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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 And those four videos I originally made did a collective hundred million vi…”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…”
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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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 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…”