Priyanka Chopra Jonas ON: How To Forge Your Own Path To Success & Release From External Expectations

You can order my new book 8 RULES OF LOVE at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you. You can also get the chance to see me live on my first ever world tour. This is a 90 minute interactive show where I will take you on a journey of finding, keeping and even letting go of love. Head to jayshettytour.com and find out if I'll be in a city near you. Thank you so much for all your support - I hope to see you soon. You love On Purpose because it inspires your life. Have you tried Jay’s Genius workshops and meditations to access even deeper well-being? Learn more at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius When Priyanka was young she thought she had four options for what to be when she grew up: a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a failure. She chose none of them. Instead, she made her own path. On this episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Jay Shetty speaks with actor, producer, and author Priyanka Chopra Jonas about creating unique career paths, both for yourself and others, and her new memoir, Unfinished. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 2:06Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  You don't have to be on one solitary journey. We put too much pressure on ourselves to function. We create boxes and glass ceilings for ourselves because we're like, oh, this is the only way I can be, and that's how you are successful. There's no black or white in the world. Everyone lives in grays.

• 2:36Jay Shetty?

  Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn, and grow. And I am so excited to be talking to you today. I can't believe it. My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book. And I'd

• 3:20Jay Shetty?

  love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules. Go to jayshettytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences, and more. I can't wait to see you this year. Today's guest is someone that I've been looking forward to interviewing for a very long time. I believe that she was actually one of the first names on my list when I launched the podcast two years ago, of someone that I was really excited to sit down with. So to me, this is a super special moment, and I think you're in for a real treat. Today's guest is the one and only Priyanka Chopra, and today we're talking about her new memoir, Unfinished. For the two people who are listening who don't know who Priyanka is, Priyanka is

• 4:02Jay Shetty?

  an actor, singer, and film producer. She's been in the entertainment industry for over 20 years. That spans both the East and West. Her Bollywood superstardom began when she won Miss World 2000, and she hasn't slowed down since. From starting her own production company, and now having so many successful hit movies and TV shows in the US, and of course, most recently marrying her beloved Nick Jonas, Priyanka's story is remarkable to say the least. And you can pick up her book, Unfinished, on February 9. Please welcome to the show, on purpose, Priyanka Chopra. Jonas.

• 4:42Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It's alright. Everyone forgets that.

• 4:46Jay Shetty?

  Sorry Nick. Sorry Nick.

• 4:48Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  You know, it's a new addition and it's, you know, I've had thirty-five years of my life as just Priyanka Chopra and most people know me as just that. So, you know, it's gonna take a second. It's fine.

• 4:59Jay Shetty?

  And I've been watching you for so many years, since I was, since I was a kid and obviously you were, you were a kid too, when, when you started in the industry. And so I've been hearing your name and saying your name for so long. But no, no offence Nick, my wife is also the same. She, she has her, she has my name last on her name too. So people forget me all the time. So we have something in common.

• 5:23Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  But it's not really forgetting you Jay, it's forgetting your last name. There's a difference.

• 5:28Jay Shetty?

  True. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. That, that makes my, my ego feel a bit better. But honestly, it's, it's such a joy to have you here. I meant what I said when we first launched the podcast. You were, you were one of the first names that I wrote down as someone that I was excited to speak with. And I saw a few days ago on Instagram, you posted a picture of yourself at age seventeen. And it was, it was a great throwback. And, and I was wondering two things. The first thing is, what is a piece of advice that you wish you had at seventeen? And the other way around, is there a piece of advice or wisdom that your seventeen-year-old self would potentially share with you

• 6:10Jay Shetty?

  now, where you are today?

• 6:14Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Yeah, I have actually answers for both. What I would tell that seventeen-year-old, you know, I was bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, I'd just been selected into the Miss India pageant, I'd just turned seventeen. And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna be a model. And I'd never thought about that. My teenage vanity was piqued. And what I would have told that girl is, you know,

• 6:39Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Just breathe and just chill a little. I was very hard on myself because everything that I sort of, everything that I've made so far, you know, with the encouragement of my family, has kind of been self-made, you know. I had to learn on the job. Nobody, I didn't know anything. I came from, in high school, in an engineering background, or I wanted to be an engineer. And life just kind of had other plans. And you know, you kind of, are you gonna swim? Are you gonna sink? And I will always swim. So I've just kind of, it's, I think that what I would tell, I used to really take it very seriously. I berated myself a lot and I was hard on myself. And I would tell my younger self,

• 7:24Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  chill out, time heals everything. It'll all be fine. And what she would probably tell me is to not get caught up in,

• 7:35Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  in my schedule and in the multiple things that I juggle and not forget the excitement of doing what I'm doing. Sometimes it's hard, you know, after you do it for such a long time. You have to remind yourself to be excited and be inspired and, you know, feel sort of alive instead of it being a job. And yeah, I think that's what she would tell me.

• 8:02Jay Shetty?

  I love that. That's a beautiful, both of those are beautiful answers. And I wanted to ask that to you because I think often we think like, oh, we have the wisdom now and we can advise our younger selves. But in the way you shared your answer, there's so much wisdom coming back. And I think that's a great reminder for everyone. Now, I saw a video again on your Instagram where you just received the book a couple of days ago. I had the digital version up until this morning when I finally got the physical version. So I've been flicking through on the digital version. It's nice to have it physically here. I'm intrigued that, you know, what chapter of your life, you spoke about excitement there. What chapter of your life

• 8:44Jay Shetty?

  was the most exciting to reflect and write upon? Because it's such a fascinating thing to write a memoir. But which one, which part of it was your favorite of going through?

