Challenging yourself is the key to achieving your endeavours | Spoorthi Vishwas | TEDxCITBengaluru
Summary
TLDRThe speaker shares a personal journey of resilience and determination, starting from a challenging childhood marked by her mother's divorce and financial struggles, to becoming a successful entrepreneur and leader. She emphasizes the importance of consistency, overcoming fear, and building confidence, even in the face of numerous rejections. The creation of the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards is highlighted as a significant milestone. The speaker credits her success to strong relationships and personal growth, urging others to focus on personal and professional balance to achieve extraordinary results.
Takeaways
- 🌟 The speaker emphasizes the importance of consistency over motivation, advocating for a steady approach to achieving goals.
- 🏡 The story begins with a personal account of the speaker's mother leaving, leading to a move to Mysore and a life restart with minimal possessions.
- 👧 The speaker acknowledges the strength and influence of her mother, who played a pivotal role in shaping her life and values.
- 🎓 Despite initial struggles with English and a fear of public speaking, the speaker's academic performance improved, particularly after developing a crush in the eighth standard.
- 🏸 Inspired by a crush who was a state-level badminton player, the speaker took up the sport and excelled, topping three subjects in her 10th standard exams.
- 📺 At the age of 16, the speaker began her career in television, working hard with limited resources and eventually earning a significant income.
- 🏆 The speaker founded the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards to celebrate and inspire women who have overcome adversity to achieve extraordinary success.
- 💍 Facing financial challenges in organizing the awards, the speaker persevered, eventually securing sponsorships from top brands without prior experience in event management.
- 💼 The speaker highlights the journey from being an entrepreneur and actress to becoming a housewife and then reclaiming her identity through her work.
- 🌐 With a dream of traveling 100 countries, the speaker became the Chief Marketing Officer of Travel Mart, blending her personal aspirations with professional opportunities.
- 🤝 The speaker concludes by underscoring the importance of relationships in personal and professional growth, suggesting that a harmonious personal life is key to success.
Q & A
What was the turning point in the speaker's life when she was five years old?
-The turning point in the speaker's life at the age of five was when her mother decided to divorce her father, leading to a significant change in their lives.
How did the speaker and her mother restart their lives after the divorce?
-After the divorce, the speaker and her mother moved to Mysore and started their lives anew with almost nothing, symbolized by the mention of only having a floor mat in their new home.
What was the speaker's initial experience with English language proficiency?
-The speaker initially struggled with English, as she was afraid to speak it and faced ridicule due to her accent, which led to her being introverted and scared to go out.
How did the speaker's school performance change after the 8th standard?
-The speaker's school performance improved after the 8th standard, as she was motivated by a crush to study better and eventually topped three subjects in her 10th standard SSLC boards.
What was the speaker's first encounter with the television industry?
-The speaker's first encounter with the television industry was when she was selected for a role within 15-20 days of an audition for one of the top television channels.
How did the speaker transition from being an actress to an entrepreneur?
-The speaker transitioned from being an actress to an entrepreneur by founding three companies, including a training company, an event management company, and the brand Karnataka Women Achievers Awards.
What was the inspiration behind the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards?
-The inspiration behind the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards was the speaker's personal experience of losing her identity after marriage and wanting to highlight and celebrate women who have created their own identity despite societal norms.
How did the speaker overcome the financial challenges in organizing the first Karnataka Women Achievers Awards?
-The speaker overcame financial challenges by securing sponsorships from various top brands after numerous rejections and by her mother's support, who broke her FD to provide the remaining funds needed.
What is the speaker's role in the travel industry, and how does it relate to her personal dream?
-The speaker is the Chief Marketing Officer of Travel Mart, which aligns with her personal dream of traveling to 100 countries before she dies, as she now receives invitations from travel tourism boards to explore and promote their countries.
What are the three key areas the speaker is focusing on for her future?
-The speaker is focusing on creating personal and company brands, training people with accurate skills to help them achieve their goals, and promoting travel through her role as Chief Marketing Officer of Travel Mart.
What does the speaker consider as her elixir for maintaining a successful and fulfilling life?
-The speaker considers relationships as her elixir for maintaining a successful and fulfilling life, emphasizing the importance of having a good personal life to enhance professional growth.
Outlines
🌱 Overcoming Adversity to Achieve Success
The speaker begins by emphasizing the importance of consistency over motivation, sharing her personal journey from a challenging childhood to success. She recounts waking up at age five to find her mother had left, leading to a search and eventual divorce. Three months later, she and her mother moved to Mysore with nothing, starting their lives anew. Despite a fear of speaking and English language challenges, she became more outgoing and excelled in school, topping three subjects in her 10th standard. Her journey continued with television work at 16, earning a significant income, and eventually establishing three companies: a training company, an event management company, and the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards.
💍 Transition from Single Life to Traditional Marriage
The speaker describes her decision to get married, leaving behind her successful career to join a family of 12, which was a stark contrast to her previous life. She had to adapt to a traditional lifestyle, giving up her entrepreneurial and acting pursuits. For three years, she lived on a small allowance, feeling unfulfilled and disconnected from her previous achievements. This period of introspection led her to the realization that she was meant for more than an ordinary life. She decided to become a voice for women who, despite societal expectations, achieve extraordinary things. This realization led to the creation of the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards, a platform to celebrate and share the stories of women who have overcome adversity.
🏆 Creating a Platform for Women's Achievements
The speaker shares the story behind the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards, which began as a casual conversation over coffee. Despite facing over 120 rejections from potential sponsors, she persisted, eventually securing sponsorships from top brands. The first event was a significant success, with India's ex-prime minister as the chief guest. The speaker emphasizes the importance of belief and persistence, highlighting her mother's support during a financial crisis. The awards have since inspired many, with the speaker expanding her mission to include training and skill development for women, leading to her certification as a trainer and success mentor.
🌟 From Zero to Hero: A Journey of Personal and Professional Growth
The speaker reflects on her journey from being unable to speak English to becoming a successful entrepreneur and public speaker. She outlines her future goals, which include creating personal and company brands, training individuals in valuable skills, and promoting travel and tourism. She emphasizes the importance of relationships in her personal and professional life, stating that a fulfilling personal life is essential for professional success. The speaker concludes by encouraging the audience to create a beautiful personal life to enhance their professional endeavors.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Consistency
💡Resilience
💡Influence
💡Entrepreneurship
💡Self-belief
💡Transformation
💡Overcoming Adversity
💡Inspirational
💡Identity
💡Achievement
💡Personal Growth
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes that consistency is more important than motivation.
At five years old, the speaker's mother left the family, leading to significant life changes.
After her mother’s divorce, the speaker and her mother had to restart their lives with almost nothing.
The speaker credits her mother’s strength for shaping her into the person she is today.
In her early school years, the speaker struggled academically, ranking in the bottom of her class.
Her journey toward success began in eighth grade, motivated by a crush, leading to improved academic performance.
The speaker started her career in television at the age of 16, with only 20-30 rupees in her pocket.
By 16, she was working 365 days a year and earning 5,300 rupees per month.
The speaker founded three companies: a training company, Dream Big Vision Pvt Ltd, an event management company, and the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards.
Her role in a film led to a personal transformation and eventually meeting her husband.
After getting married, the speaker transitioned from an entrepreneur and actress to a housewife, living on 3,000 rupees pocket money from her husband.
A turning point occurred when the speaker realized she was not meant to live an ordinary life and reignited her ambition.
The creation of the Karnataka Women Achievers Awards was inspired by her desire to honor women who had achieved extraordinary things.
The first Karnataka Women Achievers Awards event faced significant financial challenges, but her determination and support from her mother helped her succeed.
The speaker now trains over 12,000 students in leadership, communication, public speaking, and entrepreneurship.
Transcripts
everyone has a story you have a story
this stage has a story and this little
girl standing here has a story and I'm
here to share this story from being
nobody to being something today with all
of you I hope it actually I would not
say inspires because I don't believe in
motivation because motivation is
overrated and consistency is underrated
I hope this talk will actually inspire
to become consistent
I was five
and that afternoon
I happened to wake up with my father to
realize that
my mom had left our house forever
we had to search for her three days
just to know that she had taken a
biggest decision of her life
to divorce my dad
it was quite shocking
but we had to take it cut to that after
three months I and my mom happened to
move to Mysore
it was just that
as I remember there's nothing in our
house absolutely nothing except a floor
mat that is how I and my mom restarted
our journey
you see a strong woman standing here
right in front of you because I have
been raised by a strong woman I hope you
all agree with you because you are here
today because we are raised by that one
woman who stands by us that's our mom so
I want to say thank you to my mom
because I remember moving forward she
never said no to anything you know I had
a very bad voice I used to be like oh my
God if somebody calls me and I was like
hello people used to say hello sir what
the hell this happened to me so many
times from there to actually getting
scared of going out of my own apartment
because I couldn't speak English well
right I was afraid to face people
because I started in a very simple
school where even English teachers used
to speak in Canada so how would you
expect me to speak English so I was very
scared to go out speak I was very very
very introvert
and from there I started my journey
school days were very average you know
what is the rank I used to get 25th 26
27th that was like the best average say
average
and from there I think I don't know what
happened eighth standard I had a crush
and used to study well so that actually
motivated me so from eighth standard I
started becoming a better student and
from there I started you know he was a
state level badminton player so that
inspired me to play badminton and then
going forward I actually topped three
subjects in my 10th sslc boards
don't know if I have to thank him I have
to thank myself because I did that
Journey
going forward I joined first puc and
then within like 15-20 days I happened
to be on television my friend took me to
an audition and one of the top
television channels where auditioning
you know they were they were calling out
for auditions I went and I was like
you're selected within 15 days people
started writing letters to me from
across Karnataka and if I walk out
I used to hardly have 20 to 30 rupees in
my pocket and I remember sharing idlis
with my friends like we'll take one
plate of Italy and we're sharing with
each other from there five thousand
three hundred rupees per month working
365 days at the age of 16. today to
earning three
companies which is a training company
[Applause]
dream big Vision private limited even
management company dream big event
management company and also the brand
Karnataka women Achievers Awards this is
all a journey which I would like to
remember
and then Jolly days happened it was my
first film Happy Days remake I went in
with that excitement oh my God I'm gonna
play a re-roll and I got a shock that
you had to cut to a boycott you know you
got to get a boycott and I was like
man again
so I took it off probably if I wouldn't
have taken that opportunity of you know
getting a haircut done I wouldn't have
met my husband so you would have just
seen spurti no vishwas so I met him
there and then it was a 14 years Love
Story We Got Married the life changed
there 21 years I was an entrepreneur 16
years I was a fellow you know popular
television actress 18 I was an actress
21 I was an entrepreneur 23 I had three
choices
what are these choices
the first choice
I was doing my MBA I had got selected
for ESC Pro ESC for Exchange program in
France
the second choice I was doing pretty
well in Tamil and Telugu films I was
busy
I got a movie offer with Tamil actor
jeeva
and the third choice
get married I like to Chuck all that let
me get married I was so excited happy
bride I decided to marry
from a family of two just me and my
mother to a family of 12. oh my God
how many of you can imagine that pain
from being
from a very very modern approach family
to getting into a very traditional
approach I had to become housewife
overnight no denims no Salva and nothing
not an entrepreneur not an actor not an
anchor
nothing
three years
this woman from 2014 to 2017 lived on
3000 rupees pocket money from my husband
that is where things changed
I used to go into the washroom
wash my face I'd be like
this is not you
you're bleeding earning from 16.
I used to go stand in the kitchen
make tea coffee I'm like is this you the
answer used to be always no
this is not who you are born to be and
something striked my head saying
you're not born to be ordinary you are
born to be extraordinary and that voice
hit me strong because in India you don't
need any reason
to become an ordinary person apart from
your women you just need that reason
you are a woman you are supposed to live
a ordinary life and I wanted to become a
voice for such people who said this
because there's so many women out there
in spite of all of these hardships all
of this journey they've created magic
and they've created history and I wanted
to tell that to the world now let me
tell you how I built this brand
Karnataka women Achievers Awards
it was just an evening and I went and
sat with my friend having a coffee I
said listen I was independent from 16.
something changed I got married I became
nothing I was like I'm somebody's wife
and Somebody's Daughter I'm somebody's
daughter-in-law who am I I don't have an
identity for myself that is when I sat
and said why not we bring in such women
in this world who have created their own
identity and tell their stories to the
world loud and clear that in spite of
all of this
these women have created history and
with that thought we came up with
Karnataka women Achievers Awards the
story is very long but still to cut it
short
I wanted to do it the budget was about
two lakhs to three lakhs we'll book an
auditorium we'll call some Achievers
then I was like okay
we'll do it a little bigger then I
thought okay we'll approach some
celebrities to come in I mean everybody
will get to know about it then I was
like
then we thought okay why not we go pan
Karnataka and start promoting and
calling for nominations
but vitamin M was Zero I went you know
my husband is Rich but I did not get
married for that huh
but I own a net worth equal right now
with my own okay so yeah
you can't go ask your family or your
husband saying that you're doing an
award ceremony you are giving an awards
some to somebody please give me money
nobody would say yes right so what I had
to do is then we came up with this
sponsorship and all of that you won't
believe it I think more than 120 brands
have rejected us
because I had no idea how to build
Brands I had no idea what sponsorship
deck was I had no idea how to do an
event of that large scale
but guys six months down the lane we and
my team a group of friends
used to call Brands wait for hours big
Brands but Chota soch nahita
and thinking was never small we used to
call only big Brands you name the top
brands we used to call and used to be
like tall numbers marketing managers
everybody always rejection at the end of
the day we used to sit and like it's not
gonna work it's not gonna work it's not
gonna work then I said let's not give up
we'll go which again
I went and I sat in front of a one of
the top jewelry brands in Karnataka I
sat there I said listen there's no in
there's no return of investment because
every time you go to a marketing team
they ask what is that we are going to
get I sat in front of them I said listen
there's no return on investment in this
what you get is a return of value
because you are supporting a brand one
of its brand in Karnataka where Awards
cannot be bought
it's the only brand in Karnataka where
even a nomination fees is not charged
and if you want to win Karnataka women
Achievers Awards it's only possible if
you have achieved something
extraordinary I did not say I did not
sell the brand I sold the idea
and guys you won't believe it
you name the top brands I can't name it
here unfortunately which would have
gotten you know more more of interesting
now but you name the top brands first we
got the jewelry brand next we got a tire
brand which is one of which is one of
the part of the biggest cricket Brands
today in India next we got one of the
top brands in the car
after that we had one of the top
Hospital brands you name the brand
associated with women they are
associated with that six months waiting
for brand calls and things like that
later to which today I don't have to
call them I just have to write an email
that this is the date for Karnataka
women Achievers Awards and the brands
are with us this is a journey of belief
right but there was a small test in the
very first year
I said the budget was 2 lakhs right but
guess what the budget went up to 38
lakhs
I was able to raise 26 lakhs in the very
first year
India's ex-prime minister is the chief
guest
S
2 lakhs and from corner of the event you
know small event to becoming an event of
36 lakhs
going forward I had 10 days time
I was short of 12 lakhs wherever I could
I searched I could I could attempt I
tried but was not able to raise the
money you know today Karnataka women
Achievers Awards is a brand people speak
about but that day guess who came in my
favor
my mom who's a government employee broke
her FD of fifty thousand fifty lakhs and
gave me that 12 lakhs to say that
brand create murder and next there will
be so many people who will follow you
and I would say thank you to my mom who
held me that day who supported me that
day who actually said do it I'm gonna be
there for you so that's the power of
women I believe
thank you
[Applause]
so Karnataka women Achievers Awards I
thought
they started getting inspired started
saying you know
students like young girls used to come
and say one thing I want to reach there
I want to get that award I want to stand
there holding that award I used to be
like wow this is so nice and it is
inspiring lot of people and that's when
I thought people say dream big dream big
dream big but dream big okay everybody
dreams big in 1.6 billion people in
India everybody dreams big but what's
different is how many of them know how
to achieve that dream
it's very very very less and let me tell
you and I'm sorry to tell you
75 percent of Indians are unskilled
unfortunately there is no skill there's
no communication skill there is no
leadership skill there is no
entrepreneurship skill you finish your
MBA and at the end of MBA you have
campus interview why
what are you doing MBA for
you have campus interview at the end of
the day so I was thinking like this then
we thought
we are recognizing women Achievers to
Karnataka women Achievers Awards and
Indian women Achievers Awards why not
why not we create women Achievers Awards
and that's when I took up my ATD
certification Association for talent
development from USA I'm a trained ATD
certified trainer
I'm a leadership coach I'm a success
Mentor today I have trained over 12 000
students on leadership communication
public speaking and Entrepreneurship
where they can come to our organization
and Academy get trade get certified and
move out with their bright colors so
this has been a journey now you must be
asking what is that from there till here
from a girl
without any background with zero
background with no entrepreneurs
in-house to becoming a first generation
millionaire first generation
entrepreneur this has been a journey
from a girl who couldn't speak English
to today being on tedx speak tedx stage
for the second time this has been a
journey
from a girl
who didn't know how to actually
you know create a brand to a girl who's
been awarded as emerging leader of South
from all the top brands in India so this
has been a journey now you must ask me
what's a way ahead and what's your
Elixir way ahead right now I am the
chief marketing officer of travel mart
my biggest dream to do all of this was I
had a dream of traveling 100 countries
before I die but I was thinking how to
arrange so much money but guess what
today I'm the chief marketing officer of
travel mart and I get invitation from
the travel tourism boards from across
the country come explore our country and
be with us and tell the world how is our
country so this has also been a journey
Elixir for me focusing on three things
the first thing going forward I want to
create Trends tea
Trend that is create Brands creating
personal Brands and creating company
brands and help people create Brands
second thing I want to train a lot of
people with accurate skills which can
help them achieve something in their
life which they want to and travel Trend
train travel this is my way forward well
let me tell you what is my elixir to
keep me going honestly it is
relationship
I don't know how many of you understand
the depth of relationship if I'm
speaking here today
if I wake up happy at my house only then
I can be here who I am
[Applause]
if I'm going to my office
and if I have a good relationship with
my team and with my colleagues and with
my subordinates or the people who are
working with me including my pen that is
when I have a good
space to work
if I go back home if I have a good
relationship with my partner a good
relationship with my family that is when
it helps me sleep peacefully and wake up
peacefully
so for me Elixir is relationship so for
your professional financial and career
growth trust me guys being at 30s this
is my biggest realization having amazing
personal life is what can create a
difference so I wish you all the very
best create a beautiful personal life so
your professional lives becomes much
more beautiful and thank you so much for
having me here to share my journey and
thanks a lot
all the very best
[Applause]
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