EVEN Member Story: How Manasvi Found Her confidence Through a Personal Board of Directors
The Slow Erosion Immigrant Women Rarely Talk About at work
Manasvi has spent over a decade building expertise in digital marketing. She's navigated relocation, reinvention, and workplaces that didn't always make space for her. Manasvi grew up in India in an Army family, moving cities every few years. Change, she says, has always been part of her story. The biggest move came when she married and relocated to Australia.
Her decade in digital marketing helped her find her footing professionally, but the transition wasn't straightforward. What she describes is something many immigrant women will recognise, a quiet, cumulative erosion that's hard to name while it's happening.
"There's something no one really prepares you for as an immigrant, the subtle but persistent way your work gets questioned. Your experience is second-guessed, your judgment doubted, and over time, those moments accumulate in ways that are hard to explain but impossible to ignore."
As a natural introvert, Manasvi found herself holding back in rooms, waiting to be noticed rather than stepping forward to claim what she'd earned. It took time, and some hard lessons, to shift that pattern.
"I had some genuinely tough experiences that slowly chipped away at my confidence in ways I didn't fully recognise until later. If you don't ask, you don't get. No one is coming to hand you opportunities. You have to claim them."
She joined EVEN on a colleague's recommendation.
"I knew immediately I was in the right place."
How a Personal Board of Directors Helped Manasvi Find Her Footing Again
At the centre of EVEN's model is the Personal Board of Directors: a group of women drawn from different industries, facilitated by an EVEN coach. Members meet monthly, work through real professional challenges together, and build the kind of relationships most leadership programs never get close to creating.
For Manasvi, it delivered something she hadn't expected.
"Every woman in my group is navigating something, and we show up fully for each other because of it, not in spite of it."
Her Personal Board of Directors became the sounding board she hadn't known she was missing at mid-career. A space where professional wins and professional wounds both have room, where ambition sits alongside uncertainty without either being dismissed.
"Having a coach genuinely invested in your growth, and a group of women in your corner, makes it so much easier to find your footing again."
What Women's Leadership Development Looks Like When It Actually Works
EVEN's weekly masterclasses, delivered by expert women across industries, added another dimension to Manasvi's development alongside her coaching group.
"The Friday sessions add so much value, not just professionally but in how I reflect on my personal life too. I love that we bring our whole selves and actually talk about it."
What also stands out is the founders' hands-on involvement in the membership. "The fact that the founders are genuinely involved and actively seek feedback, that says everything about the kind of space EVEN is."
What Manasvi Would Tell Women Considering EVEN membership
“Don't hold back. Bring your whole self, the messy, uncertain, still-figuring-it-out version of you. Vulnerability is a strength, and EVEN gives you a safe place to actually use it. No single thing will fix everything, but having a village of women in your corner, and a coach genuinely invested in your growth, makes it so much easier to find your confidence again. That's what EVEN did for me.”
If Manasvi’s experience resonates, EVEN membership is designed for ambitious women at mid-career who are ready to invest in themselves.