• 8:57Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  My childhood, because I hadn't thought about it for a really long time. You know, I was, in fact, just writing the memoir was so healing and weirdly sort of inspiring and healing and I, I just remember never remembering, you know. I sat down to write it and I hadn't ever thought about what had happened in my life. I never looked back. I was only running, you know. As you know, the entertainment business, our jobs are very transitory, you know. It's not consistent, it's not stable. What you are as much as your next job. You don't know where your next cheque's coming from. You don't know where you're going to be moving.

• 9:40Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  So, you know, there's a constant like hustle and you're running all the time. And I just never looked. And when I started writing the book, I was forced to look. And I was very excited to write about my childhood because I could taste it. I could smell it. I, I remember those Mogra flowers, the Radhki Rani that used to be in all the army barracks. I remember, you know, the feeling of the, the cold walls. They used to always be white, the garden, my bike.

• 10:14Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Moving to a new city every two years. It was, that was, it was such a time of adventure for me and a time of sort of unlimited possibilities, you know. And I was raised with that. My parents always made me feel like I could, the world is my oyster. You know, I can go anywhere I want.

• 10:36Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And that was such a time of wonder, you know.

• 10:39Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, well, it's, it's beautiful that you have such strong vivid memories. And it sounds like, and, and I'm thinking about our audience that's listening and watching or, or will listen and watch this afterwards. It sounds like everyone needs to revisit their childhood or remember and, and write a memoir. Even if it's not a memoir that gets published and goes out to the world. It almost feels like reflecting is really important. What, what helped you? Were you speaking to friends from back then? Or were you speaking to your, you know, who, who are you connecting with to, to reignite some of those memories?

• 11:12Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Oh, everyone in the memories. You know, I called my mom, my brother, um, my cousins who I grew up with, friends from the time. I corroborated the stories because memory is a weird thing, you know? I remember it a certain way, somebody else remembers it a certain way. And there was this one story I remember, I was kicked out of MoMA for touching a painting when I was fifteen, sixteen or something. And I remember that day being wonderful because we went to the Statue of Liberty after and like, you know, um, we, we got hot dogs and we were walking around New York City. And I remember it being like, oh, I touched, you know, a painting that's so cool that I touched. I think it was a Starry Night.

• 11:56Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And my cousins who were with me remember the day completely differently. They were tortured, embarrassed. My cousin who was an art student, she was like, you got me kicked out of MoMA and like, I was like, wow, I didn't remember that at all.

• 12:11Jay Shetty?

  Well, that's brilliant. Was that your, was that your rebellious side or was that a mistake? Or was it curiosity?

• 12:21Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I was just curious. I just, I feel like rules sometimes. And trust me, I mean, I'm in a public profession, I have to follow them. But, um, you know, sometimes we conform to rules that just sort of stop our ability to grow. And unless it's like hurting someone or something, which by touching Starry Night, I probably was hurting the painting. But at that time I didn't know.

• 12:51Jay Shetty?

  Well, the value of the painting, the value of the painting just went up, it just went up.

• 12:57Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  But you know, like, otherwise I think like you've got to sometimes, you have to push the envelope. There's been too many generations that have been defined by what people think, you know, we can achieve. Or, you know, limitations that have been imposed because of. People not being able to think or dream big enough. And I think it's every generation's responsibility to show the endless possibilities to the next.

• 13:22Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, you've definitely done that. I mean, you're constantly breaking rules in your career and your journey, starting from touching that painting at MoMA all the way through today. But was that was that an energy and a mindset that you believe you had at that young age? Or is that something you think you gradually developed? Where did that confidence come from? Because when I hear you say it today, it comes with confidence. Obviously, it comes with having done it. And I think there are a lot of people out there who may feel that way, but they then also feel insecure that are they the right person to do that? Do they have permission to do that? There's there's something that then still holds them back. What was it for you that allowed you to go all the way?

• 14:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Well, two things, my parents for sure. I grew up in an environment where I was not shamed for my ideas. At 12 years old, I told my parents I wanted to live in America with my aunt. And, you know, my parents were like, bye, peace, you know, it was fine. We had a logical pro and con conversation. I was raised sort of to have opinions, even if the room was hostile. So I think that really gave me a sense of self. And I think it's really important in parenting for us to treat our children like they're developing their own minds, because that's so important for them to have a sense of self and feel like, you know, they're not robots, but they're actually thinking and they have a say in their decisions.

• 14:48Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It really lends for adults being able to have a sense of confidence. And second, to really understand and accept that confidence is not something you always need. You don't, you know, so put it in a backpack. It's OK, give it a break. Let it be in your purse, let it be in your wallet. Let it chill for a second, feel insecure, feel like scared, feel afraid, feel vulnerable.

• 15:13Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Um, but when you need the confidence and you walk into that room, you'll have it. Cause you didn't keep using it. You didn't need to constantly have a, you know, cover of or um, sort of like a uniform of confidence. You don't have to always show confidence. You don't have to exude confidence. You never, you don't. You just have to pull it out when you need it. And then when it's in the reserve, it's so much more powerful. Because you're allowing yourself to be all the things. I feel insecure. I'm terrified that this book is coming out. It's the first time I've ever written and I've never been so personal in my whole life. I've been a public person for twenty years. Never scratched beneath the surface. I've gotten away with sharing whatever I wanted to share about my life and not more.

• 15:57Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  You know, my stories, people think they know it, but they really don't. And I've managed that for twenty years. But I think I now on the other side of thirty five was feeling a sense of confidence um and a sense of self in my capabilities, in what I bring to the table. It only took twenty years for me to get there, but I got there. Um, and I think all those insecurities that I address in my book don't scare me that much anymore as they did at that time. As you know, they worried me and I was like, I don't want to talk about it. Nobody needs to know about my life and you know, but now I'm at a place where I'm just like, well, it's still on my terms and um, you know, I'm hoping that

• 16:41Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  people maybe get to know me a little bit more than a fashion meme or a headline or something like that.

• 16:48Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, I, I think that's what I love about it. From the few pages that I've, I've flicked through, I definitely see you allowing yourself and that's, that's the power of a book though. And so I, I relate to that insecurity. My first book came out last September and

• 17:02Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I know, you know, your first book.

• 17:05Jay Shetty?

  I was so

• 17:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I have it.

• 17:06Jay Shetty?

  I was so, oh, that's awesome. I'm so glad you have it. I was, I was so nervous. So I can, I know, I know what you mean by that. And especially for you at this stage in your career of yours is a memoir, mine had part stories. It wasn't a memoir, so I can only imagine, but. I see you doing that and books are so powerful for that. And that's why I really hope everyone who's listening and watching right now, if you're enjoying this conversation, go and pick up the book. Because I do think that media, the news, the short meme, the clip, it portrays such a limited view of someone like yourself.

• 17:42Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It's a superficial view, really.

• 17:45Jay Shetty?

  Yes.

• 17:45Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And it's okay. It's a choice also. I want to, for people to consume only a part of me, you know? I want to be able to preserve my humanity, my family, my life, my opinions. I may have chosen a public profession, but I'm not an elected official. I don't owe an explanation to anyone for the choices that I make. You know, I'm here to create work. I'm doing a job, just like everybody else. Mine happens to be in entertainment and it happens to have a lot of cameras on my face. It's fine. You know, I made that deal with the devil. So I've kind of made peace with the fact that I prefer it being from a distance.

• 18:27Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  But at the same time, I think now I've been a public person for more than half my life. It's my normal. And only now have I reached a point where I'm allowing the walls to sort of fall down and letting whoever wants to know me, get to know me as the person that I am. Before that, I was very protective of who I was. Because maybe I was insecure about who I was or I still didn't have a sense of self. I don't know. But I think in the journey of life, I've reached a place where, you know, I'm good with who I am.

• 19:03Jay Shetty?

  Yeah. That's wonderful to hear, by the way, and I can feel it off your energy. What's the part of yourself in this book that you share that you think most people are going to be surprised by? Where you think that people may just be like, what? And I'm sure there's many, but what's something that stands out?

• 19:22Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It's, there are a few, um, which I think people may be surprised by that I was vulnerable enough to discuss. Um, and I think my, my failures, my struggles, rejections, um, sadnesses that I've never really, people have never seen. I always wear a brave front. Most women in like, you know, tough jobs have to always have like a little bit more of a stronger front, um, to be taken seriously. I built that very early, um, at eighteen to be

• 20:02Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  thrown into the limelight of this job. I mean, you know, you've been in it for such a long time, you know, it's, it's a crazy profession, the expectations, the pressure, um, you know, to deliver under that scrutiny, um, to be artistic, to yet have a point of view, to be unique, not, you know, have your own trajectory because that's the only way it'll work. You, you have to always have a sense of evolution. So it was really, really scary in, in the beginning. And, um, I think everything just changes with time. And this was one of the good changes that came out of it for me.

• 20:37Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, no, absolutely. And, and I'm hoping that, I, I wonder, do you think that's changing now? If someone's coming into the entertainment industry today at eighteen, or do you think it hasn't changed? Where's your perception on that? When you're guiding young artists or seeing people that you follow on social media or, you know, whatever it may be, are you, are you feeling it's changing? Has it improved or, or no?

• 21:00Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  The pressure, you mean?

• 21:01Jay Shetty?

  Uh, not the pressure, more the, like you were saying, like you, when you came into the industry, you had to put on a brave front, you had to wear that face. It was the only way to survive. Do you feel it's the same now for young talent as well?

• 21:14Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I think, well, I was talking about definitely as a female. Yes, yes, as a female. In the entertainment business. Yeah. Oh, as a female, okay. I think so. I think, you know, it's still hard when you're starting out for women to be taken seriously, for your ideas to be given the kind of credence that a man's would as quickly, probably, you know, especially in professions where, you know, normally you don't see women because, you know, women have never been pushed in that direction. Or women have never wanted to go in that direction because it was never normalized for them, that their ambitions could go in that direction, business, politics, you

• 21:56Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  know, to be heads of companies, engineering, like, you know, coding, policymaking, like stuff like that, lawyers. Women have just about in the last few generations been coming to the fore and, you know, are standing neck to neck with guys, but it's still an anomaly. It's still not as normal in terms of numbers, it's still not equal. So until that happens, I think it will be hard for, you know, young girls to be taken seriously when they come into professions that are predominantly male. Yeah. But it's okay, you know, women before us have fought the fight and women after us will fight the fight. It'll just hopefully not be the same fight. Hmm.

• 22:40Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Hopefully, our generation will not let our kids inherit our problems, you know. As women, we are definitely working in that direction, but I think the world needs to sit up and take notice that this demand is loud because it's a requirement. This demand is loud because that's what's right and that is the reflection of the world. Women are 50% of it and we should be reflected in, you know, every area. And basically feminism is that, right? Like, don't decide for me what I should be doing, when I should be doing it and how I should be doing it. Yeah. Just like men have had that freedom, give me that. Yeah. As well, so.

• 23:25Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I guess it's that.

• 23:26Jay Shetty?

  It's a strong message.

• 23:27Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Sorry, we deviated completely.

• 23:28Jay Shetty?

  No, no, no, you're not deviating at all. It's a strong message and I stand by it. So it's a, it's a great message and. This episode is brought to you by Amtrak. You know that feeling when you're already tired and you haven't even gotten there yet? That's where Amtrak comes in. Leave the driving behind and settle into a comfortable seat with plenty of room to stretch out. Catch up on work with wifi, grab a snack at the cafe car, or just sit back and enjoy your favourite podcast. Choose a seller or North East Regional and get there without the stress of getting there. Visit amtrak.com to plan your next trip.

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• 25:31Jay Shetty?

  And it's really interesting where male privilege is a really interesting thing to reflect on. I remember when I first started reflecting on it, it started to strike me in a crazy way that I grew up having had certain dreams of becoming something that my sister couldn't have had. And that wasn't because of the way we were parented, it was because of what you saw. And when that really hit me and I stood and looked at that, and I often encourage a lot of my friends in that direction too. I'm like, if you really think about, if they have a son and a daughter, I'm like, if you really think about some of the options that don't seem available to your daughter, that she may never consider a career. And I really think that that consideration is where the equality is,

• 26:14Jay Shetty?

  like the opportunity of even having that idea of I could do that or I could do...

• 26:20Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Exactly, the opportunity of having choice, I think. You know, a lot of women, we are, I am extremely privileged that I was raised by a feminist. I'm married to a feminist. I'm extremely privileged that my parents, which is why I brought up parenting earlier. A big reason I have a sense of confidence and I'm on this side of the fight because it's not as hard as it is on so many women around the world. I still had to fight, of course I had to break down the doors and I had to, you know, prove a point to be taken seriously. I was kicked out of movies and replaced and, you know, all the things. But I still had it so much easier. There are women around the world that don't have a say in their life

• 27:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  that are married off when, you know, other people decide that, people choose who they are married to, whether they can work or not, when they should have children, what kind of children they should have. I mean, it's that basic, that basic freedom that such a large part of the world because of how norms of society...

• 27:29Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Were archaically, you know, noxious norms which need to change. And that doesn't mean giving up culture, that doesn't mean giving up tradition. You know, it just means creating opportunity. My father told me when I was very, very young. My mom, since I was nine years old. You will have financial independence before anything you do. It doesn't matter whose daughter you are, it doesn't matter, um, you know, who you're married to. You'll stand on your own feet and there's such a power to that. Um, to having, you know, to be raised by parents who put that in my head. So I was ambitious from twelve years old. I decided every year what I wanted to be and it changed every year.

• 28:12Jay Shetty?

  I, I, I love hearing that and I've, I, it reminded me of something you've said before when you were speaking about your father there. About how Nick for you shares this same admiration of your power. And, and your ambition and, and feels, you know, supportive and excited and enthusiastic about the way you carry yourself. Tell us a bit about how, I, I feel like that's such an important thing for both of them. Anyone in a relationship to feel like their partner is inspired by their values, their beliefs and their dreams. What has it felt like in the past where you feel like you haven't had that? And if someone who's listening or watching is feeling like, maybe I don't have that.

• 28:55Jay Shetty?

  How does, how, how do you think someone can navigate that? Or to ultimately attract the partner that, that does have that? What's that journey like? Because I think a lot of people feel like they're with someone who may not understand or get their dreams, especially when they're starting out.

• 29:11Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Then it's the wrong person for you and if you have the, um, especially if you're starting out and you know, you're testing the waters and I think it's so crucial if you have a choice in your life to end up with someone who, even if. Is not like enthused by your dreams is at least interested in them. Is at least excited about them or you know is at least um encouraging. Like that's that's exciting um because you know everyone's busy and everyone has a thing in their lives. But but to take to make the effort to um

• 29:56Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  to make the effort to make you feel like your dreams are as important as the other one is such a gift. And um I have been very blessed to have that.

• 30:07Jay Shetty?

  You know, I find even even wherever wherever you are in your relationship, obviously you and Nick lead extremely busy lives.

• 30:15Jay Shetty?

  You know, my wife and I lead busy lives and I feel even if someone's not in the entertainment industry or the media industry. Everyone feels like they live busy lives. What does support look like when two people are busy, driven and ambitious? Because you obviously have it, you're speaking about it right now and it's beautiful. What does that actually look like in a real practical sense? Obviously, the last six months or the last twelve months have been different. But in reality, what does that look like? Because I feel that maybe sometimes we have false expectations, sometimes you want. You know, it's not natural that you can be at every show Nick does. It's not natural for him to be at every set you're doing, same with me and my wife. Like my wife can't be at every event I'm speaking at, I can't be at every interview or something she's doing.

• 30:59Jay Shetty?

  What does support look like? What does love look like in a very real practical sense?

• 31:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I think when it comes to support specifically, I think giving the other person the space

• 31:14Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  to do what they're doing is very important without you know them feeling like oh my like. For example, I'm here in London for a year right now and Nick is filming in L A. And I can't travel, but before the holidays, he made sure he was here for two months to settle me in, you know. To make sure that the house was all set up and everything was sorted and we were together for the holidays. That's because he was free um at the end of the month. And that support, um you know, it it doesn't have to be large, it doesn't have to be

• 31:50Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  you know, a big expression of. I don't know, love or big gifts, it's not. It's about giving space, it's about giving freedom, it's about appreciation. And I find this one thing really helpful.

• 32:06Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I always think about when, you know, he's busy or he's having a crazy day, which he does for me as well, which is amazing. And everyone can follow this and it's super easy. Is to think about, how can I make that person's day easier? Just like, and that's such a lovely, loving thing. Just sometimes I'm, you know, back to back, especially when I was doing promo. I was doing like twenty interviews and suddenly there'd be like a really nice cocktail that would come in in the evening. Or suddenly there'd be a really nice like cup of coffee or, you know, something to eat for me that would come in. And it's just like so sweet to think about that. Or if I'm sitting outside, you know, he'll bring a blanket and put it. It's just being thoughtful and aware about your person.

• 32:50Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And, you know, that's the greatest form of love is showing it without really asking for it.

• 32:57Jay Shetty?

  That's such a great piece of advice. I love that to be, you said to be thoughtfully aware. And I think that's, that's so true. And, and the beautiful thing about everything you just said is that it's, it's free, it's cheap, it's small, it's simple, it's, it's accessible to everyone.

• 33:12Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And it's the best gift.

• 33:14Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, when, when you feel like someone's in tune with you and, and your emotions and how you feel, how you might be tired or how you might be sleepy or how you might be cold, like those small things when you feel someone's aware. And, and I love that piece of advice. I think it's something that everyone's definitely learned more about in the pandemic, where, where we're exposed to each other. Tell, tell me a bit about the, the title Unfinished, because I, obviously it leads to your determined, ambitious voice. But what other parts of your growth, uh, maybe internally, personally, do you feel you're unfinished on or working on?

• 33:54Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I mean, so much. I've just about, you know, I'm in my thirties and this decade has been amazing because,

• 34:04Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I've just, you know, found my strength, I think, as a woman. And what I'm looking forward to going forward is I'm very nascent in my career in America right now. It's just been five years since I've started working here. I just about have done my first, you know, leading feature film. I've just about done my first dramatic part here. I wanna be able to build, you know, the kind of career that I had the good fortune of building in another amazing industry in India. I've done such a variety of roles there, worked with the best filmmakers, best actors. I wanna be able to have that experience here.

• 34:43Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  So that I'm, like, my artistic side now that I've started on this journey in this part of the world is peaked to be able to do that as well. As a producer, I wanna be able to create a lot more South Asian content in Hollywood. I just, I didn't see enough parts for myself. I didn't see enough of it on TV. And considering how large the South Asian population is in, around the world, and how English-speaking we are, you know, English-language entertainment should be reflecting that. So I wanna be able to tell stories in India as well and as here. I wanna build as an entrepreneur.

• 35:26Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It's something I didn't do, you know, up until now, because I was building my acting career so much. So, you know, founding my own brand, investing in tech, I find that really fascinating. My philanthropy, I wanna be able to set up my foundation really well. My work with UNICEF. I've just about moved into our new house after almost ten to fifteen years of living in rentals or hotel rooms, you know, because I always just kept moving, I was so nomadic. I'm looking forward to, you know, watching the trees grow in my garden.

• 36:07Jay Shetty?

  I love that. Watching trees grow is great. I love that. That's brilliant. Hearing you say that,

• 36:18Jay Shetty?

  I love hearing you talk about the South Asian storytelling. Like, obviously, that relates very strongly to me and my roots, growing up in London as well, where I think we have an incredibly strong South Asian community, where you are right now, where I was born and raised. And I definitely felt this, yeah, lack of representation, lack of the ability to dream.

• 36:41Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Lack of opportunity.

• 36:42Jay Shetty?

  Lack of opportunity to dream in a certain way. And, you know, my career's been totally random, but it's, and, you know, I'm doing something today that I would never have imagined even knowing it existing.

• 36:54Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  But see, even that, you and I, two South Asians, sitting in these boxes and talking about the fact that the careers that we are thriving in, that we have worked so hard to make, was never in our minds, was never a possibility. But I would have never dreamed about it because it wasn't in my realm of dreaming. But that's not how it should be, considering the, we're one-fifth of the world's populace. We're huge. We're everywhere. Okay? And I think, and it shouldn't be so hard for me to, you know, come into an industry and say, "I want an opportunity." And for people to be like, "Oh, well, we're gonna have to create that now, won't we?"

• 37:37Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  We've existed for a really long time.

• 37:41Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It's the irony of it is so amusing, but sad at the same time.

• 37:46Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, no, that resonates very strongly with me because I didn't even know any careers existed. And when I say this, I don't say it lightly. I genuinely didn't believe careers existed outside of medicine.

• 38:03Jay Shetty?

  Engineering and business. Like, I didn't really know.

• 38:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Me neither.

• 38:06Jay Shetty?

  I didn't know that you could have a successful career in anything else.

• 38:11Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Me neither. At seventeen, when I was, it was a fluke why I got into the Miss India Pageant. And that kind of kickstarted everything for me. But I wanted to be an engineer because those were the options. Doctor, engineer, lawyer.

