Nirupa Konijeti of Bazaar Supper Club on returning to a life of creative pursuit centered on community
Meet Nirupa Konijeti, founder and host of Bazaar Supper Club and Bazaar Butter, a monthly supper club held in her Brooklyn apartment, where she gathers ~18 people for a delicious family style feast.
Meet Nirupa Konijeti, founder and host of Bazaar Supper Club and Bazaar Butter, a monthly supper club held in her Brooklyn apartment, where she gathers ~18 people for a delicious family-style feast and deep, intentional conversation. With a 10,000+ person waitlist for her dinners, Nirupa’s dream of creating a community she envisioned stemmed from a pivotal moment in 2023, when she got laid off from her job, a day after manifesting freedom in a vision board exercise. From scrambling to finding a new job to getting creative with tapping into her childhood dream of working with food, Nirupa shares how she experimented to see what would stick to continue to grow and evolve what became the initial versions of what would eventually become Bazaar Supper Club in 2024. Above all else, she’s learned that being her authentic self, showing up with her why, and welcoming folks of all walks of life to build intentional community not only instills confidence but also enables her to become a better villager. After all, in Nirupa’s words, to build a village, you must become a villager.
Interviewed in January 2026 | This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity. Heads up, the interview contains some explicit language that may not be suitable for all audiences.
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m Nirupa. I’m in my thirties, and I work in food. A second part of me works in finance, but I primarily want to be seen as someone exploring her creative pursuits and trying to make her inner child happy. That’s my only mission in life right now.
I grew up in South India for 20-ish years and spent the last 10 in the States. These last 10 years have been me building my life from scratch, and as a child of immigrants.
2025 has been my most transformative year. I want to tell the story of how you can truly change the trajectory of your life if you throw your all at it.
Let’s start by picking a moment in time to help us understand why 2025 was a super transformative year for you. Three years ago today, I was working as a Product Manager at a tech startup, and I was so miserable. I was not happy, and I also felt very trapped doing what I was doing. I had made a vision board, and one of the messages was a woman sitting on a farm with a dog. It was alluding to freedom. And the next morning, I got laid off. The universe handed me what I was hoping for, but I was not ready for it.
On the surface, my focus was survival. Find another job. Stay in the country. Keep things moving. But underneath that, something much deeper had started to shift.
That period changed how I saw everything, especially the idea of “community.” I started to notice who showed up, how they showed up, and also where things felt misaligned. It was more of a quiet realization that the version of support I needed didn’t always match the relationships I had built up until that point.
And as an immigrant, that realization hit differently. When you build a life far away from home, you place a lot of meaning on the people around you. You want that sense of chosen family. You want a village. What I learned was that a village isn’t something you just find. It’s something you build. And if you want a village, you have to be a villager.
What I learned was that a village isn’t something you just find. It’s something you build. And if you want a village, you have to be a villager.
So I started there. I began looking beyond the circles I had known, staying open to new people, new spaces, new ways of connecting. I didn’t fully know what I was looking for, just that I was ready to build something that felt more aligned with who I was becoming.
And that search ended up changing the entire direction of my life.
When I was growing up in India, I had a strong inclination towards food. I just never had a chance for it to take off when I finished college in 2014. I went to my dad and told him I wanted to be a pastry chef, and he basically said, “Absolutely not.” That dream got killed right there. I didn’t have enough background to support the ask, so I just let it slide and never picked it up.
I came to the States, built a career in tech, and I’m very happy with what I did with that. But I always felt like I had something I never fully explored sitting in my backpocket.
And so, when the layoff happened, I had about six months of free time between jobs that I could truly use the way I wanted my days to look. My time was all mine, and that was when I was asking myself, “What do I want to do?” I have this deep idea of community, and also this dream of food that I never got a chance to explore fully. How do I bridge these two things together and try something out?
That was also when I started noticing a big shift in third spaces within New York. I did a lot of research for a month or two, looking at all the different third spaces, and I noticed there were not enough. I wanted to create one. That was the first pivotal observation I had: to create a third space with food and people. And specifically, how was that going to shapeshift dinner parties? That was the idea where dinner parties came to me.
Now, onto execution. Like, who the hell is going to come to my dinners? I’m just an average cook living in New York. So, I started FaceTiming my mom and made her teach me all her recipes, and I retrained myself as a cook because I had time in my day.
I also started looking into what platforms I could use to host dinner parties. I tested out a couple of third-party platforms, like Airbnb Experiences. I did that for a while, hosting tourists visiting New York. But they weren’t grounded in New York. Correct. But I needed to exercise my skills.
I bought foldable tables, plates, and glasses, and I started by teaching cooking classes. I even went up to my building management because they sometimes host events for residents. I noticed that they could do more. So, I went up to them and said, “I live in the building, and I have this idea.” They said, “Do it.” Wait, I love that! And so, they were paying me to throw events for the building community. It was also a great way for me to practice. I did that for a couple of months, and it was me throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what stuck.
Then, I decided to pivot to dinner parties. I wanted to take it back to people sitting around a dining table with no end time. With dining in New York, you typically get 90 minutes. I wanted something in my house, curated by me. When you cook something with your hands, there’s already so much love in it. When you put people around that... add a lot of warmth, play music, let people be themselves, you’re creating an environment that is very hard to come by.
I started doing the dinner parties around July 2023. I tested three a month, and I was nervous. I was shaking in my legs! I thought everything was going to go wrong. But you know what? They worked out fine. And, I got excellent feedback. That helped me get better and better and better.
So all of 2023, I was hosting test concepts through platforms like Airbnb Experiences, Dinner with Friends and I never had any social presence the entire time. I was doing everything behind the camera. You were experimenting and getting experience. I was very shy about showing my face and telling my story.
But 2024 came by, and that was when I thought, you know what, I need to put my face and a name to this. I went word searching for a bit. For some reason, I had the word “Bazaar” somewhere in my head. A bazaar is a spice market. We use this word a lot in India. There’s always someone saying, “Oh, I’m going to the bazaar to pick up stuff.” And so, I said, let’s go with that.
I created my first Instagram page in February 2024, and it had zero followers for a very long time. I was mostly taking pictures of scenes from the dinner table and of people at the dinner. I did that for a couple of months, and the page was very stagnant.
I used to post on Reddit, and people would flag me down and say, “You can’t promote your business.” I’ve had some dinner guests come from Reddit from seeing those posts. They thought it was a total scam, but they actually came and loved it.
Then I noticed: how would it be if I were actually to tell my own story in a 60-second format? And I was terrified of doing that because we’re all very judgmental about how we sound and look on camera, and cringe about our own voices.
I went through that whole phase for about 6 months. Beginning in February and all of 2024, I was experimenting with making content behind the scenes of my dinner parties, scenes, and nights of the dinners, and the page was slowly growing and reaching a very small audience, but not at the pace I wanted.
Here I was, thinking about how to spread the word in New York. I was under the assumption that if some publication discovers me, they’ll feature me in a newspaper, and that’s how the word spreads. I was reaching out to a lot of publications to see if they’d be interested in picking up the story. No one did.
Then I reached out to food content creators. So many of them... but didn’t hear back. One or two people said yes. I had my first creator come and recap her whole experience in New York around November 23 or 24, and that made a bit of noise, which was good and helped. That’s when I was like, “Oh shit, you know, like if you tell a story in a certain way, people will start observing your story.”
And I just didn’t know how to story tell the whole time. I was very uncomfortable. I tried to put my face out there even more. The more I did it, the more I noticed that people wanted to connect. People don’t want to connect with a tablecloth, a placemat, or a plate. I noticed a reaction from the audience: “Oh, she’s a real person behind the screen... so let me see what she has to say.” I kept building and tried content for a whole year, and it didn’t really stick.
But, enter 2025. April 2025 was when I made a scrappy video while I was having a really bad day (it was a bad anxiety attack), and I was trying everything to take my mind off of it....and just hit post on the video. You’re just powering through it, it’s wild! And that video was the one that went crazy overnight.
This reel was me explaining what happens when I convert my apartment into a restaurant. I invite 18 strangers in, cook all this food, and do it because I want to find out who I am outside of my nine-to-five. And that this is me challenging myself to build a life. There was a lot of audience resonance. And I’ve gotten hundreds of messages from people across the entire world saying, “This is me right now. I’m glad you’re taking this risk, and I want to do it too.” There was something emotional about the message that hit people. This is all of us on a regular day, thinking about all these things. We never say them. This was my first video that went viral. I was very lucky, and it doesn’t happen to everyone. I’m very thankful.
It feels like that was the universe’s biggest slap in my face, saying, “I am pushing you in this direction. Pursue it now. Go do it now.” The universe was literally, metamorphically, pushing me out and saying, “You’re done with that shit. Be yourself. Explore!” To me, that was the explosive overnight growth. I had maybe 2,000 followers, and the next morning I woke up to 10,000. It was crazy. Oh my god! What world does that happen in? Your world! Whoever is up there was pushing me in a different world, saying, “I’m putting you on this path. Now go do it.” And the fact that you answered and said, “Ok, I’ll do it.”
Something changed in my brain when that happened. I was like, there’s something here. I’m going to give it my all and keep pursuing that, sharing a lot more content.
Honestly, people love stories. People love seeing people figure things out in real time. They actually want to see someone going through the process. They don’t like anything where it’s just a beautiful aesthetic video. None of that matters.
I’ve tried making content of all kinds. I’ve tried making content with a very expensive camera and with my phone, which has a shitty, smudgy screen. The one that always works is telling a very, very authentic story from your own voice. And it’s genuinely something that you want to share and be a part of the conversation. Yes, and the more you talk about it: the things you’re uncomfortable about...people will find you real because we’re all uncomfortable to some degree at our core.
People don’t talk about it online because they don’t want to show the uncomfortable parts. Instagram is just a highlight reel. You don’t want to show the “non-highlights.” Why not? If anything, that’s the only real part of what’s left behind, so why not embrace it? I’m still figuring it out. I still feel like this whole world of being seen by so many eyes is fairly new to me. It happened less than a year ago, but I am so thankful that it happened and it came my way. It’s putting me on my path, and I have to give it my all to see what is out there for me. That’s why this last year was so instrumental.
Instagram is just a highlight reel. You don’t want to show the “non-highlights.” Why not? If anything, that’s the only real part of what’s left behind, so why not embrace it? I’m still figuring it out.
I met so many people and made some solid friends through Bazaar. One of them was a guest from a dinner party in December 2024. She and I are very tight right now, and I would’ve never met these people if that didn’t happen. That is the power of female friendships.
As you evolve as a person, you meet people who are also feeling and going through the same. It’s just so beautiful to find people who are evolving as you go. I had to see that for myself to have a different perspective on life. Hopefully, it’s something that continues to last, because we were talking about this beforehand: we’re on a journey where we’re trying not necessarily to find ourselves, because we know who we are. It’s more about whether we answer “yes” or “no” to the path ahead.
It’s more about continuing to open the door for our inner child and our current selves to meet us where we are, in this older version of ourselves. And to genuinely connect back with ourselves, to then share that with our community.
What was last year [2025] like for you? What were a few highlights? I worked with some of my dream brand partners in 2025. My first dream brand partnership was with KitchenAid. Since I was 18, my dream has been to have a KitchenAid stand mixer in my kitchen. I was obsessed with that shit. I used to watch every cooking show, and they all had KitchenAids.
Fast forward to 2025: someone behind the screen saw me and said, “I want her to talk about KitchenAid.” Wow! That is, one of the biggest pieces of proof in my entire life. I started working on brand partnerships last year and earning revenue, which I didn’t know existed. I broke my first six figures with brand partnerships last year, which is insane. That’s amazing. Holy shit! That gave me so much confidence that, number one, the money aside, brands are even looking at you to say, “Let’s have Leslie tell our story. Let’s have Nirupa share our story.” It’s just so fun. And that was from June to the end of 2025.
I worked with a handful of brands, but KitchenAid was my first, and it’s my dream partnership. That to me is still like a pinch-me moment. And I worked with them twice. The second time was the recent dinner I hosted with them. That’s amazing. I remember, as a guest at that dinner, seeing how that partnership connected for you and the joy you got from being in that space. There was a full kitchen, and so you were truly physically able to “walk into” a dream partnership because it was a space that you could cook out of, that you could host people out of, and that wasn’t in your apartment, but a third space for you outside of your own. It became a third space for a community you already manifested and created, which is really, really cool to see. Absolutely. So that’s highlight number one.
Highlight number two was becoming my most confident self. There’s no way to measure this, but last year, a lot of people asked, “How are you so confident?” I am not an innately confident person at all. You also get confidence by action. Last year, I put myself out there so much, and it gave me so much back.
I grew a lot as a person last year as well. All this work I put into building a community led to a very close group of female friendships that have evolved, and I’ve matured with them. I’m very happy and hold them dear to my heart. And I am at my most confident version right now and it’ll keep getting better. That’s one of the biggest highlights that I could talk about that I can’t put a number behind.
