Interview with Dr Neetinder Brar: a Personal Growth Consultant, & renowned motivational speaker

An exclusive interview with Dr Neetinder Brar, a Personal Growth Consultant, Transformational Mindset, and Life Coach, and a renowned motivational speaker

Welcome to this exclusive interview with Dr. Neetinder Brar, a multifaceted individual whose diverse expertise spans the realms of personal growth consultancy, transformational mindset coaching, and leadership in the corporate healthcare sector.

With a plethora of impressive qualifications and experience, she has made an impact on the lives of countless individuals around the world. Dr Brar holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and has pursued post-graduate education in various fields, including Business Administration, Hospital Administration, Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Self Mastery, and Mentorship.

With a plethora of impressive qualifications and experience, she has made an impact on the lives of countless individuals around the world.

Dr Brar holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and has pursued post-graduate education in various fields, including Business Administration, Hospital Administration, Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Self Mastery, and Mentorship.

With a passion for promoting the best in human nature, Dr Brar advocates for dreaming big, setting ambitious goals, and embracing the relentless pursuit of purpose, happiness, and passion. For over two decades, she has led with excellence in the healthcare and corporate sectors, empowering and guiding large teams and organizations to achieve unparalleled success.

Having had remarkable success in the corporate world, Dr Brar felt a higher calling to help people on a larger scale. Leveraging her extensive experience , she created her Transformational Mindset and Life Coaching enterprise.

She has now mentored a multitude of individuals and organizations, COOs, VPs, mid-career professionals, doctors, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs, start-ups, business owners, professional athletes, PhD students, teenagers to homemakers, Dr Brar has empowered people from diverse
backgrounds to step into their power, achieve big goals and live their best lives.

Her programs, rooted in research on the science and mechanics of the human mind and its impact on human achievements, blend science with spiritual strength, creating high-impact and permanent transformation.

Her life’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to embrace their inherent power, design their best live and pursue them fearlessly achieving freedom, fulfilment and peace. The human mind is an extraordinary entity and in it lies every power conceivable power for an extraordinary life.

With a passion for promoting the best in human nature, Dr Brar advocates for dreaming big, setting ambitious goals, and embracing the relentless pursuit of purpose, happiness, and passion. For over two decades, she has led with excellence in the healthcare and corporate sectors, empowering and guiding large teams and organizations to achieve unparalleled success.

Having had remarkable success in the corporate world, Dr Brar felt a higher calling to help people on a larger scale. Leveraging her extensive experience , she created her Transformational Mindset and Life Coaching enterprise.

She has now mentored a multitude of individuals and organizations, COOs, VPs, mid-career professionals, doctors, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs, start-ups, business owners, professional athletes, PhD students, teenagers to homemakers, Dr Brar has empowered people from diverse backgrounds to step into their power, achieve big goals and live their best lives.

Her programs, rooted in research on the science and mechanics of the human mind and its impact on human achievements, blend science with spiritual strength, creating high-impact and permanent transformation.

Her life’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to embrace their inherent power, design their best live and pursue them fearlessly achieving freedom, fulfilment and peace. The human mind is an extraordinary entity and in it lies every power conceivable power for an extraordinary life.

Can you share with us your journey and what inspired you to become a Personal Growth Consultant (PGC), Life Coach (LC)?

Dr Neetinder Brar: I am a PGC &LC and have had a phenomenal career of 21 years as a Corporate Healthcare management leader and Doctor as well as a semi academic role in The Indian school of Business prior to this.

As far as I can remember, I wanted to be in healthcare, wanting to treat and help people in difficult times. Healthcare was my passion since my teenage years. I enjoyed the grueling regime of Med School thoroughly, as well as the very tough and demanding life of a young doctor – it never felt tough to me, it was all passion and adrenaline.

I always went out of my way to connect with my patients and their families even as a young resident doctor in Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery.

Somehow I always felt the pull to engage with my patients and their families on an emotional level, I always felt it helped them so much in those tough times, and very soon indeed I was one of the most sought after junior docs in my department by both my seniors in medicine, the patients and their families and even the management, everyone found me responsive and always willing to go the extra mile. I believe this came purely from my love for the profession and the people involved.

As time moved on, I got promoted almost every 6 months! and within 3 years of me joining the prestigious Fortis Hospital, I was invited to step in healthcare management, a step that I saw to be very powerful in forming a bridge between patients, doctors and management.

You see the holistic treatment of a patient extends well beyond just medicine. Equally important is the communication, ease, peace of mind and trust in the availability of honest support and guidance.

Long story short, I went on to have a brilliant career in healthcare management rising quickly to the top and staying there.

I had the opportunity to work almost all areas I desired to be in management and interacted with the most brilliant professionals, peers, seniors and juniors that I feel privileged to have known and patients and their families that flooded my life with a whole range of emotions. I went on to head verticals across countries and work with the best of the best.

