Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in personal development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Ram Ramanathan, Co-Founder of Coacharya, located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
I work with people, small and big, students, young men and women, leaders, middle-aged and old, who are unhappy with what they do and do not know what would make them happy, to help them re-frame their lives and re-create their future with purpose and passion. What makes me fulfilled is that I leave many of them happier and more fulfilled. I am a spiritual leadership coach.
Tell us about yourself
I started my business in my sixties, after making several million as a super CEO and helping to build a multibillion $$ enterprise, only to see that collapse during a regional economic crisis in my forties, losing much of my savings in a stock market crash and heart-based entrepreneurial investments and spending seven years searching for my purpose in a spiritual journey in my fifties. It was based on a desire to do something with my son, daughter, and wife with what was left of a fortune, building it brick by brick with mortar, to be a human with a vision to serve fellow humans. I wake up knowing that I have fulfilled what I came here to do, and I do what I can to fulfill others while I am still able to.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
Creating a modest business whose focus is not revenue and profits but a vision to serve, building a future on a reality when that future was not visible, and becoming globally known albeit in a small pond against many odds, believing in the goodness of humanity and relationship.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
Combining the nurturing instinct as a human and being tolerant of avoidable failures with the hardheaded need for business focus on outcomes.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- It's not merely about your passion for what you love and the strengths of what you are great at, but how these can combine to create something, others love, even if they don't seem to need it.
- Curiosity, Empathy and a Future focus in communication.
- Knowing that without failures, there is no lasting success.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://coacharya.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zentocoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsramanathan/
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