The Beginning - by Shezzi M

I’ve always held steadfast to the notion that there are no accidents in life. My life so far has certainly been testament to that. And through life’s ups and downs, I’ve always trusted in the wisdom of going with the flow.

I began my career as a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary. Straight out of PwC Mumbai, my days were ruled by balance sheets, audit trails, and client meetings. It was steady and secure, but also manically hectic. I was living the ‘it’ life.

Single, career- oriented, living by herself in a city where dreams are made.

But here’s the thing, it was never my dream to begin with. My father, a Chartered Accountant himself, wanted so much more for me than a husband and two point four kids to manage. And in his infinite wisdom, he thought that accountancy was the best course of action for me. I, on the other hand, wanted to pursue law , but I also had serious inclinations towards literature.

I won’t bore you with the details of the angst, the persuasion and the turmoil of having to toe the line and do my father’s bidding; that's perhaps a conversation for another day. Long story short, my old man’s will prevailed and there I was a freshly minted BCom, CA and CS, so keen to move out of my father’s home in Pune, that I jumped at the chance to work with PwC, Mumbai.

I already knew that it wasn’t a sustainable career choice for me; but the courage to do something about it, came from falling in love. A couple of years later, I shut shop in Mumbai, got married (yes yes to the aforementioned love of my life only!)  and moved to Hyderabad, thinking that I’d focus on writing and travelling.

Life in general, mine in particular, always has a funny tendency to lay waste to our best laid plans, and before you could say ‘Jack Rabbit’, I was interviewing to be the Breakfast Show Host at one of the most popular radio stations in the country.  I coined the term ‘Good Morning Good Morning’ and became the Sunshine girl of Hyderabad. And what a ride that was!

For eight and a half beautiful, breathless years, I hosted one of Hyderabad’s favourite breakfast shows. I laughed, cried, questioned, celebrated, and shared stories with a city that felt like family. The mic became my passport to people’s lives — and my voice, a bridge between strangers. But as time passed, something shifted. While I was helping others tell their stories and sharing dozens of mine, I realised there was more I wanted to do.

Enter yoga. 

I mean technically, yoga entered my life about 23 years ago when I started practising as a young girl. Over time and with the hectic travails of academia and career, it slowly faded into the background, only to emerge again a decade ago. About five years ago, I realised I wanted to start teaching and sharing this amazing gift with others. And so began an incredible journey of acquiring the knowledge and certifications that I needed. (When you choose to come to our sweet yoga shala, you’ll see said certifications hanging on a wall; kind courtesy my  very entrepreneurially brilliant mother-in-law!)

A few years before hanging up my boots as a radio presenter, my personal yoga practice became a counterbalance to my frenetic mornings. But slowly, it became more. It softened the noise, stilled the clutter, and pulled me back to myself. Yoga didn’t just help me stretch my body — it helped me stretch my understanding of what mattered.

I began to dream of a place — not a business or a studio, but a source. A space where creativity met calm, where stories could be spoken and silences could be held. A place where content could be crafted consciously, and community could form organically.

And that, my dear friends, is how The Source was born.

Nestled in the lush, verdant environs of Journalist Colony, Hyderabad, it’s a space where people come to record podcasts, roll out mats, have real conversations, and take a breath.

We have a podcast studio that sparks ideas, a yoga shala that invites stillness, and a growing circle of people who want to live and create with intention.

In the mornings, I teach yoga here. During the day, we work on content strategy and video production for our clients, while simultaneously working on my own vodcast —

The Shezzi M Show. It’s a podcast that highlights the vagaries of 21st-century living and how to hack it.

And in between, I’m just a woman, a mother to my little almost-three-year-old firecracker of a daughter  and my sweet 7-year-old ‘puppy’, Diego.

This blog will be my letters to you — sometimes about yoga, sometimes about parenting, often about storytelling, and always about what it means to live with depth, joy, and a little bit of madness.

So whether you’re here for breath work or branding, chai or change — welcome to

The Source.

It was built for voices to be heard.

It was built for and from love.

It was built for healing.

It was built for community.