I turned 28 last month. I took time out to sit down and think about the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way.
These are some of the deep lessons I try to imbibe in my life. Some of these lessons are very powerful, take a moment to absorb them.
This episode is deeply personal where I talk about my flaws and insecurities and how owning them liberated me in a way.
There are some of the powerful lessons that you can learn from this episode on owning your insecurities and becoming comfortable with who you are.
Binod Chaudhary is Nepal’s only Forbes listed Billionaire. He is often referred to as a Noodle King. He is the author of Making it Big.
He is the man behind the widely popular Wai-Wai noodles.
The noodle company from the small land-locked country today has 20% market share in India and 3% in the world. They sell over 10 million packets of noodles every single day.
Brig Sushil Bhasin, who loves to call himself Time Brigade. He is a Time Investment Strategist and an Author of the book Million Dollar Second: Time investment strategies for the digital age. He is also a master trainer on leadership who creates an impact on audiences by the stories he shares from military as well as corporate experience.
In this episode, we go deep into the concepts of time investment and I bet some of these strategies you will learn in this episode are unheard of, you will also learn how to build self-discipline and what he learned about it from the time he was in the Army.
Deepak Ramola is one of the young people whom I admire a lot. He is the founder of an organization called FUEL which is an acronym of Forward the Understanding of Every life lesson. Through his organisation, he documents life lessons of people from all walks of life and passes them onto others in the most inspiring ways. From painting world’s first village of life lessons to penning the song ‘Atrangi Yaari’ sung by Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar, Deepak has worked with people across the world.
Huzefa Merchant is 95% blind because of a genetic disorder of the eye called retinitis pigmentosa. He only has 5% of the eyesight of a normal person but that doesn’t stop him from running a design-centric business.
Not only that, Huzefa leads the design team of his company, where his role is to get fresh design ideas and work with the team to get those designs created.
Mehak Mirza Prabhu’s story is one of the most powerful stories that I have came across in the recent past. Being born on simple Maharastrian family, Mehak was living her life as a very protected child till she reached the age of 19. Her life took crazy turn as series of events happened in her life from losing her entire family to a brutal car accident to going through depression after separation with her husband at the age of 30.
Vidya Vox shares her journey from being an immigrant kid in US going to psychology school to becoming YouTube sensation. She today amasses fan following of over 4.5 million subscribers with over 400 million views on her YouTube channel.
Vidya is one of the top YouTube influencers coming from Indian origin. She is a singer and songwriter who flawlessly marries the western songs with traditional Indian classical and Bollywood songs in the form of cover songs and mashups.
Mathew Jose is a social entrepreneur who runs an Organization called Paperman. Through this organization, Mathew’s mission is to bring about a positive social change through trash. He has created a platform called trashfunding that helps people to convert their trash into an investment for social change. His expertise also lies in the key understanding he has about India’s 1.5 million strong informal sector recyclers. He is passionate about improving their livelihoods through his innovations.
Melissa was raped twice as a teenager, lost her friend to suicide and dad to cancer. She got addicted to drug, became alcoholic and suffered from severe bulimia for almost a decade.
She has faced a lot of challenges in her own life. It seemed impossible for her to come out of all this. She was surrounded by wrong kind of people, dating a meth addict and going down the wrong path in life.
On this episode, Melissa shares her story of bouncing back and thriving. She is a certified Yoga teacher and reiki healer. She is also a host of Podcast called Mind Love where she discusses mindset shifts, energy frequencies and modern mindfulness through raw stories, personal experience and inspiring interviews.
The Inspiring Talk podcast turned SIX months and it all started with a decision to inspire people. I have learned a lot along this journey and got opportunity to interact with amazing people who has reached milestones. This podcast now have 19 amazing interviews and boundless love and blessing of listeners. our community is growing every single day.
Sean Douglas was suicidal at one point of time due to heavy drinking habit and series of negative thoughts. He has grown in alcohol and abusive environment at his home. This had deep negative impact in his life and he himself became alcoholic. But this is not what he wanted for himself in his life. One fine day he said to himself, “I am so done with this. I need to change the way I am living my life.” He turned to timeless wisdom of great books and people who has shown him the way. He shares decisions we make in our life at the moment has impact in our future.
Praveen Wadalkar robbed his six years old son’s piggy bank to go for a business meeting. His first business was a complete flop show and he had no money left as he and his wife both had left their job to start that business. Praveen has been to the stage where quitting the entrepreneurial dream was much easier option than to continue. But he kept moving forward to start another venture which flourished and is now spread across many nations in Asia.
Jigna Tanna is a Construction Entrepreneur, Author, Keynote Speaker, Change Catalyst, and most sought after Performance Excellence Strategist.
Jigna comes from a family of business background with open mind but she eventually got married to family where women’s freedom was not as widely accepted. She along with her husband had to take a hard route of starting the business all over again.
Stop saying I am not good enough, I cannot do it, I am not beautiful, I cannot have bigger dream and so on. Have positive self-talk and change your life. The Inspiring Talk podcast #ThursdayInspiration
Nine Powerful Lessons I have Learned in 2017
I am sharing with you the most powerful lessons I have learned in 2017. As we start brand new year 2018, these lessons might be useful for you to navigate through your own true potential and make impact in this world in 2018. Here I present you these nine lessons.
Dr. Divya Ghai left her decade long job as academician to pursue her passion in writing and empowering young people. She got stuck for a while when she was making this change. She was confused whether to get back to job that she didn’t loved anymore or start on completely new journey.
Dr. Divya’s book Stop Fooling Yourself will wake you up to face the simple realities of life, which you have conveniently chosen to ignore
When she needed the most Gemini’s father left her for forever when she was 16. Responsibility of not only taking charge of her own life but also to earn bread for family came to her shoulder. It was not easy for her to fight the challenge life has thrown but she managed to come to the next side of it by overcoming it.
Gemini Dhar is take-charge expert, fashion entrepreneur and Author of the book 9 ways to empower. For over 24 years she has been working with an extensive range of people including celebreties, CEOs, home makers and children to help strengthen their core belief systems and bringing balance in their life.
When he was 18, Dr. Sukhi Muker after severe three-day drug binge almost pulled the trigger of loaded gun to kill himself. That was the lowest point he has ever been in his life. He never thought he’d ever come out of drug addiction, violence and crimes at that point. But with strong desire to heal his own brain and body Dr. Sukhi has transcended boundaries and came along a long way.
It was 2008 when world’s economy trembled and Divya’s life changed. She was well payed and having good corporate job, living her dream. With this falling economy, she saw her dear friends being laid off by her company. She was praying every single day asking god to save her job. She was not fired but she fired her job to take new journey of entrepreneurship.
Divya went to become certified Coach training thousands of leaders, CEOs and achievers across the continents. She authored books that got well accolade from her readers. Her latest book Entrepreneur’s Garden went to became Amazon #1 bestseller internationally.