Stories that Impact

Stories that Impact #54-  From Topper to Loser to Author with Vikas Agrawal

Being a A+ grade student in school, especially defined by your marks and then scoring less than 50% in higher education can make you feel low on confidence and create lot of self doubt. My guest today went through such turmoil in his life and it was his family who came to his aide.

Today Vikas Agrawal is an Amazon Best Selling Author of the book "You Are Not Too Young" and also a young entrepreneur and runs a sales funnel (digital marketing) agency that helps coaches, trainers and mentors to grow their business and impact. 

His agency is serving clients not only across PAN India but internationally as well. Vikas has been inspiring, transforming many people’s lives through his services of building funnels, and via his coaching & mentoring programs, webinars, and much more.  He is a computer science engineer by education and an entrepreneur by choice. 

He lived a normal life just like any average person for years and then realized the importance to find his passion and convert it into a business that can positively impact and transform people's lives. 

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When you are in a leadership role, giving presentations is a key aspect of your life. Everyone wants to move up the ladder and be in the leadership role in their careers. My guest Emily was embarrassed after giving two particularly bad presentations in the corporate world. It haunted her for a long time afterwards and made me even more nervous.

Instead of being a victim, she decided to take control of her life and she started learning the art of public speaking and storytelling. Today she is successful public speaker and she helps many with her masterclass, corporate, and one on one coaching.

She is a successful Public Speaking Coach who helps people in Tech to speak with impact and turn their nerves into excitement. She helps individuals with Private coaching, and even caters to large groups with her group workshops. She also keeps running free storytelling masterclass.

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Facing public is the biggest fear than death. Most of the people who are shy are scared to talk or some go to that extent that they do not like to be seen. The confidence level for such a person is below zero. Moreover they face a lot of challenge while dealing in public or office.

These people also get bullied and they fail to speak up and cannot share their creativity. 

My guest Anita van Rooyen was one such person. Over time she learned, created and tried all kinds of tools to boost her self-esteem. Now as a human behavior expert and the Chief Confidence Hacker, Anita helps young people of all ages to build lasting confidence, using tools that truly work, so that they can make better decisions for themselves about their study, job, happiness, contentment and even life itself.

Anita loves engaging with groups, making wellbeing a fun and engaging things to do for groups and workplaces. She does that in many ways like One-on-one coaching, fun and PowerPoint-free presentations and workshops, Products and Gifts, Online Courses and many that focus on Student wellbeing.

With that its my great pleasure to bring Anita the Confidence Hacker.

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Today is 50th episode of my show Stories that Impact. The show launched with a hope to impact people's lives by sharing stories of amazing people who went through hell and never gave up.

Being the 50th episode its my greatest pleasure to bring my SIFU, my First Mentor, GURUDEV.

It all started in 2016 where he thought that he has potential to do more. Being in sales for his entire life, he thought he is good at it; however, he wanted to be the best and that led him to his first mentor Grant Cardone. On his personal development journey he found another amazing mentor DanLok.

Being in a mediocre life for 33 years, he went through enough pain to start a movement in 2018 called as Passionpreneurs with a mission on creating a universe of Passionpreneur who are changing the world and becoming legends by impacting 1 Billion lives

He helps professionals to quit their 9 to 5 and build a business around their passion. Since then he has impacted 1000's of lives and help them generate millions.

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Bullying or Ragging during teen years could lead a child with scars. The memories can haunt them forever. Some children take the extreme step to kill themselves and then there are others like Dr.Siddharth who sends sweets to their bullies.

Dr. Siddharth Kishore Gaur is a PhD in Management with a specialization in Digital Marketing. He completed his MS and MOT (Management of Technology) from Georgia Tech in Electrical and Computer Engineering which ranks 4’th in the world. He works as a Sales Professional with over 11 years of experience of working in some of the topmost IT Companies in the World in various roles across Marketing, Sales and Customer Success.  

