Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ON: Imposter Syndrome & How to Navigate Self-Doubt In Any Stage of Your Journey

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan chats with Jay Shetty about her acting journey. Breaking through the film industry requires a lot of hard work and a lot of people don’t actually take into consideration the amount of work she has put in to continuously play the title role. Add in a good amount of luck and her will to stand for herself and never shy away from asking questions. Maitreyi is best known for portraying Devi Vishwakumar, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, in Netflix's hit series, Never Have I Ever. She created her audition tape at a local library, using her mother's camera, eventually being asked to send four more videos, before having a screen test in Los Angeles and being offered the role. Maitreyi is very vocal about diversity and standing up for yourself. Get your copy of Think Like a Monk today by clicking this link!https://thinklikeamonkbook.com/ What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 02:45 Breaking through Hollywood with a South Asian heritage 07:07 Raised to speak up your mind 10:00 “I didn’t like myself.” 14:51 Generational talk divides us 16:53 Having a grandma as your best friend 18:54 When you have family and friends that listen 22:30 The strong passion for acting 25:44 The day she filmed the audition tape 29:48 Always give it your best shot 30:43 The first day and the first scene shoot 34:25 Dealing with impostor syndrome 37:38 Everything happened in different ways for people 41:05 “Respect existence, expect resistance.” 43:42 Not enough representation of true diversity 50:02 The story she stood up for someone 53:14 Maitreyi on Final Five Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan | Instagram Maitreyi Ramakrishnan | Twitter Maitreyi Ramakrishnan | TikTok Maitreyi Ramakrishnan | Facebook Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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0:00.0	It's like self love. Like you got the confidence one day of like, yeah, I deserve this.
0:04.6	I am very proud of myself.
0:06.3	But then the next day it's, oh god. Oh no.
0:09.3	People think I'm a joke.
0:11.0	That could be sparked because you see one comment.
0:13.8	And I used to do this. I'm going to be honest.
0:15.9	I would scroll through comments until I found a negative one.
0:19.0	Scroll through thousands of positive until I found a negative one.
0:22.5	And that would be when I would turn off my phone, which is so unhealthy.
0:32.2	Hey everyone. Welcome back to on purpose.
0:34.4	The number one health podcast in the world.
0:36.4	Thanks to each and every single one of you who come back every week to listen, learn and grow.
0:42.3	Now you know that I'm always on the lookout to speak to people that I find interesting,
0:46.2	fascinating and often people that we don't know so much about them as a human as an individual.
0:52.1	We see them on the big screen. We watch them at home.
0:54.8	We see them on our phones, but we don't know too much about them.
0:58.0	And today's guest is someone who I've been watching, binge watching, religiously on Netflix,
1:04.0	on her show Never Have I Ever.
1:06.6	I'm talking about none other than my three Ramakrishnan, who's an actress known for her leading role
1:12.1	as David Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever.
1:17.0	In 2019, she was chosen by Mindy Kaling out of 15,000 candidates that applied for an open casting call for the show.
1:25.8	She created her audition tape at a local library using her mother's camera, eventually being asked to send four more videos
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