The Mindset Behind Success and an Elevated Life.
Chai Tea with Nina D. features timeless, elevated conversations that unpack the beliefs and behaviors powering elite performance. Alongside personal stories, Nina welcomes experts across money, health, leadership and creativity to deepen the discussion. Through candid stories and expert insights, she translates experience into concrete tools, mindset shifts, and proven frameworks to build success and an elevated life with intention.
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The Unplanned Move to Miami That Changed My Life Forever
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"Your environment is your medicine. You are what your environment is. It can heal you or it's going to break you."
People keep asking Nina how she moved to Miami to "follow her dreams."
This solo episode is the honest version: five settled years in St. Louis with zero plans to leave, the sick years that took her spark for life, the COVID-era conference trip she could barely fathom flying for — and the three days in a winter Airbnb that ended with "you sell our house there, I'll buy our house here."
She also gives you the part nobody posts.
What a golden move quietly costs you a few years in: a husband away from his people for the first time, making friends as an adult (the serious clowns before the crew), and the one thing she'd plan for from day one — the summer heat.
This episode isn't really about Miami. It's for anyone quietly fading in a life they think they can't leave.
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6 Aug 2026
The Life Coach to The Stars: How to Start Over When Your Past Disqualifies You
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"There is no playbook that says because you came from that, you've gotta stay in that."
That is Natasha Graziano, and she has the receipts to say it. Global mindset coach featured in Forbes. Author of Be It Till You Become It. A speaker touring stages around the world, a philanthropist who built a school for 600 children in Guatemala with Pencils of Promise, seven streams of income including a real estate business. And before any of it: a single mom in bed with an autoimmune disease, six figures deep in debt, feeding her son potatoes and eggs for a week because that was what was left. She used to look in the mirror and ask, "How did I ruin my life so badly to end up here?"
This conversation is the answer to a different question: how do you actually start over? She walks me through every rung. The free YouTube meditation she pressed play on at her lowest. The loan everyone thought was for surgery that she spent on a coach instead, still the best money she ever spent. Clubhouse during COVID, staying up all night in the UK to sit in the American rooms, Daymond John choosing her as one of his three invites, then the stages with the guys from The Secret.
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30 Jul 2026
The Hidden Cost of Neglecting Your Health
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"I spent five years going to doctors, not just in the United States but also India, and nobody could tell me what was wrong with me."
I just got back from two weeks in Italy and came home with something stuck in my chest. Two, three, four hours for a meal. A driver who wouldn't eat behind the wheel. A restaurant owner in Positano who put his arm around my husband and told him to sit back down.
So this one is about health, but not the way you think. I take you back to 2022, the tingling inside my knee that spread through my whole body in under a minute, and the morning I didn't make it to the end of my block. Five years, no diagnosis. MS, autoimmune, wheelchair in ten years. Two of those years bedridden. I get into the divine square of life, why chronic stress does more damage than the french fries, and the two specific things that got me walking again and then deadlifting 100 pounds within about fifty days.
In 2022, 2023, 2024, I couldn't talk for ten minutes on camera without going dizzy or blacking out. I sat here today and did this whole thing in one hour.
None of it was food or doctors. It was what I believed about myself, practiced every single day until my body caught up.
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