I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,

body, spirit and work.

Hey that my Valley podcast fans, welcome to another episode.

This episode's really unique because the guests that I'm

bringing on is actually my wife Christina Bikini Kieh, Christina Gev and

I opening talk at my Valley University in Tallinnestonia this past summer.

And it was about happiness.

Now every time Christina speaks I actually learned something from her. She's a brilliant woman and she has a really

interesting way of looking at personal growth. See she started out as a skeptic.

Christina was born in Estonia and when she grew up in Estonia it was part of the

Soviet Union.

Spirituality and a lot of the things that we take for granted were not really tolerated. So she was skeptical about everything.

We started dating in the year 2000 and as time went on she slowly started through her own lens of the world, discovering personal growth.

And again, coming from that background as a skeptic, she was a brilliant student, even given a gold

medal by the Prime Minister.

She looked at personal growth from a highly intellectual perspective, and that skeptical inquiry

helped to really separate the crap from what's real.

There's a lot of fluff when it comes to talking about happiness.

Christina's going to go beyond the fluff.

And in this podcast that we showed, which is a recording of her talk from 9 Valley University, Tallinn, that she's going to

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