Christie Whitehill: From Limiting Beliefs to Authentic Success

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Welcome to How to Be a Real One Percenter. This is a podcast where we're really redefining what it means to be ultra successful. No longer the obsessive, blinded pursuit of one form of success at the expense of everything else, but just learning to be our authentic selves—dedicated to being authentic, living our authentic lives, and achieving our desired success in all aspects of life, both externally and internally. And most importantly, perhaps, just learning to love this experience called life.

I am really delighted to have my guest joining today from the beautiful Gold Coast of Australia, Christie Whitehill. So, Christie, firstly, just thank you so much. I know how busy you are. Thank you for making the time to be on this podcast. I've been really looking forward to it.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah, thanks, Sridhar. Me too.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: We might have quite a bit to talk about, and I have been looking forward to this, Christie, because I went back and looked at when we actually started talking about the 1% journey. I was thinking it was 10 years ago, but it's actually a bit longer. It was early 2014.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: That's right. Yeah. Where are we at now?

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Well, pretty soon, coming up on 11 years that we've been having this chat. I'm really looking forward to seeing where this goes and what comes out. You've just done so many things. When I think about back then and where you are now and all the different aspects that you've gone down...

One thing I talk about on the real 1% journey—possibly the most important aspect of it—is courage. I was just reflecting on your journey that I’ve been a part of over the last 11 years, and there isn't anything that you haven't been willing to go down the road and have the courage to face. Consequently, all the different aspects of your life that you've put under the microscope, examined, looked in the mirror...

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah. Oh, gone deep.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Gone deep, which we'll talk about whatever you feel comfortable with today. When I look at your life now and I look at what you've done... it's just really when people come on the podcast, it's a time for reflection for me. I think about the journey that we've had together. When I think about yours, it's just like, wow, how inspiring.

So, well, let's jump in. We didn't call it the "1% journey" back then, but really, if you look at it, that's what it's always been: the real 1% journey. My first question really, Christie, is: what brought you to the 1% journey? If you take a trip down memory lane, what was happening and what brought you to the journey?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Great question. I've always really had this inkling and this knowing that in order to really attract and manifest what you want in life, there's just this inner work that you need to do. From my early childhood and the experiences that I had early on and beliefs that were formed throughout those years, when I came into my early 20s and I really started to uncover and discover personal growth work, business, and all of those interests that I now practise daily... I really saw just the profound impact that doing the inner work can have on what you're trying to achieve in life and how you can help others.

I think that's what really led me to you and the work that we did early on. I was really experiencing some challenges during that time, and it had to do with relationships—that's why we met. There were so many layers that needed to be uncovered, and so many of my own beliefs—limiting beliefs—that I had to really uncover and really dissolve in order to really get into my true authentic self.

I definitely didn't nail it at the time. I think over the years, this work is a daily practice; it's something that you really need to dedicate to in order to continue to see the results in your life because it doesn't end. We are always coming up against challenges in life, and we're always coming up against things that might trigger us. For me, when those things come up, I kind of see them as a bit of a blessing because it just shows me things that I need to work on. That's why I love the work that we do together, because I think especially working with a coach and a facilitator or somebody that can help you to really dig deep and uncover those can really help you on your journey.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Wow, what a great intro and start to the conversation. When you talk about limiting beliefs... it's becoming more known now that what's between the ears there—and possibly deeper in what we call the unconscious mind or subconscious mind—can be these blocks. Can you say a bit more about what you mean by limiting beliefs?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: So I guess they're like unconscious thought patterns. I could use the example of one that came up in one of our sessions recently: I discovered that I had this unconscious belief that "I don't matter." How damaging can that be? If that's running in the background and you're trying to achieve something or achieve your goals... having a belief like "I don't matter" in the background is going to impact your relationships and your work and all of that kind of stuff.

Once we uncovered where that came from, where it really stemmed from... as an adult, looking back on it, you're like, "Wow." When you go back and you look at where did that come from and how much impact did that have on me throughout my life... you're like, "I want to get rid of all those because really they don't serve you." We've had some pretty powerful conversations recently, and I just realised how important self-talk and positive self-talk is.

