The investment banker turned chef who fought her way out of dark space to find her happy space: Chef Hemal on #foodocracyfprher

Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan Karmakar

I am proud to present Investment banker turned independent chef entrepreneur, chef Hemal Shah in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Hemal is a Mumbai girl, whose father is an oncologist and mother a gynaecologist. It was a given that she would be a doctor and she passed her pre-med and got into one of Mumbai's top medical colleges. She then realised that she did not want to lead the sort of life her mom led ('on call at all times') and decided to study economics instead ('that was all that was available by then to me'). Hemal then went to the US for higher studies and worked in top investment banking firms. That's when she suddenly realised that it was really the kitchen that was her calling and got a job as an unpaid intern in the sushi joint she and her colleagues used to frequent! Follow the rest of the episode to know of Hemal's move back to India and her stints at Aura in Goa and La Folie by chef Sanjana Patel in Mumbai which gave her the confidence to strike it on her own as a chef. Of how the pandemic hit just as her business was taking flight. Of how she herself got covid followed by a ligament tear just as she was coming to grips with the new reality. Listen to her tell you about how she bounced back from the dark spaces that her mind took her to. I promise you that this is just the moral booster that you needed. . #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and hopefully and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.