This is a transcript of a conversation on The Megan Pormer Show (recorded Dec 29, 2023) between Vishen Lakhiani and Megan Pormer. Opening banter reveals Vishen's colorblindness (he says he perceives 5.6% of typical color range). The core of the discussion describes Mindvalley’s community-first approach (Mindvalley University — a roughly three-week, city-wide, co-created event in Tallinn, Estonia with ~1,600 participants), the platform’s emphasis on removing barriers between teachers and students, family-friendly programming (his 8-year-old daughter attended), and an organizational focus on promoting women leaders and teachers (mentions Barbara Marx Hubbard and programming with May Musk). The interview closes with Vishen promoting his book The Six Phase Meditation Method (available on Amazon) and his Instagram handle.
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December 29, 2023.
5.6%.
About 1,600 people.
About three weeks.
Tallinn, Estonia.
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Hello.
Look who's here.
Hey.
Matching my outfit. Am I matching you or are you matching me?
You see, I'm colorblind, so I'm gonna have to trust your judgment.
You're colorblind for real?
I only see 5.6% of the colors that a normal person sees.
And I asked you to wear the color that is the color of your soul.
Exactly.
How did you know this is the color of your Soul?
Because with 5.6% you can still make out tiny little shades. So I know this is like a bluish thingy, but you know, I can't even see colors like purple. I have no concept of that.
Wow.
It's so funny how we all see the world in different ways.
Maybe I can show you some other colors.
Maybe.
Let's go see if we can figure out some other colors. Come on in. So I went to Vishen's event in LA Mindvalley. I wanted to see the Silver Method and how accurately it works. So it was the first time that I witnessed something at a big seminar. You had hundreds of people, A thousand people. A thousand people, wow. There were a thousand people. It was my first time at an event at a festival that there was no separation between the speakers and the crowd.
Right, we do that.
Yes. It was an interactive experience where the audience was one with the speaker.
Right.
That's an invention in my opinion. You're a trailblazer in that. How did you decide about that shift?
So mindvalley is so different from so many other personal growth companies out there. The borders, the walls are completely removed. Unity is overriding principle. And so what happens is if you come to a mindvalley event and we do a massive three week event in Estonia called Mindvalley University and everybody gets an app and you can see the thousands of other people who are there, you can connect with people. The speakers are on the app, you're on the app, everyone attends together and you bring your kids along too. Because there are classes for kids now. Anybody can put in a proposal for a talk and we choose people that we put on stage. But even if you don't get a stage, we take over the entire city. Anybody can give a talk in a cafe or yoga studio. It's completely free forming. So we just had it in Tallinn, Estonia. 1600 people moved there for about three weeks. And just like Burning man, everyone co creates and participates. I'm there with my 8 year old daughter, she's attending talks with the students of the kids of other students and everyone is just free and accessible there is no border in Mindvalley. It's very hard to understand who is a teacher, who is a student, who's an employee of the company. Everything is just part of one beautiful, amazing soup of humanity.
Mindvalley is formed. It's your baby, right? Is it your baby?
No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm its baby.
Aha. So it's bigger than you.
Exactly. Exactly. I believe mindvalley is something that if I didn't create someone else, created someone else would have created. It was meant to emerge in the world. And so I have no ego attached to it. Why I say I'm its baby, it's because it makes me. Srikumar Rao says your obsession should never be your business. Your obsession should be your personal growth. It should never be your business. Your business, he says. And by the way, Srikhumara Rao is one of the top MBA professors in the world. He says what is missing from America's MBA programs is this idea. Your business is not the most important thing. Your personal growth is. Your business, though, is nothing but the greatest vehicle for your personal growth. So mindvalley made me I'm its baby. Because as I'm building it and it, I believe, chose me, I'm learning, I'm growing. I'm learning new ways of leadership. I'm learning how to take care of my health so I can show up to work every day. I'm learning how to connect with people in a different way. I'm learning how to speak, how to present. I'm its baby. One of the things that drive mindvalley. So mindvalley, the majority of our of our managers are women. Majority of our customers are women. But around five years ago, the the American philosopher Barbara Marx Hubbard, she says, you need to help create a world where more women are leading businesses, governments, countries, because that is what we need to create a better world. And then Barbara, who wrote the book Evolutionary Woman, she passed away after that. And so one of the biggest things we've been doing at mindvalley is recruiting these women teachers. Shefali Sabari, who's inspired you, as one May Musk, who is Elon's mother. I just finished directing and producing a program with her for women over 40, which is about inspiring women to get back in the workforce and bring in feminine energy, into politics, into government, into the workplace. And Mei is a force of nature. She's 72 years old. And so this has been a really important driving force of mindvalley. We don't talk about it that much, but now that you mentioned it. This is part of the DNA of the platform that we are building.
One last thing. I can't get enough of you, but one last thing I wanted to ask. I want you to talk to my audience, people that are watching you right now. Give them a few steps to take action to become a part of your movement at mindvalley.
So. So, firstly, you could try following me on Instagram Vision V I S H E N But you might also want to check out my new book, the Six Phase Meditation Method, which is a protocol I designed to put you in the most amazing states of being so that you are blissed out, you are happy, you're connected to yourself and to other people. You're manifesting and you're creating magic in your life. Almost like you have. Like you have Tinkerbell on your shoulder, just blessing the heck out of everything that you touch. So the Six Phase Meditation, it's available on Amazon. You can check it out on my Instagram Vision. Click on link in bio and I hope it brings amazing service to your life.