One of those beliefs I had was formed through my birth with my first child, Zach. I experienced a 16-hour labour, I didn't dilate, I ended up having an emergency C-section... it was quite an ordeal. I remember that in that moment, I was just so devastated with myself and so angry at myself for not being able to birth my child naturally—which is just ridiculous, right? Because we live in a world where these medical interventions can save you.

Through the work that we did... you know, I got quite unwell as well, for quite a few years. It wasn't until we did a session I realised I'd formed this belief during that birth that "my body fails me." So when I became unwell with gut issues, and during the pregnancy of my second child, I became very unwell and had serious health complications. Having a belief like "my body fails me" is not going to help me heal, is it?

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Definitely not.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: So, yeah, when I'm talking about those limiting beliefs, that's just a few, and they were major, powerful ones that had a major impact on me and my physical body. Being now in the health industry, I really realise how much those beliefs can harm you if they are serving you.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Wow. I think you deserve like a medal or whatever the highest kind of honour is for just doing it. So, to come out of it with that... that's quite the impact.

And, Christie, we also know that you're quite a great entrepreneur. You're a wife and mother. Hopefully, we're going to talk a bit more about the brand and some of the businesses that you've done some incredible things in the business world with.

I do want to say too, just quickly before I ask you the question, you did some real work because we'd been digging for quite some time. That story that you found that you're "not important"... we'd come around it, but you just kept digging and digging until that one. To uncover that level of story... I just see the change in you. It's something that's just fundamentally changed when you got that one.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: It's a big one.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: It was a big one. I think about just the effort that you've taken—you talked about daily practice—and I think that's what allowed you to get to that depth of level where you've got something life-changing. But before we go to how it changed, if you look back, how did that story impact all of those different areas?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: So really, I noticed it impacting me the most when I was pregnant with my second child, Ava, who's now five. At the time I was building a company called Tech Ready Women, which recently I exited to a company called Scalare Partners. So I had that business for seven years, but throughout building that business, I actually had the two kids, so Zach and Ava—Zach's now eight. Having children anyway is another job in itself. So to build a business and a startup at the same time was very taxing.

I was working long hours. I wasn't looking after myself as I should have been from a nutritional perspective, getting enough sleep, and all that kind of thing. So throwing a couple of babies in on top: definitely for me, a recipe for burnout. And that's where I was at the time. So by the time I was pregnant with Ava—remembering I had that traumatic birth experience with Zach, which at the time I didn't realise I'd formed a belief like that—it wasn't until I experienced those health issues as I was burning out from a bit of over-exhaustion and working at the time.

Following the birth of Ava and starting those symptoms really starting to come out... I was doing all the things. I went to see the naturopaths, doctors... I probably went to five different practitioners and doctors and I did every protocol that they would tell me to do. I would follow it to a T. But it wasn't until like two years into trying to heal my gut and over these symptoms that had come up—like fatigue, brain fog, light sensitivity, depression, anxiety, so many different symptoms—it was quite debilitating at the time.

After two years of doing all these protocols, I was like, "Why am I not getting better?" That's when I started going back to set work and I reached out to you and I was like, "Sridhar, I'm not getting better. Why is this?" And then we started working on looking at what could have been those stories that I was really telling myself.

It was interesting because I remember when we uncovered that belief of "my body fails me" and realised that I was really treating myself not in a nice way... I was not talking to myself nicely at all. All of a sudden, my symptoms started disappearing and I was starting to get better. It started dissipating and I started getting my energy back and motivation. I just think the correlation between your mind and your body is just so strong. It doesn't matter what you could do physically; if you're not also working on your mindset... Obviously, it's all a holistic approach, but if you're not also working on your mindset while you're trying to heal—feed your body good food, drink plenty of water, get sleep, all that kind of stuff your body does need—it'll take a long time. So now I'm like, anytime a symptom will come up, I'm actually quick to go, "Okay, what emotional thing have I got going on right now?" It's just all linked and it's so important to look at it holistically.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Oh, you're just saying something so important right now, Christie. I think as a mainstream society, we don't look at it. When we have something going on with our bodies, we do look at just the physical side of things. If we don't understand that mind aspect of it... There's an exercise where you take the lemon: you close your eyes and you act like you've got a half-cut lemon in your hand and it's really, really juicy. And you take a bite of it. Your body processes it. I know my body actually creates saliva. You look at your hand and there's no lemon, right? It really goes to show that the mind doesn't distinguish between actual reality and what we're telling it.

If you're telling yourself—as you said, these unconscious thoughts—if your repetitive thoughts said, "Hey, we're not important" or "We're not worthy" or "Not good enough" or "It's our fault for the pregnancy" etc. and blaming ourselves for things... what's our body going to do with that information? It's going to tighten up, it's going to tense. And of course, it's going to start to not work as well as it could.

I should have known with you that we would have gone to health. We're going to at some point talk about Into Wellness, your health brand that you're launching and doing amazing things with. But before we get there, perhaps let's go through the journey a little bit more.

I'm remembering just back in the early days when you had Tech Ready Women and you had some other businesses. I remember our chats about how you were going for "the big thing." It's like, we have these motives, right? When we have these stories, then we're not doing things just because we love to do them. We're not building the business just to build it. Can you say something about motives? A lot of this work has to do with "what we don't know we don't know." A lot of people just won't even know that they're operating a business from a place of having a motive behind it, instead of just something they do. So, do you remember those days? And if so, what could you say to the people that are viewing this about that?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah, in the early days... so I started my first business when I was 26. I've always had quite an entrepreneurial mindset. I was somebody who pretty much almost failed my school. So I was put into the category of "you're not smart enough or good enough." I even had a teacher tell me, "You should go and marry somebody, off you go." Because I was dyslexic and I learned by doing, and we all know that back then, especially with the way school taught, that's not... So I really didn't fit in. I definitely in my younger years had some beliefs around "I'm not smart enough" or "I'm not good enough."

Also my relationship with my parents definitely came into play. They were entrepreneurs, always quite busy. I definitely felt abandonment and neglect and not getting enough attention throughout those years. I think that was a big driver for me wanting to start a business: to prove myself worthy, right? Or trying to prove that I am smart enough. Back in the day I was mini-modelling and was very much about my looks.

So when I actually started my first business, I had this huge drive to prove that I was good enough and smart enough. Especially entering a male-dominated industry like the tech industry, it was even more so. Because literally I would be the only woman in the room at any kind of meetup or any business meeting. And I was this 20-something blonde girl who was very ambitious and very optimistic about my big goals that I had, which were probably really unrealistic for the stage that I was at. It's not a bad thing in terms of giving yourself courage, but it definitely was detrimental. And that can cause a lot of stress because you're like, "Well, realistically to get to Richard Branson's level at that stage with no experience..."

For an entrepreneur, the journey of entrepreneurship is so different for everybody because everyone comes into it with different skill sets and different experiences. But for me, I had worked in retail management, so I knew how to sell things, but that was about it. And it was entering a tech startup industry in 2011. So apps were just getting on the app store, and I had these big ambitions. Everyone was saying "billion-dollar unicorns."

"Well, if he can do it..." But now when I look back, I'm like, "I actually don't want to build a billion-dollar business because I’ve got nothing to prove anymore." That requires a lot of attention just on business. We all know that if you put a lot of energy in any one area, that's where you're going to excel.

I did for years put a lot into it—I was working 60, 70-hour weeks, weekends. This is pre-kids. That kind of effort is required in order to get a skill set, but it's not sustainable to do for a long time. And yes, I could build a billion-dollar business, but maybe I'm not going to have that lifestyle that I also want. I remember doing the work on values versus being real on what it actually takes. I think that's really important for any entrepreneur to think about when they are building businesses: what are their goals? What are their values? And how does that align with the lifestyle you want as well as the business you want to create?

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Yeah. Look, we often talk about "what do you want," but "what do you really want?" A lot of times people get something that they think they want, and then it becomes one of the worst things that ever happens to them because they weren't aware of all the things that were going to come along with it.

I use the term "gold" in here, Christie, because there are just gold nuggets that are being shared. This is one where it's worth just putting a bit of a spotlight on this. When I started in the business world, it was: "See if there's somebody out there that wants to have a difference." And then hopefully that grew into more and more. But now when I talk to businesspeople, it's like, "Yeah, they want their first business to be that billion-dollar business." And it's like, well, there's a lot you have to go through to get to that. Richard Branson wasn't Richard Branson at the beginning. He was just learning like the rest of everyone that started in business.