He has also been working in the area of personal growth and human development for the past 2 years. His Mission is to create 'One Million Public Speakers Globally' by 2030. He strongly believes that Public Speaking is not a sprint, it is a marathon. In order to be a World-Class Public Speaker, you have to be ready to explore the world and to share your experiences and perceptions with others.

He is passionate about empowering his students through his Public Speaking programs and transformational seminars aimed at shattering the mental blocks and limiting beliefs that prevent his mentees to unleash their best via his personalized one-to-one and insightful group coaching programs. He strongly believes that Public Speaking gives you the platform to share valuable ideas, which according to him is the best way to give back to the Society and to ultimately make the World a better place to live in.  

“I am not a Public Speaking expert. I have been and shall always continue to be a student of Public Speaking.” – Dr. Siddharth Kishore Gaur

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Dr. Siddharth has been working as Sales and Customer Success professional in some of the Topmost IT companies in the world. He has over 11 years of experience. He is currently based out of Dubai. His mission is to create 'One Million Public Speakers' by 2030. He strongly believes that Public Speaking is not a sprint, it is a marathon. In order to be a World-Class Public Speaker, you have to be ready to explore the world and to share your experiences and perceptions with others. "I am not a Public Speaking expert. I have been and shall always continue to be a student of Public Speaking."

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From a debt of 25 lakhs and no future insight, Som managed to look within, found a mentor and changed her life 360 degrees.

She helps people intensify their life to the fullest potential to design and live the kind of success they want and build their business around passion.

She is a best selling author of the book "7 Steps from SHAME to being BACK IN THE GAME". In her book she pens down the steps that she took to change her life.

She has her own Podcast Intensify Humanity where her guests from across the globe shares their terrible situations in life and how they managed to come out of it.

She also has her own magazine Intensify Life where she brings people in Yoga, Health, Drug abuse with a touch of food receipes and quiz. You can read more at https://intensifylifemagazine.com/

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Umesh Emmadishetty is an entrepreneur living in INDIA who loves sharing knowledge and helping others on the topic of Social Media Marketing and Digital Marketing.

Umesh is a passionate person who will go the extra mile and over-deliver.

But life was not the same for him. Being successful at work, he always knew that he wanted to create a large impact in the world; however, not sure HOW. After a few years he found his mentor and there was no looking back.

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Mental Depression, Financial breakdown, Emotional turmoil and Physical Imbalance all at same time.

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Napoleon Hill says “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Amol is a Morning Ritual Specialist, Mindset Transformation Mentor and the Author of best selling book “The Magic of Failure”. He transformed his life in just 12 months with his hard work, rituals and self discipline.

Amol has been interviewed by AB News on their talk show “Äpni Pehchan”. His story has been featured in an online magazine “Brilliant Read”. 

He has trained more than ten-thousand people through his webinars, YouTube channels, and talk-shows across the country. So far, Amol has personally mentored more than five-hundred people in his signature program “Morning Ritual Miracles (MRM)” on their mindset, belief systems, habits, attitudes, and fears.

AMOL is on a mission to transform 10 million lives. He has been speaking at various prestigious institutes & corporates. He has been training hundreds of students to build a great life by working on their mindset & belief system.

Before I handover the MIC to Amol Karale, let me inform you that AMOL is my Mentor who opened up the world of Storytelling for me. He helped me with my Mindset and belief system. It gives me Great pleasure to welcome my mentor Amol Karale.

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My Guest, Shruti Deshpande, is a true icon for Women Empowerment. She is an Award Winning Architect. A girl who lost herself in the battles of Life. Couldn’t figure out the path. Didn’t knew what to do. 

When you fail a class, you also miss on your friends. Very few understand and try to stay connected; however, most move on. Shruti failed and lost her friends. It was so bad that they didn’t even turn up on her birthday and stopped inviting her.

She was heartbroken and realized at an early age the harsh truth that Life is tough. She had confidence in herself. To her surprise and shock, she learnt that it was a technical error that showed her as failed. However, she is grateful to learn a valuable lesson and promised herself to convert every failure to success hereafter

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