For the past few months, life has been a whirlwind: a blend of late nights, rehearsals, deadlines, and dreams coming true.
Preparing for Dreamforce 2025 – one of the world’s largest tech conferences, my first one ever, and first time as a speaker on an international stage was nothing short of a dream I had nurtured for almost a decade.

Standing on that stage as a Dreamforce speaker and living my dream and representing not just my work in tech but my journey as a woman, a mom, and a believer in persistence, was surreal.
But what most people saw that day was the destination.
What they didn’t see was the long, winding road that led there, the one motherhood paved for me with lessons I could never have learned otherwise.

Motherhood has been my greatest teacher. It taught me resilience, patience, and perseverance, not as fancy words we put in motivational talks, but as daily, lived experiences that shaped me into the person who could stand tall (even with a broken ankle 🥲) on that international stage.

💪 Resilience: Keep Trying, No Matter What

When I fractured my ankle just 2 weeks before Dreamforce, everyone asked me how would you manage now, shouldn’t you cancel.
But something inside me whispered otherwise.
Because being a mom had already trained me how to keep moving through the chaos, to push forward no matter how messy, painful, or uncertain things get.

So, I didn’t let that fracture slow me down.
If anything, it made me more determined.
It was as if life wanted to test if I truly meant it when I said, “I can handle it.”

⏳ Patience: Waiting Without Losing Faith

My Dreamforce session took longer than expected to get confirmed – almost two extra months as compared to others.
Those two months of waiting were filled with hope, anxiety, and a constant internal battle of “what if it doesn’t happen?”

But once again, the most important lesson I learnt while raising my toddler – patience helped me here. The patience showed for milestones, for moments, for magic, for tantrums, for sickness, all of them came as a blooming learning for me here.
Just like waiting for my little one to take his first steps, I learned to trust the timing of my own journey.
And when that final confirmation came in, it felt like a quiet affirmation from the universe: “See? It was always going to happen, just not yet.”

🌱 Perseverance: When You Think It’s Over, Begin Again

When I became a mom, everything changed.
The sleepless nights, the constant demands, the emotional overwhelm – all of it made me believe maybe it was time to pause my dreams.
To step aside and focus solely on this new, beautiful, exhausting chapter of motherhood.

And I did. For a while.

But as my son grew, as he started taking his own tiny, brave steps into independence, he began teaching me my independence, too.

Through his laughter, curiosity, and courage, and growing independence he reminded me of the woman I was before I became “mama.”
He reminded me that dreams don’t die when motherhood begins; they just evolve.

I found myself again – not the same as before, but stronger, softer, and more grounded.
And standing on that stage at Dreamforce, I realised I wasn’t just living my dream; I was living the version of me my son helped me rediscover.

💖 Gratitude

Navigating the massive Dreamforce event and the streets of SFO on a mobility vehicle taught me an unexpected lesson. I realised what an incredible privilege it is to simply be able to walk on both feet. 🙂

My gratitude also runs deep for my support system. I couldn’t have done any of this without them.
My husband, in-laws and my maternal family stepped up beautifully while I was away, caring for my little boy with so much love that he didn’t even miss me for a second.

And if I’m being honest… neither did I. 🥲

Does that make me a bad mom? I don’t think so.
It makes me human, and, maybe for the first time in years, fully myself. This was my first solo trip in 7 long years.

Traveling alone to the US after years, navigating airports with a boot on my leg, meeting people from across the world, and standing on that stage, I felt so alive.
And that aliveness… it didn’t take away my motherhood.
It enriched it.

I am just so incredibly thankful that despite the uncertainty, the long wait, and all the hurdles like my fracture, I was able to make it.

🌷 The Unscripted Truth

Motherhood didn’t limit me. And it will never.
It rebuilt me.

It gave me the resilience to keep trying, the patience to wait for my moment, and the perseverance to dream again.

So, to every mom reading this,
You are allowed to dream.
You are allowed to feel alive in your own way.
You are allowed to love your child deeply and still love the woman you are becoming.

Because that’s what being an Unscripted Mama truly means –
Living, growing, and dreaming without a script. 🌸

To all the unscripted mamas reading, what has motherhood unexpectedly taught you about your own strength? Share your story in the comments below: I’d love to read it.