Life finds you while you're chasing it.
Sunaina Sinha Haldea is a Global Head of private capital advisory for Raymond James. She's a regular guest on CNBC and has written Five Habits to Build Mental Strength for Fast Company. She had been a senior meditator for over 15 years when she started her entrepreneurial journey.
Parallel with her entrepreneurial journey she started with meditation and that became a secret of her success in business and balancing her life - as she explained - she could not make it without it.
The superpower of meditation is in allowing us to control our thoughts and emotions, not to let our thoughts and emotions control us. Sunania felt incredible liberation and huge empowerment when she started controlling her mind and making decisions without her mind running her but learning and focusing clearly on all challenges in front of her.
Sunaina also enhances the role of meditation in managing the demands of entrepreneurship and maintaining mental strength. In the world where we started talking about mental issues but solutions for those should be proactive, and she advocates for integrating meditation into early education as a tool for building resilience and preventing mental health issues.
She discussed the importance of setting boundaries and staying true to our values, especially in the face of pressures and temptations, and how meditation helped her with mindfulness and balance. Even her children are practicing it. We control how we live our days, how we experience each day, so take control over your life!
Show notes
🎓 Sunaina’s journey from Stanford to Harvard to entrepreneurship: the toil that goes on behind the scenes while creating anything. 03:05
🧘🏽♀️ Her secret to resetting her mental state: learning to meditate and all the benefits meditation brought into her life. 04:26
☯️ Preventative mental health: tools and techniques that are building the resilience reserves of the mind. 06:45
😇 Sunaina has three kids, but they went to a meditation course: learning to quiet their minds. 08:23
🙏 Vipassana meditation is the purest type of meditation Buddha used: one type is for quieting the mind and the second type is for purifying the mind. 10:32
☮️ “You can have it all just not at the same time”: her life and work got very complicated and meditation taught her that peace and equanimity are the base to return to. 14:03
🪷 Meditation brings the ups and downs in level to a steady line. 18:38
🤩 Getting back to the driver’s seat with meditation. 22:08
👩🏽💼 Meditation gave her the power to work and strategize in the long run and face the founder’s fatigue more easily: how to focus on your values. 23:59
🤓 Selling her company to Raymond James: decision-making through the lens of empathetic leadership. 27:40
👠 Burnout in the corporate world: why so many women are moving towards entrepreneurship. 30:42
Links
Connect with Sunaina: www.linkedin.com/in/sunainasinha (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunainasinha/)
Vipassana Meditation www.vridhamma.org/What-is-Vipassana (https://www.vridhamma.org/What-is-Vipassana)
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