The Eversio Experience Podcast

We have never had a guest like this on the podcast before. We told her nothing was off the table, and she took us at our word. Fair warning: you're about to get Adele'd.

Adele Tevlin is a cognitive behavioral therapist, mindset coach, and the founder of the CEO Blueprint. She studied neuroscience at McGill and has been teaching this work for 25 years. We first heard her name at the Pink Skirt Project, which Eversio Wellness sponsored back in July, where people were still talking about her talk months later. In this conversation, Adele opens up about the five-year family court battle and the 2023 crash that brought her to her knees, and why she now says the wobble lasts 60 seconds instead of 60 days. We talk about the grief of outgrowing people, why "this is happening for you" can land like a punch, and why so many moms keep looking at their kids so they don't have to look at themselves.

Content note: This episode includes open discussion of PTSD, depression, and a period when Adele had thoughts of taking her life. If you are struggling, please contact {INSERT CRISIS LINE} or a trusted professional. This episode also contains explicit language.

What You'll Learn:

• Why losing people as you grow might not be about them at all (and the fear Adele says is really underneath it)

• The difference between wanting everyone to come with you and being afraid of being left alone

• Why happiness every day is not the goal, and what Adele says matters more

• What "the wobble is 60 seconds, not 60 days" means in real life

• Why saying "this is happening for you" to someone in crisis can backfire (and what they need first)

• The mentor advice that stopped Adele from giving unsolicited advice for good

• Why knowing something is not the same as being it

• Adele's take on the difference between being responsible FOR your kids and responsible TO your partner

• Why "put your kids aside, what about you?" might be the most loving thing a mom can hear

• A first glimpse at Adele's two guided psilocybin ceremonies (and why we already booked part two)

Your Next Steps:

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Bees on the roof. Chickens in the front yard. A lemonade stand that funds Bitcoin savings. This week we're talking about sovereignty, and our guest is living it on a city lot in Kitsilano.

This one is different from what you usually hear on the Eversio Experience, and that's exactly why we wanted it. We're joined by Jarrett Vaughan, an adjunct professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business. He teaches marketing through the lens of sound money, incentives, and real-world economics. Jarrett spent a decade in luxury hospitality, including the Four Seasons, and has been studying and using Bitcoin since 2017. Today he and his wife Ashley raise three kids, keep chickens and honeybees, grow food year-round, and heat their home with salvaged urban firewood. All of it happens in the middle of Vancouver.

We talk about the real difference between autonomy and sovereignty, and how his family teaches kids about money, giving, and adventure. Jarrett also explains why he believes the systems most of us depend on are more fragile than we think.

What You'll Learn:

The moment a decade of five-star hotels made Jarrett realize he wanted out

Why autonomy is choosing from a set menu, and sovereignty is writing your own

How four hens, a rooftop beehive, and potted raspberries add up to real food on a city lot (bees take him about four hours a year)

The three-part money lesson behind his kids' lemonade stand: spend, invest, give

Why his family lives by "safety third," and what comes first and second

The one-word shift, "is" versus "has," that changed how his family talks about his daughter Sailor's disability

How they're approaching homeschooling with the door left open, and why they let their son choose

Jarrett's three small first steps toward a more sovereign life, starting this week

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Unshackled Living podcast (Jarrett's show): https://unshackled.living/

Ashley Vaughan on Instagram (@ashvau): https://www.instagram.com/ashvau/

Your Next Steps:

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You've done the personal development work. Read the books. Said the affirmations. Maybe attended the retreats. And still, there is that voice that kicks in when things slow down, when the supplier cancels, when the launch doesn't land, when you're driving through the part of the city that drops your frequency in seconds. That is not a sign the work isn't working. That is the zero-to-seven operating system, still running the show.

Anna Lozano spent six years building Love Powered Co., the affirmation card company she launched in 2016, before affirmations were on every Indigo shelf, before the mindfulness industry was a trillion-dollar market. She set three company goals before the company even existed. She hit all three. She sold in 2022 on a high. And then she spent three years quietly processing an identity loss nobody warned her was coming. This conversation is the one you don't find anywhere else.

Anna is the founder of the upcoming Maya Pickleball brand, host of The Prosperity Playground podcast, and curator of immersive female founder retreats in Mexico. We found each other through our dear friend Jenn Pike, who stood on stage at the Pink Skirt Project Summit this summer and called Anna an angel. You are about to find out exactly why that word fits.

This conversation goes everywhere. We get into why "I am" are the two most powerful words anyone has access to. We talk about what it costs to exit a brand you built from the ground up, and the grief nobody prepares you for on the other side. We get into Human Design and what it means that all three of us are 4/6 generators. We talk about the specific difference between growing and being stuck in a healing loop, and how to tell which one you're actually in right now. We cover Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bob Proctor, Louise Hay, and the six-year-old running your business decisions from inside your nervous system. Clear your afternoon.

