Chai Tea with Nina D.

I thought I grabbed my phone out of boredom. One unplanned Monday showed me what I was really doing.   Follow 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   My husband asked me to do yoga with him after my five...

Follow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad Forbes Riley has sold more than $2.5 billion in products on television, moved 64,000 SpinGyms in a single day, and has taught pitching to 284,000 students. They call her the Queen of Pitch. In this episode she breaks down the craft itself: the first tell that a pitc...

Follow 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 w...

Follow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad   Kamal Hotchandani built Haute Media Group into an ecosystem spanning luxury media, private aviation and real estate. But his story didn't begin with access. Born in Belize to an Indian family, he was sent to boarding school in the United States at nine and learned...

Follow 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...

Follow 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 wor...

Follow 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...

Follow 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 h...

Follow 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 hones...

Follow 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: Ma...

Follow 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, Ni...

Follow 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 e...

Follow 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 b...

What 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 $25,0...

What 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 do...

Follow 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 (...

Follow 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...

Follow 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 Cavall...

Tracy Tutor opens up about her divorce, gaslighting, trusting your intuition, and life after "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" in this raw and unfiltered conversation. From being gaslit by her ex-husband on camera to filing for divorce during her first season on the show, Tracy shares what it really takes to trust yourself when everything is on the line. She breaks down her path from USC theate...

You're the faucet. Money is the flow. This was one of the first solo episodes I ever did on Chai Tea with Nina D, and a year later, it's still one of the most watched. So as part of our anniversary celebration, we're re-releasing it with a fresh edit. If you've ever felt like money is something happening TO you instead of something flowing through you, this is the one to sit with twice. In this so...

It's been one year… and I'm not holding back! In this solo anniversary episode, I open up about the real journey behind building a media company - the fear, failures, unexpected breakthroughs, and the moments I still can't fully explain. I'm also answering your most-asked questions, including: - How I left law to build a media company from scratch - My real morning routine - The wild story of how...