ep. #23 

Mallika has a conversation with Rui Liu ("Rae"), CEO and Founder of Grass People Tree, a tea company bringing the story of living tea and the wild, indigenous and ancient tea from her homeland in Southwest China. This deep conversation touches on holistic wellness, personal integrity and the joy of laughing and being together in a simple life.

Topics we touch on:

• Relationship between tea and holistic wellness
• How tea is picked "alive" and "whole", like a human body
• How Rui's sense of home changed when she started Grass People Tree
• Learning to translate and teach something you innately know
• How tea is connecting us to the ancestors with every sip, every leaf
• Bringing tea to London, a place that colonized China, and healing relationship to tea
• The ancestral wisdom that lives in all of us
• The need to balance the intellect with the primal feeling of being a human
• Simplify to come back to our inner wisdom and connection to everything
• Tea being a process to facilitate "getting rid of" the excessing doing in our lives
• The root of helping others is our self-work
• The impact of being fixed on one perception

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