Embracing Beliefs and Overcoming Failure: A Vegan Bodybuilder's Journey

💡 Compassion towards oneself while learning is a skill.

🌱 Nimai Delgado is a world's first vegan IFBB professional bodybuilder.

🧘‍♂️ Nimai emphasizes the importance of a plant-based lifestyle and exercise.

Growing up in a spiritual community influenced my values and perspective on life.

Transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle provided increased vitality and immunity.

Navigating different cultural communities shaped my identity and instilled compassion.

💡 Growing up in a spiritually rich but financially poor family, the desire for financial stability drove me to pursue engineering.

🔍 On my first day of work as an engineer, I realized that it wasn't what I truly wanted to do and felt a deeper purpose in teaching people how to be vegan and in shape.

🤔 Reflecting on the decision-making process, I developed a methodology called ESM (Energy, Strategy, Money) to ensure alignment with my true desires.

📚 Finding a career that aligns with your passion is important, but it doesn't have to be as an entrepreneur.

💪 During difficult times, finding an escape or outlet, such as going to the gym, can provide mental and physical benefits.

🌟 Experiencing challenges and difficult moments in life can shape and lead to clarity in pursuing what you truly love.

💪 Facing challenges and overcoming them leads to personal growth and success.

🏋️‍♂️ The journey of bodybuilding starts with ego and validation, but evolves into self-care and personal fulfillment.

🌱 Being a vegan bodybuilder challenges stereotypes and inspires others to live compassionately.

🔑 Knowing when to quit something that doesn't serve you or others is an underrated skill.

💪 As a coach, it's important to help clients discover their own power and overcome subconscious beliefs that hinder their progress.

🌟 Being supportive and compassionate when teaching or coaching others is crucial for their growth and success.

💪 Fitness and working out is an internal journey of overcoming criticism and judgment and being kind and compassionate to ourselves.

🔄 Focusing on the process and finding intrinsic motivation rather than relying solely on outcomes.

🧠 The importance of reflection, shifting behavior, and listening to oneself for personal growth and happiness.

🏋️‍♂️ Finding enjoyment in different forms of fitness to maintain consistency and avoid ego-driven workouts.

💖 Promoting kindness, acceptance, and compassion towards others as the basis for a better world.