From Invisible to Unstoppable | Inside the Mind of a Global Technology Leader | Iron Lady Speaks - Episode 04 ft. Charu Sharma
In this episode of Iron Lady Speaks, we sit down with Charu Sharma—a global technology leader with close to two decades of experience—who opens up about the one word that sent her down the wrong path for years: “grooming.” She talks about what it is like to build a career in spaces most people do not fully understand, chase technical depth to fix a problem that was never technical, and discover the truth through a twelve-minute video that finally showed her what she had actually been living through. In this conversation, she shares: • How she went from being a “super below-average” student to becoming one of the leading voices in security and privacy • Why she spent years pursuing certifications and deeper engineering expertise to solve a problem that had nothing to do with skill • What it took to unlearn years of being told she was not fair enough to be seen • Why she believes, “You get what you ask for—but you need to ask for it” • How “The Question Behind the Question” helped her move out of victimhood • What she wants every woman navigating bias in silence to know before spending another year misreading the feedback A raw and honest conversation for every woman who has been solving the wrong problem for years without realising it. Iron Lady Speaks is where women who have already made it come back to show others the way.
