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Dhar Mann

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  1. “Yeah, so I went to UC Davis, and at that time, there was this really desirable place to live called Primero Grove. And it was on campus, which mean that you could walk to all your classes. So this apartment was more expensive than I could afford. So I needed to find a roommate. So one day I'm walking by this bulletin board in a lecture hall, and I thought, hey, that may be a good place to advertise. So I make a cheap flyer looking for a roommate. I print it out a bunch of copies and then woke up super early in the morning and posted flyers all around the different bulletin boards on campus. And within no time, I start getting phone calls and I found a roommate within that same day.”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Yeah, so in high school, as I got older, I always felt like an outcast. Being the only Indian kid in a very racially divided school, I didn't have a lot of friends. And because my parents weren't around, they'd give me money to make up for not being able to give me their time. So I did discover there was one way to get kids to want to hang out with me. And that was by me offering to buy them things. And I notice when I was paying for things like lunch or snacks or arcade games, a lot of people wanted to be my friend. And I didn't realize this until my adult years, but I associated money with love, since that's how my parents expressed their love to me since they were never around. And at this stage of my life, I was only concerned with how could I make as much money as possible in order to be as quote unquote as loved as possible.”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yeah, you know, I've got my haircut when I was in fourth grade. So in fifth grade, I'm still in the same elementary school. And nobody recognized me. I felt better at school because I wasn't getting judged as much, but I felt very shameful when it came to the Indian community and at our temple and places of gathering. But I guess that's part of what every immigrant feels. Coming to this world is you get torn between these two different cultures. And ultimately, you have to find yourself in all of this. And I think that's part of the challenge that I felt throughout my life was finding myself.”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “And I remember crying the whole time at the barbershop thinking when you cut your hair, it would really hurt. I had no idea what it was like. But of course, in a moment, the barber closes his scissors. You know, my hair falls to the ground and it was over.”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “My dad tells us that one of the biggest days in his life, in my parents' life, was the day he saved enough money to buy a car. And so, of course, he turns that car into a taxi cab. So that was our personal vehicle. Wherever we went, we were driven around in a taxi. And my family is Sikh, and part of our religion is you're not supposed to cut your hair So, my dad wore and still wears a turban. And my brother and I also had turbans back then. And so we would. Every racial slur you can imagine the bullying was so bad that I remember that my brother would come home with bruises and bloodied all the time. And even though it was the hardest thing in the world for my mom since she's so religious, one day my brother came home beat up so badly for his hair that she sent us with our uncle to go get haircuts.”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I never thought this would go further than my living room couch. It took me hundreds of takes to say my lines because I kept messing up. So all those takes later, I was finally satisfied enough with my first video. I posted on Facebook and I refreshed and refreshed thinking I'd get millions of views. It never even broke 100 views. My very first comment that I got said, who do you think you are, Tony Robbins?”

    2024-04-29 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT