#27 Amit Jain 🇮🇳 - Always question everything & just do it!

<p>🇮🇳 Amit Jain is the co-founder of Mitti Ke Rang, a social enterprise working towards generating livelihoods for women in India. They train women entrepreneurs to start small businesses and support them to sell their handicrafts across the country.&nbsp;</p><br><p>😄 Amit says he’s always happy - nothing can make him unhappy, except 2 things: when his customers are not satisfied, and when the women entrepreneurs don’t receive money on their bank accounts.</p><br><p>🙏 We discuss his journey escaping poverty, finding a decent job and building Mitti Ke Rang, his gratefulness to all the people who supported him throughout his life and his drive to give back to them.</p><br><p>💸 We go through the evolution of Mitti Ke Rang over the years, from a local charity project in Pune to a national organisation, and the transition from being donation-based to their current social enterprise model.</p><br><p>💪 Amit is a people’s person, always curious and questioning everything, a proud budget traveler and he’s also a good friend of Shomy (Episode 4 - I turned my pain into my life purpose) and Edward (Episode 19 - Financing grassroots innovators) ;)</p><br><p>🎤 “In the morning, my mom, my brother, my sister-in-law, we were sitting at the table and I'm like: the company is kicking me out. They're like: why? I'm like: “I don't know, they are doing it for everybody”. They're like: “it's impossible, it has been seven years. Talk to your manager… do this, do that”. “No, they are kicking me out…”&nbsp;</p><br><p>I made a story. Why? Because they will never agree to the fact that with US$ 13 in hand, I can survive for a month, eat once in a day, get a high-paying job and leave the job… and coming on ground zero again. So I made a story.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Why did I leave the job? Unlearning what I learned, because I realized that until 2012, when I didn’t have anything, I used to learn a lot of things, but when I got a job, my learning stopped and I didn't get a chance to learn something new.</p><br><p>So I thought it’s the right time to