Weaving Your Reality

Elisa Haggarty is a conscious leadership coach and host of The School Of Unlearning Podcast. Elisa was once my coach through Parsley Health, and in this episode you get to experience her presence and wisdom, as well as hear a few powerful lessons she picked up along the path of unlearning.

We discuss:

Finding yourself in a life you didn't plan for

Making the choice to write your own story

Learning to unlearn self care

The heartbreak and the accident that shifted Elisa's life path

Cultivating radical acceptance

"Life is an inside job"

Adapting the mentality of being "the lucky one"

How a brain trauma led Elisa to meditation and other healing and mindfulness modalities

Choosing to invest into yourself over pleasing others

Elisa's experience going on a silent meditation retreat in Taiwan

How teaching English brought Elisa to Hong Kong and led her to becoming a whole foods chef

How Elisa created "The Culinary Farmacy", a space where the clinical met the culinary

Elisa's experience with building a nutrition business

Elisa's love affair with chocolate

Elisa's journey of becoming a coach and learning entrepreneurship

Finding peace with making money

Having a good relationship with what you do have VS chasing abundance

Leaving a "hot" job at Parsley Health

Helping people understand their relationship between fear and love as her job

Developing emotional agility

How Elisa got the clarity to leave her job and go back to one-on-one coaching

Elisa shares her experience with psychedelic mushrooms

Learning from animals

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Mollie McGlocklin the host of The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast and the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, a company that optimizes people's sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. After navigating insomnia while traveling internationally, she created what she couldn't find - a place to go to learn the skill set of sleep. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without, she's now dedicated her life to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep.

We discuss:

How does sleep affect our health?

Why sleep is an important skill set for the modern society

How hormones are impacted by your quality of sleep

The impacts of sleep deprivation

How optimizing your sleep can contribute to your mental health

What is chronobiology and circadian rhythm entrainment?

Why sun exposure first thing in the morning and at sunset important

Why creating a consistent sleep schedule is important

Practical tips to understanding and optimizing how you sleep

What are some of the most helpful sleep gadgets on the market?

What is social jet lag, and how do we prevent it?

Can creative bouts co-exist with healthy sleep?

Anticipatory anxiety and sleep

The kind of content that can interfere with your sleep and how to be mindful of what you consume before bed

Positive psychology and sleep

Sleep ritual idea for couples

What to do if it's time to go to bed and you can't get sleepy

The shocking truth about mealtime and sleep

Sleep rituals

How "gratitude emails" became Mollie's longest standing daily ritual

What it's like to get engaged at Amangiri in Utah

The non-sleep deep rest protocol (NSDR) from Andrew Huberman that changes everything

Mollie walks us through her morning and nighttime routines

Top biohacks for sleep

Related episodes:

177, 169, 161, 42,

Resources:

Ksenia on Sleep Is A Skill Podcast, episode 5

Motion activated red night lights

Auto on/off red night lights

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Website: Sleep Is A Skill

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Daje James aka The Story Doula is a brand strategist, author, artist, and story doula. This is one of the most important conversations I've ever had on my podcast, planting powerful seeds for new ways to show up online and approach business.

Out of the ashes of old paradigm business strategies, arise beautiful intuitive, cyclical ways of being in the world.

We discuss:

Finding beauty in tension

Being an enneagram 7

Writing as a portal of transformation

Looking inside, instead of outside, to understand who you are (self-referral vs object-referral via Deepak Chopra)

The power of being present with your story

Dharmic creative flow

Being an expression of the Creator

Surrendering your life

Daje's spiritual and human journey and experience with religion as a child

Daje shares her experience being a worship leader

Tending to the portal of your work

Facing the fears of being unoriginal, incompetent and irrelevant because of lack of formal schooling

Not dancing around discomfort

Letting go of pleasing people

Owning the bigness of your soul

Meeting a hybrid human from another star system

Why past lives and other star systems are extracurricular activities

The story of the timelines converging in one Instagram account

Bridging art, strategy, marketing, business and spirituality

Daje's ancestor that shows up often in readings

The moment at coffee shop when Daje's "piercing" soul got reflected back to her

Learning to allow your soul to do what it's here to do

How is it possible that different people get the same energy downloads?

Regenerative business practices and letting go of old paradigm strategy

Grace as a portal of innovation

Cyclical strategies and the medicine of masculine cyclicality

Why alignment alone won't cut it

Letting go of obsession with linearity

Making space for soul work

Allowing things to all apart in the creative process

Releasing binary story of success

Trusting yourself to be held through identify death

Related episodes:

176 Blair Badenhop: Trust The Discomfort and Come Home To The Truth Of Who You Are

174 Aaron Rose: Integrating Spiritual Awakening Into The Human Experience and Becoming Uncancellable

172 Part One: I forgot who I am

173 Part Two: I'm remembering who I am

Connect with Daje James aka The Story Doula:

Instagram: @thestorydoula

https://www.thestorydoula.co/

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Blair Badenhop is a global brand and messaging Strategist with over a decade of experience supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses. Blair was one of my first podcast guests in 2018, where we talked about creating magnetism in branding.

Make sure you listen to the last 30 minutes of this episode, there are powerful codes shared in that part of the conversation!

We discuss: Tapping into the truth of who you are among the noise Merging the masculine and the feminine in how we approach business Building trust in your path Being amidst the discomfort Identity shifts and how they translate on social media Blair's experience with motherhood and postpartum entrepreneurship How much do I share my motherhood journey on social media? Being fluid and feminine in how you show up on social media What taking a break from running group programs taught Blair Learning to prioritize yourself as a mom The power of stillness Being with duality How to choose what to focus on as an entrepreneur Redefining postpartum journey Lessons from running a mastermind Following what feels alive on social media Trends that we're noticing in wellness and culture The role that plants are playing in the planetary consciousness shift A peek into behind the scenes of Blair's signature program "Your Wellness Brand" Blair's top tips for creating a strong wellness brand

Related episodes:

10 Blair Badenhop: How To Brand Yourself In The Wellness World, Create Magnetism and Success By Tapping Into Who You Truly Are

130 Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age

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Blairbadenhop.com

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Brand Yourself Podcast

@blairbadenhop on Instagram

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Basu Ratnam is the founder and CEO of INDAY, an everyday eatery rooted in the Indian philosophy of food as medicine with seasonal dishes, a beautiful emphasis on sustainable sourcing and community.

We discuss:

What led Basu to starting INDAY: from being brought up in an Indian household in New York to working in finance

Indian concepts that guide Basu in life and work today

The Ayurvedic principles that inspire Inday's philosophy and menu

Redefining wellness

Redefining success

Letting go of fixed mindset

Top lessons Basu has learned from starting and running INDAY

Building a human-centric restaurant business

Mindfulness practices that all INDAY employees are invited into

The conscious choice to grow mindfully, not explosively

Basu's relationship with social media

Is Kitchari coming back to INDAY?

About Basu Ratnam:

Basu is the founder and CEO of a Indian inspired restaurant group. INDAY launched in 2016 in New York City has 5 locations in Manhattan and is expanding in to new markets in the coming months. In April 2020, INDAY quickly pivoted its restaurants to serve thousands of meals to local health organizations and hospital networks. During India's second wave in 2021, Basu organized a series of in person fundraisers and a global restaurant campaign to raise over $900k for emergency food rations, ventilators and direct relief in India.

Prior to founding INDAY Basu was an investor at Sycamore Partners, a consumer and retail focused private equity fund with $3.5B under management. Basu graduated with a B.A. from Brown University, where he was the Captain of the Ivy League Champion Men's Tennis Team. Basu resides in lower Manhattan, and has a love for food, wellness and social impact.

Related episodes:

96 David Harshada Wagner: Plug Into The Mystical Path In The Midst Of It All

45 Emily Schildt: How To Stay Connected With Yourself In This Digital World

161 Rasa Founder Lopa van der Mersch: Business As Its Own Energetic Being, Plant Consciousness and Energy Intelligence

174 Part One: I forgot who I am

175 Part Two: I'm remembering who I am

Resources:

Spirit Versus Scalpel: Traditional Healing and Modern Psychotherapy by Leonore Loeb Adler and B Runi Mukherji

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Transformational coach, writer and facilitator Aaron Rose (@aaronxrose) joins me for this wide-ranging conversation about spiritual awakening, cancel culture, sovereignty, Hu Kitchen chocolate and alpacas.

We discuss:

Ksenia shares lessons from a recent medicine journey

Cultivating a fertile void

Ksenia's journey with changing the podcast name

Spiritual awakening IRL

Integrating spiritual truth into physical, multidimensional human self

"Big whale energy"

The teaching from "A Course In Miracles" that has been coming up for us

Being in the world, but not of it

Building a world where we all thrive

Tending to the physicality of your life

Becoming uncancellable in an inside job

What it's like when God is your boss

Aaron's experience being multidimensional in gender and sexuality

Integrating spiritual lessons into the physical realm

Aaron's experience being an alpaca whisperer

Building a home

What is cancel culture here to teach us?

Letting go of knowing what's best of others

Becoming your own safe space

The astrology of current world events

Finding the courage to speak your truth

Becoming your own safe space

Aaron's monk purification period

Identity shifts in the digital age

Aaron's daily surrender practice

Ksenia's experience going through Aaron's "God is my boss" course

Turning over your life to Source and restoring Love

Related episodes:

110 Aaron Rose: Intentional Frequency Exchange Online & Shadow Work On Instagram

145 Michelle Sinnette: New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder

13 Thomas Droge: How To Cultivate Physical and Spiritual Energy and Why QiGong Will Make Your Business More Successful

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theaaronrose.com

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Consolidating the fragmented pieces of my self-expression in the energetic and digital fields.

Realizing that spiritual growth is not linear.

Moving into the trust of self.

Being in the present with what is instead of being my past accomplishments.

Discernment over judgement.

The new era beyond marketing strategies.

Being with fears of being seen.

My vision for the podcast.

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No more hiding.

This is not a rebrand. This is stepping into the truth of who I am.

Funded by Source is now Ksenia Brief Podcast.

This is a solo update from my heart, where I bring uriosity to the shadow aspects of myself.

Things I cover:

No more avoiding and hiding

Holding onto made-up identities

Age of lone wolf is over

What happened after I renamed the podcast last time

What I'm releasing

The shadow aspects of myself behind "good" intentions

Why it's important to connecting to your why before you do anything

Creating a New Earth

Asha Patel's Collective Rising Collection

Trusting the unknown

This is not a rebrand

Releasing Funded By Source

Releasing validation

Learning to trust my true nature

Letting go of fear of "being behind" and trusting Divine timing

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This conversation originally aired on Jenny Blake's podcast Free Time. Jenny interviewed me about all things heart-based business and more!

We discuss:

The yoga retreat that brought us together

The books that Jenny recommended years ago that have impacted the course of my life

My animal communication experiences during a Safari at Londolozi in South Africa

Lion power animal medicine

Moving from frenzied to relaxed energy of free time

Top lessons I'm learning from being mentored by Michelle Sinnette

My understanding of the concept of surrender

My understanding of being funded by source

Releasing the story of having to work hard to be provided for

Creating a flow in finances and being an extension of divine blessings

What is ceremonial cacao? The transformation I've experienced by working with it

The difference between ceremonial cacao and psychoactive plant medicines

How I organize content on my phone

My favorite podcasts!

Mentioned:

What is cacao ceremony?

Tiny cabin tour - Apartment Therapy

Heart Bowl

Podcasts:

Aubrey Marcus podcast

Boyd Varty's podcast

Books:

Martha Beck – Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

Charles Eisenstein – Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein – Yoga of Eating: Transending Diets & Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

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https://www.itsfreetime.com/

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@ksenia.brief

Related episodes:

83 Jenny Blake: Systems, Spiritual Surrender, Membership Sites & Social Media Rebellion

130 Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age

145: Michelle Sinnette – New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder

Elijah Johnston and Cameron Ogden-Fung are the grooviest couple on TikTok (@groovewithgaia), spreading the messages of movement as a form of healing, mindful eating and conscious relationships. After dancing into each other's lives in Bali, they're on a mission to empower people to embrace and connect with Mother Earth — bringing Groove with Gaia to life.

We cover:

The miraculous synchronicities surrounding Cam and Eli's meeting in Bali

Free form movement as a form of healing and self-expression

How to be with fear of showing up online

Social media content as a magnet and a tool for healing

Kundalini practices to move out of fear

Cam and Eli's content creation systems

How to show up authentically on TikTok and beyond

​​Cam shares how she really feels about public speaking and being on podcasts, and her experience with anxiety attacks

Using your platform to create regenerative ways of thinking around how we connect to mother nature

Groove with Gaia's stance on sponsored content and brand partner vetting process

How Cam and Eli weave their skills to build Groove with Gaia

Regenerative way of living

Cam and Eli share a recent plant medicine experience

Daily rituals for creativity

The roles that Bali and Hawaii played in Cam and Eli's relationship

Is there going to be an in-person Groove with Gaia experience?

Mentioned:

The Heart Bowl

Related episodes:

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My TikTok Experiment: 0 to 350K Followers | 5D Video Storytelling Strategy for 2021

125 Jasmin Jenkins: Lessons From Ayahuasca Plant Medicine and Alchemizing Grief Into Presence

123 Rebecca Naylor: Kambo, The Consciousness Expanding Frog Medicine

Connect with Cam and Eli - Groove with Gaia:

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https://linktr.ee/groovewithgaia

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