Top Seller on TikTok Shop: How Tony Haydar Built America's #1 Olive Oil with $0 in Marketing

Top Seller on TikTok Shop: How Tony Haydar Built America's #1 Olive Oil with $0 in Marketing

Follow Nina Dixon & CTND for BTS + daily takeaways: https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad With just a camera, a phone, and a few bottles of olive oil shipped from his family's village in Lebanon, Tony Haydar built Levantine Goods with no investors and no industry experience into the #1 olive oil on TikTok Shop, on $0 of traditional marketing. In this episode, Nina sits down with Tony for an honest conversation about faith, going viral, and building something real from nothing. Tony opens up about: How flunking pre-med led him to God and to olive oil Building the #1 olive oil on TikTok Shop with $0 in marketing Why most "extra virgin" olive oil isn't what you think The truth behind the viral "daddy's money" comment Why he turned down selling a million bottles Follow Tony Haydar & LevantineGoods: https://www.tiktok.com/@levantine.goods?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@tonyhaydar.arabia?lang=en Timestamps: 0:00 Intro. 1:32 Meet Tony Haydar, the "olive oil guy" 3:18 How he sells on TikTok Shop 5:55 Hitting #1 without sacrificing quality 7:13 Stone pressed vs. cold pressed olive oil 8:16 Why olive oil means home 9:41 Growing up Lebanese in rural Canada 12:40 Moving back to Lebanon at 16 16:28 Walking away from pre-med 18:35 Fitness, faith, and the first TikTok money 20:35 The Houston moment that started Levantine Goods 22:45 Building the brand in Lebanon 24:14 The first TikTok Shop sale 25:59 The pressure of owning the whole supply chain 28:51 "Daddy's money" and the real family foundation 30:48 How Levantine sources its olive oil 33:00 What's wrong with olive oil in America 37:57 How to read an olive oil label 40:24 How to use olive oil and keep the benefits 41:40 The Mediterranean diet is a lifestyle 45:24 Faith, stress, and the founder mindset 49:21 What's next for Tony 50:03 Lebanon, resilience, and the Phoenician story 52:07 Build around what comes naturally 53:49 Find the gap and be the gap 55:54 Live olive oil taste test 58:10 Cloudy vs. clear olive oil 59:34 The olive oil shot trend 1:00:40 Where to find Levantine Goods and new products 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts

Why Women Are ACTUALLY Mad at Alex Cooper's Pregnancy

Follow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Mindset Shifts https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ Alex Cooper recently announced her pregnancy. And instead of celebration, the internet exploded with hate. Women calling her a fraud, a grifter, a hypocrite… and Nina couldn't stay quiet about it! In this episode Nina breaks down exactly why the backlash has nothing to do with Alex Cooper and everything to do with the mindset behind the comments. Today's episode covers: The 5 categories of hate comments (and why they're all wrong) The hypocrisy argument (and did she actually lie to anyone?!) Class privilege, the grift accusation, and the HPV pile-on Why we put women in boxes we'd never put men in Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset — and what Cooper's story really proves The one line that will change how you see other women's success This isn't a defense of Alex Cooper. It's a mirror for the haters. If this hit home, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and COMMENT one thing you're doing today to reclaim your focus. 🎥 Watch on YouTube 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 📱 Watch on Spotify

How Sweet Lorens Went From a Cute Business Idea to a $120M Brand

What if getting cancer at 22 ended up changing your entire life – and was the catalyst building a $120M company? Loren Castle was fresh out of college when she was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma. During treatment, she became obsessed with nutrition and realized something was missing from grocery shelves: cookie dough made with clean ingredients that still tasted amazing. With just $25,000, a toaster oven, and a suitcase full of samples, she started Sweet Loren's from her tiny New York City apartment. With passion, grit, intuition, and a mission to make clean, simple ingredients accessible to everyone, Loren persevered and built a brand that, in many ways, is just getting started Today, Sweet Loren's is the #1 natural refrigerated cookie dough brand in America, generating over $120 million annually and sold in more than 35,000 stores including Whole Foods Market, Target, Kroger, and Publix. In this episode, Nina sits down with Loren for an honest conversation about surviving cancer, handling grief, building without investors, staying profitable, balancing motherhood, and proving everyone wrong. Loren opens up about: * How cancer led to the idea for Sweet Loren's * Starting a food company from a studio apartment * Landing Whole Foods with no experience * Why she turned down Shark Tank * Losing her mom while launching the business * Building a profitable company without raising money * The rejection that fueled her success * Balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, and pregnancy If you're interested in entrepreneurship, business stories, startups, food brands, women founders, mindset, or building a company from scratch, this episode is packed with insights and motivation. Follow Sweet Lorens: Instagram: @sweetlorens [https://www.instagram.com/sweetlorens/?hl=en] TikTok: @sweetlorens [https://www.tiktok.com/@sweetlorens] Follow Nina: Instagram: / Ninapaldixon [https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon/] TikTok: / ninapaldixon [https://www.tiktok.com/@ninapaldixon?lang=en] Threads: / ninapaldixon [https://www.threads.com/@ninapaldixon]

