Protein, People & Personal brands


My new obsession is cooking.

Actually no, my new obsession is eating healthy and there's no way to do that wihtout cooking for myself.

For breakfast, I'm having overnight soaked oats with milk, lots of nuts and banana almost every day. It just takes 10 minutes to make at night. I keep it in the fridge and mornings are blissful because I don't have to worry about breakfast. I loveee this super quick and healthy breakfast.


Then I drink a glass of vegetable juice - carrots, beetroot, amla, tomato, spinach, ginger, lemon. I ask my cleaning wali didi to make it and both of us have it. It's our thing now!

Then, I cook lunch. Some form of protein and carbs. I’ve become a self-proclaimed expert in simple, healthy, tasty, protein-packed recipes.

And I’ve become so consumed with it that I even made a rant video about how hard it is to get enough protein as a vegetarian (I’ll share the link at the end of this email because pehle share kar dungi toh tum Instagram me kho jaoge aur pura padhoge nahi :D)

It started as a health thing. Now it’s turned into a whole personality.

Turns out, cooking is helping me feel grounded. It’s my I-have-some-control-over-my-life ritual.

I don't know how conscious you are about your protein intake but I want you to be more conscious so I'm sharing a super simple recipe below

  • Soak green moong or kala chana overnight
  • Grind them in a blender in the morning with some water
  • Let it ferment for a few hours till lunch (optional)
  • Add salt, veggies and spices you like
  • Make chillas with the batter

Replace your lunch roti/rice with these protein-rich chillas. I eat mine with sabji or dal, just like I’d eat roti. Gluten free ka gluten free, protein ka protein!

Tell me, what protein-rich food do you eat in your day? Or do you take supplements?


I finished reading Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, yesterday and I’m still fuming. No, I'm not exaggerating. Never before has a book made me so so angry.

It’s the story of an ordinary woman in South Korea but it could just as easily be set in India.

Sharing a line from the book that will always stick with me.

“Help out? What is it with you and ‘helping out’? You’re going to ‘help out’ with chores. ‘Help out’ with raising our baby. ‘Help out’ with finding me a new job. Isn’t this your house, too? Your home? Your child? And if I work, don’t you spend my pay, too? Why do you keep saying ‘help out’ like you’re volunteering to pitch in on someone else’s work?”

If you’re a woman, read this book. If you’re a man, read it twice.


Remember the problem I shared in the last email about a lack of affordable personal branding solutions?

I built something to solve it.

It’s a community where I’m sharing everything I know about building a personal brand on LinkedIn—specifically for people who feel clueless, scared to post, or don’t know where to start.

Here’s what the members get each week:

✅ Content prompts & templates that make it easy to show up - even when your brain’s fried after work

✅ Step-by-step guidance on how to define your content pillars, build a content strategy, and stay relevant

✅ Real-time LinkedIn updates (algorithm changes, trends, what’s working right now - so you’re never behind)

✅ Monthly community calls for Q&A, feedback and sharing success stories

This is not generic gyaan you can Google.

This is real insight + real tools from someone who's grown multiple personal brands (including my own) - packed into your phone, weekly.

So you can stop scrolling. Start showing up. And finally, grow a personal brand that works for you while you sleep.


I launched it on Saturday and already have 3 members.

It feels amazing to go from finding a problem to building a solution to launching it with paid customers in less than a month. I'm thrilled and so proud of myself for this quick launch.

Since it's an experiment, I'm keeping the seats limited to 10 people for now.

If you're interested in joining, fill out this form and I'll reach out to you: https://forms.gle/AohvmvBCjDTyT7bK7

If you have any questions, reply to this email.


And here’s that protein rant video I promised you: Watch it here

That’s all for now.


See you next Wednesday <3

Love,
K

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