Yegor Makhiboroda: Creating a Life Worth Living

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Yegor Makhiboroda escaped the collapse of the Soviet Union and arrived in America at the age of eight. He was forced to completely reinvent himself, having to learn a foreign language and integrating into Western society. He worked hard, excelled in his university, and landed a coveted and well-paying job after graduation.

But after several years, despite the monetary success, he felt deeply unfulfilled, so he took the courageous decision to leave his job and join the Peace Corps. Yegor spent over two years living on one of the most isolated islands in the world, Vanuatu, and learning first-hand what leads to true happiness. After devouring hundreds of self-help books and realizing the pursuit of money wasn’t the key to happiness, he decided upon his return to America to get his MBA. During his entrepreneurial classes, he decided to start his own company with a colleague, which he still runs today. He truly has an amazing balance of work/life, a huge passion for jiujitsu, health and self-development. Yegor shares some of his story, his perspectives, his immigrant mindset and his formula for a life worth living.

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:06.6	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host Lauren Stunning.
0:10.7	Today's guest Igor is someone who has lived a very unique and unusual life.
0:22.4	I met Igor through a mutual friend Nick at an Iowaska weekend in Joshua Tree a few
0:26.8	years ago.
0:28.0	I have a very clear memory that when we're in the middle of the ceremony and it's supposed
0:32.5	to be a very personal experience, but Igor and I had a brief conversation just as the psychedelic
0:38.5	medicine was kicking in. We were in the desert, the sun had just set, the stars were out,
0:45.0	it's absolutely beautiful and calm. And I remember him putting his hand on my shoulder and saying
0:50.5	something like, good luck brother, before we both retreated back to our own journeys,
0:55.6	as Iowaska is supposed to be a very personal journey. But I remember at the time,
1:00.3	the vivid emotion of how I had this urge to just chat to him about life and I was a little bummed
1:05.3	out that I couldn't. And ever since then, I've always wanted to talk to Igor more,
1:10.2	as I knew a little bit about his backstory and like a lot of my favorite people, he describes
1:15.0	himself as weird and has lived such an unusual life, always to the beat of his own drum.
1:20.5	Emigrating to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union,
1:25.4	Igor managed to rebuild his shattered youth into a life worth living. After learning English
1:31.1	and graduating college, he managed to get a fantastically well-paying job at GE.
1:37.0	But after several years, despite the monetary success, he felt deeply unfulfilled.
1:42.5	So he took the courageous decision to leave his job and join the Peace Corps,
1:46.9	spent in the next two-plus years living on one of the most isolated islands in the world,
1:51.8	than new to, and learning first-hand what leads to true happiness.
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