Chai Tea with Nina D.
Nina Dixon
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Chai Tea with Nina D. explores the mindset behind success and an elevated life. Host Nina Dixon engages in timeless conversations with experts in money, health, leadership, and creativity. The podcast provides concrete tools, mindset shifts, and proven frameworks for building intentional success. New episodes are released every Wednesday.
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Why You're Tired Before You Even Start 10.09.2026 20minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad https://substack.com/profile/183151814-nina-pal-dixon?r=1wzhez&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Three guest rooms she could not walk into for twelve months. Fixing them took two days. This episode is about what those months cost: the laundry basket you watch until it's full, the checkup you never book, the to-do list women never forget. Her verdict: "The thinking is not the work." But the cost is the same. Where the load comes from, why you snap at him when he walks in, and three ways out: do it, ask for help, or admit you don't want to. Chapters: 0:00 Intro: Who This Episode Is For 0:15 Three Guest Rooms and How Women Think 0:52 The Laundry Basket Test 1:36 Thinking About It Instead of Doing It 3:04 Two Days, Bach, and 80% Done 3:45 "I Unlocked Something" 4:40 For the Moms: The Default Logistical Parent 6:23 The Thinking Is Not the Work 7:21 My Mom and the Multivitamins 8:31 Where's the Guest Room in Your Life? 9:50 Knock It Out When It's Top of Mind 10:41 Everyone Else's To-Do List Comes First 12:05 Oxygen Mask: Put Yourself First 13:58 A Game Between the Heart and the Mind 15:16 Learn From the Male Mind 16:23 Delegate. Nobody Is Handing Out Medals 17:49 If It's Stressing You Out, It's a Tax 18:34 Admit You Don't Want to Do It 19:25 Bottom Line: Reel It In 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
How to Build Relationships With the Most Powerful People in the World 04.09.2026 52min -
Why We Stay Friends With People We've Outgrown 27.08.2026 32min -
Tracy Tutor on: Acting Career, Waiting Tables, Now Selling $50M Homes | Chai Tea - Best Moments 25.08.2026 11min -
How Tracy Tutor Turned Her Worst Season on Bravo Into Her Comeback | Chai Tea: Defining Moments 23.08.2026 13min -
The Moment in Tracy Tutor's Marriage When There Was No Going Back | Chai Tea: Defining Moments 20.08.2026 10min -
The Unplanned Move to Miami That Changed My Life Forever 13.08.2026 16minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad https://substack.com/profile/183151814-nina-pal-dixon?r=1wzhez&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page "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. 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
The Life Coach to The Stars: How to Start Over When Your Past Disqualifies You 06.08.2026 48minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad "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. Follow Natasha: https://www.instagram.com/natashagraziano/?hl=en 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
The Hidden Cost of Neglecting Your Health 30.07.2026 34minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad https://substack.com/profile/183151814-nina-pal-dixon?r=1wzhez&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page "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. 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
Your Frequency Is Your Real Wealth. Here's How to Raise It. 23.07.2026 1t 22minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad "How in control of your mood are you, actually?" J Johnson asked me that in the middle of this conversation and I have not stopped thinking about it. The summer before college, insomnia put him in a hospital and he walked out with an ADHD diagnosis. The medication helped his mind and hurt his body, so over a year he traded it for meditation and sound frequencies. Then the meditation turned physical: energy rising from his feet to his crown, and one night the feeling of leaving his body entirely. He came back from that realizing school had taught him everything except how to master his own mind. So before he built anything else, he stopped and studied reality itself. We get into the downloads he receives in meditation, the scarcity programming most of us were raised on, why balance can create abundance, the Ring My Bell abundance frequency trend, and the one mindset he says to install before something breaks. At the end he put the wearable on me, on camera. Queen of trying every gadget over here, and I had never felt my state shift like that. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:45 What Makes a 14-Year-Old Chase Money? 8:28 Do We Really Have to Choose Between Ambition and Rest? 11:16 The Cure for FOMO: Planning in Decades 15:19 The .9 GPA Class Clown Nobody Saw Coming 18:57 Trusting the Inner Voice Over the Outside Noise 22:51 Building an Audience Before the Creator Economy Existed 26:35 "Are You Selling Drugs?" When Parents Don't Get It 30:00 Why Am I So Driven? The Question He Finally Asked 33:45 The Summer His Body Shut Everything Down 38:15 The 1% of Reality We Can Actually Perceive 41:42 Why He Believes We Choose Our Timing 45:35 Losing the Scholarship Right Before COVID 49:23 The Leap of Faith: Walking Away From D1 Track 53:23 "I Got Terminated. I'm Free." Starting HFH With His Last Check 56:18 How the Frequency Headphones Actually Work 1:01:59 Six Figures a Month: Where HFH Is Today 1:03:47 Why Your Frequency Is the Future of Value 1:08:09 Inside the Olympic Flag Football Trials 1:11:21 How He Spots Burnout Before It Hits 1:16:03 Mastering Your Own Energy (and Why It Ripples) 1:18:45 Nina Tries the Headphones Follow J Johnson https://www.tiktok.com/@jjohnsonjr?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/jstayclutch?igsh=NXFvNG8zeHZ4cXUx 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
3 Years of Peptides: I Had the Muscle Mass of an 80-Year-Old Woman. 16.07.2026 21minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad https://substack.com/profile/183151814-nina-pal-dixon?r=1wzhez&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Informed, not influenced. Say it before you put anything new into your body. You guys have been asking me to talk about peptides for months, and I'll be honest, I didn't want to. I'm not a doctor, I'm not an expert, and I've been trying to get the godfather of peptides on this show forever (we keep missing each other). But I did peptides for three years, starting back in 2022, before influencers were pushing them on us on Instagram. Doctor-led, through a compounding pharmacy, when I was so sick I had the muscle mass of an 80-year-old woman. So this is my experience. No highlight reel. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Exactly which peptides I took and why: BPC 157, KPV, and larazotide, TB500 and TA1, plus CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin ✅ What cycling actually means and why you can't stay on peptides forever ✅ The first cycle where I felt better than I ever have in my life, and what my doctor said that brought me back to earth ✅ The moment in Singapore my body told me I was done ✅ Why where you source your peptides matters more than which ones you take: a real doctor and a compounding pharmacy, never influencer codes or research-only websites ✅ Why you need blood work and a real doctor, not a self-diagnosis Because here's the real takeaway: peptides were training wheels. They got me from point A to B, but getting from B to E, that was on me. My mindset and my belief that I'd outgrow them is what made them work. A good tool brings you back to yourself and then gets out of the way. One thing I need you to hear: everything I took was prescribed for me by my doctor and compounded for my body. This is my story, not a protocol to copy. I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Get informed, get your blood work, find the right professional, and make the call for your own body. An informed yes and an informed no are both wins. -
Women's Psychology Expert: The Dating Advice Every Woman Gets Backwards 10.07.2026 1t 33minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad Lower your standards. Don't be too much. Keep the peace. Every woman knows the rules. Nobody remembers agreeing to them. This week, Nina sits down with Dr. Amanda Hanson, the Midlife Muse: 30 years of clinical psychology, international bestselling author of Muse: Magnetism Of Women Who Stop Abandoning Themselves, and a voice that has reached over 500 million women worldwide. She walked away from a system that kept telling women they were the problem, and in this conversation she says the things most women are taught to keep quiet, out loud. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - Why you should never lower your expectations, and what actually attracts a good man - The first-date curiosity test that reveals a man's character fast - Circular dating: the rules that weed out the wrong men in weeks, not years - Why women get misdiagnosed and overmedicated, and what coming back alive looks like (an honest conversation, not medical advice) - What Botox and beauty standards have to do with your anger, your relationships, and feeling safe - The truth about cheating: who does it, why it happens, and the one test for staying or leaving - Witnessing instead of fixing: what everyone actually wants from a partner - How to stop mothering everyone but yourself and become the main character of your own life Follow Dr. Amanda Hanson - Midlife Muse https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/ ABOUT DR. AMANDA HANSON Dr. Amanda Hanson is one of the leading voices in modern psychology and women's development. International bestselling author of Muse: Magnetism Of Women Who Stop Abandoning Themselves, she has spoken on stages like Mindvalley and Tony Robbins and has been featured in Vogue, The New York Post, and Insider. She is also the host of "Midlife Muse: Things Your Mother Never Told You," a podcast with over 250,000 downloads, featuring conversations with guests like Gary Vaynerchuk and Dr. Shefali Tsabary. At the heart of her work is one powerful belief: women are not here to be fixed. They are here to return to themselves. -
