Harvi Shah

Life has a way of taking us through intricate mazes and experiences before leading us to our true purpose. 17 years ago, I was a proud engineer earning 1.7 lakhs a year. Today, I am a Fashion Entrepreneur earning 8 crores a year across three profitable fashion businesses.

At a very young age, I began to comprehend the life my parents were living. I discovered that my Dad had miserably failed in three businesses and couldn’t find a stable job.

In desperation to earn money to run the family, he resorted to doing odd jobs! What he was doing to earn money was not socially acceptable or respectable. I saw my parents in so much shame, that I promised myself to earn a lot of money and give them a respectable and better lifestyle.

At the age of 16, my understanding of achieving financial success was simple – become an engineer, travel to international client projects, earn dollars, and live a great life.

My Dad wholeheartedly supported me in becoming an Engineer. But my mom was hesitant. She asked my dad, “Where is the money to pay her fees?” My dad requested that she sell the only jewelry she had to pay my fees, it was a beautiful diamond necklace. But she refused.

My dad persistently kept convincing her. I overheard him tell her, “Anisha, you are selling your diamonds, to create a diamond in the house”. She finally agreed, and my parents sacrificed the only jewelry they had to make me an engineer.

I was on cloud 9 when I graduated and got an IT job making 1.7 lakhs a year. Over the years, I worked hard to grow my career, as an IT consultant working for international banks in Singapore and London. I was living my dream – Earning in dollars, renting a luxurious condominium, enjoying holiday travels and shopping sprees.

During this phase of my career, in 2011, I got married. Fresh out of my Mauritius honeymoon, I told my husband, Vipin, that I would finish my Singapore project in 3 months and come back to India.

In the greed of making more money in dollars, I took a very big decision—to continue to stay in Singapore beyond the three months, away from my husband for three more years.

While I was making good money, the physical distance and time zone differences with my husband in India took a toll on our relationship.

I got fed up with our daily fights and arguments during our Skype video calls. My life was financially fulfilling but filled with loneliness and relationship issues. I had reached a point, where I had to choose between my promising international IT consultant career and returning to India to be with my husband.

Choosing the latter, I returned to India and decided to have a baby. I wanted to be a Mother. They say that motherhood shows you the strength you did not know you had.

My motherhood showed me the strength of being an Entrepreneur.

The idea of leaving my child at home while traveling for work bothered me, so in the 8th month of my pregnancy, I took a leap of faith and started BlingBag, my Online Fashion Jewelry Brand. I was super proud of myself for starting a business without any fashion or business background and setting it up entirely on my own.

Over the course of four years, I built my brand from scratch using logic and trial and error methods.

I had fantastic learning experiences from my business journey, and over the years I was able to cross my monthly salary mark through my business revenues.

Intending to grow my jewelry brand, I started attending business summits, and at one such summit, I met Siddharth Rajsekar, talking about Freedom. His topic was not at all related to my jewelry brand growth, but he said something – “Anyone Can Coach”.

I met him backstage and asked him what coaching I could do. Understanding my experience, within seconds, he said you can help women start their lifestyle businesses. It didn't make sense to me at all. But I am a curious Gemini, and I love exploring new ideas and challenges.

I decided to give his Freedom Business Model a try. I selected my Niche to Help Women grow their businesses, which later turned out to be too generic.

During COVID, I participated in the Hackathon challenge and became a Freedom Finisher. I recorded my Silver membership courses and started doing my webinars.

I did eight webinars in two months.
Spent Rs. 20,000 on Facebook ads.
0 Sales!
I was devastated.
I gave up on the Freedom Business Model.
I thought, this is not my cup of tea, and everyone can’t be a coach.
I started focusing on my online jewelry brand.

COVID-19 turned out to be the biggest challenge for my business. Like many others, my financial situation was a mess in COVID. BlingBag was shut. 0 sales in lockdown.

Worst happened! My husband lost his high-paying job. I saw my husband cry for the first time in his life.

Our financial situation was so bad that we had to sell our car. We had some money to pay for our son’s school fees, but I chose not to pay the school. I emailed his school to ask them to support us and give me a 1-year extension on paying the fees. I decided to use this money to invest in my education instead.

To support the family financially, I gathered the courage to implement the Freedom Business Model again with the hope of making 3 lakh a month. This time, my energy and intention to make it happen were very different!

