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Welcome to the Yoga Nation, the Spirit of Gratitude podcast on the One Integration platform.
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Hello friends, my name is Yogesh Patel and this podcast explores the themes of bullying, self-awareness and the power of our inner spirit, including the silent battles we all face.
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Join me every week as I invite high-profile guests, as we explore how adversity shapes us, how gratitude lifts us and how we can all uncover the inner strength that we all have within ourselves.
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Join the conversation.
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I appreciate you listening in.
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We really love your support Again, the ability to tag the Oak Nation, share with your friends and family.
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More importantly, importantly, what does this meet night mean for you inside in your heart?
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That's really the energy that I want to be able to project with all of you tonight.
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That is my ask and with that again, if there are individuals, organizations, folks in the media that would benefit from listening to this messaging of the podcast, which is not about me, I am simply the messenger, gene, you are the message.
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Tobin, you are the message.
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Matthew, earl Jones, you are the message.
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That's really what it's all about here and it's kind of like I just want to knock some sense into people.
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I think that's what it comes down to again, the world is unkind, it's unfair, unjust.
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But if there's good messaging out there, if there's good leadership, if there's good mentors, great things are going to happen.
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You know I did.
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I was telling a few people earlier when I did the podcast videocast with Yogi last fall I was living in the south of France, in Monaco, that you know, I usually don't get in interviews from Yogi, and you know what I realized afterward, and I think you know one of the reasons I'm a sponsor of this and a believer in what Yogi is doing with Yacht Nation is, when you meet entrepreneurs, founders, ceos, if they don't have authenticity which Yogi clearly does if they don't have tenacity, which he needs to have to build the business he's building, and if they're not intelligent, then it's almost over.
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No matter how good the pitch deck is, no matter how good the product market fit all the usual venture capital sort of cliches are.
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And then, finally, integrity.
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I worked for a venture capital firm before the one I currently do and they had a rule that anyone on the investment committee could kill an investment based on the creep factor.
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And you wouldn't believe how many people lie on their resumes.
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They don't disclose their backgrounds.
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In fact, I helped my son start what is now a very successful background check company called Five Star Background Checks.
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If you need that, fivestarbackgroundcom Cheap shoe, yeah you know.
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Do you want a CFO that's declared personal bankruptcy?
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Three times?
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Probably not.
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Bankruptcy three times, Probably not.
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Do you want a resume fraudster who says they went to Harvard when all they did was get a weekend certificate?
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That's all over the LinkedIn's who probably know I say no to that.
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And then I guess I'll just finish up by saying I really believe in the sincerity of what Yogi is doing.
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Gratitude to me is a superpower and you have to practice it, just like you practice prayer or just like you practice, you know, uh, trying to be nice to the brother-in-law.
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You can't stand when you make yourself a better person, you make people around you a better person, but you become a better person when you practice gratitude and you do it daily.
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And, yes, you can do.
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You know, you can buy apps right now, but I'm just telling you, go and chat gpt, say hey, create me an app for me, do this, this and this.
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It'll be on your phone in about 10 seconds.
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Right, but for me, what I found is I've had, you know, big successes, big blows in between.
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I have a twin brother, I mean that's.
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I don't know if I'm gratitude for that.
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Okay, to be honest with you, I am.
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But when you put it all together, you build this pyramid of strength and there's a base to it, and as you build the base, you then ping against that.
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I'm in the money management business.
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I do venture capital, investing.
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They don't all work out.
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I don't know if you know that In the last you know, let's say 60 days, it was sort of fun to wake up and see what was going to happen.
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If you didn't like today, just wait till tomorrow.
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Well, you can get bitchy about that and you can be whiny about that, or you can girl up or man up and say you know what?
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I'm living on a pyramid of strength that my forefathers and my friends and my relationships gave me.
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Shut up, get up and make it happen.
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So there's a rule that I've developed recently If you fear something and your heart is in the right place, you have to do it.
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You have no choice.
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There is no better way to help the world or to grow yourself than facing fears and doing good things for this world.
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So that is your checklist, folks, if there's something you're afraid of, thank you.
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If there's something you're afraid of, if you fear it and your heart is in the right place, you have to do it.
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I met Yogi and I tell you my story because you can notice the similarities in this.
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Yogi had the same issues that he dealt with with bullying, that frustration, that helplessness and the lack of kind, good messaging in the world and that's what I love to be a part of with the Yogi Nation is because I know Yogi's heart is in a very similar place.
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We need good messaging in the world.
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You're all amazing people.
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Look at this community that comes together from an idea that Yogi had that was Yohasian.
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It's unbelievable and I see how hard because I work probably closer with you than anybody on the podcast, probably know more about it, right, and so I can't tell you how long he plans out an episode, how much he puts into it.
