Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world,

thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.

Now I know that a lot of you love and respect Deepak Chopra and this conversation that you're

about to hear is one of the first ones I ever had with him. He's always been someone that I think

has presented wisdom in a really fascinating and interesting way and the questions he asked me

in this conversation are truly unique. I think you're going to hear a lot of new perspectives

and ideas from me and I am so grateful that you made time to listen to this episode. So thank

you for being here and I hope you've been loving it. I mean we have been spoiled in the past few

weeks. Everyone from Dr. Gabel Matey to Dr. Daniel Aiman, Selena Gomez, Kendall Jenner, Alex Cooper.

I hope you've gone back and listened to those episodes if you haven't, do that right after this one.

Tell me a little bit about your background growing up. Absolutely, yeah. So I was born and raised

in London as a normal Indian kid. The highest values of success were work hard at school,

get good grades, life is all about performance. My parents were wonderful, very supportive and more

liberal than I think a lot of Indian parents, but still it was always about how well you did at school.

And that kind of lasted for me until I was 14 when I started to rebel. And I think I started to

rebel because I saw that despite myself doing well at school, I was still bullied for being overweight

and obese at the time. I was still a victim of racism at the time in the area I grew up in in London.

But a lot of that was I was still experiencing these things and I was thinking, well,

getting good grades in school obviously is not solving life for me. And that took me to the other

extreme of rebelling. So I got involved in petty violence, crime, I got involved with experimenting

with drugs. I just started going totally the opposite way, just as a desire to experiment

and test because I wasn't feeling satisfied and happy with the life that had been paved for me.

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