We recently connected with Nar Hakimi and have shared our conversation below.
Nar , we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
Resilience, for me, isn’t loud. It’s quiet. It’s the decision to keep choosing yourself, even when it’s messy. Even when no one claps for you.
I have two daughters and they watch everything. Not just what I say, but how I carry myself when things fall apart. And let me tell you, there’ve been moments where I wanted to curl up and disappear. But then I’d look at them… and something in me would switch. I’d remember who the hell I am.
I don’t get the option to fall apart and stay there. I have to be soft and strong at the same time. I have to show them what it looks like to live boldly, even when the world wants you to play small.
So yeah, my resilience comes from them. From choosing to be the version of me they can look up to. The one who keeps going. The one who turns pain into power and still finds time to dance and bake with my girls.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
What I do? I create experiences that heal. That’s really what it comes down to.
I’m the founder of NAR, a cannabis and wellness brand born from my own personal rebirth. I didn’t grow up smoking weed. I grew up in a strict Middle Eastern household, everything was taboo and restricted. But after a divorce, severe anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and starting over as a mom of 2 little girls… cannabis really healed my soul. It allowed me to reset and figure things out. I didn’t run away from my problems, I was able to sit with it and really heal from within.
So I built NAR to be more than a cannabis company. It’s a ritual brand. Every product – from pre-rolls to vapes to the edibles we’re launching soon is designed to reconnect you to your body, your truth, your softness. It’s where plant medicine meets power.
What excites me most? The way people light up when they realize this isn’t just about getting high. It’s about coming home to yourself. We’re building a movement around that especially for individuals who’ve been told to shrink themselves.
Right now, we’re evolving our menu to go even deeper. Our team is working on products that don’t just elevate your mood, but actually help heal you from within.
NAR is for the ones unlearning everything they were taught… and remembering who they actually are.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1. Emotional Resilience. If there is one thing I can teach anyone, it is learn how to stay emotionally balanced and resilient in any given situation. Learn to come back to center as quickly as you can. Life will test you in all ways especially when building from scratch. Learning how to stay grounded through rejection, uncertainty, and reinvention is what kept me standing when everything else was shifting.
2. Intuition. Take all the noise out, and really listen to your gut. Honor your inner voice and let it lead you.
3. Alignment. Diving timing is a real thing. Don’t force things, don’t chase things, manifest and let things come to you. When I stopped forcing things and started choosing only what aligned with my values, everything flowed better – the right people, the right opportunities, the right energy.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?
Meditate. I didn’t always know how to meditate, it took me years to learn and really fall in love with it.
Through meditation, I’ve learned how to stay calm in the chaos and manifest from a place of alignment. You learn how to breathe through the storms, quiet the noise, and this is my favorite part: you learn how to manifest.
Meditation is where I meet my highest self — the version of me that’s not reactive, but intentional, grounded, and in flow.
When I meditate, I allow myself to feel the future before it arrives, to become her before she appears in the physical. That’s where I create from. Once you realize the power of meditation, skies the limit for you.
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