No One Is Self-Made
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Good evening, everyone. Thank you for tuning in, I’m Srini Saripalli. This is Success with Srini, a show on Human Design, Human Engineering, and Human excellence. I’m here every Tuesday between 6:30 and 7 pm. My goal, my intent is to have an incredible conversation with you about your goals, about your aspirations about your ambitions, and such that you can have a dynamic living, such that you can set goals for your own self and you fulfill them and leave and live a meaningful life and leave an incredible legacy. That’s the idea behind the show, we pick a topic, one unique topic every week. And we talk occasionally if I have a seminar, or a workshop or an event that I’m doing, I invite, you know, promote that on this event. And sometimes very rarely, very rarely, a guest maybe you know all that. But the idea is simple. The idea is that I want to have a conversation with you. And the show is monotonous The show absolutely has no meaning. If this doesn’t impact you, it doesn’t impact you. It takes some pain away from you takes some suffering away from you, it instills hope in you, it puts optimism into you. If those things are not happening, there’s no point in official from me doing from this side, it’s very hard for me from the side, because I don’t see you I don’t know who is listening. It’s very hard to imagine the listener and what state they are in and what challenges they are going through. And just do a show like this. It’s hard and primarily it’s also hard because, you know, you probably are not tuned in to listen to a self-improvement talk is listening to music and John the music. And I happen to show up in the middle of the show up in the middle. And I want to have a conversation with you. But here’s what I want you to do. I want you to stay with me for the next five minutes. If you think there is value in this conversation, then stay with me. If not, I completely understand. You’re probably just a casual listener, you have no idea what this show is about. And all that may not have the mindset I have is everybody just happened to be listening to the show.
I have a few connected listeners who are who tune in and they do send me messages beyond the show. But then my idea is just that you’re just happening to listen to the show, and then you get some value out of this and then you become a candidate listener. That’s my goal. Okay, srinisaripalli.com is the website and the Success with Srini, this show has been on air on the airwaves for over 12 years now. And this show, and every day. I have very limited time on the show here. But every day I run a podcast, which now is reaching nearly 100,000 people a day. And all this has happened because of your support. All this has happened because you participated you walked shoulder to shoulder with me and appreciate your questions. Appreciate you keeping me on my toes every day. I mean, there is never a show that I have done here that is beyond the show. Right after I’m done with the show. I get text messages and questions. And there are some questions that I have not yet gotten to, to respond on the podcast. So what I do here is he’s I asked for your questions, and the podcast is a coaching podcast. So every day I coach on the podcast, if I’m not testing it out yet, do me a favor. Open up any podcasting app that you have that you use that you love, and search up success with Srini that’s the name of the show. That’s the name of the podcast. Download or subscribe or follow the podcast these days to change it to follow. Follow the podcast and if you like what you are hearing, listen to one or two episodes you like it then subscribe if not, I understand you don’t need to subscribe. Okay, the number in the studio is 888-818-0404, 888-818-0404 the number the studio now here is why I want you to call in today I want you to call him, I’ll tell you, this is what I’m doing. On my podcast. Most of the podcasts are designed to, you know, kind of talk to celebrities, and talk to people who will have some social standing that has achieved something socially.
You know, financially, politically, they have achieved a status. And, naturally, we want to pick their brain because they have already established the path to success. So we pick their brain, every host, wants to talk to somebody who is already successful. And something that I am trying, and I’ve started doing this is I flipped the script on the podcast, I’m talking to my listeners, I’m talking to common people, people who, who work very hard and got here you are in your listening right now in the car, you worked very hard to be here. This is not easy. And you probably know this or not. But it’s also not going to be easier from this point on either. So anything that has gotten us here, it’s going to take a while for us to get there to that next level. And there will be more challenges, there’ll be more obstacles, there will be more bottlenecks, and there’ll be more obstacles along the way. We, whoever we are, need to constantly keep on growing, we need to keep on building ourselves, and we need to keep on exploring ourselves internally, and externally. And there’s a whole level of different kinds of engagement that’s needed. If you are, you know, all of us want to succeed, all of us want to go to the next level. So you got here because somebody contributed to your success. Somebody, you know, the Mother, the Father, the brother, the friend, the teacher, some all of them, but some of them at crucial points in your life, they did something for you at a time when you were almost losing hope. It was you probably gave up. They believed in you, they stood by you. They were shoulder to shoulder with you. I think you can relate to this, I think. And again, you know, we don’t take enough time to appreciate these people. We don’t take enough time to celebrate them. We have taken some of them for granted. And the society has created Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, brother’s day, sister’s day, friend’s day, all that we do celebrate that in some level at some level. But then these people need to be celebrated at a whole different level altogether.
