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Alice has lived one of those lives that you would only think happen in movies. Born into a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family, Alice struggled to connect with her parents and rebelled against their traditional expectations. She pursued a scholarship to Harvard, where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and developed an interest in Neo Shamanism and alternative healing.
In this episode, Alice shares how her involvement with the orgasmic meditation community allowed her to break free from conventional sexual beliefs and decondition herself at a deeper level. She also opens up about her experiences with sugaring which allowed her to challenge cultural norms and explore her own desires. Through her journey and recent experience with psychedelics, Alice has come to believe that mental health issues can be viewed as a superpower rather than a stigma.
This candid conversation offers a glimpse into Alice's wild journey of self-discovery and the unconventional path she has taken. Her story is one that will make us rethink a lot of stigma around sexuality, gender and mental illness.
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Alice Huang Wijaya a writer, multimedia storyteller, and tech professional with a degree from Harvard, focusing on Neo Shamanism. Her work has been featured in Vice, Rice Media, and The Edge, covering a range of topics from technology, cryptocurrency, gender to sex and underground culture. She recently won a literature award from Singlit Bootcamp in 2020, received a fiction deal from Penguin and currently working on her debut novel, The American Dream.
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Damien Masselis is the founder of Pai Seedlings Foundation, author of Manifest of Inner Ecology and expert in soil regeneration. Damien believes in the power of reconnecting with nature as a solution to our socioeconomic and ecological problems, as well as our psycho-spiritual well-being.
Damien shares his journey from corporate dissatisfaction to finding joy and purpose through his travels in Asia and close connection with nature and community. He recounts how his path of surrender led him to purchase a barren land in Thailand, and how he transformed it into a thriving permaculture business and community by embracing his passion for environmental education and nature-inspired lifestyles.
In this episode, Damien shares his insights on the importance of understanding our connection to nature, the relationship between soil health and human health, and how we are all part of the larger web of life. He challenges us to rethink our consumerist mindset and focus on how we can contribute to the greater good by tapping into our inner nature and working towards our purpose.
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* https://www.seedlings-foundation.org
* IG: @pai.seedlings.foundation, @damien.p.masselis
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Tom Slater is a truly unique individual whom you can’t put into the box with a wealth of wisdom to share. I had the privilege of participating in a life-changing retreat led by Tom, where I was shown the true potential of our being and the ways in which our identities hold us back from fully experiencing the vastness and beauty of life.
Tom shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction, physical abuse, and multiple identities, and how this has led to a deeper understanding and connection with himself, others, and the world around him. We discuss will vs nature, the shadow side of spiritual community, alchemizing pain, letting the universe work through us and gently leaning into our boundaries to access the intelligence within them.
This is not about mastering life, but about being mastered by it and allowing it to flow through us. This episode is an inspiration for all of us to explore the depths of ourselves and to fully taste all the beauty life has to offer.
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There is so much more to food than just for gastronomic pleasure or physical sustenance. Evan Rilling, once a personal chef to Will Smith and a now master of healthy farm-to-table cousins, passionately shares the true potential of food in connecting us with our roots, community, and mother nature. Having cooked for multiple retreat centers and built a local food forest in Bali, Evan has witnessed how involving people in the process of growing food can not only be healing but can also be the key for people to truly care about the planet.
In this intimate episode, we dive into Evan’s personal journey of overcoming a personal crisis and how it led him to evolve his role beyond just a chef but the builder and healer of connections through food. We discuss how food can be the access point to one’s spiritual journey, the disconnection in the modern industrialized world, and remembering the part of us that used to live, hunt, and cook as a tribe.
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With an MBA from Standford and Oxford, a cofounder of award-winning nonprofit, worked as an AI ethicist, and at the Executive Office of the President, Jourdan Hussein is the epitome of a hyper achiever Indonesian. Underneath the golden CV, however, were shadows Jourdan was really good at running away from. At his first Ayahuasca ceremony, he was forced to face his inner-wound head-on. This has led him on a deep healing path which got him to finally connect with his body, face his trauma, and eventually quit the rat race. Today, Jourdan is a certified breathwork facilitator and executive coach to post-series A tech CXOs with a mission is to help fellow hyper achievers out there to connect to their core needs: love and belonging.
In this episode, Jourdan shared his journey of finally realizing the real needs beyond all the never-ending achievements he pursued: to be loved unconditionally. We discussed the secret and cost of overachieving, the toxic comparison culture, how to become our own parents, and acting from the place of wholeness.
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Having suffered from depression since the age of 6, battled with alcoholism, ADHD, and addiction, Jessica almost gave her life up until she discovered spirituality. Meditation, plant medicine, sacred ceremonies, chakra dance, you name it, she's got her hands on everything through her deep healing journey and got lost many times in between. Through immense pain, she learned to break away from societal expectations and feel whole from within through an integrated spiritual life. She now combined what she's learned with her upbringing in Singapore to bridge the spiritual and material world. She's made her mission to help spiritually gifted and sensitive women, to bring their gifts into manifestation
We discuss the beauty of sacred ceremonies in reminding us of what we've lost in modern society, how spirituality can be a new addiction and escapism, the power of community in walking each other home, and surrendering to deep pain in order to birth deep joy.
What we covered:
2:08 Depression at the age of 6
7:30 When pain outweighs the fear of change
14:29 Recovery and surrendering control
17:04 The journey into plant medicine
22:49 The power of community and feeling seen
26:44 The sacred beauty of ceremonies
36:37 Proving to feel worthy
40:36 Spirituality as the new addiction
48:37 Deep pain and deep joy
53:00 Soul-led movement and businesses
1:01:03 Key takeawaysConnect with Jessica Haris:
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If you ever think you're late to make a change in your life, Jeroen's story will prove you wrong. Having climbed to the top of the corporate ladders and led a multimillion-dollar business, Jeroen Van Overbeek decided to leave it all behind at 40 in pursuit of a greater purpose. He now runs Social Impakt, a social enterprise in Indonesia with the mission to improve access to clean drinking water in local communities. To date, he has raised $300K and donated over 11,000 water filters to the struggling locals during the Earthquake in Lombok and Covid crisis.
We discuss how he came home to his heart, the doubt-filled transition process, the world of social enterprise, and why clean water access can literally change the lives of the people at the bottom of the pyramid:
2:28 What inspired Jeroen to do what he's doing
10:19 Abundance is not a destination
14:53 The transition process
21:00 Why clean water access changes lives
30:00 The magic behind the portable water filters
35:23 Pure intention as a competitive edge
40:20 Balancing impact and revenue
52:32 Comparison and trusting our own path
58:11 Empathy can be cultivated
1:01:00 Key takeaways
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Website: www.social-impakt.com
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Ever wonder what it feels like living in the wrong body your whole life? Jean shares a candid story on the journey to her freedom as a trans woman, challenging the rules of society and why she's so driven to fight for visibility for the trans community. We discuss the different layers of the matrix that exists in the society - how a seemingly accepted identity is still based on certain standards imposed on us, and dive into the fluidity of gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender expression. Jean was forced to live in the gender matrix her whole life and eventually defied the pressure to shine in her full color. Her story is definitely one that inspires us to question the narratives prescribed to us so we can be our own author and write our story.
Jean is the APAC lead of the Trans@Google Global Steering Committee, the founder of Trans.Lucent - a community support group for Indonesian trans-folks, and a moderator of 2 international trans communities. She's a full-time Growth Manager at Google for mobile app publishers in Southeast Asia and a part-time mermaid, gamer, and cosplayer.
What we discussed:
3:06 How Jean is advocating for trans rights at Google
6:59 Importance of representationImportance of representations Trans people always portrayed in negative light
12:34 Coming out to her mom and the privilege of developing independence
22:19 Love trumps what people think of us
28:23 Living in fear before the transition
37:02 The courage to fight for freedom
41:47 Gender identity, sexual orientation and gender expression
44:36 Compassion over comprehension
50:17 Happiness and life after transition
53:48 the small thing that means the world
1:00:00 F*ck society and takeaways—
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If you're looking to feel more whole and hopeful at the current time of despair, Frances Tse's story will certainly fill you up with warmth and help you reconnect with your humanity. For my birthday this year, I'm fundraising for Feed Bali and I'm honored to get to speak with the co-founder Frances to learn about the story behind their beautiful mission in feeding thousands of families hit hardest by the economic crisis in Bali. Frances is also Bali's first foreign priestess and she shares the fascinating, inexorable signs from the universe to take on this holy path. We discussed listening to your own voice against the social norms, the key to real happiness, and surrendering to the divine plan.
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Frances Tse is a Canadian entrepreneur reborn as a Balinese Priestess. Having worked in Hong Kong, San Fransico, Tokyo, and Toronto as a media sales executive, she decided to leave the material world when she met her now Balinese husband in Bali 21 years ago and took her first fateful step to become the first foreign temple priestess outside of Bali. Together with her husband, they own a travel & wedding company and a cooking school. When Covid hit they pivoted their business to create Feed Bali which has fed 4,555 families - 547,456 meals. This year, she is publishing her first book in the series: Trestna, Gate of Love, Memories of a Balinese Priestess.
