Parul TV, Montreal, Dreams and Story Telling: Parul Khanna's Path To Impact | Ep. 042 - My Thick Accent

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Gurasis (00:00):
Hi, this is Gurasis Singh and you're listening to My
Thick Accent podcast.
Welcome back to the ones whoare here for the part two of my

(00:21):
conversation with Parul and theones who are new here, Welcome.
Welcome to the community.
And to listen to the part oneof the conversation, you can
check out the episode 41.
I'll put a link to that in theshow notes as well.
Let's pivot towards yourCanadian journey.
Then you moved here in 2013,but before that, you know, you

(00:42):
wanted to study abroad, but theBC degree wasn't of that much
value for you to do the mastersright.
But then you came to theUniversity on a special
admission.
Tell us about that and how didthat happen?

Parul (00:53):
So actually I'm working on the story of my life, part
two, where I am going to sharemuch more details with visuals,
but I can give you a quickoverview here, so I'm keeping it
for my next release.
It's one of the most awaitedvideos that I promise everyone
once we cross 300,000subscribers, so I'm working on

(01:14):
it.
In Canada, if you want to study, you must have bachelors in
technology.
If you want to go for mastersin technology, right.
So when I was studying, I, I, IGoogle, just like everyone else
.
How can I go to Canada?
What are my chances?
I posted on various forums.
At that time, youtube was not abig thing.
You don't get much help, likethese days.

(01:35):
You have, you know, the visualsand everything.
I tried my best, but I actuallydidn't get anything.
They were like not eligible, no, no, not happening, and I just
wanted to have something incybersecurity.
So when we were in Malaysia andI'm talking about that phase of
presentations in 2013, anopportunity came to me where I

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am invited for masters, with anexception, because when I was
offered, you want to studymasters?
You seem like smart.
It's like in my heart, I wantedto study, but if you talk about
what's happening around.
I don't want to leave all thisright.
But then in my heart I alsoknow that if I don't train

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myself further, all thesechallenging questions that are
coming in are going to fail mebadly at one point.
I'm not able to answer thesequestions, so in the future it's
going to be worse.
I had invitation for mastersfrom most of the colleges and
universities I was presenting atduring my conferences in India,
but I personally knew that if Itake them I'm not going to

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learn anything.
They are offering me admissionand scholarship because they
want me to be on board, you know, and basically help them with
the promotions.
They know that this guy's goingplaces.
It's going to help the collegeand university.

Gurasis (02:54):
They knew you were a good candidate.

Parul (02:56):
They knew that this will bring something positive to us.
And same goes for me also.
They were offering me freescholarship.
And when I was presenting inMalaysia also, I got an offer
from University of Futara,malaysia, for PhD program and
masters fast track with no fee,nothing.
But I really don't want, didn'twant to study in Malaysia at
that point because I knew thatthings, the books, the courses,

(03:17):
those courses are a lot comingfrom Europe and US, but again
I'm not eligible to study.
So I was never exploring thatidea.
Anyway, I gave my try, didn'twork.
Okay, let's continue and seewhat happens.
But then when this opportunitycame, I told them hey, I don't
have a bachelor's in engineering, I don't think I'm qualified
for masters.
They said we'll make it work.

(03:38):
We'll talk to the dean, we'llmake it work.
You don't need to have abachelor's.
Are you okay to come?
And then I was like, even if youmake it work, I don't have the
money.
It's $40,000, $50,000 fee, howI'm going to manage that, and
it's a big amount.
They were like we'll make itwork.

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That too, we'll try to work outon something.
We'll do some interviews.
If it all works out, we willgive you a scholarship.
Then it kicked my head a littlebit.
I was like, okay, this is agreat opportunity.
And they said there is a thisyou know school that is offering
masters in cybersecurity inCanada, concordia only
university right now who'soffering this masters, quite

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exclusive.
I'm getting opportunity to getin.
So I did my mathematics, Italked to my I'm not good at
mass, by the way, but when youknow the things in my life don't
add up I know I'm good at that.
So I so, if I talk like in, in,in, in real language not good at

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mass, but definitely I knowwhen shit doesn't add up, so I
know that this thing wasn'tadding up, okay.
So I talked to my family andthey were like they were always
there.
They were like we want you togo.
If you want to study, if thisis something that you can do and
it will help you to learn, gofor it.
But I was like I will leave allthis, whatever I have done and.

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I'll become an average studentlike everyone else.
I don't want to live that lifeand, being being very clear, I
was very proud of what I was, Iwas doing and I wanted to, you
know, feel more pampered and youknow, just like this, I'm going
to events and everything.
I don't want to go back toschool.
It's boring because I don'tlike to study.
I want to do this and they toldme you can do this always, but

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you cannot do that later andyou're later, or two years later
, go there and then come backand do whatever you were doing
in a better way.
These things are not going away.
They said you are going to dothis again in a good fashion,
but you will be more smarter,and I was always hungry to learn

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more and be more smart, becauseI always thought that I am not
smart enough.
Even now, I think that thereare 10,000 smarter people,
million people I know betterthan me and I'm always taking
inspiration from them.

Gurasis (05:58):
And not only me, I think many of the listeners.
You are one of them for sure.

Parul (06:03):
I really appreciate that and I know that they will set
examples to you, know, andthey'll break all those barriers
and all the stereotypes and dosomething great.
See, for me, I'm just doingwhat I like to do.
It's not something that Ipretend that, oh, I'm very smart
, and no, I just keep sharing.
That's how the life goes and Ikeep learning.

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And at that point I had to makethis decision leave everything
and go to Canada and start alife of a student that that you
never thought of or was on books.
But there's no other way, right?
And I knew that, that thebusiness is going up and down
and things are not going in theway I want, and I am feeling
those kicks whenever people areasking me questions.

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I decided to take it and I waslike, okay, I'll come back to
India and I'll continue with mycompany again, but now let's
take a two years break and go tous like movies.
You go abroad, you study, youcome back.
We went with the interviews withthe Dean of Concordia and they
asked me all these questions andmy profile was so strong,
whatever I have shared.
So if you talk about story,right, yeah this is the story

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that you can sell to anyone.
Of course if it comes oninterviews, who can have a story
like this?
Right?
Just imagine that I'm doingthis.
And they were like, oh my God,this is not a conventional
academic candidate, right?
Yeah, 33 marks, man, they don't.
They won't even let you in acollege if you talk about
Canadian academic system, right,yeah, I was like I won't get

(07:26):
the visa.
They were like we'll take careof it.
I don't have the money, we'lltake care of it.
So everything is being takencare of.
Parul, you are so dumb if youwill just let it go.
Yeah, I left everything, allthose ongoing contracts that
were there for trainings.
I trained my colleagues.
I had an office.
So I told them once thesecontracts expire, shut down the
office.
We are done, we'll try to keepit running.

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But the struggle was when theycame to Canada, nobody was
inviting my team for seminarsbecause they wanted me.
They wanted that guy you knowwho was doing these cases, not
his associates.
So that wasn't picking upreally well and we started
getting into loss.
So I decided to just, you know,take it as a milestone of my

(08:09):
life and start my new life inCanada, and I was like I'll come
back again and I'll dosomething.
But I never went back.

Gurasis (08:15):
Just like many of us, we all plan to come here, but we
never return.
But tell me this one question,which I'm also in Montreal and I
also get this question all thetime that why Montreal, or why
you are still here?
It's going to be five years forme.
Did people ask you that?
Or why you are in Montreal?
Tell me about that.

Parul (08:32):
The decision to stay in Montreal is somewhat partial my
decision to stay here andsomewhat against my will, I
would say.
And even in the end I think Ireally want to stay in Montreal.
Only when it comes to Canada Idon't feel I'll be comfortable
anywhere else, and there aremany reasons.
So the decision to stay inMontreal came in the light when

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I was graduating.
You know, when you graduate youapply jobs everywhere.
So for me work is worship.
If I get a job here, it's fine.
So I actually applied inToronto.
There's a little story.

Gurasis (09:06):
Is it okay if we're extending this podcast more to
the timeline.

Parul (09:12):
It's a funny story, right .
So Montreal is a small city,very diverse, a lot of colleges
and universities and everyone issmiling.
When you walk on the streets,there are festivals every
weekend, the vibe is kind of,everyone is.
You know it's a slow down life,everyone is chilling, even if
they are stressed.
You don't feel that pressureLike, for example, if we talk

(09:35):
about India.
Compare Mumbai's traffic or, youknow, work, culture, worth is a
small town, or maybe Goa.
So Montreal is like Goa for me.
I would say Okay, and you havethese vibrant places and French
culture and too much diversitythat you feel like you are
somewhere else, you are inabroad.

(09:55):
And now compare it with Toronto, which is it's like New York of
Canada, right, full ofprofessional opportunities and
everything.
So when I graduated and appliedto jobs at many places, I got
an interview called from Toronto, from a big five Okay,
everyone's.
You have a dream, big five, togo in Adela Street, big towers.
I go there.

(10:16):
If you look at the buildingyou'll actually snap your neck.
Okay, so I go in for theinterview.
The moment I stepped in I saweveryone Indian or everyone from
Sri Lanka or Pakistan and Ifelt like I'm in New Delhi.
Okay, that was one.
If you live in Montreal for afew years, you will feel it.

(10:36):
Maybe you won't feel.
If you're living here, you willsee around a lot of India's
around here, but if you will seenine out of 10 are people who
are you feel like you are inIndia.
Okay, from security to HR, toeveryone.
And then I also saw thateveryone was in a very fast
paced life mode.
Everyone is running.
It's like in the train.
They are running, pushing,going through.

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I did not feel that sense ofbelongingness there.
I felt that this is a greatplace to make money, to
professionally succeed, but if Icome here, I might get into and
blend into everyone and I won'thave time for myself to explore
what I do.
So, for sure, cybersecurity waseverything I was doing till

(11:19):
that point, but I was missing abigger part of my life that I'm
not now a regular guy.
Nobody knows me.
I don't have news articles.
It was emotionally bugging me,actually, because when you see
all these things you know quiteearlier in your life and
suddenly they are gone, you feelthat gap.
Okay, you are an average guyand I really didn't want it to

(11:43):
be mediocre ever since beginning.
I won't get time to exploreanything like that.
It was on my list that I have todo something.
I didn't know it was YouTube.
I was going to do somethingthat will give me recognition
and recognition kicks me to dobetter.
So then I decided to applyagain jobs in Montreal and I got
a job here, much better package.

(12:03):
And if we talk about financialterms, if you get $60,000 offer
in Toronto versus $45,000 inMontreal, it's equivalent to the
$60,000 of Toronto for thepurchase of our charity and the
living expenses and the carinsurance.
So the maths was not adding up.
The financial things were notadding up for me so.
But I got a better package inMontreal.

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I was offered more than $70,000for the first job in Montreal,
which was unheard, thanks to mycybersecurity journey.
In the interview they asked mewhy did you choose cybersecurity
?

Gurasis (12:35):
It was like done, Let me tell you.

Parul (12:39):
And the guy came to my car with me was like Parul, are
you interviewing somewhere else?
I thank to that guy likeliterally, because when you
graduate you are in, you know,hunt for a professional job.
You need an opportunity toshine yourself and show your
skills.
But yeah and you don't want togo for odd jobs, right.
And my scholarships were done.
I was done with all the money Iwas left with.

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I was doing Uber.
I wasn't really enjoying it,but it was good for me to
practice my French and just getto learn about people.
But again, I don't want to dothis my whole life, right?
Those three, four months aredifficult For me.
It was three, four months foreveryone.
Sometimes it's more and itbecomes stressful.
So he came to my car.
He told me you want to get thisjob, it's fine.
Hey, are you interviewingsomewhere else?
I was like, yes, toronto bigfive yeah.

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I'm sending you the offer letter.
They added 10, 15,000 on thetop of it and they said okay,
don't accept it, We'll send youthe offer tomorrow morning.
Today the HR is gone and thenext day they gave me the offer
that quickly and I accepted itand I decided to stay in
Montreal.
And then I was like, let's stayhere for an year and see what

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comes in.
If Toronto offers me an amazingopportunity, I'll try, but
let's now build this life.
So once I started that job thenI started assessing now what
should I do to get thatrecognition back?
And I tried so many things.
I failed so bad.
I started pranks, YouTubechannel 22 subscribers Nothing

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helped.
Then I started playing videosof different worlds best
location from Google Earth.
Nothing happened.
Then I was like maybe I'mmissing the point here.
I'm being desperate.
Then I realized that all thosestudents who I you know I was
teaching, they asked mequestions on Facebook Hi Paru,

(14:27):
Hi Paru, sir, they call sir inIndia.
Right here, there's no culture.
I want to do this, masters,because you are doing it.
I want to do this too.
How did you do this?
How did you do that?
And then I realized that nobodyis talking about guidance on
these things.
Now let's do whatever you havebeen doing and make a video out

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of it.

Gurasis (14:49):
Okay, hold that thought before we get into that, paru,
tell me what was your resourcesor support system while you were
in Canada.

Parul (14:57):
When you moved to Canada, Okay, so my life has been less
stressful than any other personI know, and I think it was some
bit of luck and some some bit ofyou know.
Things happen around you,naturally, right.
I won't say that it was toomuch struggle for me.
I would say, the too muchstruggle for me was the
emotional part, more thatstaying away from the family for

(15:19):
that long.
I never left my family more thana week.
I was on business trips, butnot much so when I came here.
There's an uncle I know and mybrother's connection knew that
uncle, and uncle came to pick meup at the airport 25 December
and he hosted me for a month andI'm very thankful to him

(15:41):
because I know people have tosuffer a lot when they come here
and they don't know anyone.
So I stayed with him and hesupported me initially and after
a month, when I was about tomove out, we discussed and he
said I feel good with you, howabout you stay here for longer?
I was like, okay, my family wasmore than happy.
They were like oh, yes.

Gurasis (16:01):
Yeah.

Parul (16:02):
Yes, home, away from home .

Gurasis (16:04):
Okay, yeah, so they were like stay, stay.

Parul (16:08):
I was like no, I don't have independence, I want
freedom, I want to go out late,I want to chill, I want to go to
parties.
And they were like no, thistime they were more, you know,
stubborn on their decision, likethis was the first time they
actually told me no Veryconcretely, you are staying
there, like okay, I'll stay.
Then I stayed six months morethan we got along really well.

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So my start was quite smooth,but my schedule was quite hectic
.
Nine to nine I have to be inthe lab because it was a thesis
program, masters.
I'm not taking any courses, butI work on a research project
funded by Korea and somegovernment agencies and there's
a lot.
So my money was getting fundedby different sources.
So I have to stay and work onresearch.

