At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this endeavour, we invited Sonika Mann for an exclusive interview with us. Sonika is a Passionate Coach, Author, Healer, Dentist, Entrepreneur, Leader, Influencer and Change Enabler. Let’s learn more about her incredible journey, her background, and her advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Sonika:
We are aware of your contributions to the ecosystem; talk us through your background and your journey, please;
I feel for the most part of my journey over the past years it has been about wearing my heart on my sleeve. Always wanting to explore more is what drove me. I am Dr Sonika Mann, a Life & Mindset Coach, A healer, A Dentist and an Author. The experience so far has been full of learning, challenges, rewards and fulfilment. I can say with pride – I love what I am doing.
I grew up in different cities as my father served in The Indian Army and I would say that was the best experience ever in my childhood.”
I come from a small place in Rajasthan and it goes to my parents they worked so much to give me and my siblings opportunities in career and life.
The second most important part of my life is getting married to the best person ever – Dr Pulkit Chandra, in August 2021. Life unfolded in a different way because I got unwell to a severe extent and it got paused also.
Life coaching brought me back in motion, and hence this became the purpose.”
How did you discover your passion as a ‘Coach’?
Oh! This one is interesting. In September 2021, I experienced the most life-altering incident. I fell ill, had internal bleeding, lost around 4.5 litres of blood, l underwent two major surgeries within 24 hours. All of that was followed by a heart episode which led to one Cycle of CPR and Shock, yes that’s right.
After I woke up, as I said, life paused emotionally and physically as well. Not just for me but for my husband and our families too. For one year I was just waking up wondering why am I here, no one’s love was also enough to bring me back to myself.”
Then I came across a program of Life Coach Shilpa, totally a blessing, that flow and commitment guided me to do all the courses in just 3 months and here I am a Life Coach now because this is something that can scientifically help everyone.
How do you manage to keep going despite the challenges? What drives you?
Love this question! The truth is there are no challenges anymore.
Everything is an opportunity. It will either give me the clear success that I aimed for or it will give me the direction that I need to take from there.”
My driving force is creating for people from a place of love. All my coaching programs and healing programs are based on creating more love in my Rising star for the self first. (I call my coachee a Rising Star).
Investing in such programs and actually taking that action to work on self, is purely a way of self-love driven with action, not just reading a book Or listening to a song in the day, but finding more about yourself because you love YOU.
Who do you believe has been the biggest source of motivation in your daily life?
So for me, there has never been just one person who motivated me. I am blessed with a loving husband, strong families and friends who are always there for me. My sister, brother and sister in law, each one of them are my super system.
The year 2021 and 2022 after the surgeries just made everyone more open to giving their love freely. Of course, we had a road of understanding each other all over again.
This time Universe, Life coach Shilpa is the energizer for me. And the most important one is my own Journey, my walk of life. That’s my motivation to always learn & grow and put it out to the world to evolve.
What are some of the strategies that you believe have helped you grow as a person?
The most honest answer to this question is ‘the need to find the meaning of why am I given a second chance at life?’
But I want to add here, you don’t need to wait to have this question. This one life that we have, has a meaning, none of us are here by accident or coincidence.
We all have that higher meaning, it’s just whether are we taking action in that direction or not. Committing to this question was my power.
Rest are powerful techniques to get the answer piece by piece, some would be – mindfulness, meditation, affirmations, visualization etc.
In your opinion what are the keys to success?
What is your ‘Why’?
This is the question, all the amazing life coaches are asking you to put across to yourself.
What does it mean to be successful for you?
You can be successful as a company CEO and also a stay-at-home parent.
So the question is what does it mean to you?
Now to answer your question, success to me is giving my hundred per cent. So I give my hundred per cent to my life and growth and then to my rising stars and to people who are joining me for healing sessions as well.
What advice would you give to our readers?
One thing that I really would like to say is to take action, don’t wait for that perfect moment.
Most of the time, the biggest discouraging factor is thinking other things need to line up before I make that investment for myself in terms of time and money as well.
That’s the reason most slide up when they see someone talking about how simply they can transform their life- just by working on themselves.
Last but not least, what about your journey makes it satisfying/exciting?
I am living the journey! My goals are there, my desires are there and yet I am free to live in this moment all along the journey.
And on the last note, anyone who is currently feeling life is hard and not working out – just reach out! It’s just that simple. You don’t have to start alone, there is help out there.
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to your Team, I really enjoyed all the questions.
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