I’ll tell you something, I quote I mentor I train people. Not that I do anything different. Not that I do anything unique. There are many coaches that are many trainers, many people incredible people. And if you want to Seeker, knowledge is everywhere. If you are a seeker if you really want something you’ll get it question comes down to how badly you want something? That’s the question. And the quicker you agree to that question, the easier it’s going to be for you to succeed at any level, whatever you are, after whatever you are seeking, it’s it will be yours if you agree to that point.
So here is something that I want to do I want you to call into the show today. And tell me who is that one person, you cannot pick one person, let me tell you this. It’s very hard because, you know, people say that self-made, nobody is self-made. Everybody is made by others. And a lot of people have contributed to who you are. But if you have to pick one who really was there at a time for you, when you were falling apart when you were giving up when you almost said I can’t do this. And they believed in you they short support for you and they were with you. Maybe they are with you now maybe they were there for a small, little moment. If you have someone in your life, might who contribute to your success. I want you to call in on the show and tell me I want to learn this. Okay, tell me what is that that they did for you that changed your life? What is that they did for you that changed your life? And here’s what I’m going to do. I don’t know how many people are listening right now. I have no idea who is going to call in. I’m expecting that there are 400,000 South Asians in Silicon Valley. All of them are listening. That’s my mindset as I’m doing the show. I don’t know. So 888-818-0404 is the number. One more time 888-818-0404 is the number in the studio. Call in and let me, let’s celebrate for a second. Let’s celebrate. Just let me know what is or let all of us know. What is that? That who can’t predict your success, or somebody held your hand at a time that you were struggling that and you were giving up or at a time when you thought it’s, it’s, it’s out of your reach, or it’s hard for you or it’s impossible. There is someone, I know that everybody has someone, and I want you to call into the show, and let me know, here’s what I’m gonna do. I’m going to take three people, okay? And I will not only get you, okay? Not only get you but also get this person whom you’re celebrating on my podcast.
Okay, I’m gonna celebrate you and this person on my podcast, we got to go very deep, we’re going to go very extensive. I’m going to pick their brain and you will not become a catalyst within which you will help this individual we celebrate this and go over these individualists will celebrate them. And the message along with your message will reach more people. That’s my goal. I’m experimenting with this. Let’s see how far this goes. I want to see who’s listening in. So here’s the number in the studio one more time. 888-818-0404, 888-818-0404 is the number in the studio. I’m not sure if the line is working or not, I think it is. Let’s see who is listening. And here it is. Here is what is happening. My staff is listening to the show right now. My, you know, people who work with me in my office, they’re all listening to the show right now. And immediately after the show is done. If there are more than three quarters, then then we will go into a draw. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t know how many calls are calling. But then if you call in, then certainly the first three callers who call in are by default, the winners. But then if it is more than that, we’re going to go into a draw. But then, you know, my office will call you right away, right immediately away. And we’ll schedule you to be interviewed on my podcast. Okay, and they’re waiting on the other side that listening in. So the number in the studio is 888-818-0404. That’s the number in the studio. You have someone who changed your life, somebody who contributed to your success. Somebody just gave you hope and inspiration and a level of optimism. They believed in you at a time when you were not believing in yourself and you want to celebrate them calling 888-818-0404. I see the light on the board. Thanks for calling in your name where you’re calling from.
“I’m calling from San Ramon.”
Yes, sir. What’s your name, please?
“My name is Rao Nemani.”
Nemani, thank you for calling in. You know, tell me who are you celebrating today and who you want to celebrate with? And how did this person to your success?
“First, Yeah. First of all, I want to really commend you to bring this topic which I just happened to be driving and listening and pocketed right now to express my gratitude to some of my best friends many years ago in New Delhi. So I was fall short of 75 rupees to pay tuition, which I do not have. And my roommate, Prasad, word Lomani and Cha, and the Ganapati Chaganti. Chamber party days people actually went into the bachelor’s apartments and collected 17 rubies in 1981. Wow, we don’t do that they’re 70 rupees possibly. I’m not here.”
Wow. Congratulations to you and, yeah…
“Gratitude to them. I know. That’s why whenever I see an opportunity, I try to put myself into that position and contribute because..”
