Ms Hetal’s own website too was a need! – Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.
Many people know me through one part of my work or field. Some know me as social butterfly! Always busy in friends and family :). My journey with a professional website actually began during my college days, when I created a simple online portfolio to showcase my work. Blog, student profile website was a trend back then. #Right
Freelance world existed in the year 2000;the birth year of most business portals and web services. My marriage too is result of a proper non-dating matrimony site; lot of my family too married through these worlds of advances!
#Yahoo #BharatMatrimony
2009-2012 blogs – i was awaiting to achieve little more to showcase it on website as then it made sense to put it all together as “me”. My blogs had a post of all my activities–these are now brands and companies. #YES
Born in family with such an environment of advancements, it becomes inevitable for no reason or rather a correlative need to fuel goals in life.
It was not a person to influence me.
It was my Immigration Status – I received my EAD and this status unlocked everything that i awaited. I am USA Citizen from several years!
As a solopreneur all my life, i have admiration of businesses and individuals with a good discipline in certain fields! Most often, i read stories of businesses and owners. Specific to fields like fashion, sports, performing arts, entrepreneur paths, IT and fields of my specialities – to name a few. This admiration should not be mixed as an influence or personal liking.
Talk about timing!
In 2008-2009, my kid’s schedule became predictable as they were 3-4 years old and this allowed me to take projects or gigs on timeline, without any disturbances.
2009-2012 – The whole site and company plan took place. A rough draft of “may be” of teen-young life of someday took a shape. I finally could launch my own companies for easy billing and several other services without immigration or time restrictions as a next step to my freelance work. I could plan long haul without restrictions and then i had my own kids in it too. #YES
The idea for hetaln.com began taking shape during these days of my new business establishment. This involved SEO, branding, marketing, advertising and digital strategy packages from service providers. This part of package became an easy pathway to initiate the site-plan.
Grace and Grooves had its site from 2009-2010 from a blog attached to mine to a direct e-commerce site upon registration of company, so it made sense to have my own as package and through my IT interns. What started as a blog post were brands and then became companies as I grew.
Time rules my life – Around this time, a few of my own teachers’ aka guru’s kids, all over USA and the ones-new to USA entered my arena of my specialities either through degrees or through college teams thus, connected in 2010. And i had these non-stop from 2005, including my own brother in law, in-laws families’ kids so i had my eyes set on something of my own just as anybody would. While some opened their own consultancy in India and other countries which made easier for me.My work expanded and so did my freelancer capacity, teams of my own and my efforts multiplied, and this shaped my vision of site. Everything became direct international!
Right people showed up :). Some cousins too just graduated from university seeking some clarity. All these kids were fresh out of college and needed a boost of “real world” experience.
In 2017, I began turning that vision to reality for full portal-website;these factors aligned to have a stronger need!
As top 1% in family and friends to offer career and life guidance in fields of my expertise, this fueled my need of site even stronger. As an educational consultant, this was a norm for me in my teen years as corporate professional life was very early!
As a certified international trainer specialized in proper training and development field itself, i could run these officially as separate field. These years thus, became pillars of my IT training programs for fresh grads too.
In 2020, the path took focus to people like me in multiple businesses and freelancers on larger scale, as i am. It also became one place to document my journey, preserving my milestones, and continuing to build for the future–money is always one of them.
The website hetaln.com thus is a platform of my collective achievements, till date.
Just something more than an online portfolio—it is the digital home of my own founder’s vision. Today, hetaln.com represents my journey as a founder, entrepreneur, artist, mentor, and lifelong achiever-money is one of them. I share my work of all types in all fields, my ventures, my experiences–be it as team, as mentor, director or as leader, and the results that have shaped all i create.
It is past and present!
Thank you everyone who has been a part of this journey as some made sincere efforts to align pertaining to my world. My world of “need” nonetheless—is this small. Barely outside influences :).
Past and present offered alot and so will future.
Completion Date of hetaln.com –
The site of hetaln.com was scheduled to be completed by 2021-2022 but the delays of accumulated catastrophic mess caused delays in several content lineup in 2022, as reliability was on digital infrastructure. All the following launches and activities were then pushed to 2024-2025. Thus from 2023, the site was made LIVE but had constant updates of all content.
Currently – Except for a few links and a few pictures, it is fully updated. Site is LIVE and soon it will have appointments. Some links of appointments are through companies only unless it is for multi-field.
Fun fact – In year 2000, my brother was 1st one in my nuclear family to have his own professional website and cousin to have his 1st vlog and blog! It’s trend in family since year of 2000’s IT boom.
My past digital foot print include the following—From 1999 To Be Exact – I may be able to get exact date too :).
- membership based international women’s corporate clubs,
- several wellness and medical forums,
- international membership IT clubs,
- corporate clubs for career professionals,
- my own personal blogs,
- women’s wellness international platforms,
- international due date clubs, mostly because of my own kids and I travelled in my youth years.
- lamaze and parenting international parents clubs
- endorsed memberships through my past sponsorship activities
- my own poetry blogs that i use for publications,
- and some journalism-write up blogs that i use for my articles and blog services!
To some, i am on board or a paid service provider. Those too were awaiting my site.
More on hetaln.com
Latest Fact – Several of my Elites, Elite Lines have their own websites and social platforms through me. Some maintained by me—-personally while some by parents themselves with guidance under me. I only run their platforms and sites!
–Hetal Nagaraj
— Do not copy any word, concept or any ideology, verbiage, picture , any clip or dance, or any wordings of Ms Hetal as it is full trademarked, some copyright received and some ip too, by country – 2012-current
Grace And Grooves by Hetal Nagaraj (hetaln.com) 