{"id":195847,"date":"2025-09-28T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/madonna-uses-first-podcast-interview-to-declare-she-owes-career-to-spirituality\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:01:17","slug":"madonna-uses-first-podcast-interview-to-declare-she-owes-career-to-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/madonna-uses-first-podcast-interview-to-declare-she-owes-career-to-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna uses first podcast interview to declare she owes career to spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-28\" datetime=\"1759078877\" pubdate=\"\">28 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/madonna\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,madonna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> has used her first podcast interview to declare said she owes her decades-long career to her spiritual practice.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Madonna has used her first podcast interview to declare she owes her decades-long career to her spiritual practice<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old singer will appear on a new episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty on Monday (29.09.25), where she speaks candidly with podcast host Jay Shetty about the role spirituality has played in her life. <\/p>\n<p>The discussion ranges from forgiveness and success to the influence of Kabbalah, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/madonna\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,madonna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> first encountered in 1996 shortly before the birth of her daughter Lourdes Leon.<\/p>\n<p>An extract from the chat obtained by People reveals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/madonna\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,madonna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> tells Jay: \u201cYou need to be spiritual to be successful. Success is having a spiritual life, period. I wouldn\u2019t be here if I didn\u2019t have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Grammy award winner, known for her outspoken advocacy on human rights, added: \u201cWhat have I done for others? That&#8217;s really the only way you can be successful in life. It&#8217;s like the greatest amount of light is where there&#8217;s darkness and you can reveal the most amount of light. When you&#8217;re in a dark room, you turn on the light. When you&#8217;re in a room that&#8217;s already light, what do you, there&#8217;s no, um, effort made. So should we look for darkness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nShe continued: \u201cMy soul&#8217;s purpose is to reveal light in the world through whatever I do. I want it all, but I want it for the sake of sharing, not to keep it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe podcast also features Eitan Yardeni, Madonna\u2019s longtime Kabbalah teacher. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe pair recently launched a new course titled The Mystical Studies of the Zohar. <\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking to Jay, Madonna admitted she had once been vulnerable to outside judgment. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cI was once a slave or victim of other people\u2019s opinions of me. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t fit in, and not fitting in is what saves you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nReflecting on her career highs and lows, she insisted spirituality has provided the foundation for her resilience. <\/p>\n<p>\nMadonna said: \u201cSpiritual wisdom is not helpful when everything&#8217;s going your way. It&#8217;s helpful when you&#8217;re challenged and when you&#8217;re happy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt&#8217;s helpful to remember that at any given time, in any moment, it could be gone. So don&#8217;t take it for granted. Have humility.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cRadical acceptance is just accepting that what is happening to you is meant to happen to you \u2013 and that you\u2019re going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/madonna-uses-first-podcast-interview-declare-owes-career-spirituality-1430470.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 September 2025 Madonna has used her first podcast interview to declare said she owes her decades-long career to her spiritual practice. 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