(16:52):
So it was.
I didn't have time for lifemuch.
I'll be very clear.
Nine to nine I was in lab nosocial circle, no friends,
because for friends you have togo out and have chill.
You don't chill time and I wasjust studying, right.
But again, I had a lot of timeon my hands to work on my
personal projects.
You know, try something new,make extra money, sell stuff and

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all.
So for me, the support systemmainly was my family on phone,
whatsapp.
I'm just talking to them likeeveryone else, but it was my
fixed schedule that I'll talk tomy mom twice a day.
That's non negotiable and Ihave to answer her call or
message within minutes.
If I'm not doing is going tocall everyone on her list,

(17:37):
anyone and everyone to reach me,and I'm like come on, I'm, I'm
just busy.
They were like no, we don'tknow.
So they were very, you know,protective of me and possessive
of the idea of me getting lostsomewhere and you know.
So all these things you know, Ihave experienced and I know
that this is the pain point ofevery family sending their kid

(17:58):
abroad.
So, yeah, I was getting supporton phone Rest.
I was pretty, I would say,daring when it comes to doing
something crazy or, you know,taking challenges on, and I was
trying out a lot of thingsduring my student life to
support myself.

Gurasis (18:15):
Let's just move it towards your YouTube channel,
parol TV TV being because youwanted to be on TV and you end
up using the word TV on this one.
Tell us about your initiationof the idea and then the
execution.

Parul (18:28):
So, as I told you that the idea was to, you know, have
a TV right, I was like, if I'mnot on the real TV because I
failed the VD, the auditions ofMTV VJ Hunt, where Rhea
Chakrabati and Jose Coveco werethe lead parts.
I couldn't pass that.
Then I went to Voice of IndiaIshmish Singh, yvonne and that
batch I also auditioned and Isang a song, alvida Alvida and

(18:54):
they told me to Alvida Alvida,right on my face because I was
so bad.
And then I tried everything,okay, anything that can work for
me.
Everything failed.
So TV, I will have my own TVand I put that name in Parol TV
and what can be better?
First I was thinking differentnames, but I was like I'm the

(19:14):
brand, so I'll put my name aswhat else were you thinking, if
you can share.
I was thinking a lot of thingsimmigrant, like travel, funk,
something.
I put a lot of random names,backpacker, but nothing worked.
I'll parol.
Tv sounded more genuine to meso I was like let's do this
because people know my name,easy to find, and I will have my

(19:36):
more Google listing whensomebody will search for rule.
Yeah.

Gurasis (19:40):
So that's, imagination, right?

Parul (19:41):
Right there and when you Google search Parol Khanna
ethical hacker or Parol Khannahacker, there were a lot of
results at that time because Iwas very active on news and news
websites, times of idiot,everything, so let's keep that
name and put TV.
So I basically my goal was tojust share what I do on messages

(20:02):
, but now on screen.
But I was like, let's make avideo.
So I actually try to make sometravel videos before, just like
everyone else was doing.
I didn't get any traction, thenI deleted them.
Then I made this video on topjobs in Canada, so basically
what it is.
Then I searched and I foundthat a lot of YouTubers are

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there, but they are in Ontario,vancouver, and they're talking
about these things, but they arenot doing it right, they're
just dragging it too much.
It's not too too.
You know specific.
But then I said, oh, let'scheck for Quebec.

Gurasis (20:37):
Nobody's zero.

Parul (20:39):
There was one channel who interviewed me, but that guy
was more into singing songs oryou know, poetry and everything,
but yeah, nothing studentspecific.
So I created a channel.
I made the video with my iPhoneseven.
I kind of judged myself so manytimes that I was like my audio
sounds very cheap, the voicequality is not good, it's not
radio quality, so I don't know.

(21:03):
I wasn't confident.
I made the video and it pickedup 100 subscribers in a week.
Oh shit, 100 people know me.
Let's do more 200, 300, 400.
And then I started putting downanything I have faced as a
challenge luggage packing thatvideo.
If you go back and check,probably one of.

(21:23):
I say thank you everyone for500 subscribers.
I made it outside Starbucks.
It started kicking in and atone day I was in Gurudwara Sahib
in LaSalle and somebody said oh, parul saw your video man.

Gurasis (21:39):
Very nice.

Parul (21:41):
Oh, that guy, I still have his picture with me.
He changed me completely.

Gurasis (21:47):
Okay, you were like something's happening,
something's happening.

Parul (21:49):
He gave me a shock.
He shake my hand out of nowhere.
My friends, so usually when youstart a channel, you spam
everyone on WhatsApp.
Join my channel.
Join my channel.
Yeah not everyone joins yourchannel, but now when?
So the real fun begins whenunknown people start recognizing
you, not the ones that areconnected by second or third

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line of connection.
You are friends, friend or hisroom, I don't.
But when somebody out of tenurecomes in hey, parul, nice video
man I was like, oh, wow, thisis fun, let's do this more.
And then I start doing it moreoften and more often.
People start coming and sayingthank you to me.

(22:30):
Done Mission dissolved.
You're helping people, you'regiving back to society, you're
sharing.
Whatever you have been doing,it's genuine.
Your intention is to just shareand be famous.
I really wanted that part.
Okay, I'm not, I never say thatwas not the motive.
That was actually and I thinkit exceeded really well Then 500
.
I was like if there are 1000subscribers, I'll buy a camera,

(22:52):
if there are 2000, I'll buy alight.
So I started.
Then I started looking at thequality and eventually we
evolved 5000, 10,000, 20,000,30,000.
And then I started stop lookingat the numbers.
I was just making videos.
Then I came into discipline.
I see when I'm missing videos,the subscriber goes down Like

(23:12):
I'm not getting average.
So then I was like keep makingvideos Every week.
There should be something and Imanaged myself.
I was good at time managementThanks to my research degree.
I learned from there, so I justkept picking videos and then I
never looked back.
I'm still doing the sameroutine.
One video is always there, atleast.
Yeah, that's the committee.

Gurasis (23:33):
So walk us through your process.
Give us like an example of avideo.
How do you prepare that?
Do you prepare everythingbefore you get on the camera, or
do you like just have a bulletpoint thing, you just talk, or
you just put on the camera andjust talk to us about that?

Parul (23:46):
So, basically so, when I started again, nothing was in a
fixed format.
I was changing my you knowprocess every time, so I used to
write everything in paragraphs,read it, rehearse it and then
talk about it on camera.
And it seems that wheneveryou're recording a podcast, you
know, or making a video and ifyou are new, there are a lot of
unseen challenges like you, likeyou know, like there are

(24:08):
challenges that you cannot evenimagine Of course it sometimes
takes eight hours, 10 hours, forme initially to create one 10
minute video because I'm saying,okay, hello guys, what's up
guys?
Parul, no, what's up guys?
This is Parul, no.
So you do a lot of re-takeswhen you are starting out right.
It's very stressful and youkind of start hating yourself,
like why you can't do this right.

(24:31):
So my process was to writeeverything, record everything
and then edit everything on animmature editor and then
basically compile it and post it.
That was the initial beginning.
But even you know, with time Istarted learning transitions,
software, lighting, audio,quality, and I was setting up.
So I had a bag, I put my lightcamera everywhere I sit outside

(24:54):
that's the best place to havenatural light and I record.
But now in last five years wehave been doing it for so long.
I wanted to have a fixed setup.
So now I'm sitting in my studio.
I have all the lights that arefixed here.
They are super expensive.
Even if I know that I won't getviews, I really like to have
the best gadget around.

