Beyond The Matrix

If you're looking to feel more whole and hopeful at the current time of despair, Frances Tse's story will certainly fill you up with warmth and help you reconnect with your humanity. For my birthday this year, I'm fundraising for Feed Bali and I'm honored to get to speak with the co-founder Frances to learn about the story behind their beautiful mission in feeding thousands of families hit hardest by the economic crisis in Bali. Frances is also Bali's first foreign priestess and she shares the fascinating, inexorable signs from the universe to take on this holy path. We discussed listening to your own voice against the social norms, the key to real happiness, and surrendering to the divine plan.

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Frances Tse is a Canadian entrepreneur reborn as a Balinese Priestess. Having worked in Hong Kong, San Fransico, Tokyo, and Toronto as a media sales executive, she decided to leave the material world when she met her now Balinese husband in Bali 21 years ago and took her first fateful step to become the first foreign temple priestess outside of Bali. Together with her husband, they own a travel & wedding company and a cooking school. When Covid hit they pivoted their business to create Feed Bali which has fed 4,555 families - 547,456 meals. This year, she is publishing her first book in the series: Trestna, Gate of Love, Memories of a Balinese Priestess.

What we discussed:

2:48 The genesis of Feed Bali

9:43 Giving hope beyond food and connecting to our humanity

15:37 What keeps Frances going and key to happiness

21:33 Anyone can be a hero

25:00 How Frances developed the depth of her compassion

29:09 Getting lost in the corporate world

31:40 Frances' path to be a holy person

43:55 Surrendering to the divine plan

48:04 The resilience of Balinese families and listening to the "voice"

57:09 Why society gets success all wrong

1:03:00 Key takeaways and summary

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• Frances' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francestseardika/?hl=en

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If you are stuck in a fixed narrative of who you are and what you can't do, Asha, as his name suggests, will inspire you with the hope that any change is possible. Asha was a drug addict and dealer with ADHD for 10 years before he made an extreme remodeling of his identity in a week. He changed his environment, started working for charity, stayed in Osho Centre in India for 3 months and now established a new life purpose, dedicating his life to mindfulness and coaching people on self-love. In this episode, we discuss breaking old identity, recognition vs validation and how self-love is the bedrock to any self-development work we do. Dive into the inner experience of someone with ADHD and substance abuse disorder, and develop the compassion and wisdom for the suffering underneath the surface.

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Asha is an intelligent businessman and adrenaline junkie who won a writing award at 18, started his own clothing brand, cycled 5,000 km across South America. His unfortunate journey to substance abuse led him to get kicked out of one of the best schools in Brussel and going into a dark path. After 10 years of abuse, as he likes to put it, he "flipped like a pancake". He left behind all that was possessing him, did self-hypnotherapy and healed his trauma. Today he is coaching people on mindfulness, self-love, and making big positive changes in life.

What we discuss:

3:48 The power of naming our identity

8:05: How Asha started abusing drugs

12:32 What ADHD feels like

14:37 Breaking 10 years of identity as a drug addict

22:00 Change is within reach

26:32 Validation vs recognition

31:12 Flipping like a pancake with one week of isolation

38:10 Positive addiction and new neural highways

45:44 Seek something bigger than yourself

51:19 The calling to Osho centre and becoming a coach

01:00:05 Self love as the bedrock to any transformations

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashaslifestyle/


• Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/AshaCoach


• Website: https://www.ashacoaching.net/

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Jessica Kahn was born into an abusive and extreme religious cult and escaped at the age of 25. She is now writing a memoir, sharing pearls of wisdom she gained through her traumatic life to serve those seeking to remember themselves.

Jessica sits with us to share a detailed recount of "hell" in the cult - disciplined adults through physical abuse, being stripped naked and humiliated at four years old, and seeing her own parents being brutally beaten to a pulp. Despite being heavily indoctrinated since birth, Jessica connected to her inner knowing and realized that what she experienced was not right nor human. Her real self-discovery began after her escape from the cult when she struggled to fit into the bigger matrix in the society and heal her inner child's wound.

Through her fascinating journey in freeing herself, walk away with beautiful lessons on healing deep trauma, developing compassion for those who hurt us, and reconnecting with our truth.

What we discuss:

2:52 Facing and sharing her truth through her book

6:40 Religious cult led by a founding father of Alcohol Anonymous

12:32 What an oppressed life was like in the cult

18:59 Physical abuse and getting stripped at four years old

24:16 Seeing the wound inside the person who wounds you

26:04 The final trigger to walk out of hell

27:48 How Jessica became aware of the brainwashing

35:48 The escape and becoming a hero

40:00 The exhilaration and terror of assimilating into society

48:04 Reconnecting with the wounded inner child

57:51 Trauma as a gift to embody wisdom and hold others

61:61 Start questioning to begin your journey home

63:48 Getting in touch with Jessica

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• Jessica Kahn | Instagram


• My Truth My Story (memoir) | Instagram, Facebook, Twitter


• Email: [email protected]

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Tarek Khaloussy is the Founder of a global social enterprise, Nomads Giving Back. With MBA from New York University and working for organizations like Goldman Sachs, Tarek decided one day to walk away from all of it to explore the world and search for meaning. He travelled to 100 countries, ran 25 marathons and supported many social causes before he finally launched Nomads Giving Back to mobilize nomads to give back and upskill the local communities.