High-Performer Mindset: Fix Your Attention Span. Fix your Life.

What if the reason you can't finish a task, stay present in a conversation, or feel truly rested… isn't a diagnosis — it's a habit? In this episode, I'm getting real about something that's quietly affecting all of us: a fractured attention span. Not because we're lazy, unmotivated, or broken, but because modern life has literally rewired our brains to crave constant stimulation. And most of us don't even realize it's happening. From the neuroscience behind your prefrontal cortex, to why the guy who invented infinite scroll regrets it, to the 23-minute reset cost of a single distraction. This episode breaks down exactly what's stealing your focus, your creativity, your confidence, and your relationships. And more importantly? How to take it all back. 💡 What You'll Learn: ✅ Why your attention span isn't broken; it's just been trained wrong ✅ The science behind your brain's CEO (and why it needs boredom) ✅ Why it takes 23 minutes to refocus after one distraction ✅ How a fractured attention span is quietly destroying your relationships ✅ Why stillness is a superpower, especially for high-achieving women ✅ The connection between focus and confidence you've never heard before ✅ How to time block, protect your mornings, and design your environment ✅ The YouTube focus music trick that changed how I work ✅ How to rebuild your attention span starting today — no diagnosis needed Your attention was not always like this. It was trained. And it can be retrained. If this hit home, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and COMMENT one thing you're doing today to reclaim your focus. 🎥 Watch on YouTube 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 📱 Watch on Spotify Follow @NinaPalDixon & @ChaiTeaWithNinaD for daily mindset shifts.

Why You Feel Sick When Every Test Says You're Healthy | Dr. Chan on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Follow Nina Dixon & CTND on Instagram for BTS + Daily Takeaways https://www.instagram.com/ninapaldixon/ https://www.instagram.com/chaiteawithninad/ She grew up in Hong Kong, studied neuroscience in the West, and had every door open in front of her. Then she walked away from all of it to practice medicine that's 3,000 years old. Dr. Felice Chan is a licensed Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and acupuncturist based in Los Angeles. She trained for five years post-grad, spent years inside Western hospital systems doing clinical research, and had her medical school applications ready to go. What she saw in those hospitals, and what happened to her own body, changed everything. In this episode, Dr. Chan breaks down what Western medicine is missing, why your labs can come back "normal" while your body is screaming otherwise, and what 3,000 years of healing wisdom understands about the female body that modern medicine is only beginning to prove. This is not a woo-woo wellness episode. This is a doctor who studied both worlds and chose the one that actually answers the question: why. Follow Dr. Felice Chan: https://www.instagram.com/drfelicechan/ https://www.instagram.com/feliceacupuncture/ https://www.instagram.com/moonbow_skin/ 💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Why your anger, grief, and anxiety aren't just emotions; they're physical events happening inside specific organs right now ✅ What a healthy cycle is actually supposed to feel like, and the signs yours is telling you something deeper is off ✅ Why so many women are bloated, exhausted, and hormonally wrecked, and the three things to change first ✅ How acupuncture actually affects your hormones (the mechanism, explained simply) ✅ What TCM understands about fertility and postpartum that Western medicine never tells you ✅ The one thing she'd tell every woman to do tomorrow to start regulating her nervous system This episode was filmed at a private residence in the hills in Los Angeles, hosted by The Maimon Group. Learn more at themaimongroup.com. 🔔 Subscribe for more elevated conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTeawithNinaD 💻 Watch on YouTube 📱 Watch on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts