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Welcome to the Higher Self Podcast.

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So get ready and enjoy this week's

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episode of the Higher Self.

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Healing after heartbreak. Man,

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it's rough. And yet that is the

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focus of conversation on this

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week's episode of the Higher Self, which I have

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the honor and the privilege. I actually want to show

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you a picture real fast. My

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very first journey with ayahuasca.

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I

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took this picture. As you can

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see, I was still wearing the sunglasses.

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I showed up with my Louis Vuitton bag

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and I left a completely different human

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being

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after meeting Mother

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Aya and meeting my brother, Tim Seku.

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How are you, man? Oh, I'm so

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grateful to be here. Did

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some things to make it out here and I'm really, really

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honored to. I know we actually

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tried this recorded once already and I asked

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actually to not use

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it and come back again and rerecord this because

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I felt like this relationship

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that we've cultivated, there's so much more that

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we can discuss about from

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the heart. And so that's why I'm

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here again to really give it my heart

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here with you. Talk about repurposing

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heartbreak, healing from that. Obviously,

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love to chat a little bit about our time in

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your first ayahuasca experience that

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we had the pleasure and honor to

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share with. So very excited. Thank

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you for having me and it

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feels like home to be talking

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with a brother like you here today. Thank

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you, man. And I want to say something

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and this.

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This is, you know, for all of you listeners,

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we truly, we truly

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live or do our best to live

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in integrity with, with what we

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do here. And you know, there, there

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are some people that have come and recorded

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episodes that were like, you know, Casper and I

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are like, Nope, this one ain't going to make

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it. But to hear someone,

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I think this speaks volumes of

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who you are as a human being and your

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commitment to the work that you do. You

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know, we went through a full recording, an hour

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of conversation, which I thought was wonderful

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and you and you after a couple

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of days called and said, like, now that's,

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there's more, there's more. And I want to speak

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to that real quickly because I had the pleasure of sitting

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with grandmother Aya actually a few days

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after we recorded. That's right. And

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the message came clear that my word

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of this year was to unleash,

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is to unleash. And

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I realized that I was still holding back in our,

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in our last conversation. So

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today's intention is also to unleash the

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truths, the wisdom, the learnings that I've

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received from this medicine work and

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be of service to this beautiful

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gift that this medicine gives for all those

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who are listening today. Yeah. I

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want to, I want to preface this conversation

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by saying that for many of you that are listening,

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I want to remind you all, I

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want to ask you all,

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you know, if you've gotten any value from this,

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from these episodes or from any of our work to

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hang with us through this conversation,

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because depending on where you are in your

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journey in life, you

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may be like me when, when you hear

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of things like,

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you know, ayahuasca or

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plant medicine. And I, you, I was

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that guy. I was the guy that said it's

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evil. I was the guy that said it's, you

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know, the devil. I was the guy that's that,

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that would speak badly about. And,

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and yet hopefully what you're feeling

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energetically between the two of

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us is some sort of

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a. or resonance

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of truth and

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and we're gonna be talking about heartbreak

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and how to heal from that in a moment but

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what where I want to start Tim is I want to start

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in asking you many people don't

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know this about you but you were a successful entrepreneur

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you were doing well financially

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and something happened that brought

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you to want to sit

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with this powerful medicine

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called diawasca take me back what was that

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like for you yeah so I say

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that my original career was

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gonna go into the world of politics aspiring

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to be one of the first Asian American president United States

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I was gonna be the first Hispanic as

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I grew up I realized a lot of the inefficiencies

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and bureaucracy that I was

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just tired of so I thought what's the next

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best path to explore and that was the world of entrepreneurship

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I started my company right after my

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undergrad in college

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and started pursuing it

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and we figured

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something out where I started taking off the company

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and in the

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early stage of that

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I was introduced to my first psychedelic which

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was LSD

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and long story short for that

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that opened the doors of perception

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and the doors that I didn't know existed in my

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mind and so that led

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me to deeply explore

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that more on a solo basis in

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the outskirts of San Francisco during my startup days

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kind of playing that archetype as well

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what came through though was

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as I as I went through more of these journeys

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by myself

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that

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I was misaligned with the business I was creating

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like something in me was bored something

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in me was questioning why I was doing all that and

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as I went through my journeys with LSD what I realized

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was that I had started the company out

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of ego lack of self-worth

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I grew up with a single mother, so I always felt a little

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outcasted and maybe needed to prove

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myself a little bit more. So a CEO

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title felt great. And

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so as I started unraveling that,

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I was like, oh man, I

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found something that works really well, but I'm

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just misaligned. And that whole story of that startup

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was really understanding the feeling of misalignment.

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And so in 2018, I decided to sell the company

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after I received a very beautiful vision

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from grandmother Aya.

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This was my second ceremony ever where

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I asked, I know this is not right for

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me,

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but what is? What is my purpose of service

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in this lifetime? And long

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story short there, I was in prayer pose with

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my forehead on the ground deep in ceremony

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asking, like, please show me what it

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is I'm actually supposed to be creating in this lifetime. And

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what I saw was

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the veil or the curtain draw

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back looked like a movie where I was

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walking on the mountain with the ocean in the back, tall

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yellow grass, walking through the fields and

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with a few people. And I asked the medicine, I was like, what

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am I here for? What is this? And

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in summary, what I was what I received was

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that you are going to

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take everything you've learned in your misaligned

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business

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and you're going to pour it into what is called an

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alternative healing campus for

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people who may be in the Western world that

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trying everything and just can't break

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through. You're going to now pour

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your pour your work and heart into this.

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And this isn't just going to be a one lifetimes worth

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of work. This is going to be a two lifetimes worth

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of work. And then when I received that,

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I was just like jaw dropped. And I was like, whoa,

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this is crazy because I thought I was going to play

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the game again in the tech world. Right. I figured

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out the formula. I might as well rerun it again

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and make more money and do all that. So

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this was a very humbling vision that I got.

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And so that ultimately took

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me to have the confidence to let

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go of my business, sell it and

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start a

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beautiful, powerful journey.

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of remembering what I am here

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to do in this lifetime. I love that.

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And you know, again,

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it speaks so much to, I

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think your integrity with your life's purpose,

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but that showed up not

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only in the recording of the podcast, but

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to know, right? To know that

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we live in a world where so many of us are

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driven just by money

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and success and outer

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validation, to know that you

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created a plan, that plan

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was executed, you created a profitable

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enterprise, that business was sold,

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and to know that you could essentially rinse and repeat

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as many times as you want, and yet

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to be called to something deeper,

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right? And for you

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to listen to the calling, because there's two different

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things. I've sat with a medicine

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so many times, and I've been around

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so many people, where they get messages

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from the medicine, and the message is one

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thing, for you to listen to the message, that's

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a whole nother ball game. And for a lot

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of people, they're afraid to listen to the messages

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that they get, because it means that parts of

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them have to die.

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You know, that part of you that

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wanted to be known as that like powerful

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CEO, which was really that

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part of you that as a little

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boy was seeking validation and love,

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you know, he had

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to go. And

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he had to start to trust, right? What was that like

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for you?

