Crazy Wisdom

Mimi Young is a shamanic practitioner and founder of Ceremonie, a shamanic and ritual-based brand focusing on in-person and online shamanic education, Remote Shamanic Readings, and an aura + skincare line that is made in ceremony. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism and botanical healing, hedge magick, and Chinese shamanic modalities, with a focus on integrating the subconscious with the conscious, past lives work, divination, dream work, ancestral healing, and divine feminine reawakening.

Mimi lives in the west coast of Canada with her partner and their two boys and is also a neurofeedback practitioner and owner of Open Minds Performance, a personal optimization business using neurofeedback to enhance peak performance, release blocks, expand consciousness, and build resilience within the brain.  

• Ceremonie:
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  • @shopceremonie
• Open Minds Performance:
• • https://www.openmindsperformance.com/
  • @openmindsperformance

We talked about how philosophy can help us do better business.

We covered the following questions:

What are the most important questions to ask yourself while starting a company?

What is the most important thing to know about hypergrowth?

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Find out more about Zeus Living:

https://zeusliving.com/

 

We recorded this episode right after Jeff started working at Lambda school doing growth. Jeff has a lot of insight into how remote works and how it doesn't. He also has a lot to add about how to think about investing in remote companies as well as companies in general. 

It was also very interesting to hear how Jeff broke into tech as well by making a move to Kansas City in response to a tweet! 

Find Jeff on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jmj

And Chapter One Ventures:

http://www.chapterone.vc/

My friend Ruben talks about how he helps people connect with the people around them.

I have learned a lot from Ruben about how to start a conversation with someone I don't know and it really has had profound effects on my life and I don't have that much social anxiety anymore (also because I've been doing this podcast)

If you want to find out more about how to break down your barriers towards expressing yourself authentically check out this episode.

Find out more about Ruben's work here:

https://www.socialanimal.us/hello

You will like this episode if you are interested in Advaita Vedanta Non Dual philosophy or if you have a meditation practice.

If you aren't interested in those things then this one might not have to much value for you but if you have even a hint of interest in these things then you will want to watch this.

If anything doesn't makes sense please feel free to ask and I can explain or show more. 

I take pride in my ability to spot talented and articulate people before the mainstream and I can promise you that Priya is one of the most articulate people I have found when it comes to this.

Here are a few questions which we discussed:

What is the difference between writing for your business and writing for yourself?

What is the relationship between imagination and writing? How do they intersect?

What is the difference between desire and craving?

Is writing thinking?

How does the idea of human exceptionalism limit our understanding of intelligence?

How can confusion be an answer?

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https://www.holloway.com/

If you remember the interview I did with Ian Livingstone last thursday about starting companies outside of Silicon Valley, this is actually the episode that got me on to the trail of Ian and his company Dropout Labs.

Boris basically helps me map out the entire global ecosystem for startups and where its headed particularly from the investment angle. 

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We talked about the following questions:

What is unique about Africa when it comes to merging of technology, culture and capital?

How can individual Africans find role models to model after colonization destroyed the local culture and imposed a different language?

How does Nigeria show that the brand of being scammers is only representative of a small part of the population?

Also we mapped the startup ecosystem in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and a few other places. Africa has a lot of things going on in a lot of countries so might take a few more episodes to get all of it on here. 

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You will like this episode if you are into machine learning, remote work, the rise of entrepreneurship around the world, secure computation, video games and their role in startup creation.

Another good question we came up with was:

 

Can the journey from 0 to 1 be done remotely?

We talk about the rise of startups outside of silicon valley. Also about the interactions between large companies and startups and how their relationships have evolved over the past 10 years. 

You will like this one if you want a snapshot into high technology, the replication crisis in science and some of the reasons behind it, or if you are really interested in global business.

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https://twitter.com/tkolind

If you are a startup looking for opportunities check out YouNoodle:

https://younoodle.com/