Hrishikesh Hirway

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406 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin · Hrishikesh Hirway · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

The thing that really sticks out in my mind was I know that I liked that it was sort of a less – it was the path less traveled.

I think – I wouldn't say that it got me into trouble, but my parents certainly wanted me to be a doctor, the traditional career of choice for any Indian family for their kid.

And because, again, it was the default, almost before –

interrogating it for myself, I felt like that wasn't going to be for me.

And then I did think about it more and I recognized that, yeah, I don't think that's going to be what I want.

But that was another example of feeling a need to be independent and find my own path.

And I just had this inborn nature of trying to avoid the thing that felt like the default.

Yeah, I don't know that anybody modeled it.

And in fact, if somebody modeled it, I might not have been as attracted to it, right?

Like part of what was, yeah.

Part of what I liked was that I felt like I was doing my own thing.

Let's do two.

Two.

I mean, so much.

Really, just the idea of music.

Music became a part of my identity.

I think growing up, I had been a kid who did well in school.

And that was kind of an identity that I didn't want it to be an identity.

It was a fact.

But then other kids in school would be like, oh, you're the smart kid.

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