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She Means Business Cover Feature – Kavitha Garla

I’m a Model, an Emcee, a BD Consultant.. and I started all this after 42.

To the outside world, she looked accomplished a working mother, a dependable professional,
someone who had “figured it out.”


But behind the titles and to-do lists was a woman asking deeper questions. Not loudly. Not
dramatically. Just a quiet wondering: Is this all there is?


At 42, she didn’t hit rock bottom. She hit a turning point. One where the life she had built no
longer matched the life she secretly wanted to live.


With the support of her coach, she began to dismantle the internal stories she had carried for
decades — about age, ambition, identity, and what a “successful” life should look like. She
started rebuilding, not just a career, but a connection to herself. What followed were struggles,
aha moments, small wins, and brave leaps some of which she would later share in her TEDx
talk, Change by Choice.


By allowing herself to step into various roles, she came to realise a truth that had long been
within her: she was a Multipotentialite a woman of many passions. Speaker. Model. Coach.
Community builder. Moderator. Curator. She stopped seeing her varied interests as scattered
and started seeing them as her superpower.


At 50, she experienced another inflexion point. But this time, she didn’t wait for life to dictate the
next chapter — she designed it. She stepped into modeling, something few expected from a
woman in her 50s. Her very first shoot? With Taneira. She moderated large-format events,
coached women in transition, and eventually stood on the TEDx stage a stage she had once
been disqualified from just days before an earlier talk.


For her, failure wasn’t the end of the road it was a redirection. A blessing in disguise. Every
setback built her resilience muscle, one she now believes is her strongest asset.


Over the years, she’s been underestimated many times, and often loudly. People doubted
her transformation. They questioned her choices. But she didn’t argue. She simply evolved. And
let her work speak louder than their doubts.


She no longer chases certainty or applause. Instead, she listens to her body, to her intuition,
to the quiet wisdom that life in her 50s has brought. She’s made peace with slowing down and
menopause. With saying “no” without guilt. With choosing joy, not urgency.


At 56, she’s discovered that success isn’t in the roles you play it’s in how fully you show up to
them. For her, it’s about passion, impact, authenticity, and alignment. It’s the energy that fuels
her many pursuits, and the quiet confidence of knowing she is enough without needing
external validation. at the cusp of turning 56 

“We often talk about what we want to learn. But real growth? It’s in what we finally let go of.”

She has been called many things a networking queen, an INTUITIVE powerful moderator, a
master of ideas, a speaker who owns the stage. But perhaps the title that fits her best is:

Possibility in Motion. Because she is living proof that you can begin again at any age, and in
any season.
Behind her grounded presence is the quiet strength of her family. Her husband and sons keep
her anchored in what truly matters with love, perspective, and unwavering support.
To young women just starting out, she offers this:


“You don’t need to have it all figured out. Exploration isn’t confusion — it’s how you grow. Every
chapter, even the messy ones, matter. You are not too late. You are not too early. You are right
on time for your own life.”


Her story is not about a single breakthrough. It’s about brave choices made again and again. It’s
about stepping into rooms where she once felt small, and choosing to take the mic anyway.
She reminds us all that it’s never too late to try. To pivot. To live a life that feels fully yours.


Because, as she often says “What is meant for you will always find its way. Sometimes later.
Sometimes differently. But always at the righ time.”

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