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The hero’s journey is often thought of as a personal quest. However, when you look deeply, you’ll realize that the hero is just as valuable as the people that allowed for things to succeed. Husband and wife pair of the ShiftIt Institute, Charlie Hartwell and Maureen Pelton, show how it is not only an important way to walk the hero’s path but how you can actually walk it together in union. They do that through enlightening us about the intersection between psychedelics technology and meditation, sharing how they invest in consciousness ventures and inspiring people to connect more deeply to themselves so they can live happier and healthier lives. In this episode, dive in deeper into the entire mental space together with the blossoming of their relationship and learn about creating better mental wellness in the midst of the tremendous suffering in the world. 

Food is so much more than just about our appetite and desire to eat. When you look closely, you’ll find a spiritual connection to what we put inside our body. Richard Pauwels of Rich Nuts, LLC has found that realization and passion about food and what our connection to nature is through our food source. Having been born inside a prison, Richard sets out in life to move beyond labels and cages, inspiring him to create conscious shifts and transformations when it comes to perceiving things. For him, it is in that connection to nature through what we eat that he helps people cultivate that connection back and reimagine what it means to be rich. A fireman himself, Richard is also no stranger with the warrior spirit and he tells us how he used that to build a fire within him that turned his curiosity about food to interest and then to passion, which ultimately advocates for a better world.

There is so much from our past that has the power to heal us if only we remember and embrace them. Today’s guest, Dennis Notten, has quite the heroic journey that led him to commit learning and sharing ancient healing modalities with others who are on the same path of self-discovery. Having reinvented himself from being a professional musician to being an ayahuasca evangelist, Dennis shows how he is now bridging the cultures between the West and the Amazon tribe. He shares his own self-discovery that took him all over the world - from receiving the blessing from spiritual leaders to finding the beauty of micro-dosing. In a world that is becoming less and less connected, Dennis brings us back to the connection we’ve lost that empowers our general well-being into abundance and joy.

Rave Mehta a serial entrepreneur, investor, best selling author, concert pianist, and philanthropist. He truly is a modern day renaissance man.

We talked about:

• How he used muscle test to heal himself of Lyme disease and black mold infection
• How he uses inquiry as a tool to hack, neutralize, and release fears: skydiving, shark diving, etc
• The 3 pillars of fear: time, attachment, expectation
• How to increase your gravitational force: breath meditation (3-3-3 or 5-5-5), follow curiosity,
• The 3 levels of truth: personal truth, collective truth, universal truth,
• The path to truth: follow curiosity to compassion to trust to awareness to universal truth
• “what am I misperceiving?” As a tool to examine reality
• Pursue more freedom, pursue more flow. The more freedom you access the less fear you have. The more trust you have the less fear you have
• The optimal scope of challenge is 4% more than your current capacity
• Look at the economic foundation of industries for leverage pointsHow intermittent diet gave him more energy than ever
• and many more topics

Robert is a cloud technology leader, motivator, speaker, and innovator. Robert is a contributing writer for CIO magazine, is the Editor in Chief for The Doppler (the leader in cloud thought leadership) and the host of the popular Motive For Life Podcast.

We talked about:

• How intermittent diet gave him more energy than ever
• How he deals with his darker sides (with a daily dose of chocolate)
• His journey to befriend with his lower self
• How he overcame his victim mindset and victim status to empowered states
• How his guys earned the right to enter his inner world
• The 4,5,7 count breathing technique to calm his fight/flight response
• The willingness to ask for help is the first step
• His encounter with amazon’s ‘bar-raisers’
• How he got an offer with a seasoned entrepreneur with multiple billion dollar exits
• How he faced his upper limits( and faced with his little self sabotaging behaviors)
• How self-worth correlates to self-confidence (and how to increase self-worthiness)
• 3 things he found to effectively let things go (including a pound-of-flesh visualization to have forgiveness and peace of mind)
• The path to talk about self-worth
• His 1st Burning Man experience (and the bike miracle he experienced)
• and many more topics

David Bergeaud is an award-winning composer, poly instrumentalist and record producer. He records and performs on a variety of exotic instruments (200+) from the middle east and India. His music is inspired by three decades of international travels, his European classical roots, and a lifelong love of jazz.

