Sandeep Maheshwari: India's Most Famous Motivational Speaker Ever

If you've ever watched YouTube, then you would have definitely come across a video of Sandeep Maheshwari. He's a famous motivational speaker of India and has 25 million plus subscribers on his YouTube channel. But you'd be wondering about how he reached this position? What was his journey? Here you'll get to know everything about him. So let's begin: Sandeep Maheshwari

Early life:

Sandeep Maheshwari was born on 28th September 1980. He was born and brought up in New Delhi, India. In school he was an introverted kid so he didn't have many friends. Although, he was good at studies. He wanted to make himself a better person and the school he was earlier in didn't help him much. So he decided to change school in class 11th. He joined a new school where he gave a new identity to himself. He became a much more confident person. He also met the love of his life there, Neha Maheshwari. His life was going good. But his father's Aluminium business slowly started going downhill(It was performing poorly since he was in class 9th but situations were getting more worse). So he started worrying about his future. One day, he was sitting with his friend in a tea stall and they were having some career related discussion. His friend said that he'll just join his father's business which made him think about his future. As he's neither rich enough to start his own business, nor he's excellent at studies. So he made up his mind that he'll study a lot and ace his 12th board examinations. He studied day and night and scored well in his examination (He had chosen Commerce stream) and scored 85% in his 12th boards. After that he got admission in Kirori Mal College to pursue BCOM.

Entrepreneurial Career:

During his college days, he got interested in modeling but he saw the dark side of this industry so he walked away. Later on he got interested in photography, which soon became his passion and to follow his passion he dropped out of his college in the 3rd year. It was not an easy step but he still convinced his parents and managed to do so. He then started working as a freelance photographer and later opened his own portfolio studio. In 2002, he started a company with 3 of his friends which collapsed within 6 months of opening. He even wrote a book regarding his journey but it didn't sell well. Sandeep Maheshwari was very disappointed and had lost all hopes. But his never giving up attitude helped him to come out of this trauma and move forward. In 2003, he made a world record of clicking 10,000 shots of 122 Models in 10 hours and 45 minutes. This is registered in 'Limca Book of World Records' .In 2006, he started another company named "Images Bazaar " which initially was not doing well but with loads of hard and smart work it finally took off and did wonders. It was a huge success. Images Bazaar is a company which provides high quality Indian images and videos to leading brands across the globe for their advertising, marketing and publishing needs. Now Imagesbazaar is the world's largest collection of Indian images with over 7000 clients across 45 countries. He was featured in several leading newspapers, magazines and news channels like India Today, CNBC-TV18, IBN7, etc. He even received many awards for his phenomenal work. Sandeep Maheshwari

Some of the awards were:

● Star Youth Achiever Award by Global Youth Marketing Forum ● Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur India Summit in 2013 ● Young Creative Entrepreneur Award by the British Council, a division of British High Commission ● One of India's Most promising Entrepreneurs by "Business World" Magazine

The YouTube Journey:

Sandeep Maheshwari Sandeep Maheshwari had made a promise to himself that once he becomes successful, he'll be the mentor to those who struggled like him. As he excelled in his career, he had the goal to explore everything. So he advanced in human psychology and spirituality( He didn't do any course just by reading and observing the surroundings he learnt all this). He started a YouTube channel 'Sandeep Maheshwari' in 2012 where he uploaded the videos of seminars he conducted offline and those seminars were free of cost. In the beginning, nobody came but slowly his popularity grew. His videos were practical and solution oriented about the problems people were facing in their lives. His videos were immensely helpful and worked like magic for many people. In 2015, he started a channel known as 'SandeepMaheshwariSpirituality'. This channel deep dived into spirituality and had covered topics related to meditation, birth and death , bhagavad gita, ashtavakra gita and other deeper concepts. This channel is doing great as well and has 1M+ subscribers. The special thing about his YouTube channels is that both don't display any advertisements. The reason behind this is that he wants people to concentrate on what he's speaking and if the viewers are watching his videos and an advertisement pops up they will get disturbed. He wants people to take benefits from his videos instead of getting disturbed. This led to another world record. Sandeep Maheshwari's YouTube channel became the World's largest Non Profit Organization . His "Life Changing Seminar Video" entered the Guinness World Records as the World's Most Viewed Life Changing Self Education Video. During lockdown Sandeep Maheshwari talked to people through video conferencing and he especially talked with NRIs as those people can't attend the live session. This was a blessing for them. Currently he's made a series on his channel where famous YouTubers and Startup founders like Alakh Pandey, Ranveer Allahbadia, Ritesh Agrawal, Anubhav Dubey, Khan sir, etc came as guests. These videos are a hit on his channel. Sandeep Maheshwari is an inspiration for millions of people. He has motivated many people to become a better version of themselves. Many people came out of depression by watching his videos. He ends every video of his by saying "Asaan hain". It's his way of loosening the stress of people out there, to make them feel that everything is possible. So be confident as "Sab Asaan hain".