E37 - Jesse Israel: Overcome Adversity With Meditation & Discover Your TRUE Calling
Know Thyself
André Duqum
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Israel reveals how he has overcome life's challenges by using the power of mindfulness & meditation. He shares his journey of trusting in the unknown and leaving his job in the music industry - to starting 'The Big Quiet', which brings mass meditations around the world. He also shares his recent health and internal struggles, and how he's learned to find joy and peace, regardless of external circumstances. Jesse shares a powerful message for anyone looking to align to their life's purpose, and harness the power of our own innate intelligence.
Jesse also gives his advice for creating a meditation practice, building community, and developing confidence within.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:28 Leaving the Music Industry
10:02 Using mindfulness to follow your purpose
17:03 Creating the Big Quiet
32:32 Imposter syndrome: Feel the fear, do it anyways
37:02 When Everything Falls Apart
52:15 How to Meditate
59:10 Community
1:05:20 Building Confidence
1:10:39 Conclusion
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Jesse Israel:
Jesse is a meditation leader, keynote speaker and leadership coach known for founding the mass meditation movement The Big Quiet. Named "The Meditation Expert" by The New York Times, Jesse has led some of the largest meditations on earth — having toured arenas with Oprah Winfrey and co-hosted international broadcasts with Deepak Chopra. An Audible Originals best-selling creator and a Forbes Next 1000 recipient, Jesse has collaborated on meditation projects with grammy winning rappers, coached the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and keynoted at Fortune 500s around the globe.
Prior to his work at The Big Quiet, Jesse ran a tech fund and record label called Cantora (acquired 2016), where he signed multi-platinum bands like MGMT.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesseisrael/
Website: https://www.jesseisrael.com
The Big Quiet: https://www.thebigquiet.com
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| 0:00.0 | For all of my adult life, my sense of happiness was almost always tied to external things. |
| 0:06.8 | I went from this career peak to everything getting wiped out. |
| 0:11.0 | We find evidence for what we choose to believe. |
| 0:13.4 | And everything I was focused on was my career going down. |
| 0:16.6 | Sure enough, I started to watch that unfold. |
| 0:19.0 | And I had to reach that low point for me to |
| 0:21.2 | realize that if I continued on this path, this would just continue to be my life pattern. And instead |
| 0:26.5 | there was a choice, instead of focusing on what wasn't there, I focused on the good that was there. |
| 0:32.0 | I just started this practice, that muscle of enthusiastic gratitude, love for myself, celebration, sense of self-worth, |
| 0:40.6 | choosing to cultivate those things, those muscles, just started to build up. |
| 0:45.9 | There's this all-knowiness and intelligence that we have access to. |
| 0:50.4 | Such a big part of how we're able to really cultivate that nature's intelligence is by slowing down, |
| 0:55.6 | is by getting quiet, is by creating the boundaries so we can feel into ourselves. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello, beautiful humans. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. |
| 1:11.2 | We get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind and open heart and somebody |
| 1:15.3 | that can help us know ourselves at deeper and deeper levels today. My guest today, as sometimes |
| 1:21.5 | often the case, is a dear friend of mine. If you listen to this podcast, I'm assuming that you |
| 1:26.7 | listen to it because you want to know |
| 1:28.2 | yourself deeper. You want to walk in alignment with truth and you want to become the most |
| 1:32.6 | authentically expressed version of yourself. And this guest today who's a dear friend of mine |
| 1:37.5 | is somebody who is a former record label exec. He is a keynote speaker, a coach, somebody who |
| 1:43.9 | leads mass meditations all around the world |
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