Perseverance Pays Off

Back in 2015, when I met Swatee Surve, she was an enthusiastic engineer who was determined to create an app video game and thriving company called Litesprite to help people combat health issues like stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and the like. She was passionate about how tech products could influence wellness, and she was driven by this mission. She worked long hours, networked like crazy, and side hustled walking dogs and pet sitting to support her vision. 

At the first-ever Women's Wellness Weekend event in January of 2016, Surve was a participant and she extended an invitation to the other women to become beta-testers of her game. I helped her extend the invite to others by writing about Litesprite in the Huffington Post and in other publications .

Fast-forward a couple of years and Litesprite was the first video game to ever win a U.S. Surgeon General's Award for its contribution to public health. And now, this week, Bayer G4A announced a partnership with Litesprite. 

I am thrilled for Swatee Surve and Litesprite, and I think her story is a good example of why when we have a dream of self-employment or of creating a company and we have a vision and drive, we need to keep going. We all have unique talents and skills and things that only we can bring to the world to help make it a better place. Follow your passions. Pursue your dreams wholeheartedly and never give up. 

​Swatee, you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you.