What we discussed:
2:48 The genesis of Feed Bali
9:43 Giving hope beyond food and connecting to our humanity
15:37 What keeps Frances going and key to happiness
21:33 Anyone can be a hero
25:00 How Frances developed the depth of her compassion
29:09 Getting lost in the corporate world
31:40 Frances' path to be a holy person
43:55 Surrendering to the divine plan
48:04 The resilience of Balinese families and listening to the "voice"
57:09 Why society gets success all wrong
1:03:00 Key takeaways and summary
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If you are stuck in a fixed narrative of who you are and what you can't do, Asha, as his name suggests, will inspire you with the hope that any change is possible. Asha was a drug addict and dealer with ADHD for 10 years before he made an extreme remodeling of his identity in a week. He changed his environment, started working for charity, stayed in Osho Centre in India for 3 months and now established a new life purpose, dedicating his life to mindfulness and coaching people on self-love. In this episode, we discuss breaking old identity, recognition vs validation and how self-love is the bedrock to any self-development work we do. Dive into the inner experience of someone with ADHD and substance abuse disorder, and develop the compassion and wisdom for the suffering underneath the surface.
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Asha is an intelligent businessman and adrenaline junkie who won a writing award at 18, started his own clothing brand, cycled 5,000 km across South America. His unfortunate journey to substance abuse led him to get kicked out of one of the best schools in Brussel and going into a dark path. After 10 years of abuse, as he likes to put it, he "flipped like a pancake". He left behind all that was possessing him, did self-hypnotherapy and healed his trauma. Today he is coaching people on mindfulness, self-love, and making big positive changes in life.
What we discuss:
3:48 The power of naming our identity
8:05: How Asha started abusing drugs
12:32 What ADHD feels like
14:37 Breaking 10 years of identity as a drug addict
22:00 Change is within reach
26:32 Validation vs recognition
31:12 Flipping like a pancake with one week of isolation
38:10 Positive addiction and new neural highways
45:44 Seek something bigger than yourself
51:19 The calling to Osho centre and becoming a coach
01:00:05 Self love as the bedrock to any transformations
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Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/AshaCoach
Website: https://www.ashacoaching.net/Follow Beyond The Matrix:
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Jessica Kahn was born into an abusive and extreme religious cult and escaped at the age of 25. She is now writing a memoir, sharing pearls of wisdom she gained through her traumatic life to serve those seeking to remember themselves.
Jessica sits with us to share a detailed recount of "hell" in the cult - disciplined adults through physical abuse, being stripped naked and humiliated at four years old, and seeing her own parents being brutally beaten to a pulp. Despite being heavily indoctrinated since birth, Jessica connected to her inner knowing and realized that what she experienced was not right nor human. Her real self-discovery began after her escape from the cult when she struggled to fit into the bigger matrix in the society and heal her inner child's wound.
Through her fascinating journey in freeing herself, walk away with beautiful lessons on healing deep trauma, developing compassion for those who hurt us, and reconnecting with our truth.
What we discuss:
2:52 Facing and sharing her truth through her book
6:40 Religious cult led by a founding father of Alcohol Anonymous
12:32 What an oppressed life was like in the cult
18:59 Physical abuse and getting stripped at four years old
24:16 Seeing the wound inside the person who wounds you
26:04 The final trigger to walk out of hell
27:48 How Jessica became aware of the brainwashing
35:48 The escape and becoming a hero
40:00 The exhilaration and terror of assimilating into society
48:04 Reconnecting with the wounded inner child
57:51 Trauma as a gift to embody wisdom and hold others
61:61 Start questioning to begin your journey home
63:48 Getting in touch with Jessica---
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My Truth My Story (memoir) | Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
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Tarek Khaloussy is the Founder of a global social enterprise, Nomads Giving Back. With MBA from New York University and working for organizations like Goldman Sachs, Tarek decided one day to walk away from all of it to explore the world and search for meaning. He travelled to 100 countries, ran 25 marathons and supported many social causes before he finally launched Nomads Giving Back to mobilize nomads to give back and upskill the local communities.
If you feel stuck, lost or simply in need of inspiration to feel more alive, Tarek's story will certainly fill you with fire. What makes it so relatable is his journey is filled with many bumps and challenges. In all his big turning points, he still felt all the fear and doubts, but chose to take the leap of faith anyway. Be it running his first marathon, being a Yoga teacher, or giving away 12 years of respectable career in wall street, he just is not willing to let life pass him by. What scares him is also what makes him most alive.
Hear what Tarek learned from seeing so much of the world and how he developed the pure heart to constantly want to give back. Walk away with nuggets of wisdom on how to cultivate your mind garden, get outside our comfort zone, and fully live on purpose.
