The Rainbo Podcast

People are yearning for reconnection, and for a variety of reasons, ceremonial rituals and psychedelic sacred plants are something we are continually called back to. My guest today, Paola Castelo, is dedicated to helping others reconnect with Mexican heritage by preserving and amplifying Mexican culture through art on her online platform Vuelta Sur. In this episode, Paola opens up about how her passion for preserving Mexican culture originated, the project she is collaborating on with Fungi Foundation to preserve and honor the life and impact of shaman and poet María Sabina.

Paola shares and celebrates the rich stories of Mexican culture by collaborating with museums, contemporary artists, and master artisans to showcase their stories and offer global access to their work. Throughout our conversation, she explains the materials and formats of indigenous art and the role of artists in the ancient world.

Our discussion is focused on the story of María Sabina, a shaman and poet who introduced psilocybin mushrooms to the Western world. Paola breaks down Maria's impact and legacy on future generations and Vuelta Sur's devotion to sharing her lessons and practices. This can be demonstrated through the museum Vuelta Sur is building in collaboration with The Fungi Foundation in Maria's honor, which contains one of the most comprehensive collections of Masoretic records and textiles. She also explains how you can be involved in its creation!

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Topics Covered:

• The ways Vuelta Sur preserves and amplifies Mexican culture through art
• How Paola reconnected to her Mexican heritage, ancestry, and roots while living in Canada
• The significance of Mexican art and culture within the Latin American heritage
• The materials and formats of indigenous art from looms to pottery to textiles
• A background on the shaman and poet María Sabina and how she helped launch Mexican heritage into Western culture
• Details of the museum that is being built in Maria's honor
• What future generations can learn from María Sabina's legacy
• The resilience of ceremonial rituals and psychedelic sacred plants
• How you can be involved in the museum
• Paola’s personal connection to fungi

Resources Mentioned:

• Use code THERAINBOPODCAST for 15% off at checkout on Rainbo products
• María Sabina Museum Fundraiser

Guest Info:

• Follow Paola on Instagram: @paola_castelo
• Follow Vuelta Sur on Instagram: @vueltasur
• Learn more on Vuelta Sur’s website: vueltasur.com
• Donate to Vuelta Sur: vueltasur.com/pages/donations

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I am delighted to be in conversation alongside my friend and inspiration, Liz Tran. Liz is an executive coach and founder of Reset, an executive coaching company to CEOs and founders, as well as a meditation teacher and Reiki master. In this episode, we talk about Liz’s journey of coming into an altruistic way of life, her struggles along the path, and how sharing her experiences with others ultimately provided her with a newfound sense of purpose.

External success is inevitable once your internal world is in alignment. Liz shares the process and inspiration around the making of her new book, The Karma of Success, which was built around intuitive work and the inner genius. Liz and I discuss the cycle of comparison, how Human Design shows up in our professional and personal lives, and Liz details the journey of hitting a rock bottom in order to learn true self-worth.

We can all find professional and personal success once our internal world, actions, and values are in alignment. Liz believes that when we look for the things we love, we are looking for the things in our “zone of genius” — and can use those findings to tap into our inner voice to find success as our own greatest fan, cheerleader, and leader.

This is a candid conversation about redefining achievement on your own terms, and Liz’s process for trusting intuition and following it.

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Topics Covered:

• Liz’s writing process and releasing her book into the world
• Accessing and trusting your intuition
• Why Liz wanted to write her book, The Karma of Success
• How to get off the hamster wheel of comparison
• Liz’s journey toward self-worth and self-love
• How sharing experiences with others gave Liz a sense of purpose
• Liz’s experience with the “zone of genius”
• Work as sacred and part of the spiritual journey

Resources Mentioned:

• My Human Design
• Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

Guest Info:

• Follow Liz on Instagram @heyliztran
• Follow Reset on Instagram @resetnyc
• The Karma of Success by Liz Tran: 9780593542446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
• Reset with Liz Tran podcast

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• Follow me on Instagram: @tonyapapanikolove
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It’s a beautiful time to be in conversation with my friend and new mother, Chelsea Leyland. Chelsea is the co-founder of the menstrual health and wellness company, Looni, and is an epilepsy and endometriosis plant medicine advocate and activist. In this episode, we chat about her journey with two chronic conditions, natural forms of healing, and the necessity of body literacy throughout the healthcare system.

When there’s no education alongside information, how can informed decisions be made? Chelsea shares her experience with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and how she found cannabidiol to help ease her pain and symptoms. After a later-in-life endometriosis diagnosis, Chelsea began to navigate ways to find healing and ease her pain. Chelsea and I discuss our connection to pain, allopathic vs. naturopathic forms of healing, and how having a “healing toolbox” is powerful for supporting and honoring both our menstrual cycles and the cycles throughout life.

We can all take steps toward a more holistic, nurturing approach to our bodies, starting with grounding practices to help regulate the nervous system and bring inflammation down. Chelsea believes that education allows us to demand better policies. Because we deserve better. And we deserve awareness and change.

This is a beautiful conversation about finding personal forms of healing and sharing those findings as an advocate for a healthier, more aware world.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Topics Covered:

• How Chelsea’s endometriosis story began with epilepsy
• Chelsea’s life-changing experience with cannabinoids
• Chelsea’s activism and a documentary alongside her sister
• Why it took 10 years to diagnose Chelsea with endometriosis
• How endometriosis responds to natural medicine and stress management
• Chelsea’s opinion of and connection to pain
• The power of an open mind around healing
• Looni’s first year in the menstrual health and wellness space

Resources Mentioned:

• WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source by Alisa Vitti

Guest Info:

• Follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseleyland
• Chelsea’s company, Looni

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• Follow me on Instagram: @tonyapapanikolove
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• Shop Rainbo: rainbo.com

Dr. Kate Hunter is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor practicing in Toronto and Creemore, ON, since 2012.

She is the founder and owner of The Toronto Apothecary and The Creemore Apothecary, two full spectrum wellness clinics and boutiques. Her realized vision with the two locations is a place for exceptional wellness services and complimentary wellness through the program that she created, The Community Wellness Program, which offers free and sliding scale Naturopathy to folks that are systematically excluded from systems of health.

In her practice, Dr. Hunter uses Auricular & Bioenergetic Medicine to test the body to determine which systems are out of balance and then re-establishes the body’s ability to self-heal and auto-regulate. Auricular and Bioenergetic Medicine is a very unique combination of natural empathy, medical intuition, and acupuncture. In her free time, Kate is happiest enjoying the outdoors with her husband and two kids. She is an avid runner, yoga student and skier.

Dr. Hunter was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and is now in long-term remission. She credits mushrooms and auricular medicine for communicating what her body actually needs to function properly.

In Crohn’s disease, the immune system attacks the gastrointestinal system. Stress is a precursor and often the root cause. The good news is the gut is very quick at healing itself in just a few days. But how do we find out what works with our specific body? Every body and its systems are different and a part of Dr. Kate Hunter’s practice is pinpointing the energy your body receives through different functions and what it doesn’t. She can look at the body as a whole through its organs and organ systems instead of treating only its symptoms.

Taking it one step further, Dr. Kate Hunter encourages adding mushrooms to your diet. Join me on today’s episode as we learn how our body is much like the forest with mushrooms allowing our bodies the opportunity to heal and properly connect with all of its organ systems.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Topics Covered:

• Emotional and physical health and healing both spiritually
• Crohn’s disease and how it presents itself in the body
• Treating organs and organ systems, and how those systems affect each other
• The practice of auricular medicine
• Connection between the nervous system and immune system
• Stress blocks our ability to heal
• Mushrooms are deep connectors, in the forest and in our bodies
• Health and wellness is a myriad of different things going on, not just symptoms

Resources Mentioned:

• When the Body Says No by Dr. Gabor Mate

Guest Info:

• katehunternd.com
• thetorontoapothecary.com

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Nathalie Daudet is a fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle coach, and the founder of Fertility Awareness Project. She discovered fertility awareness and cycle charting after searching high and low for a method of non-hormonal birth control. Although birth control works for some, the additional hormones do not work for everyone and there is more control in diligent tracking of your period to properly avoid pregnancy.

Fertility Awareness Method often is confused with the rhythm method of 14 days after your period, ovulation begins. No cycle is a “regular” cycle and sometimes ovulation does not occur or it is delayed. This is where the diligent chart tracking of your ovulation cycle is able to outshine the rhythm method, by being able to effectively know when you are ovulating and when you are not. Therefore, when to use protection or not at all.

Fertility Awareness Method is the education all menstruating women have been needing. There is an answer if your mood wavers, there is an answer if you’re experiencing cervical mucus, and there is an answer if you’re glowing one day and not the next. It is in your ovulation cycle and your education begins now.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Topics Covered:

• Fertility awareness method is a way of observing fertility and knowing when you’re ovulating
• The window of when pregnancy is possible and when pregnancy is not possible
• Cervical mucus can tell you a lot about where your body is in your cycle
• Common misconceptions around fertility awareness and why
• The difference between the rhythm method and the fertility awareness method
• Knowledge of our body and its cycle strengthens women’s intuition
• Debunking the “regular” cycle
• Downsides to birth control

Resources Mentioned:

• Vagina Obscura
• Read Your Body App

Guest Info:

Nathalie Daudet is a fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle coach and the founder of Fertility Awareness Project. She discovered fertility awareness and cycle charting after searching high and low for a method of non-hormonal birth control, since then over 200 people worldwide have learned to chart their menstrual cycle for birth control with her online course, Cycle Love. Her passion lies in sharing the magic of cervical mucus, ovulation, sex and cycles, she lives with her partner in Winnipeg, Canada.

• Follow Natahlie Daudet on Instagram
• Take FAM Fundamentals Free
• Ultimate Guide to Cervical Mucus with Photos
• Cycle Love

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• Follow me on Instagram: @tonyapapanikolove
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