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Mukta Bahrani, founder & director of The Better Zone knew what motivated her. She knew what would keep her moving ahead on this journey!
Excerpts from an interview with Mukta Bahrani, founder & director of The Better Zone, that ‘helps you become the best version of yourself!’
When did you start The Better Zone and what was the intention?
In the words of Mukta Bahrani, founder & director of The Better Zone –
I started my company in 2017 to help people in building their confidence, self-esteem, their soft skills and to enhance their brand.
People focus a lot on their hard skills, but not on their soft skills, missing out on some amazing opportunities. I wanted to guide people in developing these skills, their personalities and Interpersonal skills.
I associate with companies as well as individuals and customize programs for them to give them the best!
What was the biggest challenge you faced in starting the company?
I was alone and was going to quit my corporate job for something uncertain. I had no team, no strategy, no funds, no guidance, and no coach. It was just me and my talent, skills and determination.
Freelancing takes time, patience and hard work, but this was something I loved to do, and it helps people become better, successful, and happier in their personal and professional life.
That was my motivation, and I knew that will keep driving me to enhance more and more lives.
What is the biggest mistake you made while starting your company in the initial few years?
My mistake was that I tried to do it alone, right from content creation, to business development, and marketing to actual training delivery, it was all me. And that made everything so difficult.
It is only now that I’m in the process of forming a team.
If there was one thing you could advise to a budding woman entrepreneur, what would it be?
There will be times when you’re unsure, and people might demotivate you but believe in yourself.
Be practical, but be a visionary, and know your ‘why’. It will drive you to go forward, and make your beautiful journey possible!
You might fall, but don’t give up. Rise again, and shine again!
(Women’s Web, in collaboration with HEN India, will present a series of interviews with women entrepreneurs. ‘HEN- Her Entrepreneurial Network’ is a community of Indian Women Entrepreneurs, connected by a vision to inspire, inform and support each other.)
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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