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The Practice: ritual, embodiment, ceremony, yoga, mindfulness, slowness, the menstrual cycle work, mysticism and creativity

We Don't Need to Deserve More. We Need More.
On strength training, growing up in a body that was never quite right by someone else's measure, and why "more" isn't the same thing as "greed"
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Season 3 Ep 4 What Are You Nourishing?
Hello, hello, and welcome back.
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Season 3 Ep 2: Coming Home
A Guided Cacao Ritual
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The Plant: cacao, plant medicine, product updates, market dates, cacao history and economics

Understanding, Not Agreement
We may not agree, that's okay.
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Season 3 EP3: The 8,000‑Year Journey of Cacao: On Lineage, Loss, Return, and the Medicine That Survived Us
How cacao transforms us not only through consumption, but through observation, mindfulness, reflection, embodiment, and relationship.
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The Maker: me, my ancestry, first-generation life, cultural identity, appropriation, Day in the Life, what it means to have a culture

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Ashburn Eatloco Northern Virginia Today 🌿
I'm at the Ashbrook (formerly One Loudoun) farmer's market today! September 12th
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Season 3 EP 6 Appropriation, Ethics, and the Cacao Lineage: What It Means to Tend to Something With Integrity
We’re living in a time of deep division, deep denial, and deep anger.
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Season 3 episode 5: What Culture Actually Means — And Why It Changes Everything
Cacao goes beyond time, culture, and divinity
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Ep 19 of A Day in the Life: Cacao, Ancestors, and the New Meaning of Income Sovereignty
I’ve been a professional job-offer-hopper since, officially, 2008....
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The Work: work sovereignty, corporate critique, career transitions, income design, entrepreneurship

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Kairos vs. Chronos: The Greeks Had Two Words for Time, and I Think We Only Kept One
I think this concept of time is really an effort to control — to control our output, our input, to determine fate, to determine the order of things...
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I Built the Thing I Used to Coach People Toward
On cacao, income sovereignty, and what it looks like when the work becomes the life
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Should You Stay in Corporate or Work for Yourself? Finding Your Path in a Changing World
But how do you know which path is right for you?
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You Don’t Need to Be Rescued: A Note from Your Future Self
For the In-Betweeners (The ones who never quite fit the system — and knew it.)
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Miriam Raquel Sands

Seeds for sovereignty: Cacao, rituals, and conversations from a daughter of immigrants and professional job hopper. For anyone planting seeds for a life without extraction.
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