What if the one thing that quietly chips away your confidence in the mirror and the shower

in your day-to-day life, but also become the spark that changes everything?

Welcome back. Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast where we dive into the minds of the

world's greatest thinkers and doers. I am your host, Dr. Michael Jervais, by trade and training,

a high-performance psychologist. Now, the idea behind these conversations is simple, to sit with

the extradinaries and to learn, to really learn about how they work from the inside out. This is not

about hacks or quick fixes. It's about understanding what they are searching for, how they

organize their inner world, and the psychological skills that they use to navigate a life of high

performance. Today's conversation is with

Giorgio Settis, a former model, engineer co-founder and chairman of Nutrafol, who in his 20s began to

lose his hair. What started as a personal mission to solve his own problem grew into a science-backed

approach that would help millions of people. In this conversation, we talk about the identity

shaking experience of hair loss,

the connection between stress, health, and confidence,

and what it takes to build something meaningful out of life's challenges.

With that, let's jump into this week's conversation with my friend, Georgios.

Georgios, this is like, I want to say it's a treat, but it's more than that.

Like, I'm so happy to be able to sit with you to have a conversation about a life arc that you've experienced and co-created that I think all of us would hope to create in our own lives.

So what do I mean by that? This life arc where you're able to have the self-discovery process to feel some sort of pain, to identify it, and then say, how do I solve it, and then try to

solve it for others, and that along the way

building a beautiful business. So this idea from pain to changing other people's lives and

figuring out the structure for it, I think it's brilliant and I'm so stoked to sit with you to talk

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