Balancing Power and Presence: Vidya on Emotional Intelligence, Yoga Therapy, and the Entrepreneur’s Inner Game

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Episode Overview

Title: Balancing Power and Presence: Vidya on Emotional Intelligence, Yoga Therapy, and the Entrepreneur’s Inner Game
Host: Mitch Carson
Guest: Vidya (Yoga Therapist, Emotional Intelligence Coach)
Date: November 3, 2025

In this episode of The Amazing Authorities Podcast, host Mitch Carson interviews Vidya, a yoga therapist and emotional intelligence coach for entrepreneurs. The conversation dives deep into the unique philosophy and applications of yoga therapy, how emotional intelligence plays into entrepreneurial success, and the complex interplay of pleasure, pain, and perception in driving personal change. Vidya shares personal stories, client case studies, and actionable insights on balancing emotional states for higher performance—especially relevant for founders and high achievers.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

What is Yoga Therapy?

[00:30-03:24]

• Yoga Therapy Defined:
  Vidya explains yoga therapy as an integrative practice that addresses the "mental body, emotional body, spiritual body, physical body, and work body." (00:47)
  • Unlike typical yoga—which often focuses on physical postures—yoga therapy aims to create a holistic profile of the individual by assessing and working with all these ‘bodies’ or life masks.
• Assessment Process:
  • Vidya uses a comprehensive questionnaire to analyze an individual's constitution across these layers (02:23).
  • "It has a massive set of information that you can get by asking these questions to understand who this person is beyond what they say they are." (02:47–03:09)

Who Vidya Helps and Why Emotional Intelligence Matters

[03:24–05:39]

• Target Clients:
  • Vidya primarily works with entrepreneurs and founders, leveraging her background in entrepreneurship to relate deeply.
  • She helps these high performers "leverage emotions as a support superpower" towards reaching their vision and legacy (03:39).
• Her Journey:
  • Vidya confides that her unique skillset came from trying different things and "not being good at anything" as a child, which drove her into a period of self-exploration and eventually mastery in her niche (04:36–05:39).

Traditional Yoga Teachings vs. Western Yoga

[05:39–07:43]

• Personal Origin:
  • Vidya is originally from India but developed her yoga expertise in the United States.
  • She reminisces about her first yoga class with her dad, emphasizing that, traditionally, the mental and emotional work precedes the physical practice (05:52–07:20).
• Philosophical Foundation:
  • "The ego can play a very huge role in how you practice physically if you don't address the mental and the emotional layer behind it." (06:36)
  • Physical postures are diagnostic tools revealing internal imbalances (06:56–07:20).

The Interplay of Pleasure, Pain, and Growth

[07:43–10:46]

• Pain and Pleasure:
  • Vidya shares: “If there's too much pleasure in life, ultimately it will become your pain.” (08:19)
  • Provides the example of excessive wine consumption—momentary pleasure leads to long-term pain (08:43).
• Life’s Balances:
  • She references Dr. Demartini’s teaching: all individuals contain 4600+ traits, and “life is actually perfectly balanced, but thinking makes it imbalanced.” (09:38–09:50)
  • “The higher self is not driven by pleasure or pain. They're driven by a greater expansion spiritually.” (10:40)

Applying Insights to Real-Life, Contemporary Dilemmas

[10:46–15:54]

• OnlyFans & Short-term Gratification:
  • Mitch brings up the trend of young women on OnlyFans, exploring issues of pleasure-now versus future regret (10:46–12:21).
  • Vidya explains how childhood pain can drive seemingly pleasure-seeking behaviors, using her own immigration story as a framework (12:21–14:47).
• Transcending Past Experiences:
  • “The very thing that fueled you back there can also be your Achilles heel if you overuse it in your life.” (14:27)
  • Emotional intelligence means transforming past experiences into a neutral, even empowering, narrative (14:58).

