ABOUT

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Bula, I'm Simran 🤍

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Like many twenty-something-year-olds, I enjoy aesthetics and coffee and have a strange desire to share everything I do online. Over the last 3 years, I've been on a path to redefine my values and live life intentionally. Let me share what I mean:

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We're going to start from…well, the beginning. I migrated to the United States as a baby from Fiji with my parents. Growing up with this blended identity of an immigrant but also somewhat at the cusp of a first-generation child was confusing. I had to figure out the American educational, financial, and political systems with little guidance. I have been blessed to have two of the most supportive immigrant parents. I see how my mother did a fantastic job raising my sister and me to have the utmost confidence in ourselves, while I honor my father to have helped me see the value of money by watching him work days, nights, and weekends to make ends meet.

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Because I saw my parents' struggles from a very young age, I adopted a mentality to make my work the center of everything I do. I started working at 14 as a youth advisor on a panel crucial in building REACH, a youth center in my childhood town of the unincorporated area of Ashland/Cherryland. It should be noted that I grew up in a community that had some of the best people, but we weren't always in the best circumstances. I grew up in areas struggling with problems of poverty, gang violence, drug abuse, high crime rates, and some of Alameda County's highest school dropout and teen pregnancy rates. This made me all the more hungry to get out. Which is exactly what I did.

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I got accepted to attend California State University, Long Beach (Go Beach! - I don't get it either, but I rep it, okay?) I was among the first women in my family to leave home for college. I learned a lot about myself, and this was the first time I began to see the benefits of leaving my comfort zone to pursue growth. Attending a university itself comes with its own set of challenges, but I found my layered identity to create a subset of challenges that led to severe loneliness, anxiety, and depression, on top of an already burnt-out girl simply trying to live her best life. So what did I do? Enjoyed every minute of it, duh (at this point in my life, I wasn't taking the whole "mindfulness" thing seriously and continued to move through life without reflecting) However, I made some of my best friends at university, worked relentlessly, and successfully graduated with a degree in Communication Studies and Marketing (yay!)

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For a very long time, my career was the only part of my identity I knew how to nurture. If there is one thing anyone can tell you about me, I know how to hustle. I "gate-keeped, gas-lit, girl-bossed" my way to working with multiple successful startups like Live Tinted and Kojo Technologies. I even founded my own non-profit organization, Period.24. The work from my non-profit has helped over 1200+ individuals end period poverty and increase awareness around inclusive sexual education by partnering with companies like LinkedIn, Cora, The SF LGBT Center, and youth shelters in major cities. I've since then dissolved the organization, but in 2022, I started my own consulting business helping startup tech companies with their business operations. I'm also proud to share that I recently served as the Chief of Staff for Noula, a health-tech company aimed at helping women and people with uteruses better understand their bodies through data-backed science. So yes...I have been that girl who made her career her entire life. I now realize there's more to me than just my hustle.

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I don't think I could ever put my career on the back burner. But through this journey to relearn my values and live life with intention, I've learned to appreciate the importance of rest and reflection. But most importantly, I have come to a place where I can question why I pursue the things I want to pursue. I recognize that it is a challenge, as I'm still building my safety net, but I wholeheartedly believe I can create a fulfilling life, and I choose to share that journey with you all. So let this be a home for my eldest daughters' girlies who come from immigrant backgrounds, don't have backup plans, are trying to navigate the politics of the professional space, stay sane, hydrated, and sexy, live their best life, all while trying to date in the modern age.

Welcome 🤍