Live on The Go Be Great Podcast with Jackie Capers-Brown and Rocky Singh Kandola
Today in the guest chair is Rocky Singh Kandola. He encourages us to say YES to new opportunities and take the leap of faith even when we don't know how every step of our plan will unfold into success. Rocky Singh Kandola is the business owner of Hair Maiden India. His business provides business owners with high-quality hair products for them to successfully run and/or scale their business. He travels directly to the temples to keep hair quality high. Rocky has been through a lot when he was younger because of the decisions he made. He uses the insights and lessons he's learned to inspire others, especially, felons to believe that they are capable of creating a better life for them and their family. He believes that no one should allow a bad decision in the past to define who they can become and what they can accomplish now. He believes in his heart that part of his path to healing and gaining fulfillment from the wisdom he has accumulated from navigating life-changing setbacks into great comebacks is sharing his story and speaking to motivate and inspire other people to believe in themselves and their dreams and goals. Some Questions I Asked
What's the theme song for your life?
What he wished he had known before becoming an entrepreneur?
What self-leadership traits you believe have led to your success?
What challenges have you overcome recently?
A lot of people believe that hurt people hurt people. What's your take on this?
What fear have you had to overcome?
What experiences led to half of his face being fake?
and so much more...
In This Episode, You'll Learn
The #1 vacation destination he recommends to everyone and why
How the fear of his past caused him to feel arrogant anger towards life, people, and himself
The perspective shift that helped him to stop worrying so much as a new entrepreneur
The three things that keep him grounded and focused on growing his business
The importance of creating a snowball effect in business
Challenges his import product-based business faced during Covid
Insights about why I believe he is a modern-day philosopher in the making
and so much more ...
Contact Rocky Kandola Website: Https://rockykandola.com
Business: https://www.hairmaidenindia.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HairMaidenIndia
TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO:
Jackie Capers Brown:
I'm Jackie Capers Brown, AKA your girl, Jackie B. I worked my way up through the ranks from an hourly position to becoming an award-winning manager and executive leader of several high-performance teams and successful seven-figure businesses. During my 20 years corporate career. Today, I am an author, speaker, corporate trainer lifestyle coach, and the founder of the Go-be Great movement. I created the Go-be Great podcast with the intent to educate, empower, and equip everyday people with inspiring stories and actionable strategies that will help you master your inner game of greatness to achieve breakthroughs and win the game you most want to win. If you are purpose-driven, ambitious, and committed to becoming the person who is willing to do what it takes to create a life and career you love you're in the right place. Let's do this. Hey. Hey. Hey, Go-Be Great nation. This is your girl, Jackie B today in the guest chair, we have Rocky Singh Kandola. Welcome Rocky to the show.
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Hello, miss Jackie. Thank you so much for having me today.
Jackie Capers Brown:
I am so glad you're here and I'm looking forward to our conversation now, before we get started Rocky, what I would like for you to do is to share three things that you feel people should know about you. Okay.
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I am an Indian American born and brought up in India. However, I've lived around the world with many different cultures. So it's very hard to label me as, you know, one kind of thing. Two, I have in my life been to some crazy highs and some very, very unexpected for what people will tell me lows as well. And three, I, regardless of how it looks, I love playing tennis and loved the piano and loved the arts here stuff, even though I'm a bigger guy. And I'm very in touch with that side of me. So people kind of get like, ''wait a minute. Who is this?''. Like when they hear that. So when they see that, so it's better to get it out in words right away.
Jackie Capers Brown:
Rocky, you shared with me that one of your favorite past times is travelling my question for you. Where have you travelled that you would recommend us to travel to and why?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
The first one's very easy. So I would recommend Bali. Bali, Indonesia. I was just there last year on my birthday. And like I said, I've travelled all over the place. I've been forced to travel. I have travelled on my own, travel with groups and travelled solo as well. Bali Indonesia is a very special place to me. It's my heart. Just the quality of people with life and to be real as the price to live that life is not anything like anything we have in America period. Last year I did my trip. I think under $1,700 was my ticket for 17 or 18 nights in Bali. And I was staying in beachfront hotels with my breakfast, which floated to me on a tray. That's just like the glitz and glam part. The real part of Bali is the heart. And what you find out there, as far as the culture, the food, the people go and the amenities such as how much like meditation, yoga and peace based. Not only just society in general is, but how much is available out there? And not for LA prices, like $150 to go, like learn about yoga. You know, it's actually very reasonable. And that was for me going through the things I went through in my life, that was some of those keys that I needed. I didn't even know I needed it. And Bali was a random trip. One of my friends was out there and going there as well. And I said, yes. And I'd say that I'm very, very grateful for that time of Bali and I can not wait to get back there.
Jackie Capers Brown:
Yes, I see the pictures and I hear a lot of people talk about it. So tell me something you live on the west coast. How long does it take you to get to Bali?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
So I don't like paying for the expense of airline tickets, even if I can, if I don't like it, I like taking the shorter, the longer route and using my money on other things. So for me, I had a, I believe 14-hour flight to China and then an eight-hour layover and then about a six to eight-hour flight to Bali, which is about the same thing I do every time I go to India as well. So it's quite a long flight. If you plan it properly, you've got the right books, a little bit of work to do. You know, you know, when to grab a glass of wine to go to sleep with. You can make it work pretty easily. And for me, I even got a chance when I stop in China to get out of the plane and go visit another country. So I got to go see Shanghai and stuff as well.