And yet, the more I grew the more I saw a lot of very intelligent, good yet disenchanted folks. Brilliant people, working long hard hours and yet not really succeeding in reaching their full potential. And many doing well but still not at ease.

There seemed to be these constant undercurrents of stress, anxiety, the need for unhealthy competition and distrust spread about quite a lot amongst people.

And the thing is, one saw this across the spectrum, staff to senior management, medicos, non-medicos, patients and staff. Very few people were genuinely happy and successful together. And the more I noticed this, the more it was obvious to me that the happy people just had a different approach to life, and I was fortunate to be one of them.

The difference was one of ‘attitude’ – mindset. The happier and more successful people thought radically differently from others – That was the secret.

As I moved to the UAE, these observations persisted despite the change in demographics and culture of different people from different nations. 

It vexed me that people should be working 8-10 hours a day 5-6 days a week nearly 40 years of their life (22 to 62 on avg) and go through all these years adjusting, compromising, not achieving their goals and generally not being happy – For an average lifespan of 70 years, the math was terrible!

I had been studying human behaviour and the mind since 2013 roughly, trying to initially create my growth and success and later trying to find a template I could share with others.

Then came Covid and that was an eye opener – life could end in the blink of an eye! What was the point of all this struggle and settling and not living full out.

I had by now seriously involved myself in study of the human mind and the process of creating success.

Once the covid crisis was through, I decided to move out of corporate healthcare, where I had ticked off nearly all my desired achievements, into what I like to call mental health or real health. The health of your MIND – the wealth of your mind! which dictates the health of every aspect of life – personal & professional.

The aim was to educate people in the science of the mind, to help them unleash this power they have with-in (in fact my organization is registered as The Power WithinJ ) and lead their lives – happy, successful lives without dependency on external factors, controlled by their own thought process and mindset. This is freedom and this is power to create.

And ultimately this is the secret to a happier world – happy individuals who create the world. This thus is my reason for the shift. My success and happiness thorough the success and happiness of the people I work with. Win -win J

You have an impressive background as a Corporate Healthcare leader. How has your corporate experience influenced your approach to personal growth and coaching?

Dr Neetinder Brar: Great question. There are several aspects here, all equally important for growth. I’ll detail a few things that great corporates inculcate:

1. Responsibility – take ownership of your life. Your work, your personal life, and the balance of both.
2. Clarity – you must know what you want or else you will be swallowed by the tide of norms, diktats, and opinions of others.
3. Teamwork – no one can do anything alone, any task worth doing requires more than one person. Growth demands that you learn to value yourself and others.
4. Leadership – you are as good a leader as you are a follower. Learn well so that you may lead well.
5. Fairness – no matter how cutthroat a place, if you play fair, eventually you win.
6. Focus & accountability– focus on the task at hand, set long term and short-term goals. The week by week, month by month, quarter by quarter approach is a great tool. 5-year plans are seldom successful without these
7. Bonding – life is fun when you bring in the fun. The goals are achieved easier with a touch of lightness. Touch lightly, a tight hold is fearful J
8. Growth path – don’t be vague about where you want to go, know what you want and always have it in the back of your mind.
9. Written notes – this might as well be one of the great secrets of corporate success. Well defined, thought-out written plans.
10. Big dreams – Set big goals. Stretch goals. You are capable of more than you think J

As a motivational speaker, you inspire and empower others. What are some of the key messages or principles you emphasize in your motivational talks?

Dr Neetinder Brar: You are capable & you are enough.

You are your biggest strength and your biggest limitation.

It’s all about you. Everything, everything is a creation of the mind. And the mind can be understood and mastered. That’s your power within – Your mind. Look nowhere else.

The mind is a program, understand the programming and program yourself for success.

Failure is just wrong programming.

Blame and complaints are the enemies of success – they place power in the hands of others. Claim your power and keep it with you.

Work more on yourself than you work on your job or business for they are an outcome of you, as are your relationships, health, wealth, peace and prosperity.

You are the creator of your life. Once you understand how your thinking, self-belief and self-image rule your world, you will cease to look outside and the dependency on the external world, it’s people and circumstances will cease to exist.

Let’s see the science behind the beliefs, understand it, re program the mind and work it to create the life you want.

Personal growth and transformation often involve mindset shifts. What are some common mindset challenges you’ve observed in your clients, and how do you help them overcome these obstacles?

Dr Neetinder Brar: This is the biggest thing of all. The mindset is simply the way your mind is set. The way the mind is programmed. You cannot outperform the programming, but you can re program it and change everything. It takes time but it is possible and that’s all that matters.

The most common mindset challenges are fear of judgement, fear of criticism, fear of failure, along with under confidence -even in seemingly successful people, low self-esteem, the need for validation, for approval. The biggest block is the lack of understanding of self-love, self-worth.

A lot of these issues are deeply complicated by half-baked information and so-called help available these days. Truly, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I help people overcome these by guiding them into a deep yet clear and simple understanding of the mind and how it functions. How it has been programmed, how to identify programming that does not serve my clients and repeatedly gets them results they do not want, and how to effectively reprogram the mind to break out the vicious cycle of doing more of the same but expecting different results.

