Moving Forward When Our Teachers Fail Us

Deeply Well with Devi Brown

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Health & Fitness

5.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Devi Brown, a former Chopra Global Executive and Chopra-certified teacher, speaks candidly about the disappointment of seeing Deepak Chopra’s name appear in Epstein-related emails and reflects on the larger patterns of celebrity-driven wellness culture. She discusses accountability, the risks of putting spiritual teachers on pedestals, and why our healing must remain our own responsibility.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:11.0	Hi, everyone.
0:12.3	Welcome to Deeply Well, even though the new season is fast approaching.
0:17.4	We are not quite there yet.
0:18.8	So this is kind of a pared down episode where I just want to
0:24.2	get right to the things before we create the space for this new season that I'm really excited
0:31.3	about. There's been a lot going on in the world. God, right now. I know that's an understatement. It's like, it's insane.
0:41.4	I don't think any of us really know how to wrap our heads, hearts, verbiage around what it is to be
0:49.3	alive in this moment. We are experiencing paradox in some, dare I say, unprecedented ways, which seems to be
0:59.5	the theme of our lifetime, our generational lifetime. That is absolutely how I feel as a millennial.
1:07.7	We are holding so many contrasting multiple truths at one time. And I think for many
1:16.4	of us, it feels like our brains are going to break. It feels scary. It feels hard. It feels confusing.
1:34.6	Today is March 8th, 2026. I am recording this episode in the studio, and I want to talk about some things from the perspective I have in this exact moment in time,
1:41.9	March 8th, 26. And there's some things that I just needed to
1:48.6	really formally say out loud, you know, it was incredibly disappointing and disgusting to find Deepak Chopra's name in the Epstein files.
2:13.1	It's shameful.
2:18.9	It's so shameful. It's shameful. It's so shameful.
2:21.1	It's despicable.
2:24.3	On the last that I checked, I think there were around 3,000, maybe a little bit more mentions or emails that were recovered in the kind of bounty of
2:38.8	emails that were opened up to the public.
2:44.7	I think so many of us in this space are reeling about this news. And I don't want to say even so many in this space.
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