Winning Stroke: Interview with Pooja Jauhari, CEO, The Glitch

1) If not in the current Profession, You would be?

I would run an animal shelter. Hopefully someday, I will be able to gather the right resources and have the courage to do it.

2) One tune you always hum?

Currently, with a one year old at home, it’s “wheels on the bus go round and round” :D

3) One Book to read when you want to motivate yourselves?

It’s a book called Quiet by Susan Cain. It’s about the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking.

4) One Dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most?

“Don't ever let somebody tell you can't do something” from The Pursuit of Happiness.

5) The Place you never been to and always want to go?

Mexico

6) An animal that signifies you & why?

My husband says I’m like a falcon.

7) A Movie Character you most resemble or resonate with?

Tea Leoni from Madam Secretary

8) Choose one from each below :

a) Marvel or DC - Marvel

b) Batman or Superman - Superman

c) Tom or Jerry - Jerry

d) Chacha Chaudhary or Super Commando Dhruv - Chacha Chaudhary

9) If your life was to be turned into a movie who would you like to play your part?

Jennifer Lawrence of Cate Blanchett

10) Luck or Hard Work, What do you think weighs more in defining a successful Person?

Definitely a combination of both. Without luck, every hard working person would be successful and without hard work, every lucky person would only reach so far.

11) One best decision you ever made?

In the recent years, to join The Glitch.

12) A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in Personal or Professional life?

Always give the other person benefit of doubt as one can only control their own actions and no one else’s, so seek to make yourself the best version of you before you try to change someone else.

13) Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?

My husband and my mom

14) What has been your biggest achievement?

My mom always says, don’t aim to be just successful work towards being a good person. If I’m close to that then that would be my biggest achievement.

15) One thing that you want to change in yourself?

My lack of patience. Everything is about NOW.

16) A line said by your closed one that you never forget?

My grandfather on his deathbed blessed me and said may you live a long life. He was a poet and after he said that, he said: “the greatness of life is a dying man passing on the blessings of a long life to his loved one”. In Hindi, it was “Ek marta hua admi lambi umar ki duaien deta ja raha hai.”z

I would run an animal shelter. Hopefully someday, I will be able to gather the right resources and have the courage to do it.