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Why Unresolved Trauma And Grief Are So Costly - Brainz Magazine Exclusive Interview With Allison Mones
Allison Mones is a high-performance health and business coach and functional nutritionist, focused on empowering high-achieving, ambitious professionals to reach their limitless potential without burning out. She is a former professional engineer and management consultant with a Master of Science in Sustainability and spent decades solving complex business problems for Fortune 500 and other high-impact global companies, before becoming an entrepreneur and scaling her first consulting company to six figures in less than six months. Inspired by her years of experience in the corporate world, her passion for health and wellness, and her own journey to pharma-free mental wealth and flourishing in spite of 5 concussions, a Bipolar diagnosis, trauma and severe burnout, she launched her second company, Evolved Equilibrium, to create a new paradigm where peak performance in health, life and business is possible. Her multidimensional mind-body-environmental approach to ‘vitality engineering’ weaves in aspects of natural healing, biohacking, metabolic health, performance neuroscience and human flourishing, supporting other high achievers to reclaim their energy and vitality, unlock mental clarity and capacity and to evolve from burnt-out to bright and boundless.
In this episode, we discover the following:
- How can we better align with ourselves for greater fulfillment?
- Why unresolved trauma and grief are so costly.
- How we need to find balance within ourselves and our environment.
- How we can retrain our brain.
- What is the best way to prevent burnout?
With podcast host: Mark Sephton
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