Working Remotely with Trust, Productivity & Privacy with Steven Puri in FIT4PRIVACY Podcast E144 S06

Remote work is here to stay—but how do we make it truly effective? How can we stay productive, build trust within teams, and protect privacy—all at the same time?

In this episode of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast, host Punit Bhatia chats with Steven Puri, founder of The Sukha Company and former Head of Innovation at Twentieth Century Fox. Together, they explore how to work remotely with trust, productivity, and privacy—three key pieces that make remote work successful. You’ll hear real stories about finding your focus in the flow state, creating special spaces to boost creativity, and learning tough lessons about privacy—like a $250,000 NFL fine. Plus, they share simple tools and ideas that help you stay on track and protect your personal space while working from anywhere. Whether you’re a remote worker, a manager, or just curious about how to work better and safer, this episode will give you fresh ideas to improve your work and life.

Listen now to discover how trust, productivity, and privacy come together in remote work—and why it matters for your time, your focus, and your data.

Subscribe and share this episode with someone who wants to make remote work truly work. Because working remotely isn’t just about being online—it’s about doing it right.

KEY CONVERSION
00:02:42 How would you define this element of trust
00:06:10 Define trust in a remote environment
00:09:09 In a remote world, how do you help build trust in an unwritten scenario?
00:12:34 How do you define this healthy productivity
00: 14:56 Leadership
00: 17:18 Flow State
00: 24:39 The Sukha Company and Contacts

ABOUT GUEST
Steven Puri is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life. Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.  Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28.

Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions where he worked on Star Trek, Transformers and more. After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and founded The Sukha Company - ‘sukha’ means ‘happiness from self-fulfillment’ in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to have a focused experience and a healthy, productive workday. Steven lives in Austin, TX now.

ABOUT HOST
Punit Bhatia is one of the leading privacy experts who works independently and has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit works with business and privacy leaders to create an organization culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Selectively,
Punit is open to mentor and coach professionals.

Punit is the author of books “Be Ready for GDPR' which was rated as the best GDPR Book, “AI & Privacy – How to Find Balance”, “Intro To GDPR”, and “Be an Effective DPO”. Punit is a global speaker who has spoken at over 30 global events. Punit is the creator and host of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast. This podcast has been featured amongst top GDPR and privacy podcasts.

As a person, Punit is an avid thinker and believes in thinking, believing, and acting in line with one’s value to have joy in life. He has developed the philosophy named ‘ABC for joy of life’ which passionately shares. Punit is based out of Belgium, the heart of Europe.

RESOURCES
Websites www.fit4privacy.com,www.punitbhatia.com,   / steven-puri-b0714436  , www.thesukha.co,
Podcast https://www.fit4privacy.com/podcast
Blog https://www.fit4privacy.com/blog
YouTube    / fit4privacy