We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Khushi Gupta. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Khushi below.
Khushi, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
Finding your purpose in your teenage years is so hard. We often spend these years understanding life and ourselves – because we try to look beyond our souls. However, in my teenage years, Covid-19 had a major influence which further prompted me to use my leisure time towards a productive hobby. My purpose was found at one random night around 1 am – where some words were written on the notes app and fast forward to three years later, poetry has been one of my biggest pillar in life. If I were to tell my purpose, it would be to heal someone’s heart through words and voice their stories. I’ve always wanted to know how billions of people are living their life – good and bad times. So, we started sharing life stories of people at With Passion. One random night, I occasionally found who I am as a person.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I’m the founder of With Passion – a passion project dedicated to bring words and stories for your soul. Pivoted for more than hundred times but we’ve finally developed who we are and what we want to bring to this world. We want you to keep your heart safe! We have a special segment, #weinspire where we voice stories of people. This is something we’ve recently launched but this is our way of acknowledging and sharing more about the life people live. We all have a different story to share and this is our way to let the world know about them – how they are an inspiration for many in this world. Along with #weinspire at WIth Passion, we also run a podcast which will have various conversations about life by a teen for a teen!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Three qualities that I’d say are a must in every person is the ability to show up each day, be passionate about their work and cheer for themselves on their own when no-one claps for them. To show up each day when only failures are visible requires dedication – which I believe is only achieved when you’re utterly consumed by the passion you share for your work. No-one will clap for you and lead you to the path of success – instead they’ll pull you down. It is you who have to decide that your dream and goal is bigger than someone’s random opinion. It is you who has to put in the work to make this venture successful and no-one else will do it for you – so, get to work.
Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
The book which changed my perspective towards artists is – “Steal like an artist” by Austin Kleon and there’s a particular excerpt which makes me feel like home – Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
This has really helped me to understand that you’re not stealing someone’s idea. You’re just a person who’s speaking about it in another room with your own creativity where it needs to be heard – because no-one spoke about it in that specific room. You’re a sum of all the individuals who have lived here on earth before you. This book has taught me what it means to be an artist and how with the rapid change in technology, you still get some of the best ideas on paper. In the end, he mentioned how every artist has the power to actually sit down and do absolutely nothing.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://withpassionbyuie.wixsite.com/my-site
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khushiigupta25/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushi-gupta-ab618621a/
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/show/2nB0NMODfpkflEN5WBoFsA?si=74fca6cda6584dac
