Jay Shetty
Host, On Purpose. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He is a bestselling author known for his mindfulness and relationship books Think Like a Monk and 8 Rules of Love. He also hosts the interview podcast On Purpose and teaches personal development.
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14said about them ↓ Everything Jay Shetty said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shetty: Not charging for teachings lowers commitment and does a disservice
“What I realized is that when people paid for something, there was a commitment... Whereas today, when we pay with our money and our time, we're actually more committed... You're actually doing a disservice to people by not giving them the opportunity to commit…”
Shetty: Sustainable life requires equal split between self-work and service
“The reason why Gauranga Das' path attracted me so much is that half the day was self, and half the day was service. And I saw this as a beautiful formula for life, because I realized that I didn't want a path that was fully solitude, or fully isolated, because…”
Shetty: People only seek mentorship and guidance during major life transitions
“The only time a lot of us seek guidance in our life is in the transition, right? It's in transitions that we seek mentorship and guidance and advice. We don't seek advice when we're in a stable place.”
Shetty: Spiritual teachers fail to impact lives without strategic organization
“Often spiritual teachers, guides people who have messages, people have ideas have not been organized or strategic or focused in their sharing. And that means that we can't really get it into people's lives in a practical, accessible, relevant way.”
Exhausting material pleasures early gave Shetty confidence to commit to monkhood
“I look back at that time now, and I just think I'm so glad that I did try and push the boundary, for me personally, Because it's what gave me so much confidence when I went completely the other way into my monk life. I didn't feel like I was missing out on any…”
Shetty ranked number one globally in social media across 500,000 Accenture employees
“I went on to be the number one social media person at Accenture globally, our 500,000 people. Wow. Working and training our execs and clients on how to use social media for work”
Shetty's first four videos for Huffington Post amassed 100 million views
“We put the first video up. It does a million views in a week. We put this, we put the second video up. It does a million views in 24 hours. We put the third video up. It does the same. And those four videos I originally made did a collective hundred million vi…”
Shetty was four months from broke despite having 100 million video views
“And in 2017, I had a hundred million views, but I was four months away from being broke. And so I had a hundred million views. We had about 400,000 followers. And I hadn't thought about business, or I hadn't thought about money, because all I was trying to do …”
Shetty's life coaching certification school enrolled 1,000 students in nine months
“And last year we launched my certification school. So last year we spent a year investing in building a fully global accredited certified life coaching school. And our program now in just the first nine months of launching, we've had a thousand people that hav…”
Shetty lives in a monastery for two to four weeks every year
“Every year I go and live in the monastery for two weeks to four weeks every year still to live with the monks again, to reconnect with them and to reground myself.”
Shetty attributes his success entirely to monastic discipline, rejecting luck
“I attribute all of it to my training as a monk and my strategic training that I got from my parents and then school. I don't really believe in luck.”
Father quit London finance job for two-year global spiritual search
“I saw him, me being at the age of 10, quitting his job in the city to go and pursue this crazy search, at least in my opinion, at 10 years old, of the truth, and that took him to everything from world religions, to Scientology, to Reiki and healing, to just
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Shetty placed his neck tattoo specifically to hide under collared shirts
“One of the details on the tattoo is that I got it so that I could wear a college shirt, and you wouldn't be able to see it, because in the back of my mind, I knew I'd have to get a real job one day. That kind of conditioning of, you will work in an office, and…”
Mumbai ashram monks sleep on floors and share a single gym locker
“You only get two robes. You wear one, you wash the other one. You sleep on the floor on a very thin mat with a covering, and no place is yours in the ashram, so you sleep wherever there's space every night, and someone could take your space. You live outside o…”
Shetty taught mindfulness to 1,000 Accenture consultants on stage in 2014
“And she invited me in 2014 to speak to a group of a thousand consultants on stage about mindfulness.”
Ten media companies rejected Shetty's video journalist applications for lacking qualifications
“I applied for a trainee video journalist position to try and get my foot through the door, and 10 companies said no. They said you'd have no communications degree. You have no background in media. You're not getting the job.”
Shetty wakes at 6 AM daily for two hours of meditation
“So I still meditate for two hours a day, every single morning. I wake up at six. I don't wake up at four. And that dedication in my morning practice, I'm reading the same spiritual texts that I read. I'm 30 minutes every single day to dive deeply into them.”
Shetty and his wife ban screens from bedrooms, dining tables, and mornings
“In my home, what we've done is with me and my wife is we have no technology zones and no technology times in our home. So we believe that at the dining table and in the bedroom, that's not the space for technology. And then after we had dinner and then before …”
Shetty got a Source magazine microphone logo neck tattoo at 16
“I was the kid at 16 who got a tattoo on his neck, right? Like that, that was the, and I remember that night I came home I just went and got a tattoo on my neck, and the tattoo I have on my neck is a microphone, and it happens to be the logo of the Source magaz…”
Shetty split college breaks between a Mumbai ashram and finance internships
“And so I would just go out there, whether it was my Christmas holidays or my summer holidays, and I would just try and spend, whether it was two weeks, whether it was a month, whatever I could get, I would go and be with him. And the other half of it, I'd be i…”
The other half of the tape: Jay Shetty's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 14 times in 8 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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