My story and background

I'll give you the 4-1-1 on who I am. I'm going to do an episode with my story in more detail, but I'll give you the cliffnotes for today.

I've always had a passion for understanding the human mind and exploring human behavior and why we do the things we do and how it affects us. Like I said earlier, I've just always been fascinated with the fact that we can change our lives. This idea that you can be the architect of your life, you can draw out the plans, you can take actions, you can build the roads you need to get to the destinations you want.

And I think I became so fascinated by it because I spent a lot of my childhood wishing things were different, and when the idea was taught to me that life doesnt have to be what you see, you can make changes, I think it gave me hope in moments when I felt really low.

As a child I spent a lot of time living in my own loneliness and confusion as to why I didn't feel loved. I was loved, but my parents were immigrants so the way they showed their love was different than what I was seeing other parents doing at school or on movies. They provided for me and their main concern was making sure we had food on the table, a house to live in, and their main priority was putting money into a college fund so that they could set my future up for success. And I knew logically I was loved, but I was just always confused on why I didn't feeeeeeel loved. And it was because as a kid I couldn't understand, I couldn't understand that first of all, what you see in the movies isn't reality.

And I couldn't grasp my parents' differences in how they showed up emotionally, or their lifestyle preferences, or their values and priorities were different than other people's. I just knew that other kids were going to disney world and I wasn't and the meaning I placed on that was that I wasn't loved and that I wasn't meant to have this exciting life that other kids did. And at the same time my parents couldnt grasp why i was "ungrateful" and wanted more when they were already giving me everything they could to have a successful future.

So I grew up in an environment where I often felt misunderstood and like I couldn't be who I was, which led to me suppressing parts of myself. And I also inflated a lot of parts of myself that I thought I needed to be in order to fit in or seem cool. And I struggled with navigating all of this self-doubt and insecurity, especially as a teenager.

Most of my teenage years were spent trying to suppress these feelings of not being understood and seen and loved and worthy and cool, and all of these things.

And I tried dealing with all of these feelings my reading books. Back then the self help world isn't what it's like today. There wasn't much information out on the internet, and the self help section of barnes and nobles was pretty limited to like one aisle. now its like the entire back wall and like 87 pages deep on amazon. But I spent a lot of my time in high school and college sitting at barnes and nobles and trying to figure out what I needed to change about myself to feel better about myself, feel better about my life.

So I think my passion for personal development definitely started from a wounded place, I was using it as a way to heal, a way to learn how to love myself and accept who I was and figure out what I wanted out of life.

Thats why now, my mission is to help you figure out the answers to those same questions. To find your own version of success, fulfillment and joy; to help you leverage the power of personal development for greater self-awareness, clarity and direction. To build your own roadmap to success so you can start creating the life that you want and design a future that feels fulfilling and meaningful.

So yeah, thats why I'm here, and why I'm doing this podcast-because all of my journey has been leading me here. It's been full of highs and lows, successes and failures, moments of clarity and moments of darkness, but through it all I've learnt one thing- if we can focus on our mental wellbeing, use the power of personal development to get out of our own way and into alignment with what we want, then anything is possible.

So I'm here to share my experiences, stories, strategies and lessons that I have learnt along this journey so you can step into your power, love yourself and live a life of joy and fulfillment.