Why High-Achieving Women Settle for Less in Love (And How to Stop) 02.07.2026 32minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad https://substack.com/profile/183151814-nina-pal-dixon?r=1wzhez&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page You've built the career. You have the income, the independence, the life. So why are you willing to settle for less when it comes to love? In this episode, Nina digs into something nobody in your circle is saying out loud: why high-achieving, high-value women are the most likely to settle in their romantic lives, and what it's actually costing them. Nina break down the two types of women who settle (yes, it happens in relationships too, not just when you're single), the 5 real reasons it keeps happening, and exactly what you can do to stop the cycle, whether you're married, in a relationship, or waiting on "good enough" to come around. This one is honest, direct, and it might be the episode you didn't know you needed. This episode covers: - The two types of women who settle – and how the pattern shows up differently for each - Why modern settling is subtle, invisible, and far more common than you think - The 5 reasons high-value women choose less (overperforming, high tolerance vs. high standards, lovability, ambition, fear of starting over) - Why logic doesn't always work in love, and what to do instead - How to raise your tolerance for being alone vs. being with the wrong person - What it actually looks like to let yourself be fully seen 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
Top Seller on TikTok Shop: How Tony Haydar Built America's #1 Olive Oil with $0 in Marketing 26.06.2026 1t 2minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad With just a camera, a phone, and a few bottles of olive oil shipped from his family's village in Lebanon, Tony Haydar built Levantine Goods with no investors and no industry experience into the #1 olive oil on TikTok Shop, on $0 of traditional marketing. In this episode, Nina sits down with Tony for an honest conversation about faith, going viral, and building something real from nothing. Tony opens up about: How flunking pre-med led him to God and to olive oil Building the #1 olive oil on TikTok Shop with $0 in marketing Why most "extra virgin" olive oil isn't what you think The truth behind the viral "daddy's money" comment Why he turned down selling a million bottles Follow Tony Haydar & LevantineGoods: https://www.tiktok.com/@levantine.goods?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@tonyhaydar.arabia?lang=en Timestamps: 0:00 Intro. 1:32 Meet Tony Haydar, the "olive oil guy" 3:18 How he sells on TikTok Shop 5:55 Hitting #1 without sacrificing quality 7:13 Stone pressed vs. cold pressed olive oil 8:16 Why olive oil means home 9:41 Growing up Lebanese in rural Canada 12:40 Moving back to Lebanon at 16 16:28 Walking away from pre-med 18:35 Fitness, faith, and the first TikTok money 20:35 The Houston moment that started Levantine Goods 22:45 Building the brand in Lebanon 24:14 The first TikTok Shop sale 25:59 The pressure of owning the whole supply chain 28:51 "Daddy's money" and the real family foundation 30:48 How Levantine sources its olive oil 33:00 What's wrong with olive oil in America 37:57 How to read an olive oil label 40:24 How to use olive oil and keep the benefits 41:40 The Mediterranean diet is a lifestyle 45:24 Faith, stress, and the founder mindset 49:21 What's next for Tony 50:03 Lebanon, resilience, and the Phoenician story 52:07 Build around what comes naturally 53:49 Find the gap and be the gap 55:54 Live olive oil taste test 58:10 Cloudy vs. clear olive oil 59:34 The olive oil shot trend 1:00:40 Where to find Levantine Goods and new products 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
Why Women Are ACTUALLY Mad at Alex Cooper's Pregnancy 18.06.2026 38minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Mindset Shifts https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ Alex Cooper recently announced her pregnancy. And instead of celebration, the internet exploded with hate. Women calling her a fraud, a grifter, a hypocrite… and Nina couldn't stay quiet about it! In this episode Nina breaks down exactly why the backlash has nothing to do with Alex Cooper and everything to do with the mindset behind the comments. Today's episode covers: The 5 categories of hate comments (and why they're all wrong) The hypocrisy argument (and did she actually lie to anyone?!) Class privilege, the grift accusation, and the HPV pile-on Why we put women in boxes we'd never put men in Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset — and what Cooper's story really proves The one line that will change how you see other women's success This isn't a defense of Alex Cooper. It's a mirror for the haters. If this hit home, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and COMMENT one thing you're doing today to reclaim your focus. 🎥 Watch on YouTube 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 📱 Watch on Spotify -
