Anjali Gupta, Founder, The Third Table

Graceful, intuitive, and deeply inspiring, Anjali Gupta represents a new generation of women redefining success through authenticity, emotional strength, and balance. As the founder of The Third Table in Porvorim, Goa, Anjali has created more than just a space — she has built an experience rooted in warmth, creativity, and meaningful human connection.

Educated at César Ritz Colleges Switzerland, Anjali Gupta brings to hospitality a rare blend of global sophistication and deeply personal intuition. Her journey is not merely rooted in the science of service, but in understanding the emotional language of spaces — how they make people feel, connect, pause, and belong.

With The Third Table, Anjali has created far more than a café; she has crafted an experience that feels soulful, warm, and effortlessly intimate. Every corner reflects her belief that hospitality is not about perfection, but about creating moments of comfort, familiarity, and human connection. Thoughtfully designed and emotionally layered, The Third Table feels less like a destination and more like a feeling — a space where conversations linger, time slows down, and people instinctively feel at home.

But beyond the entrepreneur and achiever lies the role that transformed her most profoundly: motherhood. For Anjali, becoming a mother completely reshaped her understanding of power and resilience. It taught her that true strength is not always found in ambition or relentless hustle, but in the softer, quieter moments of patience, emotional presence, unconditional love, and simply showing up every day with grace.

In a world constantly chasing productivity, Anjali consciously chooses connection over chaos. Whether it is holding her son close during quiet mornings, pausing amidst a demanding schedule to be emotionally present, or creating a home filled with warmth and safety, she believes children remember not perfection, but how deeply they were loved and understood. Her philosophy toward motherhood mirrors her philosophy toward life itself — intentional, nurturing, intuitive, and deeply human.

Motherhood also strengthened her as a leader and creator. It taught her surrender, empathy, and the importance of trusting intuition — qualities that now shape the way she approaches both business and relationships. Loving, creative, and strong — these are the qualities she believes her children would use to describe her, but more importantly, she hopes they always feel emotionally safe, accepted, and free to become who they truly are.

As a celebrated face of TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026, Anjali Gupta embodies the modern supermom who effortlessly balances ambition with tenderness, leadership with vulnerability, and success with emotional depth. She reminds us that today’s women are not choosing between motherhood and identity — they are beautifully embracing every version of themselves, all at once.

Over To Anjali Gupta, Founder, The Third Table

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

Motherhood has surprised me the most because it completely changed the way I understand strength. Before becoming a mother, I associated strength with ambition, discipline, and the ability to keep going. But motherhood introduced me to a softer, quiet

er kind of power, one rooted in patience, presence, and unconditional love. It has made me more grounded, more intuitive, and far more compassionate, not just as a mother, but as a leader and as a woman.

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

I’ve realized that children don’t remember how busy we were, they remember how present we made them feel. In a world constantly chasing productivity, I consciously try to create moments that feel slow, intimate, and real.

Sometimes it’s simply sitting together without distractions, holding my son close in the quiet of the morning, or pausing in between work to fully be with him for a few minutes. I’ve learned that connection is not always created through grand gestures; often, it lives in consistency, warmth, eye contact, touch, and emotional presence.

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

No classroom or professional experience could have taught me the depth of surrender that motherhood brings. You learn that you cannot control everything, plan everything, or perfect everything. Some days, simply showing up with love, patience, and resilience is enough.

It has also taught me to trust intuition deeply. As women, we often underestimate how powerful our emotional intelligence truly is. Motherhood sharpened that instinct within me, and interestingly, it has made me a better entrepreneur too, more empathetic, more people-oriented, and more connected to what truly matters.

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 they would describe me as loving, creative, and strong.

But more than anything, I would hope they say I made them feel safe, emotionally safe to be themselves, to dream freely, to fail without fear, and to always come back home to warmth and acceptance.

At the end of the day, I don’t think children remember perfection. They remember how deeply they were loved, understood, and seen. That matters most to me.

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

To me, being “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom” is not about perfection at all. It’s about authenticity.

Modern motherhood is layered, women today are nurturing families while also building businesses, leading teams, creating identities of their own, and holding emotional space for so many people around them. There is immense grace in that balancing act, even when it looks imperfect from the outside.

For me, it’s about embracing every version of yourself with honesty , the woman, the mother, the creator, the dreamer, and allowing all of them to coexist beautifully.

Rapid Fire With Anjali

• Coffee or calm morning tea? Calm morning tea

• Heels or sneakers? heels

• Boardroom mode or bedtime-story mode? Boardroom mode

• Planner or spontaneous? Planner

• One word your children use for you most…? Mama (since he is very tiny at the moment)

• Mom guilt or mom power? Mom Power

• Your secret superpower in one word? Balance