Alice has lived one of those lives that you would only think happen in movies. Born into a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family, Alice struggled to connect with her parents and rebelled against their traditional expectations. She pursued a scholarship to Harvard, where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and developed an interest in Neo Shamanism and alternative healing. In this episode, Alice shares how her involvement with the orgasmic meditation community allowed her to break free from conve...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Damien Masselis is the founder of Pai Seedlings Foundation, author of Manifest of Inner Ecology and expert in soil regeneration. Damien believes in the power of reconnecting with nature as a solution to our socioeconomic and ecological problems, as well as our psycho-spiritual well-being. Damien shares his journey from corporate dissatisfaction to finding joy and purpose through his travels in Asia and close connection with nature and community. He recounts how his path of surrender led him to p...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Tom Slater is a truly unique individual whom you can’t put into the box with a wealth of wisdom to share. I had the privilege of participating in a life-changing retreat led by Tom, where I was shown the true potential of our being and the ways in which our identities hold us back from fully experiencing the vastness and beauty of life. Tom shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction, physical abuse, and multiple identities, and how this has led to a deeper understanding and connection w...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr
There is so much more to food than just for gastronomic pleasure or physical sustenance. Evan Rilling, once a personal chef to Will Smith and a now master of healthy farm-to-table cousins, passionately shares the true potential of food in connecting us with our roots, community, and mother nature. Having cooked for multiple retreat centers and built a local food forest in Bali, Evan has witnessed how involving people in the process of growing food can not only be healing but can also be the key ...
Jan 23, 2022•56 min
With an MBA from Standford and Oxford, a cofounder of award-winning nonprofit, worked as an AI ethicist, and at the Executive Office of the President, Jourdan Hussein is the epitome of a hyper achiever Indonesian. Underneath the golden CV, however, were shadows Jourdan was really good at running away from. At his first Ayahuasca ceremony, he was forced to face his inner-wound head-on. This has led him on a deep healing path which got him to finally connect with his body, face his trauma, and eve...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Having suffered from depression since the age of 6, battled with alcoholism, ADHD, and addiction, Jessica almost gave her life up until she discovered spirituality. Meditation, plant medicine, sacred ceremonies, chakra dance, you name it, she's got her hands on everything through her deep healing journey and got lost many times in between. Through immense pain, she learned to break away from societal expectations and feel whole from within through an integrated spiritual life. She now combined w...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min
If you ever think you're late to make a change in your life, Jeroen's story will prove you wrong. Having climbed to the top of the corporate ladders and led a multimillion-dollar business, Jeroen Van Overbeek decided to leave it all behind at 40 in pursuit of a greater purpose. He now runs Social Impakt, a social enterprise in Indonesia with the mission to improve access to clean drinking water in local communities. To date, he has raised $300K and donated over 11,000 water filters to the strugg...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Ever wonder what it feels like living in the wrong body your whole life? Jean shares a candid story on the journey to her freedom as a trans woman, challenging the rules of society and why she's so driven to fight for visibility for the trans community. We discuss the different layers of the matrix that exists in the society - how a seemingly accepted identity is still based on certain standards imposed on us, and dive into the fluidity of gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender expressi...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 4 min
If you're looking to feel more whole and hopeful at the current time of despair, Frances Tse's story will certainly fill you up with warmth and help you reconnect with your humanity. For my birthday this year, I'm fundraising for Feed Bali and I'm honored to get to speak with the co-founder Frances to learn about the story behind their beautiful mission in feeding thousands of families hit hardest by the economic crisis in Bali. Frances is also Bali's first foreign priestess and she shares the f...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 6 min
If you are stuck in a fixed narrative of who you are and what you can't do, Asha, as his name suggests, will inspire you with the hope that any change is possible. Asha was a drug addict and dealer with ADHD for 10 years before he made an extreme remodeling of his identity in a week. He changed his environment, started working for charity, stayed in Osho Centre in India for 3 months and now established a new life purpose, dedicating his life to mindfulness and coaching people on self-love. In th...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Jessica Kahn was born into an abusive and extreme religious cult and escaped at the age of 25. She is now writing a memoir, sharing pearls of wisdom she gained through her traumatic life to serve those seeking to remember themselves. Jessica sits with us to share a detailed recount of "hell" in the cult - disciplined adults through physical abuse, being stripped naked and humiliated at four years old, and seeing her own parents being brutally beaten to a pulp. Despite being heavily indoctrinated...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Tarek Khaloussy is the Founder of a global social enterprise, Nomads Giving Back. With MBA from New York University and working for organizations like Goldman Sachs, Tarek decided one day to walk away from all of it to explore the world and search for meaning. He travelled to 100 countries, ran 25 marathons and supported many social causes before he finally launched Nomads Giving Back to mobilize nomads to give back and upskill the local communities. If you feel stuck, lost or simply in need of ...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Sukhavati is a shamanic channeler, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and a supernaturally gifted human whose mission is to help you see your own beauty, your path, and your mission on Earth. Above it all, what really made me feature her as my first Podcast guest is her epic 5-year quest around the world in search of truth. Her adventure was filled with nothing but wild plots you see in movies - leaving her matrix as an architect to find for her spiritual guru in India, living with a naked community in ...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min
In this first episode, I'm sharing my motivation behind starting this podcast, what the modern life matrix is, and my own personal journey in escaping it. Hear a vulnerable share of how I went from a conventional, materialistic, self-centered kid from Indonesia to dedicating my life to being in service, cultivating deep human connections, and living in full authenticity. 01:18 What the modern life matrix is 04:12 My motivation for starting Beyond The Matrix 06:36 My personal journey in escaping ...
Jul 31, 2021•30 min
Have you ever wondered if this is all there is in life? What lies beyond what we were made to believe? In this podcast we're going to uncover real human stories of those have taken the courage to go off the beaten path and in full authenticity. Changemakers, entrepreneurs, artists, rebels, anarchists, clairvoyants. A girl who sold her business when she’s seven years old, someone who traveled the world in search of her guru and developed a supernatural ability, an innovator disrupting the future ...
Jul 31, 2021•41 sec
