The key to fulfillment is adversity | Shradha Sharma | TEDxBayArea

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Hindu mythology brilliantly illustrates this paradox. It gives us Kali, the Goddess of death. While many fear her as the symbol of destruction. Her destruction, you see, paves the way for all new creation. She destroys the finite and so reveals something far more powerful: the infinite, in all of its beauty and freedom. Poet Mary Oliver said, Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. That secret… the one that leads to fulfilment, is adversity.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul,’ said contemporary legend Brene Brown. It is a sentiment that Shradha Sharma has suffused with her soul when she founded YourStory in 2008 in India, the definitive platform for entrepreneurs to tell their stories and connect with their community in a way that mainstream media provided no scope for. Having worked in senior roles at The Times of India and CNBC TV18, she knew that media can empower, it just needs a new lens.

From rocky and uncertain time in 2008 to now, Sharma and YourStory have thrived because of one simple philosophy- to tell the story of those who dream big, irrespective of where they come from. Her exploration has been on the singularity that stories bring to the world and create a level playing field. Six years, 15,000 stories and the support of an ever growing and rock solid community later, Sharma is exactly where she wants to be, connecting the world through one story at a time.

Soon, Sharma plans to empower everyone across the world to tell their stories in their own languages, in their own way and build the biggest storytelling platform in the world.

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