Today we’d like to introduce you to Rashi Kaur.
Hi Rashi, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
For most of my career, I was an accountant. A forensic accountant, specifically. Certified Fraud Examiner. The kind of work where you spend your days reading between the lines of financial statements, finding what doesn’t add up.
From the outside, my life looked good. Happy. Successful. The kind of life people tell you to be grateful for, and I was. But underneath, I was anxious. The people closest to me had no idea. They couldn’t see it. I could feel it.
I was doing everything you’re supposed to do. Moving my body. Eating well. Showing up for my family. And still, something was quietly off.
The turning point came when someone close to me said something hard. Instead of shutting down, I got curious. Not about what they said. About my own reaction. Because something inside me was already unsettled, long before anything happened around me.
So I went first. I stopped waiting until everyone else was okay to take care of myself.
This was harder than it sounds because I have spent most of my life moving. 5 countries, 6 states, 17 cities. Every transition taught me that belonging cannot be borrowed from a place or a person. It has to be built inside you. Joy is not a destination. It travels with you.
When I finally stopped running from myself, something remarkable happened at home. Peace settled in. My kids relaxed. My teenagers started following my lead without me asking. That is when I understood: when a woman goes first, everyone around her follows.
I started this work under a different name, Roots Wellness Coaching. Over time, I realized the deeper work was not about wellness habits. It was about joy. The kind that comes from telling yourself the truth about what you actually want. The Joy Consultant was born from that.
I bring the same analytical mind from my accounting years into coaching now. The numbers were never the point. The truth underneath them was. The work is the same. It just lives in a different place.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No. It has not been smooth, and I have yet to meet anyone that would say otherwise.
Three things have been hard.
The first one is the one I now teach. When you spend years building expertise in one field and then translate it into something completely new, you do not know what to charge for it. You can know your work is valuable and still not know how to put a number on it that you can say out loud without flinching. I had to learn that this is not a worth problem. It is a translation problem. And learning it for myself was the humbling part. I was supposed to be the one with the answer.
The second is going first. There is a romance to the idea, but the reality is that going first means going alone for a stretch. Before your family follows. Before your friends understand. Before the people around you can see what you see. You make the move while everyone else is still watching to see if it lands. That part is quiet, and it is lonely, and no one writes about it because it does not make a good caption.
The third is leaving accounting. I spent years building a career people respected. Forensic accounting. Certified Fraud Examiner. A title that opened doors and made people nod when I said it at parties. Coaching does not work that way, especially at the beginning. You introduce yourself and you can feel the pause. People are trying to place you. I had to make peace with the fact that I was no longer borrowing credibility from a title. I had to build it from the work itself.
The hard parts were not signs I was on the wrong path. They were the path.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
The Joy Consultant is a coaching practice for women who have built lives that look right on paper and feel quietly off. Women on autopilot, even if they would never call it that.
I work with women in transition. Career change, motherhood, identity shifts, health awakenings, the seasons where the old answers stop working. The work moves from external success without internal fulfillment toward clarity, self-trust, and real joy. Not the version that performs well at brunch. The version you can feel before anyone else can see it.
Most of the work happens in two places. One to one coaching for women who want sustained, private work.
And workshops, where we focus on area of impact.
What sets the work apart is what I do not do. I do not use coaching jargon. If a ten year old could not understand it, it does not belong in my client conversations. I do not lead with the sale. I do not require women to call themselves stuck before I will work with them, because most of them will not say that word out loud, and the ones who need this work the most are the ones who would never raise their hand.
What I am most proud of is what happens at the end of a first conversation. A woman who walked in saying she did not know what was wrong walks out able to name it. Not because I told her. Because the work made room for her to hear herself. That moment is the whole point. Everything else, the frameworks, the sessions, the pricing, is built to make that moment more likely.
If something in this is landing differently than you expected, that is the work already starting. You do not need to be in crisis to deserve a life that feels like yours.
Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
I want to leave you with one thing. Going first is not selfish. It is the most generous thing you will ever do.
The story we have been told is that taking care of yourself comes after. After the kids are okay. After the marriage is steady. After the career is in a good place. After everyone around you is settled. That version of love asks you to keep yourself last and call it devotion.
But here is what I have learned, in my own home and in years of watching this play out with my clients. The people you love do not need you to keep performing. They need you to be okay. A woman who is exhausted, anxious, and quietly resentful is not actually giving anyone the best version of love. She is giving the only version she has left.
When you go first, when you take care of yourself before anyone tells you it is okay, your whole house feels it. Your kids feel it. Your partner feels it. The people in your life stop having to manage you, and they start being able to know you.
You are not asking for too much. You have just been told, in a hundred quiet ways, that what your heart wants is a luxury you have not earned. It is not a luxury. It is your life.
You are allowed to want more. You are allowed to want different. You are allowed to want a life that feels like yours, in your own skin, without apologizing for it. You do not need permission. You need the audacity to go first.
Stop waiting for joy. You do not earn it after everyone else is settled. You give it to yourself first, and then you watch what becomes possible.
Pricing:
- $150 – Take the Go First Quiz/30-minute 1:1 with Rashi to go over your results together. You’ll walk away with a custom Roadmap to Going First, including prompts you can use on your own, plus clarity on which program fits your goals and your budget.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.TheJoyConsultant.co
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejoyconsultant
