
Master your mindset and conquer change.
I guide individuals through life transitions and mindset restructuring, empowering them to achieve personal triumph.

The benefits of the program (the 3 pillars of Awesomeness):
Practical problem solving will help you:
- Identify the actual (not perceived) challenge(s).
- Identify possible solutions.
- Choose best solution(s) based on personal values and viability.
- Reduce large challenge(s) to small manageable tasks.
- Prioritize effectively.
- Crush challenges and create accomplishment
Mental self care consisting of Cognitive Restructuring, Mindfulness and Meditation will help you:
- Discover, challenge and modify negative and irrational thoughts that are holding you back.
- Reduce stress, anxiety, depression, blood pressure.
- Improve sleep, self-awareness, attention span, memory and emotional regulation.
Regular physical exertion creates consistency and good habits. It also releases 5 brain boosting chemicals: Serotonin, Norepinephrine, BDNF, Dopamine, Endorphins. Together they:
- Reduce depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, pain, fear.
- Improve self-esteem, motivation, confidence, memory function, focus, sleep, low blood pressure, low blood sugar.
- Helps with ADHD, OCD, PTSD
Medical references for all the above are here.
The Awesomeness program consists of:
10 Sessions
This is a 2.5 month long program and we’ll meet weekly on Zoom. Unless you have an emergency, you’re expected to be punctual, consistent and present every week.

Break Down Problems
We’ll discuss your goals and what’s standing in the way. We’ll look at possible paths forward and choose the one that makes most sense for you.

Personalized Roadmap
We’ll create a clear roadmap with well defined tasks and a path to success. I’ll hold you accountable for completing the tasks you’ve agreed to. If you’re having difficulties, we’ll discuss them and modify the roadmap if needed.

Mental Exercises
We’ll focus on what’s holding you back and learn how to reframe those thoughts.

Physical Exercises
The first 4 weeks are just walking starting at 20 minutes/day. In the following weeks, we’ll add strength or cardio exercises based on your preference or needs.

Progress Reports
We will regularly update the roadmap and track your physical and mental progress.

Text & Email Support
As long as I’m not with another client or asleep, I’ll answer at my first opportunity.

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How it works:
When facing a life transition it’s important to use all tools at our disposal in order to increase our chances of success. This is a 3 prong holistic program encompassing both the mental and physical aspects of our health and adding the problem solving component required to effectively tackle your specific challenges.
- Problem solving
- We’ll talk about, and if needed, define your direction and goals.
- We’ll discuss your challenge(s) and identify potential solutions.
- We’ll focus in on the optimal solution(s).
- We’ll break the solution(s) down into small actionable tasks.
- We’ll create a roadmap and follow it to completion.
- I will hold you accountable. But you will be expected to hold yourself accountable as well.
- Habits
- Mental Health – Again, we start slow and easy. Changing our thinking patterns doesn’t happen overnight.
- We’ll define and understand how our self-critical inner voice works and why. He/she is constantly against us!
- We focus on your successes and how you can use them to reframe your view of yourself.
- Later we’ll use the same strategy to reframe specific negative thoughts or views of yourself.
- We’ll bring in meditation and mindfulness. Hint: they’re super easy and useful.
- Physical Health – We start slow and easy. The goal is not to spend 3 hours a day at the gym; people generally quit when doing that.
- The goal is to start creating good habits. Once you get used to doing something and start seeing the benefits, it becomes easy to ramp up.
- When we do ramp up, you won’t be doing marathons or body building. Unless you want to. Instead, you’ll settle on a program that gets you all the benefits without having to turn your entire life upside-down.
The basics of mindset explained
Transitions can sometimes be difficult. We’ll use Cognitive Reframing (part of the CBT framework) to modify and strengthen your mindset giving you the tools to face and conquer any challenge.
All habits and thinking patterns (and muscle memory!) work the same way and the behavioral changes I will help you with rely on that mechanism. If you’d like to dig deeper, look up “neural pathways” and “neuroplasticity”.
In the meantime, below are 2 videos (they’re just 3 minutes each) explaining exactly how the brain works and how you can change it.
Below is a video explaining how thought patterns work and how to shift our mindset and/or habits.
A video example of rewiring using the proper methods to make affirmations work (because they’re almost *always* done wrong).
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a mindset coach or a transitions coach?
A mindset coach falls under the umbrella of life coach. They are professionals who help people see through different perspectives, teach them how to reframe their thought patterns, and help them gain clarity.
A transitions coach likewise falls under the umbrella of a life coach. Along with the tools a mindset coach would use, the transitions coach is adept at helping you simplify complex challenges and forming a clear roadmap.
Who is this for?
I work with adults who are facing challenges like:
- Career change, retirement, layoff
- Health challenge necessitating life change
- Relationship changes (romantic, family, friendships)
- Loss of everything and rebuilding
- Self esteem
- Confidence
- Fear of failure
- Imposter syndrome
- Procrastination
- Resilience
- Getting physically fit
Why 10 weeks specifically?
New habits (thinking patterns are included in the term “habits”) take time to form. 2.5 months is a practical time period.
I’ve tried other programs and didn’t get any benefits. How is this different?
I’ve structured everything to be realistically doable. We start slow and build from there. By the time we get to the tough stuff you’ll be hooked on feeling good and will want more.
Are you available outside of sessions?
Unless I’m in a session with a client or asleep, I’m available via text or email.
What’s expected of me?
Be motivated and excited to be a better version of yourself and improve your circumstances. Be ready to put in the work.

Hi, I’m Alex Hristov
I was sitting in an Atlanta afternoon rush hour and thought to myself “this is the most amazing feeling. WOW.”
I was contemplating the fact that I wasn’t upset at all. The parking lot known as I-285 was hot and probably for most, miserable. But I was happy and confident and life was amazing.
That thinking was the result of rebuilding my life from the ground up. Due to a health condition, I’d lost my marriage, my ability work (I’d spent a decade as a Software Engineer) and my physical freedom. I’d spent 5 years in a bed in a room in my parents’ house finding ways to stay sane and hopeful, diagnosing myself, developing a recovery program, rehabbing my body and finally re-entering society and building a new life.
I wanted everyone to feel what I felt – the intense and overwhelming feeling of achievement, confidence and joy. Even in a traffic jam.
Now, as a transitions and mindset coach I help others by teaching them the tools I used to simplify complex challenges and develop healthy mental frameworks so they can triumph over their own challenges.
Located in Atlanta GA and online around the globe.
Some of my podcast appearances:
Simple confidence exercises:The Advisor with Stacy Chillemi
3 steps to resilience:The Advisor with Stacy Chillemi