Expanding Horizons

Managing Director-Business of Ciro Trade Pvt Ltd, Roshni K Hemdev, has donned many hats, enjoying her stints in branding, marketing and running an English monthly tabloid. The constant need to adapt and learn has helped her hone her managerial skills, as well as holistic execution of events. More than nine years of experience on ground and a successful digital media launch has made Roshni more multifaceted, and this has helped her fulfil her role as director at Ciro. She engages herself in reading, cooking for friends and spending quality time with friends and family when at home. She loves to explore new cities and cultures and makes it a point to support NGO’s that help stray animals and orphans. In an exclusive interview with Corporate Citizen, she talks about her mantra for keeping fit.

Roshni K Hemdev, MD-Business, Ciro Trade Pvt Ltd

Corporate Citizen: Your philosophy on wellness?

Roshni K Hemdev: Consciously loving to find time to perform healthy habits at least 4-5 days a week to attain better physical and mental health outcomes, so that instead of just surviving, you’re thriving. I love Solfeggio frequencies—they are part of the olden six-tone scale believed to have incorporated scared music, inclusive of the famous and beautiful Gregorian chants. These Solfeggio frequencies were believed to profoundly affect the conscious and subconscious mind in order to stimulate healing and promote vitality. The unique tones and chants are found to bring the body back into balance and aid in healing, meditation with the moon cycles and crystal therapy. Energy is everything, and being grateful and thankful adds to it.

CC: How does your art, profession, hobby help you in dealing with stress and anxiety?

The activities I follow on day to day basis help me in dealing with all the stress and anxiety that I face on my professional and personal front. For me, stress and anxiety are negative energies, and you need to find activities that have a positive influence on your mind and mood.

CC: Your mantra about keeping fit and well?

My mantra is simple – love what you are doing. Do not force yourself to do it if you don’t like it because it will not last for too long. Also I like to add activities in my weekly routine, be it a trek on a Sunday morning, cycling, or even yoga classes. I like to focus on some breathing exercises as that is absolutely essential to complete the fitness regime.

CC: What keeps you fit and healthy?

My trainer and his constant support, my close friends who pull me back into training when I miss classes! I believe that our mind is totally in our control, we all need to learn to switch the moment we stress or get anxious and consciously think of happy thoughts. Channelise our mind in such a way that we avoid any kind of negative thoughts, even if it’s for one hour every day. Once we consciously try to think ONLY positive, we will see immense results on our wellbeing at all levels, physical, mental and emotional. Oh, and a glass of red wine and a good book does wonders for me.

CC: Your stress busters? How do you like to rejuvenate and recharge and de-stress?

Spending time with dogs, weekend getaways with nature, and avoiding screen time help me in rejuvenating. A gadget free evening once a week and video calling my BFFs are the biggest stress busters for me.

Tips to maintain work-life balance

• Have a gadget-free evening.
• Spending quality time with loved ones which includes pets.
• Have a solution driven proac tive approach, it’ll all workout.
• Believe in a higher power.
• Have faith in yourself and your instincts.

CC: Your food philosophy? Is that also part of your wellness regime?

Yes, I do try to eat consciously with few cheating days. I follow intermittent fasting which helps limit calorie intake. From time to time, I go on low carb diets. These help me being more energetic through a working day!

CC: Anything you will like to say about your exercise fundamentals?

I love the feeling after a good workout, the high is different. That’s a motivator in getting back to the mat. My trainer changes my programme every month which means I’m learning something new and that is something which I look forward to. I love training with weights, cardio based workout with body weights like the good old push ups or even squats. On a good day I’d do a minimum 100 squats in variations. I like to do Surya Namaskar, Pranayama and Kapalbhati regularly.

CC: How do you set out your priorities to keep your work and personal life balanced?

Honestly, I aspire to be someone who has a good work and personal life balance. I deliberately follow activities which help me ward off stressful moments. We all have a mixed bag of good months and stressful ones. I feel that it helps us value and appreciate the good months including patting yourself on the back when you manage to strike that balance.

CC: What helps you the most in maintaining calm and peace despite an overload of work?

Informal discussions with mentors, sharing my thoughts and emotions with my mother who is also my boss, helps me. I totally believe in a solution-oriented approach that makes your subconscious mind aware that it’s going to work out!

CC: Anything else you would like to say about keeping fit and on holistic wellness, what can others learn from your learnings?

Change is the only constant - what helps you today might not tomorrow. We are forever evolving, so should our habits. Don’t shy away from taking a new class or learning something new. You won’t know if it makes you feel better until you try.

CC: Can you define yourself in one sentence?

A forever evolving aspiring soul in the quest of being better on a daily basis as myself and the environment.