• 38:26Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 38:26Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And, you know, if you come from an academic family of, or failure. If you come from an academic family, or, you know, our, our parents are immigrants and our parents, like my parents even in India were, you know, building their businesses for the first time. It wasn't inherited from them. So they also were surviving. And I think it's that survival instinct that sort of pushed them to put the aspirations that they knew best, you know, on their kids.

• 38:53Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 38:53Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Like, this is the best job. You'll always make money. You will be stable.

• 38:57Jay Shetty?

  Yes.

• 38:58Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  You know, but also the internet sort of changed our,

• 39:03Jay Shetty?

  For sure.

• 39:03Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I think our generation. The, the fact that the internet made the world such a small place, which is another big reason why we should see so much more representation, is because we are catering to the whole world now.

• 39:16Jay Shetty?

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• 41:24Jay Shetty?

  Definitely, definitely. You're reminding me of a few years ago, I, before I actually started doing what I do today. I went to a presenter training day run by the BBC in London at Pinewood Studios. I'm sure you know it or have seen it. And we went to this studios and it was an ethnic minority TV training day. So it was only for ethnic minorities. So I went into this room and there were just five brown and black people in there. That was it. And it was a free training session on presenting and seeing if you had the skills to be in media. And then I remember at the end of it saying like, oh, you know, like, is there any opportunity? Where do we? And they were like, no, no, no, there are no opportunities. And I was like, what? You called us all here to, to train us, to tell us there are no opportunities?

• 42:09Jay Shetty?

  And they were like, oh, but you can start a YouTube channel. And that's, that's, you know, what you're saying about social media is so true that it was so hard to find an entry point without. Being able to create your own community. And I think I love the way the world's gone because now it's allowed each and every single one of us to create a community around what we care about. And that's what I wanted to ask you that today, you're an entrepreneur, you're an actor, you're a producer, you have your own production company. How do you define Priyanka Chopra Jonas's purpose? That kind of cascades into all those areas. Like, what do you see as your purpose in the work that you're doing? Because to me, it seems it's always been driven by purpose.

• 42:51Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It definitely has. It's always to evolve. I feel like my purpose is to find the next thing that I can do, the next new thing, the next thing that I can push the envelope on, or the next thing where I can push the goalpost. I want to do something, you know, different. That's not, but I've always been driven to, you know, and that doesn't mean every choice is that, but that's the eventual big picture purpose, you know, to be able to sort of...

• 43:20Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I've been given such an incredible opportunity from the beginning of my career. You know, I, it was, I don't take that lightly to be, there are so many people around the world that are probably more talented than me, probably more deserving than me. But, you know, the sum of the opportunities I chose is the reason why I'm here today. And I don't take that for granted at all. And that's my purpose is to make sure that, you know, every single day is spent with a pursuit of excellence in every single choice that I make.

• 44:00Jay Shetty?

  What are three truths that you live by? If you had to define three things that you always live by, that you don't negotiate with, that you, that guide you, that guide your decisions and guide your life when you're looking at those projects? As you said, you always want to find that next thing that you're going to break through and that you don't want to be scared of trying new things. What are some of those?

• 44:22Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  If it resonates with me, like if I read something and I'm moved by it, like The White Tiger, for example, I'd read the book and it really like there, you know, some books you just remember always because they were such a vivid journey. And The White Tiger was one of those for me. It was such a vivid journey and um I, when I read that it was being adapted, I chased it. I went after it and I was like, I need to be, I need to do this. I need to be a part of it because it moved me. It was a story that I feel like needs to be told, it's topical, it's entertaining, um, you know, it's, it's based on a universal theme of the haves and the have-nots, you know, that exist everywhere. So

• 45:08Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I think like that I feel is my purpose, to be able to be moved by the things that I choose to align with. And I think also um for it to be a growth for me, you know, for it to be, for it to be taking me to the next step. I don't like to stay in the same place for a very long time, do the same kind of thing for a very long time. I want to go to the next thing. What is, what is better? And, and our, my job sort of lends me to be able to do that because it's very transitory. There's no, you know, you don't know where your next job is or where your next check comes from or anything, right? So it, it allows me to pick and choose what I think is the next step.

• 45:52Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  But those two things are very important, I think.

• 45:55Jay Shetty?

  Those are great truths. Those are great truths. And I think uh they, they come across in your book when you kind of see like, how has this person had like ten careers, you know, and in a good way, in, in, in a strong sense of being able to find that. And, and I wonder, obviously, you've played so many roles and studied so many characters in your life. Was writing this book almost like studying your own self as a character in terms of like the role you played?

• 46:23Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  So the reflection of this book is sort of me now, you know, talking to my younger me growing up. So I comment on myself and stuff. I'm like, come on, you know, don't, don't do, note to self. I have a lot of notes to self in the book. So sort of a commentary on that, but I think I wasn't examining myself as a character because I think I was sort of going along with my journey all over again. I was experiencing my journey all over again. I didn't have to create anything. I just had to remember it as vividly as I could.

• 47:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And I don't know, I hope I got everything right. I've tried to, but memory is a funny thing. And I've, you know, I, I just, I experienced it. It was almost like, you know, when you're in a train and you're looking outside and, you know, the world is sort of moving by, or in a car, you're looking outside and the world is moving by. That's how I felt when I was writing the book.

• 47:25Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, you share this beautiful quote in chapter eight that really stuck with me. I've never, I've never read this one before and I, I absolutely love discovering writers and thoughts. So thank you for introducing me to this. It says, it's, it's from Letters to a Young Poet. And it says, "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue." And, and I thought the selection of that, that quote, it, it really spoke to me. How do you balance your drive and what's next with that passion, sorry, with that patience? And with that approach?

• 48:08Jay Shetty?

  Because often it can feel like, you know, it's like you're trying to find that next thing, trying to grow and evolve, but, but you're also beautifully speaking about patience.

• 48:17Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Well, I bifurcated. I'm not patient in my job, but I'm patient as a person. And my job doesn't make me. Yeah. It's not, um, my job is not my whole, you know? And this is again, something I didn't know earlier. I've grown into understanding this. My younger self probably wouldn't, my twenties, I didn't know this, but. Um, I've bifurcated very clearly, you know, my professional life is my professional life, my personal life is my personal life. They meet in the middle sometimes because I'm a public person, but I still have an immense part of me that's not for public consumption and it's not, um, for anyone else but me, so, um. That, that side of me is patient. That side of me has become, you know, um,

• 49:02Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  calmer, um, a little bit more having, um, you know, stable, maybe, having my feet on the ground a little bit. But my professional self is still in a tizzy. I'm impatient. I want the next thing right now. I wake up in the morning thinking about my entire day and how I'm gonna achieve every single thing at zero to sixty. And that works for that girl. It doesn't work for this girl. And it took a lot of introspection for me to get here, actually. I, I, in that chapter, I actually talk about that journey of getting to that place. Um, because I wasn't there and a lot of my professional attitude, which was, you know,

• 49:43Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I, I am going to do everything I can to make this the best. I took a lot of the onus of life upon myself as well, and it hurt me. And it, um, and I didn't need to take the responsibility of life. Life happens and we've kind of got to navigate it every single day. And, you know, live it for being on the right side of the truth and being a good person and, you know, having joy in the day because life is a gift. And, you know, it needs to be celebrated. And so my, my personal side of that pre is real chill and loves life and, um, but the other girl, she's, she's crazy.

• 50:28Jay Shetty?

  That's a fantastic distinction and I love that. I'm so glad that you shared that with us. That's such a great way of helping people understand how two seemingly opposite ideas can coexist. And I think we often feel like we have to choose. Like you're either driven or you're calm. You're either ambitious or you're, you know, conscious and aware. And I'm so happy you said that because I couldn't agree more. I think it's fun letting two ideas collide and live within the same space in person.

• 51:03Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And I think it's natural as well.

• 51:04Jay Shetty?

  It is natural.

• 51:05Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Dichotomies are the most consistent things you'll see around. Nobody's one thing. No emotion is a singular emotion. You are at any given moment, and that's an actor thing, I guess. When you're playing a character, you have to think about everything that character is playing. You can't just be like, oh, this is an angry scene. I'm going to just be angry and yell my eyes out. You know, yell my whatever throat out. You're not, that's not a good actor. You're not even scratching beneath the surface. The actor who thinks about, oh, my gosh, I'm getting laid or I have to have this conversation. It's also cold and I'm like mad about whatever last week. My job, I got fired. You've got to think about all of those elements.

• 51:48Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  So in the same way, in life, we never have to choose one thing. So that, we need to take that pressure off of our backs that you don't have to be on one solitary journey. You can choose to be on any journey at any time. You can choose to feel, as long as you take the pressure. We put too much pressure on ourselves to function. We create boxes and glass ceilings for ourselves because we're like, oh, this is the only way I can be. And that's how you are successful. There's no black or white in the world. Everyone lives in grays.

• 52:20Jay Shetty?

  Thank you so much for sharing that passionately. I could feel your, feel your passion is like flying through the screen. You're like, everyone who's listening and watching, this is just, you know, straight. It's beautiful. It's fantastic.

• 52:33Jay Shetty?

  Pranika, you've been so kind with your and generous with your time. We end every podcast with two segments. These segments are called Fill in the Blank and the Fast Five. The Fill in the Blank is a Fill in the Blank round, very aware. And then I'll introduce the Fast Five later. So if you're ready, this is your Fill in the Blank.

• 52:50Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Okay.

• 52:51Jay Shetty?

  Okay. So the hardest part about my job is?

• 52:56Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  The hours.

• 52:57Jay Shetty?

  2020 gave me a new perspective on?

• 53:00Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Creativity. Yeah, I just feel because I'm, it gave me a sense of balance. I became a lot more creative, I think.

• 53:08Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, that makes sense. That stillness, that clarity, that slow down for once.

• 53:13Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  The luxury of time, which I never have.

• 53:18Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 53:19Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And I've never chosen, this forced, this forced time was very helpful.

• 53:25Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, I love that. My power comes from?

• 53:29Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  My family.

• 53:31Jay Shetty?

  Working hard makes me feel?

• 53:33Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Fulfilled.

• 53:34Jay Shetty?

  Storytelling is?

• 53:36Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  A joy.

• 53:36Jay Shetty?

  And my dogs are?

• 53:38Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  My world.

• 53:45Jay Shetty?

  I love it. Okay, this is your final five. So questions can be one word to one sentence maximum. You did extremely well on the Fill in the Blank. So these are one word to one sentence maximum. Okay. Who do you go to for their opinion about your work?

• 54:02Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Nobody.

• 54:07Jay Shetty?

  Great, great answer. I love it. I love it.

• 54:10Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I let the people decide.

• 54:14Jay Shetty?

  You know, one of my favorite things about you over the years is just how straight talking you are. And, and, and obviously my intention has only been positive towards you. But I've loved watching your interviews where someone asks, tries to ask just an awkward, irrelevant question and, and you always just give them the best answer. Like you, yeah, it's just, it's so fun to watch. It's so fun.

• 54:38Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Thank you.

• 54:39Jay Shetty?

  And I haven't, I haven't been able to be on the other end of it, thankfully. But, but it's, it's great. It's great. Okay. What's the best piece of advice you ever received?

• 54:49Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  To have courage of conviction.

• 54:54Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  My mom said that to me when I was very young. She said, "If you're gonna tell the truth, or if you're gonna tell a lie, just know that, you know, whatever you do, you have to stand by it. The good, the bad, the ugly. It's all yours."

• 55:10Jay Shetty?

  What's the worst advice you've ever received?

• 55:12Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  I don't retain bad advice.

• 55:17Jay Shetty?

  Great answer. That's a great answer. It's awesome, yeah. Yeah, it makes perfect sense. Why would you remember it?

• 55:23Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It just, I don't have the place in my brain for it. There's too many other things floating around.

• 55:28Jay Shetty?

  Question number four. What's something that you know to be true for you, but that other people may disagree on? So something that you're confident is true, but other people may not understand it fully?

• 55:40Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  That I'm actually like you, a monk. People won't believe it. Because most people, even my closest family would be like, "You, no." Because I'm always like in a tizzy, but I'm actually inherently rather close, close to monk. Not really, actually.

• 56:02Jay Shetty?

  I love it. No, I love it. That's great. That was the whole reason why I was encouraging people to have a monk mindset, that anyone in the world can have that. So I love hearing that. That's beautiful. You don't have to, you don't have to live like a monk to think like a monk. So I'm glad. That's great. Okay, fifth and final question. If you could make one law in the world that everyone had to follow, what would it be?

• 56:27Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  "No one goes hungry," is my law. That's it. It's the worst thing to see.

• 56:37Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Yeah, if we could change just that, it would really change a lot of...

• 56:41Jay Shetty?

  That's such a great law. We've never had anyone say that before. So I'm really, I'm really happy you shared that. And I couldn't agree more. As a monk, we worked on several food distribution programs in India where I was. And it was, it was so meaningful to see. But there's so much work that needs to be done in that space all across the world.

• 57:00Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  All over the world. Oh my gosh, everywhere. That's like such a basic right and need for a human being to just live. And, you know, I've done, obviously coming from having grown up in India, but also I've worked with kids around the world with UNICEF.

• 57:22Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And

• 57:25Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  it's just, it's like, that's gotta change. A hungry child is

• 57:33Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  it's just, it's not right. It's not natural.

• 57:37Jay Shetty?

  And, and yeah, and it's like, you know, we talk about, as we were talking about the dreams and the ambitions, but it all starts with food and water. And, you know, it starts with those basic necessities to help that person. So that's, that's a beautiful answer.

• 57:48Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And we also, as privileged society, have become very desensitized to it, you know? Drive past homeless shelter, you're not thinking about it. And I'm not saying that, you know, each person needs to empty their wallets and like make a difference to the world. I think, yes, it is the responsibility of the large earners, definitely, of, you know, the billionaires of the world. Um, because, in a big way. But I think also the responsibility of each one of us to just do whatever we can, you know? And that doesn't have to be large. It could be just kindness, compassion, change someone's life, just look around you, your neighborhood. Just that, that itself will be helpful, you know?

• 58:30Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  My, I was, as a kid, my mom told me, no matter how badly off you are, how bad your circumstances are, someone's worse off than you.

• 58:41Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  And that's just the truth of the world.

• 58:43Jay Shetty?

  I love how much you remember and quote your parents. It's such a beautiful thing because it, it shows you the power of good parenting and beautiful messaging from a young age.

• 58:53Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  It really is.

• 58:54Jay Shetty?

  It's such a special thing, so I think.

• 58:56Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  They also repeated themselves a lot.

• 59:01Jay Shetty?

  That's brilliant.

• 59:07Jay Shetty?

  I love that. They just kept saying the same thing every birthday.

• 59:10Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Same.

• 59:10Jay Shetty?

  Every birthday.

• 59:11Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Same thing. I was like, alright, I get it.

• 59:17Jay Shetty?

  Well, the repetition worked. It worked. The repetition worked.

• 59:21Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Yeah, I wrote a book about them.

• 59:22Jay Shetty?

  I love it. Yeah, the repetition worked so much that if you want to be parented by Priyanka Chopra Jonas's parents, that's, this is, what's in the, no, please go and grab a copy. We're putting the link everywhere for Unfinished, a memoir by Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Go and grab the book. Go and read it. Go and share it. Read it together. Start a book club around it. We're gonna make this one of our book club picks for the on purpose community. So I'll be sharing that with all of you and all the notes as I'm reading through it. Recommend that you do the same. Priyanka, I'm so grateful for your time, your generous time for staying up with us. I know you've got lots more of these to do. And I look forward to meeting you very soon. So, thank you so much. Is there, is there anything you want to share last with everyone?

• 1:00:06Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  No, I just want to say this was so nice, Jay. It was such a lovely conversation. I always knew it was going to be, but it's, you're, you're just insightful and I can see why, you know, you do what you do so well. And more power to you, you know, keep pushing it.

• 1:00:22Jay Shetty?

  Thank you. Thank you so much, Priyanka. Such a pleasure. And yeah, all the best for the rest of your interviews and the rest of the tour. And yeah, look forward to speaking to you soon.

• 1:00:31Priyanka Chopra Jonas?

  Okay, stay safe. Chat soon.

• 1:00:41Jay Shetty?

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