Would you say the confidence came from proving to yourself that you can do it? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like you’re competitive with yourself. You want to be the better version of yourself in any way possible. And it’s never been about,” I want to be better than this other person or this other thing.” You’re more like, “I know I’m good, but I’m not sure yet. But let me try, put some action behind it, and prove that hypothesis for myself. And if I can see it, it can happen.”
I’ve never said these words out loud, but that’s honestly the truth behind it. My life changed so quickly in such a short period of time that sometimes I have to take a minute to think, “Oh, wow... like all of that unfolded in less than 12 or 15 months.” There’s a lot of being prepared to receive luck in the world, but at the same time, you have to embrace it. Just go for it. I just did it, and I did it in a very messy way. In truth, that is the most real thing that I have said out loud in my entire life.
And you’re right, I’m a competitive person, and I get very competitive with myself. The sad part about it is that when you work in social media, you always see highlights. It’s very easy to feel like, “Am I doing enough?” You have to battle that fear every single day, and it’s not easy. You can choose to ignore it and focus on enjoying life. I want to document the process, and I’m going to work hard. I’m going to make money. I’m going to help people and build this container (community) in the process. Those are my goals.
I also want to enjoy myself and not feel like it’s a job. And... make money if I can. And build a really, really powerful community because I came from not having one, and I really want that. That’s my constant north star.
I also want to enjoy myself and not feel like it’s a job. And... make money if I can. And build a really, really powerful community because I came from not having one, and I really want that. That’s my constant north star.
I love it. I see the vision, and I see it happening in real time for you right now. You and I sitting here came out of that north star and vision! Yes, because you and I put ourselves out there.
Bringing it back to what you said about being open and receiving luck, is that by being open to focusing on just doing the thing and letting it happen, it allows the universe to connect you to your path. I’ve personally always been very resistant, and lately it’s been about slowly unlocking it for myself. Let me do the thing, and if it happens, it happens. Great. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t, and that’s fine. But when it does happen, let me embrace it.
You’re a great example of being open to it. As much as you might not think you are, it’s actually manifested in so many great things so far and will continue to do so—which is a very hard thing for, maybe a blanket statement, but immigrants and children of immigrants to embrace, especially for those of us who have had parents who live really hard lives and try and give their children, like us, good experiences in the future.
Sometimes luck can seem scary because it doesn’t feel real. What I realized is that now, in our lives here, it’s up to us to decide which path we want to take. Because so much of our parents, our ancestors, and our families have given us to be able to arrive at this point...it’s now up to us to say, “Yes, I want to take this opportunity. Yes, I will receive this luck. Yes, I’m going to do this thing.”
To honor what and who has come before us, we also need to honor what’s ahead of us. I very much see that it’s in the path you’re on, and I hope for me too.
You’re already on it, girl! Sometimes it takes someone else to actually observe and say it because something you said was that you’re not trying to prove anything wrong. You’re trying to prove yourself. I never said that to myself, but seeing you actually put that in words, I’m realizing that’s probably what’s happening.
Confidence comes from action. But also, that nothing is truly out of reach for any of us. That’s another mental shift that I’ve had in my brain over the last year. I can sit here and have the most absurd dream and think it’s totally in my reach. Call that being delusional, but I’m just operating that way from last year. And when you operate that way, your brain gets rewired to look at the positives and look for opportunities in every little corner.
Confidence comes from action. But also, that nothing is truly out of reach for any of us. That’s another mental shift that I’ve had in my brain over the last year. I can sit here and have the most absurd dream and think it’s totally in my reach. Call that being delusional, but I’m just operating that way from last year. And when you operate that way, your brain gets rewired to look at the positives and look for opportunities in every little corner.
What are you most excited about in the next 3 to 6 months? One big tactical change is that I’m going to quit my job. I’m quitting my job! I’m going to keep saying it until my brain gets rewired. That’s going to happen. That’s going to be a big career change, working full-time in the creative space, which I have never, ever attempted. That’s going to be a big change. You’re already doing it half the time! Half the time.
I feel a lot more comfortable now that I’m doing a version of it, but now I get to do so much more. I’ll have all this time now to do all the things I just never had the time for, and to let my brain live creatively, fully.
I’ve always had thresholds to it, but now this is the year where I’m going to do some wild shit. You’ll see it unfold, but I’m going to do it this year, and starting with quitting my job. I don’t know where it’s going to take me, but it’s going to open a lot of doors for me to experiment, and who knows what’s going to come out of that? So many great things.
At the end of the day, why does doing what you’re doing matter to you? The decision that you’re making to focus on your creative career, the way you’re doing it? It’s important to me because, looking back, I was always a kid who wanted to pursue a creative path. But where I came from, I could never do it because I grew up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money.
I grew up in constant scarcity my whole life, and I really wanted to build a life for myself surrounded by abundance. It took a lot of hard work.
It took a lot of years of me busting my ass. And what does that lead me to? It leads me to creatively pursue this thing I’ve shut down for most of my life because I had to keep refilling my scarcity bucket. And now I’m filling up my abundance bucket. The time for scarcity is done.
Now I’m running towards abundance and building it. A big part of that is really bringing out the inner child in me, the one that always wanted to do creative shit that never had a chance to see the light of day. I am seeing myself more and more waking up and realizing that I want to do something I’ve never done before and go down that path because I want to see where it leads me. I’ve never fully had a chance to explore that, and now I’m going to do that. You are now, and that’s exciting! I’m going to do that, and I know that something I’ll get is meant for me.
Now I’m running towards abundance and building it. A big part of that is really bringing out the inner child in me, the one that always wanted to do creative shit that never had a chance to see the light of day. I am seeing myself more and more waking up and realizing that I want to do something I’ve never done before and go down that path because I want to see where it leads me. I’ve never fully had a chance to explore that, and now I’m going to do that.
This is the complete opposite of what I’m doing in my nine-to-five job. I’m good at the job, but it’s not something that I wake up looking forward to. And when you know that’s the case, I don’t want to be in that gray area for too long. And now that I’ve done some experiments and they’ve worked out fine, I’m going to take a full plunge.
Are there any common misconceptions about you or the work that you’re doing? Some of the content that I put out is obviously throwing dinners in my apartment. It’s a nice space, don’t get me wrong, but people who are out there watching my videos probably think, “Oh, she’s just probably rich, throwing dinners, and this is all she does.” The truth is, that’s not the case. I have a nine-to-five job that I wake up for and do my best every day. While I’m at it, I’m looking at how to build this creative life out there for me that fulfills me...the thing I’ve been trying to do for 30 years.
I’m a normal person living my life and entering a new era. At the same time, I’ve seen myself grow and change so much over the last three years.
As I’ve evolved, so have the people and relationships around me. I’ve found myself stepping into new friendships, and also naturally drifting from some that once felt like home. I’m learning that not everything is meant to come with you into every version of your life. And that’s not a bad thing, it’s just part of growing. Letting go of certain things hasn’t been easy. It’s something most of us go through at different points in our lives, but that doesn’t make it any less hard.
I’ve felt the weight of that over the past few years. It’s been challenging, uncomfortable, and at times, lonely. And when you feel like you’re not being chosen in certain moments, it can really stay with you. But going through all of this has made something very clear to me.
If you want a village, you have to be a villager. So I’m building myself into that. Through hosting, creating spaces, bringing people together, and treating people the way I want to be treated. And in doing that, I feel like I’m becoming a little better every single day.
I feel more deeply now than I ever have before. And for the first time, I’m actually allowing myself to express it.
If you want a village, you have to be a villager. So I’m building myself into that. Through hosting, creating spaces, bringing people together, and treating people the way I want to be treated. And in doing that, I feel like I’m becoming a little better every single day.
Do you have any advice or something you’d share with a younger version of Nirupa? What would you tell her? This is something that’s very out there and not something I’m making up myself, but what I’ve learned in the last two years and with what I’ve experienced, is that done is better than being perfect. Go make it first, and then figure out how you can make it better later. Because the worst thing you can do to yourself is convince yourself that you will be ready one day.
Nobody is. Nobody will ever be. So when you put something out there, it’s going to automatically instill more and more confidence in you to keep pouring into it. For someone who is feeling trapped or someone who is feeling like, “oh, you know what, I want to make this change, but I don’t know how to...” I would say, go jump at it, and then you can figure out how to swim, which sounds a little scary, but that’s exactly what I did, and it has, if anything, transformed my life in the best way possible.
So my advice is: done is better than perfect, and just try.
