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Before you move into another week, pause with me for a conversation about something we can easily overlook. Join me for Episode 241. Practicing a better way forward through Mind Redesign™. Scripture references: Psalm 103:2; Micah 6:3–5; Isaiah 46:9–10; Mark 8:14–21; Luke 22:19. Find your listening platform: https://naciaai.com/podcast Practicing a better way forward through Mind Redesign™. Bring what’s weighing on you to NACIA. Start a personal, AI-guided Mind Redesign™ session to work through your thoughts, explore a different perspective, and find your next step. You don’t need to have it all figured out before you start your session. Join NACIA: https://mindredesignai.com

Have you ever trusted someone, then found yourself wondering how you missed what was right in front of you? Someone can make you feel loved and still leave you unsure of where you stand. When your feelings and your experience tell different stories, how do you make sense of it? In this episode, I’m talking about getting to know the person you’re giving your trust to. Whether you’re beginning a relationship or questioning one you’ve been in for years, join me for a conversation that may give you something new to consider. Take the conversation deeper with Mind Redesign™ sessions in NACIA: https://mindredesignai.com/login On Wednesdays, we’ll talk about all life topics that pertain to you. On Sundays, we’ll spend time in Scripture, looking at what Jesus taught and how we live it. You’re welcome to join me for both. https://naciaai.com

Have you ever finished a conversation and thought, “We said all those words, and I still don’t feel understood”? In this episode of Mind Redesign, we explore tone, communication styles, and emotional needs. I walk you through TVT: Timing, Verbiage, and Tone, to help you prepare for difficult conversations, express what you need, and take responsibility for how you show up. We’ll cover: Checking your capacity and choosing a workable time to talk.Practicing your words, including your response to an answer you didn’t expect.Being direct without belittling someone.Taking a pause with a clear plan to return.Recognizing needs you’ve learned to keep quiet.Repairing hurt and letting your actions support your apology.Preparing for future conversations through prayer.“A pause needs a way back.” You don’t have to solve your entire relationship today. Choose one conversation and one next step. You can take responsibility for your delivery without taking responsibility for someone else’s choices. Content note: This episode includes adult relationships and sexual intimacy. Affection and sex are never owed. Communication practice does not make you responsible for another person’s abuse. Where there is intimidation or danger, safety and support come first. Explore Mind Redesign: https://naciaai.com Practicing a better way forward through Mind Redesign.

You can be capable of doing the work and still struggle with the conditions in which you’re expected to do it. In this episode, I explore how to design a business model or career path around your strengths, responsibilities, and changing capacity. We walk through five practical steps: Map what helps you work and what drains youIdentify one specific demand that doesn’t fitChoose an adjustment: modify, accommodate, delegate, or removeDesign your business or role around useful work, realistic income needs, and commitmentsRun a small test and evaluate demand, quality, time, cost, and recoveryWe also explore higher- and lower-capacity operating modes, keeping your commitments, and allowing self-acceptance and skill development to work together. Your next step: choose one demand to examine this week. Then continue the exercise with ARIA by NACIA, one question at a time. Episode notes and PDF downloads: https://naciaai.com/episode-notes Explore NACIA: https://naciaai.com Podcast page: https://naciaai.com/podcast

In Part One of this Business & Career Series, we started with you—your natural wiring, the way you work, what energizes you, what drains you, and what may require self-modification versus self-acceptance. Now we move to the next step: Step 1: Identify the gift you have. Step 2: Identify the top one problem your gift fixes. Step 3: Possibly create the business model. Before we build the business, we need to understand what you are actually here to give. Your gift is not necessarily your job title. Coaching may be the vehicle. Consulting may be the vehicle. Therapy, speaking, teaching, technology, courses, or even AI may simply be different ways your gift reaches people. The deeper question is: If every job title and business model disappeared tomorrow, what would you still feel called to give people? In this episode, we explore how to identify your gift, separate it from the vehicle you currently use to deliver it, and clarify the top one problem that gift is positioned to solve. Download the Episode Guide Use the companion PDF to work through this episode and begin identifying your own gift and the problem it solves: https://naciaai.com/episode-notes Continue Your Mind Redesign™ Session With ARIA https://naciaai.com

