Gita Balakrishnan begins by mapping her journey right from her birth in Calcutta in 1968, from which point she goes on to dwell on her childhood years. She goes into how she discovered an interest in architecture before she pursued her education at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA). Before this, she had been enrolled in the electrical engineering department at the Delhi College of Engineering and she remarks on how one of the reasons she dropped out was because she was the only girl in her class. She was lauded by a professor at SPA to be one of the first students to apply persistently and be accepted for an internship at the Centre for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She further recalls the discussions around marriage and the dismal rates of pay for junior architects at the time. She talks about choosing her first job at a smaller firm over a larger one, noting that it felt unfulfilling. 

She talks about the journey that led her to apply for the role of a Creative Rural Educationist, and the move away from practicing architecture, which she points out was a major turning point in her career. She talks about her journey and daily work as a social activist going forward and recalls the solutions she worked towards while undertaking a bit of building projects on the side. She recalls her time spent in Bangalore before she moved to Calcutta. In Bangalore, she notes all the projects she took on. On her move back to Calcutta, she mentions the factors that made her move and take up projects very easily. While setting up Ethos, she talks about setting up her office at home and the events and activities that kept it going. Moving on to the state of architecture education in India, she recounts her initiatives to educate during which period she was elected Chairperson of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), West Bengal. Concluding on how she has continued to work at home during the pandemic, she says it felt like a second skin while she explains how she also set up Architecture for a Cause (ARCause).