(25:16):
You're doing it for yourself.
You know, I like the quality, Ilike that high definition
colors, I like those transitionsthat look greater and that make
me different than anyone elseputting on the videos or maybe
on the same topic, even if Idon't get views.
I just put milestones and Istarted putting all these things
together.
Now I have a team to help mewith editing and everything,

(25:37):
because I have been doingediting like for three to four
years, but at one point Istarted spending more time on
editing and being morepossessive about what I have
been doing and it was pushing meback because I wasn't able to
produce more content because Iwas spending all the time in
editing.
I'm not able to sleep at night.
My work routine is messing up.
So I was like let's get aneditor so that I can focus more

(25:59):
on content.
So now I still write my scriptsmyself.
I don't have a writer.
I tried to hire people, butthen it was not like me.
It's like I'm reading a news.
I cannot make my jokes.
It's to the point.
Those are not my words.
So I still struggle and spendmore time on writing.
So I write my content.
I have a fixed setup I sit here, I shoot, then I give it to my

(26:22):
editor, which I found after somuch stress and so much struggle
.
Because you don't get alignedwith somebody who understands
like you cuts the video like youthe music like you.
It's very difficult to findthat perfect match.
But, now I'm blessed that I havepeople on my team so I give it
to them reels, videos, and theyprocess it and we set up some

(26:43):
target deadlines and schedulesand everything is delivered to
me and posted on my accounts.
I kind of automated much of thepart so that I can focus more
on the script and the content.
Last year something hit me whenI was meeting with people.
Now people are talking to meand meeting me and greeting me
and say we used to watch yourvideos.
So we used to watch your videosand it started repeating quite

(27:07):
a lot.
I'm going to move in.
Somebody made some.
We used to watch your video.
I used to, why not now?
And then I started questioningmyself you know I'm just working
right.
So then I was like Now it'stime to pivot, I cannot hear
this again, so I have to dosomething different.

(27:29):
But then I was like now let'sshare the other part of your
journey which started after yougraduated, yeah which is
financial journey, because, asper my planning and everything,
I think I have been doing welland I am hitting the targets as
I imagined Long term, short termand I don't think everyone is
doing the same way.
So let's help everyone to atleast share the points and

(27:51):
things and the tips and thetricks and the books I read and
focus on personal finance.
Then I pivoted my strategy topersonal finance and now I'm
talking about personal finance.
I don't know how long I'm goingto do this, until I feel and I
enjoy more natural you know,natural content.
I'm going to do this.
I know for students.
There are other people who aredoing more relatable content

(28:11):
because they are students in2023 rather than 2020.
You know 2016,.
So I think they do bettercontent than me and I can do
finance better and I know thatnobody else can do better than
me.
I have that confidence on mefor now, so we'll do it.
That's how it works.

Gurasis (28:28):
And the one thing which I really love about your
content is, of course, it'srelatable, and you know you can
just talk to the point.
Another aspect which I love isyou always bring that humor into
it.
How do you do thatintentionally, or is that
something that comes naturallyto you?

Parul (28:45):
No, it's purely natural.
Sometimes my humorous parts arevery crazy.
I have to cut them out if Ishare that with my mom and I'm
like do you think I can say thatin my video, my mom?
No, you cannot make a joke likethat.
It's going to look bad.
And now you have wider audience.
So I do discuss my humorouspoints once I have the final
edit, whether I should share itor no, and sometimes I have to

(29:08):
chop it out.
Sometimes it's very extreme,but that's how it goes, right,
it's in the blood.
I cannot stop myself.
I sometimes make relativecomparisons with things like
today I made a video and Iposted that tomato was very
expensive in India and the samekind of thing is houses are also
expensive in Canada if yourtomatoes are expensive.
So these things come outnaturally, right?

(29:29):
I don't know.
And the funny part is sometimesmy videos, the jokes that I
know that nobody can make.
I made them.
They are in other people'svideos too.
The replica channels and theother content creators sometimes
make some topic videos and theyshare the same jokes.
I'm like, oh, this is mine.

Gurasis (29:48):
You should trademark those now People should not copy
it.

Parul (29:52):
I can't say this.
This is the thing, right, whenyou're talking, you cannot, you
know, trademark or monetizeeverything.
That's what I feel, and thiskind of general information is
really picking up because peopleare coming to Canada much more
big numbers than before, but atone point this is going to be
absolute, like nobody's going towatch these videos because

(30:13):
everyone would be aware.
That's like cybersecurity Peopledidn't knew and there was a lot
of hype and the moment everyoneknew.
I think so.
I think times are changing.
The information that is outthere is common, becoming more
common, and at one point thingsmust change and, to be very
frank, I might switch topodcasts in a few months.

(30:36):
It's on my list.

Gurasis (30:38):
Okay, count me in.
I would love to be part of it100%.

Parul (30:42):
I'm going to talk to you.

Gurasis (30:44):
Is there any type of content that you really like
enjoy the most talking about onyour channel?

Parul (30:49):
Many, many categories.
I would say see the to be veryclear.
I really wanted to make travelvideos.
I tried a lot but it wasn'twell received by the audience.
That's something that is stillon my plate.
I do like to travel a lot andshoot a lot.
It takes much more effort thanin a fixed studio setup, but I

(31:11):
never got views on that.
So sometimes you have to, youknow, let go things that you
like, but it's not taken reallywell by the audience.
But when it comes to talkingabout experiences, personal
experiences, I think that's mymain USB.
That's what brings people andconnects them with me and their
parents, because when I sharesomething, I share what happened

(31:31):
to me I don't share.
This can happen to you based onthese facts.
So I think that emotionalconnection of exceering my
journey and experiences reallyresonates with my audience and
the fact that when people meetme, they never tell me they
found me.
They tell me their parentsfound me, and I think that's the
fun part actually for me, thatI connect with people I don't

(31:54):
even know, like on the otherside of screens.
They connect with me.
They're like oh yes, this isrelatable.
So that relatable content canonly come with the journey or
experience sharing, and I thinkif the channel is alive today,
it's based purely on this.
If I start talking abstracttopics or science, I don't think
it will really sell well orpeople will actually, you know,

(32:15):
get connected.
So that emotional connectioncomes with the personal
experience, journey videos andmy video that I posted the story
of my life, even if I just madeit now, you know, just buy 100k
.
Let's share this.
I didn't know that it's goingto impact people so much.
And also the fact that when thejourney brings in some family
members like my mom came toCanada recently two years ago,

(32:37):
not recently, it's two years,wow, 2021.
So that video was also, againvery emotional for so many
people that come with the dreamsto Canada.
So, again, emotional connectionand journey sharing is
something that I think is myfavorite part, because I don't
have to write a script for that.
Of course it's there.

Gurasis (32:55):
And I think we humans do connect more with stories.
I think we learn things throughstories.
If you talk about our religionsalso, we have learned few
principles through stories, so Ithink that's why people
resonate more with that.
And you know, regarding thatvideo, you were talking about
the story of my life.
I personally love that video.
I think that's one of myfavorites of yours and it is

(33:16):
very inspiring when you readthat comments, the way people
are.
I remember this one comment Iread and she said that I am
usually like a silent listWatcher I live usually comment
anything, but that video hasforced me to comment because it
was so inspiring for me and shejust loved it and so did I tell
me.
You tell me, parol, that wasthere an impactful story or a

(33:38):
feedback that you have receivedfrom one of your viewers?
I'm sure there must be many,but if one that you can share,
that really like Was close toyou, Many, I would say I still
go and check comments on thatspecific video.

Parul (33:54):
Sometimes people are so like emotional when they express
themselves and they're like, oh, I saw this video, I also
failed in high school, but thisgave me some hope.
Man, I also failed inmathematics.
And then suddenly there are somany like him or her that are
similar, you know, commenting ina similar way, and then they
revisit back, send me an emailand try to make a connection to

(34:15):
me on YouTube or Instagram oremail.
Hey, I saw your video and Iactually didn't give up and I
started making cakes andeverything while I failed, and
now I'm selling cakes andpastries for weddings and like
people come up with theirstories.
I don't know like how come?
You know, you see the impact,like some people really like

(34:37):
some people actually send audiomessages very emotionally and
with the crying tone and I'mlike, oh my God, the purpose was
never this for me to just youknow, I never thought that it
will go that in that direction,that people will actually get
that much resonation, impact andvibe from that video.
I really get shocked even now.

