Much of the way I work and move through the world dates back to the lineage and the family I was born to. I was born to a 4000+ year old unbroken lineage, yet growing up in a religious household felt deeply restricting, and I walked away from religion when I was very young, only to find a deep connection to its essence years later and on my own terms.

Then there’s my famously large happy family. I am one of 6, my parents are grandparents of 33 and 3 great-grandchildren. Between the 54 people in my immediate family, from my parents onwards, there is only love, zero drama. Drama-free living is a practice that I very much bring into my work.

Growing up, I always felt extremely different from everyone I knew, as though I was connected to a knowing greater than myself, an ongoing experience that was perplexing at best and isolating at worst. School felt particularly daunting and extremely boring. I was determined to graduate ahead of my class and get out of dodge, and I did.

This experience of understanding my own ADD, unlocking flow, and learning how to learn allowed me to graduate high school with Honors at the ripe age of 15 - three years ahead of time. This experience paved my way into Wharton School of Business and still informs my work to date.

Shortly after graduating high school at 15, I found my first love - I didn’t feel like the only “alien” I knew. I was out of school and free to explore life and had a fellow “alien” to do it with. Life made sense for the first time. Then, when I was eighteen, my first love suddenly died, and all sense was lost.

Following the loss of my first love, I became so severely dissociated that I was unable to understand language. That was the initiation that sent me onto my path. It wasn’t long before my healing path brought me to mushrooms. Working with mushrooms for the first time evoked a deep sense of familiarity and knowing, like arriving somewhere for the first time but feeling like I was from there. I found a new framework with which to explore life, one that offered direct access to deeper answers than any one person, book, or methodology could provide. The experience of mushrooms deeply resembled my childhood experience of being connected to a knowing much greater than myself. Herein began a 20+ year exploration that continues to this day.

Finding mushrooms was only the beginning. The first few years of adult life were perplexing as I tried to follow familial and societal expectations and programming, pursuing a business career with the belief that once I found an intellectual challenge, I would find my purpose and settle down. After graduating from Wharton, I moved to NYC where I pursued a career in business and technology, but my heart was not in it.

Alongside my career, I began traveling the world and my inner landscape, studying the human condition and immersing myself in various modalities and practices, from Internal Family System (IFS) to Ayahuasca, from flow coaching to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). While living in NYC, to the request of a growing circle of friends and family, I began sharing my time informally holding space for a growing number of friends and family. For many years, I lived what felt like two parallel lives – working to pay the bills in what felt like purposeless jobs, and serving what felt very much ON PURPOSE but not making any income doing so.

My creative expression as a dancer and an artist at heart brought me to Burning Man, an experience that resembled my first experience with mushrooms in just how familiar that first time had felt. In Burning Man, I found not only a soul family of like-minded individuals but a larger community that gathers around deeply shared values that very much inform my life and work to this day - from Leave No Trace to Radical Self Expression, Burning Man principles are woven into my day-to-day. Much like medicine work, Burning man stands for what is possible.

In early 2017, following a breakup, I left NYC to CA to take a job running a family office. The job turned out to not be what it promised to be, and by the grace of that trauma, shortly after said move, I left my former career to dedicate my life to this work full-time. I have never looked back. What initially felt like a failed trust fall became the opportunity for me to spread my wings and fly.

Applying myself to this work was not an easy path, but I was set on seeing it through. Growing and mastering different methods, I dedicated myself to my own personal work, and in time, my decade-old hobby and side practice became my sole focus. My path as a student of consciousness was largely informed by months’ long personal volunteering missions, Pediatric ICUs to delivery rooms. As I began working with ever more specialized groups of individuals, including teenagers and children, leaders and recovering addicts, I began growing a proprietary strain of medicine to facilitate these specialized branches of the work. A deeper process which came to culmination with a week long vision quest fasting alone in a tent sans technology atop a mountain in Basque Country in Spain, led to the birth of 42. 42 is not a product of trial and error; 42 was born.