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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy it. The number one health and wellness.

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Speaker 2: Podcast, Jay Sheetty, Jay Sheetty Shetty, Welcome to office hours.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you on.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I'm so grateful to be here.

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Speaker 2: This is so exciting. God, I love Calm. I have

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Speaker 2: to say I love that app, even though I'm not

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Speaker 2: a meditator. Will get into that later. I have to

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Speaker 2: say that app is like one of the most used

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Speaker 1: That makes me so happy? Yeah. I joined Calm as

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Speaker 1: their Chief purpose Officer three years ago now, and it

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Speaker 1: all came from this beautiful friendship I had with the

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Speaker 1: founders of Calm so Michael Acton Smith and Alex They

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Speaker 1: both founded the app, and we kept hearing from both

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Speaker 1: got together and it's been incredible to record a seven

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Speaker 1: minute meditation five days a week, every week for the

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Speaker 1: last three years. Wow. And so if someone wants to

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Speaker 1: build a meditation practice, there's seven minutes a day set

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Speaker 2: That's so cool. That's pretty fazing. Do you do you

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Speaker 2: are you sort of like a consultant as well for them?

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Speaker 2: Do they bounce ideas off of you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll discuss everything from what we're expanding with, how

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Speaker 1: the brain's looking and looking at health right now. We've

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Speaker 1: been have so many amazing conversations. I'm so proud of.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what we've been able to create together, but

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Speaker 1: what they've done, because it's really showed us how meditation

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Speaker 2: It's funny that you say that, because I'm someone who's like,

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Speaker 2: With meditation, I'm like, I don't meditate, you know, I

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Speaker 2: We can actually dive in right there, Like, what do

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Speaker 2: That's my favorite part of the sleeping meditation that I

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Speaker 1: Our usual experience of life is our mind is moving

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Speaker 1: I think people think meditation has to be something you

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Speaker 1: It's huge.

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Speaker 2: It's huge, I know. And again you feel you feel

435
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Speaker 2: the difference.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know.

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Speaker 2: The annoying thing about all of this stuff is that

438
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Speaker 2: it really does work. And then so it's just like,

439
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Speaker 2: you know, I try to be so real with my

440
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Speaker 2: community and pass on these tips and talk to experts

441
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 2: like you, but you know, sometimes you fall off and

442
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 2: that's okay. And then so I really like what you

443
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Speaker 2: said about the weekends too, because I think when you're

444
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Speaker 2: only looking at something for doing it five days or

445
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Speaker 2: four days or whatever, you know, your week looks like

446
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Speaker 2: it's nice because then you have a little bit of

447
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Speaker 2: that Lily way.

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Speaker 3: Time and it's okay, it's it's okay.

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Speaker 2: I think with all of these practices that are, you know,

450
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Speaker 2: aimed to make us feel better, I think the point

451
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Speaker 2: is they have to make us feel better. So it's like,

452
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Speaker 2: if your routine is getting to point where you know

453
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Speaker 2: it's not sustainable, you guys, it's okay to be like, Okay,

454
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Speaker 2: well I need to change this.

455
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Speaker 3: I need an extra half hour of sleep.

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Speaker 2: I like what you said about you know, that's when

457
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Speaker 2: you're comfortable, you know, you have to figure it out,

458
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Speaker 2: and that's it also changes over time too, So I

459
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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want it to be the exception and not

461
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Speaker 1: the rule, right, I look at it as seventy percent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want seventy percent of my week to be as

463
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Speaker 1: optimal as healthy as possible. Yeah, and then the twenty

464
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Speaker 1: five to thirty percent that's left over, I'm okay for

465
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Speaker 1: that to be more mixed up. So five days a

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Speaker 1: week I'll have a savory breakfast. It does make a

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Speaker 1: difference as someone coming from a former sugar addict, right, Like,

468
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Speaker 1: I used to wake up wanting to eat a sugary

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Speaker 1: breakfast and then eat something sugary at lunch and then

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Speaker 1: have something sugar in the evening. Having a savory breakfast

471
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Speaker 1: has completely curved that desire, and it's setting me up

472
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Speaker 1: not to have those crazy crashes later on in the day,

473
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Speaker 1: and now my energy is actually sustained throughout the day

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: I love Glucose Goddess.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 2: Love Jesse her book and like I you know, that

478
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Speaker 2: is something I haven't meta in person, but her teachings

479
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Speaker 2: really had an impact on the way that I eat.

