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Cristi Bundukamara

Cristi Bundukamara

Dr. Cristi Bundukamara ("Dr. B"), EdD, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, Army/ Navy veteran, and founder of Mentally STRONG and creator of the Mentally STRONG Method.

Aug 20, 2026

6:29
So is there a thread that ties those together, the strong method, the Navy,
6:34
the nurse practitioner? Absolutely.
6:36
Service, always wanting to help other people, right? I'm actually a psychiatric nurse practitioner with a doctorate.
6:43
And so even before going through my worst grief and trauma, I had the academic credentials to be able to, quote unquote, handle it, right? I have the coping skills.
6:56
I'm trained in cognitive behavioral therapy.
6:59
I know all the things academically, right? But when you have to do it for yourself, and those things actually were not enough.
7:10
They were not enough to to actually, and that's where I developed the Mentally Strong Method because even though I had all the right answers from the textbooks and the courses and all the things, Like putting it into practice, there wasn't a system.

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37:41
authentically
8:11
Mm-hmm.
8:12
And I've always been into kind of alternative medicine, functional medicine.
8:17
I do a lot of the things that you teach here on this podcast.
8:21
I am 100% in support of these things.
8:25
But mentally, I felt like I can't.
8:30
And I don't know if there's somebody listening right now that is in that, I can't.
8:36
Yes, you can.

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29:12
So how do we recognize when we're just surviving instead of actually healing?
20:34
Got it.
20:34
Because I hate to break it to the listeners, you will have more hardship in your life.
20:39
Like i- it's, you know, life is hard.
20:42
We want it to be easy.
20:44
We want a magic fix, but there...
20:49
I mean, it's a journey.
20:50
We're supposed to be figuring things out, and the Mentally STRONG Method is this foundational system.
24:21
Mm.
11:25
You want to become the person, think about, you know, five years, hang around those people, everything starts to change.
11:42
So I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner teaching on mental resilience, specifically around grief.
11:49
And I've started my YouTube channel over five years ago, pretty slow growth.
11:54
And I have doubled since starting the mastermind in my subscribers and views.
12:00
But more importantly for me is the ability to brainstorm with Evan.
12:05
And it's yes, he gives kind of the clear cut and dry.
12:09
These are things that you should do to grow your channel.

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