My dad was definitely a chain smoker, you know, which I don't think was as big a deal to be honest in those early days to us as his drinking. And you know, that's the thing I think he was so

stressed and my parents had a lot of financial stress and burdens which of course

as kids we didn't know about and so I think his way to escape that

was that whenever he had even half an hour,

he has this amazing ability even in those days

to just have a nap and sleep. but I think when he actually had more time for him the way to decompress and disconnect was just to drink and so I think for my brother and me are memories of those early days are a lot of fighting between my parents over drinking. Hey there friends and welcome back to at the end of the tunnel.

So this week I'm speaking with Malika Chopra, who's the author of the meditation children's book, Just Breathe, as well as the

follow-ups, Just Feel and Just Be You.

Malika is also founder of Intent.com, and in this episode she shares her story of growing up as the daughter of Dr. DePach Chopra, who we've all obviously heard about.

And we talk about Malika's early early days and what that was like growing up outside

of Boston as an Indian American and watching her mom and dad fight over her

stressed out dad's alcohol addiction, kind of hard to

imagine that one, and how it was later seeing her dad, Deepopoe, transform

into this wellness advocate and becoming a best-selling author after learning

transcendental meditation in the mid 1980s and what her experience was like when

he brought her and the rest of the family into learn meditation when she was just nine years old.

And that's when things started to get really bizarre because Deepak became more and more well

known and Malacca found herself in the company of the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson and several other celebrity clients of her dads.

She went on to work for MTV and then later she helped to start Michael Jackson's Foundation and

eventually she left all of that, raised a bunch of money for a startup only to have it

fail in 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst.

And she documented all of this several years later in her best-selling memoir,

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