Growing up, I was always called as a “Nerd” since my favorite hobby was to rank in academics. My father has been working in a Multinational company on a highly esteemed position and hence excelling in studies has always been utmost priority. My mother has been a professor as well as recognized as a performer but eventually gave up her career for my upbringing. Inspired by my mother’s stage talent and corporate success of my father, my role models have been both of my parents. To balance out my nerd avatar, I started learning Dance/Acting at an early age so that I could be confident on stage and somewhere I knew that eventually, it would help me in corporate world as you demo products or ideas to clients/executives. I wrote theater scripts in school days as well as acted in several plays which made me stage confident and my mom made sure that I do not shy away from it.

As I entered my university, I realized that the real world requires not only someone who has academic skills or good at sports/dance/acting but also someone who has a presentable personality. At the age of 15, I did go through some bullying as my Nerd avatar always camouflaged my physical appearance in a social setting. In few words, I was someone who was not noticeable and lacked social presence due to the fact that I did not know how to be dressy or showcase my own personality. Due to my ability to learn, I decided to gain knowledge on how to shape my personality in a manner that people not only perceive me as a geek but also like my overall personality. No matter how hard we deny but the fact remains that your physical appearance matters, but the good news is that in current time, you can change the way you appear with excellent tools such as clothing, makeup, energy and attitude.

As my personality changed, I started getting noticed and did receive compliments on my make-over. I felt confident inside and outside as well as the bullying stopped. I was encouraged by friends/family to audition as a model in few upcoming shows as they all knew catwalk was my strength and they used to watch me as a little kid playing ‘Miss India, Miss India’, a favorite game of girls in that decade. I decided to get into modeling part-time while continuing studies. I knew that once a person gets camera confident, they can face anything and eventually boosted confidence helps one to be a public speaker. I cleared my first few auditions and the panel complimented on my catwalk and did inform me that it came to me naturally. Immediately, after walking in a few local fashion shows in Mumbai, I was able to walk the runway for international brands such as Spykar, Levis, Lawman, Sheetal Sarees, Ziax clothing and Millionaire. I appeared in Maxim-India and appeared in few series and music videos. I started getting visibility and a lot of my school folks could not recognize me with my new makeover. I noticed a lot of fan following for me in my social circle and it did affirm on the fact that it is very important to have an appealing personality.

I was now being called as an ‘All Rounder’ as I kept accumulating academic degrees and did well in the field of Modeling in my free time. I started coaching university students on how to walk on the runway and also choreographed runway shows winning 2 awards for Best Runway Coach back-back in 2007 and 2008. I also won Best Dancer award by Shiamak Dawar in 2008. I competed in beauty pageants in India and won few of them. The only reason I competed is because my mission was to change the perception that people have which is ‘Geek & Beauty do not go together’. After winning, I decided to help young folks who wanted to have an overall all-rounder personality. I started coaching on time management skills that encouraged busy people to pursue their inner passion while being strong in academics/corporate field and at the same time mentored them to be confident by dressing up well or being fashion conscious.

In my academic years, I achieved a degree in B.COM (Bachelors of Commerce & Economics), M.COM (Masters of Commerce), C.S (Institute of Company Secretaries of India that dealt with corporate & governance laws). After completing my education in India, I had the opportunity to fly to the land of dreams ‘USA’ to study M.B.A. After graduating as an MBA, although my main focus was to be successful in corporate but at the same time I did want to pursue my modeling passion in New York on weekends. I innovated the term ‘Weekend model’. A weekend model in my definition is someone who is successful in modeling projects but only pursue it during weekends and is not a full-time model.

By profession, I have been working as a Business Analyst/Program Manager (Mon-Friday) and I have had the opportunity to work for Fortune 50 global companies. I continued expanding my knowledge in Business Analysis by attaining certificate in PMIBA. My mother transferred her genes of teaching in me and hence I started mentoring young school/college students to take a career as a Business Analyst/Program Manager in Information Technology. Today, I work with

young students in prepping them for corporate interviews and helping them create a 1 pager resume as per Harvard standards. I enjoy my corporate life challenges and inspire more folks to settle down in a strong Corporate Career. I am a fan of developers as they take my requirements and bring the project to life. Probably my corporate goal is to be a project manager who can code as needed.

I extended my coaching skills in the field of Fashion & Lifestyle. Over the last 9 years, I have coached pageant contestants, upcoming models on runway techniques as well as been a motivational speaker in various events to help a person change their personality and build confidence. My affinity for pageant/runway coaching began since the age of 17 and I was lucky to have received coaching myself from Industry Pioneers and celebrities such as Hrithik Roshan, Gauhar Khan, Hemant Trivedi and Yatin Gandhi. If you guys are reading this, then I owe my credits to you all. I have had the opportunity to train contestants/models from Miss USA, Femina Miss India, Miss Africa, Miss Canada and Miss India Washigton.

I have choreographed over 125 runway shows and have also coached models on posing/catwalk techniques. Recently, I have been focusing on training aspiring petite models so that they are able to create an impact on viewers through their powerful walks and posing skills. I believe that a good model should not be evaluated based on their height but based on their ability to bring visibility to a brand.

I travelled the world since the age of 12 and maintained diaries of my trips, which in today’s world can be recorded in Blogs. I am used to recording my travel logs and recommend my inner friend circle to visit places that I visited in the past. I now plan to share my travelling experiences with all of you. My passion for writing travelling blogs has always been there.