If you feel stuck, lost or simply in need of inspiration to feel more alive, Tarek's story will certainly fill you with fire. What makes it so relatable is his journey is filled with many bumps and challenges. In all his big turning points, he still felt all the fear and doubts, but chose to take the leap of faith anyway. Be it running his first marathon, being a Yoga teacher, or giving away 12 years of respectable career in wall street, he just is not willing to let life pass him by. What scares him is also what makes him most alive.

Hear what Tarek learned from seeing so much of the world and how he developed the pure heart to constantly want to give back. Walk away with nuggets of wisdom on how to cultivate your mind garden, get outside our comfort zone, and fully live on purpose.

1:08 Tarek Khaloussy and Nomads Giving Back

5:10 Paving ways for nomads to pay it forward

11:45 Involving more Indonesians and overcoming white saviourism

14:37 What it means to be a global citizen and seeing all as equal

17:47 Starting a career when the world was crashing down

20:27 Losing meaning in a heavy rat race

24:41 Getting unstuck by throwing yourself to the extreme

29:32 Consciously walking away from money and respect

31:36 Rebirth through a cousin's death, hurricane Sandy and first marathon

34:42 The conversation with a stranger that changed Tarek's life

37:44 How our authenticity creates a ripple effect of change

38:51 How to intentionally cultivate your mind garden

42:51 Doing what you're afraid of and making life a playground

48:47 The journey of traveling 100 countries

51:37 Being lured back to the corporate world and realizing it's a big mistake

55:22 Why setting audacious goal makes success more attainable

59:15 Seeing the truth through first hand experiences

63:20 Why skills are important to build equity in the world

65:07 Gaining much more back from giving back to locals

68:08 Lose yourself, make big decisions despite of fear

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Connect with Tarek:

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https://www.instagram.com/tarek.world/

https://www.instagram.com/NomadsGivingBack/

https://www.instagram.com/NomadsSkillshare/

Website:

https://linktr.ee/nomadsgivingback

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Sukhavati is a shamanic channeler, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and a supernaturally gifted human whose mission is to help you see your own beauty, your path, and your mission on Earth. Above it all, what really made me feature her as my first Podcast guest is her epic 5-year quest around the world in search of truth.

Her adventure was filled with nothing but wild plots you see in movies - leaving her matrix as an architect to find for her spiritual guru in India, living with a naked community in Mexico, falling in love with a Shaman in Peru, isolating herself in a cave and co-existing with anarchists. In the end, she shared a deeply human story of how challenging it was to reintegrate back to society, reconciling her new identity with her parents and finding her place on this planet.

Her journey was full of challenges, losing, finding, and reinventing herself multiple times in the process. Her unique story is definitely one that will leave you inspired with courage to venture into the unknown and to not settle for anything less that doesn’t make you feel alive.

1:08 Who’s Sukhavati?

5:48 Speaking Light Language - the language of the soul

10:35 Realizing psychic power as a child

13:24 Fitting in and losing faith in God

15:23 Leaving the matrix in search of truth

17:24 Finding Guru and what it means

23:46 Living with naked community in Mexico

31:52 Getting robbed and reading tarot on the street

35:32 Calling to Peru and falling in love with a shaman

42:11 Reintegrating back to old lives and reconciling new identity with parents

49:38 Living alone in a cave and questioning identity

53:06 Pivotal point with the final 300 Euros

56:31 Connect to a source, let it guide you to your truth

64:38 Takeaways and where to find Sukhavati

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Connect with Sukhavati: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_sunlight/

Website: https://www.luzsolar333.com/

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In this first episode, I'm sharing my motivation behind starting this podcast, what the modern life matrix is, and my own personal journey in escaping it. Hear a vulnerable share of how I went from a conventional, materialistic, self-centered kid from Indonesia to dedicating my life to being in service, cultivating deep human connections, and living in full authenticity. 

01:18 What the modern life matrix is

04:12 My motivation for starting Beyond The Matrix

06:36 My personal journey in escaping the matrix

07:25 Self development and the lonely university time

08:04 Childhood trauma and toxic values

09:26 First deep transformation through Tony Robbins

12:30 Rebirthing my authentic self and bursting my heart at Burning Man

16:33 Discovering deep connection as what I've been missing in my life

18:55 The egocentric to eco-centric shift

20:20 How found my mission to deepen human connection and started Warmspace 

23:28 Taking the leap to start a new chapter in Bali

26:04 Wide opened eyes on the endless possibilities and human potential

28:28 Sneak peek of the remarkable stories we will cover in the podcast

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Have you ever wondered if this is all there is in life? What lies beyond what we were made to believe? In this podcast we're going to uncover real human stories of those have taken the courage to go off the beaten path and in full authenticity. Changemakers, entrepreneurs, artists, rebels, anarchists, clairvoyants. A girl who sold her business when she’s seven years old, someone who traveled the world in search of her guru and developed a supernatural ability, an innovator disrupting the future of civilization with blockchain. I’ve had the honor to meet a lot of these ordinary individuals who led extraordinary lives. I was so fascinated by their stories that I feel the whole world needs to hear them to really see what’s possible with our human potential and the life we can create for ourselves in full sovereignty.



We're going to challenge what you believe is possible, fuel your spirit with courage and heart with warmth to fully live your truth. So, buckle up and get ready for the ride beyond the matrix.