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Most people think you have to fight through depression, push past trauma, resist the darkness. But what if that's the exact thing keeping you stuck for months or years?
There's a radically different approach that collapsed months-long depressive episodes down to two days. And it's not about positive thinking or pushing through. It's about acceptance.
From co-founding a top 50 goth band to walking away at peak success, getting canceled for speaking truth, and rebuilding through VR and mentorship, Gopal Metro's story proves that what we resist persists, but what we accept transforms us.
In this episode, you'll discover why what we resist persists, how goth music became a healing tool for unprocessed trauma, and the meditation practice that stabilizes your life when everything goes sideways.
IN THIS EPISODE
- Welcome Gopal! From yoga prodigy at Yogaville to co-founding a top 50 goth band
- Why goths find beauty in sorrow - and what that teaches about processing pain
- How fighting depression made it last months and accepting it reduced episodes to two days
- How stillness meditation actually works: from spaghetti thoughts to complete silence
- What happens when you witness the space between your thoughts
- The narcissistic best friend who turned a dream band into a toxic nightmare
- Walking away from Bella Morte at its peak to save your own life
- What happened when speaking truth about predatory behavior got him canceled too
- How leadership training woke Gopal up after living in a shell of trauma
- The VR Chat discovery that reignited the same passion as founding a band in the 1990s
- Starting The Conclave and mentoring artists to 400,000 plays, million visits, and professional gigs
- Launching Main Quest Music during an MBA in entrepreneurship
- Why "done is better than perfect" isn't a cliché. It's how you actually create freedom
- Gopal's two ways to unleash your freedom
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