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Jay & Radhi Answer Questions About Productivity Hacks, Using Your Energy Effectively, and How to Have Positive Self-Talk

Mar 08, 202438 min
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This episode is brought to you by BMW, and the most requested guest is back again - Jay's wife, Radhi Devlukia! Jay and Radhi swap lives for a day in the all electric BMW ix. In this episode, Jay and Radhi take a road trip to the grocery store, where she challenges Jay to complete a grocery store run, where he is tasked to find the right ingredients for their favorite recipe, without her help.

There’s never a dull moment when Jay and Radhi are together - from their on-the-road Q&A, to their grocery store outing (especially when Jay still couldn’t tell the difference between coriander and parsley) - they continue to provide laughs, insights, and meaningful wisdom. 

Tag along on this ride and join the challenges of modern day dating and find out who’s the most stubborn one between the two.

What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro

00:18 Jay’s Stuffed Pepper Recipe in Radhi’s Cookbook

02:03 If We Are in Carpool Karaoke 

02:44 Difference Between Drivers in LA and London

03:42 What Does it Mean to Be A Backseat Driver in Life?

05:35 The Three People You Will Go on a Drive With

08:43 Who Usually Leave the Car Lights On?

09:52 Who’s Most Likely to Get Car Sick?

10:29 Would You Need Maps to Navigate Between Places?

11:02 Why Doesn’t Radhi Reply to Messages Right Away?

12:57 First Line to Say When You Meet in a Party

14:11 What’s Your Screen Time?

15:10 Do You Have an Ick About Me?

16:33 It’s Time to Buy Groceries!

22:35 How Does It Feel When Someone Cook For You?

23:56 How Do You Manage to Stay Productive Everyday?

28:03 What Kind of a Party Person Are You?

31:05 Living Conditions in Refugee Camps in the Old Days

31:59 Leaving an Impact in the Community Your Serve

37:02 Spending Time with Family in an Indian Wedding

To learn more about the all electric BMW iX head here https://bit.ly/jayshettyxbmwix 

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Transcript

Speaker 1

Join Raddy and I for a part two of our special on Purpose episode Today with BMW. Today, Rady and I switch rolls and I go grocery shopping in Raddy's place. Tune in for the road trip with the all electric BMW I X.

Speaker 2

Super nice, pretty spacious. Let's go.

Speaker 3

So, Raddy, what's the challenge today?

Speaker 2

Okay, So, remember a couple of years ago we did this YouTube video where you made something.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I've been trying to block it out.

Speaker 2

Okay, So you at that time made me? What did you make me?

Speaker 1

I made you? So this is the one and only time in our entire life.

Speaker 2

To the one time only.

Speaker 1

And I promised it would be one time only. I cooked you a stuffed pepper and it was the best right stuff pepper you'd ever heard in your entire life.

Speaker 2

It was. It actually made it into my cookbook. I don't know whether I've ever even told you this, but there is a recipe. It wasn't you our of all people have a recipe in my Li's amazing. No.

Speaker 3

I told you if I wanted to be a chef, i'd be you know.

Speaker 2

I was asking if you've ever cooked me with there's any recipes that remind me of you, And there was one. It was either that all beans on toast. They said I couldn't put beans? What made it into my book? Just because stuffed pepper didn't feel fun enough? It's a one part Mexican rice.

Speaker 3

Well why did do stuff pepper not feel good enough?

Speaker 2

It just feels like a bit basic. Honestly, the actual Mexican rice has made it. It's like a one part Mexican rice dish. So you already kind of know how to do this.

Speaker 3

I don't I a little bit.

Speaker 2

What we're going to do is you're going to go into the grocery store or the supermarket as we like to call it, and we are going to You're gonna buy all the ingline.

Speaker 3

This is my worst nightmare.

Speaker 2

But on top of that, just to make it a little bit spassic, we are going to get you making some guacamole and some healthy sour cream to be able to dollive on top, and then I will joyfully eat it for lunch.

Speaker 3

While we're on the way to the grocery store, let's answer some questions.

Speaker 1

Let's do it so you've got them next to you, because I can't I can't read question and driver at the same time, I think that would be very safe.

Speaker 3

If we were in corporal karaoke right now, what would what would it be?

Speaker 2

Mine would be yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Or it would be baby, calm down, calm down, you know that. Don't tell me no, no, no, you have to know the word. You always make fun of me because he makes fun of me and my music choice because he says a lot of it. There isn't actual words. It's either mumble or is sound sounds, So that would be mine. If it was Jay you will be don't never stop it? So yeah, Drakes song. Everybody obviously got that I was doing right.

Speaker 3

That's exactly where all right.

Speaker 2

Other questions, what's the biggest difference between drivers in LA and drivers in London? To say, I do find LA drivers a little bit more impatient, just really really yeah, I do find there's a lot more bee paying. No one wants to give you a way, whereas you know what, in London, I'd say, people do let you into things really yeah.

Speaker 3

Interesting.

Speaker 1

One thing I really love about driving in LA is a driver myself is I love the palm trees.

Speaker 3

I feel like I'm on a constant vacation.

Speaker 2

Drivers though, right, right, But I.

Speaker 1

Agree, I do find the highways scary in LA too, because when people are switching lanes. Yeah, when people are switching lanes, and obviously everything's the other way around for us, so you're driving on a different side of the road and the steering wheels on the different side of the car. So especially I find when I come back from London, I find it even scarier and I find myself too much on one side or the other.

Speaker 2

Oh, I do that all the time.

Speaker 1

But yeah, and I think, I mean, I think drivers pretty much everywhere in the world are pretty impatient.

Speaker 2

Yeah I am to Do you believe you are? Do you believe you're a backseat driver? Okay, I'm a proud backseat driver. You know why because my line every time I do a backseat driver thing like watch out or don't go that close is imagine I didn't say that. I could have just saved your life and somebody else's.

Speaker 1

The difference is every time you say it, I'm like, the way you say it is more likely to cause an accident. Yeah exactly, yes, yeah exactly, then save me. Like I'm like, literally I have a shock, Like I literally have a shock every time you say and what happened? Like what happened is something? Something happened and you're.

Speaker 2

Like, no, just it's my usual. Oh my gosh, this mummy.

Speaker 3

Yeah, mummy, it's like, what's mummy going to do?

Speaker 2

I would say I am more of a backseat driver than Jay.

Speaker 3

It's yes, I'm not a backst driver at all.

Speaker 2

Maybe that just shows I can.

Speaker 3

Also not a backst driver in life.

Speaker 2

Oh line drop.

Speaker 3

No, No, But it's it's an interesting question, right, like this.

Speaker 2

Is like you know what on me is? Actually you know what? Let's go deeper into that. What does it mean to be a backseat driver in your life? What does it mean? Jay to be a backseat driver? Please? Do you tell us? No?

Speaker 1

I just I just think that some of us, you know, grab life by the steering wheel and navigate and take the journey ourselves, and some of us sit in the back seat and criticize and judge and.

Speaker 2

Complain about Do you not think that in life we need both backseat drivers and people who want to take the steering wheel, and too many steering wheel people would actually be not not good.

Speaker 3

That that's an amazing question. That's an amazing question.

Speaker 1

No, I believe that when you're driving, you should drive safely and securely and responsibly, and when you're in the back seat, you should be obedient.

Speaker 2

I'm talking about that.

Speaker 1

In life, in life, in life.

Speaker 2

Okay, next question, people, next question, if you could pick three people to fill your car with?

Speaker 1

Good question, Oh, just reminder of these were questions that my team came up with, so we had no.

Speaker 3

Idea what we're going to be.

Speaker 2

If you could pick three people to fill your car with on a road trip.

Speaker 3

Who would they be on Let's try one.

Speaker 2

Three people in the whole time world. Yeah, okay, I knows, Yeah, mine would be Okay, for a lie, would be my grandma, my niece, and my nephew Banta forever. So much fun. No, but that would be like it would be so funny between the back you can be in the carton but not alive. I would love to have a car full of like my grandma and then her grandma and like one. I love driving around old people. I do it for my grandma and her friends all the time, and it

is so much fun because they're hilarious. You know. One thing I found my dad opens up on road trips, like if it's just me and him he's driving me to the airport, or my sister told me yesterday that he was driving her to the airport and he starts telling stories about himself. Like it creates this time and space where people can open up a little bit. And so with that in mind, I think I would want that with people that I really wish I had got to know but wouldn't have.

Speaker 1

The chance to What questions would you ask or what game would you play with these people on a long.