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Speaker 2: And again, I've fallen off right now, I'm kind of

481
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Speaker 2: in an off period, but just having that knowledge is

482
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Speaker 2: so helpful.

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Speaker 3: I really think she's smart.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

485
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Speaker 3: Okay, Switching gears a little bit.

486
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Speaker 2: You have this super super successful podcast.

487
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Speaker 3: What's one interview that took you by surprise.

488
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for you to come on, Thanes.

489
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Speaker 3: Okay, I know we need to do it.

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Speaker 1: We need to do it here, come on, say that again.

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Speaker 1: What's it?

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Speaker 2: What's an interview or a guest that took you by surprise?

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Speaker 1: Ooh, that's a great question. Who took me by surprise?

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Speaker 1: I'd say the person who took me most by surprise

495
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Speaker 1: was Brian Chesky, who's the founder of Airbnb and this

496
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Speaker 1: year of Airbnb. And the reason is because I thought

497
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Speaker 1: that he might have the archetype of a tech founder. Yeah,

498
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Speaker 1: because that's what he's done. And so I wasn't sure,

499
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Speaker 1: and I tried very hard to not go in to

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Speaker 1: any interview having any judge. But at the same time,

501
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Speaker 1: there's a certain archetype that you expect to meet or

502
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Speaker 1: that you expect to converse with. And when I met him,

503
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,959
Speaker 1: I realized that he's an artist and a design in

504
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Speaker 1: a tech person's body. You've met Brian.

505
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Speaker 2: I've met Brian, and it's so true. And I listened

506
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Speaker 2: to that interview and it was a great interview. You

507
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Speaker 2: really it was an amazing conversation between you two.

508
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, it's easily one of my favorites. Because

509
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Speaker 1: I think it shows you. I think there's a lot

510
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Speaker 1: of people out there right now who are artists and

511
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Speaker 1: designers who are thinking, well, I can't find a company

512
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Speaker 1: or a build a tech company, or I can't work

513
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Speaker 1: at a company like that because I don't know coding

514
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: or engineering. And it's like, well, no, no, no, no, no,

515
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Speaker 1: you can be an artist in a tech company. That's

516
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Speaker 1: what Steve Jobs was, That's what Brian Cheskey is, and

517
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Speaker 1: that's why I love Brian so much. He reminded me

518
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Speaker 1: of the closest thing we have to a Steve Jobs,

519
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: visionary type of someone who just thinks so outside the box.

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Speaker 1: He was super vulnerable about his love life, his relationships.

521
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Speaker 1: He's forty years old, he's a billionaire, he was looking

522
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Speaker 1: for love and I thought it was so brave of

523
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Speaker 1: him to be so open about that. And yeah, I

524
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Speaker 1: love him. He's become a great friend. He's an awesome

525
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Speaker 1: guys so great. Yeah, that was the most surprising one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you go really deep with your guests. Do you

527
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Speaker 2: ever find yourself getting emotional when you're interviewing people.

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Speaker 1: I can get really emotional, Like I think the most

529
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Speaker 1: emotional I get is at weddings. I was just at

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Speaker 1: my friend's wedding two weeks ago. Okay, and this was

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Speaker 1: a wedding I was just attending. But when I'm officiating weddings,

532
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Speaker 1: I'm so scared that I'm going to ruin the ceremony

533
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Speaker 1: because I'm going to cry. So I've got to stand

534
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Speaker 1: there in my head, I'm going, don't cry, don't cry,

535
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Speaker 1: don't cry. And that's what I do in the podcast too,

536
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Speaker 1: because I feel that people are so genuinely expressing something

537
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Speaker 1: that they may never have shared somewhere else before, or

538
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Speaker 1: it's really hard and courageous and brave of them to

539
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Speaker 1: go there, and my heart I almost feel like crying sometimes.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I'd have to stop myself from crying because

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Speaker 1: I'm not even crying because of what they're sharing so emotional.

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Speaker 1: It's because I respect the bravery. I respect the courage

543
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Speaker 1: it takes to put your life out there, and you

544
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Speaker 1: do that, I respect you for doing it. So many

545
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Speaker 1: of our peers, so many of our friends, do that.

546
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Speaker 1: I respect them for doing it because it's a really

547
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Speaker 1: courageous act. It's a really difficult thing to do. And

548
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Speaker 1: so my tears are almost preempting the fact that when

549
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Speaker 1: you open up. There's going to be so many different

550
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Speaker 1: reactions and responses, and I feel really grateful that people

551
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Speaker 1: trust me to do that with and I mean, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think one that was amazing was Tom Holland when

553
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Speaker 1: he opened about is Sobriety.

554
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was another one I listened to.

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Speaker 1: That was great, And it was just amazing because the

556
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Speaker 1: amount the hundreds of thousands of messages we've had from

557
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Speaker 1: that episode saying you help me or Tom helped me

558
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Speaker 1: get through my sobriety or get back on or have

559
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Speaker 1: more grace for myself. And then you cry because of

560
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Speaker 1: that message because you're thinking about all the people that

561
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Speaker 1: are affected. So there's a lot of crying in private

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Speaker 1: because I know great.

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Speaker 3: I think it's great.

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Speaker 2: I think you people feel really safe with you, and

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Speaker 2: I think your vulnerability like inspires vulnerability in your guests.

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Speaker 3: So it's just really really really good work. Okay, So,

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Speaker 3: if someone was.

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Speaker 2: New to your podcast, what's a standout interview that they

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Speaker 2: should start with?

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Speaker 1: I would have said Brian, but now they said it already.

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Speaker 3: Let me think the interviewed everyone amazing.

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Speaker 1: Which one of you listen It sounds like you've been

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Speaker 1: listening something.

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Speaker 3: No, I think I think that.

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Speaker 2: I thought that Brian was great. The Tomlin was great.

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Speaker 2: My friend Claudia was just on your podcast. This was

599
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Speaker 2: great and it was super vulnerable, which is the side

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Speaker 2: of her that people don't see that often.

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Speaker 3: So it is great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly amazing. She was exactly like what I was

603
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Speaker 1: just describing. I had to hold back my tears. I'd say,

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Speaker 1: if someone was new to my podcast and they had

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Speaker 1: to listen to one, it's such a great question. Let

606
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Speaker 1: me think, I want to give a I want to

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Speaker 1: give a really thoughtful answer to one that I would

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Speaker 1: really have. Oh, there's there's a couple that I think

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Speaker 1: I really loved. One that I'd say that that stands

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Speaker 1: out to me. And I say it because it was

611
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Speaker 1: such a shifting moment for our show. It was Kendall

612
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Speaker 1: Jenner on the show, and it's because she hadn't really

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Speaker 1: done that many interviews at that time, and she hadn't

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Speaker 1: really I don't even know if she'd done a podcast

615
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Speaker 1: at that time.

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Speaker 3: And she doesn't really and she doesn't really have.

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Speaker 1: This amazing conversation, and it was such a pivotal moment

618
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: for the show it that it stands out for me,

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Speaker 1: and so I'd say, listen to that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who's someone you haven't interviewed?

621
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Speaker 3: Who you still want to interview.

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for you, of course, And I mean that,

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Speaker 1: I genuinely mean that, waiting for you. And then I

624
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Speaker 1: mean I've always said my number one pick is Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that would be amazing.

626
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Speaker 2: That's my number one manifest for you, because I would

627
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Speaker 2: love to listen to that conversation.

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Speaker 3: I really don't. I don't think I've seen him in

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Speaker 3: many interviews.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't. It's it's definitely a language barrier too, of

631
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Speaker 1: wanting to get the best out of him. He's had,

632
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Speaker 1: He's had a couple of great ones over ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: now interviews that really I spoke to him. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's and I'm a manchitut I fan, Okay. I would

635
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Speaker 1: be like high fiving my fifteen year old self.

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Speaker 3: Of course, and I love that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you talk a lot about love, so I

638
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Speaker 2: want to get your opinion on a few things. So

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Speaker 2: do you think that that we all have one soulmate

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Speaker 2: or multiple loves of your life?

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Speaker 3: This is a debate we have in my community all

642
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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I think you'll fall in love with

644
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Speaker 1: three different people in your life. Oh okay. The first

645
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Speaker 1: is the firework. It's big, it's loud, it lights up

646
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Speaker 1: the sky, but it fades away. The second is the candle.

647
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Speaker 1: It's slower, it's quieter, it has a longer shelf life,

648
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Speaker 1: but eventually you might leave it because it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the spark. And the third one is the mirror, the

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Speaker 1: one that shows you all your flaws, shows your reflection,

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Speaker 1: and shows you who you truly are. And the firework

652
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: will probably fade off its own accord, or the firework

653
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: will probably fade itself. The candle you might leave before

654
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: it fades, and the mirror you might think it's broken

655
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: because you don't like what you see. And so I

656
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: think we often hop and jump and skip between all

657
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: three of these because it doesn't fulfill one part of us.

658
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: One doesn't have the spark, one doesn't have the longevity,

659
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: and one is too honest, and I think I've been

660
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: in love with all three in my life. What I

661
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: found was that the mirror was the most powerful one

662
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: because as soon as I didn't realize the mirror was

663
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: broken and it was showing me exactly who I am,

664
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: which is what my wife's done for me. And as

665
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: long as the person holding the mirror is compassionate and

666
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: empathetic and not shoving it in your face but holding

667
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: it kindly there, it can be the most beautiful relationship

668
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: that you'll ever have. But I don't believe in the

669
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: one soul mat that you're destined to be with, because

670
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: I really think that there's a soulmate for each frequency

671
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: you operate at. So there's a soulmate for your lowest frequency,

672
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: which when you're operating on that frequency, you'll find really attractive.

673
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: But as soon as you upgrade to your mid frequency,

674
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: you'll think to yourself, how was I ever with that person?

675
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: And then you have that frequency, and then you have

676
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: your soulmate of your highest frequency, which you could argue

677
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: is your ultimate soul mat that requires you to step up.

678
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: You have to do the word and do that work

679
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,959
Speaker 1: and so I think you'll find a soulmate. And if

680
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: you think about even the word soulmate, I really believe

681
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: that a soulmate is a mate for your soul and

682
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: that could be a friend, it could be a romantic partner.

683
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: And that lower vibration, that lower frequency soulmate is almost

684
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: like a cell mat, a prison mate that kind of

685
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: keeps you stuck. And I think a lot of us

686
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: can empathize with having lived with a cell mat for

687
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: some time where you thought you were in love, but

688
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: actually you were in prison and you were being held

689
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: back from your potential. You were being trapped based on

690
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: what you believed was possible for you, and maybe you

691
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: settled for less than you deserve because you believe that

692
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: was your soulmate and cellmate for life. And so I

693
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: want people to be much more freer with knowing that

694
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: your real partner is out there and they're not this

695
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: perfect person, and they're not this person that has it

696
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: all together, and they're not going to show you the

697
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: best parts of yourself either. This idea that the best

698
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: person will bring out the best of me, They'll show

699
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: you the worst of you so that you can bring

700
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: out the best of yourself. That's what we're trying to

701
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: work on, and my wife's definitely done that for me.

702
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: The key is they do it in a non judgmental,

703
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: empathetic and loving way, not in a way that's like

704
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: I see all your flaws and pointing them out in

705
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: a manipulative or controlling way.

706
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 3: Sure. Sure, how long have you guys been married.

707
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: We've been married this year for nine years and together

708
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: for twelve.

709
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: How do you guys meet?

710
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, so we tell the full story on the

711
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: first ever episode of my podcast. So that actually, if

712
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: you want to know, yeah, that's the first one, start

713
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, that's probably the right answer I question. Okay,

714
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, we met before I became a monk. I

715
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: was serving at my local temple in London because I

716
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: was training in my final year of a college, knowing

717
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: that I was going to do that, and I met

718
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: a woman who was around my mom's age, and I

719
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: was asked to show her around with some chores and services.

720
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: And I showed her around and at the end of it,

721
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: she said, I have a daughter that I'd love to

722
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: introduce to meditation and spirituality. She's around your age. Would

723
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: you connect with her? And I said, well, I'm going

724
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: to become a monk, so I'll introduce her to my

725
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: sister because they were a similar age. That happens to

726
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: be my wife's mom. And she brought in my wife

727
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: like a week later to introduce me to her. I'd

728
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: asked my sister to come along. I saw my wife.

729
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: This is like years ago now. I thought she was

730
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: absolutely stunning and beautiful, and it was like no focus

731
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: on being among, focus focus. And then when I came

732
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: back from being among three years later, her and my

733
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: sister were best friends, and so my sister was our

734
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: matchmaker in the end. And that's the short way beautiful.

735
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.

736
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people listening to that story

737
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 2: who are single might think, I would love to meet

738
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 2: someone organically like that. That's the dream, you know, that

739
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 2: doesn't happen anymore. So I'm curious what you would say

740
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: to someone who was having that thought. And then, secondly,

741
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 2: if you could give your thoughts on apps, because I

742
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 2: think a lot of people in my community are feeling.

743
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 3: Pretty drained from them right now.

744
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: And you know, my belief is that things like your story,

745
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: natural connections meeting people still happen, and the dating apps

746
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: can be great, but they've also made us believe that

747
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 2: that stuff doesn't happen, but it does.

748
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 3: Like we still go live in the world.

749
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: We still meet someone's mom who has a cute daughter, like,

750
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 2: we still do all that stuff.

751
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 3: So I'm just curious your thoughts.

752
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think times are changing too, Like if you

753
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: look at it twenty five, thirty, maybe even longer now.

754
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: You know, fifty years ago, most people met someone who

755
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: lived in one mile radius from where they grew up, right,

756
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: so you'd get introduced to someone through your parents or

757
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,479
Speaker 1: through your friends, or maybe you'll bump into them while

758
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: walking to your building or whatever it was. And I

759
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: think we always romanticize things in the past, okay, And

760
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: I want to point that out because I think we

761
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: all have this, and by the way, we have this

762
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: as humans. We always say the good old days. Right

763
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: in my time, things were amazing, And you know you're

764
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: old when you start saying stuff like that, like, oh,

765
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: the music when I grew up was really better than

766
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: today's music. And by the way, twenty years from now,

767
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: people will be saying that about Sabrina Carpenter and being like,

768
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: when I had you know, yeah, And so it's like

769
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: the same thing that goes round around, And so first

770
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: of all, I like to just cut out this nostalgic

771
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: false belief because what it does is it gives you

772
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: a safety blanket of being like, oh, back in the day,

773
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: things were amazing. Today it's worse. And I think, I mean,

774
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: you could look at that, you could cut down slice

775
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: that both ways in the world and not. There'll be

776
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: plenty of historians and researchers who say today's better than ever,

777
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: and some will say it's harder than ever. And ultimately,

778
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: when it comes to dating, I think the point is

779
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: that mindset doesn't help. And so yes, I really believe

780
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: that what people are looking for. And I did this

781
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: last week. So it's funny you asked. I became Matches

782
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: relationship advisor match dot COM's relationship advisor last year, and

783
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: the reason I did that was because I developed a

784
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: core values test in my book Eight Rules of Love

785
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: two years ago, and I wanted to partner with an

786
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: app that would help people match based on core values.

787
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: My goal wasn't that you should have the same values.

788
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: My goal was your values should be something you're aware of.

789
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: I think too many people are with people that they

790
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: find out their values. Three years later. Wow, oh my gosh,

791
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: you wanted to have kids. I had no idea. Oh, really,

792
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: you wanted to become an entrepreneur and quit your steady job.

793
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Oh I didn't realize you actually

794
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: want to live in the farm and not at the city. Like,

795
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: no idea. We're just so unaware of these very big

796
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: things about someone. And so we did this event last

797
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: week in La on Thursday night. It was for one

798
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: hundred singles in La, and I was really excited to

799
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: see how it went, and the goal was for people

800
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: to meet in person. But with that, Ethos and I

801
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: started out with this experiment where I was standing in

802
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: the middle of the room. I was surrounded by one

803
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: hundred singles, and I read out loud eye statements and

804
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: if it applied to them, they had to step forward,

805
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: and if it didn't apply to them, they stood where

806
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: they were. Okay, so imagine a hundred people founded, and

807
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: I read out the first one, which is something like

808
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: I consistently miss read flags, and a bunch of people

809
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: stepped forward. I asked them what red flags they missed,

810
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: and people were honest but tiptoeing, And then I asked

811
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: another question, and it got deeper every time. So the

812
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: next question I asked was something like, I sometimes forget

813
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: my friends in a relationship, so when I'm dating someone,

814
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: I forget about my friendships. And it was so funny

815
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: because this group of girls were there with their friends

816
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: and they all push this friend forward, and honestly, I

817
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: was like, this is hilarious, and all three of the

818
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: friends were like, yeah, she always does that. And then

819
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: I gave it the mic and she goes, yes, I'm

820
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: the friend that loves my friend. I was like, how beautiful.

821
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: And then it got really deep, and then I asked

822
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: the question I've been cheating on my cheated on by

823
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: an X? And people stepped forward and shit, the reason

824
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm sharing this is what I found was that all

825
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: of these people at every stage were willing to be vulnerable.

