I’m Lindsey Paoli and I hack minds for a living.

I studied Hospitality Management at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (GO Rebels!) and built a thriving career in operations management for properties like The Mirage, Wynn and Encore, and the Cosmopolitan. Despite my steady climb to success, I struggled to enjoy what I’d accomplished.  I had done everything I thought I was supposed to do — get a degree, get married, buy a house all before thirty! But everything I was building was based on achieving to keeping up appearances as a desperate attempt to hide the personal turmoil I was experiencing when I'd go ho home.  When I left work I had to face that I was in a destructive relationship, had isolated myself from others, and my health was deteriorating.  

When I decided to address my mental health for the first time, it was earth-shaking. I realized the common denominator in everything that wasn’t working in my life was ME, due in large part to a lack of education or awareness of how I could have better been taking care of myself mentally. As I dove head first into my personal work, I realized helping others like me was my calling, and earned my Master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy. I opened my first private practice where I specialized in helping high achieving leaders make better sense of their personal and professional lives. 

I loved the work, but as rates of anxiety and depression skyrocketed during the pandemic, I saw that  our mental health system was not built to acomodate the new level of need.  I focused my sights on helping companies to make bigger and faster changes, and when I received push back from HR Departments whose insurance I refused to be paneled on, I took a risk and left licensure. I knew the importance of helping companies better understand and implement small positive mental health changes in their organizations: it would also be shifting one of the largest social structures that reinforce habits that can lead to mental deterioration and burnout. 

As The MIND Performance Coach, I’m on a mission to disrupt our current mental health habits with education, approachability, and accessibility because I've seen personally how impactful and necessary this work is.  Mental Health education should be available to everyone, not just mental health professionals and certainly before one is in a crisis situation. By making mental health our greatest asset rather than a secret dirty word, I believe we can create stronger relationships, more compassionate leaders, and happier humans across all socioeconomic backgrounds and worldviews.