We recently connected with Pramod Kashyap and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Pramod, thanks for joining us today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

I lost my mind and got admitted to a hospital — and that moment changed the entire trajectory of my life.
Back then I was a college student with way too much on my plate. I was the captain of a nationally ranked Bollywood Dance Team (Spartan Badmaash), applying to internships, talking to girls, living the night life, doing drugs, dealing with emotionally stuck friends, and just trying to survive university without collapsing.
At one point, my dumbass didn’t sleep for a week. That’s what triggered my psychosis.
No one could figure out what was actually wrong with me. Not even mEdiCal ProfEssIonals. And even after I started sleeping again, I still didn’t feel “back.” It felt like life was slipping away anyway. I cried randomly. Maximum anxiety. Zero confidence. I just hated living.
I hated the medication. I refused to go to therapy. And what messed with me the most was how many emotions could exist at once — rage and sadness at the same time… like how tf? Thoughts of ending it also intruded my mind. It was scary because it wasn’t just a rough patch. It felt like something fundamental inside me had snapped, and I didn’t know if it would ever come back.
That period forced me to get brutally honest about how I was living.
I started with the basics because I had to. Proper sleep, sunlight, food, and exercise. Not as “self-care,” but as survival. Then I added gratitude journaling and visualization, because my mind needed a new default setting — something to interrupt the constant spiral and give me a direction to aim at.
But the deeper I went, the more I realized I wasn’t just trying to “recover.” I was trying to understand the SOURCE of what took me out in the first place.
That’s where everything pivoted.
I went deep on the ego and the self (your true nature). I’ve done extensive research in the past 5 years trying to understand why I spiraled like that and what was actually running me underneath my personality, my ambition, my relationships, my habits — everything.
I kept seeing the same pattern: fear, trauma, and boredom. The void. The part of me that was always trying to fill something — through attention, through stimulation, through distractions, through substances, through chasing a version of myself that felt “enough.”
As a college student, I just avoided my fears, swallowed my trauma, and did drugs to fill the void.
And slowly, the “learning lessons” stopped being ideas and started becoming lived experience. I wasn’t trying to become perfect — I was trying to stop reacting like a monkey and actually respond to life. I started practicing what it feels like to sit with the void instead of running from it. What it feels like to accept change instead of panicking when life shifts from known to unknown. What it feels like to choose sustainable habits instead of quick relief.
That’s also when the other side of the equation started showing itself — the self.
Love. Not as an emotion, but as existence. Consciousness as love and compassion. And the wild part is, the more I stopped living from fear and ego, the more life started reflecting something different back to me.
I manifested romantic love — not from chasing, not from performing, but from becoming someone who could actually hold a loving relationship. I started choosing differently. I started moving differently. I started becoming more honest, more stable, more grounded. And the love I wanted wasn’t just something I “got,” it was something I could finally sustain.
Then it started spilling into everything else.
I moved to my dream city. I quit my job. I traveled the world. And I didn’t do it from the same chaotic energy I used to run on — I did it from alignment. From clarity. From knowing what I’m about and what I’m not about.
And something else happened that I never expected when I was in that hospital bed thinking I was done: I found a loving community of like minded people. People who aren’t just on small talk and matrix slop. People who are actually trying to live with intention. People who care about growth, truth, spirituality, the body, the mind — the whole thing.
Even my craft came back in a way that felt impossible when I was at my lowest.
I went from broken to dancing for the Detroit Pistons. I went from almost giving up my craft, to dancing for Big Sean. I went from low self-esteem, to blowing up on TikTok. I built a growing social media presence of 35k followers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram — and I still remember how unreal that felt because I came from a place where I couldn’t even trust my own mind.
The entire backstory is messy, raw, and not “clean,” but that’s the point.
That defining moment — the breakdown, the psychosis, the hospital — forced me to rebuild from the foundation: body first (sleep, sunlight, food, exercise), mind next (gratitude journaling, visualization), and then the deepest layer (ego vs self, fear/trauma/boredom, love, non-duality). And the more I applied it, the more my life stopped being something I was trying to survive, and started becoming something I could consciously create.
Now the tools that anchor me are dance, ice baths, yoga, breath work, meditation, and the highest knowledge. This is my anchor. This is how I live. And it’s the reason my story didn’t end in that hospital — it’s the reason my life opened up into love, freedom, travel, community, and a trajectory I genuinely didn’t think was possible back then.

Pramod, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m Pramod Kashyap, and my whole thing is helping successful-but-unfulfilled people who look “good on paper” but internally feel stressed, anxious, numb, or stuck in their own mind. The people I work with are usually high-functioning, lawyers, PMs, entrepreneurs, corporate people, but they’re quietly dealing with overthinking, emotional spirals, burnout, decision paralysis, or that heavy “what is the point of my life” feeling. They’re doing everything, but they don’t feel okay.
I got into this work because I lived the extreme version of it. In college I was the captain of a nationally ranked Bollywood Dance Team (Spartan Badmaash), applying to internships, chasing girls, nightlife, drugs, carrying friendships that were emotionally stuck, and just trying to survive university while also trying to be somebody. At one point my dumbass didn’t sleep for a week and it triggered psychosis. I ended up admitted to a hospital, and after that, even when I started sleeping again, I still felt like life was slipping away. Random crying, maximum anxiety, zero confidence, rage and sadness at the same time like how tf, and even thoughts of ending it intruding my mind. That was the moment where I realized you can’t just “think” your way out of pain, you have to rebuild your inner operating system.
So I went deep and made it practical. I started with the basics because I had to, sleep, sunlight, food, exercise. Then gratitude journaling and visualization, because my mind needed direction again. But over time I became obsessed with the real root layer, the ego vs the self (your true nature), and how fear, trauma, and boredom run people’s lives. I’ve done extensive research on this for the past 5 years, but the real research was applying it when it actually mattered, when your nervous system is cooked, when you’re spiraling, when you’re triggered, when you want to numb out, when you’re about to self-sabotage.
That’s what my coaching is now. I’m not doing “positive vibes” manifestation. My mission is to teach people how to remove internal pain and bend reality, from the inside out, by regulating the body, breath, and mind, and then aligning you with dharma (right order, right action, real integrity). When your energy stops leaking into fear, reactivity, and coping, you start making powerful decisions again. And when you start making powerful decisions consistently, your reality changes.
The transformations I’m most proud of are what I’ve watched happen in my clients’ lives. I’ve helped a lawyer go from stress, anxiety burnout and being scared to make decisions to becoming way more confident in decision-making, including leaving an unhealthy job situation to prioritize wellbeing. I’ve helped a product manager go from emotional spillover and crashing out on friends to feeling calmer and more level-headed day to day, with noticeably improved relationships and less escalation. I’ve helped a business analyst go from isolation, self-doubt, and long stretches of low functioning to feeling refreshed and mentally free again, able to turn the day around fast and take consistent action, including putting themself out there more, like sharing dance. I’ve worked with a war veteran who went from PTSD triggers to 6+ weeks with no triggers and a much more stable inner state. And I’ve helped an entrepreneur go from heartbreak and emotional collapse to rebuilding conviction, stabilizing emotionally, taking aligned action, and hitting $15k months, tripling income.
What sets me apart is I’m bridging the raw, messy human reality with real spiritual truth, without making it fluffy. I care about nervous system regulation and embodied change, not just mindset talk. The tools I use, and live by, are dance, breath work, yoga, meditation, ice baths, and the highest knowledge, and I don’t teach it like a theory. I teach it like something you use when your life is on the line, when you’re tired of coping, and when you’re ready to actually evolve.
What I want potential clients, followers, fans to know is simple, you’re not broken, you’re patterned, and patterns can be changed. If you’ve been stuck in cycles, if you feel like you’re fighting your own mind, if you’re “successful” but internally suffering, I’m here to help you remove the pain at the root and become the kind of person reality cooperates with. That’s the brand. That’s the work. That’s what I’m building my whole life around.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

