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Meet The Entrepreneurs Who Risked Their Career To Turn Their Passion Into A Profession!

Written By: Sonali
August 30, 2020
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It took me 5 years, 3 sabbaticals and 2 cities to leave my job and do what I always loved to do! And while I’m pushing myself through it every day, trying to sustain on the varying amount of pennies that I earn, I know that I’ve got a long way to go.

Leaving a full-fledged career and great salary is not easy but as they say, ‘nothing comes easy’ when it’s about your dreams and passion!

Today I’m introducing you to some divas who decided to chuck their wonderful career to build their own empire and follow their entrepreneurial dreams.

Neha Nagpal

Kolour Theory is Neha’s passion turning into a profession. “I was inclined towards art and craft from a very young age. My mother was an incredible artist, and I believe I’ve inherited this talent from her,” she says.

Neha’s creations are handcrafted and have an absolute exclusivity to it. From colourful luxury candles to upcycled antique rotary phones, she loves thinking out of the box and creating something different.

There’s a burst of colours in her work. She feels things that are bright & colourful and can instantly make you feel good and cheerful. From sourcing raw materials, painting/ making the final product, product photography, handling her social media pages to shipping the products, she is a complete one-person army.

Her future plans include introducing a variety of products and diversifying into accessories too.

Priya Sivaraj

Priya is a software engineer turned craftpreneur who is into manufacturing and importing craft supplies.

She left her corporate job to take care of her son after he turned three, turning her hobby into a profession. 

“I am a passionate crafter, and I’ve tried almost all sorts of craftwork. At present I manufacture creative pieces under the brand name CrafTreat and export them,” says Priya.

She plans to make more innovative designs for Indian Crowd as well as for the International one. Her brand is also regularly featured on HOChanda TV, which is a channel showing international crafting brands.

Kunjal Karaniya

A journalist by profession and a road tripper at heart, Kunjal considers herself a travel nut, passionate photographer, travel blogger, journalist and not just a dreamer! She decided to quit her job after working for a decade.

She turned her passion into a profession by starting a boutique travel company, Unplugged Moments, almost three years back. It is in customized travel planning and crossborder self-driven road trips in Europe.

She has explored 35 countries and is still on the run to add a few more unforgettable journeys in her list. Her company has catered to more than 100 clients to date. 

“We are designing unique travel plans for the domestic crowd looking at the situation alongside international travels,” she says.

Rishika Agarwal

After facing issues during her own wedding, Rishika & her spouse Navam, a next-gen couple-preneurs, introduced an app by the name WedHaven that aims to make weddings fun by simplifying the tasks at hand.

Designed in the’ pre-COVID’ era, the features offered by this application are creating ripples in present-day ‘COVID-19’ intimate marriages. 

WedHaven helps the users in streamlining numerous tasks via technology. From creating a digital wedding to providing the details for each event along with the invitations, timings, venues, real-time updates, etc., it simplifies the workload and lets the couple enjoy their wedding.

In the COVID times, the app is simplifying the tasks of planning the weddings, accordingly making lists and inviting a certain number of guests as allowed under the guidelines by the government. Numerous additional features, including the tracking of RSVP status of the guests, have been added recently to this wedding-simplifying app by their creators.

Shraddha Fogla

A connoisseur of information when it comes to children, Shraddha, started 2monkeysandme an year ago.

It is a one-stop digital space for active parenting and for utilizing children’s learning and development process to its whole. It is about sharing expert advice with the mothers so they can make well-informed decisions for their children, and stay inspired enough to teach their kids through fun learning from tried and tested techniques of experts.

Majorly focusing on kids of age group 6 months to 9 years, the platform develops and performs tested at-home activities, games, science experiments, and DIYs and speaks about a vast resource of raising non-fussy eaters. 

Their homeschooling module(s) consists of various activities, experiments, worksheets, and printables for a child’s effective and easy learning. With homeschooling, Shraddha plans to adopt the culture of distant learning where online consultations to parents and proper learning & education to the children can be provided.

Gwenda Schobert

Gwenda is a German citizen and a first-generation entrepreneur who started her own business in Mumbai in her 20s.

She runs a marketing agency called Enspireco that turned four during this lockdown.

“While working with several startups and small businesses, I realized the struggles of being a young first-time businesswoman. To help and support other women entrepreneurs like me, I am also starting Enspireco Business Club, which would help other ladies in improving their network, business, and passion for work,” she says.

In our new series, ‘Passion To Profession’, we introduce one woman entrepreneur every week and share their journey, their business and their goals. Stay tuned for more inspiring stories & email/ tag us if you want to share one! #PassionToProfession

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Sonali

A 'non-9-5 desk job' ambivert geek who chooses her own audience, Sonali loves sharing stories and finding the corners where humanity still exists! She believes that every individual's story is unique and special. She loves writing about the untouched and unspoken segments of society. When not writing, you can find her listening to someone's stories or playing with dogs. Sonali values mental health and encourages people to speak their heart out!

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A Feminist Should Believe In The Power Of Women As Much As In The Power Of Anyone Else!

Written By: Infano
July 5, 2020 | 12:09 PM |
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From time’s up pins to what not, the feminist movement has split over onto the streets of India to Indian women. Adrienne Rich said – “We do not think of the power stolen from us or the power withheld from us, in the name of the institution of motherhood.”

What is feminism, and what about it?

What Indian women see is reclaiming feminism for the many, for those who labour and from those who benefit from that labour. In recent decades the meaning of feminism has been narrowed to mean formal equality with men. But isn’t equality a tricky term that can indicate equality in prosperity or equality of misery. 

In this ravaged world, ” Equality ” is a meaningless concept if it simply implies that women should inspire the same money a day as men. At its core, feminism is about equality of both sexes or gender, not ‘sameness.’ It is critical to understand that ‘same’ does not mean equal. Both sexes or gender don’t have to be the same to have equal rights.

Feminism – is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes or gender. 

Why Indian women hate being called Feminists?

Being a woman, supporting women’s rights and gender equality is one thing. What Indian women despise is being labelled or considered part of a certain group, but it is said to be a lame excuse to fight for certain criteria.

  • Firstly, there’s nothing wrong with trying to accomplish equality, respect, and independence, but it is bizarre to try and prove that men and women are the same. 
  • Secondly, some of us try to draw attention as victims and men as monsters! But we only become a victim if we allow ourselves to be.
  • Thousands of people believe in equal rights that find ‘feminism,’ a word and movement that doesn’t align with their personal beliefs and values.
  • It is believed that feminist women just want to control the world and put men down.
  • It is assumed that feminism is associated with strong, forceful, misbehaved, angry women that society continues to punish forcefully and does not accept.
  • Many people fear that feminism will mean that men will eventually lose power, authority, control, and economic opportunities.
  • People also feel that we’ve already arrived at equality for men and women, or on the flip side, we haven’t paved the way to be up for that.

It is abundantly clear that our specific views on this issue are rooted deeply in our own personal and direct experience rather than any data or research. 

Men say we support women and feminism, and on the other hand, they want the control of their life, want them to be below them, rape women, disrespect them, own them, and more. To Indian women, feminism has become a word that makes them sick. After all this, men still argue that we are victims. Well, it’s gotta stop. We shall refuse to be victims, to stand, to refuse, to wear what we want, to decide what we want to do, to take our own decisions, to be owned by ourselves, and to be what we want!

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