Madhuri Kumar is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her kindness and client centered approach.

Her journey to coaching is pretty unconventional. From designing physical spaces to transforming inner landscapes, she walked a remarkably diverse path. Trained as an architect, she began her career designing commercial environments, but it was her fascination with human psychology and emotional design that slowly pulled her toward a different kind of architecture: the architecture of the self. Over the years, she embraced a range of creative and professional roles, each one nudging her closer to her true calling as a Holistic Wellness Coach.

Her journey wasn’t smooth though. Life didn’t hand her an easy script, it gave her curveballs. But through each challenge, she built resilience, self reliance, and deep compassion. These qualities now define her coaching style: direct yet nurturing, honest yet inclusive. Her mission at Joy of Alchemy is rooted in helping people break free from inner chaos, bring awareness to their patterns, and step into the freedom of living authentically and joyfully.

Her clients don’t just receive support, they experience transformation. With a tailored, evolving approach grounded in both lived wisdom and formal training, she helps individuals reintegrate all parts of themselves until they feel whole again. For her, every session is guided by a simple yet powerful question: “How many more people can I help today?” Here is what she said…

Meet Life Coach Madhuri Kumar:

Name: Madhuri Kumar

Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Heart

Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants more freedom, awareness, access to their free will, a sense of purpose and meaning, clarity and joy to be and live as who they authentically are.

How they can help: By facing the truth head on, offering kindness and unconditional support, and using her own tested and tried approach.

First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?

We are doing well, thank you!

Hope you are too.

How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

Indeed it did, immensely.

Before the pandemic, all my work was done in person.

When the first lockdown was imposed, I felt like the ground had been pulled from under my feet.

How would I continue to work?

How would I sustain myself?

Being adaptable and flexible was key, and I gradually moved a lot of my work to being done virtually.

Today, 90% of my work has moved to being done virtually, and it has actually led to better productivity.

Also, no more waiting for a client to show up because they were stuck in traffic.

It is freeing in more ways than one.

I am sure the pandemic affected every one of my clients in their individual lives and capacities.

However, I did not allow it to affect our work together, since I went on to mindfully foster our connections with more love than before, thanks to still being connected through technology.

Needless to say, that was the need of the hour at the time.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

There is an innate need for a rise in collective consciousness.

People need to start focusing more on themselves and go within now more than ever before.

Live more consciously, more authentically, and more purposefully, as opposed to living in the autopilot mode that most people function on.

As each person transforms, it will lead to the world becoming a better place.

And I believe that together, we can make that shift happen!

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

My journey has been quite exhilarating!

I am an Architect by qualification, and while I lived through my late teen years and early 20s dreaming of being a successful Architect, I went on to do things that were completely tangential.

After a couple of years in mainstream Architecture, I was piqued by Retail Design and Strategy.

I loved how working directly with human psychology transformed the very fabric of the design language of the commercial space.

I think that is where my first tryst with working deeply with the human mind and emotions began.

Over the years, I have donned myriad hats: Architect and Retail Designer, Lecturer (for Design), Baker, Jewellery Designer, and now finally a Holistic Wellness Coach.

It has been quite a diverse journey to get to where I currently am.

However, I can say with conviction that I have finally found my soul’s calling and love what I am doing now!

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

Life has thrown an avalanche of curveballs my way.

However, those curveballs are what have shaped me to be who I have become over the years…

Self reliant, resilient, strong, fiercely independent, and exceedingly compassionate with a never say die attitude.

I believe that our journey is what shapes us at the very core, and I love what my journey has taught me so far.

I have navigated all of life’s challenges all by myself, but not everyone needs to do it alone.

This is what led me to become a coach, so I could help people with their challenges, and lift them up.

Everyone is fighting their own battles, but the bottom line – suffering is a choice.

There are always better choices available, and with my work, I want to be able to bring people into this awareness.

I want to empower them with the knowledge that they can make better choices and that they can shift to a better state of being at any moment.

Most people are not even aware that there is a way out, and they continue to stay endlessly stuck in the same loop.

This is what makes me jump out of bed every morning, to be there for the people that need help.

“How many more people can I help today?” is the thought I wake up with every morning.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

Being an inclusive coach is a non negotiable for me.

So I am constantly ideating and evolving with every client I work with.

Every person’s journey is unique, and every person has their own unique limiting patterns and resultant challenges.

As we navigate through shattering those patterns, it gives me new perspectives to innovate more to help my clients better.

I must add here that I do not use any man made intelligence tools to coach my clients.

While it is alarmingly becoming a rising trend, I stay firmly rooted in the fact that it can never replace the warmth and nurturing that human connection lends in my nature of work.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

Authenticity.

I do not beat around the bush, and I do not hesitate to call a spade a spade.

I do not tell people what they want to hear.

I tell them what they need to hear.

Hearing the truth about themselves can be frightening for most people, but I do it anyway.

I do it with compassion and inclusion.

The compassion helps them better understand themselves, and eventually, acceptance follows.

Self discovery is scary, no doubt.

But facing the truth head on is how to stop being in the dark and take the proverbial bull by the horns.

Bringing my clients into awareness is my first undertaking.

Being a self aware person myself, I extend that to every person I work with.

After that, I wait and hold space for them to reach the most important state of acceptance.

Once acceptance sets in, that’s half the battle won, and they themselves realize that they want to change things.

Some people shift to acceptance almost instantly, and some others take their time.

But as long as the person is willing to work on themselves, I will patiently stay by their side, through the highs and lows, even through the pauses, through the entire journey of their transformation, until they have reintegrated all parts of themselves and are feeling whole again.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

Simply put, learning to cut loose from the chaos and noise, and start living authentically, purposefully, and joyously, with more ease in their lives.

Freedom.

Genuine transformation.

Exponential breakthroughs in their personal growth.

Once there is personal transformation, it automatically permeates every area of a person’s existence, transformation in their interpersonal relationships, career, overall health and well being.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

I have developed and curated my own tried and tested approach over the years.

It continues to evolve every day.

I have also invested in numerous courses and certifications in the last few years, and my modus operandi involves integrating all of my learnings and experience to create lasting impacts for my clients.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

Love is the biggest positive force there is.

And it all starts with loving yourself.

If you genuinely loved yourself, you would stop projecting onto others, so it is important to work on yourself.

And if everyone did that, there would be more peace, harmony, and joy the world over.

That would be a good starting point for the positive transformation of mankind!

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

Never say die!

There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

It is all about choice.

At every moment, we have the opportunity to make a different choice.

Every moment we are living through is a cumulative effect of a choice or a string of choices that we made at some point prior to that moment.

And if we do not like where we are, we always have the free will to choose differently and make a shift, even as soon as that very instant.

As we evolve, we start making more evolved choices, and that can only lead to better things.

Eventually, certainly a more joyous life!

Easier said than done.

But not impossible either.

Your final thoughts?

Happiness is an inside job.

Never place your happiness in another’s hands.

Make your own!

Rinse, repeat.

Where Can You Find Madhuri Kumar?

If you liked this interview and if you would love to awaken, become self aware so you can take active control over the choices you make, and live a joyful life, contact Coach Madhuri and see how she can help you.

Feel free to explore her website and learn more about her services.

And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message on WhatsApp or on her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.