It was a dream come true moment for Nova’s The Chrissie Swan Show host Chrissie Swan and for anchor Jack Charles as they spoke to author, purpose coach and podcast host Jay Shetty. He was Chrissie’s number one dream guest and lived up to expectations.

Chrissie: This morning I opened up my email, and you know, you put in a search term, and I searched Jay Shetty, and what came up was this: it was an email that I’d sent myself with the subject header ‘big and probably improbable list of wish list guests’.
Jay: Oh, wow!
Chrissie: And the number one name on it was yours!
Jay: That is so humbling. I am so truly humbled by that, and I’m very grateful for your love, and I’m really, really happy to be with you too. Thank you so much for sharing that. That’s genuinely so kind of you.
Chrissie: Let’s talk about getting to know yourself, because that in itself is the massive job, and I don’t think I really got to know myself until I discovered walking, and I would spend two hours a day for years on end, and that was when I got to know myself and my entire physiology mentality. Everything changed through that process.
Jay: There’s this incredible study where they asked men and women if they wanted to be alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes or give themselves an electric shock. 27% of women chose an electric shock, and around 66% of men chose an electric shock because they didn’t want to be alone with their thoughts, so the reason why I raised that is what walking does for you is it’s you spending time with yourself. We don’t really spend that much time with ourselves… No wonder we don’t know ourselves. So, when you’re walking for those couple of hours a day, or over a week, or whatever you can afford to do, that stillness and silence with yourself is so revelatory, because you’re actually having to go inward, especially if you don’t distract yourself with some music, or a phone call, or whatever it may be.
Jack: Who, out of all of the big names, you know, Kim Kardashian, Sir Lewis Hamilton, Oprah Winfrey, who has surprised you the most?
Jay: Oh, good question. I’d say that the person I was most surprised by was probably Madonna. I ended up speaking to her on Facetime for an hour a month, like three to four months before the interview, so we could get to know each other and I could understand what she wanted to share and talk about, which was a surreal experience, Facetiming with Madonna. And then when we came around to the interview, what I was shocked by was for someone who’s been in the public eye for that long, she said she’d never shared what she shared on the interview with me ever before, and it was her first interview in like nine years. I feel like she could say anything, and we love her and adore her, but she hadn’t had the opportunity to share something, which I was really grateful to be a recipient of.

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