1:08 Tarek Khaloussy and Nomads Giving Back
5:10 Paving ways for nomads to pay it forward
11:45 Involving more Indonesians and overcoming white saviourism
14:37 What it means to be a global citizen and seeing all as equal
17:47 Starting a career when the world was crashing down
20:27 Losing meaning in a heavy rat race
24:41 Getting unstuck by throwing yourself to the extreme
29:32 Consciously walking away from money and respect
31:36 Rebirth through a cousin's death, hurricane Sandy and first marathon
34:42 The conversation with a stranger that changed Tarek's life
37:44 How our authenticity creates a ripple effect of change
38:51 How to intentionally cultivate your mind garden
42:51 Doing what you're afraid of and making life a playground
48:47 The journey of traveling 100 countries
51:37 Being lured back to the corporate world and realizing it's a big mistake
55:22 Why setting audacious goal makes success more attainable
59:15 Seeing the truth through first hand experiences
63:20 Why skills are important to build equity in the world
65:07 Gaining much more back from giving back to locals
68:08 Lose yourself, make big decisions despite of fear
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https://www.instagram.com/tarek.world/
https://www.instagram.com/NomadsGivingBack/
https://www.instagram.com/NomadsSkillshare/
Website:
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Sukhavati is a shamanic channeler, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and a supernaturally gifted human whose mission is to help you see your own beauty, your path, and your mission on Earth. Above it all, what really made me feature her as my first Podcast guest is her epic 5-year quest around the world in search of truth.
Her adventure was filled with nothing but wild plots you see in movies - leaving her matrix as an architect to find for her spiritual guru in India, living with a naked community in Mexico, falling in love with a Shaman in Peru, isolating herself in a cave and co-existing with anarchists. In the end, she shared a deeply human story of how challenging it was to reintegrate back to society, reconciling her new identity with her parents and finding her place on this planet.
Her journey was full of challenges, losing, finding, and reinventing herself multiple times in the process. Her unique story is definitely one that will leave you inspired with courage to venture into the unknown and to not settle for anything less that doesn’t make you feel alive.
1:08 Who’s Sukhavati?
5:48 Speaking Light Language - the language of the soul
10:35 Realizing psychic power as a child
13:24 Fitting in and losing faith in God
15:23 Leaving the matrix in search of truth
17:24 Finding Guru and what it means
23:46 Living with naked community in Mexico
31:52 Getting robbed and reading tarot on the street
35:32 Calling to Peru and falling in love with a shaman
42:11 Reintegrating back to old lives and reconciling new identity with parents
49:38 Living alone in a cave and questioning identity
53:06 Pivotal point with the final 300 Euros
56:31 Connect to a source, let it guide you to your truth
64:38 Takeaways and where to find Sukhavati
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_sunlight/
Website: https://www.luzsolar333.com/
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In this first episode, I'm sharing my motivation behind starting this podcast, what the modern life matrix is, and my own personal journey in escaping it. Hear a vulnerable share of how I went from a conventional, materialistic, self-centered kid from Indonesia to dedicating my life to being in service, cultivating deep human connections, and living in full authenticity.
01:18 What the modern life matrix is
04:12 My motivation for starting Beyond The Matrix
06:36 My personal journey in escaping the matrix
07:25 Self development and the lonely university time
08:04 Childhood trauma and toxic values
09:26 First deep transformation through Tony Robbins
12:30 Rebirthing my authentic self and bursting my heart at Burning Man
16:33 Discovering deep connection as what I've been missing in my life
18:55 The egocentric to eco-centric shift
20:20 How found my mission to deepen human connection and started Warmspace
23:28 Taking the leap to start a new chapter in Bali
26:04 Wide opened eyes on the endless possibilities and human potential
28:28 Sneak peek of the remarkable stories we will cover in the podcast
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Have you ever wondered if this is all there is in life? What lies beyond what we were made to believe? In this podcast we're going to uncover real human stories of those have taken the courage to go off the beaten path and in full authenticity. Changemakers, entrepreneurs, artists, rebels, anarchists, clairvoyants. A girl who sold her business when she’s seven years old, someone who traveled the world in search of her guru and developed a supernatural ability, an innovator disrupting the future of civilization with blockchain. I’ve had the honor to meet a lot of these ordinary individuals who led extraordinary lives. I was so fascinated by their stories that I feel the whole world needs to hear them to really see what’s possible with our human potential and the life we can create for ourselves in full sovereignty.
We're going to challenge what you believe is possible, fuel your spirit with courage and heart with warmth to fully live your truth. So, buckle up and get ready for the ride beyond the matrix.
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