✨ About The Mindful Mentor

I’m Nick — a former Buddhist monk turned mindful mentor.

I write about mindfulness and Vipassana for midlife creators, leaders, and seekers — guiding stressed and overworked minds to clarity, inner peace, and freedom from anxiety, so they can create, lead, and live with purpose and ease.

After years of chasing success, drowning in anxiety, and losing myself in the noise…
I left everything behind and went silent.

What I found in that silence changed my life.

Now, I teach others how to do the same —
not by escaping the world, but by learning to meet it with presence, clarity, and calm.


This publication is a quiet corner of the internet.
A place to pause, breathe, and remember what really matters.

Here you’ll find:

🧘‍♂️ Letters on mindful living
🔥 Vipassana teachings made simple
🌿 Stories from monastic life & real-world peace
💭 Reflections to help you slow down and come home to yourself


I write to reduce overwhelm.
To raise awareness.
To remind you:

Peace is the ultimate power move.

Welcome to the journey.
— Nick Hashemi

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Letters on mindfulness, Vipassana, and peaceful power — from a former monk, now a mindful mentor.

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Ex-Buddhist Monk | 5 decades of anxiety, trauma & addiction — then found deep contentment. Now I guide others to clarity, peace & freedom, through Vipassana & mindfulness practices that saved my life🙏🏼