I was brought up in a Tibetan family living in India. I am a university graduate who also has studied Buddhist philosophy. My father and mother were my first teachers in life. Through growing up in this diverse cultural setting, I had the fortune to learn how to look beyond our cultural programming. This in turn has helped me glimpse through the conditioning we all have in one or another way. Moving to the West came with all sorts of challenges as well as joys. I early started running my own business Norbuling – a mind training and meditation academy – in 2001. I was involved in many different projects: inspirational projects for youth and children, recording a music album with female prison inmates, coaching unemployed people, helping refugees and arranging leadership workshops for companies. Even though I have held positions such as a recruiter, as a project manager and even as a CEO, what has moved me forward has been to see and meet myself and those around me as human beings with human needs, leaving all such labels aside. This might sound basic but to really see ourselves and to understand ourselves, detached from negative emotions and thoughts about ourselves, those around us and our circumstances was, as I found out, not as simple as it might sound. People around me started telling me that I had a skill for this. That they were inspired by how I used it as an engine that gave momentum to all of my projects and to myself. I started getting requests to share this perspective with them. That interest expanded into me now sharing my perspective and experience as an inspirational and motivational speaker.