(35:00):
So a lot of stories, people,because not everyone is smart
man in India, academic pressure,and family pressure is
something that kills a lot ofpeople's talents and dreams.
I came out of it because I hadsupport.
Not everyone is lucky to havesame kind of open minded parents
.
Some people told me they showedthis video to their parents.

(35:21):
They wanted to come to Canada.
Their parents were against thedecision, but this video helped
them that look this guy thebiggest failure, always failing
doing something with his life.
I'll do the same.
So I think that we, like people, use that video for different
ways to impress their parents,to impress themselves or maybe

(35:45):
to have some hope, and I thinkthat's the greatest part.

Gurasis (35:51):
And how do you cope up with the responses that you
received Like?
By that I meant that you set uplike a time that, okay, I'm
dedicating this time of the dayto reply to people.
How do you do that?

Parul (36:02):
There's no fixed time actually, because sometimes the
content goes so viral that youactually lose the sight of
everything and anything.
My channel is not the biggestand the greatest on YouTube.
When we talk about immigrationcommunity, there are much, much
great channels that go along.
But if we talk about tractionof my channel, there are videos

(36:23):
that sometimes hit millions ofviews, like, for example, you
remember that car video whereI'm cleaning and I'm saying
don't come to.
Canada 15 million views onYouTube and similarly 15 on
Instagram.
That's like 30 million views.
Now imagine the number ofcomments that contains love hate
so much coming on, it becomesdifficult for me.
So I just do random scrollingwhen I'm at work or I'm having

(36:46):
lunch or whenever I release thevideo, I try to reply to the
comments that actually deservemy time and expertise.
I don't reply to the commentsthat are something that people
can just Google and they're justbeing lazy.
No, I just reply to thecomments that really think can
are more like decisive.

(37:06):
Hey, I'm going to thisuniversity versus that, what do
you think?
Okay, I will say B.
I have to speed up.
I cannot have somebody to replyto the comments because that's
not me then.
Yeah, so it's random, it's lessso.
What I did is that some peoplewere really serious about their
journey, really wanted to talkto me, commenting on all videos.
Then the idea stuck in my mindI have to book a call, because I

(37:29):
initially started our TV videocall and my whole month was
booked and it was free.
Of course, yeah, but then youcannot do this right.
It's not something that ispractical.
It's not scalable.
I'm losing time on making myvideos.
So I put a dollar amount whichis very nominal and I know it's
10 times less than anyonecharging in Canadian market

(37:50):
Usually $300, $400.
I charged like 50 or $60.
So I put that so that onlyserious people come in, okay,
and usually after, even at theend of the call, I used to tell
them if this was helpful, great.
If not, I'm happy to return toyou, because I got to learn from
them too.
But this way I filtered outhundreds of people and hundreds
of responses that really want myone hour, because sometimes

(38:11):
there's a comment hey, I want togo to this province, that
province, this province.
I cannot just say this one.
There's no straight answer tothis.
Right, I need to know what goodass is is replying to me and
what is his profile, what arehis goals, what you know?
What's his 10, 8, 5 year goal?
10 year goal what do we want todo if Toronto good for him,
montreal good for him?
So all these things matter andit needs time.
I don't have time.

(38:33):
We made this system.
It works well.
So far.
We have done hundreds of calls,I cannot count.
I'm mostly booked and I givelike few slots a week and I
think it's pretty going well andI I will respond to those
people more well, and I've beendoing this for two years and
every time people ask me hey,help us in applying.

(38:53):
I don't do that.
I'm not an immigration agent,but I cannot trust any
immigration agent out there tothe market is messed up.
So, 2023 now I got along withsomebody I really trust on and I
can count on that.
I'll give my file to him, okay.
So then I was like okay, let'sdo this, we'll partner up.
So I keep finding ways tofulfill these gaps and launch

(39:16):
new services.
Like, for example people arecoming to Canada, no problem.
Home away from home servicebook here.
Yeah.
Everything is monetized andcommercialized.
But this is how, the way youknow, the world works.
I know I get sometimes a lot ofhate comments to that.
You are commercializingeverything.
If I don't do, then how comepeople will take me seriously,
right?

Gurasis (39:33):
Yeah.

Parul (39:35):
If some people think that YouTube is the way I make my
living out, to be very clear, Ican right now say that on your
podcast for the first time.
Youtube is not even 10% of myincome.

Gurasis (39:47):
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Parul (40:50):
YouTube is not even 10% of my income.
My primary income is my job.
I act as a vice president forone of the world's largest banks
.
That's where everything isbeing paid for these glasses,
these clothes, everything.
Youtube is more of likepassively.
Tomorrow I wake up and theYouTube goes off.
Nothing will change in my life.

(41:10):
I did not waste my life onYouTube.
Many people push me to makeYouTube as my primary income
platform.
No, I keep it as a secondary.
I still follow cybersecurity.
Youtube is something.
I do it dynamically and itgives me thrill.

Gurasis (41:25):
It's just like a passion project for you.
You're not doing it for themonetary gain.

Parul (41:30):
Yeah, it's passion project that went really wild
and bigger, so I'm continuing todo this.

Gurasis (41:35):
And you did.
Spoke briefly about the hatecomments.
Do you really acknowledge thosewhen you come across those, or
you just completely bounce themoff?

Parul (41:41):
I used to do initially, but then it started hurting me
and impacting my mental healthbecause there's a lot of
negativity around us andpoisonous comments.
Sometimes I get comments on mylooks, my hairline, my voice,
how ugly I look, or how bad myvideos are, or how I'm defaming

(42:03):
India by pushing more people toCanada, by how I'm not a true
patriot, by how I'm a Bogota.
I get a lot of comments, man,if I start telling you comments,
you will have blood in yourears.
I'm not kidding.
Initially I used to think aboutwhy did this guy say this to me
?
Why did this guy?
It was impacting my mentalhealth.

(42:25):
Sometimes I even was depressedthat somebody said something to
me on my video Like you are achore, you are misleading people
.
I was like what?
And then I found a way thatjust don't respond, because if
you reply, they reply again andit goes on and I think this
negative part actually keeps alot of people away from social

(42:45):
media.
They don't go because they'renot strong enough.
Now I'm so strong enough.
If they say, oh, you are a jerk, I was like thank you, I
appreciate it, I am one, lookwhere I am.
So I just don't respond and Idon't block.
Also, I only block people whenthey are being too rude and
using swear words to my othersubscribers.

(43:06):
People start getting in theirown conversations oh, you are a
jerk.
Following him, he said no, no,you are your families.
It goes at another level.
That time I come in and Iintervene and I block Otherwise.
Now I have made a list of swearwords bad words, good words.
You know if somebody writesthose words, they are kicked
away right away.

Gurasis (43:26):
Yeah, you know, I think I've read this so many times on
social media, like you know,people share these hateful
messages because they have beenhurt themselves or they have
been abused in their house, bythe family or somebody else and
they want to retaliate or takerevenge, you know, by hitting
out at other people, and I thinkhating for them is a way to
deal with their problems andanger, and they did that.

(43:49):
They themselves haveinsecurities.
That's like their way of kindof, I don't know, de-packing,
unpacking yeah, anything, man.

Parul (43:58):
Anything man Like yesterday the fresh one
yesterday somebody commented tome hey, very fresh straight out
of the box, 11 pm.
I read this long message.
It starts with I have been yourfollower but suddenly I see
that you are promoting people,You're promoting services,
You're doing meetups, you aredoing concert, You're doing

(44:18):
consultations, You're doingimmigration business.
You're doing a lot ofbusinesses.
You're not leaving anything foranyone to succeed.
People like you are monsterswho try to do everything and
anything and become, you know,the wealthiest person on the top
.
And oh man, it was so long.
At one point I stopped.
I started scrolling.
I was like you people have nogoal to help people.