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Man, I remembered when I received that vision,

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I was so humbled by it, because

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I was told this is two lifetimes worth of work. I didn't

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even know if I'm in my first lifetime or the second lifetime,

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I didn't know. And

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I remember making the promise to myself,

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I said, I got the message, I got

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it loud and clear.

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And I don't know how this is gonna happen,

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but I'm gonna trust, and I'm gonna

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surrender

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and see what happens. All I know I can

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do what's in my control is talk about it with people and

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see what emerges.

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And slowly but surely as I started talking

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to people,

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all the signs started leading the opportunities

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to be birthed for that opportunity to come

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alive. I will say that

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ayahuasca, they say that ayahuasca

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doesn't just make you a better person, it makes you

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want to be a better person. So that reminds

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us and me that there is the choice,

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the courage to step into

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the messages that are given. And

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I remembered I had to really ask myself, do

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I have the courage to step into this

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crazy vision that I have

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no idea how to manifest

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or execute on? Because this is a whole different play

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from the tech world that I was in. But

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I said, if this was divinely

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and spiritually and universally guided,

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what I can do is at the very least is

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to show up

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and take each step forward and forward.

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And I'm sure we'll talk a little bit more about this

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later but

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fast forward to today around five years later,

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I am living that dream right now. And I've had to make

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a lot of interesting and

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yet tough decisions to stay committed

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to that vision and that

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commitment of

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a spiritual message that was given to me.

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I love that. I wanna

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go a little bit deeper in your work with the medicine

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because there's so, and I wanna just talk about

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the medicine. I wanna talk about ayahuasca

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and psilocybin mushrooms, which

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for me are the

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two medicines that absolutely

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changed my life. And again, I want you to

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stay with us here, but I

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don't know how to express this other than to tell

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you every message

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you receive from me, every podcast

11:39

interview, every hack,

11:43

the love of my life that I attracted, the

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every seminar that you attend with me,

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every quote that

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you see me write, none of

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it, absolutely none of

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it would be here without my

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working with the medicine. I can

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legitimately say that I am living my

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true purpose in life only

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because, only because I

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had the courage to not listen

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to what others thought about

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this sacred medicine, but to listen

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to my heart and soul calling

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me, asking me,

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and guiding me to it because

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I needed it. I needed it. Is

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that to say that you can't live out your

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life's true purpose without the medicine?

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That is not, no, that was my

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path.

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And so I want to

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ask you, I want to ask you, you know, you've

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sat with ayahuasca in like how

12:46

many ceremonies now? A hundred plus. A

12:48

hundred plus, easy. First

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things first, let's get this one out of the way. You're

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still alive. I'm still alive. I hope

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I look sane, centered. You're not a

12:57

crazy, you're not a, you're not

12:59

a weirdo. I'm not a hippie, you know,

13:02

bye-bye person. I'm here. You're

13:04

here. And you are an

13:05

actual human being that

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actually made a business that

13:10

exited a business and that now

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is doing this work where you were holding space

13:15

for other

13:15

people to sit with the medicine. And many

13:18

ways the same way I do just you that that is

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your sole focus. Right.

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And so my, you know, my first question is,

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is what in your

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experience leads people to a place

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where they finally say, I need

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this medicine.

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You

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know, I've been able to sit with this

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medicine quite a few times and with a lot

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of people guiding them through this process.

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And

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typically it starts with

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something

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is not right in life

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and right can be defined in

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many different ways. Something's lacking

13:54

of fulfillment.

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Something is

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completely veering off the other way.

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when one may have thought that it

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should have been this way,

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right? A lot of the conditioning and programming of how

14:05

we're growing up and saying that this, once

14:07

we achieve this, the fulfillment and happiness

14:10

should come. When we hit that

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and fall short of that fulfillment,

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that's when a lot of the spark begins,

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especially with the people I've been able to work with. And

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that could result in

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both professionally, something in their career is

14:24

stagnant, and that's something kind of what happened with

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me. Perhaps in a relationship

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where you thought,

14:30

you know, this was the love of your life, and then all of

14:33

a sudden it went the other way. And

14:35

so basically think of it like a hero's

14:37

journey as well, where we

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think we're going down this path and

14:41

all is nice and rainbows and unicorns

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until something veers off and that

14:46

veering off and that feeling of like, oh,

14:48

something is off, something doesn't feel right, is

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the beginning of that hero's journey, because that's

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the call that spurs this

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intrigue to explore, let's

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call it healing art modalities, whether

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that's yoga, breath word, meditation,

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and some may want to go a little bit deeper

15:06

or let's say even deeper and more accelerated

15:10

with the work of plant medicine. And

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that's the way I look at it. It's funny you

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say that because we were talking about, obviously

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we're recording this a day before Awaken.

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And so you're here to like hang out, watch

15:22

Awaken, you know, you're my brother, obviously,

15:25

but we were talking about it

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and I was talking about

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Awaken.

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And when I said, I said, it's

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like the medicine without the medicine, right?

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Because there are so many healing modalities,

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you know, if you're out there listening, whenever

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you ask me, okay, like, how do

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I start? How do I heal? It

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could be as basic as go sit

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in grass and connect with mother nature.

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Like, like just go do that. Cause so

15:51

often as human beings, you have to

15:53

remember before there were buildings, before

15:55

there was television, before there was

15:58

any, before there was clothes.

15:59

who we were. We were just naked

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human beings running around and you

16:04

know in communion and in unity

16:06

with each other, with the animals and with mother

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nature. You know, that's heaven

16:11

on earth, by the way, right there is if we can get back

16:13

to that space, you know, and then little

16:15

by little, the mind of man started

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to create ways to

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separate us all and to separate us all

16:22

from love, you know. And so the first

16:24

thing you can do to start your healing journey

16:26

is to just go reconnect with mother

16:29

nature. And then second, like,

16:31

go reconnect with yourself, you know, and

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how do you do that? You do that through conscious

16:36

breathing, you do that through

16:37

meditation, you do that

16:39

through the beautiful practice of yoga,

16:42

which helps you to really connect with your

16:44

mind, body, heart and soul. You

16:48

may do that by coming to an event like Awaken

16:51

and where we get to do all of that

16:53

together as one big

16:54

family. And then there's

16:56

that next level, right, right, which

16:59

you don't have to go to, but you

17:02

feel called to once you want more, you

17:04

know, and that's where the plant medicine

17:07

comes in. Would you agree? Yeah, I

17:09

see it like this whole medicine

17:11

journey and from my teachers have said

17:14

it's a journey of remembering.

17:16

And so the conditioning

17:17

and the programming and the ways we were raised

17:20

have created blockages to

17:23

remember these deep inner truths.

17:26

And so yes,

17:26

meditation and breathwork

17:29

and yoga are powerful ways to

17:31

start to chip away at it. I like

17:33

in the analogy of like

17:35

meditation versus plant medicine,

17:37

they're both going to take you to

17:40

this destination of, let's call it enlightenment,

17:42

for lack of a better word. One

17:44

is just much quicker. The plant

17:46

medicine path is much quicker, but that also

17:48

comes with its consequences that if you're not careful

17:51

in the wrong setting, in a not safe

17:53

setting,

17:53

it could veer you off not in a great

17:56

way.

17:56

While the meditation is kind of like taking

17:58

a stroll. And and walking

18:01

towards that place and so it's a little

18:03

slower, but it's a lot more

18:05

Manageable for whether your typical

18:07

person right so they're both gonna take you to

18:09

the same place Both of them have their pros and

18:11

challenges that needs to be addressed and

18:14

watched out for

18:15

But both can take you to

18:17

that same destination. Absolutely. I

18:19

love that and Talk

18:22

to me a little bit or let's talk a little bit

18:24

for people who are, you know considering this,

18:26

right? Talk to me a

18:28

little bit and again, we're gonna get to healing after

18:30

heartbreak Don't don't worry But but we're

18:33

getting there and I think this is how you heal heartbreak

18:35

is to you know reconnect with yourself But

18:37

talk to me for a little bit between the differences

18:40

between like let's say I Iowaska

18:42

and psilocybin mushrooms the way

18:44

I have experienced them is I

18:48

sat with Iowaska first So, you know some

18:50

people say like through fear

18:52

and nervousness obviously, which is okay people

18:54

will ask Well, should I do mushrooms first

18:57

and then like graduate to Iowaska or

18:59

you know, whatever the case may be and it's

19:01

gonna call you the way it's gonna call you type

19:03

of deal the way I have experienced

19:05

the medicine is

19:07

Mushrooms it's

19:09

like picture this picture all

19:12

of your subconscious deepest

19:14

beliefs And

19:18

a mental hang-ups In

19:22

three to four hours being dealt with in a very

19:25

profound way more more profound

19:27

that I think

19:28

You know, I'm not saying don't do therapy but more

19:30

profound

19:30

than like ten years of therapy

19:33

in like three to four hours You

19:36

you you're gonna get to deal with them. And then

19:38

the way I envision Iowaska is I

19:44

Mean there's no way you can you can you can describe

19:46

the netherball sometimes how profound

19:50

this experiences but it's

19:52

more of like my my heart and

19:55

my my soul

19:56

and my and life

19:59

and like the universal truth

20:02

about who I am as

20:04

a soul and who we are

20:06

and helping to heal all

20:08

of that.

20:10

How about for you? Yeah, those are beautiful

20:12

ways and firstly I just want to say

20:15

like I just remembered how beautiful

20:17

it is to have shared

20:18

your first ayahuasca experience together. Yeah.

20:21

And then your first mushroom experience

20:23

together. I totally forgot about that. Were you there too? In

20:25

Sedona? Oh that's right.

20:28

Well we were laying down at the

20:30

river. Yeah the river bend. That's right.

20:32

Yeah yeah. Oh that just gave me goosebumps. Yeah it's

20:34

just I just thought about that. I just wanted to call that out. I

20:37

think it's beautiful the way you said it and I could

20:40

add on to that by saying

20:41

yes on one perspective mushrooms

20:45

from a scientific standpoint have less

20:47

contraindications which means the typical

20:50

person maybe on SSRIs or

20:52

antidepressants or dealing with just a lot

20:54

is a good entryway into this medicine

20:57

work before stepping into ayahuasca

20:59

right. The other way to think about it is the

21:01

spirits behind them so these indigenous

21:04

folks like to say that the mushrooms are

21:06

the spirit of the children and ayahuasca

21:09

is obviously the spirit of the grandmother. So you

21:11

kind of just picture them visualize the children

21:13

okay a lot a lot could be could

21:15

be really fun could be really a lot

21:18

of giggling and laughing could be a lot

21:20

of pure joy innocence perhaps

21:22

even creativity as well if you think

21:24

about yourself in

21:26

and when you were a young child and just kind of expressing yourself

21:29

the most creative way that's another

21:31

way I see it whereas when you picture a

21:34

grandmother a stern but loving grandmother

21:37

that's ayah right and ayah by nature

21:39

as I've learned

21:40

is purgative by nature so what that means

21:43

is it's meant to

21:45

relieve and release any

21:48

stuck stuff inside of us right one

21:51

of my teachers says when the purge happens

21:54

ask the medicine what

21:56

it is that you're trying to purge out and essentially

21:59

let go of so so that the

22:01

true inner self can be

22:03

birthed, can be let out, can be expressed.

22:06

And so those are other ways I see it, right?

22:09

But overall, I would say is that

22:12

mushrooms

22:13

and psilocybin are great entry

22:15

portals into exploring this medicine

22:17

work. And I've seen it more and more,

22:19

especially myself practicing it, being

22:22

merged and utilized with creativity,

22:25

especially in everyday life. And that's why we're seeing

22:27

a lot of popularity with

22:29

microdosing. Microdosing, yeah. Exactly. Whereas

22:32

Aya, it's like, it's deep work

22:34

time.

22:35

There's a commitment before and after,

22:37

especially the prep for the diet and

22:40

the integration of really weaving

22:42

in the learnings we took from this experience

22:44

and the ceremony into our everyday life. There's

22:46

more of a commitment to receive

22:49

its full potency. So again,

22:51

the mushrooms are a great entry way, kind of like

22:53

dip your toes in, less contraindications,

22:57

you know, not as intense as Aya, so

23:00

that, you know, when you come back into everyday

23:02

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23:04

Aya is like,

23:05

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23:07

some blockage. There's something that needs to break

23:09

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23:12

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24:35

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24:38

Like go away and go

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have been in like Costa Rica and,

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you know, journeying with the plants and

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feeling so connected to like my

24:56

brothers and sisters. And

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it

24:59

truly is life changing because your eyes

25:01

are open to what

25:03

life really is. And

25:06

so many people have said after their experience

25:08

with ayahuasca, I literally don't

25:10

want to do anything. I just want to like

25:12

live in the forest with all of my friends and sing

25:14

kumbaya, you know? It happens. It

25:16

happens a lot, and it's so true. And

25:19

don't let your ego cause that

25:21

to say something inside of you like, oh, I'm never going

25:23

to want to work again. No, we obviously work.

25:26

We're well-functioning human beings. It

25:29

just brings you back to the essence

25:31

of who we are. Exactly. In a beautiful

25:33

way. And there's something just to add to that where

25:36

when you're saying about nature, ideally,

25:38

yeah, in a beautiful natural setting, because

25:40

the way I see it is, and I recommend this

25:42

to people I support, is when they're

25:44

going through a tough time or they're deep in the medicine,

25:46

I say, go talk to nature.

25:48

Because nature is one of the most purest forms

25:51

of God.

25:52

So you go talk to God right in front of you with the

25:54

plants, with the flowers, with the bees

25:57

or insects and the trees.

25:59

And I

26:01

have experienced the spiritual

26:04

essence come through nature

26:06

when I'm deep in the medicine and I'm just talking to God

26:08

through nature. Yeah, and so have I. Yeah,

26:11

sure. So have I. So, you

26:14

know, I want to talk to you about heartbreak,

26:17

which is, you know,

26:20

in many ways when we experience heartbreak,

26:23

you know, whether it's through a relationship

26:26

ending, whether it's through somebody we

26:28

love passing away.

26:30

It can be

26:33

that event in our life that transforms

26:35

us, you know, and when

26:38

I mentioned heartbreak to you, what comes

26:40

up? Yeah,

26:44

I feel like there's layers of heartbreak

26:46

I've experienced and

26:48

there was one deepest layer

26:51

of heartbreak I've recently experienced

26:54

just last year. And it was

26:57

very potent in that it was someone

27:00

that I met

27:01

through the medicine work.

27:02

It was someone who was the first person

27:05

I

27:06

decided that this was going to be the person

27:08

I would spend the rest of my life with. So across that

27:10

threshold, you know what I mean? Yeah.

27:13

And did believe that this was going to be

27:15

the mother of my future children, raise

27:17

a family and everything like that. And

27:21

the universe had it for me where everything

27:24

came crumbling down. And

27:27

it was

27:29

what I perceive as one

27:31

of my dark nights of the soul

27:33

periods of my life, where I questioned

27:36

everything. What

27:38

am I here for in this lifetime? And

27:41

even questioning the medicine because I was like,

27:43

well, medicine, like

27:45

if I met her through this work and

27:48

how it all broken up and how we were separated

27:51

just crushed my heart,

27:53

like what's up? Why? Why

27:56

did this happen?

27:57

I can say now after

27:59

looking

27:59

back this past year, especially working

28:02

with the medicine as well to go through that healing

28:04

process. There's

28:05

a couple things that very much emerge in

28:07

this process of repurposing heartbreak.

28:10

And

28:10

that's why I wanted to bring this up. There's

28:13

three things that really came up in in

28:15

my process of repurposing heartbreak.

28:17

The first one was, this

28:21

is my initiation into manhood.

28:23

This is my turn to like really

28:25

carry myself and hold myself

28:28

and know that I got this. That

28:31

bleeds into the second one, which was a

28:33

deep, deep understanding of

28:36

self love.

28:38

See what's ironic is that in the

28:40

program that I was in, we

28:42

talk a lot about self love. And after

28:44

facilitating some of these sessions, I'm like, I think I

28:47

know what self love is. Until

28:49

I go through this massive heartbreak that I'm

28:51

like, Oh, I've been, I've

28:53

been totally abandoning myself. I've

28:55

actually held back on speaking my truth

28:58

for the sake of keeping peace, which

29:00

means abandoning myself. I

29:03

also pedestalize, I put

29:05

someone else on a pedestal above me and

29:08

forego my own needs to to

29:11

honor, you know what she may want, perceiving

29:14

that as unconditional love, but

29:17

always at the end of the day, forgetting

29:19

about myself. And

29:22

the third thing that really came up

29:25

was a

29:26

redirection, a

29:28

recommitment to this

29:30

medicine path.

29:31

Because I mentioned, I started questioning

29:33

like, well, if I met her in this medicine work, and

29:36

this blew up in my face, then

29:38

this medicine works probably isn't for me.

29:40

But what was really, really powerful

29:43

was five days after the breakup,

29:46

I got the call, I got a call from one of

29:49

my friends who had

29:51

opened up a medicine center

29:53

called reunion, which we'll talk a little more later.

29:55

And as I mentioned, my vision

29:58

was always to step into a medicine. in

30:00

campus or a campus of alternative healing.

30:02

So I could not

30:04

help but notice that five days after

30:07

my breakup, I was invited to now

30:09

step into

30:09

the next layer of

30:12

my purpose and mission in this lifetime, which

30:14

was to help take everything I've learned in my misaligned

30:16

business and pour it into this campus

30:19

of alternative healing.

30:20

And so

30:23

what I can say overall is like

30:25

the heartbreak, as you mentioned,

30:27

is the ignition of a massive

30:29

metamorphosis and transformation.

30:32

And our

30:34

responsibility, at least my responsibility as how

30:37

I saw it,

30:38

is

30:39

what's the purpose of the heartbreak?

30:41

What is it meant to spur? And I'm so grateful

30:44

that it did in terms of

30:45

igniting my stepping into

30:47

my masculinity finally at 32. A

30:52

deeper, deeper embodiment

30:55

of loving myself, standing

30:58

up for myself, speaking up for myself, setting

31:01

boundaries for myself, and

31:05

recommitting in a deeper

31:07

level to this medicine path that

31:10

I was ready to potentially walk away from.

31:15

You know what's so interesting to me? I

31:20

can't help but notice how

31:22

you

31:23

converted something

31:27

that was so hurtful

31:29

to you into something

31:32

that

31:36

gave you something that you were looking for,

31:38

which was a reconnection with your

31:41

masculine energy.

31:43

And on top of that, brought

31:46

you

31:47

to the vision that you always wanted. And

31:49

the reason why I'm bringing this up,

31:51

when you're unconscious,

31:53

you feel like life is happening to

31:55

you. And when life

31:57

happens to you, essentially.

32:00

without you realizing it, you're

32:02

kind of a victim to it. Exactly.

32:05

Right? You're not the creator of it. Exactly.

32:09

And what the medicine does for you

32:11

is it allows you to see that everything

32:15

in life is happening for

32:18

you. Even the things

32:20

that are hurting you, even the things

32:22

that have caused you heartbreak, there's

32:25

a gift in it if you wish

32:27

to see that gift. And

32:30

so when you experience heartbreak, there

32:32

truly are two paths. Number

32:35

one, you could, if you

32:38

choose,

32:39

stay in the energy

32:42

of

32:43

being somewhat let down or being

32:45

a victim of that heartbreak. And that

32:47

will lead you in a certain direction in your path,

32:50

in your path of life. Or number two,

32:53

you could be conscious or aware that

32:55

in all heartbreak, there is a gift and

32:59

that gift might hurt you and that gift might

33:01

push you into parts of yourself that

33:03

you have never wanted to go. But if you

33:05

have the courage to go there, then

33:08

you will see that that gift is

33:10

that it led you to the truest

33:13

and highest version of who you

33:15

are and who you are meant to

33:17

be in this lifetime. And

33:19

if there is any motivation

33:21

at all for you to consider

33:24

one day maybe sitting with the medicine,

33:27

it is that level of consciousness. You

33:30

have no idea the gift

33:33

that you would be giving yourself when

33:36

you no longer see things as

33:38

poor me or as why

33:40

did they do this to me?

33:43

And quite frankly, the outcomes

33:45

and the unnecessary

33:48

levels of stress and inflammation

33:50

that we live from when we

33:53

live from that energy and

33:55

instead be able to come from a space,

33:57

a conscious space where you realize, oh, wow,

34:01

I called this into my life. Exactly.

34:04

The future version of me called this into

34:06

my life so that I could become

34:09

and transform into the truest

34:12

and highest purpose of myself. For

34:16

any other reason, and

34:18

if you hear anything on this episode,

34:21

that transformation, that

34:24

what I just gave you, it is

34:27

absolutely life-changing,

34:29

not just for you, but

34:32

for anything that you create and give

34:34

birth to, for the partner that

34:36

you choose to attract because now you're attracting

34:38

from a different energy and from

34:41

your six or seven closest relatives

34:43

around you because your energy now

34:45

changes. You're no

34:46

longer living in the vibration of fear

34:49

and victimization. You're living in the vibration

34:51

of co-creatorship and love. Absolutely,

34:54

and I just want to speak on what you mentioned of like,

34:58

I called that in,

35:00

even though I didn't know consciously I called that in,

35:02

my higher self called that in. And

35:06

boy, that was a rough training and initiation.

35:08

I call it initiation to go through, but

35:11

I do see it as that because who

35:13

I am today, wow,

35:14

I feel so much, I feel so much

35:16

stronger. I feel so much in my masculine

35:19

center. Bro, you're physically strong. And that too.

35:21

Yeah. That transmuted your body. Exactly.

35:24

And

35:25

the energy now that I create

35:27

with

35:28

is so much more

35:30

like disciplined, focused. I

35:33

know what I'm here to do.

35:35

And it's

35:36

just me and that and goal now

35:38

to execute on. And so

35:40

I'm grateful

35:42

for the dark night of the soul. I'm grateful for the higher

35:44

self calling

35:45

in that initiation because

35:48

who I am now leveled up. Oh,

35:50

I'm so proud of not only proud of, but

35:53

I love,

35:54

I love myself

35:56

of who I am today because

35:59

of that initiation.

35:59

and pain and sorrow

36:02

and grief that I went through. Yeah,

36:05

man. And don't you see,

36:07

you know, and I, I allude to this,

36:10

you know, in my quotes and my posts so

36:13

forth and in my teachings. But when you,

36:15

when you get down to it, don't you

36:17

see how

36:19

when you step into that higher version

36:21

of yourself, literally people, literally,

36:24

please, please hear me when I say

36:26

this. The

36:29

people that are not meant to be

36:31

in your life and then that are not

36:34

calibrating at that same energetic

36:36

frequency, they just

36:37

drop off. They

36:39

drop off. And

36:42

then the right people and

36:44

relationships start to start

36:47

to connect and even

36:49

opportunities in business and

36:51

life and your career and your purpose,

36:54

it all just starts to align in

36:56

a magical way.

37:00

And this is where I say like

37:02

you truly your soul attracts

37:05

to it everything that you've ever wanted and

37:07

needed to be whole, happy and complete. But

37:09

you got to unravel some of the parts of you

37:12

that are still stuck in fear.

37:14

Well said. And I'll say I want to add to

37:16

this as well that

37:17

one concept, one perspective

37:20

really helped me through it all.

37:23

And it's been

37:24

learned a lot through my ceremony and

37:26

medicine work. It's that

37:29

to live life as a ceremony.

37:31

So what that means, especially in this heartbreak

37:33

journey initiation I went through is that for

37:36

those who haven't gone through it, what I can share is that in ceremony,

37:39

a lot of us enter into it with fear because

37:42

we love that aspect of control.

37:44

And if anything takes, veers us off from that, it

37:47

triggers that fight or flight. And so we're like,

37:49

Oh my God, what the heck's going to happen? But

37:52

over and over again out of my hundred plus

37:54

ceremonies and seeing many hundreds of people

37:56

go through their ceremonies, when they go through

37:58

that ceremony, they go through through that purge, they go through

38:00

that fear, and they ask for guidance

38:03

from something greater than their own minds.

38:05

And they come out the other side like, I get it,

38:08

I understand, wow, I

38:10

blocked myself and held myself down

38:12

this whole time. My self-emitting beliefs and

38:14

fears just totally held me down. It's

38:17

to have that courage to move through it and realize

38:19

that now you can apply that same

38:21

perspective

38:22

in everyday life. So when

38:25

I was going through my heartbreak, I was like,

38:27

I'm in a deep ceremony right now, but

38:29

I know from all my ceremony work,

38:32

there is the other side. I

38:34

just need to sit in that fire right

38:36

now, feel it all, process

38:39

through it,

38:40

ask for guidance, surrender,

38:42

trust that this is trying to

38:44

open up something greater, and the only

38:47

way it won't is if I fall into that victimization

38:49

mode and poor me and then

38:52

go down that rabbit hole, right?

38:54

And so my point is like,

38:56

what helped me through that repurposing

38:58

of heartbreak was the

39:00

reminder that

39:01

every day is a ceremony,

39:03

every moment is a ceremony,

39:05

every challenge is part of a ceremony, and

39:08

what we know and what we've experienced in our

39:10

own ceremony work is that there

39:12

is the other side. We just need to have the courage

39:15

to sit in that fire and feel it all

39:17

and move through it,

39:19

because once you do, that beauty

39:22

will emerge. The answers of the aha,

39:24

thy get it now, will emerge. And

39:27

so

39:27

yeah, it's this going back to this creator mindset

39:30

of like sit with it and then

39:31

allow the guidance and the messages

39:34

to come through and then use that understanding

39:37

and create a new reality that

39:39

is more empowering, more in alignment with this

39:41

higher self.

39:43

And again, I want you guys to catch what he

39:45

just said is that, you

39:47

know, Jen said it best to me once. She says, you

39:50

know, babe, like I'm

39:52

starting to realize that life gets really easy

39:55

when you've been in ceremony, because

39:58

you

39:59

go through all. the hard shit in the ceremony.

40:02

So then you realize that life is like, it's like,

40:04

it's, it's a piece of cake because it can't

40:06

get any harder than you releasing

40:09

all of the stuff that you released in the ceremony,

40:12

you know? And then, you

40:14

know, just the awareness of that man, just

40:17

the awareness that you can go back

40:19

to like, you know,

40:21

maybe if you're running a business and employee

40:23

left you or it didn't work out or, you

40:25

know, someone stole some money from you or, um,

40:28

you know, you're going through a bad

40:30

breakup, whatever happens in life, whatever

40:32

happens in life, you can go back

40:34

to ceremony and realize, oh, wait a minute, wait

40:37

a minute,

40:38

because time is infinite, right? And

40:40

there really is no difference, right? You can go, wait

40:43

a minute. It's like, it's a mirror.

40:45

Both things are happening. And so I get to just

40:48

be with this and understand that on

40:50

the other side of this, there

40:52

is a gift and there's something beautiful or a

40:54

different version of me coming, right? But

40:57

if you don't ever go through this, you

41:00

see this as something completely different. Exactly.

41:03

And when you go through that, as you mentioned, then

41:05

one will start to realize that everything

41:08

is medicine. So everything

41:10

is medicine. In other words, everything can be a

41:12

lesson

41:13

and we choose to see it that way.

41:15

Then that enables the creator inside

41:17

of us to be like, got it.

41:19

I'm very humbled

41:21

by this medicine and this lesson that I've

41:23

received from XYZ Challenge.

41:26

I'm upgrading from that realization understanding

41:29

and now asking myself this very empowering question,

41:32

what am I going to do now? How am I going to step

41:34

forward with this new understanding and

41:36

this medicine integrated in me now? Yeah.

41:39

So if you've been listening to my podcast for a while,

41:41

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41:43

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41:46

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41:49

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41:51

that is deeply rooted in my own personal experience

41:53

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41:56

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41:58

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42:57

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42:59

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43:01

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43:04

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43:06

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43:09

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43:11

journey. To find out more go to reunionexperience.org

43:16

and get ready. I want to bring something

43:18

up that I know you have a lot of experience

43:20

with, you know, obviously way more

43:22

than me.

43:23

But one of my most

43:26

beautiful moments in ceremony

43:28

has been, you

43:30

know, as a man

43:32

holding space for a woman. I can

43:35

remember numerous times, you

43:37

know, holding, you

43:39

know, what once was a perfect stranger's

43:42

hair,

43:42

but is now my sister that I am like holding

43:45

space for her while she purges,

43:49

you

43:49

know, whatever it is that she needs to purge

43:51

into a bucket and watching her life

43:54

literally transform. It's so

43:56

beautiful. So freaking beautiful, man.

43:59

And then and

44:02

then and on top of that, I want to I

44:04

want to speak to this. I know we're we're we're

44:06

not women, but one of the most profound this

44:08

changes that I see

44:09

the medicine make,

44:11

for example, in women and in men is,

44:14

you know, whenever a human being has been

44:17

through some sort of sexual abuse, you

44:20

know, which

44:24

which is I what I have

44:27

never experienced, but

44:29

I've I've experienced through my brothers

44:31

and sisters who have experienced

44:32

that. And it's

44:34

so incredible to see them come out the other

44:36

side as the victor of it. And

44:39

almost to say like there's

44:41

something about it when a human being

44:44

can truly get past that.

44:48

I almost feel them like stronger

44:51

than most human beings or something, you know, because it's

44:53

like if I could get past

44:55

that, I can get past anything. And

44:58

I've seen people

44:59

and it always comes through forgiveness. Exactly.

45:01

I was going to say that it always comes to forgiveness. And one of

45:03

the one of the quotes or one of the clips that

45:06

I made was I said, like, you

45:08

know, the way to like heal is through forgiveness.

45:11

And then what will always happen is

45:13

that will trigger obviously, you

45:16

know, both men and women who have been

45:18

through sexual abuse,

45:20

rightfully so, because that is a deep,

45:25

dark form of abuse. And

45:27

yet there's always two sides

45:29

to the comments that I see. It's like for

45:31

the ones that have not overcome that

45:35

part of their journey, it's it's

45:37

anger. Exactly. It's anger. Like, how

45:39

could you say that when,

45:40

you know, when so and so happened

45:42

to me and and I will never

45:45

forget them. I will never let them go. And then for the people

45:47

who have been able to

45:50

surpass those feelings,

45:52

it's it's an understanding. It's like, you

45:55

know, I never thought I would agree with something like

45:57

this, but like now I get it and I

45:59

see. You know and and these are

46:01

the people that are then able to go out and help

46:04

other people exactly, right? Right. It's

46:06

the same thing what

46:06

you were repurposing It's a repurpose you

46:08

repurpose that trauma or that pain

46:11

and now you're able to help other people

46:14

and then it becomes a gift You

46:15

know so beautiful, right? Look, I haven't

46:17

gone through a sexual abuse and I'm grateful that

46:20

I haven't been and I have seen

46:22

and witnessed people go through that process in

46:24

ceremonies what I can say is that

46:27

what I've noticed is They're

46:29

what I and mushrooms and these medicines

46:31

do is open up a new

46:33

perspective of what's what? What

46:36

was happening and in this case one example

46:38

of many is that the abuser? Was

46:41

abused right this concept of hurt people

46:43

hurt people. They were abused when they were young and

46:46

They

46:46

may not have figured out or learned

46:49

mature Calm

46:51

ways to express what was inside

46:54

of them and so it took it out in the form of abuse

46:56

And so when the abuse II Realizes

46:59

that and sees this other perspective that this

47:01

plant medicine unlocks for them

47:04

then There's

47:06

a deeper understanding first.

47:08

There's an understanding like

47:10

okay, like I see

47:12

what happened here and

47:15

If they can see it in their hearts to forgive then

47:17

yes, that's that next step to forgive

47:20

and usually I see

47:22

That's when the purge comes out too, right because

47:24

it's like, okay. I'm letting this go

47:26

That anything that was even energetically

47:28

stuck inside of me like I said I is a purgative

47:31

medicine so it'll let it go and Like

47:33

you say I think one of the most powerful ways to integrate

47:36

that forgiveness is to repurpose

47:38

it into a gift That then

47:41

spreads that wisdom that truth

47:43

to others who are going through that same cycle

47:47

Right and that's sort of why I wanted to bring

47:50

up this concept of the heartbreak because

47:52

now I can Transmute it I

47:54

can alchemize it into a gift of

47:58

truth of wisdom for others to

47:59

to hear as I've gone through that cycle

48:02

myself. Versus staying stuck in it. Versus

48:04

staying stuck in it. Because we see so many beautiful

48:07

human beings who

48:09

have experienced heartbreak or let down

48:12

by somebody of the opposite sex. And

48:15

if they don't heal that, what tends to happen

48:17

is they start attracting from that pain. And

48:20

then they start to recreate

48:22

that experience over and over

48:24

and over again, because they're attracting

48:26

from that part of them that has been

48:29

hurt. And I know that may trigger people

48:31

when they hear that. I know. You know,

48:33

they,

48:34

I do agree that I said myself, I attracted

48:36

that heartbreak. Like subconsciously.

48:39

Like that higher self called that in so I can go

48:41

through that lesson. And my perspective

48:44

and my response to that is just like,

48:46

well, you have two perspectives. You can stay in this

48:48

dark rabbit hole and just pour me

48:50

and you know, do that. Or

48:52

you literally have that powerful choice to be like,

48:55

okay, I'm gonna take responsibility of this.

48:58

Where did I, you

48:59

know, not be in alignment with myself

49:01

and truth with myself that called this in. And

49:03

then now what is the, what is the medicine?

49:06

What is the learning out of this that now I can weave

49:08

and integrate into my life to step into that next

49:10

higher self? Yeah.

49:13

If you were to break down

49:17

what you have been able to see and

49:20

you've dealt with

49:22

some incredible CEOs all

49:24

across the world who come and utilize

49:26

plant medicines as a way

49:29

to, you know, level up their life.

49:30

If you were to break down

49:33

into words, what you're able to see

49:35

from people before and after the experience,

49:38

what, I mean, for someone with your experience, how

49:41

would you be able to like share that? Yeah.

49:44

There's a couple of things that come up. The first one

49:46

is perception of success.

49:50

Where it was perceived first

49:52

as a monopoly game to kind of build up as

49:54

much cash and assets and that's

49:57

monopoly, right? To...

49:59

redefining success to alignment

50:02

and fulfillment of

50:06

what they enjoy in life and

50:09

partaking and creating that now. So

50:11

that's number one. Perception of success gets completely

50:14

shifted. The second one

50:16

I would say is the

50:18

relationship with control and surrender.

50:20

So obviously as entrepreneurs

50:23

we're really good at

50:25

being on top of everything, making sure we're controlling

50:27

everything so that

50:28

it goes a certain way we expect it to be. Whereas

50:31

I and these medicines, the operating system that

50:34

it teaches is a state of surrender

50:37

and that may be defined

50:39

as sending an intention

50:42

and then letting go of the expectation of what is

50:44

going to emerge. That's what we're in control of. What

50:46

we're actually in control of is stating

50:48

what our desired intent is and

50:51

then

50:52

putting energy into that

50:53

but realizing that that path will navigate

50:55

in its own ways however life may want it to be.

50:58

So that's number two, this

51:01

different relationship with control

51:03

and stepping into stepping, keyword

51:06

stepping, into more of a state of embodying

51:08

surrender which means

51:11

understanding and listening more,

51:13

being in communion with something greater than

51:15

our own minds. Perhaps it's spirit, perhaps

51:17

it's the universe, perhaps it's nature. Tuning

51:20

into that greater

51:24

being out there that I now

51:26

practice myself. I like to say

51:28

that I weave as much

51:30

surrender into my day-to-day even perhaps business

51:33

decisions through prayer, through

51:35

meditating in nature, through asking

51:37

for guidance from something outside of my mind. Then

51:41

the third one I can say is a

51:45

deeper understanding of self-love

51:47

as well and it's the common

51:49

story around where entrepreneurs

51:51

including myself

51:53

use business as a crutch to

51:55

run away from the holes or

51:58

the gaps that we have. maybe

52:00

feeling in life and mine came from the divorce

52:03

in my family getting

52:05

raised in without much

52:07

guidance from from from

52:10

Masculine figures so like I was like

52:12

well the business is gonna be my crutch now because that

52:14

that'll solve all my problems and make Me look good

52:16

and all that stuff. So this understanding

52:19

of self-love meaning like

52:21

can we be in full? acceptance

52:23

of who we are and love that version

52:25

of ourselves and

52:26

Part of loving ourselves is also

52:29

envisioning

52:29

who this next level

52:31

next layer higher self looks like and embodies

52:34

and start to step into that Then that

52:36

concept of self-love starts to be birthed with

52:39

these CEOs who quite frankly

52:41

May never have experienced that

52:44

layer of love. It's very easy

52:46

to Externalize and send that love

52:48

out But now bring it in words

52:50

is a very foreign concept for many of these

52:53

CEOs who experience the medicine for

52:55

sure man for sure and

52:56

When

52:59

it comes to what

53:02

you're doing now with reunion First

53:07

why reunion because I

53:09

you know, I know you you're someone

53:11

that is

53:13

You know in high integrity

53:15

with everything with the medicine with with

53:18

your purpose what why reunion?

53:20

Yeah,

53:21

there's a like after my last business that

53:23

I sold I told myself anything

53:25

I'm going to be creating or participating

53:28

or joining forces with It's got

53:30

to be feeling from a place of peace

53:33

So I need to understand that that's my anchor and

53:35

my directive in how I make decisions.

53:37

So that's number one and the

53:39

second thing is I Want

53:41

to be intentional with everything so there's got to be alignment.

53:45

So why reunion is couple

53:47

things firstly I've

53:50

Been and what is reunion? Yeah,

53:52

so first of all, what is reunion? Reunion

53:55

is a not-for-profit plant medicine center located

53:57

in Costa Rica focusing

54:00

on psilocybin and ayahuasca medicines

54:02

in a very safe therapeutic

54:06

informed trauma informed setting

54:08

with trained facilitators and

54:12

in a beachfront kind of secluded

54:14

area to give that safety but nourished

54:16

in nature. Okay,

54:17

we opened up last

54:20

year and I

54:22

met the founder

54:23

in one of our ayahuasca

54:26

experiences previously

54:27

and why I chose Reunion was

54:30

that firstly,

54:32

the ethos as a not for profit isn't

54:35

a marketing scheme

54:36

more than it is an understanding that

54:39

this plant medicine work

54:42

isn't to be

54:43

merged with any for-profit

54:46

scheming manipulated sales tactics

54:49

and so I love that ethos because I truly

54:52

believe that this is a deep service

54:54

work and so aligning that with

54:56

that ethos felt really aligned. The

54:59

second one is also just

55:01

my own alignment with

55:03

what Reunion is where I realized

55:06

and I saw four and a half, five years ago a vision

55:09

of supporting a campus

55:11

and I thought it might be that I

55:13

went to go create it but when I

55:15

met the owner at Reunion,

55:18

the founder of Reunion in

55:19

a ceremony, I was like medicine

55:21

like is this, are you trying to tell me

55:23

something right now, right? Because it's of course,

55:26

maybe looking back, of course I would meet someone

55:28

in ceremony doing this work together and

55:32

realizing that his story, the owner

55:34

and founder had recently

55:36

gone through years of his own medicine

55:39

work and really came to an understanding

55:41

that he wanted to leave his legacy

55:43

by pouring

55:45

his financial abundance that

55:48

he received from his exit into

55:50

a long-standing campus

55:53

of alternative healing in this case with medicine.

55:55

You know what I love about it, what I love about it is

55:57

that it's a

55:58

beautiful location, it's It's on

56:00

the beach. There's modern comfort, as I say,

56:02

too. Yeah. And I

56:04

love that you can't rent it for a

56:07

party. Correct. You can't. There's

56:09

which means there's no alcohol in it. There's no

56:11

the energy of the place is pure.

56:14

It's sacred. Sacred. It's

56:16

only for medicine. Correct. I love that.

56:18

Yeah, it's only for medicine work. And

56:20

there are times where we forgo short

56:22

term profits, even though we could rent it out to a wedding

56:25

or a party. And we say no, because

56:27

our our responsibility

56:29

is to be stewards of this medicine, which

56:31

means being a very clear and

56:34

integral ambassador for this kind

56:36

of work. Yeah. And if I

56:38

if I can say something, I've been doing this work now

56:40

for four years. And, you

56:42

know, people

56:43

always ask me, where do I go? Where do

56:45

I go? Where I go? You

56:48

know, look, that that puts me in a tough position,

56:50

puts me in a tough position because I

56:53

was

56:54

lucky enough to have found people

56:57

like you to do this. This this

56:59

work with and yeah, I do know that unfortunately,

57:02

it does exist out there where, you

57:04

know, I have heard stories where things

57:06

don't go as well as they went for me, you

57:08

know. And so as

57:11

a result, I've never wanted, you know, people

57:13

have asked me, you know, can you know, the people

57:15

have asked me like, can can can,

57:17

you know, we use your name

57:19

to put people on our resources and then

57:22

could you? And I'm just like, no, no,

57:24

no, no, because there's

57:26

there's very few people on this planet

57:29

that I trust

57:30

with their intention,

57:33

with their energy and their motive

57:36

for why they do this work.

57:41

You got to be very careful, guys, you got to be very careful

57:43

because for a lot of people, the motive, even

57:46

if they're wonderful human beings, you know,

57:48

the motive is to somehow.

57:50

Be

57:54

or fulfill a part of them that

57:57

hasn't been healed or that has not been

57:59

fulfilled.

