On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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What if certainty is what’s actually keeping you stuck? Today Jay sits down with philosopher and creator Alex O’Connor for a deeply thought-provoking conversation about consciousness, certainty, rel...
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Alex O'Connor, philosopher and content creator, joins Jay Shetty for a wide-ranging conversation exploring consciousness, science, philosophy, and the nature of existence. O'Connor discusses his unconventional path from rebellious student to Oxford graduate, challenges the assumption that science can explain everything, and shares insights on Eastern philosophy, death, and why he's stepping back from debates. The conversation delves into split-brain research, the illusion of self, and how our left brain rationalizes decisions we've already made intuitively.
- From Rebellious Student to Oxford Philosopher
- The Limits of Scientific Explanation
Today, Jay breaks down seven mindset shifts that have fundamentally changed how he approaches pain, relationships, purpose, and growth. This isn’t surface-level inspiration. It’s the kind of perspecti...
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Jay Shetty delivers a powerful episode on seven transformative mindsets backed by neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom. He argues that most mindset content is forgettable because it never gets deep enough to create real change. These seven mindsets—from treating pain as temporary to understanding love as a daily choice—are designed to shift behavior permanently, not just inspire momentarily. Shetty combines scientific research from psychologists like Martin Seligman and John Gottman with wisdom from Vedic traditions and his own experiences of failure and growth.
- Introduction: Why Most Mindset Content Fails
- Mindset One: Pain Is a Postcard, Not a Permanent Address
Dhar Mann: Not Where You Want to Be Yet? (Follow THIS 5-Step Framework to Stop Overthinking and Finally Take Action)
May 20, 2026Today Jay sits down with one of the world’s most influential digital storytellers, Dhar Mann, for a raw conversation about failure, identity, and resilience. Dhar opens up about growing up feeling cau...
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Dar Mann, one of the world's most-watched digital storytellers reaching billions with his life lesson videos, joins Jay Shetty to share his remarkable journey from rock bottom to building a content empire. He opens up about his painful childhood as a bullied Indian kid wearing a turban, his multiple business failures including bankruptcy, and how he transformed personal struggles into a mission-driven brand. Dar reveals his five-step HEART framework for creator success, explains his systematic approach to viral content, and shares how his wife Laura believed in him when he had nothing. This conversation is packed with practical business strategies, emotional wisdom, and proof that your greatest struggles can become your greatest superpowers.
- From Cultural Outsider to Community Builder
- The Five-Step HEART Framework for Creator Success
Dr. Lisa Miller: Feeling Lost, Stuck or Anxious? (Use THIS Spiritual Framework to Finally Move Forward With Clarity)
May 18, 2026What if the hardest moments in your life weren’t there to break you, but were actually pointing you toward who you’re meant to be? Today, Jay sits down with renowned psychologist, Columbia professor...
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Dr. Lisa Miller, Columbia psychologist and author of The Awakened Brain, explores the science of spirituality and its profound impact on mental health. She reveals how every person is born with hardwired spiritual awareness, backed by neuroscience showing specific brain circuits for perceiving love, guidance, and connection. The conversation covers how spirituality protects against depression and addiction, practical exercises for awakening spiritual awareness, navigating life's challenges through spiritual perception, and integrating spirituality into relationships, work, and parenting.
- The Science Behind Our Spiritual Nature
- Spirituality's Powerful Protection Against Mental Health Struggles
You know that moment after a breakup when you find yourself going back to their photos. Not all of them, just the best ones. The trips, the laughs, the versions of you that felt happiest together. And...
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This episode explores the neuroscience and psychology behind why we romanticize ex-partners after breakups. The host examines how our brains distort memories, create addiction-like withdrawal symptoms, and tap into deeper attachment wounds. Through scientific research and practical tools, the episode guides listeners toward genuine healing rather than staying trapped in nostalgic loops about relationships that have ended.
- The Neuroscience of Memory Distortion After Loss
- Breakup as Neurological Withdrawal, Not Just Heartbreak
In this special compilation episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty brings together three powerful voices in the world of fitness and human performance, Dr. Andy Galpin, Dave Asprey, and Senada Greca, to ch...
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This episode explores why strength training is essential for everyone—not just athletes or bodybuilders. Three expert guests break down how strength training improves longevity, brain health, bone density, and everyday quality of life. From efficient 15-minute-per-week workouts to the science of muscle preservation, this episode makes the case that building strength is the foundation for living pain-free, energized, and independent well into old age.
- Why Strength Training Is for Everyone
- Strength as a Predictor of Longevity
HAYDEN PANETTIERE: The Truth Behind the Headlines (Finally Telling Her Story In Her Own Words)
May 11, 2026Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t what the world did to you, it’s unlearning the version of yourself you became just to survive it. Today, Jay sits down with Hayden Panettiere for a raw an...
