E29 - Nimai Delgado, Vegan Bodybuilder: Finding Success Through Alignment
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Vegan Bodybuilder, Nimai Delgado, shares his journey to finding alignment & crafting the life of his dreams. Nimai was raised by immigrant parents in a Hare Krishna Community, where he built a foundation of compassion and spirituality. After accepting a job as an engineer later in life, he decided to pivot and went on to become an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder. Today he shares how to find the courage to live in alignment with your purpose, and his journey of self acceptance & activism.
Nimai dives deep on overcoming toxic masculinity, healing childhood trauma, and going from victim to creator. He shares his secrets to manifestation that have helped him live the life of his dreams.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:25 Nimai’s Unique Upbringing
9:53 Vegan bodybuilding
15:31 Activism vs Attractivsm
19:18 Transcending Labels
28:28 Toxic Masculinity
33:58 Unpacking Childhood Trauma
45:46 Crafting the life you want
57:04 From Victim to Creator
1:01:38 How to Manifest
1:22:09 Conclusion
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Nimai Delgado:
Nimai Delgado is a vegan professional bodybuilder, lifestyle coach, and motivational speaker. He’s been featured on the cover of Muscle and Fitness magazine as well as James Cameron’s upcoming documentary The Game Changers.
Nimai currently hosts the 'Nimai Delgado Podcast', and posts motivational videos for healthy living on his YouTube Channel.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nimai_delgado/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-JiCSn29MdBYX5rRxuacQ
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| 0:00.0 | So much freedom, so much happiness, so much prosperity, so much abundance is on the other side of the fear that you've been constrained by. I had spent 10 years of my life dedicating myself to getting my degree, putting myself in debt. But at the end of the day, I was working for an oil company and getting paid stupid amounts of money to be in a prison with golden bars. And I had the lock and key the whole time. A week after I |
| 0:21.4 | quit my job, I got the call from the game changers saying, hey, do you want to be a part of this? A month after that, hey, we're doing a photo shoot for muscle and fitness and we want you to be a part of that. That's the thing about your life is that it's dictated by what you're doing now. So if you're constantly calibrating yourself to your highest vibration, it's going to create the circumstances. |
| 0:38.7 | It's going to create the circumstances. |
| 0:38.3 | It's going to bring more opportunity, bring more connection, bring more alignment, because if you do what you always did, you're going to get what you've always got. |
| 0:46.3 | It really does take courage to step outside what you're comfortable of, knowing that on the other side of that, there's so much available for you. |
| 1:02.6 | Hello, beautiful people. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. We get the honor and privilege to sit down with a dear friend, an open heart, a bright spirit, |
| 1:08.1 | somebody that can help us learn more about ourselves in the world. And today, |
| 1:12.7 | I'm really looking forward to this conversation, as I typically say, because I feel so privileged |
| 1:17.4 | to be able to sit down with oftentimes dear friends of mine that are living a path of alignment |
| 1:22.7 | and devotion. And I'm really looking forward to the many avenues in which we can dive into |
| 1:26.9 | this conversation |
| 1:27.5 | today. |
| 1:27.8 | And my guest is the world's first vegan IFBB Pro bodybuilder. |
| 1:33.3 | He's been featured on the cover of muscle and fitness and in films like Game Changers, |
| 1:38.8 | executive produced by James Cameron. |
| 1:40.7 | He is somebody that is a coach, a leader, a mentor, somebody that I feel like is living |
| 1:45.4 | very much so in alignment and the embodiment of what it means to live your dream life, |
| 1:51.4 | to live in vibrancy. And he's got, he reminds me of Hahnemann. He's got this very bright |
| 1:57.2 | spirit. He's a big guy, but he's got such a gentle heart and he's got a lot of wisdom |
| 2:04.3 | to share with all of us today. So, Neh, Maidalgato, welcome to the show. What's up, Andre? Thank you so |
| 2:09.8 | much for having me, man. Really excited to be here. Yeah, man. I've just gotten to really cherish our |
| 2:14.6 | friendship over the years and seeing the many different iterations |
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