Over the course of his career, David has composed music for numerous award-winning film and television soundtracks, commercials, music for theater and stage performances. Tastefully weaving his classical background, world influences, love of jazz and fascination with technology-driven urban sounds, David uniquely creates a tapestry of intricate sounds, rhythms, and haunting melodies.

We talked about:

• Why questions are superior to answers
• The many experiments he did to uncouple the layers of “I”
• The overarching motivator of different decades of his life
• His path to fulfillment
• Why negative emotions are great teachers
• Patience eventually happens regardless of one’s efforts
• The path to mastery
• His daily discipline
• How he has mastered 200+ exotic instruments (and how you too can learn a new instrument)
• How free-running and the path to wisdom are related

And many more

Yuval Ron is an Oscar-winning film composer, internationally renowned world music artist, educator, peace activist, and record producer. 

We explored:

• How he uses organic methods (music and dance) to access non-ordinary states of consciousness to sharpen his mind
• The pivotal moments that led him to use music as his path to wisdom
• How he uses questions to be more intelligent
• How music makes us feel and think in cinema
• How to create a larger impact in the world through good intentions and humble expectations
• The rituals he uses to remain centered and grounded every day

And many more

We discussed:

+Buddhism as the spiritual path to love, kindness, and compassion

+Different modalities to unpack the transformation puzzles

+What’s the difference between impel and compel?

+How astrology helps him to connect with anyone?

+Fatalism vs. Free Will

+Use astro readings to raise your awareness and double check your blind spots

+His daily rituals to be grounded every day: vipassana meditation, Buddhist empowerments, yoga

+How his nutrition harmonize his chi/prana

+How tuning forks are best to disperse stagnant chi

+Conscious moving chi from denial to anger to sadness to depression to acceptance

+How to consciously amplify your attention outside yourself for relief

+Respect the feminine side to be a stronger man

+Yoga is a way to find where you are stuck in the body

+Recapping your day in an objective manner as a tool to make your sleep more fulfilling

+You’ll know you meet the right teacher when you can feel the resonance of their presence and words. Pay special attention to synchronicity when something shows up more than three times.

+Remember your aim: to keep yourself on track in spite of outside noise

+And many more

Quotable Quotes:

‘Our body is an expression of our energy/emotion we need; any excess or deficiency relative to emotions we need will show through the body.”

‘At the moment you were born a celestial chord is struck.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, you’ll call it fate”

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may; Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do whatever you can to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

“Free will plus universal will is the real aim”

“Being with the noise until the noise subsides”

“In the 4th Way, the end game is wakefulness of the mind, the heart, and the body”

Suren is a seasoned serial entrepreneur who is passionate about helping companies win in their markets by applying his experience driving strategy, operational excellence, and innovation at the right time and the right opportunity. He oversaw the development and exit of numerous B2B software platforms, has investments in tech funds, and real estate development.

Early in his career, Suren played a critical role in building several start-up businesses as well as advising well-established organizations. Suren’s entrepreneurial journey eventually led him to the position of CTO of the largest privately held laboratory in California. Successfully enabling the organization with cutting-edge technologies the business was able to scale x20 in testing volume within seven years. The lab was eventually acquired by LabCorp in 2006, prompting Suren to launch LigoLab.

LigoLab Information Systems is the leading provider of innovative end-to-end healthcare software to laboratories, servicing 100+ facilities nationwide. LigoLab's mission is to help laboratories reduce errors, scale their operations and revenues.

In March of 2020, Suren and his team launched TestDirectly, a direct-to-consumer portal that facilitates safe and easy sample collecting and processing. The team is actively launching the platform for reference laboratories, point-of-care testing practices, and facilities processing COVID-19 collection and testing to help increase capacity, accessibility, and eliminate bottlenecks and risks of exposure for patients and healthcare providers. Processing and delivering over 5 million COVID-19 reports to patients to date.