Speaker 2

Joe for fun? I would definitely you play well our version Indian version of carpor karaoke and tactuary where you're just sing like old Indian songs. But I imagine my grandma and her ancestors would probably sing like devotional songs or god songs, which is amazing. But then to actually ask them questions. Oh, I love word association. I think it tells a lot about people, right to like to like understand when they hear something what they related to. So, yeah,

what about you? Who would your three people? Babe?

Speaker 1

Oh gosh, all right, So if it was living it would be you, my sister.

Speaker 2

And my mom.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and that would be like my family trip.

Speaker 3

Yeah, if it was people who weren't alive or like people. I don't know.

Speaker 1

I'd want it to be Steve Jobs, mind, Luther King and Einstein.

Speaker 3

Oh, and I wouldn't say anything. I would just listen.

Speaker 2

Would be all of them.

Speaker 3

I wouldn't yah as I would have not. I would just listen.

Speaker 1

I would have nothing to say and think about what.

Speaker 3

They would say.

Speaker 2

You know, it was just so fun in the car that we've done a few a few random car trips with him together is rather than a swam because I feel like he really brings up such good conversation and also does the same thing my dad does, where there's so many stories that come out during those trips. I love those trips. Actually, I take you out and put him into mind. Sorry, got it with my nephew.

Speaker 1

I'm not sure that I was going to say, the other person you love having in the car is there?

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, that's a good car.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2

That's a good answer. That would be a really interesting conversation to have if it was possible. Who is more likely to leave the car lights on overnight? I literally did that yesterday, not overnight.

Speaker 1

Now, you leave the car lights on, you leave the car unlocked, You forget to charge the car.

Speaker 2

I leave my little like, we're so.

Speaker 3

Lucky that we have electric cars. Right now, this is.

Speaker 2

Always lost their hairband, spared drink, spare some pair of sunglasses, some snacks. There's always something here lingering right, really a blessing.

Speaker 1

So then yeah, I would mean me, I'll take that. I find that I go through periods, but the car is immacula. And then when I have too many clothes shoes in.

Speaker 2

The car, there are times I literally come to the car and it's like he's been living out of his car for a long time.

Speaker 1

Because I've started to realize that it happened the other night, Right, I needed a suit because I had an event to go to, And I've started to realize, so I keep my pickle wall stuff in the car. I need my I need a suit in the car. I need a suitcase in the car, potentially, Like I find like so much in my life is so like last minute, I jump on a plane, do this, do that that. I've started to realize that I need to be more prepared.

Speaker 2

I feel like you weren't prepared for this road trip because where are my beverages?

Speaker 1

No, but we're gonna buy some junior when we get there, he's most likely to get castick in a car that driving me.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I get cast sick so much.

Speaker 1

I still's figure that out though, that kind.

Speaker 2

Of this is going way deep into this. Shall we let's dive into it, Jay.

Speaker 3

Come on, I'm trying to figure out this whole classic situation.

Speaker 2

Why is the imbalance in the ear But there's nothing to figure out?

Speaker 3

But then how do we solve our imbalance because we've had this for a while.

Speaker 2

No, it's an imbalance in like your ear drum. So there are different ways you can use peppermint all that really helps me. Chewing on ginger, that's really helpful. And then if you are reading read upwards. Okay. The next question is would you need maps to get from our house to go to a grocery? Yes? Yes, I think Google Maps has really ruined my ability to absorb in things around me. And I don't know what I would be without Google Maps. Don't. Well, no, I know what

I would be. I don't know where I would be.

Speaker 1

If I was If I'm in London, I can really get around. But I feel like ever since we moved to the stage, I've become very relied reliant on maps and.

Speaker 2

Yes, so in conclusion, we both would need maps to get anywhere. I'm assuming this is a question from you to me? Do you not answer texts from me? Because you're playing hard?

Speaker 1

So I told the team that sometimes you don't respond. I have to explain this to our friends as well, because our friends will be like upset with me, like it is rightly okay, Like I'm I'm like, she doesn't reply to her own husband for like seven messages, Like I have to ask you the same question.

Speaker 2

You're quite You're someone who like is not You're not so succinct though I am succinct, okay me honestly. But I also think you know what I really do think, and this is this is I'm gonna have a j Setty moment now. I believe that we have this terrible habit of wanting people to reply within like a day. And I'm like, what if I want to reply within a week?

Speaker 3

But if we live together.

Speaker 2

And ask me when you see me?

Speaker 1

Right?

