I left Medicine After 20 Years To Search For Meaning | EP17

The Uncommons · Jul 23, 2026 · 44m · transcript

Twenty years of practicing medicine in the US. A company built and sold. One of the highest paid employed physician positions in the country on the table. And he said no to all of it, because success had answered every question except the one that actually mattered.

In this episode, Pej shares the story he hasn't told publicly before: what drove him to walk away from everything he built, what pulled him to India when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, and what happened when he admitted himself as a patient at an Ayurvedic hospital and experienced healing from the inside for the first time…