Weaving Your Reality

Robyn Youkilis and I have been connected on Instagram for years. Then, we met IRL to lead a morning event together, and I really understood her depth, vulnerability and wisdom. Robyn has built a successful online marketing business based in empowering women to eat (and live) intuitively, with two best-selling books on the same topics.

See the video excerpt from this recording featuring Robyn Youkilis' morning routine on my YouTube channel.

• What her day-to-day looks like as an online marketing and wellness entrepreneur, author and a holistic health coach
• Her morning rituals (adaptogenic matcha, meditation, power parfait and meal prep)
• How she created the online marketing empire she has now
• What kind of courses and training she went through before she started creating her own digital products
• How she balances being an entrepreneur, mom and wife
• How she decides which business opportunities to take on
• Finding a supportive community as a mom entrepreneur
• Her manifestation process when it comes to business
• The power of launching things before you think you're ready
• How she overcame fears and doubts and put herself out
• How she built her team
• On feeling aligned in her career
• What role intuition played in getting her first book deal
• What role social media plays in her business daily
• A different point of view on #sponsored posts
• How she practices self-care
• Intuitive eating tips

• Power Parfait Recipe
• Ziva Meditation
• Woke and Wired podcast episode with Ashley Wood
• The Rockstar Roadmap music video on YouTube
• Instagram accounts Robyn loves: @laylafsaad and @bexlife

Connect with Robyn Youkilis:

• robynyoukilis.com
• @robynyoukilis
• facebook.com/yourhealthiestyou

About Robyn Youkilis:

Robyn Youkilis is an AADP Certified Health Coach, author, speaker and leading expert in holistic digestive health. She is the Founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You. For nearly a decade, Robyn has helped clients shed both physical and emotional weight through her straightforward yet supportive coaching style. She is the author of the best selling books, Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within - The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, and has been featured by The View, The Today Show, The Cooking Channel, The Wall Street Journal, Health, Mind Body Green, Well + Good, The Chalkboard Mag and more.

Robyn currently lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter, Navy. She enjoys traveling, music festivals and eating dessert at fancy restaurants, one bite at a time.

To learn more about coaching with Robyn and to join the #YourHealthiestYou community visit www.RobynYoukilis.com

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Jasmine Takanikos is not your usual brand strategist. Realizing that branding is sometimes seen as negative and even UN-human, she set out on a mission to make it more personal and connected through BrandHuman, her workshop series at Soho House, and Candor Branding, her branding and design firm. I've personally worked with Jasmine to align my business goals with my brand strategy, and her intentional approach has had a big impact on my work.

Our conversation is all about brand positioning through feeling, intention and purpose, and building a brand with your eyes open.

• How Jasmine Takanikos got into brand strategy
• What brand strategy is
• The importance of your connection with yourSELF to build a powerful brand and business
• Why authenticity isn't enough
• How Jasmine's brand strategy methodology and BrandHuman (that's now taught at Soho House globally) came to be
• The power of saying no to clients and choosing the ones you're in full alignment with
• Why the entrepreneur leading a business is the energy source of the business, whether you're leading a team of 100 or it's just you
• The importance of focusing on both revenue streams and building a community
• Setting healthy boundaries in your business
• How Jasmine assesses a brand as a professional brand strategist
• The one thing you can do to take your brand to the next level

• How Are You Branding Yourself? The Founder Of BrandHuman On Why Authenticity Isn't Enough by Karin Eldor on Forbes

• Candor Branding
• BrandHuman
• @jasminetakanikos

For almost two decades, Jasmine Takanikos has worked with both established brands and small businesses to develop brand strategy, integrated marketing, strategic planning, business development, creative direction, and digital strategy projects.

She is the creator of the global workshop and lecture series, BrandHuman centering around the importance of building lasting relationships with one's core constituencies through the exploration of the self. Through interactive analysis of self positioning Takanikos aids in creating and cultivating online brand identities that synergistically align with the clients' offline & online objectives. This approach, which is integrated into many of her strategic campaigns, has become a sought-after tool and as a result, a global BrandHuman series has been created in partnership with Soho House. Takanikos presents monthly talks at the Los Angeles, Malibu and New York houses.

Takanikos is also Principal, Creative Strategist for Candor Branding, a branding and design firm, she also co-created and teaches along side Bliss Lau, the course "Centering Your Brand" at PARSONS The New School of Design.

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Crystals are everywhere. On your coffee table, in your bag, at your desk, and in your Instagram feed. Not there yet? This episode might change it. In it, I speak with the founder of Love & Light School of Crystal Therapy Ashley Leavy, one of the OG people to bring crystal education into the digital space.

• The reality behind starting and scaling a spiritual business, mistakes made and lessons learned
• How Ashley bootstrapped her first online course and grew it into a successful global online business
• How taking a crystal training led her to pivot her career and get into crystal healing and education
• How to know if you're meant to turn something you love on a personal level into a career
• The connection between Ashley's spiritual journey and the success of her business
• How spiritual awakening may be manifesting in your physical body
• Crystals as a tool for activating our consciousness
• How crystals can work to rebalance the energy in your system both on physical and emotional levels
• How to use crystals to create a self-care and practice
• How to meditate with a crystal
• What you can expect from a crystal healing session
• The role that social media played in growing Love & Light School of Crystal Therapy
• What crystals and psychedelics have in common in accelerating our consciousness
• How to run a successful spiritual business and lead from the heart

Resources:

• @crystalcriminals crystal grids on Instagram and crystalcriminals.com
• Woke and Wired episode 12: Medicinal mushrooms, consciousness and alchemy
• Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals - The Reference Book Describing the Metaphysical Properties of the Mineral Kingdom

Connect with Ashley:

• @loveandlightschool
• www.loveandlightschool.com
• Facebook.com/LoveAndLightSchool/
• Pinterest.com/lovelightschool
• Youtube.com/user/CrystalHealerAshleyL
• Ashley's New Age Shop: MimosaSpirit.com

About Ashley Leavy:

Ashley Leavy is the Founder & Educational Director of the Love & Light School of Crystal Therapy. Her mission is to share the power of crystal healing with people all over the world. She's here to teach you about using crystals to make positive changes for yourself, your friends & family, or your clients whether you're new to crystal healing or an experienced practitioner. She shares advanced techniques to help you grow your practice and is proud to offer a broad range of training programs & free resources to support you in creating a life and career that are fully aligned with your soul's purpose. For more information, please visit http://www.loveandlightschool.com

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Founder of OKREAL Amy Fraser is a dear friend and a powerhouse businesswoman committed to helping women find fulfillment through community and connection. The website OKREAL was love at first sight – it's a brilliant and relatable curation of wisdom like no other. Back when Amy was in New York, we used to meet up for breakfast and have the most enlightening brainstorming sessions. This time around, we're sharing our conversation with you.

• How Amy went from writing a website that no one but her mom read to creating a global content and events empire based on empowering women
• How OKREAL didn't make money for one year after launching and what Amy did to start monetizing it
• The role that social media played in the success of OKREAL
• The mindset that helped her build a successful business
• How Amy built extremely successful series of events for women sponsored by brands like Everlane and Lou & Grey
• What non-traditional marketing moves she used to grow OKREAL
• Fulfillment over success
• Where she found support when going through a divorce while pregnant and becoming a single mom

• Interview with Ksenia Avdulova on OKREAL
• A vintage interview with Amy on Breakfast Criminals

• okreal.co
• @heyokreal
• @ameohmy

OKREAL is a curation of wisdom shared by aspirational women. Through online content and offline activations, we guide women in determining what their version of fulfillment looks like and how to create it. OKREAL is based in New York City and was founded by Amy Fraser in 2014. Amy Fraser is a communicator whose mission is to uplift women through community and connection. She founded OKREAL to provide a resource for a modern community of women who are striving to create their own path, and want authentic advice to help them do so.

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Gina Murdock of Lead with Love is on a mission to shift culture from fear to love inside and out. Sounds big… and she truly is up to big things. Lead with Love is a global gathering and training for heart-centered leaders featuring yoga, meditation, time in nature, spiritual psychology and experiential workshops, music + movement and a renewed focus on social impact and business as a force for good.

Gina is a writer, yoga and meditation teacher, inspirational speaker, advisor to businesses making an impact and founder of Lead with Love non-profit and events. I went to Lead with Love summit in Aspen in 2017, and the experience blew me away. Not only the level of organization and the speakers (Marianne Williamson!), but also the community of people who're into yoga, consciousness, leadership and making an impact (all at the same time). I needed to know more about the woman behind it. So I ended up going on the Lead with Love retreat in Bali to explore my own leadership through the prism of wellness, spirituality and ritual.

• The personal spiritual quest that led Gina to start Lead With Love and the lessons she's learned from running a non-profit
• The daily practices that help her develop her own leadership
• What leading from the heart looks like
• How to live your dharma
• What self-worth has to do with leadership
• How she used to struggle with making living as a yoga teacher
• Why you don't always have to quit your day job to make an impact in the world
• Being an activist without anger or shame
• How dealing with fertility challenges helped her connect to peace and a sense of purpose
• How being of service and showing up can open all doors
• How to become a speaker at Lead with Love Summit
• Why technology and social media are energetically neutral
• Making empowered choices around how we use social media

• Lead with Love Summit in Aspen October 25-28 (use code KSENIA to get $100 off your pass)
• Shakti Leadership podcast episode with Nilima Bhat
• David Brooks - "The Moral Bucket List" article in The New York Times
• Byron Katie's The Work
• Somatic Experiencing
• Spiritual Psychology program at University of Santa Monica
• Soul Of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources

• @ileadwithlove
• @ginamurdockaspen

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Alyson went from being a national champion athlete and top rated hip-hop radio host to being a shaman and a powerful voice that brings ancient wisdom and mysticism into modern context. Her story of awakening, leaving a relationship that kept her small, and building a media empire based on service and truth is incredible.

She's now on a mission to support conscious beings share their message with the world with her new service, shamanic PR.

In this episode, my dear friend Alyson shares her personal and business story, and gives us powerful and actionable guidance on creating an aligned, conscious and successful brand.

• How Alyson came out of the closet as a shaman
• How she build a successful empire that merges ancient wisdom, mysticism and media
• Living life in the spotlight
• What is shamanic PR and brand development and how it came about
• What it took Alyson to step into the fullest expression of herself delivering the medicine she's meant to deliver in this lifetime
• How she changed her frequency to start enjoying life
• Going from the courage of outer achievements to inner achievements
• What it takes to pivot your brand within the same industry
• How to shed things that no longer serve you and step into the path of being of greatest service in the world
• How to read the signs the Universe is always sending you
• What living in truth versus living in denial means
• How to overcome energetic blocks that are stopping you and your brand from being seen and get more aligned media coverage
• How she relies on intuition versus strategy when it comes to social media
• Why it's important to do inner practices that evolve your soul

• Vlog from our trip to Nicaragua with Alyson
• "Truth is a pathless land." - J. Krishnamurti

• alysoncharles.com
• @iamalysoncharles

Internationally renowned Television Host, Speaker and Spiritual Teacher, Alyson Charles aka RockStar Shaman went from being a national champion athlete, #1-rated radio host and national daytime television talk show host to aligning with her calling as a mystic and shamanic practitioner after a traumatic moment provided her awakening.

Since then, her ability to share ancient sacred wisdom and divine energy and be a powerful catalyst for change has ignited a global phenomenon, with Oprah Magazine naming her a "Top Meditation," Forbes naming her "One of the Reasons Practical Magic is the New Frontier of Mindfulness," Huffington Post championing her as "A Top Limit-Breaking Female Founder" and Marie Claire Magazine selecting her as the cover story and her work being featured as "The Next Big Thing."

Alyson is also resident guru for "Best Health Site" Well and Good, where she provides a monthly energy forecast, she shares guidance and journeys on Amazon's award-winning technology, Alexa and Google Home and through her work as a keynote speaker, TV and radio host, she's brought meditation and sacred ritual to the mainstream in a powerfully creative way.

Alyson has been a leading pioneer in merging the worlds of consciousness and media, taking it to places it has never been before: she made history becoming the first person to ever perform on stage in the 25-year-history of the HBO Film Festival, where she guided a long-form meditation for over 10,000 people and regularly partners with and speaks at renowned global brands like The New York Times, National Geographic Channel, Tory Burch, Forbes, Art Basel, SAKS, ABC Radio, ELLE, SELF and others and now, through Alyson Charles Shamanic PR, she offers PR & branding services to clients making positive change for the world.

Alyson's entire life path, since birth, has been immersed in one facet of healthy, awakened living to the next – intensive studies and journalism with metaphysics, national champion athlete, division I college coach, advanced certified personal trainer, advanced studies and immersions in meditation, healing, journeying and mysticism with other global leaders, indigenous elders of Mapuche Pewenche Nation, Mapuche Lafkenche territory, and the Catarpe of the Likan Antay Nation of the Atacama Desert, Sufi, Celtic and Egyptian traditions, Maestro Manuel Rufino and the Golden Drum Center for Sacred Traditions, Power Path School of Shamanism, Peruvian sacred traditions taught by Tito La Rosa, initiated by African shamanic ancestral elders of Yoruba, Bantu, and Mandinka, the Tuscarora Natives, and Quetzalcoatl.

Alyson has shaken loose from self-imposed limitations, shares her mastery of the art of playing big in full authentic glory and her story of going from suffering to surrender to service. Her ongoing commitment to continued master studies, rites of passage and immersions in shamanism and mysticism, courageously exploring the ever-evolving highest potential and assisting countless people in reconnecting to their power has landed her as a leading global voice.

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I met Florencia Fridman at a weekly cacao ceremony at the Assemblage in New York. My life hasn't been the same since I've introduced cacao ceremony into my life – this ancient plant medicine has been affecting how I share my truth, both on personal and business levels.

Learn more about cacao ceremony: https://www.breakfastcriminals.com/ceremonial-cacao-preparation-ritual-physical-and-metaphysical-benefits/

• What is cacao ceremony
• How cacao works on a physical level
• Why cacao is the medicine of love and how it can impact your business
• The three important questions that the Maya ask to help you manifest your purpose
• Where to buy ceremonial cacao
• How to connect with the dream world
• The importance of morning rituals
• Connecting to your dreams and following through
• Bringing ancient wisdom to the modern culture
• How to translate divine guidance into actions and a successful business
• The power of consistency
• The biggest misconception about cacao
• How cacao can support you in managing depression
• Can you have too much cacao? (for those of you into ceremonial cacao, you get me!)
• Why it's best to not pair cacao with caffeine
• The best superfoods to pair with cacao
• The importance of honoring ancient traditions
• What role social media plays in bringing ancient traditions into the modern world

• Shop Cacao Laboratory ceremonial cacao
• Abraham-Hicks - law of attraction videos on YouTube
• Learn more about crystals in Crystals IRL online course
• Rasa herbal caffeine-free coffee alternative (I love pairing it with cacao)

• Cacaolaboratory.com
• @cacaolaboratory
• @veggieflow

Florencia is a natural-born healer and self-empowerment artist working with heart opening therapies involving holistic nutrition, Ceremonial Grade Cacao, yoga, sound journeys, and breath work as instruments for transformation; creating a safe vessel for self-exploration. She facilitates ceremonies in different cities within the US and Central/South America.

Her curiosity to learn more about her Mapuche roots and connection to the land brought her to the exploration of the sacred. Although her family is Mapuche, Florencia has found a strong calling to the Maya traditions and has felt a deep connection to the land of Guatemala, where she feels most at home.

She has worked with Maya elders from Guatemala, studied at Las Piramides Del Ka-- a metaphysics training that dives deep into the consciousness of dreams and meditation, has been working with rebirthing (a breathing modality) since the age of 8 with further training in her late teens, and received her yoga certification from Laughing Lotus in 2013.

In 2016, Florencia and her brother started a distribution company known as Cacao Lab to bridge the gap between the modern culture and the indigenous communities. Her mission is to expand the hearts and minds of those who are ready to wake up. Bringing consciousness to the importance of honoring the indigenous traditions and the indigenous communities living these traditions.

Connect with Ksenia:

• kseniabrief.com
• Instagram @ksenia.brief
• YouTube Ksenia Brief
• TikTok @ksenia.brief
• Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow the podcast on Spotify

Thomas Droge is a QiGong teacher, healer, acupuncturist and bodyworker. He's the closest to Dr. Strange of a person that I've come across IRL.

A personal teacher and mentor of mine, he has a captivating and expanded view of the world, which he generously shares in this conversation.

In this unfiltered conversation, we discuss:

• How to cultivate energy in your physical and spiritual consciousness
• How to realign your body with its natural frequency
• Understanding how to read people's energy
• How early life traumatic experiences led Thomas to doing what he does today
• The differences between Tai Chi, QiGong and Tantra
• How Daoist wisdom applies to entrepreneurship
• How to not undermine your own value
• How to align your rates as a consultant/entrepreneur with your internal state
• A hack to shift your energetic state in a moment of conflict
• A way to connect with nature as soon as you wake up
• What is a sweat lodge?
• Winter solstice rituals
• The healing power of storytelling

Mentioned in this episode:

Pathfinder retreats

Grace retreat

Connect with Thomas:

thomasdroge.com

Pathfinderinstitute.org

@thomasdroge

About Thomas Droge:

Thomas Droge is a classically trained acupuncturist, herbalist, teacher and author. He has dedicated his life to studying and teaching the healing practices of energy cultivation, conscious movement, internal alchemy and the Daoist path to peace. Thomas has devoted the past 27 years to distilling these practices into a a process of transformational Qi Gong called Pathfinding.

Pathfinding means walking each step of your life in conscious freedom. It is the key to the power, spontaneity, and passion that comes from continuously attending to the present moment.

"It is my life's work to bring these teachings and skills to as many people as possible in the most direct and attainable way, so that they may discover the freedom, clarity, and open-hearted living that exists for all of us".

Thomas has studied at the University of Colorado, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Harvard's mind body medicine program, Jiang Xi College in mainland China, and is a dedicated disciple of the Hidden Immortal lineage.

His depth of knowledge translates into a compassionate conversation of conscious movement, awakened action and carefully crafted tools to navigate one's path.

"Through stillness and observation we can walk the inner path unlocking the mystery of life."

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A few months ago, mushrooms started talking to me by unexpectedly growing in a houseplant pot next to my bed. Synchronistically, that week I found myself at Jason Scott's mushroom workshop at Ambrosia Elixirs in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My life hasn't been the same since.

Whether you have an interest in mushrooms or not, I'm sure you will enjoy this rich, mind-expanding conversation that covers:

• The benefits of ingesting mushrooms on physical and spiritual levels
• Shamanic and ceremonial application of mushrooms
• Cultivation of mushrooms
• What spagyric tinctures are
• How to buy mushrooms and what you have to be careful about
• The top mushroom that can benefit entrepreneurs (this is where biohacking comes in)
• The power of intention when ingesting mushrooms
• What is alchemy anyway?
• What mushrooms have to do with planets and moon cycles, and how it can impact you
• The challenges of turning your passion into a business, and how Jason overcame them
• Lessons he has learned from being a myco-entrepreneur
• The role that technology and social media play in his business
• Connecting with mushrooms as a way to heal ourselves and our environment

• Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing And Working With Fungi book by Peter McCoy
• Alchemycology.com - mycology through the lens of Hermetic Alchemy
• RadicalMycologyconvergence.com
• Ecovative mycelium packaging
• Hashtag Mindful conscious social media course on Skillshare

• Feralfungi.com
• @feralfungi

Jason Scott is a Mycologist, Ethnobotanist and Spagyricist who has studied traditional Hermetic Alchemy, from history and philosophy to practice, for the past 5 years. He has a background in Ethnobotany and Plant Medicine that started on the Big Island of Hawaii and has carried back with him into his home: the Pacific Northwest.

Born and raised in Oregon, Jason has an intrinsic interest in the Fungal Queendom and all of its aspects: from cultivation and mycoremediation, to historical and cultural relationships. Most specifically their medicinal application. Jason has studied various different healing modalities including Ayurveda in Nepal and Western Herbalism all over Oregon and Washington. He is on an ever-deepening journey of education to understand the practical applications of his interests, and the golden threads that connect them. Jason is the founder of Feral Fungi dual extract spagyric tincture company.

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After years of hustling as a food blogger on Instagram, Ashley Wood realized that sharing empowerment and spiritual content was her divine purpose, alongside being involved in Akashic Records readings. This inner pivot led to a massive rebranding, and a transformation of her bank account. You heard it right. This episode is a must-listen! Fun fact: Ashley was one of my biggest inspiration in starting my own podcast Woke and Wired.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Ashley's pivot from food blogger to a spiritual leader
• How she lost thousands of followers after she started posting parenthood and motherhood content on her Instagram content
• The importance of critically looking at the situation and changing your actions when something's not working out
• What Ashley did to turn inward and find the answer to her career change
• The mindset that transformed her life and career
• How to find the right medium (and the right social media platform) to share your message in the world
• How adopting a new perspective on money transformed her income
• Ashley's personal ritual with citrine crystal to attract prosperity
• Ashley's manifestation process (specifically around money!)
• How a psychic reading predicted that she would be a spiritual teacher with a large platform
• A practice you can do when you feel out of alignment
• WTF are Akashic Records+ how the Akashic Records work transformed Ashley's personal and business life

Mentioned in this episode:

• Manifest This! Podcast episode featuring Ksenia Avdulova
• Ashley Wood's posts on Cameron Diaz' The Body Book

Connect with Ashley Wood:

• ashleywood.life
• Manifest This! Podcast
• @_ashleywood on Instagram

About Ashley Wood:

Ashley is an international Akashic Records Reader, podcast host of Manifest This!, light worker,and mother dedicated to empowering women to live their best life. She is also a long-time contributor to Cameron Diaz's website, The Body Book. She is passionate about vegan living, yoga, animals and the outdoors. She resides in Winnipeg, Canada with her husband Ben, daughter Ivy and cats Bose and Feesh. Together they create and produce Manifest This! and own Lot 49 Dairy-Free Foods.