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She's So Lucky

How to Train Your Mind to Create Luck with Kyyah Abdul

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week’s installment of the Betting on Yourself series, I’m sitting down with Kyyah Abdul to talk about what it actually means to create your own luck — not in theory, but in practice.

We get into the mindset behind “lucky” people, and how to increase your odds of luck through how you think, how you decide, and how willing you are to move forward even when you don’t have all the answers.

Kyyah brings such a powerful perspective to this conversation. From her background in neuroscience to her lived experiences with loss at a young age, she breaks down how resilience, decisiveness, and self-trust are all things that can be built — not traits you’re just born with.

We talk about decision-making as a muscle, why so many of us are stuck in analysis paralysis, and how social media has made us way too concerned with optics.

We also talk about boundaries (and why most people misunderstand them), the pressure of being perceived, and how to stop treating your life like a group project.

This conversation is a reminder that luck isn’t something you wait for, it’s something you build, decision by decision.

This episode is for you if…

  • You keep overthinking your next move and feel stuck waiting for clarity
  • You want to be more confident but don’t trust your own decisions yet
  • You’re navigating a transition (career, identity, relationships) and feel uncertain
  • You struggle with boundaries — especially with family, friends, or people you love
  • You feel held back by fear of judgment
  • You’re trying to “do the right thing” instead of doing what actually feels aligned
  • You know you’re capable of more, but something is keeping you playing small


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:11.8

We talk a lot about being lucky girls on this show, but what does that actually mean?

0:16.8

Is it a mindset?

0:17.7

Is it a strategy?

0:18.7

Is it timing?

0:19.6

Or is it something deeper?

0:20.8

Something happening in your brain and body that determines how you show up for an opportunity.

0:25.7

Today's guest, Kaya Abdul, brings a neuroscience-backed lens to all of these questions.

0:30.4

She's built a platform around helping women think differently about their habits, their money,

0:34.7

and their decision-making, blending brain science with real-life

0:38.0

strategy. You might know her from her Buy It Nice or Buy It Twice series, or the way she breaks down

0:43.3

what it actually means to move like a financially strategic woman. We'll unpack what it actually

0:48.6

means to have a mind that creates luck, how your nervous system impacts your decision-making,

0:53.7

and why discomfort is often the

0:55.3

clearest signal you're moving in the right direction. This episode is for the woman who wants

1:00.1

to move differently, think differently, and ultimately win differently.

1:15.6

Well, I'm so excited to have you.

1:18.1

Thank you so much for joining me on the show today, Kay.

1:20.9

I love your content.

1:35.0

And I love the ways that you blend, not just lifestyle, but mental health, a life really well lived, financial education.

1:42.0

Like, you blend these topics together in a way that is so beautifully done and just such a really good example of a life well lived and the way that you

1:45.3

generously share the knowledge that you have with other people I think is really great.

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