it wouldn’t come as a surprise to my
family and friends that I stand here
today to inspire you all because as a
child I think I was mocked for my foot
in mouth situations just to give you a
brief story
maybe kahani a left rally the one that
Akshay Kumar told all of you so I was
born and brought up in Kuwait in a joint
family of veterans so vo krishna Bub’s
we heard krishna stories all the time
and i was always lost in the wonder of
this one emotion that we all feel called
love love is what ruled my mind not just
because it’s something we live by but
it’s also because ironically to living
mother’s day my mother always said one
thing in son PR Kapooka as exaggerated
as it sounds it’s the truth we can go
without food and water for days when we
are in love and that’s just one side of
love that we experienced but the truth
is that that kind of shaped the core of
me when I hear stories of karna playing
with the gopis being one with the gopis
being one with animals and nature I said
that’s what I want to be I think
somewhere I aspired to be loved I know
it sounds too big and larger thing
especially when I was going through the
kind of childhood like I did we were a
family of five kids and typically
everyone in my family was an achiever
one a doctor what an engineer one a
chartered accountant everyone did
something and they had something charted
out for themselves and academically
there was so brilliant that has to
wonder am I going to do anything that’s
going to be excellent I knew I liked
dancing and singing and all of that but
I never even performed or outperformed
in school so I would typically have
aunts and cousins saying oh poor thing
you know she talks rubbish she doesn’t
even get great grades what is she going
to do
and I think I felt like I had a mental
handicap like I was growing up thinking
will I ever make it and then will I do
anything but there was just one belief
Krishna gave so much importance to
everything he touched upon and I said if
I’m one of them I’m special right there
has to be something amazing about me now
let me just quickly tell you about my
personality lots of days of crying and
feeling depressed about how people
thought of me and you know always
meeting people and saying oh they know
so much more than I and what will I ever
do in this world they were just couple
of interests I had one was Linda Goodman
because I love zodiac signs and anything
that had to do with the occult or the
mysterious or mystique and I think our
religion gives us a lot of that and so I
would be very intrigued by even
spirituality at some level but I think
that handicapped helped me go inside of
me because I was constantly looking for
answers what is my uniqueness everybody
seems to be getting great grades some of
them are even great dancers some of them
are performing out there they’re getting
so many accolades what is Archana Ponyo
going to do and the only answer I could
tell myself when people asked Ikaruga
are it’s a push wrongly that was my
answer that I’d be happy they said
motorhome Saab really Kim Carew geeker I
said to sakushima Lee and that’s where
my journey started I started embracing
the uniqueness about me that I always
wanted a give and receive happiness and
to me the core of that was love if you
went about loving everything not being
jealous of other people’s achievements
not feeling bad about that someone’s
doing better than you you will be
special because those qualities don’t
come to everybody naturally and quite
frankly that’s probably where my first
achievement came accepting myself in
many ways it was a very hard journey I
cried at many many many occasions
thinking I was very different because as
accident-prone
I would laugh the loudest in fact one
incident where I actually got this scar
was when I was bleeding so profusely
that my neighbor who actually took me to
the hospital said you you didn’t cry you
were laughing and I thought I was weird
right
that was my uniqueness and the laughter
brings me to my first achievement when I
became a radio jockey
I had gone to audition and there was a
gentleman who is now a friend and he
said you know I’m sure you’re gonna make
it through and I said why would you say
that with so much confidence because
they were such amazing people there who
travelled the world who were achievers
already some of them Regis and I said I
don’t haven’t even participated in
debates or any kind of elocution so why
would he say that and he said no you
know why because you have a great
laughter and I laughed at him I said you
know I’m gonna go inside and talk I’m
not going to laugh guess what a year
later the radio station had an entire
promo dedicated to my laughter and I
think that’s what it is all about if you
knew your uniqueness and lived by that
there would be more people who would
embrace you for that the problem is we
unfortunately live in a society that
points out what’s wrong about you as
opposed to what’s right and being that
wrong because sometimes madness is what
gets you to where you are for example I
recently heard a wonderful talk by
Shahrukh Khan and he said most people
said you don’t look like a chocolate boy
and he’s supposed to be the most