Absolutely…
Small, small things, changes lives and I’m here because of what Romani Prasad as well as Tim required to get up at the deli living in one and living in New Delhi right now. And another one is in Hyderabad.”
Excellent. Congratulations to you. I’m so happy that you still hold to those values. Just thinking about them today after you are so successful. So here’s what I’m going to do. I got your name. And my office is listening. So if you are one of the three callers they are, if more than three callers will go into draw, then there will be a call to you immediately after the show. And we’re going to see if we can get you on the podcast along with, whatever money you said and the gentleman’s name I could not collect. And we’ll go get them all on the podcast and we’ll celebrate everyone and we’ll reach as many people as possible. Thank you for the call. Thank you. Thank you appreciate it. Okay, let me go to the board. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay, the number in the studio is 888-818-0404 I’ll go to the next caller here. Thanks for calling in your name where are you calling from and whom are you celebrating today?
Hello.
Hi. Your name where you calling from? Yes, yes.
“Yeah, I am Pawan and I stay in Santa Clara.”
Santa Clara, Pawan. Tell me who are you celebrating? Who are you appreciating today?
“Yeah, so like, I heard you like, like, it’s not like struggling and or like, someone helped me or not like that. I’m always like, thankful to my parents like, whatever, they facilitated me, right? Like, for my education or anything, right? So today I’m here like, mostly because like, my parents keep all their gradients, right. So I want to really thank them, like, in the life right, whatever stays I am. But I would really like, wanted to talk to you. That’s why I call you.”
Okay. Okay. Do you know what we can talk about? Right. So let’s do this. Because I have a few callers holding the line, I would love to talk to you. But regardless, you know, my office will call you. And, you know, we’ll get you on the podcast. Hopefully, you win if more than three calls will go into a draw, but then when no issues. Is that okay?
Okay. Yeah, yeah, that’s fine. That’s fine. Yeah. They can be like, I really like to talk to you.
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Pawan.
“I like, yeah, the way you talk and write the motivation levels you have no, right. It’s really like, yeah, I really like fine. Great.”
Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you for the call. Let me go to the next caller. Thanks for calling in your name. And who are you celebrating today?
“My name is Abhishek. And I want to share my story.”
Yes, Abishek. Please go ahead and where are you calling from Abishek?
“Fremont.”
Okay. Excellent. Fremont. Yes, Abishek. Go ahead please with the story. And we have just a few minutes remaining. But please go ahead.
“Yeah, so like, I really want to thank my cousin goddess. His name is Bobby’s Patel is not in, like, in us is living in India, but I really want to thank him. Today, whatever, whatever I’m here. Because of him. It should have for me at the time when I don’t have you know, like, financial support from the, you know, the people I asked, but he stood up for me, helped me he actually gave her his whole home to me for you know, get a loan for my study. Like, I really want to thank him.”
Excellent. I can hear your heart I wish I could the whole barrier is listening to your heart. You know, I see it, how you’re expressing you you’re at a loss of words. Here’s what we’ll do. I hope you have been and I my office will call you. And we’re going to get you and publish on a call that works for his time in India, and your time and we’ll make it an incredible, you know, story, and we’ll reach over 100,000 people on the podcast, but that’s my promise to you. Okay. Sure. Thanks. Thank you. Wonderful. This is wonderful.
Okay, let me go to the next caller here on the board. Thanks for calling in your name and celebrating today.
Hi, your name and who are you celebrating today?
“Hi, this is Shruti. And I think I would like to definitely celebrate my parents who live in India and yeah, so and I also would like to I want to appreciate them I want to celebrate them because they supported me throughout my life is struggled a lot to make me successful. And I also would like to celebrate my husband because after getting married to him, I moved away and even asked me a question is afforded me on everything that I would like to do. Now I’m working this course will you support me by like, I didn’t get a chance to listen to you guys since today because I always used to come up before this time but today I feel like I feel my hot house like thank you for doing this you guys are doing a lot like making us like realizing again that that moment that we spend with this important people. Thank you.”
Wonderful this is amazing. You know, you know I I am listening. The whole video is listening on behalf of fathering your husband. This is This is incredible. Father’s Day is coming up. So you know a great moment to celebrate them. And Shruti I wish you all the best and love to know your story. And we’ll get your father, husband, and all the people on the podcast. We’ll figure that out. My office will call you right after the show. And my time is running out here So thank you for appreciating it. Thank you. Thank you. Wonderful.