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I produce a lot of podcasts.
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Nobody works as hard as Yogi does to put out a podcast in Caravan.
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This sort of messaging is the thing that changes the world.
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And although Yogi and I have our ups and downs and it takes him six months to listen to me, I'm glad.
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I'm glad that he has that stubbornness, because sticking to something when your heart's in the right place is the surefire way to win it, and I have no doubt we'll be here at Yog Nation number seven celebrating an amazing next season.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, yogi, for all you're doing for the world.
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The world truly needs more kind-hearted badass just like you what I do in my life is a generosity expert.
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I founded my company almost 15 years ago is invite people on a journey to be generous.
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That's our motto, that's our tagline hi, beautiful people hi they're stealing the show.
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They are, but they deserve it and it was very hard for me to ask for help.
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You are the lowest of the low.
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You don't look like what you feel like, or maybe you do because you feel pretty bad, but you don't look like the you that you know yourself to be.
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And that's very hard because people stare, people don't smile sometimes, smile sometimes and imagine me bald, no eyebrows, no hair like, no eyelashes, much, much bigger in size.
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People don't treat people like that very kindly, but there were a lot of people who did and that generosity of heart and that generosity of care when you're feeling so bad, y'all.
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I woke up and when I went to every chemo treatment, malik, my sweet husband, who is the rock behind the rock that cared for me, and my mom, I'll tell you, painted on my eyebrows, I put on that lipstick, I put on my nicest outfit and the nurses in the infusion room were like, damn girl, you look good.
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And I was like, yeah, thank you.
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Now give me the poison and they treat me and not harm me too bad, because literally one of the things I had was called the red devil, for any of you who know what breast cancer chemo is like.
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But my point is again ask for help.
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People generous.
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This rooftop is full of people who are generous and kind, and I guess it's just surprising, in moments of life when you're so low and don't think that there's going to be support, that there can be generous yourself with a smile, with an offering, with a kind word, with your resources.
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Do it because, at the end of the day, all we got is how we treat one another.
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So I want to thank yogi, I want to thank all of you, and may you guys have a beautiful night and blessings.
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The older you get, the less desirable you are, and that needs to stop, because in other cultures you're wise, you're seeked out.
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People think you are wise, even though we're just making it up, like everybody is, but they don't know that in other cultures and so they value it.
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And you know, we do know a lot of things.
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We could be helping you guys out if you would just ask.
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But you know the thing that he said.
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That was the point of my thing once you have a hater, you've made it.
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I got my first hater it was my daughter because my husband's an IT guy.
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He could track the IP address and that was kind of cool and sad at the same time and I was telling somebody about it.
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They said once you have a hater, though you've made it, because unless somebody, it means you, you make a difference, people are noticing you.
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So I took all of those little comments and I cut them up and I made a video and in the video they were little bees and I just flicked them away and I did blank out their name.
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They did not get credit for that and I did change the way I look a little bit, a little bit fit in a little better with you, know whatever.
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But I tell you what, whatever.
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But I tell you what my confidence has changed.
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Because when those numbers started going up in April of 24, I said on my birthday in May of 25, I'm going to get a silver play button from YouTube.
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There aren't very many women my age that have one.
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I'm going to do do it.
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And do you know when I achieved that?
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two weeks before my birthday what I have today was a dream three years ago, right.
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What I have today, like 10 year old me in middle school being bullied would have like he would have been ecstatic, you know.
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And so I started really thinking of reality and just appreciating the beauty of the present, the moment, right now.
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What we have, right, I have my hands, I have my legs, I have the ability to produce and grow.
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Right, and I just started showing love to reality, you know, and little did I know, that's gratitude, right.
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And when my uncle released his podcast and I watched a few episodes, I was like, wow, like gratitude is a powerful, powerful thing, you know.
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Like just accepting and just being happy and content with what we have now.
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You, you know, like building without gratitude is like trying to climb a mountain and not seeing a view.
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Right, it's like what's the point?
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And so I think this message that my uncle is trying to spread to the world is so freakin powerful.
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If little kids my age, if I had learned this when I was in middle school, when I was in high school maybe I don't, maybe I would have enjoyed the process, maybe what I would have, like, you know, created bigger things, right, and so I'm just so happy to see everyone here today, you know, supporting my uncle's message to the world that you know we have to show gratitude, we have to understand, you know, what's going on in our life and appreciate it, and that's really the pillars of building a great life, and so I want to thank everybody out today for coming here and supporting him.
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And we need to grow this podcast, guys, if you guys have any recommendations and anyone in your network that can help grow this podcast, be a support system to my uncle, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Okay, thank you, guys once again for coming out.
