Galina Lipina spent 15+ years in IT industry managing projects for global corporations and startups. She is also a speaker, trainer and a certified coach. She helps people create harmony with themselves and in their relationships, and achieve goals with ease and flow.
Also, blending her passions of transformation and business into one—she helps organizations to change their culture by transforming individuals. How? By bringing a conscious neuroscience-based change process to increase resilience, creativity, and adaptability and achieve their full potential.
Other topics discussed:
- The evolution of the Man Overseas podcast
- When Galina started learning English
- Galina’s first internal decision to pursue a freedom lifestyle
- What school campuses in Russia look like
- How The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss influenced Galina’s lifestyle
- Two questions Galina asks when something she wants is not happening
- Galina’s first attempt at financial freedom (quitting her job!)
- Exploring Sedona, Arizona
- Investing in income producing websites
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Going through life saying yes to everything
- Galina’s transition from the US to Costa Rica
- Shopping for real estate in Costa Rica
- Galina’s real estate development experience in Costa Rica and why it fell apart
- Dealing with investment losses and learning from them
- Overcoming low moments and battling depression
- The concept of dry fasting and its significance
- Anna Yakuba’s role in dry fasting
- Understanding the importance of the exit period in dry fasting
- Galina’s emotional experience after her first dry fasting
- Two ways to do dry fasting
- The importance of rain, ocean, and the sunlight
- Sprinting vs distance running
- Living in Costa Rica for US$3,000 a month
- The Cold War
- Galina’s culture shock upon returning to Russia after her time in Seattle
- Embracing rejection like a man
- Relationships are a mirror (it’s a reflection of us)
- How Galina’s relationship with an untruthful guy reflected her feelings towards her dreams and business
- Masculine-feminine polarity
- The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
- Best time to read a book, according to Galina
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
- Purchasing apps on phone
- What Galina’s dream home looks like
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world”
Questions asked:
- Is “stealing your thunder” also a saying in Russia?
- When did you learn English?
- What brought you to Costa Rica and how does that tie into FIRE?
- Which university did you go to in Moscow? Is it a beautiful campus?
- Did you feel like investing in income producing websites was too good to be true?
- Tell me about your real estate development experience in Costa Rica?
- Where did you get the idea of dry fasting? Is that a Soviet thing?
- How does dry fasting affect sleeping?
- Where would someone go if they wanted to connect with Anna Yakuba?
- Could you start with her at one day or three days?
- Does she charge a lot?
- How grateful were you for food and drink after coming out of dry fasting?
- Talk to me about paying $3,000/month to live in Costa Rica. How did you come to that decision?
- Are you old enough to remember the Cold War?
- Do you have any Ukrainian friends or relatives?
- When you heard news that Russia was making moves in Ukraine, did that surprise you at all?
- What was the biggest eye-opener about America after having grown up in Russia?
- What do you think about masculine-feminine polarity?
- How did Zagorsk changed its name to Sergiev-Posad?
- Do you know if you still need US$200,000 to be a citizen in Costa Rica?
Fun questions:
- Have you ever purchased an app on your phone?
- Which app do you spend the most time on?
- Do you use your phone as an alarm clock?
- Do you believe in the blue light and how it messes up your sleep?
- If costs were no issue and you could go anywhere for a month, where would you go?
- All expenses paid a year from now when your lease is up and you can go anywhere for 30 days. Where are you going?
- If you could take a few books with you, which would you take?
- If you could also take on band’s album, which would you take?
- If you found an envelope in a park in Playa with US$10,000 in it, what would you do next?
- Do you invest in anything US-related, like index funds or individual stocks like Apple or Amazon?
- Do you find Americans have a different reaction when you say you’re from Russia than someone from Germany or France?
- Where do you think you’ll live in 30 years?
- Do you have thoughts about a dream home or a dream car someday?
- If you could put a few words on a billboard that many people would pass by and read, what would that message be?
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Books mentioned:
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
- Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want by Brian Tracy
- The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
- Dear Lover: A Woman’s Guide To Men, Sex, And Love’s Deepest Bliss by David Deida
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
- Getting Real by Susan Campbell
- Intimate Communion by David Deida
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Connect with Galina:
- Instragram: @galina.lipina_
- Youtube: Galina Lipina
- Telegram: Galina Lipina
- LinkedIn: Galina Lipina
- Website: TurningPoint.pro