Editor Profiles
Meet Vidya Sury
Editor of Illumination Integrated Publications
In this post, we introduce Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles who is an editor of Illumination Integrated Publications and Coffee Times on Medium.
With over a decade of experience in sales, marketing, and training with multi-national organizations, Vidya’s experience in her corporate avatar spanned diverse industries, including office automation, industrial components, advertising, transport, logistics, export, and import.
In addition, she enjoyed working in customer relations, coordination, sales, marketing, advertising, training, and developing material for training programs.
In 1997, Vidya quit the corporate world to focus on family, thinking she would get back to her corporate career after a break. But life had other plans — her son was born, and soon after, a declining job market and a passion for writing motivated her to be her own boss, working from home as a writer, editor, and blogger.
She writes for business websites and blogs and works with publishers and authors to copy, edit and proofread manuscripts, from the first draft to publisher-ready. In addition, as a ghostwriter, she writes ebooks, besides other digital content.
Vidya shares her time as a Member of an independent ethics committee, CLINICOM, evaluating protocols for human clinical trials. As a person with type 2 diabetes diagnosed in 2014, she has made it her mission to spread diabetes awareness and share tips for managing diabetes.
Vidya completed a Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Botany, and Chemistry. Subsequently, she acquired a Master of Business Admiration (MBA) in Human Resource and Marketing. After that, she completed a Diploma in Training and Development.
She has had the privilege of being part of several national-level conferences and workshops, both as a professional and a social media influencer — proof that no education goes waste, no matter what career we choose. She has an aptitude for languages and can speak seven.
She works as a writer, manuscript editor, and blogger. She enjoys managing six award-winning blogs of her own:
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles — self-help, mindfulness, parenting, travel, books, gratitude, wellness
Your Med Guide — health blog
Coffee With Mi! — a personal blog, a tribute to my Mom.
Life Hacks for Happiness Quick life hacks to make life just a little better in the form of photo posts
Life Hacks for Diabetics easy life hacks and living with diabetes tips.
Cooking With Mi food, stories, conversations, tips, humor, all mixed with a generous dose of love.
Since June 2021, she has been active on Medium, enjoying the engagement and the camaraderie with fellow writers and writing for some fabulous publications. She is a Top Writer in Ideas, Reading, This Happened to Me, and Photography.
Vidya writes about mindfulness, self-help, books, parenting, health & wellness, diabetes, travel, food, reflections, and sharing her life experiences.
She loves photography, travel, coffee, books — she read at least three at a time; music, DIY, sketching and trying her hand at just about anything.
Her goal in life is to improve the lives of underprivileged children. Her blogging income and a portion of her writing income are dedicated to supporting welfare homes, Schools for the Blind, and Homes for the Aged.
She has co-authored a few books, the proceeds of which go to charity. She believes in the power of community — it is a community that has enabled her to win several blogging awards and has contributed to her success.
Vidya’s favourite quote is “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
As a prolific writer she posted many articles but we share a few to give you quick taste of her style and content.
How to deal with regret (15 simple tips)
We Rise By Lifting Others
My simplistic strategy for setting goals and achieving them
Second innings, new beginnings
The magic of routines
Does a positive attitude really work?
That BS called people pleasing
How I said goodbye to my comfort zone forever
Sometimes, losing is winning
Vidya also has series posts such as: Living with diabetes, Quick meditations, and Daily kindness reminders. Thank you for reading her stories. You can connect with her on various social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook profile, Facebook Page, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Goodreads and Amazon
Thank you for reading Vidya’s stories. She looks forward to connecting with her readers on Medium.
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