How Sweet Lorens Went From a Cute Business Idea to a $120M Brand 11.06.2026 1t 27minWhat if getting cancer at 22 ended up changing your entire life – and was the catalyst building a $120M company? Loren Castle was fresh out of college when she was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma. During treatment, she became obsessed with nutrition and realized something was missing from grocery shelves: cookie dough made with clean ingredients that still tasted amazing. With just $25,000, a toaster oven, and a suitcase full of samples, she started Sweet Loren's from her tiny New York City apartment. With passion, grit, intuition, and a mission to make clean, simple ingredients accessible to everyone, Loren persevered and built a brand that, in many ways, is just getting started Today, Sweet Loren's is the #1 natural refrigerated cookie dough brand in America, generating over $120 million annually and sold in more than 35,000 stores including Whole Foods Market, Target, Kroger, and Publix. In this episode, Nina sits down with Loren for an honest conversation about surviving cancer, handling grief, building without investors, staying profitable, balancing motherhood, and proving everyone wrong. Loren opens up about: How cancer led to the idea for Sweet Loren's Starting a food company from a studio apartment Landing Whole Foods with no experience Why she turned down Shark Tank Losing her mom while launching the business Building a profitable company without raising money The rejection that fueled her success Balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, and pregnancy If you're interested in entrepreneurship, business stories, startups, food brands, women founders, mindset, or building a company from scratch, this episode is packed with insights and motivation. Follow Sweet Lorens: Instagram: @sweetlorens TikTok: @sweetlorens Follow Nina: Instagram: / Ninapaldixon TikTok: / ninapaldixon Threads: / ninapaldixon -
High-Performer Mindset: Fix Your Attention Span. Fix your Life. 04.06.2026 31minWhat if the reason you can't finish a task, stay present in a conversation, or feel truly rested… isn't a diagnosis — it's a habit? In this episode, I'm getting real about something that's quietly affecting all of us: a fractured attention span. Not because we're lazy, unmotivated, or broken, but because modern life has literally rewired our brains to crave constant stimulation. And most of us don't even realize it's happening. From the neuroscience behind your prefrontal cortex, to why the guy who invented infinite scroll regrets it, to the 23-minute reset cost of a single distraction. This episode breaks down exactly what's stealing your focus, your creativity, your confidence, and your relationships. And more importantly? How to take it all back. 💡 What You'll Learn: ✅ Why your attention span isn't broken; it's just been trained wrong ✅ The science behind your brain's CEO (and why it needs boredom) ✅ Why it takes 23 minutes to refocus after one distraction ✅ How a fractured attention span is quietly destroying your relationships ✅ Why stillness is a superpower, especially for high-achieving women ✅ The connection between focus and confidence you've never heard before ✅ How to time block, protect your mornings, and design your environment ✅ The YouTube focus music trick that changed how I work ✅ How to rebuild your attention span starting today — no diagnosis needed Your attention was not always like this. It was trained. And it can be retrained. If this hit home, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and COMMENT one thing you're doing today to reclaim your focus. 🎥 Watch on YouTube 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 📱 Watch on Spotify Follow @NinaPalDixon & @ChaiTeaWithNinaD for daily mindset shifts. -
Why You Feel Sick When Every Test Says You're Healthy | Dr. Chan on Traditional Chinese Medicine 29.05.2026 1t 18minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Takeaways https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon/ https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ She grew up in Hong Kong, studied neuroscience in the West, and had every door open in front of her. Then she walked away from all of it to practice medicine that's 3,000 years old. Dr. Felice Chan is a licensed Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and acupuncturist based in Los Angeles. She trained for five years post-grad, spent years inside Western hospital systems doing clinical research, and had her medical school applications ready to go. What she saw in those