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Mindful Paths Podcast

Mindful Paths Podcast

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Mindful Paths is a bi-weekly conversation with hosts Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios on training your mind for modern life. Exploring mindset, mental fitness, daily wellness habits, fitness, neuroscience, nutrition, meditation, yoga, mental health, wellbeing, resilience, and meaning through practical tools, events (such as mindvalley), lived experience, and honest reflection.All rights reserved by WRKdefined Développement personnel Hygiène et vie saine Réussite personnelle Sciences sociales
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  • Are You Building or Diminishing Everyone You Meet? | Mental Fitness & Mindful Presence

    Are You Building or Diminishing Everyone You Meet? | Mental Fitness & Mindful Presence
    Sep 22 2026
    Every conversation is an act of mental fitness, you either build someone's resilience or quietly diminish it. In this episode, Nick and Hari unpack Doug Crandall's concept of relational energy and reveal why the smallest comments shape whether people walk away feeling stronger. Discover how mindful presence transforms everyday interactions into moments of human performance optimization. Hari walks through a difficult week caring for his mum in Cyprus, catching himself having "diminishing" conversations he immediately regretted, and connects it to Nick's own coaching tool, the energy audit, for spotting which people, places, and habits actually energize you. Nick reframes it through his own experience of holding onto a friendship long after it stopped serving either person. From there, the conversation moves through a technique Hari picked up from Zig Ziglar recordings, imagining that everyone you meet could be gone by midnight, and how that single reframe changes the grace you extend to strangers, from the post office queue to the driver who just cut you off. Nick shares his own daily practice of small, unprompted kindness, from offering to take a photo for strangers on holiday to doing one deliberate good deed a day, and why these tiny moments carry more weight than people assume. Hari connects it back to a bigger idea, that love itself may be less a feeling and more the underlying energy behind every meaningful interaction. The episode closes with a shared reminder that letting go, of friendships, of places, of old identities, is often five years overdue by the time we finally act on it. Whether you're replaying a conversation you wish you'd handled differently, holding onto a relationship that no longer lifts you up, or just want to bring more intention into how you show up for people, this episode will change how you think about every interaction you have. Subscribe for more conversations on mindset, wellbeing, the psychology of connection, and what it truly means to live a focused and mindful life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📌Connect 👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_paths_podcast/ 👉 Nick Day's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickday/ 👉 Website: Mindful Paths Podcast: https://jgarecruitment.com/the-mindful-paths-podcast/ 👉 Learn more about Fear: https://www.feartobold.com 👉 Transformational Coaching Inquiries: nick@t4mcoach.com 👉 Hari Kalymnios LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harikalymnios 👉 Hari Kalymnios Website: https://harikalymnios.com/ 👉 Nick Day Website: https://t4mcoach.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Timestamps: (00:01) Catching Up: Tenerife Holidays and Making Memories with Intention (03:52) The Gladiator Challenge and Nostalgic Rocky Stories (11:18) Cyprus, Pigeons, and the Truth About Holiday Homes (19:30) Building or Diminishing: The Concept That Changes Every Conversation (24:50) Energy Angels vs Energy Vampires (29:42) The Midnight Death Thought Experiment (33:50) Small Acts of Kindness: The Good Deed a Day Habit (35:19) Is Love the Energy Behind Everything? Alien Stories and Quantum Ideas (43:37) Why Love Isn't a Feeling: The Greatest Salesman in the World (45:30) The Energy Audit: Knowing Who to Keep in Your Life (47:41) Knowing When to Let Go: Relationships, Roles, and Old Identities (49:34) The True Meaning of Patience: An Etymology Lesson
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    47 min
  • Mindful Presence Mastery | How Assumptions Build Your Reality

