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Jay Shetty PodcastFitness Coach Nimai Delgado ON: How Failure Is A Part Of Success
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Nimai Delgado On Purpose, Plant-Based Strength, Career Pivots, and Self-Compassion
- Nimai Delgado describes growing up vegetarian in a Hare Krishna community in Mississippi, feeling like an outcast, and later embracing the very thing he had been ashamed of as his purpose.
- He explains how a money-driven engineering career in oil and gas left him unfulfilled for five years before he used engineering skills to build a coaching platform and leave with a plan.
- Jay Shetty shares his ESM decision framework (energy, strategy, money) and argues that no past experience is wasted and that knowing when to quit is an underrated skill.
- Nimai describes how bodybuilding started from ego and insecurity, became tied to his identity and online validation, and led him to retire in 2018 and move into coaching.
- Both discuss coaching with compassion, focusing on process over outcome, and treating slip-ups as part of the formula for success.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasPerfection isn't the goal of a healthy routine
Nimai says his morning routine varies from five minutes to longer, and he deliberately avoids preaching perfection, showing up to the degree he can.
Shame can become purpose
Nimai was once ashamed of being plant-based but embraced it in his mid-20s, and once he started winning bodybuilding competitions it became the thing he leads with.
Choose work by energy first, money last
Jay's ESM method asks whether something gives energy, whether it is strategic, and only then whether it makes financial sense, which guards against being lured by money alone.
Leave a bad career with a plan
Nimai used an engineering mindset, partnered with a software engineer, and built systems over months; his first launch week earned more than a year as an engineer, though he says he doesn't suggest anyone simply quit their job.
No experience is wasted
Jay points out that Nimai's spiritual upbringing, engineering training, and love of training all combined in his current work, and says any skill learned now will be useful later.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesFailure is part of the formula for success. So you, you, you learn, you make mistakes, you get better, you make more advanced mistakes, and then you get better.
— Nimai Delgado
Having compassion towards yourself whenever you're learning something is a skill, and it's not something that we exercise very much.
— Nimai Delgado
slipping up and giving up are two totally different things.
— Nimai Delgado
I define career as a, a profitable source of pleasure. So doing something that I love first and foremost, you will every time get really good at it.
— Nimai Delgado
we rate people in society for how long they can do something as opposed to how quickly they can let go of something that doesn't serve them or serve others anymore.
— Jay Shetty
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Nimai Delgado
guestPlant-based fitness coach and former competitive bodybuilder who previously worked as a mechanical engineer in oil & gas.
Jay Shetty
hostBestselling author and host of the podcast "On Purpose".
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