Interview With Author Neal Bakshi
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Neal Bakshi is a certified spiritual life coach, reiki energy healer, and angel channeler. He specializes in guiding highly driven, motivated, and aspirational next-gen leaders achieve inner peace, lasting success, and energetic balance through the power of spirituality.
He is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and left his vice president title to pursue his spiritual passions, including teaching meditation and breathwork.
Neal grew up in a spiritual family, meditating since he was five years old. He embodied his spiritual practices to live a peaceful and balanced life in the finance world and now helps others in the corporate and entrepreneurial world to do the same.
Banking on Angels is Neal’s first book, which is focused on helping people in the corporate world gain an entry point into understanding spirituality, energy, and tangible personal growth techniques.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Banking on Angels is the name of Neal’s latest book. The inspiration comes from Neal’s nearly decade-long stint working on Wall Street and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
Similarly, the book discusses the sudden and unexpected death of Neal’s mother and his resulting ability to communicate with angels and cultivate signs from loved ones on the Other Side. Relying on those signs led him to follow his spiritual passions of being in service to others.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Neal loves to write after his morning meditations, which take place at 4am. The writing flows as a clear channel of communication is created from beyond himself. He is able to tap into spiritual creativity and philosophical ideas about the nature of consciousness and reality. He additionally streamlines his personal growth practice with a single-page five-minute daily journaling technique explained in his book Banking on Angels
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Paramahansa Yogananda, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Jay Shetty, Caroline Myss, Michael Singer, Eckhart Tolle, Gabrielle Bernstein, Pema Chodron, Laura Lynn Jackson, Carol Dweck, Marianne Williamson
What are you working on now?
Neal is currently working on a TEDx talk to rejuvenate the corporate spirit with integrity, authenticity, and pragmatism.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Instagram, social media, grass-roots outreach to friends, family, former colleagues, and connections across the world, as well as working with others who are able to share the message on larger platforms.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write! Release any expectations of what it “should” look like or “wanting” it to be anything. Write from the depths of your heart, with a deep desire to share your message from a place of love and service to others. You have a message that is calling to be shared. Listen to that part of you, and follow your truth.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Do or do not. There is no ‘try.'” – Yoda
What are you reading now?
The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradly Nelson
What’s next for you as a writer?
There are two core topics that are calling to be shared from within me. The first is on the topic of the illusion and construct of time, likely a longer-term research and perspective novel. The second is about fear.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
1. The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
2. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
3. The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One by Carla Ruckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCarty
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah