In this episode, Bri Conn, CFP® sits down with Nikolai Blinow for a conversation about wise mind decision-making, the real definition of rest, and what calm hustle actually looks like when you are building a business on your own terms. Nikolai Blinow built her entire practice around one idea, that you should not have to burn your life down to build a successful business. As a licensed mental health counselor, life coach, and TEDx speaker specializing in professional burnout and adult ADHD, she brings both the clinical framework and the lived experience to back it up.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• What the wise mind concept from Dialectical Behavior Therapy actually means and how applying it to business decisions helps you stop swinging between guilt-driven overwork and avoidance of the hard stuff.
• Why being entirely rational in business is just as problematic as being entirely emotional, and how finding the overlap between the two leads to more grounded, effective decisions.
• How to use a values inventory to identify whether you are building a business around what you actually care about or unconsciously chasing someone else's definition of success.
• Why the idea that productivity means being at your desk for 40 hours a week is a byproduct of technology, not human biology.

Resources Mentioned:

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari: https://stolenfocusbook.com/   

Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski: https://www.burnoutbook.net/ 

Episode Guest:

Nikolai Blinow is a licensed mental health counselor, life coach, and TEDx speaker. Her clinical specialties include professional burnout, adult ADHD, and the science of stress. She integrates mindfulness and holistic living with behavioral science in her virtual therapy and coaching practice, and her TEDx talk Yoga and Its Connection to Mental Health has over 300,000 views.

Connect with Nikolai on her website: ompowermentpsych.com

Request her Free burnout checklist: ompowermentpsych.com/checklist 

 And request the values inventory by emailing: nikolai@ompowermentpsych.com 

Episode Host:

Bri Conn, CFP® is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Childfree Wealth Specialist® at Childfree Wealth®, and Customer Experience Manager at Childfree Trust®.

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