The Honeydew Hustle: Karishma Shah
Karishma runs her own business in order to lift up women who are transitioning in their careers. When she’s not at work she’s consuming all she can of SF’s arts, culture, and food. In her slivers of free time, she plans her wedding.
- career: coaching women in their careers
- free time: Reading, taking advantage of her theater membership at the SHN, being a foodie
- wedding planning tidbit: “Both of us have done corporate events in our professions, but even so, we knew we would want to hire a planner because we did NOT want to do all the hard work ourselves. I just don’t want this to consume my every day from now and the wedding. I want to be able to think about other things.”
What do you do for a living and why?
I’m part time coaching right now. I primarily work with women in their 20s, 30s who are undergoing any kind of career transition, especially if they’re looking to level up. (find out more here)
I’ve always been really passionate about developing women. Now more than ever we could all use that support to break our own glass ceilings. The fact that I get to devote my time to this is amazing — I feel so lucky. Recently I got to help a couple people who wanted to be promoted at their jobs — a lot of my role was to help them get clear on what they wanted, their own values, and how to proceed in that direction.
I’ve always been really passionate about developing women. Now more than ever we could all use that support to break our own glass ceilings.
What’re your career goals?
I know I want to work in the development space-whether that’s leadership development within a company, or whether that’s my own firm.
What’s a movie or book you’ve consumed recently?
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. — it’s a documentary about MIA that’s playing at the Roxie, covering art and activism.
Tell us how you got engaged!
In June 2018 — we’d been talking about this for a while and had been dating for the past 5 years. He was on a sabbatical for two months so we took time off to travel. The last place we went was Oahu, Hawaii, and he ended up proposing on the beach at sunrise.
We committed to not having any wedding conversations until August 7, because we didn’t want to take the romance out of the last of our travels.
What do you think about wedding planning?
Everybody has told me that it’s a really hard scary thing in your life. Especially because we’re balancing two different sets of upbringings, cultures, and families. It’s been an emotional up and down. Because it’s so far enough away, we don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel (us being blissfully married!)
Both of us have done corporate events in our professions, but even so, we knew we would want to hire a planner because we did NOT want to do all the hard work ourselves. I just don’t want this to consume my every day from now and the wedding. I want to be able to think about other things.
I just don’t want this to consume my every day from now and the wedding. I want to be able to think about other things.
Here’s how to reach Karishma: website | linkedin| instagram | fb . Reach out! She’s amazing to talk to :)
We’re featuring stories of amazing women in business, education, medicine, and tech for whom wedding planning is just one of many priorities in their life. Why? We don’t see enough stories highlighting the fact that women have lives and goals before they get engaged and continue to pursue these goals in parallel to wedding planning.
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