THE DR. BLASS PODCAST

ELSIE BLASS PHD

Mind Redesign: The Dr. Blass Podcast Hosted by Dr. Elsie Blass This is the behind-the-scenes, real-talk podcast for people who are building something — their business, their body, their mind, their relationships, or their net worth. I’m Dr. Elsie Blass, Health Psychologist, Neurobehavioral Scientist, and founder of NACIA. While I’m building this company from the ground up, I’m bringing you along for the ride. You’ll hear the wins, the hard calls, the pattern work, the product decisions, and the real conversations that happen when you’re redesigning both a company and a life at the same time. Expect: Honest behind-the-scenes of building NACIA and the Mind Twin Conversations with founders, operators, and people doing meaningful work Practical ways to redesign the patterns running your business, health, relationships, and identity Direct talk about how our product and services can actually help you Guests who share what they’re building (and how you can connect with them) This is not a stiff clinical show. It’s a living conversation about redesigning the mind and the life that sits on top of it — with energy, clarity, and zero fluff. If you’re a user, a member, a business owner, a builder in tech, or someone who just wants to stop repeating the same loops, you’re in the right place. New episodes regularly. Start exploring your own Mind Twin at naciaai.com.

  1. Sep 25

    Part 1: The Business Model That Fits Your Natural Wiring - Ep. 236

    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

    Part 1: The Business Model That Fits Your Natural Wiring - Ep. 236
  2. Aug 26

    What We’re Building at NACIA and Why It Matters - Ep. 234

    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 We’re Building at NACIA and Why It Matters - Ep. 234
  3. Aug 26

    The Work No One Sees: Building Your Future w/AI - Ep. 233

    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 Work No One Sees: Building Your Future w/AI   -  Ep. 233

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Mind Redesign: The Dr. Blass Podcast Hosted by Dr. Elsie Blass This is the behind-the-scenes, real-talk podcast for people who are building something — their business, their body, their mind, their relationships, or their net worth. I’m Dr. Elsie Blass, Health Psychologist, Neurobehavioral Scientist, and founder of NACIA. While I’m building this company from the ground up, I’m bringing you along for the ride. You’ll hear the wins, the hard calls, the pattern work, the product decisions, and the real conversations that happen when you’re redesigning both a company and a life at the same time. Expect: Honest behind-the-scenes of building NACIA and the Mind Twin Conversations with founders, operators, and people doing meaningful work Practical ways to redesign the patterns running your business, health, relationships, and identity Direct talk about how our product and services can actually help you Guests who share what they’re building (and how you can connect with them) This is not a stiff clinical show. It’s a living conversation about redesigning the mind and the life that sits on top of it — with energy, clarity, and zero fluff. If you’re a user, a member, a business owner, a builder in tech, or someone who just wants to stop repeating the same loops, you’re in the right place. New episodes regularly. Start exploring your own Mind Twin at naciaai.com.