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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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Monday Motivation — These Women Went Out Of Their Ways To Provide Opportunities To Thousands!

Written By: Sonali
December 28, 2020 | 04:03 PM |
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With 2020 almost coming to an end, the world has now known the value of several things — several little things we ignored previously.

From that boring job to the old ceiling of your home, that constantly boring food to the access of education, internet, sanitary napkins, healthcare supplies and what now, people would have realised that they are truly lucky if they have the basics — just the basics!

But think about those people who didn’t even have access to these basics! Think about the people who actually never had all of these basics! The pandemic may have taken the access, the luxury of having do waqt ki roti from many, but let’s not forget that a large portion of our society has yearned for these basics since like forever! For whom, even the basic education, hygiene, a toilet in their house and a simple meal is luxury.

And let’s not forget that there has also been a small fraction who never stopped working for these people — for their betterment, welfare, bright future, and rights. The only goal for these people have been the betterment of society and the betterment of these deprived people. And these people are an inspiration, a source of motivation and idol for many unknown faces.

Let me introduce you to some of these good souls and get you an instant dose of your Monday motivation!

Ashweetha Shetty

She was born to a couple, who used to be beedi rollers, in a poor orthodox family in Mukkudal — a small South Indian village — where girl children were not celebrated and considered a liability to the family!

But nothing stopped her from chasing her dreams, from creating a life for herself — and all it took was a tiny moment of courage and an autobiography of Helen Keller — to realise that no one else, but she had the power of transforming her life.

A graduate in Business Administration, Ashweetha Shetty somehow chanced upon a Tamil magazine talking about the Young India Fellowship. From creating an email id to borrowing a friend’s phone to fill the application, she did everything to fulfil her dreams. After completing her fellowship, she worked for a year and started the Bodhi Tree Foundation, which works with rural youth and helps them develop their life skills and soft skills and encourage them to dream big and aspire more. Read her entire story here.

Meera Shenoy

Meera Shenoy started Youth4Jobs with a dream of making young India self-reliable despite all the odds and conditions like physical/ hearing/ speech disability. And eventually, what started years back with one centre in a city turned into 100s of centres across 22 states and a family of 160 people.

Youth4Jobs trains the rural youth with disabilities for two months, without any fees. They help them develop their life skills, communication skills, computer skills, etc. and helps them get a job in different services sectors like retail, BPO, hospitality, logistics, etc. She also has a dedicated team that keeps checking the current job vacancies and helps the youths get a job.

It was her sheer dedication and love for others that made her initiative recognised by people across the world as well as the government. Read her entire story here.

Sangita Iyer

Sangita Iyer, a Nari Shakti Puraskar Awardee, did Bachelor’s in Biology & Ecology, Masters in Environmental Education & Communications, and a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism. Her love for elephants began when she was only three years old.

Sangita has worked as a broadcaster for 11 years before transitioning into documentaries, film-making, and starting her own non-profit organisation. 

It’s been seven years since she started her mission to save the elephants and create awareness among the general public. Her non-profit organisation, ‘Voice for Asian Elephants Society’, conducts several projects and programs to support her cause. Read her entire story here.

Shantha Ragunathan

Shantha was born amidst extreme poverty, had lost her parents at the age of six and was married in an extremely poorer family. Life was hard — but it became harder after her children were born — she was unable to make ends meet and support her two kids.

It was during her tenure at that office when she heard of self-help groups (SHGs) and Shantha believed that this could alleviate her poverty.

Shantha’s self-help groups (SHGs) AKA microfinance group started with buying cows and selling their milk, and the work kept expanding over time. All this while, she impacted hundreds of women and helped them generate their own income source. Her SHGs also serve as a model for women in other villages. She helps other women begin from scratch, and she continues to inspire others to move forward in their lives. Read her entire story here.

Malvika Mathur

Malvika Mathur lived for her children first and then followed her passion and fulfilled her dream of creating something which’s not only mind-fulfilling but also sustainable and people-friendly!

Her brand LabelEeshav is a one-stop-shop for all garment requirements; interestingly named after her kids Eesha and Aarav. It caters from 0 months onwards — stands for sustainable fashion, eliminates the middle man and connects the consumers to the weavers directly. The idea is also to recreate and remodel existing clothes to avoid more landfill. 

The venture also supports small women artisans by selling their handmade accessories directly to the audience. This way, she is not only helping artisans but also several women who cannot leave their house to work outside. Read her entire story here.

Infano encourages every woman to come forward, stand for each other and follow their dreams despite all the struggles and hardships. If you know someone whose story must be heard, please tag us in the comments below! #InfanoWomen

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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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