85 - Every Shot You Don't Take: Risk, Resilience & Impact with Viveka Hulyalkar

Trust Your Innersense™ with Joanne Starkman · Oct 8, 2026 · 42m

The 15 Year Old Who Picked Up the Phone

Viveka Hulyalkar grew up in Cleveland as the daughter of parents who immigrated from India, and from a very young age she carried a deep awareness of how arbitrary privilege can be and a real sense of responsibility to do something meaningful with hers. As a high school sophomore, she started a student-run environmental group called Green Society. They sold smoothies to raise money for solar panels. Then Viveka did what most teenagers would never think to do: she found a phone number for the Cleveland Cavaliers business development office and called it…