The Brain, Emotional Triggers, and Objective Leadership

[15:54–17:18]

• The Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex:
  • Vidya explains: Emotional responses are rooted in the amygdala ("animal brain"), which is survival-based. Rational, unbiased decision-making is seated in the prefrontal cortex (16:11).
  • “If you want to have that experience of being an objective leader, you understand that emotion is always going to be part of the journey... You're not trying to remove it. What you're trying to understand is: how is it benefiting you to get to that next stage in your life?” (16:58–17:18)

Real Client Case Study: Transformation Through Emotional Integration

[17:43–23:13]

• Frustration in Entrepreneurship:
  • Many clients come to Vidya because their business is running them—loss of inspiration, overwhelm (17:43–18:03).
• Case Example:
  • Client: Holistic health practitioner struggling with emotions during menopause traced back to childhood trauma involving her stepdad and animals.
  • Breakthrough: “When she was able to see that link... it was like this. She did it herself. She's like: ‘Oh my God, I’ve had this link.’ So our perception can be very lopsided. And when we can finally bring that together, we realize nothing is missing in our lives.” (22:11–22:57)

Contextualizing Societal Norms, Taboo Topics, and Individual Differences

[23:13–29:23]

• Judgment, Perception, and Relationships:
  • Discussion around men’s perceptions of OnlyFans and the resulting relationship dynamics.
  • Vidya: “If there's a perception on their part that their past is not going to get them to the future, it won’t.” (24:31)
  • “How does it make them a better partner to be with?... It's all about understanding that there's two sides to it.” (25:06)
• Cultural Norms and Hypocrisy:
  • Debate on how sex work is judged differently inside versus outside formal structures like marriage.
  • Vidya: "Some people... it is actually better that they're not in a structured relationship than if they try to box themselves into one. It is just not natural to them." (26:32)
  • “Anything you say no to in the human mind is a yes. In the human mind.” (27:35)
• Global Perspectives:
  • Vidya and Mitch compare Indian and Filipino societal rules, discussing how restriction can create more taboo-breaking behaviors (28:27–29:23).

How to Work with Vidya

[29:23–30:48]

• Vidya invites entrepreneurs and founders to connect via Instagram (@yfuture.now).
  • "DM me with the word 10... and I will give your audience a gift of the 10 exceptional habits of high performing entrepreneurs. It's not the normal thing that you expect... It's a real blueprint for functioning in your highest zone of genius, really." (29:38–30:48)

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Memorable Quotes & Notable Moments

• On Yoga Therapy’s Purpose:
  “Yoga therapy is really an integrative practice... understanding how all of these various bodies influence that personality.” – Vidya (00:47)
• On Life’s Dualities:
  “If there's too much pleasure in life, ultimately it will become your pain.” – Vidya (08:19)
  “Life is actually perfectly balanced, but thinking makes it imbalanced.” – Vidya referencing Dr. Demartini (09:50)
• On Emotional Intelligence:
  “The very thing that fueled you back there can also be your Achilles heel if you overuse it in your life.” – Vidya (14:27)
• On Brain Science:
  “We are not driven by our emotions of pleasure and pain. So this is the state where you want to neutralize the past experiences.” – Vidya (16:13)
• On Societal Judgments:
  “When you look at the statistics around porn and online sex... Is it that the men are not there? ... They’re paying for it, they're supporting that business.” – Vidya and Mitch (25:09–25:47)
• On the Human Mind:
  “Anything you say no to in the human mind is a yes. In the human mind.” – Vidya (27:35)

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Time-Stamped Highlights

• [00:47] – Vidya’s definition and holistic explanation of yoga therapy
• [03:39] – Emotional intelligence as a business tool for entrepreneurs
• [05:52] – Differences between Eastern and Western yoga and foundational yoga principles
• [09:01] – Analogy of pleasure and pain (wine example; yin-yang)
• [14:27] – Turning pain-powered achievements into balanced strengths
• [16:11] – Emotional brain vs. rational, objective brain
• [17:43] – Detailed client case study on emotional integration and healing
• [25:09] – Societal judgment on sex work vs. societal consumption
• [27:35] – Insights on human psychology and taboo
• [29:38] – How to reach Vidya and get her "10 exceptional habits" blueprint

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Tone & Style

The conversation is deeply reflective, philosophical, and practical—Vidya often relates ancient wisdom and neuroscience to modern entrepreneurial challenges. Mitch steers the conversation with curiosity and candidness, occasionally challenging Vidya to address complex and controversial real-world issues.