Speaker 2

And I just think that there's this I don't. I find that the reason I get distracted so fast is because this need of oh my gosh, I have to apply to this person part I have to reply to this email within this amount of time. I have to, and some times I just want the freedom. Like today, I've replied back to an email three days later. Was anybody hurt by it? No? Well, if they were, I'm sorry,

But all like text messages. Someone messaged me and I remembered it this morning, so I was like, oh, four days later, and I don't even feel like I should have to apologize for a late reply because late is relative. But yes, I am bad. I'm actually no, You've got really good at it, thought so much better.

Speaker 1

I just find sometimes I need to make a decision.

Speaker 2

Totally call me. I am not a messager.

Speaker 1

I am, and I'm the opposite. I'm a message meeting a message. I don't know what's call me because I'll be in meeting mema.

Speaker 2

Like, if you call me, I will pick up and we can talk. I'm more than happy to do that. But because I have to type so much for work and I'm on my phone all the time, for that, communication via phone becomes so tedious to me, it's not fun. So call me, beat me if you want to reach me.

Speaker 1

One of the times I do take calls, which I do love, is when i'm driving, that's usually my time to take a phone. It speeds up any journey.

Speaker 2

LA has such bad reception.

Speaker 3

Fair.

Speaker 2

What would each other's first line be if you meant now at a party?

Speaker 3

Oh interesting?

Speaker 2

Mine would be something like, did you try the vegan tocos?

Speaker 3

Are you vegan?

Speaker 2

Are you vegan?

Speaker 3

Mind be?

Speaker 1

Mine would be we never met at a party, so I don't also have that kind.

Speaker 2

I think maybe you say you'd probably get into like a group convo with with people, and then you say something intellectual, and then i'd have I'd ask you something.

Speaker 3

And oh so I'd use my intellect.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I think you use your intellect. What's the first song?

Speaker 1

No? But do you know what, let's let's get into this. No, no, no, I really feel for everyone who's like dating right now and stuff.

Speaker 3

But it's really hard.

Speaker 1

Like like you have to be interesting on your profile, you have to be interesting on your pictures, Then you have to be interesting on text, Then you have to be interesting on a voice note, then you have to be.

Speaker 2

Interested in real you get the real life.

Speaker 1

It's because you're forced to have to be interesting at every tiny point of connection.

Speaker 2

No, sometimes I just wanted to not talk and just be silent. You can't do that on dates. You can't just be yourself. You always feel like you have to. You have to show up as a really excitable, interesting person with a lot that you do in life. What's your screen time?

Speaker 3

Oh my gosh, well tell me yours later.

Speaker 2

I don't even want to tell you.

Speaker 3

Tell me.

Speaker 2

Seven hours thirty minutes.

Speaker 3

How mankey senses during the workday.

Speaker 2

Let's see what it shou see what it is though. Most used WhatsApp, so like yesterday was WhatsApp for three hours. That's messaging in court. Yeah, Instagram for one hour ten not bad. Internet surfing for one hour, note section forty two minutes. Because I write that, I write your quotes, I write my quotes on there, write my little reminders, reflections, Google maps thirty minutes, messages twenty six minutes, and Google calendar twenty three minutes.

Speaker 3

That's too bad.

Speaker 2

Honestly, that's probably one of my Google mail twenty minutes. I was writing back to that one email. Great, if our relationship had a theme song, what would it be?

Speaker 3

Pop star?

Speaker 2

Yeah, pop star? No doctor? Yeah, I'd go with that. I ask, great, do you have a gig about me?

Speaker 4

Yeah?

Speaker 3

Literally? I think it used to be when you used to run late.

Speaker 2

Okay, tell you mine? Mine is because you know you have this like photographic memory. I don't you remember everything? Sometimes even if I know I'm in the right, I questioned myself. I am, though, there are sometimes where you actually get it wrong.

Speaker 3

I don't you do?

Speaker 2

And this this is my egg, this part.

Speaker 3

You're the stubborn one.

Speaker 2

I don't get anything.

Speaker 1

No, you're I do get stuff wrong. I make you the first to say I'm sorry or first.

Speaker 3

Got something wrong. You're the stubborn one. Your stubborn.

Speaker 2

Okay, great, it's gonna start all right.

Speaker 1

So we're here, made it, made it and you had that conversation with you.

Speaker 2

Me too. Really, I'm really excited to get a little bever.

