Today’s guest is an engineer by education and an entrepreneur by passion.

She left corporate America to pursue her own business as a health coach, delivering the message of health through public speaking in various community centers and corporations. Her business took off after one of her books became an international Amazon bestseller in several categories. With a small email list and a very limited marketing budget, she was featured in major publications like the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Forbes, and was invited to be a guest on ABC Arizona.

Since then her career took a detour as a publisher and publicist and so far she has helped over 200 thought leaders, entrepreneurs, CEOs to write their books, achieve bestseller status, and land in mainstream media. She has written and contributed to more than six books herself, is a TEDx speaker, and is the founder of a cutting-edge business consulting platform, serving professionals who seek to reinvent themselves and leave a legacy.

Please join me in welcoming Parul Agrawal.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is all about bringing like-minded people together and working on a common mission.”
• her self-awareness at a young age knowing she had the skills to lead.
• her strategy of knowing the people she was leading and how that helped her lead her peers in high school.
• how she failed her first year of engineering in college mostly due to the culture shock after graduating high school in a small town to attend college in one of India’s biggest cities.
• her transition into health coaching after her father’s major heart attack and her own weight struggles. having to deal with the mixed messages of “be an engineer” and “be an entrepreneur”.
• how she learned to self-publish her book with incredible success and the effort she recommends all authors make when launching a book.
• her high-touch way of staying in touch with her network.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 214.