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Summary

This episode explores the integration of emotional intelligence, traditional yoga philosophy, and modern entrepreneurial pressures. Vidya offers a nuanced perspective on how to recognize, understand, and leverage emotional experiences for personal and business growth. Through philosophical discussion, scientific explanations, and real-life examples, this conversation provides meaningful insight for anyone seeking to balance power and presence—both within and beyond the entrepreneurial world.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to the Amazing Authorities podcast where game changers, visionaries and category leaders share how they built their brands, platforms and global influence. Your host is Mitch Carson, international speaker, media strategist and creator of the Instant Authority system. If you're ready to learn from those who've done it and want to become the go to expert in your space, you're in the right place.

[B]

Tell us about yoga therapy. I'm a former yoga practitioner that I went full Pilates reformer years after that, but I did yoga for years. More of a power yoga. I have never heard of what you described. Tell us about that.

[C]

So yoga therapy is an integrative practice. It really helps us to bring together the different layers of our existence. So the mental body, the emotional body, the spiritual body, the physical body, the work body. So you can think of these as the different masks that we wear, right? We have a spiritual mask. Everything is a mask when you think about it. So we have all of these different aspects or dimensions to our life. And what yoga therapy is about is bringing all of this together to help us to see that it is creating this one unique person or personality on this planet. So in yoga therapy the focus is on understanding how all of these various bodies influence that personality. So it's not just about the physical practice of yoga. It goes beyond to understand what is their emotional constitution, what is their mental constitution, what is their spiritual constitution. So we take the time to really dive deep into that in order to get construct this holistic profile of an individual and then work toward recommending specific practices that will help them to realize their highest potential.

[B]

Now, do you take them through an assessment? Is it a questionnaire? I mean, what is the process? Because you got my attention. I've never heard of this. I.

[C]

Yes, it's a very in depth assessment of how an individual's constitution is made up in all of these different categories. In fact, when I graduated with my yoga therapy degree, this was my thesis is what are the sets of questions we want to ask to construct this profile of this individual? And you know, we, and I built this massive questionnaire which I use with my clients. Some portions of it I don't use because of the nature of the work I do right now, which is not fully, you know, yoga based. But I bring the philosophy and the teachings from there. But yes, it has a massive set of information that you can get by asking these questions to understand who this person is beyond what they say they are. So and that is the purpose of yoga therapy is really an integrative practice.

[B]

So who do you help in your, when you say your practice and clients, who are these people?

[C]

So I work with high performers who are founders and entrepreneurs. I myself have been an entrepreneur since 2008 and I understand very well the challenges of entrepreneurship as well as the beauty of entrepreneurship. So I help entrepreneurs, founders, really integrate that emotional intelligence which is already sitting inside of them. But so many of us hear this dialogue of, you should be non attached, you should be detached from your emotions, and so on and so forth. So I help entrepreneurs leverage emotions as a support superpower, as the way to, in fact, get to the dream, vision and legacy that they want to get to.

[B]

And how did you get into this? I mean, this is a unique, unique category. I mean, I've interviewed a lot of people. I've never heard of yoga therapy, but I. One of the beauties of my job, I learn about interesting people. And this is a niche.

[C]

It's definitely a niche for me in that honestly, it's my expertise. My specialty is sprinkled across multiple things. It's funny match because when I was growing up, I felt like I wasn't good at anything, you know, but it turns out that that not good at anything was actually building me up for this massive exploration through the foundation of the teachings of yoga to step into a way to bring that in a practical and consumable format to entrepreneurs. And so I discovered my strengths going through that, you know, frustration and pain of not understanding what my niche was, to really coming into something that was totally unique, something which I'd never explored before, something which is not talked about very often, and landed on a beautiful aspect of my expertise.

[B]

Well, in your background, you're a native of India, yet you studied yoga when you came to the United States. Isn't that true? Like, wow.

[C]

Yeah, I actually started practicing. I remember my dad kind of walking with me and taking me to my first yoga class. And I remember sitting in yoga class and there were like, through the hour and a half that we were sitting there, there were like three physical postures that were taught. Everything was about thinking and aligning emotions to thoughts, emotions, thoughts to the body. Because what yoga is really great at recognizing is that the thoughts and the emotions that you have are actually influencing how you practice the physical aspect of yoga, which is the postures. So in a lot of ways, and the way in which it's taught in the Western countries is vastly different than how it was taught originally. Originally, you were expected to do all the spiritual, mental and emotional work first before you could do the physical practice. Why because yoga philosophy is about, you know, understanding that the ego can play a very huge role in how you practice physically if you don't address the mental and the emotional layer behind it. So if you have less than thoughts or if you have more than thoughts, you know, it's going to lopside your practice to show you that you're imbalanced in your perspective. And that's why you have pain in a certain part of your body in, you know, and you have, you can call it pleasure, but you're happy in another part of your body. Okay, so this is what the postures are supposed to show us, which we don't really talk about in a yoga class in the western world. But this is the crux of yoga philosophy. This is interesting.

[B]

So that's the basis of why we are, that's the foundation for the postures. The postures help us heal those emotional traumas, if you will. Or people have different definitions or words associated with that. But let's. You said pain, so people are inclined. Would you agree with, we are pushing away from pain, seeking pleasure as humans?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

So do you have to go through pain to heal that? Do you have to or more pain in order to, to reach a pleasurable state or let's say a healthy state?

[C]

It's a great question. Thank you for asking that. So what I would say is when you look at pleasure and pain, if you start to do the emotional work around pleasure and pain, you'll realize that if there's too much pleasure in life, ultimately it will become your pain.

[B]

Oh, that's interesting. That's interesting.

[C]

So let's say you like to have that glass of wine, right? Because it gives you a nice edgy feel when you have it gets you relaxed and, you know, you can have this conversation with people. Well, if you keep drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking, ultimately your liver is going to suffer from the drinking.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

So there's a momentary pleasure, but there's a long term pain that accumulates as a result of that. Now this is what the Chinese also talk about. When you look at the yin and Yang symbol, if you notice there's a big white part with a black dot in it and a big black part with a white dot in it. So it's about understanding that there's always a little darkness and light and there's lightness and dark. So we can leverage that knowing to bring the two together and understand that they can never be separated really. You know, so it becomes very contextual. You know, my teacher, Dr. Demartini, talks about 4600 plus traits being present in all individuals. Right. So when we think about these 4600+ traits being present, if you're happy, if you're seeking happiness, it's only because you've experienced sadness in life. And if you always make it happy, you're going to have experiences that pull you down to show you the other side of life, which is sadness. Life is actually perfectly balanced, but thinking makes it imbalanced. And so what we want to do is we want to look at our perceptions and our expectations around our actions. Human beings are driven by pleasure, but the higher self is not driven by pleasure or pain. They're driven by a greater expansion spiritually.

[B]

You know, it's interesting, I'd love to bring this on a granular basis. Young women who are beautiful and sexy have fallen into this only fans phenomena or association. They're making oodles of money either showing their bodies or committing sex acts which are being marketed and they're making unseemly amounts of money at the ages of 20 through 25 or 26, maybe longer. What is the consequence? Because this is something like you mentioned, I listened to what you said there. A pleasure can then turn into a problem or you said it. Or turns into a bigger issue later. So they found that, okay, men want to see this or they enjoy the act themselves. Now it's a short sighted thought because what happens when their maternal instinct kicks in at age 30? Oh my gosh, all my friends have kids, I don't. And then seeking a husband and, or something. Can you help that type of person, that woman, that young woman who's starting to feel getting older. It happens to us all. We were all 30 once and we were 22 once. But at, for a woman specifically at age 30, I'm going to call it because in the United States, I'm from America, you're living now, what happens with that person? How would you counsel her? Let's just call her Judy.

[C]

Anybody. Okay, I can counsel anybody. Okay. But what I will say is when you look at, after having done the work I've done with my clients and you know, having worked in the human behavior area for a long time, what I will say is when you look at somebody showing a face of this is what gives me pleasure right now, there's a, on the other side of that, I can show them where their pain is that caused that pleasure to come up for them to begin with. Okay. So my point being we've all had really dark experiences in our childhood okay. So some of these dark experiences have made us question our very survival. And we've said, in order to survive, I am going to do the exact opposite. I'll take myself as the example here. You know, I left my country at a very young age. You know, I'm, I'm. I was a single woman. When I left my country, it was against my dad's wishes that I left the country. Because in India, the philosophy was, you get married, then you leave. You know, I was not one of those women, you know, so I left the country. So why did I do that? Because there were years of accumulated pain in my life from a life that my mom and dad thought I should live in the Indian way, which did not agree with my natural self, which did not agree with the person I was when I came into this planet. It did not agree with me. So that's what caused my pain. So I naturally took that pain many years and broke free from it when I came to the United States. But after a cycle of being in that pleasure, I was forced to look at that pain because none of that pain was really left behind. It was taken and brought into my success with me. You see, the very thing that fueled you back there can also be your Achilles heel if you overuse it in your life.

[B]

Right. So you had to address it regardless. You carried that 5,000 miles across oceans.

[C]

Exactly. So. And the way to make it a superpower is by understanding that it is actually a neutral experience. You know?

[B]

Neutral experience, yes.

[C]

Because you've had. I can show you how that actually benefited me. Okay. And after a point, how it actually hurt me. So it was my application of that experience that had led to my perception of pleasure or pain, but it wasn't the experience itself. So this is the state in which we can truly be emotionally intelligent about our experiences and bring that neutral mindset. So anytime we are running on the pleasure principle or on the pain principle, psychologically, physiologically, we are in our amygdala, which is a stressed based, stress based reactionary mechanism, and we do not have certainty. The amygdala has a lot of false positives. This is. I'm not saying anything new here. This is all scientifically.

[B]

Yeah, but explain amygdala, because not everybody's going to know what that word means.

[C]

It is. It is the lower part of our brain, which is more the animal brain. It's called the animal brain. It's the lower part of our brain.

[B]

Reptilian. Is that the reptilian brain?

[C]

The oldest part of our brain. Some People call the oldest part of our brain the reptilian part, which did not evolve. It is survival based. Okay. We all have this, and our emotions are actually sitting in this part of us. Okay. When we step into the forebrain, which is the prefrontal cortex, we are objective, rational and unbiased. This is where all spiritual development and personal development work actually works. So when we step into this part of our brain, we are much more rational and objective. We are not driven by our emotions of pleasure and pain. So this is the state where you want to neutralize the past experiences. If you want to have that experience of being an objective leader, you understand that emotion is always going to be part of the journey. It's part of the human experience. You're not trying to remove it. What you're trying to understand is how is it benefiting you to get to that next stage in your life?

[B]

All right, well, let's go back to the example or the scenario I painted, or if you have an example of a current client. I just painted somebody. This is a phenomena that's going on with these young women who are now in this only fans arena. It's talked about a lot. It's current, contemporary, or someone that you've worked with, what they had going on and where you've taken them.

[C]

Yeah. So a lot of my clients come into me because they're experiencing frustration in their business. And the reason they're experiencing this frustration is because they find themselves doing a lot. For example, okay. They've. They've taken more than their share, what they originally thought would be inspiring to open a business and to start the business. Now they're finding that the business is running them instead of them running their business. So they've lost that inspiration and spark for their mission. Okay. And they're finding that they are surrounded by people who can't take over the business and they can't leave the legacy that they want to leave in terms of impact on the planet. So when this is happening, they still have the power in them to change this. This is what I work with very deeply. So what we have to do in this situation is to show this person how their emotions are actually driving the business in one direction or the other. Okay. And help them to leverage the emotions that are going to drive them toward the changes that they want to have in their business. I had a client last year. She was a holistic health practitioner and very capable lady, highly capable. Okay. And what she was struggling with was an experience of just feeling like a surge of emotions as her body was changing, going through menopause, she was experiencing a surge of emotions happening in her. Now, this is biologically extremely normal to go through, but in our society, we try to say, let's put a time limit on it. This should not be happening for more than two, three months. It's there. So you don't medicate it. You look at what is the information in this emotion. What's the information? So in her case, it went back to an episode with her stepdad where he had asked her to kill an animal. And she had not wanted, she was young when this happened. She had not wanted to do that and he had chosen to kill it. And this just like locked her up in, in, in a flight response mode, in a stress response mode. And she really looking at her stepdad as an imbalanced person. Okay, okay. But the reality is she also opened an animal sanctuary. She also loved animals. She had an animal sanctuary and animals were coming in there, okay? And some of them needed to be put down. So it's never a clear cut, straightforward. This is the truth and this is the only truth, right? So she needed to learn the skill of also letting the animal go and having to put, put it down when the time was right. And that's what her stepdad had, had taught her, which was vastly useful to her in her mission and purpose. But she hadn't linked the two. She'd never seen that link. And ultimately when she was able to see that link, it was like this. She did it herself. I'm not telling her this. She did it herself. She's like, oh my God, I've had this link. So our perception can be very lopsided. And when we can finally bring that together, we realize nothing is missing in our lives. Nothing is missing. So we might as well live life according to what is most important to us, according to what is our core desire in this world and move that mission forward without holding back on it. So I had her look at, in this instance, I had her look at how if she didn't put that animal down, if she could have brought in another animal into the sanctuary because funds are going to be limited. It's not always an endless source of, you know, resources. Right? So it's always a balancing act. And so understanding that life is a balancing act is what leads to, to that big change in us. So that is really one of the pivotal moments. Now, going back to your question about these young ladies, well, here's the first thing. It's your perception, right, of what they're Experiencing. If we actually ask them what their perception of their experience is and dial it down to what exactly each one is experiencing, then I promise you the balance in their psych actually sits in there. In their nervous system, in their brain, in their perception layer. Okay. So they have to step in to own that layer if they want to.

[B]

I bring it up because I've known certain people who have gone that route. I'm. I'm sober 41 years, so I've met a lot of people who've gone through that trauma and they've talked about how they have regrets. But then the short term justification of that type of business or choosing them in that business is the money. It's short term gratification you talk to. Yeah. And, but then to go and find a spouse which will take them to the end of their life for the next 50 years is going to be difficult because there aren't a lot of men that will understand that. Let's say the proverbial quality man, somebody that they want to, who's an alpha male, that's going to be a protector. Most alpha males aren't going to be interested based on what they're telling me. I don't know that you're in this line of work. I don't know. I personally am an alpha male. There's no way I would be involved with a woman with that kind of past. It would, it would bother me. Full confession. It would bother me. I wouldn't deal with it because there are too many other choices. And I wouldn't deal with it because they're typically, they have so much trauma in order to get into that line of work.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, it's an individual's choice what relationship they want to be in. What I tell you is if, if there's a perception on their part that their past is not going to get them to the future, it won't. Okay. So what we have to do is to look at what that perception is and what are the benefits to what they did in their past and how it can actually help them in what they want right now. So an example of this, since we're talking about this, is how does it make them a better partner to be with?

[B]

Oh, there is that aspect too. Sure.

