96: The Brighter Mindset (Part 1 of 2) - How Shyambo Cultivates Inner Luminosity
This episode explores how spiritual mentorship, emotional equanimity, and intentional social media use can transform an anxious, approval-seeking mind into what my guest calls a brighter mindset. On a day honoring Guru Nanak’s birth and the guru tradition, it felt especially fitting to sit down with Shyambo, a spiritual mentor, founder of The Brighter Mindset, and content creator whose work has reached over 10 million people.
Shyambo shares how his life was shaped by his guru, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, and how trying to "perform" wisdom online led him into depression, imposter syndrome, and a deep misalignment between his outer persona and inner reality.
He opens up about his time in a mindfulness-based recovery program in Sedona, the shift from chasing likes to praying before every post, and why practices like prapti (nothing left to attain), emotional equanimity, and samp (unity) have changed the way he relates to success, comparison, and conflict – especially during tense cultural and political moments.
In Part 1, we touch on:
- What a guru really is, and how modeling a teacher’s inner state is different from just consuming their ideas.
- Shyambo's journey from pre-med tennis kid to spiritual mentor, and how early bullying and cultural barriers shaped his inner search.
- How social media became a "casino of validation" for him – and what finally forced him to step away.
- The role of mindfulness-based recovery in helping him separate ego from service.
- Why he now prays before every post, and how that single intention protects him from FOMO and metrics obsession.
- The concepts of prapti, emotional equanimity, and samp (unity) as antidotes to comparison, division, and reactivity in a post-election landscape.
Note: This is Part One of a two-part series. Part Two airs next week.
To explore more of Shyambo's work, please visit thebrightermindset.com, or check him out on Instagram. You can also sign up for his 2026 Sedona Immersive Wellness Retreat here.
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