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.

At 42, I learnt to play tennis, not because I wanted to become a great player, but because I never want to stop being willing to be a beginner. Around the same time, I made another significant change. I left a twenty-year career in marketing to do, full-time, what I had been doing throughout my career: helping people navigate change, work through what was holding them back, and build stronger relationships and teams. Coaching gave that work a name, a structure, and a purpose. That experience reinforced something I believe deeply: confidence doesn't come before you begin. It grows because you begin. More often than not, the gap between where you are today and where you want to be is much smaller than it feels. Sometimes, all it takes is the right conversation to help you see the way forward.

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