Okay. So here is, so I have just a few minutes remaining, if you want to call in today, I’m trying to celebrate people who contributed to your success, I have no idea who you are what you know, you listen, you’re, you’re a casual listener, you are a conductor listener, you are an active listener. And doesn’t matter. You are here, listen to the show. The number in the studio is 888-818-0404, 888-818-0404, for example, the studio calls and celebrates that one individual who contributed to your success and held your hand at a time when and held on, made sure that you hold on to your beliefs at a time when you were giving up and you thought all the roads were closed, all the pathways are blocked, and now you don’t see a way out. And they believed in you had just a few minutes remaining on the show. Thankful to Bourbon Abhishek Shruti, and round the money for calling. You don’t have four calls to call them. And you can see their heart where, where their hearts, where their heart is. This morning, I was in a conversation somebody said the world is falling apart.
You know, there is what happens, the economy is questionable. There is religious intolerance going on, everything is falling apart. And it’s a doomsday v as humanity, where are we going? This is proof the show today, this last 10 minutes is a proof that you know there are incredible people, there are amazing people, they have the values in the right place, they have the beliefs in the right place, they have the heart in the right place, they have the intent the right place. And you as you heard, as you have seen, and these people, you know, as long as these people around the world is a safe place, by the way, okay, and then they will be around for a long, long time. Okay. 888-818-0404 is the number of the studio I have less than three minutes remaining, I want you to call in if you have somebody who contributed to your success. And as I started the show 20 minutes ago, I said this, you know, nobody is self-made every you know, every you know, people contributed to towards what you are today. And even though they may not be around, you are still accountable for what they have done for you. See, if you read a book that is written by an author 100 years ago, you are still accountable to that author, as you’re implementing what you’re learning.
Okay, let me go to the board. Thanks for calling in your name where are you calling from? I have just a minute remaining. Please go ahead. Whom are you celebrating today? Ah, okay. Call dropped. Okay. No worries, okay. Let me try it. Let’s try this 888-818-0404. Let’s see, if you call in if there is a few seconds, I’ll take the call and Okay, add 8818040 for Father’s Day is coming up. And there are many opportunities within which we celebrate people. But then there is never a is a way where we really sit down. And we take their message to the world. What I’m doing is I’m just bringing in a bunch of the listeners of my show. And the reason why they succeeded is that somebody contributed to their success, and I’m celebrating them and those people who contributed to their success on my podcast. My podcast is a daily podcast. It’s available on all the podcasting platforms, including YouTube now. So all you have to do is search up Success with Srini, that’s the name of the podcast. It’s on YouTube, it’s on iTunes, it’s on Stitcher, it’s on Spotify, it’s everywhere. So listen to one or two episodes, you know, at least, you know, they’re all 5-10 minutes each day. It’s a coaching podcast, I train. People wanted to coach and they were looking for I don’t want to pay for coaching. I get it. So you know me I made it available to literally so every day since first of January. I have been running this show.
I have okay had several calls. Okay. Let me go to the first caller. I have one minute. Thanks for calling. Thanks for calling in your name whom are you celebrating? Hi, I’m sorry, I can’t hear you.
“Yeah, hi.”
Hello. Hi. Your name where are you calling from and what are you celebrating today?
“Yeah. I’m Devesh I’m in Sunnyvale. I want to celebrate my mother and why one of my best friends. Definitely, my mother gave me life here. Right. And the friend that is my friend’s name is pravasi. Actually, when I was doing my study, he helped me a lot if any bought books or books for me. And only due to him. I am here in the US.”
Excellent. Devesh, love your sentiment. appreciate your sharing. My time is up my show is closing, but my office will call you, and we’ll schedule you for the podcast. We want to celebrate your mother and whoever you want to celebrate on the podcast. Okay? That’s okay. Thanks. Thanks. I appreciate the call. Wonderful.
Next week, we’ll talk more. Okay, excellent. Okay, so, thank you. So my time is up. And I’m going to come back next week. We’re going to have this next week also. So Rao Nemani, Pawan, Abhishek, Shruti, Devesh. Only five callers, 12345. Yeah, five callers today on the show. So here’s the thing. No point in doing a draw. I respect and I want to celebrate all your emotions. So my office will be calling you in the next 10 minutes. And please, please take the call. Even though it shows no caller ID please take the call. And they will schedule the time and they will onboard you into my podcasts when wonderful, celebrate everything. It’s gonna be fun. It’s the best gift that you can give to your loved ones. I promise you. It’s gonna be amazing. That’s all everybody have a wonderful weekend. Next week. I’ll be here. Thank you. Bye now.