RAJ GIRN is a multi-award winning media and events entrepreneur, brand strategist, marketing consultant, confidence coach, #1 best-selling author, and entertainment personality. For almost 2 decades, she has been widely recognized as an expert in niche branding, media, marketing, and public relations. She has worked with a vast array of globally recognized brands (P&G, L’Oréal Paris, Diageo, GoDaddy, Huawei, and more) and celebrities (Priyanka Chopra, Freida Pinto, Rohan Oza, Manjit Minhas, Robin Sharma, and more). She has developed an enviable reputation as an innovative visionary, who has an uncanny ability to create opportunities that bring brands, celebrities, media, and communities together, by creating and curating engaging content and unforgettable event experiences.

British-born and of Indian heritage, Raj has lived across continents in places like England, India, Wales, Canada, and the United States (in that order), and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. As a single, working mother, she juggles the work-life balance, having raised her son Karam, and now her puppy Maximus, as well as having developed two successful brands that she founded in 2002.

ANOKHI LIFE: Formally known as ANOKHI MEDIA, is a highly-targeted, multimedia, multi-platform brand, that has developed and incorporates, media, events, e-marketing, and social communities, to target the South Asian community, both from a B2B and B2C perspective. Within this arena, Raj has spear-headed many successful campaigns that have brought together, A-list celebrities, multinational corporations, media, as well as the public, in unique, interactive, collaborative ways, that have included the participation of the sub-brands:

• ANOKHI MAGAZINE: An extensive online blog and community that focuses on pop culture, lifestyle, and entertainment;
• THE ANOKHI LIST: Showcasing a collection of globally successful South Asians from all walks of life;
• THE ANOKHI AWARDS: Celebrating the success of global South Asians;
• THE ANOKHI PRESTIGE EXPERIENCE: Providing a live, themed seminar series;
• ANOKHI PULSE TV: An entertainment video series;
• ANOKHI SPOTLIGHT TV: A lifestyle video series.
• ANOKHI UNCENSORED: A weekly radio talk show.

Raj’s most successful project (to date), has been the 14^th annual awards show, which took place in August 2016. It’s marketing and PR strategies brought in over 3.4 billion documented media impressions from around the world.

OPEN CHEST: This brand comprises of two subsets:

• OPEN CHEST WITH RAJ GIRN: This is a long running celebrity interviews collective, where she has interviewed personalities like Kim Kardashian, Dita Von Tesse, Priyanka Chopra, (and many more), and these can be accessed as follows:
  • An extensive collection of long-form blog articles, courtesy of ANOKHI magazine;
  • A weekly tv chat show on YouTube;
  • A weekly radio talk show on Dash Radio’s Rukus Avenue Radio Station.

• THE OPEN CHEST CONFIDENCE COACH: This is a boutique coaching business, where Raj provides the following programs and services:
  • Learn from Us brochure and video series focusing on mindset, branding, media, public relations, and / or marketing, to c-Suite professionals and established entrepreneurs. These provide beginners and intermediaries with access to the foundational basics, and the latest facts, stats, and info, directly from the experts, both in brochure and quick video formats.
  • Work With Us services, which include one-on-consultations, group-learning and coaching programs, where each opportunity offers varying degrees of academic, skill-learning procedures, peer group collaboration, as well as access to Raj and her team of experts, which can be taken on their own or in tandem with other products and services.

Raj’s social media network is in excess of 580,000, with an email list that expands into the tens of thousands.

Over the years, Raj has been a strong advocate for supporting numerous causes through her companies and personally. These have included: Doctor’s Without Borders, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, Canfar, Free-Them, and the Aga Khan Foundation, but to name a few.

Raj has also been featured in two coffee table books, a feature length documentary, intention cards, and is often called upon for her expertise on: pop culture, branding, media, marketing, and entertainment. And she contributed a chapter to the #1 best-selling book, ‘365 Empowering Stories’.

CLICK HERE to see her awards, acknowledgements, and accolades.