A former teacher and life coach, Vaijayanti works for the empowerment of women. She reinvented herself at the age of 72 and believes that education and experience are equally important to achieve success.

Vaijayanti Bose is a veteran teacher, author, coach, speaker, and podcaster in Kolkata.

Vaijayanti had been a teacher at the Ashok Hall Group of Schools in Kolkata for forty years. She formally retired in 2010, but still continued to serve the school for ten years. Then she finally decided to totally quit the job in the year 2020.

Talking about her journey, Vaijayanti says that after her retirement she decided to prepare herself for the second inning of life. She joined a course, the Arfeen Khan ‘Coach to Fortune" course to proceed further and equip herself for her journey ahead. Afterwards, she also decided to become a speaker through a course called Speaker to a Fortune.

Vaijayanti shares that initially she had never thought of  choosing teaching as a profession. But once she got a chance to teach English to tribal boys and after that she developed an interest in teaching.  Some of those students went on to  become IAS and IPS officers in Arunachal Pradesh, which  inspired her a lot and she felt  that it was her destiny to become a teacher. She also says that her grandfather was also a great educator, and she was inspired by him too.

Speaking about her challenges, Vaijayanti says that she faced many struggles. The first was her mindset, as she was not trained for the market. She took training under Arfeen Khan for the coaching sessions and then started to enlighten the lives of others.

Vaijayanti believes that education strengthens your foundation while your family background gives you values; and these two factors together help you move forward. This also helps you strategize, make better decisions, and choose the right path in life, but experience also helps you grow and learn from your mistakes. She says education and experience both play a vital and equal role in a person's life and motivate them to achieve success.

Talking about her role models, Vaijayanti says that Swami Vivekananda is her idol. She follows the principle of Swami Vivekanada that a mind should have the characteristics of analysis, logic, and understanding but the heart should have compassion, empathy, and understanding.

To make a good future, Vaijayanti advises being authentic, strong, and determined, as well as choosing your goals wisely.

Vaijayanti believes that leadership is something that can be imbibed over time, and the potential is within you. She says that it is the challenges that bring out the quality of leadership in you. Experience, and the way you handle challenges, make you the leader.

Sharing her COVID experience, Vaijayanti says that at the time of the pandemic she decided to go for a change regarding her career and become an author. She started writing her book about her father’s life and then about her own life. She also learned to use digital technologies and social media platforms at the time of the lockdown and learnt how to teach online.

Vaijayanti’s life mantra is to be yourself, to be authentic, to be genuine, and to live on your own terms so that the world can see you as you are.

If given a time machine to go back in time, Vaijayanti would have prepared better for her UPSC exams. But she is happy to have served more than 4,000 students by preparing them to achieve success in life.