Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: 5 Mental Health Resets That Will Save Your Life & Business | Mental Wealth Series | E1

About this episode

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar shares her journey and five mental health resets to help entrepreneurs manage stress and prevent burnout.

For many entrepreneurs, mental health takes a back seat to ambition, productivity, and the pressure to keep going no matter what. Dr. Aditi Nerurkar once lived by that belief, until chronic burnout during her 80-hour-a-week residency broke her body down so severely she feared a heart condition. That crisis sparked her healing journey and became the foundation for her 5 Resets for when life and business get hard. In this first episode of the Mental Wealth Series, Dr. Aditi shares science-backed tools to help entrepreneurs reduce stress, prevent burnout, and protect their mental health. In this episode, Hala and Dr. Aditi will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (01:52) The Global Stress and Burnout Crisis (03:37) Good Stress vs. Bad Stress (05:36) Your Brain's Fight-or-Flight Response (10:19) True Resilience vs. Toxic Resilience (13:05) Dr. Aditi's Personal Burnout Breaking Point (37:00) The Five Resets Framework (44:45) The “Buried Treasure” Wellness Exercise (52:11) Digital Boundaries for Mental Health (1:00:40) Monotasking for Focus and Productivity Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a physician, public health expert, and Harvard Medical School faculty member specializing in stress, burnout…

People in this episode

Host: Hala Taha

Guest: Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Topics covered

• mental health
• entrepreneurship
• burnout
• resilience
• stress management

Keywords

• mental health
• burnout
• stress
• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• wellness
• productivity

Sponsors

Huel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Medical School

Books & works: The 5 Resets

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