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About This Episode

In this episode, Geri sits down with Tiffany Hurd, Microdosing Guide & Plant Medicine Facilitator. We explore microdosing with psilocybin and how to microdose to receive the most of your experience, the differences between microdosing and ceremonies, the benefits of working with a guide on your plant medicine journey, and the importance of integrating your psychedelic experience. Please note this episode was originally recorded on November 22, 2022.

Time Stamps

3:20 - Triggers: What they are and how they follow us.

6:17 - What is microdosing? What’s a plant ceremony?

8:11 - A little history on psychedelics and plant medicine

10:32 - Exploring different settings for psychedelic journeys

16:38 - What it’s like trying to describe your journey

19:05 - The importance of post-medicine integration

21:41 - Psylocibyn’s impact on the body and nervous system

28:44 - Accessing altered states of consciousness on your own

30:58 - What is an ego death?

35:07 - The Purge: Why do people vomit and poop during ceremony?

39:26 - Benefits of Microdosing with a Guide

About Tiffany Hurd

Tiffany is a Microdosing Guide and Plant Medicine Facilitator. She guides people through Microdosing journey's and Ceremonies to shift patterns, beliefs, anxiety / depression and overall step into your most authentic expression. She focuses on getting to the root of what mental blocks are holding you back by identifying habitual patterns and limiting beliefs that have been collected over time, and shifting them through nervous system modalities such as breathwork and somatic practices.

About Geri Paige

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.

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About This Episode

What would happen if we all started living radically using our inner compass? If we dropped every single “should” and liberated ourselves to choose in every moment? Geri shares her audacious real-life experiment to live life completely on her own terms. She also clears up many misconceptions people have about what it means to operate from a place of surrendered, connected flow. Tune in to learn more about what it means to operate from a new paradigm of inside-out living after a lifetime of outside-in.

Time Stamps

0:00 - My Real-Life Experiment

4:32 - Following Your Unique Individual Compass

6:22 - Leaning Into Life, Not Escaping It

9:12 - The Experiment Foundations: Resilience, Grounding, Self-Trust

12:06 - Liberation Tool: Now Caring What Other People Think

14:26 - Is It Possible to Succeed in Surrendered Flow?

About Geri Paige

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.

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About This Episode

Abundantly Curious is back and better than ever. Learn what’s new this season, including more solo episodes exploring Geri’s audacious experimentation with living life on her own terms, conversations with fascinating guest experts and thought leaders, and exploration of life in the push-pull of two wildly different worlds: the soulful and the rational. Geri also shares more about The Now Experiment and opens up about her personal journey that led her to where she is today.

Time Stamps

01:15 - What’s New in Season 2

02:21 - Living in two worlds: the soulful and the rational

06:11 - The Now Experiment

10:06 - Geri’s story and journey to freedom

31:17 - Deepening into freedom in 2023

About Geri Paige

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.

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This week, we sit down with Melynda Lopez, intuitive mentor, Akashic records guide, and healer. She shares her jaw-dropping stories of her sons’ gifts and how they awakened her to her own, spontaneous healings she’s performed, and contact with other dimensional beings. Tune in to learn about the 4 main “Clairs” or intuitive senses, the different ancestral wounds we carry with us, and what it’s like to be in the akashic records.

Time Stamps

02:18 - How Melynda Discovered Her Intuitive Gifts

10:39 - The 4 Main Clair Senses

18:12 - The Witch Archetype and the Witch Wound

21:21 - The Akashic Records and Ancestral Wounds

28:58 - Frequencies, Dimensions and Cosmic Beings

38:02 - Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet

41:36 - Spontaneous Healings

About Melynda Lopez

Melynda is an intuitive channel, healer, and Akashic Records guide. She is also a registered nurse with a masters degree in clinical nurse leadership. Melynda guides women to deepen their connection to their spiritual gifts, heal and understand their deep rooted patterns, and reconnect to their higher self to create limitless abundance.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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In this solo episode, Geri explores the impact of judgment, throwing stones, and widening gaps of separation on our individual and collective experience, and proposes the risky topic of embracing your opposition and using curiosity to forge a connection with anyone (even the people who oppose everything you believe). Who knows, maybe you’ll leave actually feeling grateful for that person/belief system/group you can’t stand.

Time Stamps

01:10 - Judgment As a Blocker to Connection, Creation, and Evolution

2:41 - Accepting Opposing Forces as Two Sides of the Same Coin

7:51 - Using Curiosity to Forge Connection With Anyone

9:55 - Connection vs. Separation for a Richer Human Experience

13:17 - How 2020 Changed My Views on Opposing Beliefs

16:00 - Maintaining Boundaries While Opening to Connection

22:40 - Approaching Conflict as an Elevation of the Collective

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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This week, we sit down with Towani Clarke, a yoga teacher and fashion designer who has taught more than 7,000 classes in 13 years. Tune in as we explore our human evolution and how yoga supports us in living with our foundational reptilian brain and it’s fight, flight, and freeze responses in modern times. 

Time Stamps

05:56 - How the Subconscious Mind Prompts Us

8:28 - Yogic Philosophy and the 8 Facets of Yoga

13:48 - Yoga's African Roots and How We Evolved With It

17:31 - The Reptilian Brain & The Fight, Flight, Freeze Response 

26:50 - Navigating Modern Day Stress Responses

38:02 - Deciding When to Lean Into Discomfort and When to Set Boundaries

About Towani Clarke

Towani Clarke was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia by a Zambian women’s rights activist mother and British satirical writer father. Her mother discovered yoga to handle the tension from both the black and the white community's resistance to their inter-racial marriage. The yoga seed was planted with Towani in the womb, and today she has taught over 1,000 students and more than 7,000 classes. She leads her online yoga studio to teach clients across the globe the healing power of yoga - healing through being more one with ourselves, other people, living beings and the planet.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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In this week’s episode, we sit down with Amy Miller, Healer/Owner of Healing Haus to explore how we can better connect with our intuition, her work with reiki and embodiment, the journey overcoming anxiety, and much more. We also discuss the 7 chakras, their meaning, and how to work with and connect to them. Listen to the end for a special daily practice that will strengthen your self worth.

Time Stamps

05:34 - Living With & Healing from Anxiety

11:24 - Health Conditions as Catalysts for Transformation

15:05 - Intuition, Reiki, and The 5 Clairs

19:06 - Working with Your Chakras or Energy Centers

22:01 - What Does Each Chakra or Energy Center Represent?

31:29 - Our Experiences in Dr. Joe Dispenza Meditation Retreats

40:28 - Opening the Heart Chakra

43:49 - What is Embodiment and How Does It Help Us?

49:23 - The "One Thing Daily" Practice for Building Self-Worth

About Amy Miller

Amy is the Healer/Owner of Healing Haus, where she combines The Work and The Woo to empower clients to take their healing into their own hands. Modalities ranging from Reiki & Sound Healing to Subconscious Reprogramming & Coaching pair beautifully to support all aspects of a person’s journey, and are ones Amy uses in her own practice. Clients love her warm and joyful heart, her ability to hold deep space, and her intuitive reflections that support you beyond just the healing session.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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In this week’s episode we talk with Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. Chemist to talk about the miraculous science of the natural world all around us. We learn all about “caveman living” that can introduce better health and wellbeing in modern times, and discuss foraging, plant chemistry, and the powerful effects of ritual.

Time Stamps

01:26 - Merriwether’s Family History of Foraging for Survival in the Great Depression

08:13 - Exploring Food System Fragility in Cities

10:59 - How to Start Identifying Edible Plants

15:07 - The Miraculous, Fascinating Science of Plants

23:13 - The Paradox of Nature: Chaos and Uniformity

27:55 - The Power of Rituals and Opportunities for Healing

30:32 - Key Nutrients We're Missing In Modern Times

33:50 - Plants and Pharmaceuticals: Is One "Better"?

36:00 - Reintroduce These “Caveman” Activities for Better Health

44:01 - How We Evolved Enhanced Immune Systems in Nature

46:04 - Is Life Now "Better" Than Before?

51:43 - What Would It Take to Be Self-Sustaining Today?

About Mark “Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. Chemist

Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. is often described as a scientist raised by wolves. Having a M.S. in medicinal chemistry and a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry, he brings science into the world of wild edible and medicinal plants. On the science side he has sixteen patents and numerous articles in research journals from his career as a research chemist. But his true love is plants and the miracles they contain. Since 2008 his website www.foragingtexas.com has been one of the top wild edible/medicinal plant sites on the internet, and he has written the acclaimed plant book Idiot's Guide Foraging and Outdoor Adventures Guide Foraging. In 2020 he made the biggest leap of his life to become the medicine man for Medicine Man Plant Co. where he can finally bring forth the ancient plants that can still help with modern issues. 

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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Detailed information on identification and use of over 200 wild plants and mushrooms: www.foragingtexas.com

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In this week’s episode, we sit down with author, musician, and creator Wenzl McGowen to learn from his six years spent interviewing top scientists on consciousness, mystical experiences, out of body experiences, the after-life, and much more.

Time Stamps

07:12 - Living Outside of the Box and Pursuing All Your Passions

10:37 - Wenzl's 6 Years Interviewing Scientists About Consciousness

15:00 - Wenzl's First Mystical Experience

19:32 - Love, Coherent Consciousness, and Free Will

27:21 - Love Consciousness: Can it Transform Matter?

36:39 - What is Consciousness and What Is It Not?

39:49 - Exploring Reincarnation and The After-Life

49:37 - How Consciousness Exploration Changed Wenzl's Music

52:29 - Creating More Conscious Coherence

About Wenzl McGowen

Wenzl McGowen is a member and co-founder of the internationally touring band Moon Hooch and inventor of the Traffic Cone Saxophone. In 2013, Wenzl had a spiritual awakening during a meditation retreat and has since written two books about mystical experiences, meditation, and the science of personal growth. Both books draw from ancient teachings, direct experience, and modern science. Other avenues of his passion for personal growth are his meditation music and the board games he creates.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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In this week’s episode we explore the mind-body connection and using food as medicine with Aleksandra Chojnacka, functional nutrition guide and holistic health expert. Listen to learn about compelling research exploring the mind-body connection and how it alters the impact of our food, how functional nutrition and other modalities helped Aleks and others heal physical ailments, and how a holistic approach to our health and well-being can make a powerful impact.

Time Stamps

03:43 - Aleks and Geri's Experience at a Dr. Joe Dispenza Meditation Retreat

6:10 - How Your Mind Impacts Your Physical Response to What You Eat

14:02 - How the Mind Opens or Closes Us To Possibility

17:44 - Aleks' Health Journey, Challenges, and Healing

23:12 - The Gene Mutation 40% of People Have & How It Impacts Us

28:04 - The Mind-Body Connection

29:47 - Finding Your Purpose and How Aleks Got Into Functional Nutrition

36:39 - What is Functional Nutrition?

41:01 - Functional Foods and Healing Outcomes

43:29 - Following Your Intuition in Eating and Healing

About Aleksandra Chojnacka

Aleks is a functional nutrition guide, meaning she knows how to use food as medicine, and is the founder of Health Accomplice, a supportive place for anyone on a health journey needing guidance. She started learning about holistic health in her late 20s when battling some of her own hormonal issues and was eager to bring her learnings to light and share in her experience in case it helped someone else. 

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

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Doctors & Nutrition Education: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/doctors-nutrition-education/