The Hustle Culture Wake-Up Call That Changed Everything with Vasheti’s Quiros ✨

✨ What happens when you achieve the dream job… and it nearly costs you everything?

In this deeply moving episode of the Manifestation & Money Podcast, Jen is joined by Vasheti Kiros, nonprofit leader turned founder of Well-Balanced CEO. Vasheti opens up about the hidden toll of chasing success, her shocking brain tumor diagnosis, and the powerful manifestation tools that helped her rebuild a life of purpose, balance, and alignment.

Together, we explore:

• Her powerful rise through nonprofit leadership and what was missing

• The wake-up call that changed everything: a 7cm brain tumor

• How spiritual suppression can manifest in the body

• Recovery, resilience, and reclaiming her authentic self

• Manifesting from the inside out and embodying wealth

• How she's now guiding women nonprofit leaders to ditch scarcity and embody abundance

This episode is a beautiful reminder that true wealth starts within—and that honoring your joy, health, and authenticity is the most powerful manifestation of all.

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🔗 Connect with Vasheti:

• Website: wellbalancedceo.com

• Instagram & Facebook: @wellbalancedceo

• Book: Women Who Lead: Volume 2 – Available now!

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💫 Connect with Jen:

• 💌 Email: [e-mail]

• 📲 Instagram: @manifestationandmoneypodcast

• 🌟 Join the Manifestation Playground: www.manifestationplayground.ca

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
And, , really having this desire to lead a nonprofit. , I was very fortunate to have an opportunity to start my career working at Walt Disney World. And that gave me such a big, , such big exposure to seeing. So many families happy and just glorious at the happiest place in the world, right?
, so I stayed in the nonprofit sector and worked my way up and. Obviously worked into an executive director role and felt that I made it right and it was this dream job. I had an opportunity to really build , the staff and , the organization of my dreams and really quickly realized that, , working in the nonprofit space , was.
, I am , a manifester by design, and so I am very much a determined person so when I see something, I go for it. And I built a amazing organization serving, , it was music therapy based. We, , started with around a $250,000 budget and.
Mostly young people though, because they had the highest need , and all mostly , 90 8% free of services and all grant funded, and it was just amazing. I had eight music therapists. That were paid. They were all paid, and they had health insurance. , it was just a beautiful organization and we were in operation for eight years.
Yeah. And, . I noticed this in hindsight, of course, after the fact, but, , I took the path of least resistance and at the time went for an eye exam and was told that I had fluid on my optical nerves and that I should go and receive a more in depth. , exam to see what was going on because, , there was something more serious going on.

Jenni (00:06):
Yeah. I can't imagine, especially going from what you said were mild symptoms to bam, getting news like that.
, everything stopped for me pretty much. I can recall that it's like, , , hearing the words just became like an echo. Yeah. , and I just remember , the hospital room just being so stale and so like everything just zoomed out and I was told basically I wasn't given any options.

Vasheti (00:08):
I just. Stopped the shock was like, , and I think for me what happened was as a person who was so used to taking care of everybody. I just froze into like the shock of how am I going to survive?, I didn't know if I was going to wake up from the surgery. To be honest.
And that was really blocking me so much, and I didn't realize it until after the fact af So many things, , expanded for me after my surgery, , because I realized how much I was restricted.
Yay, I'm here. But, , the fear that I felt going into that surgery not knowing if I was gonna wake up was, , so overwhelming that I. Like I said, the shock, the fear, all of the, all of the things.
I have chronic daily migraines as a result , of the surgery. , I will never be the same again. You know? So these are, these are things that I live with As a result of the tumor, I did have a recurrence and . I had to have proton radiation , two years after.
And the ways that I have grown as a result. And so I've grown so many ways. I have. Learned that my worth is not based on my output. There that is like the number one lesson I have opened myself up so much more to my spirituality, which I thought I had to like wear a mask before in my workplace.
And how that can manifest in your body as a hidden brain tumor. You are hiding, pieces of you and literally you are growing something inside of you that is also hiding from you.
You know, hindsight, like I said, I look back and I, I, I mean I was not my full self and how could I be the leader, the full, authentic person and leader that I.
Report to a board , I get to work for nonprofits and I get to choose the nonprofits that I work for, which I absolutely love because , I love the work that nonprofits do and I love the impact that they make. And , choosing who I get to support and who I get to help make impact in the world is.
And that they can, , discover who they are within them, , authentically , a lot of women leaders , and the majority of them are women in nonprofits and a lot of them are, , held down by that scarcity mindset unfortunately, they are put in positions where they are set up for failure, and , they need that reassurance.
So I help them with fundraising first of all. First and foremost, I do, I help them with fundraising. I have strategies that I support executive directors with a lot of, and mostly small grassroots, , to maybe mid-size. But I like to work with , the smaller,
, I had, , one assistant who was an amazing. Assistant and she helped me with so many things, but she wasn't necessarily supportive with the fundraising. So while I wore so many hats as the executive director, I also managed the majority, I was also responsible with for the fundraising. And so I had a team of eight.
On the back end that they all received their pay to make sure that they did the absolute critical work that was needed in our community, , for , the people that needed it. And we served, we had programs serving veterans with PTSD, we had programs serving, , native. Children that , had really high, high needs.
It's called Women Who Lead Volume Two, and it's actually an anthology. So I have a chapter in this book, this provides a, a little bit more about my story and about what I do with nonprofits.

Jenni (00:21):
Yeah. Amazing. And I love how you're incorporating that in Yes. Bring manifestation into the business world. Bring it into the leadership. Yes. Bring it into this big, expansive. Picture of what you want to be building out instead of the cookie cutter picture that we feel that we're supposed to be building out.

Vasheti (00:22):
Oh, do something that brings you joy and do it with your whole heart. Mind and don't overdo. Whatever you do, . Don't overdo it. I mean, do it to when it brings you joy and don't overdo whatever you do. I mean, really do it till it brings you joy and don't overdo it. I love
can find me anywhere at well-balanced, CEO. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Website is well-balanced CEO, EO, my Instagram, , my Facebook, so you can find me anywhere at well-Balanced ceo.