    Mindful Presence Mastery | How Assumptions Build Your Reality
    Sep 8 2026
    Mental fitness training starts with understanding how thoughts create reality, not just interpret it. In this episode, Nick and Hari unpack Sydney Banks' Three Principles through a live story, revealing how a single unverified assumption builds an entire emotional experience. Discover why mindful presence and a trained mind matter more than your circumstances, and how the same situation produces opposite outcomes depending on your thinking patterns. Hari walks through a live case study, connecting with someone over several days only to watch her disappear with someone else on the final night, and how he caught himself constructing an entire story with zero actual evidence to support it. Nick reframes it through the Three Principles lens, the idea that we feel our thinking, not our circumstances. The conversation moves through Hari's decision to perform in an unrehearsed stage act at Mindvalley despite years of refusing every invitation before it, three double tequilas deep and completely off script, using it to unpack why "if you can't, then you must" is often the clearest sign of where real growth is waiting. From there, Nick and Hari explore why obstacles are not in your way but on it, using the Biosphere 2 story of trees collapsing without wind stress to grow strong roots as a metaphor for resilience. They connect it to why accepting that life is inherently difficult can paradoxically be the thing that makes it easier to carry. The episode closes with a shared reminder that the goal isn't to stop thinking or eliminate discomfort, but to notice the meaning you're assigning in the moment and choose, deliberately, whether it's serving you. Whether you're spiralling over a text that never came, talking yourself out of a risk worth taking, or just tired of feeling like your circumstances are running the show, this episode will change how you catch your own thinking in the act. Subscribe for more conversations on mindset, wellbeing, the psychology of habit, and what it truly means to live a focused and mindful life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📌Connect 👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_paths_podcast/ 👉 Nick Day's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickday/ 👉 Website: Mindful Paths Podcast: https://jgarecruitment.com/the-mindful-paths-podcast/ 👉 Learn more about Fear: https://www.feartobold.com 👉 Transformational Coaching Inquiries: nick@t4mcoach.com 👉 Hari Kalymnios LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harikalymnios 👉 Hari Kalymnios Website: https://harikalymnios.com/ 👉 Nick Day Website: https://t4mcoach.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Timestamps: (00:00) Catching Up After Mindvalley: Sleep, Parties, and Cold Dips (02:03) The Daily Dip Ritual and the Power of Consistency (06:04) Losers Find an Excuse, Winners Find a Way (09:19) The ABC to Success: Awareness, Behavior, Consistency (11:14) Vision, Risk, and the Cost of Playing It Safe (13:21) Not All Risk-Takers Succeed And a Confession About Friday Night (16:31) Three Double Tequilas and an Unrehearsed Stage Performance (20:29) Liberation, Vulnerability, and What Comes After (23:21) The Three Principles: Why We Feel Our Thinking, Not Our Circumstances (24:28) A Live Case Study: Building a Story From Zero Evidence (33:02) Thoughts as Clouds: Learning to Let Them Pass (39:23) This Too Shall Pass: Obstacles, Acceptance, and Getting Comfortable With Hard
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    48 min
  • The Hesitation Pattern | Mental Fitness for Performance Optimization

    The Hesitation Pattern | Mental Fitness for Performance Optimization
    Aug 25 2026
    Mental fitness isn't just meditation, it's recognizing the stories we tell ourselves to avoid what we want. In this episode, Nick and Hari dive into a live real-time case study on self-sabotage, hesitation, and the hidden fears behind avoidance patterns. Recorded during Hari's annual stay at Mindvalley University in Tallinn, this conversation reveals why the moments you most want to seize are the ones you talk yourself out of and what that pattern costs you. Discover practical reframes for breaking the avoidance loop and training your mind for the goals that matter. Rather than treating this as a simple travel catch-up, Hari uses a recurring pattern at the event, connecting well with someone and then watching the moment slip away, to unpack why the same lesson keeps resurfacing in his life until it's actually learned. Nick reframes it through what he calls the fear paradox, the idea that avoiding rejection guarantees the very loneliness we're truly afraid of. The episode reaches its sharpest point when Nick admits to feeling quietly anxious before travelling with his own long-time business partner to the World Cup final, a trip built entirely on a story he'd invented in his head, and one that turned out to have no basis in reality at all once he was there. The conversation then moves into confabulation, the beliefs we construct and accept as fact, and how it shows up everywhere from social snubs at a party to pre-trip nerves. Nick and Hari also unpack why physical vitality, spirituality, and mindset are inseparable, and why one man's extreme biohacking for longevity misses the point of living well right now. The episode closes with a shared reminder that this isn't about eliminating fear or overthinking entirely, but about noticing the story in the moment it's being written and choosing, deliberately, whether to believe it. Whether you are stuck repeating the same relationship pattern, talking yourself out of a decision before you've made it, or simply wondering why you keep learning the same lesson twice, this episode will change how you catch yourself in the act. Subscribe for more conversations on mindset, wellbeing, the psychology of habit, and what it truly means to live a focused and mindful life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📌Connect 👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_paths_podcast/ 👉 Nick Day's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickday/ 👉 Website: Mindful Paths Podcast: https://jgarecruitment.com/the-mindful-paths-podcast/ 👉 Learn more about Fear: https://www.feartobold.com 👉 Transformational Coaching Inquiries: nick@t4mcoach.com 👉 Hari Kalymnios LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harikalymnios 👉 Hari Kalymnios Website: https://harikalymnios.com/ 👉 Nick Day Website: https://t4mcoach.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Timestamps: (00:00) Catching Up After Travel: World Cup and Mindvalley (04:09) What Mindvalley University Actually Is (07:04) Burning Man Meets Ted Talks: Inside the VIP Divide (11:13) Meeting Speakers and Notable Names (13:34) The Universe Keeps Throwing Up the Same Lesson (15:01) The Courage Window: Fear to Bold in Action (19:45) The Fear Paradox: Guaranteeing What You Fear Most (23:05) Confabulation: The Story of the World Cup Trip (30:06) Awareness as the Central Theme (35:23) Where Spirituality Fits in the BEAT Model (39:19) Brian Johnson, Biohacking, and Juice Worth the Squeeze (46:49) Catching the Story in Real Time
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    51 min
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