celeb news Self-help "guru" Jay Shetty accused of plagiarism and being a fraud

[Jotham]

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Shetty’s whole persona is built around a story he shares on talk shows, in advice videos, and in two best-selling books: While in business school, he attended a talk by a monk named Gauranga Das, had a major spiritual awakening, skipped his graduation ceremony, and studied at an ashram in India for three years.

Based on what McDermott found, this tale is likely distorted at best. For one thing, Shetty frequently changes his age in the story — he sometimes says he was 18 but has also claimed to have been 21 and 22. Gauranga Das and Shetty’s legal team confirmed that their encounter happened in 2007, which would have made Shetty 19 or 20.

But there are bigger holes. Based on accounts from people who knew him at the time, Shetty did travel to India in the mid-to-late-aughts, but, they say, not for nearly as much time as he claims. According to some former associates, one of whom he allegedly dated for a year, he reportedly spent most of his monk stint not in Mumbai but at an estate outside London called Bhaktivedanta Manor. Both Gauranga Das and Shetty’s legal team insist he spent only a few months there before moving to India, but in a travel blog he kept at the time — which McDermott says was made private at some point during the reporting of his story — he reportedly called Bhaktivedanta his main ashram. In a 2011 post, he apparently discusses returning from “almost four months in India” before hanging out at London’s City University and “distributing flyers and books on the streets all over the UK and enjoying festivals!”

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Shetty has been hit with accusations of plagiarism for years. In 2019, he took down upwards of 100 YouTube and Instagram videos after YouTuber Nicole Arbour found the original sources of several of his go-to parables. He now credits and tags the Instagram accounts he pulls videos from, but a few creators told The Guardian he didn’t ask them for permission or pay to repost their content.

McDermott also looked into the Jay Shetty Certification School, a $7,400-a-term self-help course that purports to give students a master’s degree in life coaching. Turns out the school’s accreditations are questionable at best. Before McDermott started making calls, its website listed affiliations with a handful of universities, none of which confirmed it had any link to Shetty’s program. (Most of these have since been removed from the site.)

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[Walk_Away21]

Pretends to be shocked. All these influencers are slimy shills.

[aesthetic bih]

How Shetty of him

[Revolution]

Wtf is a self-help guru. Go to a therapist.

[uusagii]

Not him operating a diploma mill on top of the scam 

[AMIT]

late stage capitalism 

[Digitalism]

Just like the guy from Diary of a Ceo

I think it's pretty clear these people are exagerating or lying to create a persona

Edited March 5 by Digitalism

[Mordecai]

12 minutes ago, Digitalism said:

Just like the guy from Diary of a Ceo

What's the tea with Steven Bartlett?

 

I know he inflated the valuation of Social Chain but I hope he's not a fraud other than that, I like him

 

OT: Anyone who follows these self help gurus/podcast bros and takes their word for the gospel need a reality check. I like listening to them from time to time but I couldn't imagine listening to them day in day out

[JBJT2786]

3 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

What's the tea with Steven Bartlett?

 

I know he inflated the valuation of Social Chain but I hope he's not a fraud other than that, I like him

 

OT: Anyone who follows these self help gurus/podcast bros and takes their word for the gospel need a reality check. I like listening to them from time to time but I couldn't imagine listening to them day in day out

Exactly, they're good on an off day when you feel like something is blocking your goal but to listen to them everyday like a cult member is dumb. I used to follow Grant Cardone on IG for his advice stories for example knowing he probably lies about his real one, until I found out he was a Trumper.

 

None of these people are truly wholy good. You gotta take them in pieces instead of wholesale.

[Mordecai]

14 minutes ago, JBJT2786 said:

Exactly, they're good on an off day when you feel like something is blocking your goal but to listen to them everyday like a cult member is dumb. I used to follow Grant Cardone on IG for his advice stories for example knowing he probably lies about his real one, until I found out he was a Trumper.

 

None of these people are truly wholy good. You gotta take them in pieces instead of wholesale.

It's scary what kind of hold these podcasters seem to have over young men, considering they become echo chambers and they only choose to expose themselves to these limited perspectives which distorts reality

[Magickarp]

I thought that name sounded familiar. Another leeching fake hippie Shawn added to his life

 

 

[naval23]

Shawn is shook

[fridayteenage]

2 hours ago, Magickarp said:

I thought that name sounded familiar. Another leeching fake hippie Shawn added to his life

 

 

maybe it was blackmail 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

I never trust self-help gurus or motivational speakers. Always just feels like a money scheme, because you can say a lot of vague things to get people hooked that SOUND great when it comes to that subject matter.

[imabadkid]

yeah I stopped listening to his podcast... Idk... there's smth that's a bit off there tbh.

[imabadkid]

9 hours ago, Mordecai said:

It's scary what kind of hold these podcasters seem to have over young men, considering they become echo chambers and they only choose to expose themselves to these limited perspectives which distorts reality

Yep. My ex was obsessed with Andrew T*te. Worshiped him... a lot of men these days are lost. I'm not sure if it's because of all the strides women have been making? I'm not sure what it is but they're lost, and it's making a lot of them toxic, overly sexual meaning they'll f*ck anything because they're looking for some sort of validation and power. Liars, f*ckboys, etc.

[Musicmajor]

Not shocking, unfortunately. 

[ks_dollar]

H3 podcast sucks but they made several points in feuding with him

[ctlp27]

I don't get how you can fabricate something like this and think you can get away with this. Like we're not in the 70s or 80s were you could barely check stuff. Now with Internet and all, it's not like a big lie can go unnoticed.

 

Those self help people are so toxic.

[TryMe]

He is overrated. He is extremely lucky that he is nice to look at. 

[Khal]

Wow, what next? Mediums and astrologists are also frauds?

Edited March 5 by Khal

[gettsleazy]

Self-help gurus are no different from Avon salespeople or pyramid-scheme MLM adjacent folks. They shill out a false narrative and reality to get you to invest in their product (their content) while offering no substantial value or quality of life improvement. 

 

I've heard wiser words from local crack addicts at my bus stop than the **** these morons make millions to say. 

[gettsleazy]

2 hours ago, Khal said:

Wow, what next? Mediums and astrologists are also frauds?

Don't lump my spiritual sisters in with this nonsense. There are plenty of bad-faith, greedy mediums and astrologists but the spiritual and religious practices themselves are not fraudulent. 

[Weld_E]

5 hours ago, ks_dollar said:

H3 podcast sucks but they made several points in feuding with him

Whats the tea?

[CoolNebraskaGuy]

This guy always screamed shill to me. 

 

How is someone who devoted themselves to a theistic, monastic life going to become a life coach/influencer? The jokes write themselves. Glad people are catching on to these grifters