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In this deeply vulnerable conversation, actress Hayden Panettiere shares her powerful memoir 'This Is Me: A Reckoning' with Jay Shetty. She opens up about her extraordinary journey from child star to becoming a mother, survivor of abuse, and advocate for mental health awareness. Hayden candidly discusses the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, navigating postpartum depression, losing custody of her daughter, her brother's death, struggles with alcoholism, surviving domestic abuse, and ultimately finding the strength to reclaim her story. Despite revisiting these painful moments, Hayden radiates hope and resilience as she enters a new chapter focused on healing and helping others.
- Growing Up in the Spotlight: A Lost Childhood
- The Momager Dynamic: When Parents Become Bosses
Stop Saying Yes When You Want to Say No (Use This Simple Daily Practice to Set Boundaries Without Guilt)
May 08, 2026Peace is something we often treat like a destination, something we’ll finally reach once life quiets down, problems fade, and everything feels under control. In this episode, Jay challenges that idea....
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This episode explores the concept of peace, arguing that it's not the absence of difficulty but the ability to remain grounded amid life's storms. The host examines how peace is systematically depleted through relationships, work culture, and internal patterns, offering research-backed strategies to reclaim it through honest self-examination, boundary-setting, and deliberate daily practices.
- Understanding True Peace and Its Erosion
- The Hidden Cost of Emotional Labor in Relationships
Jay sits down with trailblazing entrepreneur and investor Anjula Acharia to explore what it really takes to turn pain into purpose. Anjula opens up about her early experiences with bullying and feelin...
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Anjula Acharia, trailblazing entrepreneur, investor, and manager of Priyanka Chopra Jonas, shares her remarkable journey from being bullied as a Pakistani kid in England to becoming a powerhouse in entertainment and tech. She discusses founding ventures backed by Jimmy Iovine, early investments in Bumble and ClassPass, and the importance of being 'mapless' while building multiple businesses. Acharia opens up about hitting rock bottom, overcoming failure, infertility struggles, and finding her voice by bringing South Asian culture to mainstream media through music, film, and business.
- Childhood Trauma and the Power of Media Representation
- The Mapless Journey: Building Without a Blueprint
Esther Perel: The REAL Reason You’re Struggling to Find Love (Fix THIS to Build Chemistry in Real Life)
May 04, 2026Today, Jay Shetty welcomes back Esther Perel to unpack a growing tension in modern relationships: in a world more connected than ever, why so many people feel deeply disconnected. Esther reframes dat...
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Can’t Sit Still Without Distraction? (Train Your Brain With THIS Daily Practice & Embrace Boredom!)
May 01, 2026Today, Jay explores a truth most of us instinctively avoid: we no longer know how to be alone with our own thoughts. He reflects on how our constant need for stimulation, scrolling, watching, filling ...
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Jay Shetty explores the profound importance of boredom in modern life, drawing on philosopher Blaise Pascal's 1654 insight that humanity's inability to sit quietly alone is the root of its problems. He examines how the attention economy has systematically eliminated boredom from our lives, why our brain's default mode network needs these empty moments to function, and provides practical strategies for reclaiming the sacred void of boredom to unlock creativity, self-understanding, and genuine fulfillment.
- Pascal's Timeless Warning About Human Restlessness
- The Misunderstood Nature of Boredom and Creativity
Jay sits down with Bridget Bahl, entrepreneur and founder of the fashion brand The Bar, who has built a powerful community through her honesty about life, faith, and relationships. What begins as a co...
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Bridget Ball, founder of fashion brand The Bar, shares her deeply personal journey through breast cancer while reflecting on faith, marriage, and finding purpose. Diagnosed just weeks after buying out her company and one year into marriage at age 40, Bridget navigated chemotherapy, IVF complications, and the physical and emotional toll of treatment. Throughout, she maintained her community presence, documenting her experience to inspire others to get screened. Her story explores how crisis reveals character, the importance of choosing the right life partner, reframing adversity, and finding gratitude amid suffering.
- The Diagnosis: When Life Stops You in Your Tracks
- Rock Bottom to Redemption: Finding Faith in Fashion's Illusion
We spend so much time waiting to feel ready, not realizing that confidence only comes after we begin. Today, Jay sits down with Leila Hormozi to explore what truly drives success, not just in busine...
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In this episode, Leila Hormozi shares her journey from battling addiction and insecurity to building multi-million dollar companies. She breaks down the difference between confidence and competence, explains why emotional management is the real key to business success, and reveals the leadership skills that separate those who win for a season from those who win for decades. Leila offers tactical advice on building discipline through systems, giving effective feedback, and navigating the unique pressures women face in business while maintaining strong values.
- From Insecurity to Competence: Redefining Confidence
- The Real Reason Businesses Fail: Emotional Management
10 Books That Changed My Life
Apr 24, 2026Today, Jay opens with an honest observation: most books don’t actually change your life. While many offer inspiration in the moment, they rarely shift how we truly think or live. What makes the differ...
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Jay Shetty shares 10 transformative books that fundamentally changed how he thinks, decides, and lives. Rather than summarizing each book, he extracts the single most powerful idea from each one and explains how it reshaped his approach to decision-making, purpose-finding, mental clarity, happiness, and personal freedom. The collection spans neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and practical wisdom, building toward an ancient teaching that ties everything together.
- How to Decide by Annie Duke - Separating Decision Quality from Outcomes
- Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson - Purpose as Intersection, Not Single Calling
Sometimes it’s not your situation holding you back, it’s the story you’ve been telling yourself about it. Jay sits down with entrepreneur and speaker Sean Callagy to explore what it truly means to l...
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Sean Callagy, entrepreneur and founder of Unblinded, shares his remarkable journey from facing blindness and potential poverty to building a billion-dollar company. He reveals the principles of integrity-based influence, the power of mastering the ability to cause 'yes' in others, and how AI is revolutionizing business. Despite losing his vision to retinitis pigmentosa, Sean became a successful attorney, business owner, and father who attended nearly all of his children's sporting events while scaling multiple companies. He provides actionable strategies for success, from endorphin micro-dosing to ecosystem merging, while emphasizing that influence is the only human-attainable superpower.
- Sean's Definition of Success and the Unblinded Mission
- Discovering His Vision Loss and Transforming Adversity
Tim Ferriss: Feeling Stuck Right Now? (Use THIS 10-Minute Exercise to Stop Overthinking and Take Action)
Apr 20, 2026Sometimes we become so fixated on improving our lives that we stop asking a more important question: what actually matters? Jay sits down with Tim Ferriss for something deeper than a discussion on p...
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Tim Ferriss returns to On Purpose after nine years to discuss his latest explorations in bioelectric medicine, cognitive optimization, and the balance between achievement and acceptance. He shares groundbreaking insights on brain stimulation, intermittent fasting, the dangers of social media, and how to design a life focused on meaningful relationships rather than constant productivity. Tim reveals his personal experiments with accelerated TMS therapy for anxiety and OCD, emphasizes the importance of saying no, and explains why relationships should be the foundation of self-improvement rather than an afterthought.
- Current Fascinations: Bioelectric Medicine and Brain Fuel
- The Fuel Problem: Why You Might Not Need More Therapy
10 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew in My 20s
Apr 17, 2026Today, Jay invites us to slow down and question the invisible beliefs quietly running our lives. He reveals how much of our stress, our careers, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities, isn’t the r...
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In this thought-provoking episode, Jay Shetty delivers 10 counterintuitive truths designed to help listeners in their 20s break free from inherited beliefs and create authentic lives. Drawing from neuroscience, ancient wisdom traditions, and behavioral research, he challenges conventional thinking about success, identity, and life planning. The episode emphasizes that most people operate on unexamined beliefs absorbed from external sources, and provides frameworks for recognizing avoidance patterns, distinguishing genuine desires from programmed ones, and building life through experimentation rather than rigid planning.
- Introduction: The Hidden Beliefs Shaping Your Life
- Truth 1: Avoidance Disguised as Strategy
We’ve been taught that success at work is what leads to happiness, but in reality, it’s how work actually feels that shapes the rest of our lives. Jay sits down with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor ...
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Parenting today feels like navigating endless advice while quietly wondering if you’re doing any of it right. Jay sits down with bestselling author and economist Emily Oster to unpack one of the mos...
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Emily Oster, bestselling author and economist, brings data-driven insights to the overwhelming world of modern parenting. She cuts through myths and anxiety-inducing advice about pregnancy, vaccines, sleep training, and screen time, helping parents distinguish correlation from causation and prioritize what truly matters. From debunking common pregnancy restrictions to reframing parenting as a 'group project' requiring preparation and communication, Oster emphasizes making thoughtful choices while recognizing there are many right ways to parent.
- Getting Pregnant: What You Can Actually Control
- Pregnancy Myths: What the Data Really Says
How to Communicate So People Actually Listen
Apr 10, 2026How many times have you said something, and it didn’t come across the way you meant it to? Today, Jay unpacks why so many of us feel unheard at work, at home, and even in our closest relationships. ...
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Jay Shetty delivers an insightful episode on effective communication, drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral research. He addresses why most people overestimate their communication abilities and provides six core principles for being heard and understood at work and in personal relationships. The episode emphasizes that communication is about impact rather than intention, focusing on practical strategies to reduce conflict, build trust, and create genuine understanding through regulated responses, clarity, safety, curiosity, tone awareness, and alignment.
- The Communication Gap: Why We're Not as Clear as We Think
- Principle 1: Regulate Before You Communicate