Jackie Capers Brown:
Yeah. Well, that amount of time for a layover. Yes. So had you been to China before, or?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I have, I have simply for business though. Not for anything kind of like looking around pleasure like that as well, just simple business.
Jackie Capers Brown:
Yeah, because you definitely see the city differently when you're not doing it because of a business meeting versus you go on as just a regular person who wants to go and chill and have a good time. Well, you can do that to have a good time too, but you know on a business meeting, but it's a little bit different. So at least for me, anyway.
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I agree.
Jackie Capers Brown:
if you had to choose, if someone said, Rocky, what is your theme song for your life? What would it be and why?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I wish I knew more about more of these songs, like off the top of my head. I mean, the first one I could pick up in this because of my name, obviously. And every school I've been to from military school, every Bootcamp, anytime there's any ever like a presentation or something we had to come out to, it was always the Rocky song and it's kind of cool because the Rocky song, like one doing it, you see Sylvester Stallone, running up the steps and then getting to the top and putting his hands up. And I kind of see that in me a little bit too like I have, I feel like I'm constantly, re-inventing those steps for myself because I will put my hands up. And I'm like, wow, there's another staircase to go. Just like for a quick answer. I think the Rocky song will be definitely appropriate.
Jackie Capers Brown:
Somehow I felt like that too, when I wrote it down. And I was like, I wonder if he's going to say because of what I just know about you, the little bit I know about you. I was like, I mean, he's had that type of experience that not that specific experience, but similar in a way. So yeah. So I'm not surprised so I can understand that. Definitely. What is your superpower and how has it enabled you to overcome challenges and achieve success?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I believe my superpower lies in communication. I have had to grow with it and struggle with the fact of sometimes it's not as easy for me to portray my superpower because communication is one of those things that I think you kind of need to have yourself aligned in certain ways to be able to communicate properly. And as you know, in life all get thrown off track sometimes. And that happens to me just like anybody else, many, many times. But I have been able to use communication to simultaneously get myself into very, very horrible situations and also get myself out of them. And also travel the world and connect with people. And I mean, the reason I was able to start my business, even meet the people I did was just for the fact of, you know, I have to be able to communicate. And when I'm in public groups, in a setting and I'm out and about and around, I can't have like, just everyone's looking around at each other. I'm gonna do that one to break the silence. Like, so how's everybody doing? Like what's going on? You know, like I don't necessarily have to be like the centre of attention and talking, but I do like to know that people around are communicated and I like to be able to, I think it's more of a me thing because I like to get out what's inside and I've learned about myself. I don't get it out. Then it troubles me inside. So better out than in.
Jackie Capers Brown:
That's true. I agree. And I believe that being able to connect with people through communication, sometimes it's non-verbal, but a lot of times, because I believe people want to be seen, heard and valued. I think it's important that we're able to communicate in different environments and some environments don't require us to be serious. It's more laid back and chill, I think, believe that you should be able to start a conversation with someone because I believe we have more in common than we don't. So I think that if someone is a great communicator, they are often able to get someone who may be reluctant to step up and start a conversation to begin and make them feel more relaxed. And then they're able to just, and then they started talking your ears off and you're like, well, what happened to me talking?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I think you brought up a good point too, about being adaptable and communicating. I think that's super important. Like being able to adapt, like say if like you're in a corporate business meeting at a high-level company and you need to portray yourself and your business certain way versus, you know, you're in a third world country on the streets walking around and curious about life out there and how people are living.
Jackie Capers Brown:
That's exactly right. When you're interested in people, they become interested in you. So regardless of whether it's professional or laid back, you know in a third world country, I think that just that general need to feel somebody is interested in them because then they open up, you know, and then you find out things that you would not have known possibly like somebody, myself who has not yet flown out of this country to be able to communicate. And I'm relying on my ability to communicate and connect with people, to get me where I need to be when I do something. What is a fear that you've overcome? And what lessons did you learn about yourself?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
So fear, honestly I still struggle with many fears to this day. One that I have overcome is the fear of my past and the fear of my past. Not only repeating itself, but me not being able to get past it. And me thinking that this is who I am, and this is my identity and I can't be anything more than this. And that fear actually manifested itself into almost an arrogant anger at a certain point where I was like, you know what? I'm like, ''this is who I am and tell me anything else I don't care''. You know? And until I realized, like, you know, really Rocky, like when I started trying to change, I'm like, ''I'm scared of change''. I already know this is already knowing what I have here. I know what I don't have. I know how my day goes. I know where my people are. And I'm scared to change it. And you know, that process started seven years ago for me. And it's still kind of like, you know, in the works almost where I'm like, you know, still like I have a misstep and I'm like, ''oh man, is everything going to come piling b