About Me
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My path has unfolded at the intersection of consciousness, leadership, and devotion. I have lived and worked across the world—founding companies, advising leaders, studying somatic practice, mysticism, and spiritual ecology—while continually returning to one core inquiry: how do we live with integrity, power, and presence in a complex world?
Today, my work centers on medicine, retreats, and sovereignty-based coaching. I am a coach, medicine woman, retreat facilitator, and strategist, supporting people in cultivating embodied clarity internally and translating that clarity into aligned action in their lives and work.
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Finding our power is finding our own divinity, and embracing ourselves in the fullness of our expression, in all of our wildness.
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How it Started
My orientation toward consciousness began early. I grew up in a household shaped by both science and spirituality—raised by scientist parents (a microbiologist and a neurologist), immersed in research, inquiry, and the study of the mind. I published academic research with my parents while still young, and was introduced early to meditation, martial arts, psychology, and contemplative practice. This dual grounding in rational inquiry and inner exploration continues to shape how I work today.
In my early adult life, I took a different turn—moving into the restaurant, wine, and hospitality world. I relocated to San Francisco with very little money, eventually becoming an Advanced Sommelier and founding a marketing and communications agency for food and beverage brands. I later co-founded a technology startup and spent over a decade working at the executive level across food, beverage, hospitality, CPG, and food tech.
That chapter brought opportunity, travel, and success—but also burnout. I lived in a state of overextension, wearing exhaustion as a badge of honor, using achievement as a substitute for self-worth. Eventually, my body and life demanded a reckoning.
During the early days of the pandemic, everything paused at once: a serious spinal injury, the dissolution of both a business and romantic partnership, and a forced stillness that removed all distraction. That period initiated a profound turning inward. Through deep personal work and plant medicine, I was shown—clearly—that my path required integration, not division. The rational and the mystical. The strategist and the healer. The inner and the outer.
I now live primarily in the Sacred Valley of Peru, a place that became home through devotion rather than planning. Here, my medicine path deepened through long-term study and initiation. I work with Huachuma and sacred Tobacco, and have completed my Tobacco Maestría under Ernesto García Torres of the Mamancanawa lineage. I am also deeply grateful to my Huachuma Maestra, Ceci in Chavín de Huántar, whose teachings continue to inform my relationship with the land and the plants.
My work is grounded in lineage and disciplined practice. I have studied for many years under Paul Diamond, and continue my Buddhist studies within the Drikung Kagyu lineage, where I have taken my refuge and Bodhisattva vows under Garchen Rinpoche, and continue my studies with Lama Michael Gregory. I have also learned from Don Francisco Chuspa Flores, a renowned Q’ero paqo elder, whose teachings anchor my understanding of Andean cosmology and reciprocity. I hold deep respect for lineage as a stabilizing force—one that allows mysticism and shamanic work to unfold with integrity rather than ego.
How It's Going
Alongside my medicine work, I continue to operate in the world of strategy and structure. I am the co-founder of Sacred Strategic, where I support churches, medicine practitioners, and mission-driven organizations in building ethical, sustainable, and legally sound foundations for their work. My coaching framework is rooted in sovereignty—supporting both the internal work of regulation, integration, and embodiment, and the external work of leadership, decision-making, and aligned creation.
I lead retreats, facilitate medicine work, and work one-on-one with individuals navigating profound transitions—people called to live more honestly, more powerfully, and more awake. I am currently writing several books, including a nearly completed book on sacred Tobacco, and continue to speak and teach on plant medicine, consciousness, leadership, and the integration of inner and outer life. A future TEDx is in development.
If you are here, I trust you arrived for a reason. This work is not about bypass or escape—it is about learning to inhabit your life fully, with clarity, courage, and devotion. What we heal and integrate within ourselves shapes how we move in the world. That is where change begins.
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