1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,400 I mean, and some of the episodes that you've had, I mean, you've had some pretty amazing 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:11,400 people. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Like you had, oh goodness, how do you, Sophia, the girl- 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,400 Sophia Marosso, yes. 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:17,400 Yes, yes. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,180 Sophia Marosso, yeah, you had her. 7 00:00:19,180 --> 00:00:22,960 And I mean, it's just like, and the questions you ask are not your typical questions that 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,920 you would hear on a podcast because they go, like you said, so much deeper. 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,400 So I'm curious, how do you find your guests? 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:35,880 I find my guests through, you know, people that I'm inspired by, people that like I look 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,640 around and I'm inspired by, and we're the podcast at a point now that we get people 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,600 every single day asking to be on a show. 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,600 And some people I'm really inspired by, like the other day we had Sri Sri Gurudev, Sri 14 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:57,040 Sri, his sort of name in the space more publicly is Gurudev, but the sort of longer name is 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,120 Sri Sri Rav Shankar. 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:06,920 And he's a, you know, he's, he's has like 450 million disciples and he's done work in 17 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:13,240 the prisons and he's had over 800,000 people do these practices in the prison system. 18 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,760 The dude is established in such a massive way. 19 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,560 And I had, you know, someone from his team reach out to me asking if he could be on a 20 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,120 podcast and I was like, of course, hello, love it. 21 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,800 Let's talk about the real, real, real stuff. 22 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,640 So it varies, you know, sometimes I have people reaching out to me and I think that they're 23 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:30,960 really interesting. 24 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,160 Sometimes I have, most of the time I have my team reach out to people that I know personally 25 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,260 like Sophia or people that I'm really inspired by. 26 00:01:40,260 --> 00:01:44,720 Like we had Julia Cameron on the show who wrote The Artist's Way, you know, her book 27 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,280 has casually sold over 5 million copies and you know, she really is the queen of creativity 28 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,480 as the New York Times calls her. 29 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,280 So I've had her on the show, I mean, there's, I've, and I actually am a little bit wild. 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,360 I batched, recorded, so I recorded episodes for an entire year. 31 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,520 So this year I'm just doing a couple of people that I'm really, really inspired by. 32 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,160 So I have episodes launching all through this year. 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,160 Okay. 34 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,360 So you batched, that is awesome. 35 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:14,920 What does that process look like for you? 36 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:18,360 Like, do you just like schedule everybody and then tell them, okay, we're going to just 37 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,080 go or how does, how does that work for you? 38 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,720 It is freaking wild to be honest. 39 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,800 But the good thing is that I love talking. 40 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,040 I love getting to know people. 41 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,840 The beautiful thing about having a podcast is that it's in the, for anyone who has a 42 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,680 podcast you're talking to people and you're listening to yourself talk. 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,260 So you're learning so much about yourself and you learn so much about your guests. 44 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:46,040 So there's this enormous educational and inspirational component to it. 45 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,320 Starting the batch process was, was partly because I wanted to take a break. 46 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,960 You know, I closed the spiritually-assessed school, which a lot of people are upset about, 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,440 but I needed to, you know, realign with my vows, realign with my purpose, realign with 48 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,820 my message. 49 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:07,260 So I decided to let's record episodes, enough episodes for an entire year so I can spend 50 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:13,060 more time in prayer, spend more time in meditation, spend more time dancing, spend more time doing 51 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:17,400 service that I don't, that I don't get anything in return, you know, oftentimes with the nature 52 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:25,240 of my work, like anyone's work, we do need a monetary support to keep going. 53 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,560 But a huge part of my mission is to help people who are in rehabilitation centers in places 54 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:38,080 like Nepal, in a rehab center in Kathmandu and now here in Bali where I'm currently living. 55 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,560 And I don't get paid to teach at the rehab center in Nepal, Kathmandu, and working with 56 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,020 the kids here at an orphan center in Bali, Indonesia, too. 57 00:03:47,020 --> 00:03:50,520 It's like, I want to shift. 58 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:57,440 I want to, and I am, and I have already, more and more of my work to be helping people who 59 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,740 are, who have nothing, you know, because I've been so, so karmically blessed to work with 60 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:07,280 these global celebrities and do things in a really large, beautiful scale and get very 61 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,280 well financially supported for that. 62 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,800 So all of that money and all of that is to really funnel the resources for the people 63 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:45,040 who have really nothing, you know.