I wrote to Sidz, asking him to take my son’s school fees and upgrade me to a Diamond membership, even when I had zero sales. I realized that to make the money you dream of, you first need to invest the money you don't have.

I restarted my journey by joining the Diamond Membership.

The first 6 months after becoming a Diamond Member were difficult. There was so much to figure out! My old courses with broader niches had not worked out, and I was constantly doubting myself:

Am I even good at anything?
Who will come and learn from me?
What if I see zero sales again?

But I am so grateful to Siddharth for structuring his Diamond Membership in an amazing way. It instilled so much clarity and faith in me.

Diamond membership helped me narrow down my niche. I reworked a few iterations before I got my niche Bulb On Moment.

I will Help Women Build Their FASHION Brands! Yes, that will be my Niche.

I scrapped all the courses I had created earlier. I was open to starting again. I re-created my Silver membership courses all over again.

For someone like me, who had Never Trained anyone, Never Done Sales, Never Spoken In front of a Camera, and Never Created any course structures, It was a challenging learning path. But the step-by-step methods Siddharth taught made it a cakewalk for me.

The Internet Lifestyle Hub gave me a new family during COVID time. People who would support and genuinely celebrate my Success! I have never seen such a community selflessly helping each other.  

When Siddharth launched his Quantum membership, it was a no-brainer to enroll in his first batch. I believe, that to get fast and desired results, you need to be in your mentor’s top ecosystem, and Quantum completely changed my business game. Laser focus clarity and refinements.

Fast forward 30 months, and I have done over 200 Live Webinars. Helping 4500+ women build their profitable Fashion Brands. I have made several crores in revenue consistently converting above 10% in all my webinars.

The first 1 lakh was the hardest to make. It took about 3 to 4 months to make this. I had to make a lot of refinements to my sales webinar pitch, my ads, my courses, and other aspects.

Then, I made my first crore in one year. It was a magical moment!

For the past few months, I have consistently made 1 Crore every single month.

Gratitude to the Quantum Club energy. It is still so difficult for me to believe my numbers!

Today, when I look back, ILH and Siddharth didn't just give me a new business model, they gave me and my family a new life.

As a person, I have completely changed. ILH energy turned me from being an extreme pessimist to a big optimist. I only see opportunities and failures as my million-dollar lessons to move forward.

My mindset has completely changed, and this mindset is helping me raise a very confident son. Forming habits like writing goals, listening to The Strangest Secret, and many others gives me the power to navigate the toughest business situations I come across sometimes.

I built very important business skills through my coaching journey. My top 3 are:

Recognizing my passion and purpose to help Women become financially independent by building their Fashion Brands, Success Gyan gave me the opportunity to join their panel of trainers and speakers. I feel so proud and nervous when I see myself on the same Success Gyan Speakers board as my mentor, Siddharth Rajsekar, who changed my life. Siddharth helped me make my mission bigger.

My husband never had to look for a new job during COVID. Grateful for my coaching business and growing jewelry business, he joined me in the entrepreneurship journey, and today we are not just life partners but complementing business partners. We love being with each other 24x7 at home and at work, and this has strengthened our relationship of love and respect to another level.

The Freedom Business Model gave me the financial freedom to give a better lifestyle to my family members. I remember how upset Vipin was when he had to sell his car to financially survive in Covid. Last year, we bought Vipin’s favorite luxury car, and I gifted my parents a comfortable sedan. I can take my family on international vacations and give them the lifestyle they truly deserve.

I have started realizing that the digital coaching business is bigger than one can imagine. I started this journey to make 3 lakhs a month. But this model has the potential to make a crore every single month by transforming the lives of thousands of people in our community.

It’s been only two and a half years on this journey, and I feel like it has just started. I have implemented only 20% of what Siddharth teaches. There is so much more to do and I am super excited about my journey in the coming years as a Fashion Business Coach.

They say you need one good conversation with a visionary who can change your life. I am glad I had that conversation with Siddharth at the business summit where I first met him. If not for ILH, I would have never seen a transformed version of myself.

Following in Siddharth’s footsteps, I want to be able to transform the lives of Women in my community who are changing their lives and their families' lives by building profitable fashion brands.

You Are More Than You Think You Are,