Anusha S Murthy is an Entrepreneur, dancer, achiever, dreamer and a wonder mother.
One can not miss a rainbow glow coming out of a person especially when surrounded by thousands of garden-variety mere humans. That is what we realised when we met Anusha S Murthy on a dire winter afternoon.
An Entrepreneur, an achiever, a ramp walker and the mother of an eight year old. This lady does it all in her own way; with plenty of sass and a lot of oomph. Anusha S Murthy is the co-owner of her husband’s business ‘Balaji Paints and Hardware Suppliers’ and runs her own business with Global Business Projects. Her achievements also include, Mrs. Universe South India 2019, International Entrepreneur 2019, International Style Queen from Rajasthan Queens and South Asia Women’s Achiever’s Award.
She prefers styling herself and has an exceptional taste when it comes to colours. The lady walks tall while radiating her own confidence and jazz. Her journey started not with her husband but long before that; in her childhood. Belonging to a middle-class family, with a father who had responsibilities of his parents, Anusha found herself taking tuitions and teaching whatever she knew to whoever was interested. She wasted no time and took her diploma and joined a crash course in networking at Microsoft instead of going for the usual long stretched education. Looking at her performance the same institute offered her first and last job.
However, being under someone and working with computers was not her passion. It was and has always been dancing. Apart from her busy schedule of working and studying, she kept her dance close to her heart and kept a dance school running during weekends.
Even while educating herself, she made sure that she gives back to society and says, “I have done my landmark graduation. It’s a life transformation course where they support us to work out of our comfort zone and bring some changes in our life. I was doing a curriculum called Self Expression Leadership Program (SELP) where we take up one project for the society. My project was called ‘saplings’. It was about reaching orphanages and teaching children what they want to learn and bring up little entrepreneurs. So, when they are out of the orphanage, they can earn their own money. Around 200 kids have benefited from it.”
Her wedding was a fairly normal arranged marriage one where she was chosen for her husband by the mother in law when she saw her at a wedding. As with any Indian girl, the step took a new turn and changed her life. But being idle does not suit her and around the year 2010-11 she opened her own PG in Bengaluru. She says, “I bought the PG from scratch, I took care of it like a baby and today 58 girls are getting sheltered there. Now I have a manager to take care of it.”
With her own baby in tow, Anusha had to finally take a break and be on bed rest due to a high risk pregnancy. Three years went by for her to be back on her feet, but it never disturbed her flow or defeated her zeal. Next, she opened her virtual store of textiles. But she soon figured that she needed to close it.
Opening another door for herself, she explains, “I was looking for options and then I started with the Global Business Projects which is running very well. We have 7-8 people who collaborate and work. I am happy that I have business in my life. I learnt a lot of professionalism, how to work, how to deal with people. Looking at my growth in that my husband asked for my help in his business. He takes care of the store and projects; I take care of the execution and the marketing part.”
Anusha has always been a dreamer and while talking about her future, she says, “I always had a dream that my bank balance should look like my telephone number. In my future I want to be so financially capable that I won’t have to see the price card while buying anything for me and my family. I have plans of opening up an orphanage and an old age home. I also need to be a very responsible mom to my son. He is a sports man and even he is into a lot of adventurous things. I want to support him and join him in whatever he wants to do and be the biggest support to my husband, help society and continue my project ‘saplings’.”
