Live Your Authentic Life

I will help out as needed. If you need me to help promote the event or help set up, I am willing to step in.

I also am very flexible in my approach. If you need me to change the format, slides or no slides, activities, no activities, story telling, more educational, I am willing to work with you.

I will also show up before hand to speak with the organizers, the guest and stay back after to answer any questions.

From the age of 5, my life was anything but easy. It started with my parent's divorce, being told I would not amount to much, all the way from not doing well in school and being bullied for the way I looked and spoke.

All of these ruined my confidence and self-esteem. I did whatever I could do to get other's acceptance. Even if it was not to bring up my feelings or talk about how someone had wronged me.

Growing up I was taught that you do not speak up because keeping the peace is important. You do whatever you can to be nice to others. You do not cry or talk about feelings. These would negatively and positively impact me later in life.

Once I went to university, I became a more confident person. As a result, I started standing up for myself more. The issue was that I had suppressed so many of my emotions from childhood that I exploded on people and had so much resentment. This damaged my relationships.

It took a few years, but through going to therapy, educating myself and shedding old school south asian beliefs, I started to see relationships and mental health in a different way. I started to see that conflict is normal. Boundaries are normal. Tough conversations are normal. I take this approach with everyone in my life now and my relationships are so much more fulfilling.

Being taught to treat people with respect has served me well. I am very empathic to others, I love to help them and it allows me to connect and be vulnerable with them. I also have built up enough confidence to be proud to be vulnerable and see expressing my emotions and getting help as a strength especially as a man.

I now help my clients shed old school south asian beliefs so they can live an authentic life on their own terms, have tough conversations, build boundaries and be more emotionally aware.

Any type of mic is fine. preferably one I can wear as a headset or pin to my shirt.