Hi Folks! I've been absconding for 2 months on the newsletter now. I am doing a no gatekeeping version of my first year without a 9-5 job. A lot of the readers on the newsletter want to make a career in writing and speaking and thought this breakdown might be helpful. I had 5 revenue streams this year: Content Creation Research Curation Workshops Founder Coaching PS: More revenue streams does not mean more money, it just means more ‘ways’ to make money. Let me break the romance of going rogue...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Hello there! If you've seen me on socials, I recently did a talk on 'How to Build An Authentic Network'. Here is a step-by-step breakdown of how I prepared the talk. The team from Salesforce Design Days had reached out to me to do a talk at their event. It was a blank canvas. Talk on Authenticity at Salesforce Design Days Audience Composition When the team reached out, we did a detailed lowdown of the design of the event as well as the audience. They were deeply respectful of my craft and...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Hi friend, Hope it's been a creative week for you! 🍃 I did three storytelling/creativity workshops this week and articulating some of the takeaways that most resonated with the audience. 1. Stories are about taking the audience from their world into your world. The more vividly you can take your audience with you on the journey, the more effective the story is. The neuroscience of storytelling: the brain undergoes neurocoupling and the neurons get mirrored when you tell a great story. It...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
hello doston, It’s been a while since I wrote to you all. If I have been quiet in the online world, it means that there has been a lot of action in my offline world! The month has been action-packed. I did a session on ‘Conscious Personal Branding’ at the Festival of Consciousness at Barcelona. When I used to work at INK, FOC was my baby. When I quit INK, Lakshmi asked me if I’d like to continue working at the Festival, and said yes! The Festival is really close to my heart, you get an...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hi doston, I recently did a workshop on ‘How to Build a Personal Brand’. It was a beginner-friendly workshop for people who want to build their 0-1 journey. What is a personal brand? Personal brand is the intersection between how you see yourself and how the world perceives you. Building a personal brand is so personal to you. • Where do you invest your time? • How much time do you invest? • How long do you invest for? Journalling against the backdrop of the Himalayas All of the above depend...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hello doston, When I was invited by Nand Kishore Chaudhry from Jaipur Rugs to come to Jaipur, I just surrendered to the idea. I didn’t think of the purpose, the why, the goal. My brain took a backseat. My heart took the front seat. In my first interaction with him, I was curious to know what made him reach out, and he said, ‘My intuition spoke to me’. Intuition is the intelligence we can’t validate with data. It reads signals from your body, your memory, your past history and allows us to...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hi Friends, When you start something new, there is always excitement (and some parts of anxiety). I am doing my first LinkedIn live workshop tomorrow (11th May, 11 AM IST). When I started writing online, I wanted to meet people who wrote every day of their lives. And boom, came Karthi. She runs a community for knowledge workers called Pi Foundation to foster a sense of belonging and betterment for knowledge workers. And you know my affinity for community leaders. I started my writing journey...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hi friends, I am back from my first week at IIM Ahmedabad. I studied at the Creative and Cultural Businesses Programme 5 years ago, and got an opportunity to work for the course. The current cohort has interesting entrepreneurial ideas: An third generation artisan from Kutch who makes handcrafted bags A folklore storyteller who wants to create an app of Indian craft stories for children A paper flower artist Their ideas are interesting, but the people behind the ideas are even more...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hi friends, The newsletter is a safe space to share stories: of ourselves and the world around us. Sometimes they are deeply personal, sometimes funny, and some other times, a prompt to guide you to nudge the storyteller, the artist in you. I have been going through imposter syndrome. I am on this journey of decoupling myself from full-time work and working on my internal story. There are two questions that are guiding my discovery: If I had all the money in the world, what would I like to...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