I think what you're saying about doing it to prove it instead of that's what we truly want, and not actually seeing that there's a massive cost to that... If it's what you really want, if somebody just says, "Look, all I want with this life is I want to build this amazing billion-dollar business, and I understand all the sacrifices involved, but I love doing that," then that's great. But I find that that's not the case. The ones who do get there find out, "Oh, I didn't realise it was going to cost me that."

How many people, Christie, do you reckon actually are able to, or know to, ask the questions: "Let me get what I think I have to prove to everyone else out of the way. Let me get what I think I need to do out of the way. Let me get my stories out of the way and just sit with this. I've got a precious life here. What do I really, really want to do with it? What would I love to get up every day and do?" And from going there in the beginning and having that work that you did—I call it disengaging or disidentifying from that story and knowing that it's not you bit by bit—I'm just watching your life...

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: It's a fantasy. I had a fantasy on this success. I remember. And yeah, like you said, there are sacrifices when it comes to trying to build something like that. And also the motive for me was not right. Now, when I look at... when you sit down and you go, "Actually, what do I want to do with my life?" it's really just about who do I want to serve and why, rather than what is this outcome of what I'm trying to achieve from a business goal perspective. It's "how many people can I impact and help these days," which is way more rewarding.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: That'll make you the most successful, right. That'll also make you the most successful when you're coming from that "what can I do" rather than "it's about you."

Interesting that you said that it's a fantasy. It's mind-blowing to me how many people are actually doing what we're doing because of a fantasy, because we think it's going to mean something if we do it. And then we wake up one day and say, "Well, look, this is my precious time. This is our greatest asset in life: our time. That's what we never get back."

So, what would you say, Christie? You've done quite a number of things. You talked about values; for me, I call that clarity now, and that's really the work of just really getting to the heart and connected with "who am I and what do I really want with life." What would you say to someone out there who's just not familiar... something about the work or something about what you've learned—that "we didn't know we didn't know" kind of thing—that you would share with people that could help them make a difference in their life? If they're there saying, "Look, I want to live my greatest life. I want to find out who I really am and what I really want." What would you say? What part of the work or what you've done with it has stood out to you that you would share?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: I think that it's really important to not only surround yourself with the right people who have the right mindset and help you to do that in an authentic way... I think that is really number one. To be a 1%, this journey is not easy. And sometimes your darkest fears and challenges or looking at emotions or situations and scenarios that may have caused you some stress... sometimes that is hard work, right? It is not easy. And sometimes it's not really doable on your own.

I think working with coaches like yourself, as well as surrounding yourself with people who are also doing the work, can help you to fast-track that process. I think for me, when I do the work, I see the results tenfold. Like, the investment in myself is the number one thing, because yeah, you just see so many results. And so I think it's really important to, if you're on this journey, be really investing in yourself, surround yourself with the right people, and people that know how to help you to get the results, because ultimately, you are going to see success from them. It's a win-win. Bettering yourself only makes the world a better place—for yourself in your mind, but also for other people.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Yeah, well, the world really is in our mind, isn't it? Because the world that's in our mind is the one that we project and the one that we see and live in. So, what would you say to someone if they asked, "Well, how did you accomplish that?" You obviously have shared that you had some beliefs—we all do. We have limiting beliefs. If we just stop and investigate our thoughts, we'll see that many of them are debilitating. They're not encouraging to us to achieve everything that we want. They're counterproductive.

When you say that you looked at it, what's something that you've done to have that change? What's something in the work that you'd say to people, "Hey, this is what you can do"? Like someone sitting there going, "I want that freedom." What's something that you've utilised that you could share with them that they could do?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah. I mean, I think some of the tools that we go through and the questions that you have set out have been really helpful in terms of helping look at what those limiting beliefs are. By sitting with it and really trying to go back to some of those moments and uncover what maybe were you thinking at that time... there's definitely a process to that. And I think the questions that we go through can help uncover that. I think that's been really helpful for me.

