I quit when I was doing well. Not because things fell apart. Because something no longer felt right.

That decision took longer than it should have. The career looked good. The title was right. The money made sense. And still, something was quietly off. Learning to trust that signal and act on it is some of the hardest work I have ever done. It is also the most important.

I grew up in Mumbai as a girl who loved and played sport. In India, that was not exactly the expected path. That stubbornness, the refusal to accept the version of myself that other people had decided, has stayed with me ever since. It carried me through three countries, four industries, two children, and a marriage between two very different cultures. Every new context asked me to figure out who I was in the middle of circumstances that kept changing. I got good at that. What took longer was learning to trust my own read of things rather than the external signals telling me I was fine.

Learning tennis in my forties reminded me that growth always begins with being willing to be a beginner. It was around the same time I left a twenty-year marketing career to become a coach. It was the work I had loved most throughout my career: helping people navigate change and realise more of their potential. I've learnt that confidence isn't a prerequisite for change. It's the result of taking the first step.

That perspective shapes how I work. Helping people move through change with more self-trust and fewer of the patterns that keep them stuck.