Speaker 3

And for the challenge. I am.

Speaker 2

Are you ready?

Speaker 1

Are you?

Speaker 3

Okay?

Speaker 2

Come on, let's go. Let's go get some food. Come make me something. It's Friday. I need some I need a break. Okay, I don't open this. Okay, amazing, you're not opening my door for me now?

Speaker 1

Oh sorry, see exactly, show you visit. Ye.

Speaker 3

Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 2

That was fun here.

Speaker 1

You're hungry, I'm gonna go home, and I'm gonna go home and make lunch for you. How does it feel when someone makes your own food for you?

Speaker 2

Honestly great, because you know what the what the amazing thing about cooking and recipes is that you can like when I cook my mum's food, I can literally cook the same thing with the same recipe and it will never taste the same.

Speaker 3

In a good way.

Speaker 2

In a great way. Like everything is so different.

Speaker 1

So when I made your recipe, it will have its own flavor. Yeah, because it will be made with love for you.

Speaker 2

Yeah, we'll just be using different hands, different amounts. Like even if you're measuring things out, somehow things always taste different. That's what's so amazing about food. Right, I'm just not a person to speak to when I'm not fed. I don't know whether you're like that.

Speaker 3

Is that how you feel right now?

Speaker 2

That's all I feel right now.

Speaker 3

I get what you're saying, though I get quite hungry as well. Do you You.

Speaker 2

Do you don't get I get upset, upset, I get agitatedated, agitated.

Speaker 3

So what do we do? What do I do when you're agitated?

Speaker 2

Ideally not talk to me, but we can't do that.

Speaker 3

Right now because we're recording.

Speaker 2

Keep this going. What do you do to keep yourself like? Because you're someone who expends so much energy during the day, I feel like you're probably one of the most what's like the word for a person who uses their time really well organized? No, no, no, you are one of the most productive people that I know, and you really don't you know, you're not a time waster. You really

use your energy and your time so efficiently. But I always wonder, and I feel like I can asked this a lot, like how do you manage to maintain that energy level throughout the day?

Speaker 3

I don't. There are times when I feel tired.

Speaker 2

But secondary part of to that question is when you do, like right now, I feel like I just want to get into bed and do nothing for the rest of the day. But like, one can't do that often, So what would one do if one was feeling that way? And actually, you know, how do you keep motivated and then pick your energy back up?

Speaker 1

I think, first of all, I do love what I do, and I really and I'm really grateful to get to do what I do. I feel like I appreciate that I get to do what I love every day, and I don't take that for granted.

Speaker 2

I've noticed that about you. You really, even if you are feeling that way, you self soothe a lot in the sense that you you self talk to motivate your like you don't really rely on other people to.

Speaker 3

Bring you no, you give me no.

Speaker 2

But what I'm saying is you find ways. I know, even when you're feeling tired, you're like, no, you know, I may be tired, but this is something that I love doing. Or you're constantly talking to yourself in a positive language to motivate yourself or energize yourself. And I've noticed that about you, where even if you are tired, and even if you're yeah, I'm exhausted, but I've had like the best week and it's been so productive and I got this done, and what an amazing thing to

be able to do this or this. And so I've noticed that with you where even and so I think that language really makes a difference.

Speaker 1

To how Yeah, And I always say to myself, I am tired, so I'm accepting and then and then I add an action to solve that. So I am tired and I'll go to.

Speaker 2

Sleep tonight, I'll sleep.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I'll go to do it tonight.

Speaker 1

Or I am tired and tomorrow I'm going to sleep on the plane, so I've got to fly tomorrow.

Speaker 2

It's always telling you, you know what it is. It's your body reacts to how you're feeling and what you're saying to it.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and you're not lying to you. You can't just be like, oh, I feel I feel energized.

Speaker 2

Because it knows you like you know, but it's one of those things where you are almost giving it that hope, and that's something to look forward to where it's like, let's just put in that last amount of effort and then just know that I also know you are struggling, and I know that this is happening in my in your in my body. So I'm telling you body that we are going to do this and it's gonna it's gonna make us feel better.

Speaker 1

And also planning recoup, right, like I know that like last weekend when you planned a little spar day for us, Yeah, like I was looking forward to that the whole week.