(44:40):
You people just it's you people.
So it's everyone who's oncontent or everyone who's doing
something, Just do it man.
Just get away.
For me, if I don't likesomebody's video, I just pass on
.
I never comment and sit thereand spill.
You know anything wrong?
I just go away.
I don't know man.
Different people, differentworld.

(45:02):
It's okay, I just pass on.
I wish God help them and theyuse their time for something
more productive.
I can't do much.
I try to coach some people towhen they were making this
comment hey, you shouldn't havedone that.
Initially they were like, oh no, why not?
In the end it ends up nowhere.
I'm like okay, leave it.

Gurasis (45:21):
Of course, that's the right approach.
Okay, so, parv, who are wegoing to the final segment?
How can I not discuss about twotopics, and I'm going to call
this segment Parol's Perspective?
The first is which is a commondiscussion amongst many people

(45:42):
in 2023, whether to immigrate ornot to immigrate to Canada, and
I did see you did make a videoabout that as well whether to
move or not to move, tell uslike a crux of it.
Or should we move, or shouldpeople not move?

Parul (45:55):
I think again, this is like a double-edged sword.
It's something that you aresitting in an excess of
different decisions orprojections of your life.
It really depends upon personto person.
There's no straight answer tothis, so I'll take two
perspectives here.
Let's talk about number one.

(46:15):
If you are somebody who wantsto do something great and also,
at the same time, wants to savetime and feel more appreciated,
that's my comment Okay, I don'tknow what other thing and wants
more fair opportunities.
Come to Canada.
I had an established business.

(46:37):
Again, I will share myexperience.
I don't know what everyonethinks about it.
I worked with a lot ofgovernment and a lot of
businesses man in India.
Right now it's becoming sodifficult If you are a
middle-class person to grow upwithout any support or without
any bureaucracy, without cash.
It's becoming really difficultto survive.

(46:58):
If you are somebody withentrepreneurial spirit and have
nobody on your hands, come here,maybe, go back later, but this
country is going to appreciateeach and everything you do to
provide you something more thanwhat you will get there.
That's one.
If you are somebody who wantsto get a decent career,

(47:21):
profession, wants to get a job,stay with the family.
When I say stay with the family, it's really important.
If you're an emotional person,you really don't want to stay
away from your family.
You want to have a decent job,decent lifestyle, watch movie
with your wife or kids later,when you get married, and eat
food with your mom and family.
If you're a family-orientedperson and you really cannot

(47:44):
compromise that one part, don'tcome here.
Don't come here on the idea ofyou will go back, because
there's no going back.
The moment you step out of yourhouse, you are going to meet
your parents or family a numberof times in your whole life.
That's the biggest, saddesttruth.

(48:04):
I'm telling you, if somebodyleaves their house in Canada and
their parents age is 45, 50,and I'm telling you a very dark
statement here they will come toCanada, they'll study here,
they will likely meet theirfamily once a year, maybe twice
a year.
The life expectancy right nowis 75.

(48:26):
Looking at 30, 45 years, youare going to meet your parents
not more than 200 times.
That's very sad.
Hard to take with a pinch ofsalt.
I know nobody has ever talkedabout it.
I didn't ever make a video.
I told my mom and she was kindof sad.
She was like don't talk aboutit on camera.
It's not going to take a while.
But this is it, man, you'regoing to meet your parents 100

(48:49):
times, or 150 times If youmanage to bring them here.
That's another story, but thereare a lot of ifs and buts that
they will move with you or youwill move with them, but in the
grand scheme of things, you aregoing to meet them few times.
So don't come.
If you're an emotional person,canada is not for you.
And in 2023, with thechallenges, the stress and
everything is coming on, if youare brave enough and if you

(49:09):
think that you can cope up, evenif you think 1% come, even that
hope is enough.
But if you think, no, hopeless,don't try it, man, not worth it
.
Trust me, it's worth it to make50,000 rupees a month in India
rather than 2000 dollars here.
It's much, much worth it.
I'm telling you right now.
Otherwise, canada is land ofopportunity the respect of job

(49:31):
that is here for a small joblike plumber, electrician, which
is a small job in India, buthere they make much more money
than a doctor in India.
When it comes to making moneyand following your passion, come
here, because your passion willbe more respected here.
If you are an artist, come here.
If you are in something that isdeemed like a low paying job in

(49:54):
India, come here.
Truckers, for example, norespect in India, one of the
richest here, other other, anyyou know non mainstream
professions, come here.
Education, if you talk about,come here.
You can always go back to Indiaand become a professor in a top
university after graduatingfrom here.
But if you study the samecourse in India, it will take

(50:17):
you 10 more years to even havean idea or chance to become a
teacher at a premier institution.
The moment you hit the momentyou hit the University of
Toronto or any tier twouniversity here for masters and
then, with your skills, you hita top university in Harvard or
Stanford or any top universityin Canada.
You are cold.
You can go anywhere.

(50:38):
So by that freedom, by takingthe decision to come here, you
will be appreciated.
Look at me.
12th, nothing marks nothing.
Now, if I go back to India, I'mpretty sure that I'll have
decent opportunities I wouldhave never seen in my life.

Gurasis (50:53):
I think you have articulated it perfectly.
Awesome.
I love that.
Another thing I would like toaddress with you is definitely
mental health, mental pressure.
When you come here, everythingis nice and hunky-dory, but then
the reality kicks in,everything takes a toll on you,
and that has unfortunately ledto a lot of suicides and cardiac

(51:13):
arrests as well.
Tell me, how can one preventthat?
As per your experience and yourconversations with students, I
think it's becoming too much.

Parul (51:21):
Since last few months, or maybe last two years, I have
seen the increase in commentsand the messages on my inbox
where people are looking forsupport.
They are stressed, they're notable to manage their grades or
expenses and there's no support.
Families again come intopressure that they have to
perform well and supportfinancially.
It's too much for somebody whois not ready for this.

(51:43):
The very big thing I wouldcomment on this is that usually
I tell people to come here at ayounger age but if there is no
self-assessment, you might bemaking a wrong decision of
coming to Canada.
Not everyone self-assessestheir different traits or
behavior or their tendency totake stress and they just come

(52:04):
the love idea of coming toCanada because it's great, you
get to drive Mustangs and livein nice houses.
It's a great idea.
People sometimes tell me thatyou are selling this idea on
YouTube but not everyone is ableto handle it.
When I sit down and I realizethat, yes, I'm making a generic
video but all sorts of audiencewatches it, then I started

(52:25):
putting these topics like whyyou should self-assess yourself.
Are you okay to take stress orfailing in a course?
Write it down.
Are you okay to work extra jobswhich are physically intensive.
For example, for a person likeme.
I cannot do physical jobs.
I went for a shift one day andI was crying in tears.
My bones were aching.
I couldn't wake up from the bed.

(52:46):
I went once whenever I was astudent.
If you cannot do it, don't come.
The stress becomes difficulthere because you come from an
environment that is veryfriendly.
You have your parentssupporting you.
You don't realize there's thatsupport there.
You have your cousins, yourfriends, your brothers
supporting you.
If you fail or if you pass orif you're spending happy times.

(53:07):
The moment you come here youare in a room like this alone.
There's no support.
Are you okay with that and howto handle?
Many people come here.
They realize that they messedup.
For example, when I came, itwas too cold.
I felt really bad.
I felt I should cry.
I was weak 55 kilos, never doneany physical exercise.
It messed me up.

(53:27):
It was impacting my educationby an expensive jacket that
keeps you warm.
Get better shoes, start workingout, eat good diet.
I had solutions for that, butfor mental stress the solution
is therapy.
The solution is people startfinding support with their
roommates or with their friends.
They're not able to get it.

