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#243 Govind Sandhu — Cancer, Grief, and the Courage to Keep Going
Season 1, Ep. 243
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Govind Sandhu has lived a life most people would dream of. Born in India, raised in New Zealand, and built for adventure, he spent years travelling the world working for some of the biggest brands on the planet including Red Bull and TikTok. By every measure, he was thriving.
Then everything changed.
While living in Austria working for Red Bull, Govind lost his dad. And because of COVID, he couldn't get home. No funeral. No family. No closure. Just grief, alone, on the other side of the world.
Not long after, at the peak of his health and fitness, he was diagnosed with blood cancer.
And then he lost his partner.
Three of the heaviest things a human being can carry, arriving in the same chapter of his life. With no roadmap, no playbook, and at times no way home.
This episode is not a story about falling apart. It is a story about what it actually takes to keep going when life gives you every reason not to. Govind is one of the most open, grounded, and genuinely resilient people I have sat across from, and this conversation will stay with me for a long time.
If you have ever had to find your way through something that felt impossible, this one is for you.
In this episode we cover:
- Govind's journey from India to New Zealand and building a global career with Red Bull and TikTok
- Losing his dad while living abroad in Austria and being unable to return home due to COVID
- What it felt like to be diagnosed with blood cancer at the peak of his health, not long after
- The loss of his partner and how he carried so much grief at once
- What resilience actually looks like when it is being tested in real time
- The mindset shifts that helped him move forward without bypassing the pain
- How he found meaning and purpose on the other side of the hardest chapter of his life
- What he wants other people to know when they are in the middle of their own storm
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