Even though this has been the toughest year of her life, Serisha Barrat shares how she is healing from generational trauma and building successful businesses. She is gender based violence survivor who is standing up for her mother and supporting other survivors to get justice using her social impact lens to business. She sells her art to invest back in the community through legal services and care packs to support SGBV survivors. Her ventures include Lawyered Up and Boardroom to mention a few.
No one picks up the phone and say “ Hi Serisha how are you doing”? This episode shows an authentic and honest conversation with Serisha Barrat who felt crippled but found light in the darkness in an incredible journey.
Serisha started her first business at 17 and since then she’s been a successful entrepreneur with multiple companies. She tells the story of how she mimicked her boss and eventually became her own boss girl. "I made it happen for myself. I carried myself well because I'm not gonna look like my problems", she says.
Serisha is a social entrepreneur with key foundational values; impact is key driver for her businesses as well as financial freedom because she believes " I am not dependent on anyone to create my world and impact". As a problem solver she is always on the quest of - What are the gaps and how we fix it? and continues to build without reinventing the wheel.
On this episode she talks about corruption , rising in male dominated industry and snippet of her dating life. When there is so much noise around her and on social media she reminds herself "What am I doing is what matters to me".
Her words of wisdom
Serisha shares her tips, management tools and hacks
Book recommendation: Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
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