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Jay Shetty PodcastPRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS EXCLUSIVE: The Full Story of Her Daughter's Traumatic Birth
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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Priyanka Chopra on motherhood, fame, faith, and career pivots
- Priyanka describes a major life shift from relentless ambition to valuing peace, family time, and the “luxury” of unstructured time.
- She explains how becoming a parent—and her relationship with Nick Jonas—helped her access emotions, practice patience, and replace self-criticism with more constructive inner dialogue.
- She recounts her career pivot from Bollywood to the U.S., detailing feeling cornered professionally, enduring loneliness and grief after her father’s death, and rebuilding through music and acting auditions.
- Priyanka shares the traumatic NICU experience surrounding her daughter Malti’s extremely premature birth, including being forced to announce the birth before knowing the outcome, and the daily ritual of showing up with strength, prayer, and teamwork.
- The conversation also covers coping with public negativity, the importance of appreciation while people are alive, and using entrepreneurial thinking to turn bold ideas into new opportunities.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasPeace can be a skill you deliberately practice, not a personality trait.
Priyanka frames peace as allowing herself to slow down after years of running on ambition and survival-mode work ethic, choosing a pace she controls for the first time.
Replacing self-judgment starts with two mental checks: usefulness and reality.
Her tools are to ask whether a thought is constructive and to remember “thoughts are not facts,” which interrupts spirals of anxiety, fear, and self-berating.
Relationship conflict often resolves faster when you name feelings before solving problems.
She describes learning from Nick to separate emotional validation from solution-mode, finding that acknowledging “how we feel” changes the entire direction of an argument.
Public scrutiny doesn’t disappear—so boundaries and reframing become protective practices.
She normalizes gossip as timeless (“people always talked”) and emphasizes limiting the power of comments by remembering it’s not others’ business and filtering reactions through self-talk.
Major career reinventions require ‘erasing’ past status and focusing on craft.
In moving to the U.S., she describes starting over through auditions, accent work, English dialogue delivery, and coaching—using professionalism and skill as her competitive edge.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesIt's having time to waste. What a luxury. Not spend, because it's a currency, time, I feel like with your family, with people you love or on the job.
— Priyanka Chopra Jonas
When you're holding onto something really, really tight, you know, you're, you're exhausting your muscles.
— Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Thoughts are not facts.
— Priyanka Chopra Jonas
She was purple. Um, and, like, we didn't know.
— Priyanka Chopra Jonas
In that moment, I was like, "I will go to the ends of the earth to protect you." It's a feeling I have never felt before, and I think every first-time parent says that. But it's like your heart is beating outside of your body, and especially with her 'cause she was so vulnerable.
— Priyanka Chopra Jonas
SPEAKERS
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
guestActor and producer known for work across Bollywood and Hollywood; married to Nick Jonas and mother to Malti.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host and former monk who interviews guests on wellbeing, purpose, and personal growth.
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