David Marchese

Like, isn't there also some value in trying to determine whether or not astrology or psychic mediumship is actually true and not just a pseudoscience?

Like, truth is why we're here, to figure out what is true or not.

I think you're mixing some things together that maybe shouldn't be mixed together.

I mean, the answer to what is proof of my love for my wife, I think the proof would be my actions every day.

But the truth of that proof is a very different kind of truth than, is my broken bone healed?

Or can the stars tell me...

What's going on in my life?

Or can we communicate with the dead?

These are all different kinds of truth that require different levels of proof.

So, you know, I'm sure you know there was this Guardian article that came out in 2024 where the writer, you know, he sort of wrote about ways in which he said you, you know, you sort of fudge details, specific details about what your actual training was as a monk, how much time you actually spent in India, sort of when your entryway into spiritual thinking really began.

And

the timeline of how all that happened.

But my question about that is whether you felt like you did have to try and simplify or elide details about your backstory so as to make your story more...

legible to more people?

Like if there was a story about Jay Shetty that you wanted to tell publicly, did you feel like you had to tell that story a certain way, even if maybe that way was not 100% factually accurate?

Yeah.

Jay, I feel like we can go deeper with that answer.

Were there things that you felt like you had to simplify or just tell in a more legible fashion?

And they do.

And the other thing I wanted to ask about from that Guardian piece was there has been criticism of you in the past for earlier in your career sharing words of wisdom without attribution or your online coaching school.