The idea is to know what your beliefs around yourself, and things are, why they are so, how they came to be, understand the process of how the mind is programmed and use it to reprogram yourself in alignment with desired outcomes.

Its not easy but its worth it’s weight in gold and life itself. What could be more important than aligning the power within you to create your world around you J

In the realm of personal growth and coaching, one size doesn’t fit all. How do you tailor your coaching approach to meet the unique needs and goals of your clients?

Dr Neetinder Brar: Every individual is an entire world in themselves and yet the universal laws are timeless principles that each may use to create their own universe.

My coaching and mentorship focus on helping the client discover their real purpose in life, their burning desire, their biggest goals and then help them understand the power of their mind and the process of its alignment with universal laws.

This creates total clarity, confidence and a deep belief which leads to the clients taking inspired action with persistence and faith. it’s a fool proof methodology.

Many individuals and professionals face burnout and stress in their careers. How do you address these issues in your coaching practice, particularly in the corporate sector?

Dr Neetinder Brar: Burnout is the result of misalignment between understanding and effort. An average piece of machinery wears out if there is a misalignment of even a few mms in its parts. Can you imagine what happens when a tool as fine as the human mind is misaligned?!

Classic burnout is from the ‘do more to get more’. This is a self-destructive philosophy – doing more of the same to get different results. It defies science. To get different result you need to change input, not do more.

I help my clients identify their burnout and locate the misalignment. We create an entire mind map of what is desired and where we are going.

The gap between what people want and what they have is in what they are doing. Not in the knowing, but in the doing of the job. Knowledge abounds, practical application of knowledge for desired results is the gap. I help my clients identify the gap and take right action, not more action.

The result is almost always more output with less effort –I n accordance with nature’s law of least effort. The laws are all there to facilitate our best life, we’ve just been programmed on the wring ones J

As a successful coach and corporate leader, you likely have a busy schedule. How do you manage your own work-life balance and maintain your own personal growth?

Dr Neetinder Brar: Indeed. Work life balance does not exist at work, it exists in the mind. The mind needs to be free. Once you are home you need to be ‘mentally‘ free of the work not just physically. This is created by creating balance in the mind.

I am very, very mindful of my inner speech and inner work. Very mindful always of my energy and the meaning and emotion I’m giving to something. The moment I feel misaligned and don’t like the first signs of my results, I stop and go within to create mental clarity and balance.

My spiritual practice, daily study and balance are very important to me. I know that it is the energy behind my effort and not my effort that counts.

I am also a big fan of discipline, something that I have consciously worked on. Discipline is freedom – discipline automates the good in life. It creates peace, balance, and prosperity. Discipline is order and order is heaven’s first law.

I create my goal with absolute clarity and then I look at my activities and wed out the nonproductive ones. I focus only on ideas that encourage me to take action and maintain strict discipline in thought and focus. It took practice but it simplified my life to the extent that I am able to think of something and move towards it effortlessly. It saves time, saves action, saves energy, and creates more with less J This is my balance.

And I do not feel the need to follow trends, norms, and anyone else’s definitions of success.

Clarity is important – I know where I’m going and why.

Faith is important – I know the universal energy supports me J

Balance become simpler with the right beliefs J

What advice would you offer to individuals who aspire to achieve personal and professional growth and may be considering working with a coach or consultant?

Dr Neetinder Brar: As we navigate our life in its many facets, professional and personal, there comes a time when we feel stuck – in n a place that’s uncomfortable or sometimes in a place that’s comfortable but, but it’s not really it what we want, however despite bets efforts we can’t seem to find a way towards that what we really desire.

This is when you need a new perspective because You can’t get a different result with the same habitual thinking and action.That’s where Coaching and Mentorship come in.

When people talk about mentors, they talk about people who believed in them more they did, who helped them get beyond their fears and doubts and see a way when they could not.

Mentoring and coaching is not about teaching you something new, it’s about bringing out the best IN YOU. It’s about helping you with a mindset and perspectives that shorten the learning curve and lessen the struggle.

Mentorship helps you to create a mindset and awareness that helps you see things from a perspective of possibility that you currently can’t. It helps you gain clarity of the future you want and the person you need to be to have it, and to think and act as that person.

We all meet so many people who inspire us and we learn from them and make some improvements. We read books and watch stories of people and it all helps – a little.

However, to make a major difference, to significantly elevate your life to the level you desire, you need a systematic, consistent approach.

You must have absolute clarity on where and what you are, what you know and do. How much of it is creating your future and how much of it is replaying the past.

There is a difference between knowing and doing, especially consistently doing. Consistent action creates outcomes, sporadic action creates incidents.

A consistent change in action, requires a certain way of thinking and a certain way of doing things. This is where a mentor/ coach helps. They help you get from where you are to where you want to be.

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