826
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: It took a second, it took a beat, it took

827
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: a moment. It wasn't straight off the bat. People tiptoed

828
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: forward at the start. At the end, people were coming

829
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: forward and opening their hearts. And what I've realized is

830
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: that the reason why we think online dating doesn't work

831
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: is because we want instant intimacy, we want instant vulnerability.

832
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: We want instant openness, and even that night, I had

833
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: to wait and be patient for people to feel safe

834
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: with me, with each other, with the space. And I

835
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: think that's what we should be focusing on, is can

836
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 1: I create a safe space where someone feels they can

837
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: be that way with me. The other thing I'd say

838
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: for anyone who's feeling exhausted with the apps again, is

839
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. Of course you are. It's exhausting to

840
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: be rejected, reject, accept, move forward, ghosted, whatever it may be,

841
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: everything in between. But I'd say the real challenge is

842
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: not the app and it's our mindset. And what I

843
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: mean by that is we live when we're dating. We

844
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: live in one of two states. We're either passive, so

845
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: we say things like it will happen when it happens.

846
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm not worried right now. Secretly we're really scared and

847
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 1: insecure and pretending. And the other side is where pressured.

848
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did you see that person just got engaged.

849
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: I'm thirty five, How am I still single? There's all

850
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: this pressure, So we live in being passive or feeling pressure.

851
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: And really, what I was saying to everyone that night,

852
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: and what my goal for everyone listening today would be

853
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: is I want you to be in a state of peace,

854
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: peace with your past, peace with your present, and peace

855
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: about your future. Because guess what, Pressure doesn't attract love?

856
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: How could pressure ever attract love? And how could being

857
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: passive ever attract love? So how do you get peace? Peace?

858
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: Is saying I know what happened in my past wasn't

859
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: a waste of time. It hurt, it was painful, it

860
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: was the worst, but it wasn't a waste of time

861
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: because it showed me who I don't want to be

862
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: with and who I don't want to become. And by

863
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: the way, I'm not going to put pressure on myself

864
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: because I actually believe that when I live in a

865
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: state of peace and calm, I'm now operating at that

866
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: frequency that attracts a peace and calming relationship into my life.

867
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: Whereas if I feel pressure, I'll attract drama and if

868
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm passive, I'll attract trauma. But if I'm at peace,

869
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: I'll attract someone who's calm, and I'll attract someone who's

870
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: matching my frequency.

871
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm nodding. If you're listening to this, I'm

872
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 2: nodding crazy in a crazy way because I agree so much.

873
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: I think I'm at peace. I really do. I had

874
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 3: a dating coach, and I feel like I'm at piece.

875
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: I know.

876
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 2: I think the dating coach I had on recently and

877
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: she was like, maybe you're you're secretly like because I

878
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 2: said something like I'm really I said something like, when

879
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: it happens, it will happen. But I genuinely feel very

880
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 2: at peace for the first time really in the past,

881
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, only like the past couple months. I

882
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 2: feel really good, like I feel so you know, as

883
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 2: you said, my past is my past for a reason.

884
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: It got me to where I am today and in

885
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 3: the future.

886
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 2: You know, I'm excited, but I'm also just grateful for

887
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: where I am now. I think a big problem that

888
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 2: I have with the dating culture and like the way

889
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: that we view finding the one or whatever partner, is

890
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: that it really like encourages people to forget to be

891
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 2: grateful for where they are, and for me, I focus

892
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: so much on creating a life that I love so

893
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 2: that you know to your previous point that I'm vibrating

894
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 2: at my highest point that I can be, so that

895
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: you know I love them. The saying like water seeks

896
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 2: its own level, and so I always think about that.

897
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 2: I'm like, I want to be up here when I

898
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 2: run into another person who I'm compatible with and they're

899
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 2: up here.

900
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I wonder, I wonder dating.

901
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 3: I'm at peace, Caroline, you do.

902
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 2: I think really I am for the for the for

903
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: the first time, which is cool, it's it's a nice

904
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 2: place to be.

905
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: But I think I feel it, and I feel it

906
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: for whatever it's with in your presence today for sure.

907
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: And also I was going to say that I love

908
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: what you're saying because a lot of the times people say, well,

909
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: how do I know it's love? And if you're already

910
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: living a life you love, you'll know it's love totally

911
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: because you're already living at that level. Everything is operating

912
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: at the vibration and frequency of love. So when something

913
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: new comes in, you actually know what frequency it's vibrating

914
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: it exactly. You don't have to guess anymore because it

915
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: makes sense. It aligns. You know, whether it's jealousy, lust, envy, confusion,

916
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, because you already love everything that's

917
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: going on. But if you're hating everything that's going on now,

918
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: everything feels like lost, so because everything feels better than

919
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: where you're at.

920
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 3: Wow, I really like that.

921
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 2: That's actually so true and I think that that will

922
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: resonate with so many people I know. For me in

923
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: my twenties, that was so the case. I was desperate,

924
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 2: desperate to have a boyfriend because I didn't really like

925
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 2: myself and I didn't really like my life. I felt

926
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 2: like I wasn't living up to my potential. I didn't

927
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: feel creatively fulfilled. I didn't like myself as a person.

928
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: And instead of dealing with all those things, I was like,

929
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: how can I get a boyfriend? Needs to chase boys,

930
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 2: need a boyfriend, need a boyfriend to validate, to validate

931
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 2: my existence. And it's such a great turning point when

932
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 2: you can stop and kind of pivot in your life

933
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 2: and think and really focus on, you know, loving yourself

934
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 2: and being loved to your point so when it comes

935
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 2: in you'll.

936
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, you recognize it.

937
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: Love that, Yeah, I love that so much. So you're

938
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 2: gearing up for a massive live tour. What can people

939
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: expect from this tour? It's so exciting.

940
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm very excited that it's the first time in six

941
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: years since we launched the podcast that I actually get

942
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: to go do this yes on stage across North America

943
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: to start with, and I think people don't expect surprise.

944
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: Guests in every city love some of your favorites, some

945
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: absolutely new ones. So really really excited about that. People

946
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: can expect to actually have a human connection. I want

947
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: everyone to be able to ask questions. I want to

948
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: make it really interactive. People will be able to come

949
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: and be a part of the experience. I don't want

950
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: people to leave there with community. I think that's something

951
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: that I found when I'm touring that's different is that

952
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: people don't walk out of that room with the same

953
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: people they came with. They're walking rout having conversations with

954
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: people next to them. If you think about it, everyone

955
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 1: in that room is going to be someone who listens

956
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: to on purpose. They're listening every day, they're listening every week,

957
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: they're listening every month. Imagine being in the same space

958
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: and now you're not walking, or you're not in your kitchen,

959
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: or you're not at the gym, You're actually in this

960
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: same space listening to the conversation. I can't imagine what

961
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: kind of connections will come out of that. So I

962
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: think it's going to be super exciting. It's going to

963
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: be meaningful. I'm going to be leading meditations on stage,

964
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: so for anyone who's been struggling, I'll be guiding those

965
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: meditations as well. I think it's going to be a

966
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: really meaningful, impactful evening and I can't wait. I'm so excited,

967
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: so exciting.

968
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: What's the hardest part of doing a huge show? And

969
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 2: like planning something at this scale, do you get nervous?

970
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: I can't imagine you too, But what is there any

971
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: challenges that you're looking forward to overcoming?

972
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: So I went on a world tour two years ago,

973
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: so we did need forty cities in like three four months,

974
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: and that was much harder than I expected it to be.

975
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of clients who are musicians

976
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 1: who tour and do like one hundred hundred and fifty shows,

977
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: two hundred shows, and they always used to tell me

978
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: that they'd be exhausted by show fifty. So I didn't

979
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: even do fifty shows, so I can really empathize with

980
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: people who toured that long. To me, it becomes about

981
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: everything is sacrificed. And I don't mean that as like,

982
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm sacrificing everything is about the craft. So,

983
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: for example, when I was on tour last time, my

984
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: day would start around two or four pm. For working,

985
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: I mean it would start later because I'd start with

986
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: a group meditation for people who'd opted in for the

987
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 1: big smaller meditation. I'd start a Q and a session

988
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: for that group. Then the show would start like seven

989
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: point thirty. So I'd stop eating at midday, and then

990
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: i wouldn't eat until midnight.

991
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 3: Wow.

992
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: And then I'd wake up, jump on a plane, and

993
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: go and do it all over again in another place.

994
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: And so I never went out a night. I never

995
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 1: went out to a restaurant because I was on vocal rest.

996
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: And so to me, the key is for that time,

997
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 1: you've got to be totally zoned in. And I love that.