What if the problem isn’t that you need to become more disciplined, more focused, more social, more structured, or more like someone else? What if the business model itself doesn’t fit how you naturally operate? In this episode of Mind Redesign — The Dr. Blass Podcast, we’re examining what happens when you stop forcing yourself into a way of working that constantly fights against you—and start designing your company, schedule, leadership style, and responsibilities around who you actually are. We’ll explore the difference between self-modification and self-acceptance, how your natural makeup influences the way you work, and why some of the traits you have spent years criticizing may actually become leverage when they are placed inside the right structure. You’ll be encouraged to study how you naturally move through your day: when you think best, when you need quiet, when you want to switch gears, how you prefer to communicate, what drains you, what energizes you, and what type of work allows you to perform at your highest level, and make the money you crave. The question becomes: Does this part of me require self-modification—or does it require self-acceptance, support, and a business model that actually works with me? Continue the episode with ARIA by NACIA This episode is only the beginning. Some of these questions look simple on paper, but when you begin applying them to your identity, habits, responsibilities, personality, environment, and business, the work becomes much deeper. That’s why I want you to continue this conversation inside NACIA with ARIA as a Mind Redesign™ Session. Copy and paste this directly into ARIA: I just listened to the Mind Redesign™ episode, “The Business Model That Works With Your Natural Wiring.” I want to continue this as a Mind Redesign™ Session. Help me slowly unravel how I naturally operate in business and in my life before we try to change anything. Ask me questions about how I prefer to structure my mornings, workday, evenings, meetings, communication, creativity, focus, energy, leadership, visibility, relationships, responsibilities, and decision-making. Help me identify my strengths, challenges, limitations, quirks, recurring patterns, and the parts of myself I may have been fighting against. For each pattern, help me examine whether it requires self-modification, self-acceptance, additional support, or a different environment or business structure. Then help me identify where my current business model may be working against my natural style of being and begin redesigning my business model, role, schedule, systems, and way of working so they support who I actually am. Do not rush me into solutions. Help me study myself first, recognize the patterns, and then walk me through the redesign one step at a time. Give yourself permission to really do this work. You may discover that something you have spent years trying to eliminate actually needs to be understood, supported, or leveraged. You may discover that something truly does need to change. Or you may discover that you were never the problem—the structure simply needed to be redesigned. Don’t keep building a life or company you have to fight yourself to maintain. Study yourself. Accept what belongs. Modify what needs modification. Then build accordingly. Start your Mind Redesign™ Session with ARIA by NACIA at https://naciaai.com 📄 Get this episode’s companion guide: Download it here → https://naciaai.com/episode-notes

The way we speak, respond, and handle difficult moments matters to the people we love. In this episode of Mind Redesign — The Dr. Blass Podcast, Dr. Elsie Blass explores what it means to take it easy on each other’s nervous system while honoring our own needs and boundaries. Through everyday examples, she shares ways to pause before reacting, communicate clearly, and repair moments when stress comes through in our tone. You’ll also get a walkthrough of updated features in ARIA by NACIA, including how to: Organize your relationships, family life, and business into project folders and subfolders.Have focused conversations with ARIA about the situations you’re working through.Use Mind Redesign sessions to examine recurring thoughts and responses.Bring daily check-ins and dashboard insights into your reflection and planning.Along the way, Dr. Blass shares her own experience of being “inconsistently consistent”—and why returning to a routine deserves compassion. Your invitation: Choose one relationship, one pattern, or one project that could use your attention. Join NACIA for free at naciaai.com. Start with a check-in or a conversation with ARIA, and explore how it fits your life. Free access includes usage limits, with upgrade options for more access.

In this episode of Mind Redesign — The Dr. Blass Podcast, Dr. Elsie Blass takes you behind the scenes of NACIA and shares what the company is building at the intersection of psychology, behavioral science, artificial intelligence, and human performance. This conversation explores a simple but important idea: most people do not need more information—they need greater visibility into the patterns affecting their execution. Dr. Blass discusses how NACIA is being designed to help people organize their goals, projects, decisions, tasks, and behavioral patterns in one intelligent environment. You’ll hear more about Aria Projects, Aria Mind Redesign, the Mind Redesign™ methodology, and NACIA’s emerging cognitive twin approach to helping people better recognize how they think, respond, and execute. Inside this episode: Why knowing what to do is different from consistently doing itHow stress and habitual thinking can interrupt executionThe difference between a strategy problem and a behavioral patternHow Aria Projects can support planning, organization, and goal executionHow Mind Redesign™ focuses on the thinking beneath behaviorWhy cognitive twins may help people recognize patterns fasterWhy NACIA is being designed as a safe place for ambition, growth, and intelligent self-observationIf you are building a company, changing careers, redesigning your health, working toward greater financial success, or simply trying to understand yourself at a deeper level, this episode gives you a look at where NACIA is going—and why we believe this technology can become a meaningful partner in the way you think and build. Join NACIA NACIA is currently evolving in real time, and you are invited to experience what we are building. Create your account, explore Aria, begin a project, and experience Mind Redesign™ for yourself. Join NACIA: https://naciaai.com Come build with us. Your goals matter. Your patterns matter. Your mind matters. And your next level may begin with finally being able to see all three working together.

