The xMonks Drive

Updated: 28 Jun 2025 • 215 episodes
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Don’t let your assumptions define you. Be driven by choices that provide experience and teach you. When you set out to discover what you really care for by identifying your purpose and living from that space, you have access to Gaurav’s podcast, “The xMonks Drive”. It’s about beginning the journey to be your best self and live what you really care for! Hear Gaurav’s personal selection of his interviews with thought-leaders, social change makers, masterful coaches, spiritual gurus, entrepreneurs as well as business giants, who are doing something meaningful in their life. With this extensive selection of episodes featuring insightful lessons, you can learn a great deal while listening to the podcast when you are in between activities or a daily workout. Get started today by choosing an episode that helps illuminate your path to identify your purpose and live from that space!

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Is MMA enough to survive a real street fight? In this gripping episode, Shaolin Master Shifu Kanishka Sharma — India’s first warrior monk and elite combat trainer — dismantles the myths around sport fighting and shows what it really takes to survive on the street. Having trained India’s Special Forces, Bollywood icons

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What if your bloating, burnout, migraines, and even your mood swings all had one root cause? In this powerful episode of The xMonks Drive, Gaurav Arora sits down with Dr. Preeti Seth, India’s leading wellness expert and founder of Pachouli, to expose the truth about gut health, sleep disorders, and the silent signals y

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Can a story make you rich? Sandeep Gupta says yes, and he’s got 2 lakh+ GMAT scorers, entrepreneurs, and high-performers to prove it. In this mind-shifting episode of xMonks Drive, India’s top GMAT trainer reveals how storytelling goes way beyond interviews and presentations. This is how you hack memory, sell without s

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What happens when a Supreme Court lawyer walks into a boardroom and tells the truth about workplace harassment? In this powerful conversation, Gaurav Arora sits down with Suroor Mander — lawyer, activist, and one of India’s leading POSH trainers — to break down how corporates are getting POSH wrong, why women still sta

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“The War for Delhi” wasn’t just political, it was personal. In this unfiltered conversation, Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Jasmine Shah reveals how Delhi’s governance was dismantled, its leaders jailed, and institutions weaponized. 🗣️ "If an elected Chief Minister can be jailed with zero evidence, what hope does a comm

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What makes someone pick up a gun in the name of God? Why are books — not bullets — the real weapon in today’s wars? In this gripping conversation, Lt Col Manoj Kumar Sinha (Retd.), Sena Medal awardee and counter-terror veteran, shares unfiltered truths about religious radicalization, terrorism in Kashmir, and the inner

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