What You'll Learn:

What "I am" followed by anything actually creates, and why those two words run more of your life than any strategy you've put in place

The specific lack paradigm Anna inherited as a Polish immigrant child, and why she says every single person carries a version of it regardless of how charmed their childhood looked

How Love Powered Co. was built from three specific company goals in 2016, achieved all three, and why Anna still wasn't prepared for what the exit cost her emotionally

The difference between a healing loop rooted in not-enoughness and genuine devotion to growth as a student of life (Anna draws a sharp line between the two)

What the "six-year-old you" question reveals about every reaction you've had this week, from the email that made your stomach drop to the decision that felt urgent when it probably wasn't

What a 4/6 generator is in Human Design and what the three phases of the "six" line explain about the career of anyone who keeps starting over on purpose

Why Maya Pickleball was born in a Dr. Joe Dispenza abundance meditation over a year ago, still has no prototype, and why Anna is at peace with that

What identity loss after a business exit actually looks like from the inside, and what it means to feel worthy without a title to put in your bio

How to tell whether you're investing in yourself from abundance or from lack, and why the frequency of that decision changes the outcome completely

Your Next Steps:

Take the free mushroom wellness quiz to find your match: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

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Dr. Desiree has been sharing pieces of this story on her personal Instagram for years. We finally sat down and told the whole thing. What it felt like when her skin started reacting. Why it took years before mold even crossed her mind. And what it actually took to come out the other side.

This episode flips the usual format. Brandi takes the host chair and interviews Dr. Desiree about one of the most personal health challenges of her life: mold toxicity. Starting with the first strange symptoms in 2021 and ending with nasal sprays, binders, a Candida protocol, and a trip to Dallas that gave her the first real window of relief she'd felt in years, Dr. Desiree walks through everything she experienced, everything she tried, and what finally worked. She also gets honest about the hardest part: being a trained naturopathic doctor who still couldn't connect the dots when it was her own body sending the signals.

If you've had unexplained skin reactions, relentless fatigue, histamine responses to foods you used to tolerate, chronic congestion, or brain fog that just won't lift, this episode is worth sitting with.

What You'll Learn:

• Why mold toxicity mimics so many other conditions and why even practitioners consistently miss it

• The full constellation of symptoms Dr. Desiree experienced: skin rashes, eyebrow hair loss, histamine reactions, tongue numbness, chronic congestion, shortness of breath, brain fog, fatigue, and sudden constipation

• The antifungal tincture that triggered Dr. Desiree's first major flare — and why that flare was actually the beginning of the answer

• What a slow washing machine leak has to do with years of unresolved symptoms (and why you often can't see the mold causing it)

• How the fungi kingdom actually breaks down: mushrooms, yeasts, and molds are related but not the same — not even close

• The layered recovery protocol in sequence: detox pathway support first, antifungals and antimicrobials second, binders and sauna third

• What Herxheimer (die-off) reactions feel like — and how to know when you're doing too much, too fast

• The nasal spray protocol that helped Dr. Desiree stop mouth breathing at night and start rebuilding her nasal microbiome

• What CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) and MARCONS mean, and why they matter for long-term mold recovery

• Whether mold testing is worth the cost — and what Desiree actually did and didn't test herself

Your Next Steps:

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You've read the books. You've done the workshops. You've got the strategy. So why does everything still feel like too much?

Tess Rouse has a different answer than what you've been sold: you don't need more strategy. You need more capacity.

In this episode, we sit down with Tess Rouse, breathwork facilitator and somatic practitioner, who spent 18 years managing rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease while building a 16-year executive leadership career on sheer drive. She's worked with individuals and organizations on one disruptive idea: burnout isn't fixed by doing more, it's fixed by building the body's ability to hold more. If you've ever wondered why you can have all the tools and still feel like you're running on empty, this episode is the conversation you need.

What You'll Learn

• What "capacity" actually means and how low capacity shows up in your relationships, your rest, and your reactions

• The honest difference between someone who is genuinely regulated under pressure and someone who has gotten very good at masking dysregulation

• Why the high-achieving, overperforming coping mechanism is one of the hardest to recognize because everyone is applauding you for it

• The two specific steps to actually build nervous system capacity (and why everyone wants to skip the first one)

• What Hebbian law has to do with the automatic patterns running your daily life right now

• Why the nervous system doesn't update just because your circumstances do, and what it takes to actually rewire old patterns

• Why the body cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real one, and how breathwork uses this to help repattern the nervous system

• What Tess is actually watching for in a session when she sees someone's nervous system shift in real time

• Why avoiding emotion doesn't dissolve it, it embeds it, and what that embedding looks like in the body over years

Your Next Steps:

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Summer is over, and your body already knew it before your calendar did. If you've spent every September trying to white-knuckle yourself back into discipline and ended up feeling worse than when you started, we made this one for you. It's not another checklist. It's something better.

In this episode, Brandi and Dr. Des introduce the Return to Rhythm Mushroom Moment Reset Box: a collaboration with functional diagnostic nutritionist and cyclical living expert Jenn Pike. This box, and this whole episode, are built around one idea — the problem isn't your willpower. It's that most of us have been trying to run on a 24-hour clock while our hormones are running on a 28-day one.

We walk through why September feels so hard every year, what cyclical living actually looks like broken down by the four phases of your cycle, and exactly what's in the box, what each piece does, and why the sequence matters. Jenn is not on this episode, but she's all over the box: her free masterclass comes inside it via QR code, and her cycle-matched fitness membership Synced is included as 30 days free. This episode is for anyone standing in September thinking they don't even know where step one is.

What You'll Learn:

• Why your body feels September coming before your brain has even caught up — and what that signal actually means

• The real difference between a routine (which can still burn you out) and a rhythm (which works with your body's actual pattern)

• Who Jenn Pike is, what she built, and why her cyclical living framework applies even if you're postmenopausal or not currently cycling

• What the four phases of the menstrual cycle mean for your energy, strength, and stress tolerance — and why ignoring this makes consistency feel impossible

• Why you cannot build a sustainable rhythm on top of a nervous system that is already maxed out

• What the five-mushroom blend in the box contains and what role it plays in your morning

• Why Reishi is included separately in capsule form and what it has to do with sleep

• What Synced is and why the 30-day trial means no two people using this box will be doing the same thing

• What Jenn's masterclass actually teaches inside the box - and why it's the operating manual for everything

• What "nourish, sync, prime" looks like as a daily arc from morning to night

  
  

Your Next Steps:

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We have both stayed somewhere that was quietly hurting us. For Brandi, it was a classroom and a pharmaceutical protocol that had stopped feeling like healing. For Desiree, it was an apartment with mold and a body that would not stop signaling that something was wrong. We stayed because leaving felt like the bigger risk. This episode is about what it actually took to move.

Abundance is not a vision board word. It is not about your bank account. It is a nervous system state a felt sense that there is enough and your body either lives in it or it does not. In this episode, Brandi and Dr. Desiree get into the physiology of what scarcity does inside your body, walk through their own stories of staying stuck longer than they should have, and share what it really looks like to shift out of survival mode and into something that actually feels like a life. This one gets personal. We cover the science, the stories, the receiving problem most high-achievers have, and where Reishi and Lion's Mane fit into all of it.

📃What You'll Learn

• The body-level difference between scarcity and abundance and why it is not just a mindset issue

• Why your nervous system cannot tell the difference between "there is a bear in front of me" and "I might not make rent"

• The fourth stress response most people forget (and why so many women spend most of their lives there)

• Brandi's full origin story: two decades of teaching, an autoimmune diagnosis, a medication stack with mounting side effects, and the moment staying finally felt scarier than changing

• How Dr. Desiree "called in the one" while managing mold illness, living on arugula, and showing up to work every day without complaint

• Why receiving is so much harder than giving for most high-achievers, and what a real practice for it looks like

• The difference between a season of quiet building and a season of failure (they are not the same thing)

• How to tell in your body whether your effort is coming from devotion or from fear

• How Reishi supports the body's stress response and sleep, and why Lion's Mane was Brandi's first experience with cognitive clarity

• A simple sentence-completion exercise that surfaces the story keeping you stuck right now

📃 Your Next Steps

• Take our wellness quiz to find out where your body needs support right now: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

• Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products

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Three minutes. That's how long it took Brandi to go from completely dysregulated to completely herself this morning. Three minutes of intentional breathwork, and the tears came, and the only words that followed were: "That's not who I am. What was I thinking?" We walked into this recording session with Dr. Laura Foster shaken, and we're walking out of it with something we had to share with you immediately.

Dr. Laura Foster is a chiropractor with over 25 years of experience working with the nervous system. She is also a certified breathwork facilitator, retreat leader, and founder of the Breathe Into Being membership. She discovered breathwork during the pandemic, trained as a facilitator in Costa Rica, and now runs women's retreats in Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, and Portugal. She has spent the better part of a decade watching people come home to themselves through the breath, and she joined us to explain why this particular tool is the one she keeps coming back to: it's free, it's always available, and it lives inside of you.

This episode covers the science of what breathwork does to the nervous system, why healing doesn't require reliving what you're carrying, and how Brandi proved the whole thing works through a screen in under three minutes before we hit record.

What You'll Learn:

• Why your body's natural default is healing, and what actually gets in the way of that

• How breathwork produces altered states of consciousness similar to what Stanislav Grof researched when he pioneered holotropic breathwork after psychedelics were banned from clinical use

• What the body does with stored experience that the mind can't process, and why the breath bypasses the need to think your way through it

• Why talk therapy can sometimes keep us wired to the same nervous system loops, and what breathwork does instead

• How Dr. Laura went from a reluctant first-timer (her words: "my soul wanted to take a decade nap") to certified facilitator to retreat leader

• Why Brandi was fully skeptical of online breathwork and had a profound release anyway

• What the cumulative shift looks like over time vs. the single big release most people expect

• The story behind Dr. Laura's Heart Spark retreats and why she believes women heal more completely in circle with other women

• How to find community and continued practice through the Breathe Into Being membership

Your Next Steps:

• Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/

• Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products

• Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

Three minutes. That's how long it took Brandi to go from completely dysregulated to completely herself this morning. Three minutes of intentional breathwork, and the tears came, and the only words that followed were: "That's not who I am. What was I thinking?" We walked into this recording session with Dr. Laura Foster shaken, and we're walking out of it with something we had to share with you immediately.

Dr. Laura Foster is a chiropractor with over 25 years of experience working with the nervous system. She is also a certified breathwork facilitator, retreat leader, and founder of the Breathe Into Being membership. She discovered breathwork during the pandemic, trained as a facilitator in Costa Rica, and now runs women's retreats in Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, and Portugal. She has spent the better part of a decade watching people come home to themselves through the breath, and she joined us to explain why this particular tool is the one she keeps coming back to: it's free, it's always available, and it lives inside of you.

This episode covers the science of what breathwork does to the nervous system, why healing doesn't require reliving what you're carrying, and how Brandi proved the whole thing works through a screen in under three minutes before we hit record.

What You'll Learn:

• Why your body's natural default is healing, and what actually gets in the way of that

• How breathwork produces altered states of consciousness similar to what Stanislav Grof researched when he pioneered holotropic breathwork after psychedelics were banned from clinical use

• What the body does with stored experience that the mind can't process, and why the breath bypasses the need to think your way through it

• Why talk therapy can sometimes keep us wired to the same nervous system loops, and what breathwork does instead

• How Dr. Laura went from a reluctant first-timer (her words: "my soul wanted to take a decade nap") to certified facilitator to retreat leader

• Why Brandi was fully skeptical of online breathwork and had a profound release anyway

• What the cumulative shift looks like over time vs. the single big release most people expect

• The story behind Dr. Laura's Heart Spark retreats and why she believes women heal more completely in circle with other women

• How to find community and continued practice through the Breathe Into Being membership

Your Next Steps:

• Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/

• Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products

• Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

She had a packed chiropractic practice, 150 to 200 patient visits a week, four kids, a husband who was a pilot, and was training for Iron Man races on the weekends. From the outside, the life was finished. Complete. And then something went quiet on the inside.

Dr. Laura Foster spent 25 years as a chiropractor before the gap between who she was and who she was being in her life became impossible to ignore. She'd been setting goals, hitting them, and moving straight to the next one without pausing for even 10 seconds. She'd been outrunning her life in every literal and figurative sense of the word. And when she finally stopped, what she found was not what she expected.

In this episode, Laura walks us through the breakdown that became her breakthrough: the year she sat in the discomfort, asked herself the questions she'd never thought to ask, and started making 2% shifts that changed the entire trajectory of her life. She now leads breathwork, homeopathy, and retreats for women going through their own version of that same reckoning. If you've ever hit a goal and felt nothing, or built a life that looks right but doesn't feel right, this conversation is for you.

What You'll Learn:

• Why achieving your biggest goals can make you feel worse, and what that feeling is actually pointing to

• The difference between achievement and fulfillment, and why most of us have been chasing the wrong one

• What Dr. Laura means by "the gap" between who you are and who you're being, and why closing it doesn't mean burning everything down

• The 2% shift: the golf ball foot analogy that reframes what big life change actually requires

• Why Laura stopped setting goals for a year, and what she discovered when she did

• How to identify your top values and actually live them, not just list them

• The homeopathy story that started with two small pellets, a whale-sized pregnant woman, and a very unexpected afternoon

• What three years in Costa Rica taught her about freedom, health, and choosing your own experience

Your Next Steps:

• Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/

• Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products

• Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz