At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring to our community some of the finest stories from the entrepreneurship world. As part of this endeavour, we invited a passionate entrepreneur – Sushama Mante for an exclusive interview with us. She is a Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Entrepreneur. She is the founder of Aadi Entrepreneurship / Soft skills training and co-founder of Shree Aadilight Enterprises. Let’s learn more about her inspiring journey, her background and her advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Sushama:
We are aware of your contribution to the ecosystem, talk us through your background and your journey as a coach, please;
I understood my passion for public speaking when I was in MBA. That time I decided to turn my passion into a profession.
I had been a senior lecturer for 4 years. Then I joined MCED (Maharashtra centre for Entrepreneurship development) as an entrepreneur’s trainer. I have also been working as a co-founder at ‘Shree Aadilight Enterprises’.”
Working as an entrepreneur and conducting training for entrepreneurs drives me to take the lead and start my own training centre “Aadi Entrepreneurship / Soft skills training”.
I have completed my MBA (Financial Management).
I am Founder at ‘Aadi Entrepreneurship / Soft skills training’, Co-founder at ‘Shree Aadilight Enterprises’, Growth mindset coach and Motivational speaker. It was a challenging yet interesting journey.
What made you passionate about coaching?
For me, coaching is to help people find their passion, their purpose, make them realize their full potential and also to guide them, train them in a way so that they can unleash their full potential.
To make difference in other people’s lives drives me to coach them towards achieving their dreams.”
What gets you out of bed in the morning i.e. what’s your source of motivation?
My life purpose which is to add value to entrepreneurs life makes me Unstoppable and keeps me motivated. Every day I try to be more and more creative in my approaches in every aspect.
How do you manage yourself and keep on going despite the challenges? What drives you?
I firmly believe that the stronger your ‘Why’ is, the stronger will be your inspiration. First comes your motive, attitude, then comes knowledge and skills. My ‘Why’ drives me to be more enthusiastic in achieving my goal.
I learned a lot from my sister, how to keep going despite of having a lot of challenges.”
Please share with us, how do you motivate your clients?
The more energetic, positive, and enthusiastic I am, the more interested, active, and inspired clients would be. My high energy is my biggest strength.
Every time I want to bring something more creative and innovative into the training.
How important is it to be aware of it? What services do you offer to help your clients?
Different training programs like ‘Prepare yourself for Entrepreneurship’. This training program helps to have clarity and awareness of the entrepreneurship journey for those who want to start a new business. It helps them to evolve in the business process.
Conducting different soft skills training programs for those who need to work on themselves to reach their highest potential. Coaching to new entrepreneurs.
Please share with us – what has worked well for you so far?
Self-discipline worked for me. I always push myself to have more self-discipline. It improves my confidence and gives me the courage to get out of my comfort zone.
In your opinion what are the keys to success?
For getting success, you must keep walking on your path. There will be setbacks in your journey but always remember that ‘Every comeback is stronger than every setback’.
You must be ready to learn new things. Any journey would be successful with learning and evolving.
What advice would you give students and young professionals who want to have a successful career?
What I observe in youngsters is that the main problem is that they don’t have a focus on what they really want. Because of a lack of proper guidance/training/mentoring, they can’t find the right direction.
They must get proper guidance/training/mentoring about their career so that they would be more successful and can achieve their goals/dreams.
BrilliantRead is committed to bringing stories from the startup ecosystem, stories that reshape our perspective, add value to our community and be a constant source of motivation not just for our community but also for the whole ecosystem of entrepreneurs and aspiring individuals.
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