About Me

Who Am I?

I’m Priyanka Datar, a mom who recently made a life-changing decision to step away from a 14+ year career as a data scientist with leading multinational corporations.

The return-to-office mandate after years of remote work made me revisit my situation and if I really wanted to return to full time working from office. I have always been passionate about healthy cooking, home workouts, travelling (travel planning and budgeting included), decorating my home with small plants and taking care of them. I have been doing this for years, but after becoming a mom and as a working mom, things started to become little difficult. Still, I was stretching myself and trying to accomplish everything, but it slowly started to affect my health. Then return to office mandate came and then I thought about trying to turn my passion into my career.

I did my first experiment with cooking when I was in 7th grade. I cannot call it successful, but it definitely ignited the spark in me. Then I kept trying with different dishes. As I grew up, I added the “healthy” factor into my cooking, at the same time not compromising on taste. I learnt Yoga when I was in the school and I do not remember how and why I started working out regularly, but I have been doing home workouts for more than 20 years now. My mom had a small balcony garden and she is passionate about gardening. As she was a working mom, I used to take care of plants, water them. Since then, I always admire that small green corner in the house and created the same in my own house. I have been travelling to various places for more than a decade now. I love to plan my trips, carve out day-by-day itineraries, book safe, awesome yet affordable accommodations, find out fun things to do, bag cheap flight deals and also save as much money as possible. I have studied Statistics and I find it charming. I enjoy analysing large datasets, write complex codes and of course predict the future 😉.

Working in corporate sector full time after becoming a mom left little room to evolve my interests into a career, despite my deep commitment to them. So, I decided to take a bold step of trying to turn my long-held passions into a profession, balancing family life with this exciting new chapter.

Now that I have started this blog, I am planning to share the healthy recipes that are delicious too. I keep experimenting in my kitchen and this is the place where you will get to know about my experiments.

I will also write about my fitness journey and share home workout routines that will help you stay focused and get fit. I have been traveling and planning my travels since long, so I will share my experiences, awesome itineraries, things to do, things not to do and insider tips for memorable and safe travel to various places around the world.

And lastly, I have worked for quite some time in the field of Data science. I will continue to share my learnings in Statistics, data science, programming and keep building personal projects and products in this space.

Turning these interests into a career felt like a natural progression, and I’m thrilled to try. This website is your window into my world. Whether you seek healthy cooking recipes, home workout plans, budget travel itineraries, or data science lessons, peep into my website.

Join me in balancing family, passions, and purpose—your support fuels this dream!