The biggest pivot in my life was walking away from the “safe” corporate path, even while doing work that looked impressive on paper.
For a while I was in that weird spot where the external story sounded good, I was working corporate, I even had Google as a client, and from the outside it looks like you made it. But internally it was dread. It was that low-key feeling of being trapped between job security and freedom, grinding hard for something I didn’t even care about, pushing through because it’s the “responsible” thing, while feeling this strong pull toward spiritual, creator work anyway.⁠
⁠ I could perform, I could deliver, I could lock in for corporate demands, but I kept asking myself why it was so hard to sustain that same intensity for my own life, my own mission, my own work.⁠
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In 2024 I finally started coaching. Not because it was some cute business idea, but because I genuinely couldn’t unsee what I had learned about the body, breath, mind, ego, fear, trauma, boredom, all of it. I had already been through my own mental collapse in college, and I rebuilt myself through the basics and the deeper stuff, and at a certain point it felt irresponsible to keep that to myself. So I started putting myself out there, learning how to serve people for real, learning how to communicate, learning how to hold space, learning how to actually help someone change their internal reality, not just hype them up.
Then in August, I got my first client. And I still remember how big that felt, because it wasn’t just “a client,” it was proof that this path was real, that I could create value from who I am, not just from a job title. It was also the moment where the fear started getting louder, because now it was like, oh shit, this is actually becoming a thing, am I really about to do this.
The real pivot happened when I quit my corporate job in November 2025. That was the moment where I stopped playing both sides, half in corporate, half in my mission, and I fully chose myself. And I’m not going to lie, that came with fear, fear of uncertain income, fear of “what if I can’t keep this consistent,” fear of rejection, fear of putting my work out there and people not caring. It forced me to face the parts of me that wanted security more than freedom, and it forced me to actually build skills I didn’t have yet, marketing, sales, messaging, content, all the stuff people pretend is easy until they actually have to do it with their own face and their own name.
And that’s also why I’m loving every second of it now.
Because it’s all on me. There’s no hiding behind a company. There’s no “boss” to impress. There’s no ladder to climb that I don’t even value. It’s my energy, my discipline, my craft, my integrity, my ability to show up. I am the product, and that means I have to show up well, for myself, and for the people I’m serving. And the funniest part is, that’s exactly what makes it fulfilling, the pressure is real, but it’s clean pressure. It’s the pressure of purpose, not the pressure of pretending.
That pivot didn’t just change my career, it changed my whole relationship with life, because now the work is an extension of who I am, and if I want reality to move, I have to move first.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Other than training and knowledge, the most helpful thing for succeeding in my field is embodiment, can you actually hold the essence of the present moment in your body, not just understand concepts in your head.

Because in coaching, content, and business, my energy is the whole product. It’s easy to forget that. It’s easy to think the “source” of the outcome is the strategy, the script, the perfect niche wording, the perfect offer, the perfect post. But if I’m being honest, all of that is secondary. If my energy is scattered, if I’m in my head, if I’m drained, if I’m reacting, the whole thing collapses. If I’m present, focused, clear, and aware, the whole thing works. My nervous system is the business.

And it’s also insanely easy to forget that I am the source. Like I’ll wake up and my mind will try to outsource my power immediately. It’ll latch onto notifications, people’s opinions, comparisons, random urgency, random fear, random “what ifs.” And the scariest part is how normal it feels. You don’t even notice you’re distracted, you just slowly stop being the one driving, and you start being driven.

That’s why focus is not some productivity hack for me, it’s spiritual. Because distraction is basically the mind pulling awareness away from what matters, then you look up and you’re like, damn, I did 20 things today and none of them were *my thing*. And in this work, when I’m distracted, I don’t just lose time, I lose the signal. I lose the presence that makes my words land, the clarity that makes people trust me, the calm that makes a client feel safe, the sharpness that makes me create, the courage that makes me sell.

This is something I’ve seen again and again through my it’s all energy. Movement is energy. Breathing is literally moving matter through the spine and body to generate more energy. And creating anything real takes high energy, not just hype energy, but clean energy, steady energy, present energy.Even the way I talk to myself matters, slower, deeper, more patient, more loving, because that changes the signal I’m operating from.

So for me, “success” in my field is basically, can I keep coming back to source. Can I keep coming back to the present moment. Can I stop leaking energy into overthinking, coping, distraction, and the need for validation, and instead direct that same energy into creation and service. Because the moment I remember I’m the source, everything becomes simple again. My job is to show up. My job is to supply the energy. My job is to be sharp, clear, and clean. And when I do that, the strategy works, the content works, the coaching works, the business works.

If it works in the head, it works in real life, I just gotta supply the energy to tools, objects, jobs, myself.

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