You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Today's guest is a former monk whose wisdom has truly gone viral. After finishing business school, he turned down lucrative offers from prestigious companies, shaved his head and hit the road.

For three years, he traveled across India, Europe and England, living as a monk, studying, meditating and building food and shelter programs for those in need.

He was definitely in love with what he was doing, but he knew that it didn't scale.

So, driven by a desire to share what he was learning with as many people as possible, he re-engaged with the world, and dove headfirst into learning about the tools and techniques that might allow knowledge to spread as fast as entertainment.

And to that end, he joined Accenture helping them build their digital division while learning about the forces shaping the new digital landscape. He learned fast.

And quickly became their number one social media influencer in a company of 400,000 people. Along the way, he also helped advise over 150 executives on their personal brands, allowing him a very broad base with which to test his theories.

And leveraging what he learned in 2016, he launched his own Facebook page, and it exploded in less than 12 months.

His inspiring, entertaining and highly useful videos garnered over 1 billion views, and now he has north of 2.5 million followers globally.

He makes content not only for his own pages, but for places like The Huffington Post, and he has interviewed such luminaries as Tim Ferris, Simon Sinek, Dr. Shafali, Deepak Chopra and Countless Others.

In the wake of his ridiculous level of success, as both a content creator and digital strategist, he was named to Forbes 30 under 30 lists in 2017.

The Asian Media Awards named his blog Best Blog in 2016, and he was added to National Geographic's Chasing Genius Council, for which he is now helping to source solutions to some of the world's greatest challenges.

So please, help me in welcoming the Urban Monk himself, the man who is proving that you really can scale impact Jay Shetty.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Truly an honor.

Oh man, thank you.

It goes both ways.

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