A housewife turned lifestyle blogger, Soumali Adhikary is inspiration in its truest form. To know more about her inspiring story, keep reading!
Content creation has changed a lot of lives. While it's an escape from reality for a lot of us, as well as a way to entertain ourselves, it's a platform that gives some the freedom to create something for themselves. We come across many inspiring stories online and Indian lifestyle influencer, Soumali Adhikary is one of them. This simple housewife never thought that she would have a surprising life ahead. Soumali found herself falling prey to her family being biased because of her gender. She grew up with her maternal parents and for a long time believed her maternal grandmother to be her own mother. Even though she admired fashion and always wished to be in front of the camera, she never had the opportunity to live that dream.
She found herself being cornered for being a woman and her life changed when a man walked into her life. Her supportive husband helped her smash the patriarchy she faced all her life. He gave her the confidence to take up something that she actually enjoyed and always wished to try a hand at. She comes from a place where women are only known by their father’s or husband’s name. Soumali changed that narrative and turned her own name into a brand that is recognised across the country.
Although she used to work, she had to stay at home after the birth of her children. This gave her more time to browse through YouTube and Instagram. Something that started off as a pass time after the delivery of her children soon became her whole career. “I used to watch various cooking, beauty, and vlogging videos which got me very interested. That time my husband suggested that I should start content creation. Maybe people might like what I create and enjoy it. However, I had my doubts about how I will do it as I didn’t have any experience. Then after six months, I just began thinking about it and realized that these people are normal people like me and creating content so why couldn’t I? That's when I started shooting videos and sharing them.”
She began her first cooking-based channel called Soumali’s Kitchen which wasn’t as successful as she hoped. But that didn’t slow her down. She decided to give her knowledge of homemade beauty tips a chance and created content around the same which worked for her followers. “I started receiving a good response from people and this only boosted my confidence. When I decided to keep creating content around beauty and fashion.“
Today she has her own YouTube channel and Instagram page where she's living her life as a lifestyle blogger. Even after spending all this time as a blogger, she believes that every field has its own best and worst bits. “I feel the best (about content creation) is that I could bring my fashion to the world. I was always interested in fashion and I wanted to be in front of the camera but it never happened because of other reasons. So I was able to deal with all those challenges and finally experience the things I wanted to experience all my life through content creation.”
For a person who is not highly educated, she understands that the success that she enjoys today is a result of her hard work and dedication. "No matter which job you apply to, you will always be asked for your certificate and qualification. Youtube never asked me that, but, I had to give my efforts and time to prove that I can be better on the platform."
Don't miss out on the content that she has to share and check out her account on Instagram.
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