romantic hero ever because he embraced
his quality of being this romantic man
in every mode of life even as somebody
who literally has no headline I really
don’t I mean I love astrology and trust
me I don’t have a headline I usually put
my heart before my mind and most people
make fun of it in fact even as he speak
today I have an extremely logical
husband who helps me you know handle my
life and make it make order out of it
but I just follow my heart
and I’m not saying it’s the right thing
or the right way to be but it works for
me because I’ll tell you how the seeds
of wanting to be in an audio medium came
from a film called Lion King when I was
watching it and I said every character
in that film is so unique so distinct I
want to do this I’m gonna be a voice and
I remember joining a class and nothing
happening after that but I worked really
hard at it I would go into studios ask
people for opportunities and this is
something I am raised about myself I
want to do this
of course I still haven’t voiced for a
cartoon or an animated film but I’m a
radio jockey for crying out loud
and I always go back to my school where
in my report card the teachers always
remarked very capable but very talkative
and I think I’m being paid for this
today I still wonder why is it so hard
for us to accept every person has magic
in them as a cue ball Tinky chart a
whisper watch go Salaam curtain
I love sunsets too I meet people in
everyday life whether it’s the man who
sells make coffee and I look at him and
wonder how many people just call him and
say coffee Lao chai I love yellow loud
typing AI it’s difficult to deal with a
day like that the least what we can do
for other people is smile be nice how
hard is it we’re all human beings in all
our journeys all of us are struggling
but yet we want to make it competition
you want to look better than the other
and it’s all about some sort of
aggressive journey that we’ve gone into
as opposed to being kind to each other
that’s why when we see kindness I think
it’s the more most rarest thing ever and
sometimes I tend to pride myself on
having that heart even on my radio show
because luckily I’m Co are jaded by this
man who’s constantly giving you
statistics and yawn and I’m like thank
God I have a connect hi who’s the next
caller that’s what really gets me
excited what’s the story and everybody
does that’s why we’re here today to hear
each other story let me tell you about
my love life it was an easy role my
first heartbreak came from a man across
the globe in America who chose to leave
me for another woman and most people
were perplexing he left you and I was
like yeah and it hurt so much but nobody
knew because to me my sorrow was my own
to handle and most people saw me smiling
through that phase why is this important
because all of us go through downfalls
and feel like this is the worst phase of
my life why is this happened to me but
if you choose to smile through it like
that is a part of your journey as much
as the successes you will see grace a
kind of grace that shines upon people
that I can’t even explain the kind of
grace that when you see someone who
doesn’t have eyes or don’t have limbs
but yet are smiling with a spirit that
kind of grease we’re extremely fortunate
that we have everything going for us and
yet we cry in those situations I always
smiled and still was called mad by the
way and when I finally found my man it
took me 12 years to accept that yes this
is him and guess why because despite
belonging to us in the family where
girls are supposed to be married off at
22 23 and they should be often having
babies and people are telling me are you
sure you belong to this in the community
how come you’re not married and I’m like
because I’m not sure I embrace that
uniqueness about me as well I said I
will marry when I’m the happiest when
I’ll feel it in the core not because I’m
supposed to be married and I cannot tell
you the kind of loving eyes the
blessings and the joy that people feel
when they see me and my husband together
today it’s all about embracing the
uniqueness about you don’t be shy of it
yes there will be people who will call
you mad like they called me but there
will be moments like this shockingly so
when I’ll be invited to a TEDx and we
told share your story with the world
embrace your uniqueness it’s what makes
you you in it’s what makes you separate
from everybody else and that’s what
makes a beautiful world let me just
quickly cite examples
Sachin Tendulkar if he thought that his
height and his lack of robust body like
a couple they was not there and that’s
why he couldn’t be your cricketer he
wouldn’t be the biggest legends we would
have today or Einstein he was dyslexic
and thank God for today’s I mean per we
all know that maybe some of us actually
did suffer from that because I would
very often fall asleep in my India class
but he was the biggest and the greatest
scientist some of the most amazing
achievers in the world are the ones who
accepted their uniqueness that core
celebrate that and make that the best
quality about you thank you everyone and
I hope this has made you feel and see
that everybody is special thank you you
family and friends that I stand here
today to inspire you all because as a
child I think I was mocked for my foot
in mouth situations just to give you a
brief story
maybe kahani a left rally the one that
Akshay Kumar told all of you so I was
born and brought up in Kuwait in a joint
family of veterans so vo krishna Bub’s
we heard krishna stories all the time
and i was always lost in the wonder of
this one emotion that we all feel called
love love is what ruled my mind not just
because it’s something we live by but
it’s also because ironically to living
mother’s day my mother always said one
thing in son PR Kapooka as exaggerated
as it sounds it’s the truth we can go
without food and water for days when we
are in love and that’s just one side of
love that we experienced but the truth
is that that kind of shaped the core of
me when I hear stories of karna playing
with the gopis being one with the gopis
being one with animals and nature I said
that’s what I want to be I think
somewhere I aspired to be loved I know
it sounds too big and larger thing
especially when I was going through the
kind of childhood like I did we were a
family of five kids and typically
everyone in my family was an achiever
one a doctor what an engineer one a
chartered accountant everyone did
something and they had something charted
out for themselves and academically
there was so brilliant that has to
wonder am I going to do anything that’s
going to be excellent I knew I liked
dancing and singing and all of that but
I never even performed or outperformed
in school so I would typically have
aunts and cousins saying oh poor thing
you know she talks rubbish she doesn’t
even get great grades what is she going
to do
and I think I felt like I had a mental
handicap like I was growing up thinking
will I ever make it and then will I do
anything but there was just one belief
Krishna gave so much importance to
everything he touched upon and I said if
I’m one of them I’m special right there
has to be something amazing about me now
let me just quickly tell you about my
personality lots of days of crying and
feeling depressed about how people
thought of me and you know always
meeting people and saying oh they know
so much more than I and what will I ever
do in this world they were just couple
of interests I had one was Linda Goodman
because I love zodiac signs and anything
that had to do with the occult or the
mysterious or mystique and I think our
religion gives us a lot of that and so I
would be very intrigued by even
spirituality at some level but I think
that handicapped helped me go inside of
me because I was constantly looking for
answers what is my uniqueness everybody
seems to be getting great grades some of
them are even great dancers some of them
are performing out there they’re getting
so many accolades what is Archana Ponyo
going to do and the only answer I could
tell myself when people asked Ikaruga
are it’s a push wrongly that was my
answer that I’d be happy they said
motorhome Saab really Kim Carew geeker I
said to sakushima Lee and that’s where
my journey started I started embracing
the uniqueness about me that I always
wanted a give and receive happiness and
to me the core of that was love if you
went about loving everything not being
jealous of other people’s achievements
not feeling bad about that someone’s
doing better than you you will be
special because those qualities don’t
come to everybody naturally and quite
frankly that’s probably where my first
achievement came accepting myself in
many ways it was a very hard journey I
cried at many many many occasions
thinking I was very different because as
accident-prone
I would laugh the loudest in fact one
incident where I actually got this scar
was when I was bleeding so profusely
that my neighbor who actually took me to
the hospital said you you didn’t cry you
were laughing and I thought I was weird
right
that was my uniqueness and the laughter
brings me to my first achievement when I
became a radio jockey
I had gone to audition and there was a
gentleman who is now a friend and he
said you know I’m sure you’re gonna make
it through and I said why would you say
that with so much confidence because
they were such amazing people there who
travelled the world who were achievers
already some of them Regis and I said I
don’t haven’t even participated in
debates or any kind of elocution so why
would he say that and he said no you
know why because you have a great
laughter and I laughed at him I said you
know I’m gonna go inside and talk I’m
not going to laugh guess what a year
later the radio station had an entire
promo dedicated to my laughter and I
think that’s what it is all about if you
knew your uniqueness and lived by that
there would be more people who would
embrace you for that the problem is we
unfortunately live in a society that
points out what’s wrong about you as
opposed to what’s right and being that
wrong because sometimes madness is what
gets you to where you are for example I
recently heard a wonderful talk by
Shahrukh Khan and he said most people
said you don’t look like a chocolate boy
and he’s supposed to be the most
romantic hero ever because he embraced
his quality of being this romantic man
in every mode of life even as somebody
who literally has no headline I really
don’t I mean I love astrology and trust
me I don’t have a headline I usually put
my heart before my mind and most people
make fun of it in fact even as he speak
today I have an extremely logical
husband who helps me you know handle my
life and make it make order out of it
but I just follow my heart
and I’m not saying it’s the right thing
or the right way to be but it works for
me because I’ll tell you how the seeds
of wanting to be in an audio medium came
from a film called Lion King when I was
watching it and I said every character
in that film is so unique so distinct I
want to do this I’m gonna be a voice and
I remember joining a class and nothing
happening after that but I worked really
hard at it I would go into studios ask
people for opportunities and this is
something I am raised about myself I
want to do this
of course I still haven’t voiced for a
cartoon or an animated film but I’m a
radio jockey for crying out loud
and I always go back to my school where
in my report card the teachers always
remarked very capable but very talkative
and I think I’m being paid for this
today I still wonder why is it so hard
for us to accept every person has magic
in them as a cue ball Tinky chart a
whisper watch go Salaam curtain
I love sunsets too I meet people in
everyday life whether it’s the man who
sells make coffee and I look at him and
wonder how many people just call him and
say coffee Lao chai I love yellow loud
typing AI it’s difficult to deal with a
day like that the least what we can do
for other people is smile be nice how
hard is it we’re all human beings in all
our journeys all of us are struggling
but yet we want to make it competition
you want to look better than the other
and it’s all about some sort of
aggressive journey that we’ve gone into
as opposed to being kind to each other
that’s why when we see kindness I think
it’s the more most rarest thing ever and
sometimes I tend to pride myself on
having that heart even on my radio show
because luckily I’m Co are jaded by this
man who’s constantly giving you
statistics and yawn and I’m like thank
God I have a connect hi who’s the next
caller that’s what really gets me
excited what’s the story and everybody
does that’s why we’re here today to hear
each other story let me tell you about
my love life it was an easy role my
first heartbreak came from a man across
the globe in America who chose to leave
me for another woman and most people
were perplexing he left you and I was
like yeah and it hurt so much but nobody
knew because to me my sorrow was my own
to handle and most people saw me smiling
through that phase why is this important
because all of us go through downfalls
and feel like this is the worst phase of
my life why is this happened to me but
if you choose to smile through it like
that is a part of your journey as much
as the successes you will see grace a
kind of grace that shines upon people
that I can’t even explain the kind of
grace that when you see someone who
doesn’t have eyes or don’t have limbs
but yet are smiling with a spirit that
kind of grease we’re extremely fortunate
that we have everything going for us and
yet we cry in those situations I always
smiled and still was called mad by the
way and when I finally found my man it
took me 12 years to accept that yes this
is him and guess why because despite
belonging to us in the family where
girls are supposed to be married off at
22 23 and they should be often having
babies and people are telling me are you
sure you belong to this in the community
how come you’re not married and I’m like
because I’m not sure I embrace that
uniqueness about me as well I said I
will marry when I’m the happiest when
I’ll feel it in the core not because I’m
supposed to be married and I cannot tell
you the kind of loving eyes the
blessings and the joy that people feel
when they see me and my husband together
today it’s all about embracing the
uniqueness about you don’t be shy of it
yes there will be people who will call
you mad like they called me but there
will be moments like this shockingly so
when I’ll be invited to a TEDx and we
told share your story with the world
embrace your uniqueness it’s what makes
you you in it’s what makes you separate
from everybody else and that’s what
makes a beautiful world let me just
quickly cite examples
Sachin Tendulkar if he thought that his
height and his lack of robust body like
a couple they was not there and that’s
why he couldn’t be your cricketer he
wouldn’t be the biggest legends we would
have today or Einstein he was dyslexic
and thank God for today’s I mean per we
all know that maybe some of us actually
did suffer from that because I would
very often fall asleep in my India class
but he was the biggest and the greatest
scientist some of the most amazing
achievers in the world are the ones who
accepted their uniqueness that core
celebrate that and make that the best
quality about you thank you everyone and
I hope this has made you feel and see
that everybody is special thank you you
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