Shirin Ariff
Nominated for the award: Authors
Company: 7 Arcs Creative Works
Position: Life Transformation Coach
Biography: Shirin Ariff, B.A. (Eng. Hons.), B. Ed. is a 5x International best-selling author and has over 3 million global views of her viral speech “Love Conquers All”. As a Life Transformation Coach, she equips her clients with tools and distinctions to access their own personal power and live a life of authenticity, freedom and dignity.
Shirin’s memoir, “The Second Wife”, shares her own heart-wrenching story of dramatic ups and downs and her remarkable journey of resilience. As a mom of 4 children, Shirin struggled with facial paralysis, survived cancer, and endured two failed marriages. Shirin inspires others with her gentle disposition, her relentless spirit and the wisdom and strength she gained along the way. Shirin has been there and done that. She uses her life experiences to empower others and is lovingly called “Coach Yoda”.
Shirin’s life story “Beauty and the Beast,” from the “Dream Big” docuseries, by Ethnic Channel Group, was featured at the New York International Women’s Film Festival and short-listed at the Toronto International Women’s Film Festival 2021. Shirin received the International Women Achievers Award 2020 as a Woman of Purpose and the Spiritual Writer/Composer Halo Award for 2020.
Shirin is the Founding Member of Immigrant Women in Business, representing India, her country of birth.
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CTV News, Toronto Guardian, SiriusXM, Vimeo Defective Geeks, LinkedIn, Kultur'd, She Does the City, Global News Radio 640, Fusia, Desi Today Magazine, Drishti Magazine, Humble Beginnings, FYIG, Frequency5FM, The Prickly Pair Show, OMNI News, Zee TV, ATN, SONYTV, PTN, NGE, Canadian Chronicles, The Brown Girl Magazine, Ethnic Channel and numerous podcasts