[C]

So it's all about understanding that there's two sides to it. Right. Also, let's, let's just look at the definition of how we see this. Right. When you look at the statistics around porn and online sex. Okay. It's very, very high in the United States. Okay. So Is it. Is it that the. The men are not there? These are not men who are prostituting themselves. But aren't they?

[B]

Of course they are. They're paying for it. They're supporting that business.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

There is a yin and yang, as you explained earlier. Yeah, there absolutely is.

[C]

And so how many people, even if they're not doing it at that level, how many relationships do you know where they do it in the relationships?

[B]

True. This is just much more visible. And the dollars are there. That's why it's got.

[C]

Because we placed a judgment on it in the form that it's coming in.

[B]

Correct. Correct.

[C]

It exists regardless excused and reframed morality to exist within the confines of a structured relationship.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

So that might be a structure of marriage. That might be a structure of saying it's a committed relationship. So we excuse it when it happens in that structure, but we don't excuse it when it happens outside the structure. Now, I will not name names, but I've worked with a lot of women and men who have had sex addictions or otherwise. And what I will say is that some. For some people, it is actually better that they're not in a structured relationship than if they try to box themselves into a structured relationship. It is just not natural to them.

[B]

Right. Societal norms would. Would pull them into that. And that's about it.

[C]

And the more we make it taboo, it can be argued that the more they get attracted to that.

[B]

They'Ve already got a contrarian type of mentality going into it. Yeah. Because they're. They're. Okay.

[C]

Anything you say no to in the human mind is a yes. In the human mind. At the psychological level, I'm just taking out all emotions from. It sure doesn't understand a no. It understands a yes. Brain understands certainty, does not understand uncertainty, really. So in a lot of ways, if you. If you can loosen up the structure of this. Okay. Then it becomes very contextual. Okay. I can tell you coming from a society of where there's a lot of rules and restrictions around what women can do and what men can do, there's a lot of promiscuity in that culture because it's made such a taboo for women to be a certain way.

[B]

Oh, I would. I don't know Indian society, but I lived in the Philippines for a bit. And similarly, they have the church. The Catholic Church is the overriding, controlling component of dictating behaviors and conducts and what's good versus bad. And it. I would imagine something like that exists in India as well, just on a greater scale.

[C]

Yeah. It's definitely an interesting exploration. I can tell you that India was, did not start that way, but India became that way. And it goes back to the history of India, going back to the British rule in India.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

But, but what I will contend and say also is that the British were balancing India out in a lot of ways. So it is a very interesting exploration in human behavior, mass psychology and collective philosophy, which is personally my interest.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, clearly. So how can people get in touch with you if they want to have your help to take them through some of these traumas issues so they can be more balanced? You use that word a lot. Let's balancing out so we have a little bit of equilibrium.

[C]

Yeah. Thank you. I am on Instagram, so the best way to connect with me would be on Instagram. And my main thing is that I work with entrepreneurs and founders. So if you're an entrepreneur or founder looking to move past some emotional, let's say, experiences that are holding you back, then the best thing to do is to go follow me on Instagram. It's Yfuture now by Vidya. And then, and you know, if you can throw the link on there to Mitch. Oh, I will, you know, you could come follow me and then just DM me with the word 10. So I know it's from this podcast and you know, we'll connect, chat and I will give your audience a gift of the 10 exceptional habits of high performing entrepreneurs. It's not the normal thing that you expect, you know, go to bed at 5 o', clock, you know, that's not it. It comes like years of experience working with entrepreneurs. It's a real blueprint for functioning in your highest zone of genius, really.

[B]

Oh, great, great. Well, I'll, I'll be interested to see that and read it as well. I'm always looking at upping my game a little bit. Well, Vidya, thank you so much for your time today. It's been rather interesting and down different paths that I hadn't anticipated. And that's the beauty. I've got one of the best jobs in the world. I get to meet the most interesting people and you're an amazing authority in your field. And thank you for your time today.

[C]

Thank you for having me on the show. It's lovely to meet you.

[A]

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