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The panel discussion on Entrepreneurship—Drivers of the New Economy, featured Neha Motwani (Founder and CEO Fitternity.com), Sneha Choudhry (Co-founder and CBO Zolo), Adwaita Nayar (CEO-Fashion, Nykaa) and Preeta Sukhtankar (Founder The Label Life). Moderated by Aabha Bakaya, the discussion opened with the women sharing their stories of building and scaling up a business and as affordable co-living spaces Zolo’s co-founder, Sneha, rightly shared, “Gender has nothing to do with building a business. It’s got to do with a business model.”

As a woman entrepreneur in India, I understand the tight rope-walk we women entrepreneurs make every single day irrespective of the industry one belongs too.

Thankfully, this mantra is one that was easily imbibed in my professional life as well. My career has been dotted with experience across diverse spaces including the media and telecom industries, that helped me create a bank of valuable insights that I was fortunate enough to gather, before I turned into an entrepreneur. During my early years in the corporate life, I worked on a lot of interesting and challenging projects many of which were focused on financial inclusion.

Most of us don’t. Yes, that includes me. While I am a great believer of The Secret and try to be positive 90% of the times, it is that 10% of negative thoughts that take over and make us feel miserable.