Prajakta Koli at e-Mind Rocks 2021: I was nervous before I met Michelle Obama

Prajakta Koli was one of the guest speakers at e-Mind Rocks 2021. The social media star talked about her YouTube journey and her experience of meeting Michelle Obama for the first time.

She is one of India's biggest content creators. Her YouTube channel, MostlySane, has over 6 million followers. She has also won the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Non-Fiction Special for Creator of Change. She is none other than Prajakta Koli and she was one of the guest speakers at e-Mind Rocks 2021. Prajakta spoke about her YouTube journey and her first meeting with Michelle Obama. Prajakta Koli shared that she started her YouTube channel as she had no other option, and she was desperate to leave her radio job. “It started when I was in the sixth standard. I knew what I wanted to do in life. I had decided when I was in Class 6 that I wanted to be a radio jockey. My entire life was like this - everything was planned. Everything worked according to plan until I got my own show and realised that I was horrible at this job. It was a huge shock for me. I was in a place where I was like - anything but radio. I was so demotivated that I did not know what to do. So, Sudeep, who also manages me now, met me at the radio station and told me ‘look your energy is quite fun, have you thought of starting a YouTube channel?’ So that was almost 6 years ago and I had no idea about it. I was desperate at that time and wanted to get out of radio and explore something new. That is how YouTube started for me. I went into it because I did not have an option but I think this was the best decision,” she said.