio network, a medium I listened growing up and even now. In this interview I shared about my initiative of FindingTheVoices and a little bit of myself and life in USA.

About FindingTheVoices:

Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.

I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/

Inviting Sponsors for Season 3 of FindingTheVoices

March 23, 2016March 21, 2017 / Monica Ingudam / 3 Comments

FindingTheVoices is a Talk show by Monica Ingudam presenting voices from different parts of the globe with the vision to promote and spread Inspiring, Educative, Empowering and Entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, my native place in India.

I am on a mission to find voices, voices about Manipur highlighting on Inspiration, Education, Empowerment and Entertainment. I believe that these stories will bring a change and create a positive image of Manipur and positive thinking to many individuals. I believe that these voices will definitely contribute to change the scenery of the conflict and violence-torn to peace and progress in our society.

We have received very positive feedback for the voices featured during Season 1 and Season 2. Particularly I am touched by the stories shared by our Guest Speakers and messages from the listeners on how the stories have left them inspired.

Juggling with my work, family and being a mother to 2 young kids, I found it extremely challenging to continue with the talk show with long weekends and many late nights of editing. We did have freelance team members helping for editing but because of the cost and infrastructure challenges, I ended up picking up. I felt that my editing compromised the quality of the productions. I have to admit that I did think of giving up at times, but it is the stories shared by our Guest Speakers and messages from our listeners that kept me going.

This year, I am seeking out to you to become a sponsor and fund this project for Season 3 (2016 – 2017) which will cover 52 Episodes for 1 year, with a release of 1 Episode weekly. We appreciate any amount of contributions. This will help with our productions. You can contribute in person if you are in Imphal, Manipur or a direct bank transfer or you can contribute online using the following link:

https://www.paypal.me/FindingTheVoices

https://www.gofundme.com/S3FindingTheVoices

We will be sharing and including the pictures of sponsors in our videos of Season 3. Thank you for being a part of my journey of FindingTheVoices by making this your own. Thanks for all your support and keep tuning in at http://FindingTheVoices.com

Happy New Year 2016

January 1, 2016May 3, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

Happy New Year 2016

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2016.

The picture in our 2016 Calendar is the beautiful Dzukou valley of my native place, Manipur. A beautiful photograph taken by Loyangamba Khundongbam capturing the Dzukou lily with the green luscious hills at the backdrop. The Calendar Format is from e-pao.net and printed at Lumen World in Imphal, Manipur, a small memento for the family of FindingTheVoices. For those away from Imphal and not able to get the hard copy of the Calendar, I will be very happy if you will download this Calendar and make this your Calendar for 2016.

Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of the people, people all over the world. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.

We are in our 4th year of pod casting and progressing our content and productions with time, we have had a tremendous positive response from our viewers and listeners. And from the messages received from various age groups, our programs continues to touch our vision of getting our listeners and viewers inspired, educated, empowered and entertained. I believe that these stories will bring a change and positive thinking to many individuals. I believe that this will definitely contribute to change the scenery of the conflict and violence-torn to peace and progress in our society.

Thanks to each and everyone for your support. Happy New Year 2016 and to more Finding The Voices.

S02E18 FINDINGTHEVOICES: A day at my School, Little Flower School, Imphal, Manipur

April 10, 2015April 15, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / 1 Comment

Sharing a video taken on a very special day, sometime in April of 2013. I was invited to address the students of Little Flower School, the school I studied and grew up. I was honored to get an opportunity to share about myself and share about FindingTheVoices. Thanks to Little Flower School for such a warm welcome and I remain indebted for the education I have received making me who I am today.

We have had a tremendous positive response from our viewers and listeners. And from the messages received from various age groups, our programs achieved our vision of getting our listeners and viewers inspired, educated, empowered and entertained.

I believe that these stories will bring a change and create a positive image of Manipur and positive thinking to many individuals. I believe that this will definitely contribute to change the scenery of the conflict and violence-torn to peace and progress in our society.

I am seeking out for collaboration to include you. Inviting you to join me in my journey of FindingTheVoices by making this your own.

Interview of Monica Ingudam by ISTV, local TV station in Manipur

September 29, 2014February 20, 2018 / Monica Ingudam / 3 Comments

Taking the special occasion of us celebrating 2 years of podcasting, I want to share the interview covered by ISTV Network Imphal, Manipur featuring FindingTheVoices during my visit in Manipur. It was a great honor to be interviewed by Tamo Kh. Bishwamittra, in the TV channel I watched growing up and follow regularly now getting the News update about Manipur.

As always I thank everyone for your support and participation in making our talk show possible.

Episode 1 : We spoke about me, my career path, experiences and story. We covered the challenges and choices I faced as a woman changing jobs, taking breaks to keep up the balancing role of career and being a mother. Also we spoke about keeping up with education, technology trend to keep up with the job market trend.

Episode 2 : We spoke about students, role model and talked about FindingTheVoices and I got an opportunity to thanks all the family of FindingTheVoices through ISTV, the TV channel in Manipur. Also I got to ask a question to the host, Tamo Kh. Bishwamittra which is a treat to watch for this show.

Thanks to everyone, to each and every team member of ISTV. This means a lot to me, to FindingTheVoices.

FindingTheVoices brings voices and story that Inspire, Empower, Educate & Entertain us from people all over the world. It is a talk show presented by Monica Ingudam with the vision to promote and spread positive, hopeful, inspiring & entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.

This is your show to promote your talents & work, share your experiences and voice what you stand for, what you believe in, what you want people to know & talk about.

Become a sponsor of FindingTheVoices

May 9, 2014March 2, 2015 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

Become a sponsor and help support our production for our talk show, help us in getting more stories and more voices.

We have a very young team (from Manipur) supporting us with recording, editing and coordinating our show. The fund will go towards the cost for production for our talk show.

We appreciate and welcome any amount of contribution, we don’t believe in setting any amount, it’s how much you can contribute. As a sponsor of our show, we will include you in our sponsor list which will be published in our website and video podcast.

Please help in Finding The Voices, bringing the voices from our own people which are inspiring, educative, empowering and entertaining. Let’s get together, spread positivity in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur and show the world the talents of Manipur. And most importantly have some fun and laugh too. Why complain we are not featured or covered in the media world, let’s make our own. Join us and make FindingTheVoices your own platform.

Thank you for all your support and help.

Become a sponsor of FindingTheVoices

Happy Valentine’s Day 2014

February 14, 2014July 4, 2014 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

Happy Valentine’s Day 2014.

Valentine‘s Day was associated more with romantic love, it’s celebrated now by all even small kids in preschool and kindergarten making cards for everyone in the class, for the teachers, for parents, friends and now it’s all about LOVE and your SPIRIT. Celebrating Valentine’s Day in the midst of all the conflict, discrimination and crimes faced by our people, it’s our way of saying “Even in time of Conflict, No one can take our spirit away”

Spread the love on Valentine’s Day 2014.

Inspired by Paradise Road, a strong movie showing the amazing strength and courage in woman surviving hardships and emerging as survivors. The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese POW camp,, organizes a vocal band in spite of their guards resistance and a way to bring a smile during those conflicting time. The power of music kept them together during such hard times of war and go through the conflicting phase.

Check out the Album of pictures and words contributed by listeners and viewers of FindingTheVoices. Thanks everyone for contributing to this Album and participating in spreading the love.

Happy New Year 2014

January 1, 2014September 25, 2014 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2014.

FindingTheVoices continues to bring insights into the lives of talented, amazing, interesting and inspiring people all over the world. It is a talk show presented by Monica Ingudam with the vision to promote and spread positive, hopeful, inspiring & entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.

Thanks for all your support and contributions. This is your show to promote your talent & work, share your experiences and voice what you stand for, what you believe in, what you want people to know & talk about.

We are so touched with the amazing response we have received from all our listeners and viewers making FindingTheVoices your show, your platform.

Let’s get together and bring voices and story that Inspire, Empower, Educate & Entertain us from people all over the world.

Thank you and a Happy New Year 2014.

Sharing a picture which will remain in the history of FindingTheVoices, the very first recording for Video Talk show, we had the host, the Guest Speaker, the audience, the story told straight from the heart by the guest speaker bringing tears, laughter. It was a great way to step into the world of Video Talk Show. Please continue tuning in as we add more to FindingTheVoices.

Light Reading : An Experimental attempt to write.

October 16, 2013February 25, 2014 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

How much of fiction is reality?
How much of reality is fiction ?
Writing is liberating,
Writing is healing,
Writing is discovering yourself,
Writing is fun,
What is writing for you ?

It’s an attempt to write what is in the mind based on my experiences, what I saw and heard, and fictionalize with my imagination. So yes every post is based on reality fused with fiction. It’s a playground for writer’s imagination & reader’s interpretation.

An Experimental attempt to put thoughts in writing by Monica Ingudam. Please click here to follow some light reading It’s all in the mind (Poems) and Life’s This &That (Short stories/events).