“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” ~ Virginia Woolf. On this International Women’s Day, GlobalSpa recognizes and celebrates the women in the industry as we delve into their success mantra they follow, mistakes that have helped them grow, and of course, their WELLNESS philosophy.

Masumi Mewawalla, Designer-Founder of Emblaze and Pink Peacock Couture, is also an entrepreneur and businesswoman and also a mentor to young designers and entrepreneurs across the globe.

What is your wellness philosophy?

I have a multi-faceted approach to wellness all of the below are quintessential for a healthy living:

Emotional Wellness: involves awareness of your emotions as they occur, expressing and processing your emotions in a productive and positive way.

Environmental Wellness: Living and working in environments that are safe and healthy and facilitate your sense of well-being.

Financial Wellness: Knowing how your investments are distributed and whether this is in alignment with your personal values and desires.

Intellectual Wellness: Engaging in mentally stimulating activities, creativity, and expanding your personal and professional knowledge and skills.

Occupational Wellness: Finding personal satisfaction and fulfillment through work.

Physical Wellness: Includes being aware of and taking care of your body, including engaging in pleasurable physical activity and eating food that is nutritious.

Social Wellness: Involves creating meaningful interpersonal relationships that feel supportive and satisfying. Social wellness also involves contributing positively to one’s community.

Spiritual Wellness: involves having a belief system that is meaningful and matches your values, establishing a life that feels purposeful, and being compassionate towards others.

Your success mantra?

What and Why? – First I must know clearly what I am after, that is define clearly what success means to me in this particular field and why.

How? – I need to thoroughly plan what I want to do and for that you need to accumulate knowledge. Get an overview of the goal in most angles possible for one complete week. After starting my goal I need to solve issues and gain little more knowledge each week. Break the main goal into a number of small goals which can be achieved in a month.

When and where? – When you create identity, it is easier to track and keep yourself up for the task. This is where you define the time and place for completing your small goals. Which in turn helps you reach your bigger goals.

Patience and Improvements are the key to mastering/refining this process!

A lesson you learned from making a mistake?

We all make mistakes. Whether in our design and development work or just in life in general, we all do it. Thankfully, even the biggest mistakes carry valuable lessons. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. I like to be meticulous with my approach to anything I do, which makes me a hands on person, which inturn takes more time than I can allocate. In addition to that, the idea of letting someone else do it was a hard pill to swallow due to uncertainty. Then I figured that the right kind of training to the right kind of people makes a world of difference, training my team to perform to my level of expectation was the best learning of all time.

Any piece of advice for all the women out there?

A woman can do anything, once she stops pitying herself for being one. Focus your energies on developing yourself and managing the N number of situations that get thrown at you. Instead of wasting your energies on why you ‘Got to do it all’, start to believe you ‘Can do it all’, and you ‘Will’ – work, kids, parents…Yes you may need help, you may need to fall back on some of your dear ones but remember that nothing or no one can stop you from reaching where you want to unless you give up on yourself. “A woman doesn’t need empowering, she is empowering.”

What has been your biggest pride as a doyenne?

The hard work of my team and I makes us successful and our success makes us work harder. I take pride in having nurtured comfort and ownership to make us one close “family” which sticks together does more to achieve more and better everyday.