Kushal Choksi - Surviving 9/11 and an Awakening on Wall Street

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today's guest is my friend, Kushal Choksi.This episode was originally intended to release on September 11 to coincide with the release of Kushal's new book, On a Wing and a Prayer, but the book's release was delayed, and as a result, the episode too. Nevertheless, an event as monumentally impactful to the world like 9/11 is not only worth discussing on its anniversary, so we decided the timing isn't that important. Please forgive any discrepancies.Kushal was a Wall Street trader with his focu...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. Today is the 20th anniversary of 9-11.
0:39.0	Back in 2001, that tragic event, regardless of where you came from anywhere in the world, has changed your life forever.
0:50.0	My guest today is my dear friend, Koshal Choxi, who witnessed the devastation of 9-11 before his own eyes and narrowly escaped death.
1:02.0	His life was never again the same. Suddenly all of his pursuits for
1:08.0	everything we engage in a New York lifestyle if you want felt meaningless. He felt void from within himself like he had never felt before.
1:18.8	Until one day he reluctantly decided to spend an afternoon with a spiritual master in New York City.
1:27.2	From being a Wall Street trader immersed in the material world to embarking on a quest to find answers to life's biggest questions.
1:37.0	Kushal wrote a book that releases today about his doubts and struggles and revelations on a spiritual path as a left-brained
1:48.2	skeptic New Yorker going on the wings of a prayer.
1:55.0	It's been a long time.
1:56.0	We haven't met for what, two and a half years almost,
2:00.0	maybe more actually.
2:01.0	Perhaps more.
2:02.0	Last two years was just college, right?
2:04.2	So I think I would say on most.
2:06.0	The last two years don't count.
2:07.5	Yeah, they don't count.
2:08.6	I think I met you last in 2018.
2:12.4	Isn't that where your book came out?
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