How To Be Your Authentic Self & Still Be Kind To Others w/ Mindvalley CoFounder Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

About this episode

In this episode, Kevin Miller discusses authenticity and kindness with Mindvalley co-founder Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani.

We are tired of performing. We want to be our authentic selves. We want to have boundaries. But I see and have experienced two challenges. You finally just let it all hang out and tell everyone how you really feel and let the chips of dissension fall where they will. Or, you just fold at the critical moment and feel it’s easier just to perform and appease people. Is there another option? Most of you will be aware of Mindvalley, and have likely participated with them. They have become one of the most popular personal development platforms on the planet. My guest in this episode is Mindvalley co-founder, Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. Kristina is an entrepreneur, writer, international speaker, artist, and philanthropist. She is also someone who spent much of her life striving to please others, but she now cites that you won’t find peace being even 95% honest and authentic if you’re still 5% fake or performing. But we also want to accommodate others as much as we can. She writes about this in her book, Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living An Imperfectly Authentic Life, and we dig into the issue here in this episode. We also candidly discuss the dark side of personal growth and how it can…

People in this episode

Host: Kevin Miller

Guest: Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

Topics covered

• authenticity
• personal development
• boundaries
• kindness
• self-improvement
• mental health

Keywords

• authentic self
• boundaries
• personal growth
• Mindvalley
• Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani
• self-pleasing
• mental health

Sponsors

Shopify, ShipStation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mindvalley

Books & works: Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living An Imperfectly Authentic Life

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