How Plant Medicine Has Expanded Me in Business
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I turned 39 last month, and the word “maturity” has been resonating with me this year in a way it hadn’t before. As I approach my 40th year, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to grow not just as a business owner but as a woman, a mother, a leader, and a human being.
This maturity has been nurtured by many things, but none so profoundly as plant medicine, and the deep, often indescribable experiences that come from it — the kind that shift you at your core and bring you closer to your true self.
So today on The Magnetic Woman Podcast I’m sharing How Plant Medicine Has Expanded Me in Business.
Listen to my journey with plant medicine and discover:
How embracing maturity has shaped my leadership and business practices.
The specific medicines that have each played a role in my personal and professional evolution.
Why holding both light and darkness is crucial for growth and success.
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Transcript
Hello. Hello. And welcome to this episode where I am going to be sharing something I haven't spoken of - I would say - enough, and something that only feels comfortable for me to speak to now.
The topic has come from a conversation I had with a very dear client this morning, who actually showed me that speaking to this was something that I needed and wanted to do, and as part of the evolution of my own service.
As always, when we are on the path in service to love, in service to humanity, evolution, consciousness, things come in.
Downloads, guidance, signs, signals, prompts.
I do feel that coming into this space now has been a series of many different moments to get me here.
So plant medicine, psychedelics, guys.
We're gonna go in.
Plant medicine has helped me expand in my business in many ways, and I'm going to share a few of those ways.
Ones that I can put into the kind of practical, grounded sense.
Of course, there are many things that cannot even be put into words, but simply, was experienced. And this, for me, feels particularly important because as I am growing as a mentor, as a woman, as a mother, as a leader, as a human in this world, there's a word that keeps coming in for me which is maturity.
I, at the point of recording this podcast, just turned 39. Next year, 2025, will be my 40th year here on Earth.
And maturity is something I have been playing with and embodying in many ways, knowing what it is that I want to meet in myself, the potential that I want to meet, the person that I desire to be. So much of it comes down to this essence, which I describe as maturity.
A lot of why I prioritise maturity and have been guided to mature in many ways. I mean, obviously, as a business owner running a high multi-six figure business, there are responsibilities that comes with the level of maturity to be able to hold it, a level of capacity, and maturity.
But why I have really chosen to continue to embody this is I know that the next level version of me doesn't just hold space for all of me, but is more able to hold space for what is in others.
A really exciting new chapter for me from September will be a year long, very deep maturation process, that I will be exploring with a coach. The reason why plant medicine weaves into this is - plant medicine has been a big part of how I have been able to mature.
The drama, the chaos, the judging, the lack of oneness ultimately was a big part of my immaturity as a human. And plant medicine has shown me and continues to show me the power of oneness, the power of really truly being in service to love, in service to source, in service to mother nature and everything far greater than us.
The powers, the unseen. And if you've been in my world for some time, you'll know that the quote by Hal Elrod,
“Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development,
because success is something you attract by the person you become”
became the catalyst for me and my journey into entrepreneurship, specifically when I transitioned from being an intuitive eating and living coach into business.
My north node is in Taurus in the Tenth House, meaning that the the lesson that I came here to learn was how to balance the spiritual and material worlds. And it's absolutely no surprise that my uniqueness I bring as a coach and a mentor is bringing a fusion of strategy meets the spirituality piece.
This quote has become my anchor into my version of service for myself and for other fellow entrepreneurs and visionaries. I can't do, I can't live, I can't speak small talk.
I was born for depth, for truth, for rawness,
for allowing us as humans to understand how beautifully multidimensional we are.
I believe that everything that we create in life is born from who we are being. Everything that we create in our business is born from who we are being.
I can support you with a rock solid strategy to scale to a million. But unless you are willing to go to the depths of your being and you are willing to change who you are at the root, at the core, disrupt the patterns, dissolve the patterns, create new patterns, you will not enjoy the journey there, and you may not ever get there.
Because to meet new levels, to quantum leap as it were, it requires you to be bold and to allow all that is not in alignment to fall away, and that's really courageous.
That's a really sticky place to be.
I feel like I've been in that death and rebirth experience so many times in the evolution of my own service and my own humanness. So the greatness really comes from understanding the darkness. The greatness comes from choosing to allow the highs and the lows and the extraordinary, and moving into the extraordinary comes with being really comfortable with the unknown.
So for every next level there are parts of us that need to be cracked open, dissolved, shattered, and many times I have been absolutely brought to my knees to understand the strength of myself, of my being, my humanness, courage, humility, and all of the things required to hold whatever that quantum leap has looked like.
I do believe that big success is not for the faint hearted.
I don't think big success, whatever that looks like for you, is for everyone. It's really hard. It's really hard. You know?
There's no hiding and that's not for everyone and that's okay. You know?
I always think this when I think about my daughter and who my daughter gets gets to be in the world. She will be who she wants to be and who she is going to be. And all that is required of me as her parent, as her mother, is to guide her, to find more of her truth, not to project what I want her to be onto her.
And this is why that big success is not for everyone, because maybe it's not in everybody's Dharma, it's not their place to be.
I think that it's really beautiful to explore more of who we are and what is true for us.
And leaning into how plant medicine has helped, this has been one of the biggest ways that it has helped me expand.
Because instead of my ego getting in the way of all the things that I think I want because other people have them, it's helped me really see and feel and experience what true success, what true happiness, what true pleasure and joy and extraordinary living is for me and gets to look like for me.
My journey with the plants began many years ago.
I was called to mother Ayahuasca. My partner at the time (my daughter’s dad) held a big amount of fear around it.
So I chose to delay the calling at that time.
A few months after we split, the calling reappeared. And, of course, as is life's gifts, I had a client that I was working with at the time who had started to work with the plant.
So my invitation appeared and I accepted it.
The journey with Aya was short and sweet. In many traditions, the story goes, that the spirit of Aya knows how many times you will drink her. And as such, she will give you exactly what you need in that amount of ceremony. Said teacher has said to me that Aya is the teacher and Kambo is the healer. And for me, that really has been my experience.
For me, Aya looked like three journeys. I haven't been called back.
That's not to say I won't again, but the first experience was ultimately being very, very deeply held to release a lot of pain that was stored in my body. I cried the whole ceremony. Tears that seemed stored in every single crevice of my body that I didn't know existed.
I remember waking up the next day and and quite literally feeling half the size. I felt completely reborn.
At the time, I knew that a lot of that pain was immediate pain. So the death of my sister, a breakup, the heartbreak of a breakup that was very earth shattering for me at the time. That was around 2021.
And a whole bunch of deeply stored pain that I knew was old, but I didn't know exactly what it was. And one of the very clear visions that I had was me at three years old, waiting for my dad to pick me up. And my dad left when I was six months old, and there was a sort of 2 - 3 year custody - not battle, but - experience journey.
And, ultimately, what happened is that over time, he just stopped showing up before his meetings, and my mum had to make a decision that I would no longer see him anymore because she could see the heartbreak that I was experiencing.
Obviously, it's bringing up still some tenderness for me now.
That particular ceremony really supported me to release a lot of what I was still holding, even at that time in my late thirties.
And it was huge.
So months later, another ceremony I was shown the dimensions that I play in.
I was actually shown really what the quantum looks like, the world of potential, the vastness of universal laws.
It was one mighty trip. It was amazing.
And in our very last dance, she really promptly got my body and with a real clear demand to stay there. I can be very heady, and a lot of the work that I've been supporting myself with in my maturity and evolution has been embodiment.
So it was a few years ago. Two years ago now.
Then during this time, I started working with Mother Cacao.
The relationship has evolved into somewhat of a love affair. I meet with the Spirit of Cacao sometimes daily, depending on where I'm at in my life, sometimes weekly, sometimes it's monthly.
We sing, we move, we pray. She has always supported me to just really open my heart and supports me to live in service to love.
So Cacao for me is my tender friend. She holds me in my messiness, my sadness, my joy. And whenever I feel myself going into that space of, I am a loved, I am a victim, I need more or need something, she gives me exactly what I need and she reminds me that when I come into my heart, everything magnetises from that space.
So, other medicines that I have played with.
I mentioned earlier Aya is a teacher. Kambo is the healer.
Kambo has been something I have experienced in the last year, year and a half, and very profound experience at that particular ceremony where I had very deep old programming in my womb space, that got dissolved, got purged.
It was such an experience.
I remember knowing this is really old, really old, and a really deep sort of pain in my womb space.
And the moment that I took that first big purge, I laughed. I cried.
Laughed and cried simultaneously.
It was like, oh, I don't know. The words that I shared, I don't have to hold that anymore. I didn't even need to know what it was.
And then most recently, my journey with mushrooms. And that was beautiful.
I was very tender at the time, so I took a small dose. It was on my period of my bleed. I was very tired. I was in the process of my renovation and knew that I just really needed to go slow, but my intention was to help me feel and see and experience what it is like to receive without force.
And it was gooey. It was really gooey.
So, ultimately, the biggest thing that all of these medicines have given me is they have supported me to let go of the grip that I had to life.
So instead of gripping onto answers and how things should be, controlling a lot of what I was trying to create in my life in relationships, in business, in wealth. I moved into a space and have continued to move into a space of letting life flow through me.
It's cultivated such a deep sense of inner peace because it has cultivated a trust in life itself, In my relationship to source.
My I am.
I am God.
You are God.
We are God.
Source, spirit, whatever word resonates mostly with you. And it's allowed me to come into a space of remembrance, of service, of who I came here to be, of who I desire to be, and how possible that is for me when I dissolve my limitations.
What has come with releasing so much of the fear and ultimately, as many, concepts that share there is fear and there is love.
The more and more and more that I have let go of the fear and let go of the fear and let go of the fear, again and again and again with every new level comes more of the unwavering trust that I am love and that we are love and that I can with that love, with that service to love, with that operating from my heart, can create an extraordinary life, an extraordinary business.
And part of that piece and something I really live by is that I really trust what is meant for me won't pass by me.
I bring this back to the quote that I started with, which is success is who you become.
Every time we desire to meet another layer, (and that doesn't need to be a quantum leap. It might be just a small shift) there is an opportunity for us to be really radically real with ourselves and ask how much polarity am I willing to hold?
Because holding your greatness means that you have got to simultaneously hold a whole load of your messiness.
How much of our light can we activate
when we are not meeting the depths of our darkness?
It's polarity.
The plants support me to embrace all of myself. All of life. All that is for me. They hold me in that trust and allow me to play with the desire for more without a hard grip on it, and allow me to receive that with ease, but also allow me to discern what is meant for me and what isn't.
And when it isn't, I let it go.
And when it is, I trust that it is all unfolding in divine timing.
I feel like I haven't spoken about my own spiritual self and practices for such a long time and it feels really delicious to be sharing this with you.
I thought I would finish actually with lyrics from one of my favorite songs, something I am in prayer with at the moment in my practices. And it's this:
If we only seek, we won't find. Cos seeking makes human hearts blind. If we only seek, we won't find. Because seeking makes human hearts blind. Be open and trust because what may come to you will come right through you. To you, through you, circling around and around and around in this wheel of life. Breathing in and out life. Breathing in and out love. Connecting all there is and embracing the here and now. The here and now.
So in reverence to the plants, to you, to Mother Earth, Mother Moon, Father Sun, Father Sky, Four directions, the Four elements, and the Four seasons, I am sending big love from my corner of the world to yours.
There is an invitation.
If you have listened to this episode and you are a female entrepreneur with a big vision, a big heart, a big mission to service your community, to service humanity, to service consciousness. I will be hosting a very, very special business retreat in Spain where we fuse strategy, leadership, mastery with medicine so that you can really understand who it is that you get to be in this life. If that is you and you are feeling the calling, please do come and find me over on Instagram at @PandoraPaloma_. I would love to hear from you. We are currently in the ideation and creation phase of this retreat, It will be in twenty twenty five, and I would love for you to be there if this has landed. Thank you so much for listening, and I'm wishing you a beautiful, beautiful day.
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