NITIN DANI
Origin of
Trust & Inclusiveness
Gives Nitin a sentimental personality. Sentimental in India at the time is seen as weak and not good
Nitin gets the nickname 'Senti' Dani, Pressure
Middle class family
Family spent savings on sending Nitin and Sister's education. They believed that education was the most important thing and give them the best education. Both children attend a boarding school.
FINANCIAL STRUGGLES
COPING WITH FINANCIAL ISSUES
sold car
Sold land
Father take a loan to help pay for Nitin to study at Polytecnico di Milano
Nitin's mom sells jewelry
Nitin Leaves to work overseas to seek imrpoved life and financial stability outside of India
SINGAPORE
Nitin's Sister goes to local university where she had a hard time blending in after years in boarding school
Married at 22 to get away from dad
Relationship issues with father
School fees, 50% of father's annual salary per child
Nitin in University
Created a more money conscious personality
Unable to go out with friends
Took up extra jobs
Father borrowed money from relatives
Got a scholarship to travel to Milan for masters in architecture
Could not express
Disconnect
singapore was more competitive
felt colder
cut throat and competitive environment
Expensive to live
paid well
salary was used for living expensive
saving money for masters
Victim of racial descrimination
Far from family
Lack of creative freedom
Strict working environment
Massive overtime
Lots of peer pressure
Felt trapped
Did not feel like work contributed to anything
Invested in a project...which bombed
Studied really hard to break the mold
2007 Thesis is selected as top 10 in India
High achieving student
MILAN
Found creative expression
Different way of living and working
Giving Nature
CREATIVITY
Music
ARCHITECTURE
Cooking
Photography
Piano
Hosting Concerts
Travel
Expression
Lived in a small town in india
People still in own bubble
Little exposure
Be more human
not thinking about self
how can you help them
come out of poverty
get past challenges
when you want more, look at the people below you, when you want more, look at the people above
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attempted suicide, swallowed pills
Wasn't taught to manage mental health
travelled a lot and absorbed cultures
travelled alone
accepted living alone
left to your own thoughts
freedom
unique experiences
couch surfing
Connecting with people on a deeper level
People helping
Joining along the journey
building relationships with ppl you didn't know
HUMANITY
the effect of good people on each other. In india was taught not to make strangers, but while travelling, strangers were the ones that opened up the world to you
strangers enriching each other
giving without asking for something in return
live life everyday
SHANGHAI
Moved to shanghai for internship at branding agency
GREEN DRINKS
GREEN INITIATIVES
SEEDS OF CHANGE
Burnout
Burnt out everyday first 8 to 10 months.
underpaid
language
racism
Resonated with Nitin
gave a lot of time
Met wife
Got Married Dec2012
Supported wife for a while
Discovered you enjoyed bringing people together
events grew popular
one event a month, became 2 events a month
Met a lot of 'strangers' that were willing to give and share
These people eventually would come to be closest friends
Volunteers
Suddenly Nitin became a leader that people tooked up to
Giving back to people, help community, support community
GI as a platform to connect to people, running activities and supporting others
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SUPPORTING PEOPLE
The calling to continue Green drinks, and losing visa and having to go back to India
Marriage issues
Career choice and financial issues
conflicting personalities between wife and business partner
Nick
abusive relationship
Nitin's familty say to stay together
Nitin is unsure what to do
ANDY COUTIRER
Sensitive to noise from abusive relationship
Close to mum
Dad did not treat mum with respect
Nitin spends time in kitchen and learns to cook from her
Supportive of mum
Indians are unconscious of their own health
air, soil, water, plastic polution
unhealthy diet, less physical activity
emotional / stress
happiness comes from others, not self (kids getting good education, getting married, etc)
noise
Trapped in housewife life
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2018, Read Andy's book
Visited a location in Andy's book
Moment of clarity, doing good and close to family
2018 How to make money for a retreat
lessons and network from GI can be implimented at the retreat
Stayed with her 6 years, unhappy 6 years
3 DEATHS
Sabina 2018, great personality, loved life, great friendship
Divorce wife
Colon Cancer, high chance from red meat
Both Nitin and Sabina made plans to visit India
VALUE: Friendships
Do anything for friends
Friends mean everything
VALUE: BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER
Singing bowl session calmed ex wife and showed to nitin the power of healing
Ex wife - mean comment about Sabina
Split with Knut
Gave courage
PEOPLE SUPPORTING NITIN
Do you want the next 25 years of your life to be like the last 5 years of your life
Tiffany Tarot reading
Kathering healing sessions
Dad supporting Nitin after seeing how ex-wife treated family, 'i refuse to see you're the only one wrong'
walked togehter with dad and had a moment of connection
Hypno therapy session helped nitin get over guilt
created moments of clarity to take one step forward and not one step back
Origin - Kinship through boarding school
Realised in Milan
Manifested in Shanghai
COMMUNITY
Community service & grassroot focus
Growing up Nitin's father made him listen to a lot of videos from a grassroot activist in India who focused on reducing dependance on multinationals, and focused on local, handmade consumption that kept societies & systems more sustainable. This was Nitin's first interaction with activism or local consumption
Nitin's father has been meditation practitioner for 35 years;
Family was always frugal about expenses, creating waste, kids reminded often to be kind to others
dating
sharing of knowledge
THERE IS A LOT OF HELP
ppl want to share
theres a lot of knowledge out there
Problem with being overtly-religious is that people don't take accountability for their actions/health