They say kids have the best memory. At the age of 12, I travelled to Europe and decided to pen down all the wonderful historic places I visited in a blue diary. I must say that I still cannot define the beauty of Switzerland and I can aptly say’ When you are in Rome, do the Rome’. I then had the opportunity to travel to Mauritius and found myself in a Submarine for the very fast time. Being not such a risk taker when it comes to water activities, I still gathered guts to do Underwater sea walk and Para sailing. The underwater marine life is a whole new world together.

I also got introduced to a whole new world of Cruises on my trip to Singapore and Malaysia. I went to unexplored islands in the middle of nowhere as well as experienced different cultures at a very young age. I can pretty much say that my birthdays were always celebrated in a new country.

But it gets interesting with the next line. I visited the places that you would go in your Bachelor Life with my parents already. I visited Bangkok, Amsterdam, Macau, Las Vegas and Miami with my lovely parents at a very young age and now I am in the hunt for new destinations with my girl gang.

Year 2016 to 2018 has been completely adventurous for me. Not only did I win Ravishing Miss India Seattle 2016, USA but I also became the face of several brands and made celebrity guest appearances in more than 85 events. I had the opportunity to walk for several fashion weeks like New York Fashion Week, Seattle Fashion Week, Redmond Fashion Week. I have had the honor to be in the judging panel for Miss Asia WA, USA Miss Africa WA, USA and Miss British Columbia, Canada and had the opportunity to be a coach and mentor for the pageant girls prepping to compete. My association with brands and endorsements got me a step closer to my passion in marketing as well as promoting the brands.

I made red carpet appearances in IIFA Bollywood awards, 2016 in NewYork as well as in Dabangg tour reloaded in Vancouver, Canada. I recently won Best Model/Actor 2017 award in IFAB awards, New Jersey.

Being a public and motivational speaker has come handy to me and I have had the opportunity to interview several celebrities for TV channels such as USA TV news, EBOX TV and TV Asia. I am a fan of spontaneous interviews and I keep myself up to date before I get to speak to influential personas in the Film Industry, Corporate or Politics. My most recent interviews covered actors like Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Anupam Kher, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Alia Bhatt, Nawaz Siddiqui, Salmaan Kahn,Katrina Kaif, Prabhu Deva, Daisy Shah, Sonakshi Sinha, Guru Randhawa, Pritam, Miss USA 2017- Kara McCullough, DJ Bravo, Rohit Verma and the list goes on.

I am very comfortable in this space and probably this goes back to my modeling days in Mumbai where I got to work and chat with influential folks. As soon as the camera starts rolling, I take over.

Over the past few years, I have been involved in launching several brands and consulting them on marketing/promotion strategies. Marketing has been one of my major subjects and being in the field of IT, you rarely get an opportunity to be creative with your ideas. Through Event & Brand promotions, I am able to provide Launchpad to new brands and guide them towards the correct brand positioning strategies. I always say that I am a model as well as a brand promoter for any brand that I am associated with. By the end of 2018, I would have completed 320+ Runway shows 200 + Photoshoots, 92+ events and still counting..

As a brand strategist, I help building brand names and provide them with a launchpad. I have my own network of photographers, videographers, social media publicists and designers that work on the projects I take for brand building. Entrepreneurs can leverage my brand strategy and planning skills to create their brand awareness and increase their client base.

Until I turned 21, I was always underweight and probably weighed around 100 lbs or less. The irony is that I had to go to the gym to gain weight before I started my modeling career. Thanks to my trainer that I was able to gain enough weight to get me flooded with modeling offers. And then, my life took a twist and I flew to USA to pursue MBA. I have been a foodie always as I never gain weight no matter what I eat, be it chocolates or cheese. But apparently, when I followed the same routine in USA, I did gain 10 lbs weight and the thumb rule is that when a slim person gains few pounds, it shows up prominently. It is so easy to put that weight on especially if you eat outside junk food and that is what business students do.

I had to get back to my original weight and tone my body, hence fitness became an important part of my life in USA but this time I used the gym to lose weight. Being a vegetarian, it was hard for me to intake the correct amount of protein and avoid carbs. Hence, my workouts did not impact me the way it should have due to improper diet. To resolve this, I started adding alarms for me to eat timely and in the right proportion. With this, came the idea of Lifestyle tracker app. I noticed that it is not ideal to keep alarms for daily activities and to spend time on google to tell you what is healthy and what is not. I launched an app called ‘Lifestyle tracker’ to benefit others and helping them stay fit. This app simply reminds a person on the important things that a person should do daily at a particular time to stay fit. It gathered information from reliable sources available on search engines and set the activity/time by default based on advice in the source.

Along with using my own app, I ensured that I worked out Mon to Friday dedicatedly but also started cooking in Bulk for the week to refrain from eating outside food. Being in corporate, it was hard to work for 8 hours, then workout for 2 hours and then spare time to cook. Hence, I found a way to cook for 2 hours at a stretch on Sundays and prepared meals for the entire week. I added enough spices and salt so that food is preserved naturally and there was no need to freeze. That mantra worked and I lost 11 lbs in 4 months. Through my blogs, I will be sharing my fitness mantra, my secret smoothie recipe and more to keep your fitness goals on track. Don’t forget to download Lifestyle tracker, an android app today. And it is FREE!