998
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. I think about it like an

999
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: athlete at the Championships or super Bowl, whatever it is,

1000
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: where it's like you've just got to be focused on

1001
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: that one thing and there's a beautiful thing that comes

1002
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: out of that. You get really in the zone. You

1003
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: recognize what talents and skills you have, You recognize your

1004
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: ability to fast that I didn't know I could do

1005
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: that anymore for that long and so it was just

1006
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: like a really beautiful reminder to build different muscles, sure,

1007
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: and build different strengths and find a new sense of confidence.

1008
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: And so yeah, everyone was like, did you travel to

1009
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: this place? What did you see? I'm like, I didn't

1010
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: see it.

1011
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 3: I saw my hotel room.

1012
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw my hotel room. I saw a plane, sure,

1013
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: and I saw the venue. And I love that. I

1014
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: don't have any that's beautiful, Like that's what it's for.

1015
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm not traveling for pleasure. I'm traveling to serve and

1016
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: it's really exciting.

1017
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 3: I love that.

1018
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 2: Okay, before we go, I have to ask you, do

1019
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: you have any guilty pleasures like junk food, move b shows?

1020
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 2: Like what it when? You're like, you know what, I'm

1021
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: gonna treat myself, Like what.

1022
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: Do you do? So there's this place in La called

1023
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: Mister Charlie's. It's basically plant based McDonald's. They do chicken nuggets,

1024
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: they do a chicken sandwich, it's plant based. The fries

1025
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: and like, I've now got to once every two weeks.

1026
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: I need that. Okay, it was once every week, it's

1027
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: now I've got to once every two weeks. And then

1028
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: I'm a I love Van Luin because and so my

1029
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: Van Luin order. My wife believes this should be on

1030
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: their menu because I have a very specific order. So

1031
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: I go and get a double chocolate fight brownie scoop

1032
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: of ice cream with hot fudge on top, with sprinkles,

1033
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: cookie crumble, honeycomb candy, and I think that's about it.

1034
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 1: So those are my two food guilty pleasures I love.

1035
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: So every two weeks, I'll do that now on one

1036
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: day together. Yeah, so that day, ignore it. Just don't

1037
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: talk to Jesse for a week, preturn like it didn't happen. Uh.

1038
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: And then TV wise, I find like, no, I think

1039
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: I watched good stuff. I mean like I just watched

1040
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: Why Lowest, the new episode TV so I love that. Yeah.

1041
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: This year it used to definitely like at one point

1042
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,720
Speaker 1: I would never miss an episode of Selling Sunset.

1043
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 3: Wait, I love that, Okay, but I love real.

1044
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 1: Estate, so I would skip. And I was telling Jason open.

1045
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: I met Jason recently and I was telling him. I

1046
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: was like, I love Selling Sunset, but I always skipped

1047
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: to all the homes because I loved season real Estate.

1048
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, that's what every guy says, and so

1049
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, Jason, thanks for judging me,

1050
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: but it's true. So yeah, that's what I love that.

1051
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 2: Okay, Well Van Lewin, if you're listening, we need the

1052
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 2: Jay Shetty on them. I know that's crazy that that

1053
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 2: hasn't happened yet. Jay, thank you for coming on. This

1054
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 2: was so meaningful and I just I think you are

1055
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: so wise and uh, I love your energy. Where can

1056
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 2: people find you? And where can people get tickets for

1057
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 2: the tour?

1058
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love for people to come see me on tour.

1059
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,720
Speaker 1: It's Jay Shetty Doped Me Forward Slash Tour. J Shetty

1060
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: Doped Me Forward Slash Tour. And then you can find

1061
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: me on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, wherever you watch social and

1062
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: then on any podcast app I Heart Serious and all

1063
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: the other ones, Apple, Spotify, everything. So yeah, thanks things,

1064
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: and honestly, I had such a great time. That was

1065
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: one of my favorite conversations I've had. And you are

1066
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: the best and on purposes waiting for you. Thank you

1067
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: so we look forward to having you on the show

1068
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: so much. Thanks for listening, guys. Bye. If you love

1069
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: this episode, you will also love my interview with Kendall

1070
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: Jenna on setting boundaries to increase happiness and healing. You're

1071
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: in a child, You.

1072
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 2: Could be reading something that someone is saying about you

1073
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 2: and being like, that is so unfair because that's not

1074
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: who I am and that really gets to me sometimes.

1075
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 2: But then looking at myself in the mirror and being like,

1076
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: but I know who I am.

1077
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 3: Why does anything else matter.