Season 2 Episode 8: Ruchi Sahita bets on building inclusive workplaces in Finland

With entrepreneurship in her DNA, Indian-born Ruchi Sahita has been playing the long game when it comes to building a digital platform for connecting Finnish employers with jobseekers living with disabilities. Listen as Ruchi describes doggedly nurturing the business while working a day job and raising a family, even as she celebrates onboarding tens of thousands of potential employees into the service.

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“Finland: Through the looking glass” offers a frank and unfiltered look at Finland through the lens of its diverse foreign-background community, through one-on-one conversations with host, Denise Wall. It’s an opportunity for the community to share its own unique stories and experiences and to fearlessly weigh in on the social and political discourses shaping its reality in the adopted homeland. The show covers a range of themes such as entrepreneurship, ageing, belonging, study, unemployment and the job search and family reunification, to name a few.