Entrepreneur and influencer Nayra Nassar joined Brain Busters with Basmah on Nile FM this Thursday from 10 am to 11 am, offering a refreshingly honest take on mindset, burnout and what it really takes to build something that lasts &mdash; without the fluff.
 Right off the bat, Nayra dismantled the notion that a support system is essential for starting. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to have a support system to start or get validation,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;You can do it on your own.&rdquo;
 And she meant it. Whether from friends, family, or even your first client &mdash; &ldquo;you don&rsquo;t need validation or support from anyone.&rdquo;
 As the conversation moved into project planning and when to pivot, Nayra drew a clear line between normal struggles and dead-end signs. &ldquo;When you feel like the idea stopped evolving, when it feels stagnant &mdash; that&rsquo;s when you know you have to quit,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;Struggles are more like ups and downs&hellip; they&rsquo;re moving. Unless you&rsquo;re moving up and down, that&rsquo;s okay.&rdquo;
 One of the most common mental traps in the early stages of any project? Delegation &mdash; or the fear of it. Nayra called it what it is: micro-management in disguise. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like you want to be everyone, everywhere, all at once,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But if you let go early, it saves you big time. Because eventually&hellip; you&rsquo;re going to burn out.&rdquo;
 On the topic of bad advice, she didn&rsquo;t hold back. &ldquo;Follow your passion? That&rsquo;s romantic. But I don&rsquo;t hate passion &mdash; it&rsquo;s just not enough to get you going.&rdquo; Instead, she championed what she called &ldquo;boring consistency.&rdquo; Building anything, she added, &ldquo;is like building muscle &mdash; you have to go to the gym.&rdquo;
 Later in the show, the discussion turned to change &mdash; both external and internal. &ldquo;When you first start, there&rsquo;s ego. Gaps in ego. Discipline. Are you going to be patient?&rdquo; she asked. &ldquo;People underestimate how big of a shift it is when you change after building something from scratch. People might not like the new version of you. It takes internal work. Self-awareness. Tolerance. Consistency.&rdquo;
 Sometimes, the version of you that&rsquo;s capable of success looks nothing like the version of you who started. &ldquo;You might turn into someone you hated. Someone super disciplined. Someone unlike you at all.&rdquo;
 Even early-stage ideas got a reality check, they say your first 14 ideas are trash, Nayra commented, &ldquo;but that doesn&rsquo;t mean your effort is wasted. It just evolves into something bigger, something stronger.&rdquo;
 When Basmah asked what she&rsquo;d tell her younger self, Nayra didn&rsquo;t hesitate: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t confuse burnout with progress. Don&rsquo;t confuse burnout and progress with self-worth.&rdquo;
 She added, &ldquo;I used to sleep three hours a night. I thought if I was always working, always rushing, I was progressing &mdash; but I was just burning out. That adrenaline rush? That&rsquo;s not success. That&rsquo;s a warning sign.&rdquo;
 Her final words wrapped the interview with the same clarity she brought to every answer: &ldquo;You can build something powerful without burning out. Chill &mdash; you&rsquo;re on Nile FM now.&rdquo;
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