hospitals, and what happened to her own body, changed everything. In this episode, Dr. Chan breaks down what Western medicine is missing, why your labs can come back "normal" while your body is screaming otherwise, and what 3,000 years of healing wisdom understands about the female body that modern medicine is only beginning to prove. This is not a woo-woo wellness episode. This is a doctor who studied both worlds and chose the one that actually answers the question: why. Follow Dr. Felice Chan: https://www.instagram.com/drfelicechan/ https://www.instagram.com/feliceacupuncture/ https://www.instagram.com/moonbow_skin/ 💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Why your anger, grief, and anxiety aren't just emotions; they're physical events happening inside specific organs right now ✅ What a healthy cycle is actually supposed to feel like, and the signs yours is telling you something deeper is off ✅ Why so many women are bloated, exhausted, and hormonally wrecked, and the three things to change first ✅ How acupuncture actually affects your hormones (the mechanism, explained simply) ✅ What TCM understands about fertility and postpartum that Western medicine never tells you ✅ The one thing she'd tell every woman to do tomorrow to start regulating her nervous system This episode was filmed at a private residence in the hills in Los Angeles, hosted by The Maimon Group. Learn more at themaimongroup.com. 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts -
Stop Postponing Happiness. Train Your Brain to Feel Joy Today. 21.05.2026 27minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Takeaways https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon/ https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ Feeling like "I'll be happy when…"? You're working hard, hitting goals, planning the next big thing, but happiness still feels just out of reach. In this episode, Nina peels back why we wait for joy, how overthinking hijacks our mood, what the latest science says about happiness and the brain, and the simple daily non-negotiables that transformed her life. She also shares a personal story about her late father, surprising results from a her Instagram happiness poll, lessons from people in their 60s–90s, and the science that proves practiced positivity protects your brain. What you'll learn: - Why happiness is a skill you must practice (not a lucky event!) - How to stop deferring joy to "someday" - Nina's non-negotiable morning + bedtime routine (what she actually does) - Time-blocking, recovery, and tiny rituals that anchor pleasure - Neuroplasticity + the 2022 Nature Aging study linking positivity to less cognitive decline - A vulnerable story about Nina's father and the lessons she learned from her grandparents If you've ever thought "I'll be happy when…," hit play – this one's for you! -
How She Got Into Erewhon and Goop's Gift Guide With $0 in Marketing 14.05.2026 1t 28minFollow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Takeaways https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon/ https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ She started with 70 dates in her freezer and Amazon craft boxes with a sticker slapped on top. One year later, Gabriella Labi's company Gato Dates is on Goop's gift guide, stocked at Erewhon, and in hundreds of stores across the country. Kristin Cavallari is obsessed. Nina is obsessed. And Gabi is still answering every single DM herself. But this isn't just a brand story. It's the story of a woman who spent a decade bouncing through entertainment, real estate, Paris, and Pilates — not lost, but quietly building the foundation for something she couldn't name yet. Until her body broke down and a doctor asked the right questions. Until she started making dates in her kitchen just to have a dessert she could actually eat. Until her best friend said: this should be a business. One month later, they were at a farmer's market with no plan and no packaging. They sold out in three hours and made $1,500. They didn't know they were building a company. Now they can't keep Gato Dates on the shelves. This is the honest, unglamorous, deeply personal founder story you rarely get to hear — before the profile piece, before the acquisition, before the world catches up. 💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Why launching before you're ready is the only way to actually get ready ✅ How a "scattered" career path can be the ultimate training ground ✅ The zero-dollar marketing strategy that got Gato Dates into Erewhon and onto Goop's gift guide ✅ What building a wellness brand actually does to your own wellness ✅ How to celebrate the wins so the lows don't swallow you whole Follow Gato Dates on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gato_dates/ This episode was filmed at a private residence in the hills in Los Angeles, hosted by The Maimon Group. Learn more at themaimongroup.com. 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts
