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What Diary of a CEO says about meditation & mindfulness

Everything Diary of a CEO and guests said about meditation & mindfulness across 18 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Maisie reveals a traumatic early childhood relationship with her father that consumed her childhood; her mother escaped with the children when Maisie was about four months old.
00:02:05Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
At age eight, a teacher took her to the staff room and asked the right questions, leading to her being removed from her father's care.
00:14:39Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She describes feeling 'indoctrinated' and says she was 'in a child cult against my mother,' which is why she's fascinated by cults.
00:17:23Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
At 20 she had a very poor self-image, telling herself daily she was awful, disgusting, unattractive and unlikable.
00:45:31Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Meditation and spirituality, which she only embraced in 2021, plus surreal life-changing spiritual experiences, transformed her life.
00:58:30Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She discusses past issues with party drugs as a teenager and deciding she needed to stop to feel happiness.
01:00:05Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She reveals her four-year relationship with partner Reuben, the first person patient enough to break through her self-sabotage.
01:06:18Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She reveals she was diagnosed with ADHD about a year and a half ago and takes daily medication, a trait that runs in her family.
01:43:53Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
From age 12, after early Game of Thrones interviews, people questioned how she could access such pain and fury so young.
00:25:12Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She auditioned for Arya Stark surrounded by joyful, carefree girls and assumed she would be a disappointment, but got the role.
00:27:19Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
At 14 she reached the final 20 for Junior Apprentice but was dropped after a press leak, which she found devastating.
00:29:23Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Stephen references The Body Keeps the Score, noting acting and yoga have been shown to work as antidepressants.
00:32:01Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Maisie grew up in a council house in Plymouth and has been financially 'set for life' since age 12.
00:38:48Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She practices Transcendental Meditation, which helps surface insights she traces back with her therapist.
00:58:30Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Her partner Reuben designed a t-shirt inspired by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who wrapped iconic landmarks in fabric.
01:03:44Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
She articulates a theory that you despise in others what you reject most about yourself.
01:11:27Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Stephen shares he built a business called Wallpark and now DJs and writes books as creative outlets.
01:36:36Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Her relationship with her mother, with whom she traveled the world from ages 12-17, is now in a good place after navigating growing independence.
01:46:29Maisie Williams · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Portas's mother died suddenly of encephalitis when Mary was 16, and Mary took on the role of managing the home.
00:04:43Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Her father remarried within a year, died of a heart attack nine months later, and left the family home to his new wife, leaving the children homeless.
00:07:49Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
At 48, despite being in the public eye and making more money than ever, Portas found herself crying almost every day from exhaustion.
00:36:58Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
A spa visit and picking up Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth' began her journey of reconnecting with her true self.
00:39:35Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Portas has been married to a man and to a woman, and is now with a woman, rejecting fixed sexuality labels.
00:47:56Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Her mission shifted to the 'kindness economy' after her baby son was born the same week her elder son left for university.
01:06:37Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
She spent three years single after splitting from her wife Melanie, calling it one of the toughest periods of her life, and is now quietly in a new relationship.
01:20:40Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Her Irish parents - a Protestant father and Catholic mother from Belfast - chose Watford over Dagenham when they moved to England.
00:03:39Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Her mother died in July 1977, the same period Elvis Presley died, and Mary was confused everyone was grieving Elvis instead.
00:09:23Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
In the pandemic her agency lost a single client worth roughly 1.5 million pounds almost overnight as high-street clients cancelled.
00:23:01Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
She cites Jane Jacobs' idea that trivial street interactions form 'a web of security' that makes us human.
00:28:41Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Portas champions a 'kindness economy' defined as 'doing what's humanely right' - not taking the piss.
00:33:20Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
She admits that as Harvey Nichols creative director she sold consumer desire built on 'I'm not good enough'.
00:57:46Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
She believes the power of the feminine has been suppressed over millennia and is the energy needed for the next era.
01:09:43Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Her meditation practice is short - about 10 minutes each morning - and she laughs at intrusive thoughts rather than fighting them.
01:18:36Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
She urges millennials and Gen Z to organise and pressure leaders to reopen offices and protect community.
00:30:46Mary Portas · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2021
Says for the first time publicly he believes the COVID vaccine has had a 'catastrophic net negative effect' on society.
00:00:00Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Claims a whistleblower told him a research team buried vaccine-linked artery inflammation findings to protect drug-industry funding.
00:21:18Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Reveals the Royal College of Physicians accused him of spreading 'anti-vax misinformation' and threatened sanctions.
00:27:28Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Cites a reanalysis claiming a 1-in-800 serious-harm rate from the vaccine, higher than COVID hospitalization risk early on.
00:29:33Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Says the BMA chairman told him senior policy doctors got their vaccine information mainly from the BBC.
00:50:48Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Alleges his critic Prof Mark Dwek and the UK regulator MHRA are heavily pharma-funded (MHRA 86% industry funded).
01:03:12Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
States statins extend life by only about 4.2 days over five years per industry-sponsored trials.
01:28:05Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Describes an Indian study where Raj Yoga meditation was the only independent factor reversing artery blockages.
01:44:17Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
By 2030 an estimated 23.3 million people will die yearly from heart disease globally.
00:09:21Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Around 80% of a person's LDL cholesterol is genetically determined.
01:18:18Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Insulin resistance is described as the most important biological driver of arterial plaque.
01:30:42Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
The WHO max added-sugar limit is six teaspoons a day; one famous soft drink can holds about nine.
01:33:21Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Ultra-processed food makes up over 50% of UK calories and over 60% in the US, linked to 32+ conditions.
01:38:05Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Only one in eight US adults has all five metabolic-health markers in the normal range.
01:40:39Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Chronic stress carries a heart-disease risk comparable to smoking, diabetes or high blood pressure.
01:42:11Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Roughly 11% of elite athletes by age 50 show severe arterial blockages; excess exercise can harm the heart.
01:51:36Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
In cold-virus inoculation studies, only one in three socially connected people developed colds versus two in three lonely people.
01:55:12Dr Aseem Malhotra · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2024
Diego reveals he almost died in summer 2011 from a drug overdose a doctor later described as a mild heart attack, the turning point that began his healing.
00:06:09Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
His first healing step before meditation was 'radical honesty with yourself'—sitting with the emotions he used to run from.
00:11:22Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
He meditates two hours a day, one hour morning and one hour evening, and has done so for about eight years.
00:30:36Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
He identifies craving—the combination of wanting plus tension—not desire itself, as the core cause of suffering.
00:43:02Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Bartlett admits on-air he is 'still trying to prove to myself that I'm enough,' now through bigger professional status games rather than material ones.
00:50:50Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Diego shares that he and his wife met as teens, spent months as friends, and their relationship was 'chaos' until meditation transformed it.
00:59:36Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
He recounts changing his stale relationship with his father by giving him a hug and saying 'I love you,' which deeply opened his father up emotionally.
01:11:00Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, and the Nike founder depicted in the film Air are all cited as serious meditators.
00:00:30Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Diego was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and immigrated to the United States around age four into what he calls the classic American poverty trap.
00:04:37Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Vipassana originated from Buddhist teaching roughly 2,600 years ago and aims to see reality as it really is.
00:16:34Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Diego meditates in the S.N. Goenka tradition, the same one Yuval Noah Harari practices, learned via silent 10-day courses.
00:28:33Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
The first three days of a course teach Anapana, observing the natural breath, before deeper body-scanning work.
00:29:03Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Diego has sold over a million books and is a number-one New York Times bestselling author.
00:53:57Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
More than 50% of people now meet their partners online, framing a generation 'trapped' between dating cultures.
01:05:50Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
During a stag-do screen-time comparison, one of Bartlett's friends logged 14 hours a day of phone screen time.
01:15:40Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
'Yung Pueblo' means 'young people'; Pueblo from his background refers to the masses of impoverished people.
01:20:52Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2023
Claims mathematical proofs show the probability is zero that any sensory system ever evolved to perceive objective reality truly.
00:11:58Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
States that all scientific theories combined will forever explain 0% of reality because every theory rests on assumptions.
00:20:52Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Argues you don't actually have a brain until it is observed and 'rendered', like a car in a video game.
00:36:48Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Reveals he contracted COVID in January 2020 and developed severe heart problems, with his heart at 190 bpm for 30 hours.
00:52:32Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Says he sent his wife a goodbye message believing he would die before a second heart surgery.
00:53:34Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Claims that in the last few months he derived Einstein's constant speed of light starting purely from a theory of consciousness.
01:23:41Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Predicts technologies from going 'outside spacetime' that make nuclear bombs look like firecrackers and could enable instant space travel.
01:34:09Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Reveals he has never taken psychedelics, smoked, or drunk alcohol in decades, and meditates three to four hours a day.
00:49:57Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Spacetime ceases to make mathematical sense below 10^-33 centimeters and 10^-43 seconds.
00:03:35Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Male jewel beetles in Australia tried to mate with discarded beer bottles because evolution gave them only a crude 'dimpled, glossy, brown' cue for females.
00:19:18Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
In Hoffman's simulations, artificial organisms that perceived the 'truth' went extinct, losing to those that saw only survival-relevant shortcuts.
00:18:47Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Dogs hear up to 65,000 Hz versus 20,000 Hz for humans and have up to 300 million scent receptors versus 5 million.
00:22:23Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Bats 'see' via echolocation, building a sonic map rather than a visual one of their surroundings.
00:16:08Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Hoffman has worked on his theory of consciousness for about 40 years, since 'Observer Mechanics' in 1989.
01:18:30Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
He has been involved in AI since 1979 and did his PhD research on Lisp machines at MIT, studying under AI pioneer Marvin Minsky.
01:51:18Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
He calls large language models 'dumber than cucumbers' because they compute correlations without truly understanding anything.
01:51:49Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
A schizophrenic listener described fully hallucinating a DoorDash delivery, including taking a photo, that camera footage showed never happened.
01:37:16Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
The nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.4 million light years away, making conventional travel there infeasible.
01:27:56Donald Hoffman · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2025
Chopra claims the separate self is a 'socially induced hallucination' that doesn't exist and is the source of anxiety, anger, and trauma.
00:06:14Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He calls depression, not COVID, 'the number one pandemic of our time.'
00:07:15Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
His grandfather died suddenly the night after taking young Deepak to a carnival, triggering an existential crisis at age six.
00:38:33Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He describes resuscitating a patient, then going outside to smoke and drink, and that night quitting both to ask 'who am I.'
00:40:39Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He says he interviewed Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, who believes there are infinite universes.
00:45:48Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chopra says he stopped debating, including a debate with Richard Dawkins in Mexico, because nobody ever changes their mind.
01:06:39Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He says Microsoft demonstrated a system coming soon called Prometheus, 'Way Beyond chat GPT,' that could put physicians out of business.
01:16:38Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chopra says merely telling a patient 'you had cancer' visibly raises blood pressure, heart rate, and makes platelets sticky.
00:04:11Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He cites Dutch famine descendants developing diabetes generations later as evidence of intergenerational epigenetic memory.
00:17:47Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He describes a Hawaii cattle farm where descendant cows still won't cross where electric fences once stood.
00:18:18Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Alzheimer's involves amyloid accumulation; about 40 genes predispose to it but only three are fully penetrant.
00:20:58Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He cites lack of sleep as the number one predictor of premature death from cardiovascular disease.
00:35:58Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He outlines the happiness equation H = S + C + V (set point ~50%, conditions ~10%, voluntary choices ~40%).
00:54:39Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He describes limbic resonance, regulation, and revision as the neuroscience behind deep empathetic listening.
01:00:24Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
His son Gotham built Religion of Sport with Tom Brady, winning five Emmys, despite not being a strong student.
01:05:07Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chopra lays out his nine-step creativity process ending in 'incarnation.'
01:12:24Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He describes the four 25-year ashram stages of life in his tradition, now being in the fourth: self-realization.
00:43:11Deepak Chopra · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Perplex City raised about $10 million and burned through roughly $9 million, becoming one of the most commercially disastrous projects he ever worked on.
00:28:56Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
He gathered his 25-person team and, shaking, told them the company was running out of cash and the game had to be killed mid-second-season.
00:31:30Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Moshi Monsters' collapse forced five rounds of layoffs and made him feel that because the business was failing, he himself was a failure and worthless.
00:42:25Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
A solo holiday in the Austrian Alps where he first tried meditation cleared his mental fog and planted the seed for Calm.
00:46:34Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm nearly ran out of money around 2015; a book advance from Penguin editor Vinisha unexpectedly kept the startup alive.
00:58:09Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Raising the Calm subscription price from $10 to $40 a year caused no drop-off in sign-ups, a key tipping point proving the product's value.
00:58:39Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm reached about 8 million downloads before spending any money on marketing.
01:00:13Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
He describes 2021 as the hardest year of his life, suffering a herniated disc, chronic pain, burnout, painkiller use and isolation.
01:08:32Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Firebox's first online orders required customers to print an order form and fax credit-card details, which Michael manually keyed into a bank PDQ machine.
00:12:55Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
A friend, Matt Shown, secretly placed orders under fake names to keep the founders' spirits up while waiting for real customers.
00:14:31Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Firebox's breakout product was a shot-glass chess set where capturing a piece means drinking it, earning press in FHM, Loaded, Maxim and The Sun.
00:14:31Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
For Perplex City they buried real treasure worth a 100,000 pound reward, found by a player a couple of years later.
00:27:52Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Before Moshi Monsters, similar nurturing toys included Tamagotchi, the Pet Rock and Neopets.
00:37:14Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Michael argues mental health is not 'one in four' but 'one in one' since anyone with a mind has mental health.
00:51:25Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Meditation shifts reliance from the amygdala toward the prefrontal cortex, helping you respond rather than react.
00:54:02Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm discovered an 11pm global usage spike of people using Tamara's voice to fall asleep, which led to the invention of Sleep Stories.
01:00:44Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm's Sleep Stories use a 'story slope' instead of a three-act structure, gradually becoming more soporific so few listeners hear the end.
01:01:47Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm gave its entire 300-plus person team a full mental health week off, which Michael calls one of the smartest decisions in company history.
01:12:10Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Ahmed had a panic attack while driving, drove himself to the hospital, and two days later began daily Transcendental Meditation.
00:18:53Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Whoop went roughly 18 months never holding more than three months of cash, once coming within two days of filing bankruptcy before a term sheet was signed.
00:31:53Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
After seven years the company flipped its entire business model from one-time hardware sales to a subscription, a bet-the-company moment.
00:26:08Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Two of Whoop's first hundred users were LeBron James and Michael Phelps, and LeBron later wore a Whoop strap in a Kia commercial.
01:24:22Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Amazon explored investing in and acquiring Whoop, then two years later released what Ahmed calls a direct knockoff product.
01:35:53Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Ahmed deliberately refused to make Whoop a watch or add a screen to avoid scope creep and competing with watchmakers.
01:06:46Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Whoop expanded into garments (shorts, boxers, bras, shirts) so the sensor can be worn off-wrist to keep monitoring 24/7.
01:11:26Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
The paper Ahmed wrote in 2011, titled measuring intensity, recovery and sleep, maps almost exactly onto Whoop's three core metrics today.
00:24:35Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Heart rate variability measures the time between successive heartbeats; higher variability signals a body better able to regulate itself.
00:46:29Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
HRV has been measured since the 1980s and was used by Olympic lifters, cyclists, the CIA for lie detection, and cardiologists.
00:48:04Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Slow wave sleep is when the body produces about 95% of its human growth hormone; you get stronger sleeping, not at the gym.
00:54:16Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Whoop detected elevated respiratory rate in users two to three days before they tested positive for COVID-19.
00:51:40Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Whoop employees can opt into a Sleep Bonus, earning $100 for averaging 85% sleep performance over a month.
01:04:37Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
During COVID, Whoop ran a red recovery policy requiring employees with a red recovery score to stay home.
01:05:09Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
On the Whoop 4.0 circuit board the engineers wrote a message daring competitors not to copy them, plus every engineer's initials.
01:38:39Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Free-solo climber Alex Honnold gets only about four and a half to five hours of REM sleep a night, an outlier ability.
00:56:52Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Under Armour spent roughly a billion dollars acquiring three companies (including Endomondo and MyFitnessPal) for a health-tracking strategy.
01:18:11Will Ahmed · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2022
Her great-grandparents in India weren't told of her birth for two weeks because 'if it's not a son it's not worth calling home about.'
00:02:04Lilly Singh · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2022
She announced her first world tour in India and visited her grandfather, who greeted her with a flower garland saying 'I was wrong, you have made this family more proud than anyone else.'
00:21:46Lilly Singh · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2022
She admits she's not proud of her late-night show and that she rode the historic headline while the work couldn't back it up, breaking her heart every day.
00:38:21Lilly Singh · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2022

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