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Sodhi moved to New York from Mhow,Madhya Pradesh,in 1989,after her father landed a job in an electronics company. She was 12 then. After completing her high school from New York,she took up a part time job at a dry cleaners to supplement her parents’ income and pursued correspondence courses in finance before bagging an entry level job with a financial consultancy. “I had always wanted to become a lawyer as a kid,but when I was assisting in a law firm,I became fascinated with numbers,so I changed track. But the bias was evident from the first day. My clients could not digest the fact that a woman was advising them on money matters,talking of mortgages and loans,’ she says. It was around the same time that she got her first talk show on finances and real estate on a South-Asian channel,which she went on to host for eight years. “The fact that I could host a show came as a surprise,but I enjoyed it so much that I did not want to move on,” she recalls.

Her interest in people too had always been there,leading her eventually to GS With GS . Having suffered discriminations herself,Sodhi says she is more sensitised to other people’s troubles. “Having felt the ramifications of the 1984 Sikh riots in MP,I regard my roots and religion as my greatest strengths,” she says. It is an attribute that she says she has passed down to her teenaged daughter and two sons. “In high school too I was discriminated against because of my religion. But I was too meek to protest. I have taught my children to speak up against any wrongs done to them or to others,” she adds. While preparing her three-minute audition clip titled ‘Sincerely G’ for Oprah’s show,Sodhi says she highlighted these aspects of her personality. “I am a confident and humorous person who likes to tackle people’s problems. I let my spontaneity come across on the screen,” she says.

Her own show GS with GS,which discusses community issues,has completed 52 episodes so far. But right now it’s her personal website which has her undivided attention. Sodhi keeps logging in every few hours to check on the number of votes she has garnered. “This show is very important to me not just as an individual,but as a member of my community. I belong to a humble middle-class family. The win will make me the first Sikh woman to host a show in the US and also show people that one’s background is irrelevant,” she says.

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