“Leading a life of determination is one of my core values, and I've carried that since I was a child. It's important for me to find work that I genuinely care about, no matter the obstacles.”
People ask, ‘When did you realise you’re different?’ but…you just know. Even as a child, growing up in an underprivileged family in a remote village in Nepal, I knew that I wasn’t like everyone else.
As a woman, as someone raising daughters, just as a general citizen of the world, it’s very easy to be afraid. How I manage to not be scared is through humour. Some people may say it’s through averting my eyes, but I think it is exactly because I engage so deeply with the world around me that I feel a need to find a route that isn’t fear.
If you have an ambition, that’s the inspiration. If you have a goal, that’s what keeps you going. Anything that involves growth is ambitious.