And then I think just the daily practice of positive self-talk. Like, that's something you can do on your own daily—really filling your mind with positive things. I'm always plugging into podcasts and reading books. Especially when it comes to letting go—I think control has been a big thing for me, like wanting to control things and the outcome of things. So recently I was reading a really great book called Letting Go and practicing that. And I know we've done some work on letting go of like some of those limiting beliefs. I think it's just the biggest thing. And then that just creates so much freedom. When you've got that freedom in your mind and you are thinking good thoughts, it just makes you feel good throughout the day. And energetically you are going to be much happier and also then attract in much happier situations and people. And yeah, good things will come.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Good things come when you're open, when you open yourself to it. Yeah. I'm really thankful that you've really painted a picture for us today, Christie. When you talked about your early life and your parents and what you felt you had to do... I think you've done a great job of showing how limiting beliefs actually develop. You look at your parents going, "Oh, well, that's who I have to be in order to be worthy, in order to be important." And then it backfires and leads to the opposite. And then we start living our life and maybe not even knowing that we're being run by these stories and these thoughts.

And again, this is just gold: the importance of just stopping and saying, "What are they?" Coming to understand, facing them. I know for myself without knowing it, before I became consciously aware of the limitations that I was holding, I suppressed them. I tried to sort of act over the top of them and act like they weren't there. That was the only thing that I could do. And it was the worst thing that I could do because it just kept getting worse. But when I stopped and just faced them, like you're saying, that's really the first step, isn't it? To actually say, "Hey, this is what's there" and get present to them.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah. And I think there are some signs, right? So if you ask someone who's like, "I don't have just limiting beliefs" or "I don't know that they're there"... I think for me, when I know that I need to be doing the work a little more than usual, I’ll start to see signs, symptoms. It might come out in my relations—there'll be resistance, there'll be challenges, a lot of challenges come up, there will be illness. And I really just now stop and I’ll listen to my body. I'll listen to my thoughts.

Journaling is a really good way to try to get out what might be going on in your mind all the time. And what stories you're continuously telling yourself. If you are continuously thinking negative thoughts or projecting blame onto somebody or not taking any kind of responsibility, and people are reacting to you in a negative way, it might be a good sign to stop and go, "Okay, well, is there anything that I’ve got going on in the story perspective that I'm projecting?" and write those things out. Because those kind of situations where lots of negative things are happening, you're getting ill all the time, they're really good signs and symptoms that, "Hey, maybe I need to stop and see if there's a story or a pattern going on here." Especially if you keep repeating the same thing throughout your life. It's like, "Well, maybe we can stop and go, okay, what might be going on from a belief perspective or a story perspective that you're telling yourself? And that's why that action is still happening."

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Yeah, well, that's definitely the next moment of gold there, Christie. What is limiting in here is showing up out there—showing up in our bodies, for one, and showing up in our relationships and our work. That's probably a big thing for some people to take in. But it's true, isn't it? If something keeps happening, and it keeps happening, then it's worth looking at: "Okay, well, I'm the one that's always there. What's going on in here that happens?"

And what's really interesting—I know you've experienced it, and I have—is that when you do identify it, and as you're saying, let it go, or I call it "disidentify" from it, all of a sudden, these things change. Like that situation doesn't keep showing up anymore. Or, as you said earlier, quite a profound thing, the body changes as a result of it. Changing the inside changes the outside.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Yeah. I think health conditions are a big one for a sign to stop and really start to look after yourself, your mindset, your body, everything. Like for me, back in April, remember I got really ill. I contracted mycoplasma pneumonia on a flight over to Bali, and I got stuck in a hospital in Indonesia for two weeks in ICU. I've never been hospitalised for being sick before or had any kind of serious illness like that. And I was there for two weeks.

Prior to getting that ill, I was launching Into Wellness into Mecca—80 Mecca stores. My business partner had gone and had a baby, so she wasn't there. I was selling my previous business, Tech Ready Women, to Scalare at the same time. And Dave was away travelling. And I was really starting to feel the stress and everything on my mind. I took the kids to Indonesia, got contracted something on the plane—obviously my immune system was down—and went into hospital because I got so unwell.

I remember sitting there and reflecting. I was hooked up to a ventilator, couldn't breathe. My stress was high. And I remember thinking, "Wow, how do you get to this point?" Obviously, a lot of build-up, a lot of stress going on in my life at the time. Also selling a business that I had built, and I'd built a real idea around. If you look up the spiritual meaning of lung conditions, it actually means grief and transition. And I was like, "Wow, I was actually grieving letting go of the business that I had built."

But it was such an emotional time for me to hand over something that I cared so much about to another person. And I had so many fears. And it was no wonder I got that ill. The doctors were like, "How are you so sick? You were like a typically healthy person, no other condition." So it was a crazy time. But I actually was like, "Wow, what a process." And I wrote some amazing letters to people that I'd worked with who had helped me build that business over the years while I was in hospital, and wrote down a lot of things that I was so grateful for. So even though it was a very tough time, it was just such a beautiful time of practicing letting go and being at peace with what was happening. But I recovered really well after that.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Oh, you've done, you've recovered incredibly well. And I didn't say recovered; you just turned that whole thing around into utilising it as an opportunity. We've known for a long time that stress creates physical problems, right? That's quite clear in the medical world. But what's really great here in this conversation is connecting the mind to it and what you were thinking—fear and grief and emotional states. And what's causing those emotional states was, "You know, I don't want to let the business go" or "I'm losing a piece of myself."

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: I'm losing my identity.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: That was what happened.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Identity that I had. Yeah.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: When we go to a party, or you go somewhere socially, what's the first question we ask someone? "What do you do?" And it's like, what we do somehow becomes our identity, right?

I know one of the biggest things that happened for me was during the questions process that you referred to. One of the biggest ones that I got was just realising my business isn't me. It's just a business; it's a thing, it's got nothing to do with who I am as a person. But when we identify, like you're talking about, look at the impact that it can have.

I think what I'm hearing you say is that through going through that process, you became free of it. And that's quite obvious looking at you now. When you think about how recent that was, it's kind of quite obvious, just in the way that your face is and how you look and your energy, how that you've used that as an opportunity to actually to move forward and to get to connect with a new aspect of who you are.

Christie, you've said a lot of really great things. What I think would be amazing just to hear is: as you've done that through the years, what's happened with life in various aspects? What can you share with us of like, where perhaps where you were then and where you are? If you put it in sort of a nutshell, what would you say in terms of where you were and where the journey has taken you so far?

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: I think early on starting the journey, by doing the work, was very much... in my early 20s, I was quite unconscious. I think throughout doing the work, I became conscious, more aware. And I think the process of uncovering anything that's no longer serving you only helps you to be your more authentic self. And I think we're all striving to be more authentic. And we all want to feel amazing in our skin. And we all want to show up and help people and do good in the world.

I think I recommend for anybody who is wanting to feel good within themselves, be your authentic self, then this kind of work is exactly what you need in order to do it.

Lately, I’ve just had some pretty profound realisations of just how much you learn to love yourself and feel good about yourself, and how much more you attract into your life that you want. It's just so simple, even though it seems so hard to do. But like you said, it is actually harder to hold on to those things that don't serve you and those thoughts. It's because they're just stories and your mind can play many tricks on you. And I think once you're out your ego—I call her Susan...

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Yes, you've given her a name.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: And I don't let those stories keep playing and playing and I really stop them in their tracks, then you have so much control in your life, you know?

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: Oh, yeah. Well, thank you for saying that. And you know, the most inspiring and fulfilling thing for me in my work is just to watch the differences that happen when people do have the courage that you have and don't hide and confront and deal with the stories and question them: find out what's underneath it, what's true and what isn't true that's been running your life.

When I think about your journey over the last 11 years, it really blows me away to see how far you've come—and not just one or two areas, but in every aspect. And as you've said, particularly in who you are and how you do love yourself and how that's just radiating into everything that you do—including bringing this amazing brand of Into Wellness so other people can benefit from the physical health side of things. Mecca is not a small place to get your products into. So just the things that you're now doing for yourself, for others, it's just been such an inspiring journey until now.

It's like, I mean, you know, I kind of feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world because this is what I get to do for a living and just watch people do what you're doing. So all that is really left to say, Christie, is thank you again. Thank you for taking the time to be here to share your story. It's quite an amazing one. And I think people will get so much out of listening to you and hopefully they'll have the courage to be able to say, "Hey, look, I’ve got some things going on and let me get honest about what they might be and start taking a look at that." So, thanks for who you are, for everything you've done and for coming on and sharing with us what you have today. It's been absolute gold. I really appreciate it.

CHRISTIE WHITEHILL: Thanks, Sridhar. I really appreciate chatting with you today. Thank you.

SRIDHAR KRISHNAMURTI: All right. Well, thank you. And thanks everybody for watching. And we'll look forward to seeing you on the next episode of How to Be a Real One Percenter.