Neeta Bhushan: Navigating Seasons of Adversity

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT. You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

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0:00.0	When I look at it now it's like you have no choice but you go into survival mode and you go into pure survival mode of okay things will get better things will get better and I think I shared with you faith was one of those things that I had.
0:14.2	You know it was you know from from evangelical Christians that were reaching out to the
0:20.3	Hurry Christian temple that was like in our area. I mean whatever you can kind of grapple
0:26.2	on to to say, you know what, this is going to be okay. And that was this internal innate motivation that I had for my younger brother and I
0:36.7	because I literally became the head of the household. My father fell into a depression and
0:41.6	couldn't take care of the family. I was at that
0:44.4	point you know at 17 working three jobs just to support everybody and try to
0:51.3	take care of me and so what I thought and what I valued and what I prioritize was okay
0:56.6	success success so when I'm you know when I was hustling at at 17 years old trying to get it all done, myself took a back seat for about
1:09.3	a decade, which then entering my 20s I wanted to create a family that I lost.
1:17.0	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and
1:26.3	insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses,
1:31.4	written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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2:07.0	Netho, welcome to the Unmisticable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to
2:11.4	join us.
2:16.0	I'm super excited to be here Sri. Yeah, well I am really thrilled to have you here.
2:19.0	I was introduced to you by way of your publicist and was really intrigued right when I found out a little bit about your story and read a bit about what you did.
2:27.0	But before we get into all of that, I was by asking you, what did your parents do for a living and what impacted what they did
2:34.4	for a living end up having on the choices that you've made with your life in your
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