I learned this early.
I was born in Kathmandu and raised in California. When my parents came to the U.S. alone, they wove a chosen family out of the Nepali community around them.
Growing up bilingual, I became fascinated by how language shapes reality– how words, silences, and gestures could build bridges or borders. That curiosity led me to study Communication at UCLA, exploring how humans relate, and later Duke's Fuqua School of Business, where I studied how strangers come together to build enterprises and movements bigger than themselves.
My fascination with leadership and human potential continued throughout my career– from consulting to becoming an executive leading coaching platforms designed to help others grow.
Over time, that curiosity expanded beyond traditional ideas of leadership and into a deeper exploration of what it means to trust ourselves. I began to see that while others can inspire us, they cannot create our path for us. The more I explored leadership, the less interested I became in power as we'd been taught to understand it.
"When power becomes something to earn, wield, or trade, we lose its essence."
In the teachings of Vedas and other wisdom systems like Human Design, I found what modern frameworks had forgotten: that power isn’t something you collect from others– it’s something you remember in yourself.
You were never broken.
And liberation isn’t freedom from others– it’s the freedom to be fully you. Now, through my coaching practice, I’m creating spaces for that remembering– where the work of life isn’t to fix yourself, but to come home to who you’ve always been.