57:59

filled and so that

58:01

energy shows up in your ceremony

58:04

whereas like

58:05

I know why you do this and I know why reunion

58:08

does this it has and and and Being

58:10

that there's like no profit involved that love

58:12

as well and the prices are so affordable

58:15

Yeah, I want to say like what you mentioned.

58:17

I call it the guru spotlight energy

58:20

that right because at the end of day

58:22

What I always remind myself and everybody I

58:24

work with is like you're your own guru.

58:27

You're your own shaman. That's right You're your own medicine

58:30

what this work and myself and my my

58:32

role is to simply be I think

58:34

of it like a bowling Alley analogy on the

58:36

bumper rails so you don't go off the veer

58:38

end But all i'm here is to keep you

58:41

safe And keep guiding

58:43

you and keep redirecting your attention in

58:45

words because all that all the answers are there

58:47

We just forgot about them to remember

58:50

it. Finally. That's what you did for me

58:52

in my in my deepest darkest moments

58:55

That moment where you were like we're in

58:57

a suicide cult yeah, remember that yeah, yeah, yeah,

58:59

I know I know great stories um, yeah,

59:01

the other thing I want to say very very loudly

59:03

and clearly is that

59:05

I don't take

59:07

That recommendation lightly as you just mentioned

59:10

As I know you have a big following

59:12

and people who really trust you

59:14

I I I want to speak from my

59:16

heart that

59:17

I take that

59:19

recommendation at the utmost

59:21

highest regard And anybody

59:23

who comes through you happy to chat with

59:26

i'm happy to walk them through that process Answer

59:29

any questions and if those who feel called to step

59:31

into this work

59:32

Know that i'll be there with them side by side

59:34

Like that's my commitment that I want to make with you

59:37

and your beautiful followers. No, thank you And that's

59:39

why is I know you're literally there

59:42

so it's like exactly it's like

59:44

It's like me being there without as an extension.

59:47

That's it. That's that's what it feels like. So it feels

59:49

safe Um, so

59:51

how do people?

59:53

You know book a retreat. Yeah, how

59:55

does that work? Yeah, so we have the opportunity

59:58

to take intake calls to have

59:59

our discovery calls to answer questions.

1:00:03

Really make sure that you feel in a place where

1:00:05

you are ready to step into this work

1:00:07

and feel committed. You can look at all

1:00:09

of our information on our website

1:00:12

at reunionexperience.org.

1:00:15

Reunionexperience.org again. And

1:00:18

yeah, our team is there ready to answer

1:00:22

questions. And again, I'll drop my

1:00:25

IG and LinkedIn at the end of this episode

1:00:27

so you guys can reach out and ask me questions

1:00:29

as well because really I see my

1:00:31

responsibility as just an ambassador and steward

1:00:34

of this medicine. I'm a

1:00:36

human vessel that represents the

1:00:38

potency of what this medicine work is all about.

1:00:41

And I'm here for people who want

1:00:43

to step into that. I love that. And

1:00:45

what are your IG and yeah, so my

1:00:47

IG is Tim Seikoo. T-I-M-S-A-E-K-O-O.

1:00:51

And then you can reach out to me on LinkedIn as well. Same

1:00:54

thing, Tim Seikoo. Just add

1:00:56

me, message me, happy to

1:00:58

answer any questions, really

1:01:00

see where you're at and hold

1:01:02

you through the process if you decide to come. I love

1:01:04

that. And we are starting

1:01:07

a scholarship fund. Yes. So

1:01:09

a

1:01:09

certain percentage when

1:01:11

you go to the website and you,

1:01:14

what's the code? Is it my name? Danny? I think it's Danny

1:01:16

Reunion. Danny Reunion or just Danny?

1:01:19

Yeah, that's right, Danny.

1:01:21

And what we'll do is for every

1:01:24

booking that comes here, we'll donate a hundred dollars to

1:01:26

the Danny Morrill Scholarship Fund at

1:01:28

Reunion. And that gives you

1:01:31

and the community opportunity to welcome

1:01:34

others as people feel called

1:01:36

to this work to give them that scholarship

1:01:39

so that

1:01:39

they have accessibility. And that's really one of the core

1:01:41

pillars for Reunion as well. Really, the

1:01:44

key component is accessibility. For those who

1:01:46

are stuck in life, who feel

1:01:49

down or just like something's off and

1:01:52

feeling called to the medicines with psilocybin

1:01:54

or ayahuasca. Here is a

1:01:57

safe, secluded in nature

1:01:59

space. in the beautiful

1:02:02

nature abundant Costa Rica beachfront with

1:02:04

modern comfort to feel safe so you can

1:02:06

dive deep within yourself and Ultimately

1:02:09

understand a lot of what we've been talking about today

1:02:11

as well for sure and ultimately Ultimately

1:02:14

ultimately, I'm gonna say

1:02:18

Like

1:02:19

Awaken your absolute highest self,

1:02:22

you know, it's it's it's beautiful

1:02:24

beautiful work. So in in possibly

1:02:26

in this lifetime Yeah, right and that's

1:02:28

what it's beautiful Like the sooner we can

1:02:30

get to this awakening moments of our lives the

1:02:33

more we can create with so much power

1:02:35

and strength and integrity and and

1:02:38

love and compassion

1:02:39

and so I really feel like That's what the

1:02:41

role and duty of

1:02:43

these medicines are it's to help us

1:02:45

remember and awaken to our greatest

1:02:47

selves our greatest potentials and

1:02:49

then Create from

1:02:52

that from that freedom from yeah sovereignty.

1:02:54

That's right. That's right

1:02:58

Thank you for being here. Thank you.

1:03:00

Thank you again for everything, you know, yeah,

1:03:02

it's always a pleasure man and thank you for allowing me

1:03:04

to Step into this again with

1:03:06

you and really now come from the heart and

1:03:09

I feel at this moment Just like

1:03:11

so at peace and that's always a great indicator

1:03:13

of what we're creating here for sure, man

1:03:15

For sure, and if you felt

1:03:19

Called or if anything from

1:03:21

this episode resonated with you This

1:03:24

is not me with you. This is you with you,

1:03:27

you know, listen into your heart Listen into

1:03:29

you know, maybe go into prayer go into

1:03:31

meditation and just ask and

1:03:33

if you feel a calling I

1:03:36

have never in my life put my name behind something

1:03:40

like this, but I finally feel comfortable

1:03:42

enough doing that and

1:03:45

And go to reunion go to reunion experience

1:03:47

org Book

1:03:50

a retreat they have several different retreats

1:03:52

some with psilocybin some with ayahuasca and Get

1:03:55

ready get ready Many of you are already starting

1:03:57

to go and you're you're

1:03:59

you're messaging us and I'm already

1:04:02

starting to see the work that you're doing. So I'm really happy

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for that. And I can't wait to honestly

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see thousands and hundreds of thousands of

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you and the bad reunion.

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And please come find me. Please come talk to me. I

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would love to welcome you and

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assure you that you're in a beautiful

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safe space to dive deep within yourself.

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For sure. Absolutely.

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That's this week's episode of The Higher Self. We will see you next

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week.

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