Nansi Nishra is a co-founder of The Neon Show, exemplifies a creator who is stuck in balancing personal and professional life. But she hustled to sustain that balance. She was voted as linkedIn’s Top Voice (2021) in the ‘NextGen’ category.
Nansi’s career took off at Babygogo, a health startup that caters to parenting, as a content and community manager. At that time she was just 21, but she can easily connect with parents to talk about the benefits of using app and products and drawbacks of it.
Nansi met Siddhartha Ahluwalia (her husband) at Babygogo, which Sheroes eventually acquired. The Babygogo team had a fixed responsibility that enabled them to learn from ground zero. At that time they started interacting and having immersive convergence with more VCs and entrepreneurs. Her husband suggested that she record that communication and share on social platforms so people might feel helpful in their struggles of entrepreneurship. Nansi started to share it on Linkedin and Google Drive and got great responses from people and said conversation helped them to become better entrepreneurs. That’s how 100x Entrepreneur began.
Nansi is working in Sheroes, The neon show is a dream project and dedicates weekends for that. After two years her husband shifted to another job so they moved to Bangalore; they were also expecting a baby then. She is on maternity leave for 6 months and during that time she worked on a passion project and found more interest in that so she left her job in Sheros and continued to work on her project.
Apart from passion it’s difficult to prioritize work in your life. It takes time to settle and understand that you can grow with this balance and add value to others’ lives. This understanding and balancing work with personal life doesn’t happen overnight.
Siddhartha is traveling for work on weekdays so over weekends they are recording 3-4 podcasts. Nansi is handling backend, social promotion etc.
Managing a newborn and newly-founded podcast was’t piece of cake – but once it dawned on Nansi that her work impacted several lives, she was keener on taking 100x. In starting she feels her writing skill is not up to the mark and doubting herself and later she gets to know that platform doesn’t matter, matter is how you are presenting your story. When Nansi’s first post on LinkedIn went viral, she really grasped the power of storytelling. She also realized you don’t have to be at the top of your game to share your journey on social media. It’s those small wins that help us look forward to the next day, so why don’t we talk about them more?
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