Which Nirupa would have loved or hated to hear this advice? Every single version up until two years ago. But again, for me, it was like a major life moment that happened, which woke me up one day, and I said, “ What the fuck are you doing?” It takes that for some people. Some people, you know, it might never happen.
So my advice is don’t wait for that to happen. If you feel like you know it in your gut, trust your gut. By the way, your gut is 99% right. Trust your gut, and if you feel like something is not meant for you, it’s not meant for you. There’s another path.
Younger Nirupa didn’t know what she was doing. She didn’t know who she was. And it’s crazy because I grew up in an Indian household, and it was a very, very strict household. So, I never really understood life outside. I was a frog in a well. I had to build myself up when I came to the States. I had to understand how people talk, behave, and present themselves. How do I do a good job at work? All these things. I literally was reborn when I came here because I didn’t know what I was doing before that.
I was very sheltered in the household, where all they cared about was getting good grades: no social skills, none of that. I had to build all of that over time by observing other people. I feel very deeply, and I also observe a lot. Over time, that made me who I am, and it’s only going to get better.
Share a list of three things you’d like to recommend. You decide the topic.
Live alone by yourself. It teaches you a lot. It’s very easy to be around people all the time in a city like New York. You learn a lot about yourself when you are alone. It almost forces you to thrive and enjoy your alone time. That’s very important because we’re so good at having our brains occupied. Let yourself rest and reflect on the day. How do you make your space feel like home? How do you evolve in an environment that is yours? If you can live alone, it’s great. It’s the best thing.
Get a pet. I am a cat mom for two cats, and they have made me a better person. When you’re alone and living by yourself, and let’s say you had a bad night’s sleep... imagine you were waking up in a house of no pets. You wake up, and you’re like, “Oh fuck...” But with my cat, she’s sitting in front of my face, and automatically dopamine and serotonin, or whatever you call it, hit. It’s rewiring my brain the first thing in the morning, and you can’t start your day on a bad note. Get a pet; they bring out the best of you and your caregiving side. It’s done that for me, even though I was never a cat fan. I have a cat now, and I love love love coming home to her.
Take yourself on solo dates. A lot of people are very uncomfortable being alone, especially in New York. How funny is that? It’s a city filled with people, and you must assume that it’s easy to make friends. Go take yourself on dates. Go sit at a coffee shop, go to an old diner, and order a drink, observe people, strike up conversations. You’ll end up having a conversation or two that night. Who knows what comes out of that? That’s how you meet people and how you have conversations that will sometimes challenge the way you think. It’s very important to do that.
The most dangerous person on the entire planet is the one who assumes they are always correct. That their opinion is the right opinion. You need to go out there and meet people with different points of view. That’s what happens at the dinner table all the time and at the dinner parties [I’ve hosted].
I’m bringing 18 people with such diverse POVs and walks of life. I put them at a table together for six hours. One of the things I also do is shake them loose with a lot of deep questions. I love those spicy questions. And people love it when they can actually share something. That’s how it becomes a living and breathing table. I love seeing more and more of that throughout the night.
What song do you currently have on repeat?
Suddenly I see by KT Tunstall
Every single morning when I’m going to work, I play this song. It’s the opening song of The Devil Wears Prada, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. I have never been so excited for Devil Wears Prada 2! Miranda Priestly is such a badass. That’s if you can look past the facade she carries. She is an incredibly powerful woman, but she’s also human. That’s why her character resonates with me as well. And Anne Hathaway’s character...she comes into New York, figuring out her role where she wants to be a writer...when I came to New York, I was Anne Hathaway’s character. And I see myself evolving into Miranda over time.
I love that movie, and when you listen to the song, it’s just so uplifting. Listening to it first thing in the morning brings a fresh burst of energy every day when I get off the train for work. I play that song, and it’s like I’m living that life in New York. How lucky am I to be here?
As an immigrant, I watched that movie when I was maybe 14 years old, living in India on a small TV, and now I am living that life in New York.
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This made me smile and feel all the different emotions so deeply - thank you Nirupa for bearing your soul in this interview and for inspiring me. I am so glad I stopped for a second this evening and thought "let me see what's on there on Substack" - this was the first post that popped up and I know it was a sign from the Universe. As I sit in London taking a slow Sunday evening (like more other days because I'm currently unemployed), I got the final push and boost of positivity and hope I needed to go into the coming week and everything that follows. 🥹🧿✨️
This is awesome!!!