(53:49):
I think it badly impacts peoplewho are introverts and there are
ways to get out of that zoneand you have to do something.
You have to go to networkingevents.
You have to talk to people.
You have to be in an area takehouse in an area where there are
more people crowded.
You don't have to go on theside.
Or maybe you try to move inwith people who are not Indians

(54:11):
and other nationalities.
You try to explore that.
You have to get out of thatzone because mental health
impact all aspects.
You have to become a machine.
My family calls me a robot.
Last time my brother told meChad GPT is more emotional than
you.
That's what he told me.
That was the biggest statementhe made on my recent visit.
He said you are, chad GPT ismore emotional than you.

(54:33):
He thinks more emotionally thanyou.
Look at the responses.
So I became like that.
I didn't know when.
I became like that, right, Ibecame more hard on some things
that usually people are soft onor maybe talk about.

Gurasis (54:45):
You definitely build a hard skin.

Parul (54:49):
Yeah, you become like that.
The journey makes you like that.
But not everyone is a cut forthis kind of journey.
So, if you have mental health,if you have stress, seek therapy
, come here.
It's manageable, everything ismanageable.
It's just a matter of trustingyourself.
Many people don't trustthemselves.
They're much smarter, they justdon't trust themselves.
And I'm not a mental healthexpert, but what I see mostly is

(55:14):
that people have options aroundthem, but they just take things
too seriously.
I kind of practice somethingthat I read in a book that
whenever you are stressed, thinkabout it.
That is it going to matter inthe next three years or five
years?
Yeah, if it is, then it'sserious.
You are messed.
If it's not, let it go, takecare of it.

(55:34):
For example, my PR is notcoming, my work permit is not
coming, my job is not coming.
Do you think in five years youwill have the same position?
Definitely not yeah.
And then it's not life-changing.
You should not pain your heartfor you.
You were not born to kill yourheart for this.
You have pain in your kidney infive ways.
Is it going to bother?
Yes, yes, it is.

(55:54):
This is something that needs amore serious mental issues to
think about and take it moreseriously.
Relationship you got cheated bysomebody and your friends are,
you know, not talk, talk, okay,taking you seriously or
something?
Does that matter in five years?
No, let it go.
I think this works.
That's how I handle my stressand pressure in the grand scheme

(56:15):
of things.
Is something going to help?
For example, my tenant calls mein my another house.
Hey, there's a blockage.
Right away I will thinkexpenses, money, so many things
right.
Is it going to matter fiveyears later?
No, it's money.

Gurasis (56:32):
Yeah, that's right approach, and it does take a
toll on you and I think the onlything we sometimes need to
learn is really asking for thathelp, and we guys are not, I
would say, wired to do that,maybe growing up in a protective
environment like India, whereeverything is sort of served to
you.
And I like this approach thatyou said if something matters in
three to five years, put yourenergy on that.

(56:54):
If it does not, just move on.
And To all my listeners if youwant to connect with parol or
check out his channel if youhaven't as yet, you're probably
living under a rock.
But if you haven't, links tothat will be found in the show
notes, okay.
But also now in the finalsegment of the podcast I call it
beneath the accent I'm gonnaask a couple of questions.

(57:15):
You can answer them in oneboard or a sentence or house
ever you feel like the idea isjust to know more about you.
Okay, so ready ready.
So first is, what's the onehabit you adopted that has
changed your life?

Parul (57:28):
discipline.
I wasn't disciplined before andthe moment I started being in
discipline, being committed towhat I plan, it changed my life.
It changed my YouTube life.
It changed my learningschedules.
It changed the things that Iwanted to learn, improve with my
health, make meals.
Discipline because it wasn'tthere before, because it was

(57:50):
automated in India and when Iwas a student, everything was
irregular.
I promise things to myself, butI wasn't doing it.
But the moment I startedgetting into discipline of doing
things and planning things justfor next five days, it changed
everything and every aspect andit started from reading To

(58:11):
making food, to deliveringcontent, to getting done things
for job, you know, managing myweekends.
Discipline, discipline is moreimportant than any kind of
motivation.
If you got motivation from thisvideo and you don't have
discipline to put things inplace for you, it's worth
nothing.

Gurasis (58:30):
What's the best piece of advice someone ever gave you?

Parul (58:33):
trust yourself and always be confident.
That's the best advice anyoneand everyone Should take from
this.
If you cannot trust yourself,how do you expect anyone next to
you to trust you?
Yeah, not happening.
If you go for an interview ifyou don't feel confident, how
the other person will feelconfident to hire you?

(58:54):
If you are dating somebody andyou are not confident how the
other girl is going to you know,trust you to continue her
relationship with you?
Just be confident and trust toyourself.
If it's good, it's good.
If it's bad, it's bad, butaccept it.
Don't lie to yourself.
Don't promise things when youare happy and don't make

(59:15):
decisions when you are sad.
Yeah, that's, that's the onlything you should think about.
Way, that's the best advice.
These two things actuallychanged my life, because when
you're happy, like oh yeah, I'llgive a party.
Yeah, I'll do this with you,I'll do that.
No.
And when you are sad, okay,let's sign.
No, the stocks are falling down, don't sell it, wait.

Gurasis (59:38):
Yeah, spoken like an experienced person.
For sure.
Is there any worst advicesomeone ever gave you?

Parul (59:44):
so many worst advice is I'm just thinking, thinking of
the best one Everyone around you.
If they are making comments onyour decisions, they don't
really matter in grand scheme ofthings.
Mm-hmm.
And that connects it with themy last response.
Yeah.
There's a lot of judgment,there's a lot of negativity,
there's a lot of Comments.

(01:00:05):
If you want to take somebody'scomment, he should always be
somebody who is doing at leasttwo times better than you.
You have to rate it that way.
Then it makes more value.
But if it's somebody studyingwith you or somebody who is your
relative or your friend andSaying hey, don't start that
podcast or YouTube channel, notgonna help Pass.

(01:00:27):
Everyone told me don't startParul TV YouTube channel.
You are doing cybersecurity.
This is something,entertainment kind of thing.
Who cares, man, you don't wantto be that.
Yeah no, don't take advice forsomebody who's on your level or
below your level.
Always go multiply by two andthen see who's doing much better
than you.

(01:00:47):
You vibe with them, mm-hmm.
So the first advice is don'ttake any advice, salah and even
the guard.
Don't ask too many questions topeople who are around you.
Ask people to who you know, whoare, you know that are doing
better and you feel thatconnection.

Gurasis (01:01:03):
Absolutely.
And is there something werecently bought and you know
regret?

Parul (01:01:07):
I am very careful with my purchases, and To this I apply
an a formula Do I need it or orif it makes me happy.
If I need it, I'll buy it.
If it makes me happy, I'llthink about it and I'll spend 10
days thinking about it and thenI'll buy.
If it's something that is morethan a thousand dollars or

(01:01:29):
$2,000, I give myself 10 days tothink about the need of it.
These days it's fine with me tospend around, but what I?
What?
What can I regret?
And plants.
Okay summer was there.
There were plants in everyone'shouses.
I thought I should get plants,but I could not take care of

(01:01:52):
them and they died.
I Did not like it.
It's not something expensive,but it's something that I
couldn't take care of.
I forgot about few plants in mybackyard.
I Didn't like it.
I'm not going to buy moreplants now.
I'll buy the fake ones.

Gurasis (01:02:08):
So what's the most expensive thing you own?

Parul (01:02:11):
in terms of emotional value or in terms of money.

Gurasis (01:02:15):
Well, we are not going that philosophical.
Tell us the value I.

Parul (01:02:20):
Don't own like banks own, but it's my real estate assets.
I would say I have my name onthe papers but I'm not a
complete owner until they arecompletely paid off.
But the most expensive if weput a dollar amount.
That's my real estate portfolio, which is going to increase
further every year, but yeah.

