Arushi Verma, Co-Founder of FITPASS (one of India’s largest fitness and wellness access platforms)

Arushi Verma is the definition of a woman who leads with purpose, power, and perspective. As Co-Founder of FITPASS, one of India’s largest fitness and wellness access platforms, she has helped transform how the country approaches health — making fitness more accessible, flexible, and rooted in real life. But beyond scaling businesses and building ecosystems, Arushi’s most meaningful role is the one that reshaped her understanding of success entirely: motherhood.

With refreshing honesty, she shares that while entrepreneurship taught her resilience, motherhood taught her presence. It shifted success from milestones and metrics to something deeper — emotional connection, physical well-being, and building a life her child feels part of, not distant from. That insight is both powerful and profoundly modern.

What stood out to TheGlitz was Arushi’s belief that greatness is not found in grand gestures, but in everyday consistency. In showing up. In balancing ambition with tenderness. In proving that women can be driven and deeply present at the same time. She champions a life where wellness, work, and family do not compete — they coexist.

That blend of intelligence, quiet strength, emotional awareness, and leadership is exactly why TheGlitz proudly celebrates Arushi Verma as part of TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026.

Because today’s strongest women are not chasing perfection — they are creating balance, leading boldly, and loving fiercely through it all.

Over To Arushi Verma, Co-Founder of FITPASS (one of India’s largest fitness and wellness access platforms)

You wear many hats — mother, leader, achiever. Which role has surprised you the most, and why?

Motherhood, without a doubt. Though honestly, I often say that FITPASS was my first child — and I say that because building it demanded the same level of care, commitment, and emotional investment. Building a business from the ground up also comes with years of nurturing, sleepless nights, constant problem-solving, emotional investment, and growing alongside something you deeply care about. In many ways, entrepreneurship prepared me for resilience and responsibility long before motherhood did.

But motherhood changes the way you experience those emotions entirely. It makes you far more aware of time, presence, and the kind of example you’re setting every day. What surprised me most is how much it reshaped my perspective on success itself. Earlier, success was largely about growth, milestones, and ambition. Today, it also includes being emotionally present, physically healthy, and building a life my child feels connected to, not just inspired by from a distance.

In a world that celebrates hustle, how do you create meaningful moments of pause and connection with your children?

I’ve realised children don’t always remember grand gestures — they remember consistency and presence. Even small rituals matter: conversations without distractions, spending uninterrupted time together, or simply being fully available in the moment. At the same time, there are days when work and parenting naturally overlap, and I’ve learned to embrace that instead of separating the two completely.

Sometimes my son is around while I’m working, and I make a conscious effort to keep him engaged with little activities while also making sure he feels my presence and attention. I want him to feel included in my world rather than neglected by it.

I also consciously try to not let “busyness” become the culture at home. We live in a world where productivity is constantly glorified, but children learn emotional behaviour from observation. I want my son to grow up seeing that ambition and balance can coexist, and that rest, health, and connections are equally important parts of life.

What is one life lesson motherhood has taught you that no business school or boardroom ever could?

Motherhood taught me that not everything meaningful can be measured immediately. In business, we often look for outcomes, metrics, growth curves, and timelines. Parenting is different. You learn patience in a completely new way. You understand that consistency matters more than intensity, and that the smallest everyday actions eventually shape behaviour, trust, and relationships over time. Interestingly, that lesson has made me a better leader too.

If your children had to describe you in three words, what do you think they would say… and what would you hope they say?

I think my son would probably describe me as caring, energetic and involved.

And I would hope that as he grows older, he sees me as present, organised and understanding . More than achievements or titles, I would want him to remember that I showed up, emotionally, mentally, and physically, through different phases of his life.

Could you tell us a bit your work and the philosophy behind it?

As Co-Founder of FITPASS, I’ve had the opportunity to build India’s leading fitness and wellness ecosystem, around the idea of making healthy living more accessible, flexible, and sustainable for people across India.

At its core, our philosophy has always been that fitness should fit into real life. For a long time, fitness and wellness were positioned as something expensive, intimidating, or difficult to sustain. We wanted to shift that conversation and make fitness feel more inclusive, less rigid, and easier to integrate into everyday routines.

Beyond physical health, I strongly believe wellness is really about quality of life, having the energy, mobility, and mental well-being to fully participate in the lives we’re building, both personally and professionally.

What does being “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026” mean to you in today’s world — perfection, resilience, reinvention, or something else entirely?

Definitely not perfection. I think modern motherhood has moved far beyond the idea of “having it all together.” If anything, today’s mothers are constantly adapting, balancing, learning, and reinventing themselves through different stages of life.

To me, being “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom” is really about resilience with self-awareness. It’s about showing up despite the chaos, while also giving yourself grace to be a human- even when you hold yourself to high standards. I think mothers today are carrying emotional, professional, and personal responsibilities simultaneously, and there’s incredible strength in that quiet everyday consistency.

Rapid Fire With Arushi Verma

• Coffee or calm morning tea? Coffee
• Heels or sneakers? Sneakers
• Boardroom mode or bedtime-story mode? Bedtime-story mode
• Planner or spontaneous? Planner
• One word your children use for you most? Loving
• Mom guilt or mom power? Mom power