The Healing Catalyst How to Embrace Ambition Without Sacrificing Your Health with Amina AlTai
Are you constantly striving… but still feeling unfulfilled?
Does success come at the cost of your sleep, your health, or your peace?
If you’ve ever found yourself burned out from the hustle—or stuck in a cycle of chasing more while feeling less—you’re not alone. So many of us were taught that our worth is measured by how productive we are. But there’s another way to live. A way to be ambitious without abandoning your health and well-being.
In this episode of The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Avanti Kumar Singh is joined by author, executive coach, and leadership trainer, Amina AlTai to unpack the interplay between ambition, health, and personal fulfillment. Amina shares how to find purposeful ambition—the kind that fuels your soul and protects your health. She also breaks down the core beliefs that drive burnout, how to recognize when your nervous system is stuck in overdrive and how to easily regulate it, and what it takes to redefine success on your own terms.
You’ll walk away with practical tools to regulate your inner fire, reconnect with your purpose, and stop sacrificing your body for your goals.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- (08:13) Why ambition alone isn’t the problem—and what is
- (11:45) The warning signs that your body is burning out before it shuts down
- (13:19) What “purposeful ambition” looks and feels like (and how to find yours)
- (17:41) How to shift from proving yourself to honoring yourself
- (38:47) Ayurvedic insights for balancing Pitta energy and ambition
- (40:13) How to regulate your nervous system when your inner fire is running too hot
- (43:11) The daily practices that help turn ambition into healing
- (48:52) How to redefine success in a way that sustains your health—not sabotages it
This episode is your guide to transforming ambition from something that depletes you… into a practice that heals and sustains you.
About Amina AITai:
Amina AlTai is an executive coach, leadership trainer, proud immigrant, and chronic illness advocate. She works at the intersection of ambition and well-being, guiding high-performing founders, creatives, and executives toward lives of meaningful impact and sustainable success. She is the bestselling author of The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living, and a coach to leaders at companies like Google, Meta, Roku, Snap, Outdoor Voices, NYU, and HUGE.
Named one of Success Magazine’s Women of Influence, Amina is also an Entrepreneur Magazine expert-in-residence and a Forbes contributor. Her work has been featured in goop, Well+Good, The New York Times, Yahoo, NBC, Adam Grant’s Next Big Idea Club, and more.
Connect with Amina AITai:
- Instagram: @aminaaltai
- Website: https://www.aminaaltai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aminaaltai/
- Book: The Ambition Trap
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