Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jay Shetty was living the life of a rebellious teen in London when a friend talked him into attending a talk by a Hindu monk. It was a life-changing event, and started Jay on a path to become a monk himself and join an ashram in India. He left monastic life after three years, but took many of its lessons with him, and decided to share them with others. His YouTube videos began to spread on social media and eventually evolved into a podcast, and the best-selling book Think Like a Monk. Today Jay runs a wellness and coaching business, and provides life guidance to millions of people around the world. This interview was recorded live as part of a virtual event in March 2021.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:12.4	So today, we're releasing a special live episode of the show.
0:16.0	It's my conversation with Jay Shetty, a former monk who now writes books and hosts a podcast
0:21.6	helping people seek out wisdom in their lives.
0:24.8	I spoke with Jay back in March for how I built this virtual live event.
0:30.0	And although I do miss live shows in front of an audience, this one was super fun because
0:35.1	we had people watching from around the world.
0:38.0	Jay now lives in Los Angeles, but he's originally from the UK.
0:42.2	He spent about three years training in India to become a monk.
0:46.2	But eventually, he left the ashram and started to spread the messages he learned there,
0:51.4	but in ways that have had mass appeal.
0:54.4	Today he runs a wellness and coaching business and hosts a podcast called On Purpose.
0:59.7	Jay also produces YouTube videos and is the author of the book Think Like A Monk.
1:05.0	But before he became a monk and then returned to conventional life, Jay grew up in London,
1:11.6	the child of Indian immigrants and the oldest of two kids.
1:15.7	His dad worked as an accountant and he and Jay's mom pushed him to work hard at school.
1:21.7	I would say that I was a good student.
1:24.2	I remember in my school, I went to a school in a rough neighborhood and my parents were
1:29.6	working very hard to give me a good academic upbringing.
1:32.7	So I performed fairly well at primary school, but I think that it was truly a high school
1:38.6	that I started to discover what I was passionate about.
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