Saloni once asked me to do something unusual. She asked me to write down my fears, all of them, on paper, and then burn them. I sat with that idea for a while, because when I actually put pen to paper that night, the fears were bigger than I had expected. There was self doubt. […]
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Two years into coaching, and I was still doubting myself. I was still unable to reach out to people about my work, and I was still carrying the same quiet critic inside me. Saloni noticed. She didn’t push, and she didn’t lecture. She simply said, write a forgiveness journal. Forgive yourself, for everything, and come
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November 2025. The chemo was done. The surgery was done. The radiation was done. My body was finding its rhythm again. And for the first time in almost a year, I had space to think. I sat with that space for a while. Not rushing to fill it. Just sitting. And when I looked back
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I thought I was a great manager. I was wrong. It was 2013. I had just been appointed Recruitment Manager at a large firm in Qatar. New role. New team. A lot of pressure to succeed. I wanted to prove myself. So I did what many first-time managers do. I controlled everything. Daily meetings. Tight
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Living and working in Qatar can be exciting. A good income, safe surroundings, and a modern lifestyle – everything seems appealing. After sometime, many professionals feel stuck in the same routine. You are surviving, not growing and you deserve much more than that. Let’s understand how you can manage it. Understanding the survival trap At
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Two wolves live inside each of us. One feeds on fear. The other on hope. I’ve had to choose. More than once. The first time, I wasn’t ill. I was just… stuck. No job. No assignments. A market that felt indifferent. A voice in my head growing louder by the day — you’re too old,
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I didn’t learn leadership in a classroom. I learned it in my first job in Delhi… from two people who probably didn’t even know they were teaching me. Their names weren’t on any leadership programme. They didn’t have coaching certifications or TED talks. One was my MD. The other was my immediate boss. I’ll call
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I didn’t plan to become a recruiter. I didn’t plan most of it, actually. In 2006, my husband and I made the decision to move to Qatar. New country. New life. And for me… no job, no network, no idea where to begin. I had left behind a career. A comfort zone. Everything familiar. And
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Returning to work after cancer was scarier than cancer itself. Three weeks after surgery, I felt I had recovered well. I could walk, sit for a few hours, manage most of my work. Yes, there were aches and pains. But after everything my body had been through during chemotherapy, they felt small. Physically, I was
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What got you here… won’t always take you further. Three weeks after cancer surgery, I went back to work. And then began 19 radiation sessions. People imagine radiation as dramatic — scalpels, monitors, urgency. It’s not. It’s a quiet 20-minute procedure. A machine revolves around you. You hold your breath. The attendants see dozens of
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