What if the year that looks quiet from the outside is actually the year that changes everything? In this episode of Mind Redesign: The Dr. Blass Podcast, I’m taking you behind the scenes of what this season of entrepreneurship has actually looked like for me. After selling my previous app, I did something entrepreneurs sometimes struggle to give themselves permission to do: I allowed myself to live. I rested. I enjoyed my family. I gave. I enjoyed some of what I had earned. And then I began reinvesting—not simply into another business, but into the person and infrastructure required for what I want to build next. I invested further into my education. I spent months working through intellectual property, trademarks, proprietary systems, contracts, research, and the foundation for NACIA and the Mind Twin. In many ways, 2026 became the year I started building 2027. In this episode, we talk about: Why every year doesn't need to be a harvesting yearThe difference between slowing down and strategically repositioningWhy entrepreneurs need guardrails around their own ambitionHow discipline can quietly become chronic urgencyWhy burnout should not be treated as evidence of commitmentKnowing when to rest—and knowing when you've rested long enoughPreparing for where you're going instead of only responding to where you areWhy your mind and nervous system are part of your company's infrastructureI'm also sharing what I'm learning as I build NACIA in real time—the decisions, pivots, preparation, psychology, and evolution behind creating technology designed to help people understand and redesign the patterns influencing how they think, behave, and execute. This new chapter of the podcast is going behind the scenes with me. We're talking business. Technology. Psychology. Money. Health. Relationships. Identity. Entrepreneurship. And what happens internally when you decide to build something bigger than what you've built before. Join us inside NACIA If you've been listening to these conversations and thinking, I want to understand the patterns running my own life, I want to invite you to experience what we're building. Come explore NACIA and your Mind Twin. Bring the business you're building. Bring the goal you're trying to reach. Bring the pattern you keep repeating. Bring the decision you've been thinking through. You don't have to wait until everything is figured out to begin redesigning the way you move through it. Join us at naciaai.com and start exploring NACIA. Because sometimes the most important work you're doing isn't producing today's result. It's building the person—and the infrastructure—capable of holding what's coming next.

The Less-Sexy Work That Builds a Legendary Practice The most powerful work in healing, coaching, and leadership is rarely the most “sexy” while it’s happening. But let's change that mindset. In this episode, Dr. Elsie Blass breaks down the uncomfortable truth that real repatterning—real nervous-system change—often feels awkward in the middle… and extraordinary on the other side. You’ll learn how to stop selling “vibes” how to market the integrity of the process without diluting it, and how to extract your own methodology so your brilliance becomes a structured, teachable legacy asset—not just a service. If you’re a therapist, coach, clinician, educator, or founder building a mission-driven practice, this will recalibrate how you define success—and how you sell what actually works. Schedule A Session Here

If love and money have felt heavier than they should, this episode will help you stabilize your internal command center so you can make prime decisions without over-explaining, over-giving, or spiraling. We’re talking mission clarity, leadership responsibility, and the mindset shift that ends struggle. Ready to stabilize your love and your revenue in real time? Schedule your consult call today for Love & Business Reset — a 6-week private container (12 sessions + support).

Today’s episode is titled “Financial Leap: What’s Needed to Take One.” This episode is for entrepreneurs who are making $500K and up—and you’re not here to “grow slowly.” You’re here because: You want to go up by $500K.You want to go from $1 million to $5 million.Or you want to go from $5 million to $10 million.And you already know the truth: effort isn’t your issue. Capacity (kuh-PASS-ih-tee) and execution consistency are. By the end of this episode, you will walk away with: The three requirements for a true financial leap.A clean way to identify what’s been stalling your scale.A direct invitation into the support level that matches your target.Onboarding Process: Application Link

Your Money Timeline: Why You Cycle From Lack to Lump Sums—and How to Break It If your income keeps repeating a storyline—zero, lump sum, back to zero—this episode gives you the map to stop calling it “a season” and start treating it like a pattern. In today’s Empowered to Sell episode, Dr. Blass teaches you how to build a Money Pattern Timeline (modeled after the Love Timeline) and identify the three most common sequences that sabotage stable income: The Feast–Famine LoopThe Capacity Crash LoopThe Misfit Client Drain LoopYou’ll also walk away with immediate interventions you can implement today: revenue smoothing, capacity architecture, and a clean pricing + readiness filter—so you stop growing into exhaustion and start growing into stability. Learn more about working with Dr. Blass: elsieblass.com

Today’s episode is titled “The Nervous System of the Anointed Seller.” This episode is for you if: You know your offer is solid, but your delivery sometimes feels strainedYou notice yourself over-explaining, over-giving, or second-guessing in sales conversationsYou’re spiritually aligned, but your body still feels tense around money or visibilityBy the end of this episode, you will walk away with: A clear understanding of why selling is not a confidence issue—it’s a regulation issueThe ability to recognize when your nervous system is driving your sales behaviorLanguage and awareness that help you sell from peace instead of pressureThis episode will not hype you up. It will stabilize you. Links: Anointed To SellInstagram Love & Money TimelineHomepage

Who This Episode Is For + What They’ll Walk Away With Today’s episode is titled “Empowered to Sell Starts With Permission.” And this episode is for you if: You know you’re gifted, capable, and called—but selling still feels heavier than it shouldYou plan… but don’t always follow throughYou sense that something internal—not strategic—is holding you backYou’re building toward six, seven, or eight figures and can feel the cost of inconsistencyBy the end of this episode, you will walk away with: Clarity on what permission actually is (and what it isn’t)Insight into what quietly removes permission over timeA framework to locate where your brain has never been given authorization to be, do, see, or haveAnd a sober understanding of what it’s costing you to avoid planning, follow-through, and supportThis is not motivation. This is preparation. Join Anointed To Sell before Feb 1st.