Hemali Shah: The women of substance and the family entrepreneur; transforming hobby into profession
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Hemali Shah, an entrepreneur, competed for her interest and love for chocolate into a growing empire. "Chocolate House" is established over the journey of 3 decades where she had faced a lot of ups and downs.
She learned chocolate making in her vacations and found that there is something which she can connect with, and it fascinated her to make pure homemade chocolates with zero preservative
The initial days' most significant challenge was no digital media access, which made it more challenging to promote the product. But she managed to overcome all the challenges with her parents' and friends' financial and moral support. Building a website on a free server was the perfect decision to promote the product.
After this, chocolate's deformation due to melting at high temperature is another challenge while delivering them to customers.
But, finally, she grabbed her first order by her dad's reference, which made her more fascinated and motivated to work harder.
Word of mouth is the way to get feedback from the customers due to lack of funding. But, she managed to promote the business through friends and family.
Balancing her business, studies, and multi-tasking was the most significant thing she learned from her struggling.
Ongoing work, efforts, and hard work paid her well, and she is standing where everyone dreams of standing. She is a personality who motivates everyone and especially women, to stand and convert their hobby into a profession.
After marriage, her father-in-law was the most significant support who helped her achieve her dreams and work hard for them.
