This week, my teenage daughters bought their first concert tickets of Taylor Swift’s ERAS tour, for over the $1000. For first minute or two, it was excitement and thrill of securing the tickets but few minutes later it was a whole another feeling. I was overwhelmed with strong emotions. I…

When Sandy hook happened, my younger daughter was in elementary school and older one in middle school. I heard the news and frantically called my daughter’s elementary school just crying hysterically over the phone asking them their security protocol. I pleaded them to keep her safe. After Sandy hook, I…

I do not want to celebrate International Women’s Day. I have been thinking about writing this for a while, but never got to it. Also, it is a bit personal, so I wasn’t sure if I needed to share my family’s story. But today, while reading International Women’s Day posts…

Stepping Back to Step Forward — Counting my Blessings! I am thankful for so many things in my life and today an incident forced me to step back and appreciate all that. In day-to-day life, I tend to get wound up on things to be done, tasks to be completed…

Today I’m feeling proud of myself. Proud of where I started and where I have come. As a founder, and before that a very ambitious professional, I always look forward through the windshield at all the things that had to be done, achievement to be had and dreams to be…

Here’s an analogy: First world problems: · Urgh, my jet plane is smaller than my neighbor’s plane. · Oh, my kid won’t get into an Ivy League college because he didn’t understand AP Calculus math in 5th grade. I need to bribe admissions officers. Developing world problem: · Will I…

How will you answer this question from 12-year-old girl? Last night, while watching “60 Minutes”, watching an ad during the commercial break, my 12-year-old daughter asked me a question that left me in a perplexed situation and I didn’t know how to answer. Not because I don’t know the answer…

Today Gabriel started as an intern with Cirkled in. While sitting in interns’ orientation, I started thinking about how a person, studying marketing in Portland, Oregon, end up in a conference room in Kirkland, Washington, almost 200 miles away, working with Cirkled in. How? Sequence of events is a sequence…

This morning I got a call from Debbie, who was assigned to work on my company, Cirkled in, by her professor as a class project. After a brief intro, I suggested that we talk later in the day to go over things in details. While coordinating the schedule, I learned…