1. Jay Shetty is a British podcaster, author, and life coach, best known for his podcast On Purpose.
20 Facts About Jay Shetty
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Jay Shetty was raised in Barnet, North London and has a sister.
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Jay Shetty's mother is a Gujarati who was raised in Yemen and his father is a Tulu Bunt from Mangalore.
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Jay Shetty attended Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, then went on to graduate from the Bayes Business School at the City St George's, University of London.
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In business school around 2007, Jay Shetty met Gauranga Das, a monk invited to speak at the school on selflessness and living a minimalist lifestyle.
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Jay Shetty spoke with Gauranga after his talk and followed him for the remainder of Gauranga's lecture circuit around the United Kingdom.
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Jay Shetty says that he spent four summers in India interning at corporations and training with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
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Jay Shetty has often said that he spent three years, from 2010 to 2013, living the ISKCON lifestyle at an undisclosed ashram in Mumbai, India, but his own blog posts and people familiar with his movements in that period indicate he spent most of this time making promotional videos at Bhaktivedanta Manor in Watford, with Jay Shetty writing in a blog post that he had arrived in India in October 2010 and had spent less than four months in the country before leaving again.
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Jay Shetty began his career at Accenture, working on digital strategy and as a social media coach for the company's executives.
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In 2016, Jay Shetty broke away to become an independent content creator.
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Jay Shetty's work caught the attention of Arianna Huffington, who hired him to produce videos for Huffington Post about topics such as relationships.
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Jay Shetty stopped working for the HuffPost in early 2017, later releasing videos independently on Facebook and YouTube.
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Jay Shetty won a 2016 Asian Media Award for Best Blog and a 2018 Streamy Awards in the Health and Wellness category.
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In 2018, Jay Shetty made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Red Table Talk show on Facebook, and became the "personal spiritual adviser" to Will Smith.
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In July 2023, Jay Shetty interviewed US President Joe Biden on his mental health initiatives in a podcast episode filmed at the White House.
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Jay Shetty is the co-founder of a video production company, Icon Media, along with Alex Kushneir.
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In 2022, Jay Shetty joined meditation product company Calm as its "Chief Purpose Officer".
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Jay Shetty has conducted interviews with a number of public figures.
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Jay Shetty is in the ownership group of Angel City of the National Women's Soccer League.
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Jay Shetty presided over the 2022 wedding of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.