How a ‘Wrong Party’ Led to a Global Movement

In this episode, Dimple Thakrar sits down with Hector Marcel, President of Three Jewels in New York City, for a conversation on purpose, surrender and what it really means to listen when life whispers.

Hector shares the unbelievable story of how accidentally walking into “the wrong party” in Manhattan at 20 years old, meeting Tibetan monks and being handed a dream that told him “you’re home,” became the doorway to his life’s work. That single moment led to Three Jewels, a nonprofit spiritual community now serving more than 60,000 visits a year, teaching meditation, agency of mind and inner freedom to a new generation.

This conversation is personal. Dimple reveals how Hector became chosen family for her eldest daughter Maya when she moved alone to New York at 17. Instead of numbing heartbreak with distraction, Maya found Three Jewels, learned to work with her mind, and reclaimed her own worth. Hector speaks about that season, the responsibility of holding a young soul through pain, and why our twenties are the moment we decide who we are going to be in this world.

Together, Dimple and Hector explore why most of us spend our lives running from discomfort instead of listening to it, how resistance is not the enemy but the training ground, and why the “pull” you feel  that quiet knowing that makes no logical sense is almost always the doorway to service, legacy and love.

This episode is an invitation to trust that you are being moved for a reason. You are not random. You are required.

Key Takeaways:

Agency of Mind
You think you’re in control of your mind until you try to hold one breath of attention. Real freedom begins when you develop the ability to direct your own mind instead of being dragged by impulse.

The Whisper is Instruction
Life is always signalling. A dream, a pull, a “go here,” a “call them.” Most people ignore it because it is inconvenient or not logical. Hector followed it even when it made no sense, and it changed not only his life but thousands of others.

Resistance is Part of the Training
Wanting to run, argue, talk yourself out of the thing that is normal. The work is not to never feel resistance. The work is learning to stay present inside it and choose anyway.

You Are Needed Exactly As You Are
Your way of loving, healing, teaching, creating, and leading the world actually needs that specific expression. Your job is not to be more like someone else. Your job is to become more you.

We Are Not Separate
Hector describes humanity as an interconnected net of jewels, each facet reflecting the others. Your healing is not private. Your courage gives someone else permission to live.

Thank you so much for being here with us today. If this conversation touched you, share it with someone who is in a season of surrender or feels “on the edge of something” but scared to leap. Your share might be the whisper they have been waiting for.

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Three Jewels NYC: https://threejewels.org/

Hector Marcel: https://www.instagram.com/wakeupist/

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