(01:02:42):
Okay yeah, we're looking at morethan one and a half million
dollars.
So that's, yeah, what I haveinvested in in Canada.
It takes time to completely ownthem on your name, but you can
say I am responsible for or Ihave liability for, or when most

(01:03:02):
of my earnings have gone, whichis six figures.
Yeah, it's in the bricks, notin the bank.

Gurasis (01:03:11):
I like that, yeah, and what's the most expensive thing
you would like to own?

Parul (01:03:15):
Wow, I don't want to share that actually.

Gurasis (01:03:22):
Give us a hint.
A hint probably Is it a privatejet.

Parul (01:03:28):
No, I changed the idea when I watched mr Beast video on
if you it's worth it to buy aprivate jet.
Okay.
It's something I don't want toshare.
I have it, I keep it in my book.
Yeah, it's something like that.
It's super materialisticmaterialistic in terms of you
know somebody who's Very livinga minimalistic life for me,

(01:03:51):
who's fond of gadgets andeverything.
Yeah, there is something.
Yeah, something like a jet, butyeah, it's there.

Gurasis (01:03:58):
You should put it out there.
Somebody might listen and giftyou that you never know.

Parul (01:04:02):
Oh no, I have to earn it.
If somebody gifts me, it willhave no value.
Actually, I want to earn it.
For example, when I bought myfirst car, I bought my nice car
after so many years of mystudent life and work life.
I could have bought it earlier.
But I put a Google on it.
I was like okay, if YouTube isgoing to pay for this car.
Mm-hmm you'll get it, otherwiseyou want Doesn't make sense.

(01:04:24):
The moment YouTube startedmaking money and I earned like
forty thousand dollars, I waslike, okay, let's get.
So I put goals, dollar amountsand a year in front of the item.
So Definitely, for next fewyears, the biggest expensive
things I'm going to do is moreon to the real estate side and

(01:04:45):
opening up a business wherethere is something that people
buy again and again.
Okay, yeah, product.

Gurasis (01:04:53):
So what's next on your bucket list next?

Parul (01:04:56):
I told you change in strategy for YouTube Because I
am doing this personal finance,so we came with the course right
.
So Canada's first immigrantinvestor course which is in
Hindi, and that's first stockmarket investing course.
So my next thing on the list isto likely to scale a business
and and also see what differentcan be done on YouTube in my

(01:05:19):
content, because now I feel thatI have to switch the strategy
to do something I like and enjoymore.
It's been years I have beendoing similar kind of content.
Mm-hmm.
So definitely it is going to besomething that is Solving the
challenge that immigrants face,commercializing it and making

(01:05:42):
easier for people To, you know,do those things.
So, for example, last, I keepon posting stories and comments
on what's next.
What are the biggest challenges?
Yeah, so probably a businessinitiative is on my list.

Gurasis (01:05:55):
Okay, yeah.
So who's your go-to person whenyou feel stuck?
It's my mom and my brother.

Parul (01:06:03):
I don't trust anyone outside that.
But now I talk more with mywife, since I am married from
last two months.
So I'm a married guy.
So the very first thing goes tomy wife right away, because
she's next to me, of course.
Yeah my biggest support system.
So, and then it's my mom and mybrother.

Gurasis (01:06:22):
Are there any movies that you like to watch over and
over again?

Parul (01:06:26):
Yes.
Name of you, harry Potter, thehouse of cards dark.

Gurasis (01:06:33):
Okay, yeah, something from the Bollywood you like?

Parul (01:06:43):
these days, I am personally not enjoying
Bollywood much Pretty similarbut I watch TV series.
Web series are something that Ilike more for ball.
I won't call it Bollywood, butif you talk about Hindi content,
yeah.
TVF series are amazing.
I really resonate with all thoseseries like my recent watch
today morning breakfast was andthe Bia, because I resonate my

(01:07:06):
life story with all thosestruggles of you know UPSC
experience and everyone it'ssimilar.
Right, of course I didn't gofor UPSC, but not that smart,
but something similar, thepressure from the family and
everything we have discussed.
So the TVF is, I think, thebest thing happened then.
Pankaj triparty series aresomething that I like.
Yeah, similar, similar series,mostly Bollywood crime series.

(01:07:30):
I like thriller investigations.
That's my favorite director,for sure is my life's favorite
series.
That's why I named my dogDexter also.
I like it and Dexter'slaboratory.
So everything.

Gurasis (01:07:42):
What all cuisines you have tried since you moved to
Canada?

Parul (01:07:46):
We have to name mostly everything and anything.
Montreal is a place in Canadaand America where, if you visit
each restaurant New every day,it will take you years to still
cover all of them.
That's what said by MontrealGazette article recently and I
think that's true On my list.
What I do is it's fixed, that'smy routine.
Every week I'll go for a newrestaurant.

(01:08:07):
That's what I do.
I'm not a big foodie, but Ireally don't want to miss out on
something.
But again, I really don't wantto just kill myself by eating
all sorts of trash.
So, for example, last week Iwas eating dumplings at a
Chinese restaurant.
A week before I was in a Koreanrestaurant Fried chicken.

(01:08:28):
I was eating then Iranian.
So I think when you come toCanada, this is also something
that I encourage people to dothat try out different cuisines.
Just don't stick to Indian orPakistani or, you know, south
Indian, south Asian, yeah, justjust don't get stuck there.
There's so much more out therein the world.
I know it's a bit touchychallenge for vegetarians, but

(01:08:50):
for others, oh my god, there'splenty of options.
I love like different cuisines.
It depends upon my mood, that,or how heavy I want to eat or
how light I want to go.
It's sushi or it's a pudding.
The thing line we have to drawDo you eat all meats?
No, I only eat chicken, fishand lamb, basically Indian, non
vegetarian.
I really don't get along withthe beef and pork.

(01:09:16):
That's.
That's the reason that I haveto miss out on some very amazing
dishes offered by differentcuisines.
That because that's theirspeciality.
But yeah, so far I do thechicken, poultry and All that

Gurasis (01:09:31):
If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Parul (01:09:33):
invisibility.

Gurasis (01:09:34):
Okay, why would you say that?

Parul (01:09:36):
I cannot comment more.
Not take it on the wrong side,but invisibility will help me to
be at the places and Learn newstuff.
Yeah that I know I cannot orexperience.
Invisibility gives you allother superpowers.
Actually, it will cover up allthe you know the things where
you're gonna spend money or haveexperiences or or be at the

(01:09:57):
places.
It it's much, much, much.
You know I have expandable.

Gurasis (01:10:03):
So describe Canada in one word or a sentence.

Parul (01:10:06):
Golden Cage.

Gurasis (01:10:07):
Very interesting! Okay, so lastly, Parul, if you
could leave me with one piece ofadvice, what would it be?

Parul (01:10:14):
For you, I would say that I really appreciate your
initiative.
I think it is Something thathas much bigger mission that you
believe, because I I see thatyou just started recently and I
was in the same stages when itcomes to content creation.
It's very impactful and Ireally encourage you to stick to

(01:10:35):
it.
Trust your instincts.
You have started with maybesome mission, but it is going to
make a wider impact and, again,if it changes One person's life
, this all is going to be veryworth it.
So continue with it.
Good job, I really like it.
I'm going to get involved withit more now.
I'm gonna talk to you afterthis, so congratulations.

(01:10:55):
This is great Gurasis.
I really appreciate.

Gurasis (01:10:58):
Thank you.
Thank you, parul, for your kindwords and thank you for being
on the podcast and adding valueto my listeners.
Thank you, thanks a lot.

Parul (01:11:05):
Thank you so much for having me.

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