112: Tamar & Lindsay Go Neuro - Purpose & Flow

112: Tamar & Lindsay Go Neuro - Purpose & Flow

What makes a recovery story truly inspiring? This chat between Tamar Medford and Lindsay Harakadat brings together sobriety, entrepreneurship, and neuroscience in a way that feels practical and human, rather than academic. You’ll hear Tamar and Lindsay kick off their "Tamar & Lindsay Go Neuro" series by unpacking what purpose and flow mean, especially for entrepreneurs in recovery.

Tamar shares how leaving a corporate job and owning her past addiction allowed her to build a life she actually wants to get up at 3:30 a.m. for. As she puts it, discovering purpose "has completely changed my life" and massively reduced her fear of relapse. Lindsay comes at purpose through values work.

She explains how misaligned actions fed her depression, and how defining her own values—rather than those handed to her by parents, employers or society—helped her shape a clearer direction. Her aim is "to bring light to dark without making light of the dark," especially around topics like depression, eating disorders and abuse.

The pair link purpose to the Japanese concept of ikigai, walking through four simple questions: what you love, what you’re good at, what you could be paid for or called to, and what the world needs. Tamar suggests texting trusted friends to ask what they’d come to you for advice about, then using their answers as a reality check on your strengths.

Flow gets plenty of airtime too: that state where you’re so immersed in meaningful work that you "forget to eat" or even "forget to pee." They show how aligning actions with purpose and values makes this state more frequent, and why that matters for staying sober, building a business, and facing the dark days of depression.

If you’re in recovery and wondering how to turn your story and skills into something bigger, this conversation might be the nudge to start asking, "Why am I here—and what do I actually want my days to look like?"