This YouTube interview, hosted by Puneet Nanda, features guest Amish Shah. The conversation opens with a brief introduction: Amish is described as a tech entrepreneur (based in San Diego), filmmaker, and someone bridging entrepreneurship with Ayurveda and spirituality. The host asks Amish to introduce himself and explain his journey from technology into spirituality and Ayurveda.
Welcome, welcome, Amish Shah. So for people who don't know Amish, Amish is a tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles. No, actually in San Diego. He's actually bridging the gap, just like myself, between entrepreneurship and Ayurveda. He is also a filmmaker and that makes him very interesting. If you guys look at his website, you'll realize that he is not only made an actual movie on Ayurveda, he's got everybody that I would dream to be with already captured. So, Amish, welcome, thank you for being here. I'm going to ask you one question.
Sure.
So can you please introduce yourself to my audience and tell us about your personal journey from technology, which absolutely am zero in into spirituality and Ayurveda and everything else in between.
It was quite an interesting journey. And I always start the story from when I was a child because it's the easiest place to anchor where everything kind of extended from. So growing up, I'm first generation Indian. So meaning, like my parents are from India. They were born in India. They came in like 77, something like that. 1977. Then I was born in 1980 in New Jersey. So I'm the first generation Indian American, basically. And for me, you know, it was interesting growing up here because at home we would be doing maybe rituals. I'd be eating certain foods and then I'm outside, I'm playing basketball with my friends, eating pizza and lasagna and whatever else. Right. So I had these like two different lives. And growing up, we didn't have much money growing up. You know, my. The famous saying is, oh, I came to America with $7 in my pocket. That was my parents. You know, they came to America with quite literally $7 in their pocket and they got a job and we continued to work. But we didn't have much growing up. So for me, it was like, I'm going to be rich when I grow up. I'm going to be an entrepreneur and I'm not going to live like this. I'm going to look at all these people on tv. Look at this. It's the American dream. I can do anything I want here. So that was like this side of me that was very apparent from a young.
