As part of our ongoing quest to get you meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world, we invited yet another passionate Entrepreneur and Coach – Hanshika Rajpurohit for an exclusive interview with BrilliantRead Media. She is a Mentor, Coach, Certified Trainer, Speaker, NLP Practitioner, and Change Enabler. Let’s read more about her inspiring journey and her advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Hanshika:
Talk us through your background and your journey, please;
Well, Hello! Hope whoever is reading this is fine and happy and is doing good in life. I am a believer in destiny and I believe that whatever happens, happens for a reason and life is constantly teaching us things that we only understand if we are ready and open to understanding.
I started working in 2013 when I was in my 1st year of college, where I started working part-time because my college was until 2:30 pm and once I was back home I did not want to come back home and sleep or waste my time.
I remember walking up to my college principal and telling him that I don’t want to waste my life and that I wanted to work part-time. and luckily he had then started a CLAT coaching institute and he told me that I could join the institute as a counsellor and could work part-time there, from 03:30 – 19:00.
Well, that is how my journey:
Started from a 5000/- per month pay to starting my own preschool and to training over 10,000 students on soft skills and language, I surely have come a long long way”
What made you passionate about ‘Coaching’?
Coaching or training is something that comes very naturally to me and the second I am in front of students or Corporates, I feel very passionate and just right, and no matter how many hours of training I take I just never get tired of it.
After all the effort and preparation that goes into getting ready for the training sessions, it is when you are done with the training sessions and even if one person comes to you and tell you that I really looked up to you or I want to stay in touch with you and you have inspired me.
And out of 50 to 60 to hundreds of people who are a part of my training even if I am able to make an impact on one person’s life I feel like that is something that is more important.”
I do look up to a lot of people and I feel inspired by a lot of people, when I realized that there is someone who is looking up to me and is feeling inspired by what I share. I feel like there is no stronger feeling and emotion that a person can feel.
How do you manage to keep going despite the challenges? What drives you?
I am a very optimistic person by nature and that is because my parents have always shown blind faith in me and in whatever I do. I come from a society where sadly not all girls get the freedom or opportunity to work or to run businesses (Looking forward to changing that one day for sure).
Parenting matters a lot in the child’s growth and success. Their faith is something that keeps me going. And every time there is a situation that is not working in my favour I try to look for something good in that and I try to see what it is trying to teach me.
I have always known in my gut that I am born to accomplish great and bigger than life things in life and I just know it for a fact that when the time comes what’s meant to happen will happen and doors will keep opening and opportunities will keep knocking at my door and then my life will be a result of my choices.”
Please share with us a unique challenge you faced in your early career?
Well, What bigger challenge than Covid-19 that hit the world.
A lot of established businesses were shutting down and it was equally difficult for the startups that had launched their businesses.
I started my pre-school in 2017 and just when we started making a name and revenue, covid hit in March 2019. It was the savings that came in handy during these tough times at Mansarovar International Pre-school and Daycare and changing with the world and adapting to new online teaching techniques that helped us sail through.
Who do you believe has been the biggest source of motivation in your daily life?
My mother was, is, and will be my biggest motivation in life.
What are some of the strategies that you believe have helped you grow as a person?
(1) Accepting things and people.
(2) Learn constantly and Accept changes.
(3) Discipline is key and lots of self-love and positive, right self-talk is important.
What are the business mantras you have embraced as you sought to establish your success story?
– Trying to be fully present at the moment and trying to make the most out of what we have now is what matters.
– Tomorrow will bring new opportunities and new challenges and if we do well today there’d be a good tomorrow and vice-versa.
– Plan for the future/dream about the future, but work and focus on giving your best today to help make that dream of yours a reality.
You are always positive and motivated, what keeps you going?
No one stays positive and motivated all the time.
But if you’re feeling low and want to relax or take a step back, do it without being guilty. But after all the relaxed time and self-love make sure you come out of any problem stronger.
In your opinion, what are the keys to success?
> Discipline
> Patience and the need of constantly being open to learn what life has to offer and,
> Accepting the changes that life offers.
The above things play a very important role in being successful.
Please share with us – what has worked well for you so far?
Professionally: Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy can be your biggest marketing tools. When your product is a solution to another person’s problem, with compassion and the right words is how you can sell the product. And mouth-mouth publicity is the biggest marketing.
Personally: Positive, Affirmative self-talk and being patient and constantly trying to improve yourself at your own pace when it’s not the right time, always works like a charm.
What advice would you give students and young professionals who want to have a successful career?
Learn, learn and learn a lot!
Self-education is the only form of education I know.
Yes, hard skills/formal education is important and when life hits, it’s what we learned in school/college that helps us sail through the challenges that life throws at us.
But it’s the soft skills and our skill sets that help make the journey easier. It’s the life skills like Marketing, Money management, People management, Social skills, Time management, Communication skills, etc. that make our journey easier.
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