EPISODE · Jul 18, 2026 · 7 MIN
Turn Spiritual Emptiness Into Real Purpose | Rainn Wilson
from The Daily Motivation · host Lewis Howes, Rainn Wilson
Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://lewishowes.com/podcast/rainn-wilson/ Rainn Wilson moved to New York at 20 to be an actor, get the girl, and finally escape the rules of the Baha'i faith he was raised in. He got all of it. Then he woke up at 3am asking what his life was even about. That gap between "everything is working" and "I feel hollow" sent him back to the books he'd walked away from. Not just one. The Bible. The Koran. The Bhagavad Gita. The Dhammapada. He wasn't looking for religion. He was chasing the one question underneath all of it: is any of this random, or does it mean something? That search became the seed of SoulPancake. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Rainn Wilson got everything he thought he wanted when he moved to New York City to chase acting at 20, a beautiful girlfriend, a career taking off, total freedom from the Baha'i faith he grew up in. Instead he found himself wide awake at 3am asking what his life was even about, a crisis that sent him reading the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Dhammapada in search of an answer, and eventually planted the seed for SoulPancake.
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