We knew we had a tough couple of weeks before that, and now I know I've got another quite intense like seven days ahead and then I'm hoping to have a bit of a couple of days of rest, and so I think it's also balancing that out and saying, Okay, I know I've got a busy period, When am I going to plan some deep rest rather than going okay, I'm just going to rely on that energy.

Speaker 2

I think people, and by people, I mean people like me, we live moment to moment rather then like there's a lot of people, and I'm not saying whether that's good or bad, but there are people who live moment to moment and react according to how they're feeling in the moment, and then there are people who and I think there's a training element to it, where you know, you can't always act on how you're feeling, because often how you're feeling may not be may not be the right way

to do what you need to do. Like I feel a certain way right now, but do I have things to do and do I need to get them done? Yes? Whereas if I went with how I was feeling and I didn't train myself to push through that, sometimes I wouldn't be able to get done what I need to do. So I think it takes an element of training. I think that's every single time you're feeling that way, having that talk and pushing yourself to do.

Speaker 3

Yeah, that's really smart. Solved it. What was that last question on the page?

Speaker 2

It was what kind of party person are you?

Speaker 1

Oh? Introvert extrovert?

Speaker 2

What was It was kind of like the so I know I and the person yawning at the party, but also the person who I find one person to talk to the whole night usually stick with that person. No, you're like a full on social butterfly. I'm not a going to get you out of a party.

Speaker 1

I find Jeremy at any party. No, No, this is true. When Humble lived here, I would find Humble Jeremy at any party and we would sit and have a philosophical conversation and half that's fact, that's fact, that's fact. As umbl Jeremy the person is that stubbornness coming out in you.

Speaker 3

I know why.

Speaker 2

I know because I'm always waiting by the door waiting.

Speaker 1

That's never happened in a million years.

Speaker 2

Are you joking?

Speaker 3

Are in one place that I'm going to ask all my.

Speaker 2

Friends, all of our friends tonight when we see them. What usually happens at the end of the night. It's you talking to everybody saying bye for about.

Speaker 3

Yea because they guess at our home, or.

Speaker 2

About you talking to people and I'm waiting to go to the next shop and you're just having a You just you just chatter. You are definitely know you are you love socialized.

Speaker 1

You know what though, we went to some really beautiful things lately, so we were really fortunate to go to Kristen Bell was being honored by UN Women and for the World Peace and it was a gala, the first ever gala. It was absolutely incredible. I think we were both moved by Sharon Stone.

Speaker 2

Who's Winstone gives such an incredible She talked about shared

so much that I just didn't know about. And you know, one thing that's made me that that situation made me think it was about there was some women who are, you know, advocating for a lot of peace around the world, and this was a woman that came from Afghanistan and she was talking about the amount that's happening in Afghanistan, and it made me realize that there is so much happening around the world that we don't hear about, and what makes it to us is based on what the

media decides to show us. And I find that so interesting because when I then was thinking about other things that I've heard through my friends or you know, depending on where you're from originally, you may hear more to do with that country, right, And so I was thinking about the other areas of the world that we just don't hear about, and there is so much happening around the world that we just don't know.

Speaker 3

About, and we can't even and we can't.

Speaker 2

It's so difficult, and it's obviously what's close to you and what's meaningful, but it is so interesting that we do kind of live in our own bubble, even though you think we have so much access to other parts of the world. Like they were talking about what's happening in Afghanistan and how you know, yeah, refugee camps and how the women there are treated and they're not allowed to go out into even walk by themselves on the street, they're not allowed education. There's so much.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I was really blown away. I think we were both blown away by when Sharon Stone was saying that the average refugee spends eleven years in a refugee camp and there's no access to toilets and showers for that much time.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you know what. I was thinking about this, and my parents were in refugee camps. Well my mum was for a long time, so was my dad for years of their teenage life, and they're refugee camps. My mum was saying was actually it was in London. It was in Scotland, sorry, And they were saying they did have those facilities there, but I think maybe in different parts of the world they didn't, but I think it's more collective showers, collective toilets, and you just think about how

different people's lives can be. Like my parents went through that for their teenagers, they spent it in refugee camps. They see it as a place that saved their life. Like they see the refugee camps as we were able to leave an unsafe place.

Speaker 3

To come and because they were able to get out.

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly, and so they were so grateful to even have that someone that actually took them in and given that opportunity to start over and start a new life.

Speaker 1

Yeah. And then the other event we went to that I think was really beautiful and special this week was the celebration event for Clarence and Jackie Avon. Oh Yeah, that was just spectacular, so so grateful. We both were invited by Nicole Avan to celebrate her parents, and even though we didn't know her parents, I define like that. Yeah,

it was such a beautifully organized event. I felt so moved and touched because I walked away going, Wow, if only I could even try to serve my community and live in the way her parents did like to have that.

Speaker 2

Much impact, And whether it's impact online, offline, the people closest to the people that you meet in a shop, whatever it is to have that effect where people are so touched by who you are as a person and how you've gone above and beyond for them. I think it was incredible. The number of people in so many different areas, so many different walks of life. I was blown away. It was incredible.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it was unbelievable to had that experience and just yeah, just to hear about how, yeah, how someone for that many years as we could continue to support and serve their community. I know.

Speaker 2

I feel like it was from his pretty much like teenage years or both their teenage years, all the way up till ninety. Yeah, and still there were people who had met him at ninety and were sharing how much even within a couple of months they had completely changed their.

Speaker 1

Perspectivele Yeah, it was really really special. Yeah, yea, it was incredible. And then obviously we got to watch this beautiful performance by Stevie Wonder, which I thought was oh.

Speaker 2

My god, literally made me cry. What's a legendary human? And then to be able to I think more than anybody that I've seen in real life, and we went to Beyonce's concert. We went to so many things, but I don't know there's something for me. I've got a personal kind of nostalgia with Stevie Wonder. It was playing my day. I used to play all the time in the car when I was growing up and just an amazing, amazing artist.

Speaker 1

Yeah, really fun events. So those are two social events. You didn't have to drag me out.

Speaker 3

I'll play.

Speaker 1

And I really really love attending these events. And I almost remind you of humanity. Like, I walked away in different ways. One was what we can do to serve, what we can do to help. The other one about how we can celebrate humans as well. I felt I walked away thinking, how do I want to celebrate my parents?

Speaker 2

So?

Speaker 1

How do I want to celebrate what they gave me?

Speaker 2

Yeah, it made me walk away thinking because there were so many amazing stories that they were telling, And it made me walk away thinking, is there's these amazing games you can buy and journals that you ask your parents to fill in and to talk about their life before you and even their life throughout you. But it's a year long journal. I don't know what it's called, but

I'm going to try and find it again. I saw it and I asked questions that you would never normally ask your parents, and I realized, I want to and I want to go back and got all these pictures and things from when they were younger, to actually ask the stories behind the pictures and write them down in the album. Because there's one thing about having like footage of and being like, oh, this is a nice picture, but when you have the depth in the story behind

it, it makes it so much more meaningful. So I'm going to do that with my grandma and my parents. I was going to tell you to do that with your mom.

Speaker 3

Remember when you tried to interview your grandma.

Speaker 2

I did try to interview my grandma. I wish there was a way of doing it where she doesn't realize. My grandma gets into like perform a mode when the camera's out, which she gets really serious. But I still think I learned so much.

Speaker 3

From You need to do it in a way when it's you're just sitting in a room.

Speaker 2

But I do think it's important. I follow this page on Instagram that's all about the questions you should ask your parents. Oh my God, look this God does hand gestures. What is like to change things on the screen. Is I've seen that on BMW's I Forgot you can change songs and stuff like this.

Speaker 3

Okay, but what are you doing right now?

Speaker 2

That's the hand Just I don't know what I'm doing right now, but that'll be like if a song is playing. Yeah, I think it's so nice getting to know your parents before you to be able to understand them and how they are with you now. I definitely want to invest time in doing that.

Speaker 3

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1

It was really beautiful, really really special, and her book is amazing. It's called I Think You'll Be Happy. It's really really special. It's really grateful to have her as a guest on the podcast. I was going to say my sister's wedding was one of those times that I feel like I really got to celebrate her, and I think it's so interesting. You get very few opportunities to celebrate the people that you love, and you almost have to take all of them and create.

Speaker 3

More because people don't take them.

Speaker 1

It's time to celebrate their own lives, and we don't take time to celebrate the people's people's lives that we love.

Speaker 2

Yeah, so true that days are a good opportunity to do that if you do it properly. Yeah, so who were you wearing?

Speaker 1

Okay, hello about you have energy for stuff like that. Okay, Now, I was just thinking that my sister's wedding was honestly just so much fun, talking about spending time with family and talking about doing amazing things. And my sister had five events across seven days proper India, with an average attendance of over three hundred people at every single event.

Speaker 2

Small.

Speaker 1

It was a small Indian wedding, but it was insane and I was more run down from her wedding than I was from my tour. And I think the reason is because it was so emotional as well. I must crying, Yeah, I must have cried, like just.

Speaker 2

Crying every day, every day, every hour, the whole ceremony, crying as well. He looked across I would look across him and he be crying, and then naturally when people cry, I cry, obviously. I just also love their relationship. It's so sweet. It's one of the sweetest brother sister relationships I've ever come across. And there was one time where he turned to me and he just stopped crying and then sending look, I was crying again. He looks at me and he goes. She was saying her vows, she's

so well spoken. I was like, okay, great, yeah, she's she did really good speeches, like she went to elocution classes when she so it was just really he was welling up at her speaking so beautifully. I think she said like one line.

Speaker 3

But you were crying as well.

Speaker 2

Of course I was crying. We love her. She just yeah, she's your kid.

Speaker 3

It was really cute. It was really cute. And then I cried throughout my whole speech.

Speaker 2

Cry through the whole speech, lumbering away.

Speaker 3

It was really sweet, though, I don't think do you know what it was?

Speaker 2

Actually? This? This speech was half sweet and half sassy.

Speaker 1

Yeah, the first half was legendary.

Speaker 2

First half. Normally, you know in speeches people have a bit of banter. Jade took it all the way bantering it.

Speaker 3

It was a full on comedy set.

Speaker 2

It was who knew you were funny? I did?

Speaker 3

You did?

Speaker 1

I think what it was right about the wedding was I actually realized just how much my sister loves me, and I realized how much I love her, Like it was like that was what I was feeling.

Speaker 2

You how you didn't know how much your sister loved you. You are literally the pick to me, like you just everything to her. There is nothing you could do wrong in her eyes, and even if you do, she's forgiven it within like five seconds.

Speaker 3

Well, I think it's also you know what it is.

Speaker 2

Especially knows how much you love her.

Speaker 1

That's why I think, because there far I think sometimes I have to put some of my feelings aside to get on with my focus and my drive, and there's an element of where I have to I don't get to express those emotions all year around, but I am carrying them internally, and then they all come out in that moment because I don't you know, I don't get to see my sister every week. I don't get to talk to her all the time, and when I do, even I've never found phone conversations to be as fulfilling

and as deep as being in person. And so I feel like I carried that love around and then it was all I had to come out. You were so wonderful. You helped her with the wedding so much. She was so grateful to you, and you did so much for the wedding. It was amazing, and she did an amazing job planning an epic wedding. I was like, I don't know how someone plans by events in seven days so much insane?

Speaker 2

Is that the sun of the car sounds like a space ship.

Speaker 3

It feels like a space ship.

Speaker 2

To exactly, I'm so hungry.

Speaker 1

I know you're excited for some Mexican rice.

Speaker 2

Yeah, honestly I am.

Speaker 1

Are you excited for some stuffed pepper. Are you excited for some cabbage you expected? Excited for some cilentro?

Speaker 2

Yeah?

Speaker 3

Are you excited for some avocados?

Speaker 2

Oh, my god, fresh squatch?

Speaker 3

Very excited for some taco seasoning?

Speaker 1

Yeah? Excited for some bell peppers? Are you excited for some vegan eggs? Are you excited for some sour cream? Remember everything on the list?

Speaker 3

I actually remembered your god, have you.

Speaker 2

Lear that game? That's like I went to the store and I bought, but that's usually that. I went to the store and.

Speaker 3

Airport pattig, Yeah, I got you there.

Speaker 2

I went to the store and I put as.

Speaker 1

I went to the store and got some aciptidia beans and can This isn't.

Speaker 2

There's no reason for this to be in that act.

Speaker 3

There is great.

Speaker 2

I went to the store and I bought beans.

Speaker 3

What did you say, tomatoes?

Speaker 2

Canned tomatoes and dried oregana.

Speaker 1

Okay, so that was good fun. Now we're going to cook and then eat it. All right, if everyone wants to see me, try and cook this recipe from Rady's book for RADI tune into YouTube, Please God. If you love this episode, you'll love my interview with Dr Gabor Matte on understanding your trauma and how to heal emotional wounds to start moving on from the past.

Speaker 3

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 4

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