Our Greatest Power Is Love: Julie Piatt On Transformation, Shedding Beliefs, Inner Magic & Why Being Is The Greatest State Of Awareness

34:44Can you really understand that each life form is an expression of God? Even if you don't like them, it's not consciousness. Consciousness isn't like, you know well i favor this party and this is you know all the others are wrong it's just not how it works and i think it's an over attachment to intellectual inputs so much talking so much pontificating and sharing perspectives all over the place i think we would do better if people started meditating. Meditating and getting in to the love of their heart and coming into their community and doing something loving, you know, sharing something and getting back to where I was hoping we were gonna go.

35:36And I really feel that art has a great capacity to be the thing that lifts us to the next expression. Well, it always has. Well, and we're at that moment right now. And it's like, as artists, we're infusing our songs, our words, our books, our writings, our paintings with our frequency. And that is being transmitted. And for me, it's the only communication that's pure. is the only communication that can be trusted at this point. And that takes going to that canvas, to that veil in mystery and saying, I know nothing, please speak through me. Please lead me, guide me, direct me.

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41:52The answer always being found in more love, more forgiveness, more compassion, reminds me of our travels to Dharamsala to spend two days with the Dalai Lama, whose answer to basically every question that was posed to him was some version of love more. No, it was love your mother. Well, yes, and it sort of drilled down onto that, which is sort of equal parts profound and also kind of frustrating and annoying. It's because you travel all this distance and you think you're gonna go behind the velvet rope and you're gonna get the secret information that has never been imparted before and the answer is always the same, right?

42:33Yeah, I mean, it was kind of awesome. It was hilarious. It was almost like a setup. It was like a Saturday Night Live skit or like Groundhog's Day or whatever. He just answered the same answer to every question as for him over two days. And it was directly related to the mother. So you cannot leave that out. I mean, that is a key. That was the key. The answer is the mother's love. The love, the idea being to inhabit the unconditional love that a mother has for her child. Yeah, thank you. And if you can inhabit that spirit, that sensibility, that bond, all your answers lie within that. and healing the relationship with the mother.

43:17Yeah, it's very confronting. It was very confronting. I like how you always sort of shifted a little bit off, but he was very, very direct with that. And I think he just kept answering the same answer because the questions are futile. It was an answer to stop asking all the questions, like just go back to the beginning, go back to the beginning and also understand mother earth. You know, we are mother earth, we are nature and all the ways where we have, you know, behaved unloving to her, you know? And then look at all the ways that our culture has brutalized the feminine. So for eons of time, thousands and thousands of years.

44:06So all the keys are in the mother and the mother's love is unconditional. The mother is not punishing one child for having a different belief. The mother is all loving. Well, the ideal mother is. Exactly, it's true. Yeah. It's true. This is not across the board. No, it's not. In the mother-child bond. Exactly. And you have a very difficult relationship with your mother. So it was confronting in that it forced me to really move towards that challenging relationship that I have and find a way to heal it. Because basically what he's saying is like, the thing that's holding you back is this wound that you have.

44:51And if you could heal that, that's gonna kind of open you up to the experience that I'm trying to basically explain to you. Amen. Yeah. His Holiness. Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to do that though. Yeah. I mean, it's the key to everything. It's the key to everything. So, you know, we're just not separate. We're not separate. You know, I was coming here today and I had chip nail polish on my hands because I'm an artist and I'm always, I don't have time to go. I don't like doing that stuff. But anyway, so I had to stop and I had to like take my chipped nail polish off before I came in.

45:32And I was looking at my mother's hands. It was my mom's hands that were taking the nail polish off. And I was really conscious of just how often my mother is sitting inside of me and also my father. My father is in my body. Like I'll just be going through the day and he's present in my physical body. and, you know, we're in illusion that we think that we're separate and we think that, you know, one idea is superior to another idea. We're all in this experience together and - But some ideas are better than others. Well, you obviously believe that. Yeah, I do. I do believe that. I don't think it's helping you.

46:20I really don't think it's helping you. Yeah, it's better in - It's fundamentally true though. Not all ideas are good ideas. Well, you don't know because you wouldn't know because let's say an idea that may look like a bad idea from this perspective, if you had a different perspective, it might be a great idea. Like if you were an ant, a great idea to an ant might be a really bad idea to a human. Do you see? Sure, but - You're talking about humans. To a mentally imbalanced teenager, it might occur to that person that it's a good idea to go shoot up to school. That's fundamentally a bad idea, would you not say?

47:03I guess you could telescope out and say, well, over the course of time, maybe it turned out to be good because this and that happened, but that's a very hard argument. Well, that's a very, you know. So I'm saying like, but I'm just saying, yeah, if you look at the extremes, clearly there are bad ideas out there. Well, in the arms of consciousness, you cannot say that because consciousness is the one that is holding all the mess. I started writing a song yesterday. It was given to me a beautiful mess. I feel that's what we're in right now, a beautiful mess and an opportunity to understand that we are co-creating the world we want to live in.

47:50And so if you like an idea and you feel that that idea is an idea that is benefiting the all, then go serve that idea, go spread the love. And if you have an idea that causes another person harm or exclusion, as a mother consciousness, I would have to say, Maybe that's not a great idea. It's about a idea. Maybe it's not a great idea. All right. So the thing is - So we're arriving into a shared upon reality here. We can stay married. Okay. Today. We're not gonna get divorced today. Today. Okay. On the subject of feeling your mother and feeling your father, you recently went to Alaska where you grew up to deposit their ashes.

48:46They've both since passed away. Your father several years ago, your mother more recently. But I'm curious around that experience and how that kind of connected you more deeply to who they were. Yeah, yeah. So my mom transitioned on December 5th and I was really happy for her. She had been bedridden for a couple of years. She was 96 and she transitioned beautifully. So it was something that I had talked to her about. She was very generous and very funny. We actually shared our love of big rings. This is the ring that you bought me in Rajasthan after we were with the Dalai Lama. No one has a bigger ring than that.

49:38That ring is gigantic. That ring is gigantic. So we shared this love of rings. And actually, when she was taking her last breath, I was at her bedside and running energy through her. And she had her eyes closed. And she opened her eyes and looked at my eyes. And she did a very interesting thing. She opened and shut her mouth three times really wide and then closed. and she did it three times. And then I had the ring, not this ring, I had my dom and her ring and my bracelet on this hand. And she looked in my eyes and clocked the ring and then came back to my eyes. And then she never took another breath.

50:22And it was this beautiful exit. Also hilarious because she and I, the minute I came in her room, it was like, let me try on your ring. And when I traveled around the world, I would always bring her big rings. So it was kind of like our little special thing that we shared. And, you know, I was sharing that, you know, feeling my parents in my body. And one of the things you're reminding me about when I was, when I had had surgery the day I came back, I was, of course, drugged up and I was sitting on the couch. And I walked in and the boys were in the middle of a yoga practice. And Tyler came over and put someone else's hat on my head.

51:04I think it's my dad's hat or someone else's hat on my head, but a cowboy hat. And somebody took a picture. And I felt my mom sitting inside of me during the recovery, like she was with me, stroking my arms. And the boys came up. I think it was Tyler came up that afternoon. and he said, Mom, he's like, the weirdest thing just happened. Like, you freaked us out totally. Like, when you were sitting on the couch, they were like, Abuela was there. Like, she was you. And I hadn't told them that I was having this experience with her. So anyway, so my sister Vicki, bless her, I want to recognize my sister Vicki and her husband Joe and daughter Maggie for taking care of my parents for five years.

51:53They lived with them. And my dad passed away like eight years ago and we had thought my mom would follow soon. You know, he was 92. And my mom stayed around for like eight more years. And so Vicki wanted to go up. You know, they lived in Alaska, had careers in Alaska. My parents, I was raised in Alaska and they were very, very involved in the community. My mom had a clothing store there for over 30 years. She dressed most of the people in town for their important events. And my father was a structural engineer and built many of the art centers, schools, hospitals, museums for the Native corporations.

52:39In particular, David Chipperfield's museum, the Anchorage Museum, was a$72 million museum that my dad worked on. So they had big careers there, like a big life there, and they raised their five children there. And so they had a crypt, and we were waiting to take the ashes together up there. So I broke my elbow, and I just couldn't even think about going up there. and then finally saw the opening and Vicki and I decided, okay, we're going to go do that. And so our other siblings were not able to make it. So it was Vicki and me and then Tyler came with and my brother Stuart. And we traveled up to Alaska.

53:25We rented the Alaska Heritage Center. It's a native heritage center, which my dad helped build. And when my dad took me there, he had taken me to this Athabascan ceremonial house that is one of the most beautiful. It's got a totem pole in the front that's not carved, but there's a portal hole, like an oval hole that you crawl through. And then you're inside their community gathering space. There's a fire pit. there's different totem poles on all four directions and we were able to rent a cabin at my dad's special place and you know my sister ran the obituary we were like eight years late you know my mom passed away in December but was not in touch with very many people and you know I was like Vicki like no one's coming like no one's around anymore but what happened is we gathered about 30 super special people, really, really dear, dear relationships of my parents, of my sister, of mine, of my brothers.

54:31And we had a memorial there for them. And I had Shreemu cheese boards along with smoked salmon, which was donated by one of the guests there. And we then walked through the cultural center and we crawled through this portal in the Athabascan house and we sang for my parents and it was perfect, like incredibly, incredibly beautiful. Stuart and Kelly Moneymaker, who was Stuart's wife for eight years when they were in their twenties, she was up there and she's been doing incredible work with the natives. She's doing documentaries and really working with the cultures up there and bringing awareness to climate change and how it's affecting their tribes and clans.

55:26I learned when I was up there, I was invited to a shaman meeting that Kelly arranged with four women that were from different Alaska tribe lineages. And it was to introduce Dhammanhur to them and Shreemu to them. and what I learned is that in Alaska there are 32 microclimates and there are 200 dialects so they didn't like me using the name clan or even tribe because they said that that's a colonialized term that's been placed on them but I had told this beautiful woman her English name is Jackie that I wanted to wait until I had my ritual name from Dom and Her which was blue whale Balanotra Ezura before I came to meet her.

56:12And when I told her that that was my ritual name, she said to me, in my language, my name means the one who summons the whale. You told me that. Yeah. So it was just, it was incredible. And four times during the meeting, I completely lost my orientation, which usually that doesn't happen to me, but it was a very beautiful meeting of of energies of the way of life. Um, they also live in dream time. Um, they live much, they live a very spiritual connection, connected life to nature. And I'm looking forward to all the relationships that that is opening up to me and to Kelly and Shreemu and Jackie and, and Mehta also, and, um, some of the others, Amelia.

56:58Um, so, uh, I'm inviting, uh, some of them are coming to Dominar with me, which is really great. But anyway, to have been able to be in the Native Heritage Center and honor my parents in that way was one of the most extraordinary experiences. And my sister made an amazing slideshow of my parents' life. And she had reminded me that I interviewed my mom on my podcast for The Life of Me many years ago, maybe 2017. and so Vicky said it would be great if we played it like a piece of the podcast and everyone could hear mom's voice and so we just randomly chose a section of the podcast and it was the section of the podcast where mom is talking about the song Moon River and about how Moon River had become the song of our family and she tells the story of Stuart opening for Jewel the recording artist and him coming out on stage, and I think it was at the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas, and he says, I'd like to dedicate the song to my parents, and he sang Moon River to them that night.

58:06So we listened to the whole song because the Stewart song was recorded on the episode. So the song then played, and then when we went to the ceremonial hut, and first Stewart and Kelly played, then Tyler and Stuart played, then Tyler and I sang 500 Miles, and then at the end, Tyler played and sang Moon River. And so it seemed as if we had planned the whole sequence of events, but we hadn't planned anything, and it's just the way that it all landed. In addition, I had this desire, I was going to take some of my parents' ashes, and I was going to charter a helicopter and go up on a glacier and release their ashes on this glacier.

58:54I've done it before. If you travel to Alaska, it's really a shame to not go up in a helicopter or a plane because you can't understand where you are unless you go up. And so I had this booked. I had paid for it. And Tyler was going to come with me. And Tyler went to dinner with one of my brother's friends. and he shared with him that there had been three fatal helicopter crashes in July in Alaska in this particular helicopter that I was to go up in. So I pivoted and chartered a boat and we went out on Prince William Sound, which is in this fishing village, which has a lot of nostalgia for my childhood.

59:39And so we drove our car through the longest tunnel in the United States and arrived at this fishing village. And much to my wonder and awe, this abandoned building called the Buckner Building, where I explored as a child, was still there, abandoned. I took one of the best pictures of my life then. And then we went out on the boat. The captain was this beautiful girl from Laguna. The sound was glass. We saw eagles, a bear, sea lions, sea otter, and multiple glaciers. And we arrived at this waterfall. The waterfall must be called Angel Waterfall. It looks like an angel. And to the left of it was this great elder face in the rocks.

1:00:28And it really looked like Easter Island and my mom is from Chile. So it looked like it was their spot. And so my brother and I deposited their ashes in honor of the five children in all that they gave to us. And it was beautiful, like pristine, beautiful, amazing. That's quite a story. And it was quite a love affair that your parents had. It's a remarkable love story. It's very very cinematic. I think we've told the story before on the podcast, but for people who are newer, who may not know, your dad was from Amarillo, Texas. Your mom is from Chile, from Santiago. They met because your mom, correct me if I'm wrong, was a secretary working for the American Geological Society in Santiago.

1:01:29She was engaged to an American engineer who perished in the context of performing his job, which was mapping the jungle for - He drowned. Oh, he drowned, okay. And your father was his replacement. So she was engaged to be married and a month before their wedding, she received the teletype message that he had drowned. Thank you. because she was the secretary., he was working for the same company. and my father was mapping the jungles in the Amazon and he was his replacement. Yeah. Yeah. He was a larger than life sort of Indiana Jones type character who was a bush pilot, a hunter and fisherman who would go out on the glaciers for weeks on end and knew his way around the outdoors, let's say.

1:02:24And sort of moved his family from Colorado to Anchorage, much to the chagrin of your siblings. A nightmare. Uprooted the whole family. It was not a conscious parent choice at all. And your mother was sort of reared in a very proper household, is very kind of stylish and cosmopolitan. It's sort of a green acres kind of thing, right? Like your dad is, got the cowboy hat on and the shotgun. and your mom is, you know, dressed to the nines. It's just kind of hilarious, right? I told the story at the memorial that when Skype first was invented and we Skyped with mom the first time, like she showed up in like a fur for the Skype.

1:03:15I was like, oh my God, it's Mick Jagger. And your house, you know, I visited your home in Anchorage many years ago. It's just filled with, you know, animal heads everywhere and artifacts collected from your father's life. That's right, and I now have the skulls. I didn't accept any fur things when I have the skulls. Which is sort of curious in the context of our plant-based lifestyle. It's way off brand. But I have to say my dad, I mean, in the later years, I mean, he would just come in the kitchen and just say, how is this taste this good when it doesn't have salt pork in it. So he - Well, he used to come to LA before they moved here and he had a favorite restaurant, right?

1:04:03Where they would like serve pig knuckles and stuff like that. That you would have to take them to. Some German nightmare situation. I don't know. I can't even remember. Like the Black Forest or something like that. Oh, horrifying. And I love the story about kind of the music passing down from generation to generation. I mean, music is a, you know, kind of a recurring theme in your family. And you say like, oh, you know, you are this musician. It's in your genes. Your brother, you know, was a very well-respected musician who, as you mentioned, played with Jewel, but he also played with Lucinda Williams.

1:04:36He was in The Wallflowers, had a very kind of accomplished story career. And now we're seeing kind of Tyler and Trapper pick up that mantle and pursue their musical career. And Kelly, Stewart's first wife, also a very accomplished musician. Yeah. Interestingly. She is. What was the band that she was in? I always forget. Exposé, right? It was like an 80s, it had a moment in the 80s, right? But it was also so bizarre. Okay, so we're talking about mysticism and like the life and whatever. Okay, so I don't know if you guys remember, but I may have shared on the podcast that when I was opening the cafe in Memphis, Tennessee, I was looking for fabric for the banquette that's in the cafe.

1:05:16And I drove sort of out of Memphis, not out, just, you know, down the road a bit and went into this little teeny shop and to my left was the exact fabric that was my first fashion collection that was on the cover of iMagnon. Like 33 years later, I'm looking at the fabric of my collection. So, and it's the same color scheme. It's black and gold. So, it really freaked me out. It was like a sign like, oh, you're here. You're in the right place. You know, it's a breadcrumb that's there that it's just so random, not random. So anyway, so all this time passes and I'm getting ready to go up to Alaska and have the memorial, have the meeting with the native tribes, like I'm introducing Dom and her, connecting with Kelly.

1:06:05And Mathis, our daughter, out of the blue, decides to go online and search Julie Pyatt clothing. And she buys this vest, or no, she sends me the Etsy listing for this vest that was from the same collection. And I'm like, oh my God, that's wild. Like, there it is. And then I go, oh, wait a second. Kelly wore my collection when she was in the band Expose. Expose wore the collection. It was in the LA Times. It was for Gorbachev, like, children charity something that happened. I thought it was for the AMAs, but it wasn't. It was like Gorbachev charity, whatever. And they were photographed in my collection and it was in the LA Times.

1:06:52I mean - And now they're selling it on Etsy. But how weird just that I was just on my way to see Kelly. I wasn't even remembering that she had done that. And then my daughter just pulls in that thread. So then Kelly bought the vest to give to Jeanette, the lead singer, like 40 years later or whatever. So it was just another nod of that, you know, how connected we all are and how beautiful the mystic guidance is and these signs. And if we choose to listen and see them as such. It's a good place to take a quick break. Okay.

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1:11:33And also, if you're watching this on YouTube in the description below. Yay, all right, thanks. But yeah, these cookbooks spawned a lot and it's interesting to look back on them. It's crazy. The Plant Power Away, the cover, like the kids are so young. I know, we're so young. And the Plant Power Away Italia is sort of the sleeper book. I think it is a work of art and it brings back so many memories, but it's really beautifully rendered. I'm very proud of that book, proud of you. for that book. Thank you. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Awesome. Well, that's a very generous giveaway. Yeah. I thought it would be sort of cool to just share.

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1:12:49One of the funnest things of recent was that we have a couple sandwiches on a menu at an extraordinary deli called B &T's Deli on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. And Britt and Terrence are the owners and their longtime podcast listeners, or maybe not so long time, but they went plant-based because of us. And they connected with our team. And, you know, I have to say that they have created two of the most delicious sandwiches that I've ever eaten in my life with my product, but also their menu is extraordinary. I think sandwiches in general for me are always disappointing. Like often when I'll order a sandwich, like the bread's not right, or the sauce isn't right, or it's dry.

1:13:36It's just like ordering a sandwich for me in general is not high up on the list. Also, because I don't eat cheese, maybe that sort of makes the options less exciting. But these guys have created an exceptional menu. They're using a lot of mushrooms and all the flavors and high-end pickles, like really deli, it's deli luxe. And so the sandwich that you and I were at the launch for last weekend is called Le Bon Bertie. And it is a French sauteed leek, homemade balsamic glaze with arugula. And they use our Shreemoo Camembert flavor, which is called Bertie. When I bit into it, I thought I was eating real gooey French camembert, actually to the point that I called my kitchen to inquire about the level of the cultures and what's going on.

1:14:37And nothing has changed there. Everything is stable. Same, same, same. So it is all the flavors together that have produced this next level sandwich experience. Now coming up next month, they're going to release another sandwich, debut another sandwich. It's called the Gold Standard and that's using gold alchemy, which is the turmeric infused. So I hope you guys will check that out. That's really cool. And then really exciting, and this is a dream come true. I've been really desiring to enter into the Shreemu shop. Like I love the experience with people eating Shreemu. Like that exchange with people eating the product and then telling me their experience and describing the flavors, nothing beats it because it's such a unanimous winner.

1:15:28And that is no matter how you're eating. So Shreem is plant-rich, paleo, gluten-free, keto, raw, dairy-free, organic, and kosher. So what happened is, is I was in CB2 Malibu and I love the design there. And I cruised in there to get some props for shooting. And I met the - CB2 is a furniture, modern furniture store basically. Yeah, the beautiful furniture line. And I met Kerr, who is the general manager of Malibu. And I had rented and taken out some platters for a shoot because I was photographing Shreemu. And then the universe made her read my mind and she called me and said, I have something really exciting to ask you, but would you have a pop-up Shreemu shop inside CB2 for the month of November in Malibu?

1:16:28And I was like, hell yeah, I would. So we are gonna be in residence, a pop-up shop in CB2 Malibu during the month of November. We have a fancy new cart that we just acquired that has refrigeration and freezer. And I'm very, very honored. It's such a beautiful design and aesthetic. And I'm just honored to be able to share. I'm Shreema. So we're gonna be doing two activation events. One is an evening wine event on the 7th of November. And then we're doing an afternoon event on the 17th of November on a Sunday. So if you're in the LA area, mark your calendar and come in and say hi. Yeah, it's very cool.

1:17:09It's very cool. And you have a bunch of other kind of interesting deals percolating also, right? I do. I don't know if you can talk about those. No, I do. I mean, I can talk about it. I'm just not gonna show it. So we're very nearing the release of two really amazing products. One is a butter, which you just, I'm just teasing it here. It's the best thing you've ever experienced. There's nothing like it on the market and you'll have to see. It's pretty good. This is like my garment. You know, in the garment days when I was selling fashion, we'd be like, I wanna sell you a pair of pants. It looks kind of like this glass, but it's not this glass.

1:17:48I actually did sell stuff that way. But this butter is absolutely extraordinary. It's in the shape of a pyramid. It is the best thing you have ever tasted. And the packaging is an evolution from our current packaging. It's really a novelty product, and it is going to rock your world. So I'll look forward to rolling that out. It's going to happen very soon, And so just follow along and maybe next time I come on, I can bring the butter. And then also, I do want to share my Cloud9 formulation. I want to talk a little bit about it because I have code for people that just want to code for some extraordinary cashew mozzarella that will rock your world and is better and unparalleled in the market.

1:18:39It is the next evolution of mozzarella. It floats through your digestion like a prayer. It is so good. So I wanted to share that as well. And mozzarella, just for people that don't know, it's not like the dried sprinkle mozzarella. It's like the mozzarella balls that are suspended in like a brine. It's shipped in crystal salted waters. Yeah, it's a full legit mozzarella. It's unbelievable. And you can like weave it into pasta. you can put it on a sandwich also. There's so many like interesting applications. I made a beautiful sort of like fall herb board for you. Awesome. Do you wanna grab that?

1:19:18Yeah. Should we bring that over? Yeah. And so this is mozzarella, which I've made it on a traditional heirloom tomato, but you can also just have beautiful crostinis and some beautiful radicchio and dill to garnish. This is kind of a twist on a caprese. Also all the beautiful fall colors with figs. This product is just an extraordinary formulation and I think you're just gonna love it. Beautiful. What's the code? The code is RRPCloud9, the number nine. All right. And what do you get? What's the discount? You get 22. 22 % discount. Right. What have you been learning on your entrepreneurial journey that you think would be helpful to people who are watching or listening?

1:20:15Yeah, I mean - Like it's hard, it's hard to be a startup founder, you're a CEO, you have to manage people, you have to balance the budget, you got a market, you have to wear so many hats and every single day, it's just challenge, obstacle, challenge, obstacle. Yeah, I mean, isn't it? It's just, I think one of the greatest wisdom that I can share right now is that nobody knows what's going on, right? There is no formula. There's no formula that's working. There's no certainty in past historical trends. And I think that the greatest asset that we can have is being able to adapt in the moment and to really, really stay in the beauty of what you're doing, the relationships that you're creating.

1:21:10My team is extraordinary. My product is extraordinary. And we are all working and creating at the highest level that we can to keep innovating, to keep seeing the opening. And I don't think that any one lane is the ticket. Like it's everything all at once. And then tracking in real time, what's working and what isn't working and pivoting and shifting. It is a right brain, left brain kind of exercise, right? Because fundamentally what you're saying is you have to trust your intuition. You have to kind of be present and check in with yourself about what feels like the right direction or kind of decision to make.

1:22:03But you have to balance that against all these people that come in, money people like, oh, I've done startups or I've raised money or I'm a venture capitalist or I'm an investment banker or I'm a private equity guy. And here's how you do it. And here's how I grew this other company from X to Z or whatever it is, right? And that can be intoxicating and also confusing, right? Like, do I trust this person? Is that the right avenue for me sometimes? Especially when your back is up against the wall and you feel challenged, you wanna feel like, like somebody is gonna come in and just make it all okay, right?

1:22:40You know what I mean? And like solve all of your problems. And I think one of the lessons that I think you keep learning or you've learned, you know, time and time again is that, you know, no one's coming to save you. Like it really is a journey that you're on and it is your intuition that has always kind of like, guided you. And that doesn't mean that there aren't people that come in and you're like, this is the right person to add to my team or I should listen to this person. But trusting your own counsel and your trusted circle of people to run these kinds of decisions by, I think has been, I've watched you do that time and time again, feels like it's like a fundamental kind of part of how you make decisions about how to guide this mothership.

1:23:27Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's definitely going to be unique for me. And it's unique for each entrepreneur. Like you have your own path, you know. It's not a cookie cutter formula. And I also think that I've been cured of some of that illusion just, you know, miles on the road and being excited and then going into expectations and then finding out, yeah, that's not in alignment. I think the number one key thing is to be very discerning about the money that you take and who you align with. It's really everything. And I will say, though, that now in my evolution, you know, in the beginning years, like she was my baby and I had to keep her pure.

1:24:12And I, you know, I had to do it on my own. I had to name it what I wanted to name it. I had to do all the formulations. I had to do the branding. I had to really choose the investors and how I wanted to invest, choose the stores that I even wanted to be in. And I've done all that very, very intentionally. And now she is at a place that she is ready to go to the next expansion. So I have margins perfected, production perfected, facilities, you know, health certifications, organic certifications. there isn't any formulation in the market that touches, that gets anywhere near what I've created. And I already have 40 other formulations, like I'm on a leash right now.

1:24:59So right now, I'm also, like in my state of mother, that is evolving. And so as the mother of Shreemu, I'm now stewarding her into her next expansion. It's not like I have to hold her in a certain state and I have to iron will control everything. She's been fully birthed, fully birthed in all those different ways. And I want her to reach millions. It's a global vision. You know, I've been contacted from people in the EU recently, you know, the vision is big. And I am an artist and I have done a beautiful expression of my, what my gift is. And I am a great leader and I have a great team and I'm so grateful for them.

1:25:56And there's more to move it out. So now's the time that I'm open to that next relationship. And, you know, I'm sitting on, well, as my friend Christina Carlino told me, I'm sitting on a billion dollar entity. Not today, not in today's dream, but it's all here. So, and, you know, after the elbow break, I reassessed a lot of things in my life, you know, and she just has a very exciting timeline in this world. People absolutely love this product. So, anyway, it's gonna be an amazing - It is exciting. I mean, you have nailed the product, like all the fundamentals and the essentials are like sort of taken care of.

1:26:48and you're at that stage where all the things that you did to get it to this place are not the same things that you need in order to get to that next place. It's like the natural evolution of any business. Like I went through it with this, like kicking and screaming and probably too late and all of that and had to learn some of those lessons the hard way. But you're a much more seasoned serial entrepreneur. Like you've been in this place before a couple of times. And so, you seem to be welcoming it. Like you're like, you know, you're like, you're like, bring it on. You know what I mean? As opposed to, no, I need to control every little detail or if I let anyone else touch it, it's not gonna be the same and all of that kind of stuff, right?

1:27:32Well, I mean, I've done a lot of things and I've made a lot of courageous moves. I mean, I moved my company across the country, you know? And I've had to make, you know, changes in my team or the universe has made changes in my team that has been very, you know, a very intense experience. There's been a lot of growth and a lot of evolution and a lot of perfection, but it's like now we're sitting with all of the inputs. Like they're just, they're all there. So now all it is is a matter of eyes on her and how that's gonna be. And, you know, we're moving into food service. I can announce this now.

1:28:11We're gonna be doing a partnership with Urban Remedy, which is really exciting. That's super exciting. It's super great. That was the thing I was trying to tease. I wasn't sure whether you could say that out loud. And, you know, very aligned with Nika, the founder. She's an extraordinary woman. And explain what Urban Remedy is for people that don't know. So Urban Remedy is an amazing, it's high vibrational food. It's a raw nutrition and it's kiosks in - Yeah, it's like grab and go kiosks all over the place. Yeah, really high vibe food. And, you know, Nika is just an amazing, incredible entrepreneur that has created something extraordinary.

1:28:46And we've been trying to get on with them for a while, but as a new company, we had to go through the safety process. And, you know, it's all miles on the road. It's all those little things that you don't realize you have to contend with from, you know, what goes on the label and the size of the typeface and, you know, what is, you know, required in order to get your organic certification and all of these kind of regulatory hurdles that you're constantly having to overcome. Like it's never ending. It's never ending. And also just, you know, a new company like mine, like we really need support.

1:29:23Like I'm so grateful for the RRP listeners that have ever ordered from us, the ones who subscribe. You know, it is keeping us alive. Like it is really, really, really appreciated and it makes a big difference. And just reminding everybody that we make the most extraordinary gift for the holidays, for Thanksgiving, for Christmas. It's such great packaging and it's consumable and it'll be novel and interesting. So we're just ready to serve. And really the core of Shreemu is community. It's all about that food in the mouth experience, that exchange. And like at BNT's last weekend, it was so cute.

1:30:07Like these three young girls came up like maybe in their late teens and they were just, you know, going through every flavor and just loving all of it. And it's always so fun to have food bring us together because food is really the most powerful ritual that we have as a humanity. And so maybe rather than separating and getting caught in constriction of fear of what's going to come, of what is going to happen. Maybe we should show up at our neighbors with a beautiful box of Shreemu and find a way to commune, find the commonality, find the connection, because I guarantee you at the core of every human being are the same desires, drives, hopes, dreams, and needs.

1:30:55We're not separate and we're not different. And I really believe in humanity. I know I don't like to have beliefs, but I have a lot of celebration. You're holding on to that one. I'm holding onto one in humanity. You have certainty around that? Certainty around it. Yeah. Well, yeah. This is gonna be your doom. I have to, it's celebration of humanity. It's like humans are amazing life forms, incredible life forms. And there are also many other life forms on this planet that we are gonna be entering into. That's incredible. Oh no, more incredible, like the trees, or let's talk about mycelium, or the mountain, the stones that hold the rocks, the water that holds the codes and the memories of our entire planet, the ice, you know, the ice that I was communing with in Alaska.

1:31:44It's like, what's really weird right now is I would say one of the changes since the visitation experience, I see beings in nature. I always saw beings in nature. Like, oh yeah, I can see that. It is on amplified beyond to the exponential. I am literally seeing faces, beings floating out of different mountains, trees, leaves, like it's all over the place. And maybe it's a heightened creativity. Maybe it's from all those years. I was talking about the abandoned building, the Buckner building in Anchorage. It was this military building that had a bowling alley, a prison, a jail, a bowling alley, a jail, a ballroom, a surgical suite.

1:32:29And it had an underground tunnel that led to the electric company. And as a kid, we played in that building. It was like the shining. And we didn't have iPhones. We couldn't like, you know, shine it down. We were just us. and I have a scar on my leg where I fell and cut my leg on a beer bottle that broke. We were gonna drink one beer with like - When you were in high school. No, not even high school, like junior high, less. And the crazy thing is, is that we hiked those mountains behind the Buckner building in Prince William Sound all day, every day without any supervision. No bear spray, no phone, no water, no gun.

1:33:12And no one even knew where we were. And that experience was just really impressed upon me this time, especially being out on the boat and in the sound and seeing all the wildlife. And I brought a stone back from one of the beaches that we stopped on as the frequency of that place of my childhood where I, you know, I lived with nature, like lived, I lived on the edge, like nobody knew. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of amazing that you ended up unscathed from all those experiences. A miracle. But people were dying all the time, right? Like, oh, well, Joe, you know, didn't make it back from whatever, you know, like a bear got him or somebody fell down a crevasse.

1:33:55Yeah, in my brother's, definitely in my brother in my high school, like my brother was a pallbearer and about eight of his friends died when he was in high school. Like how, like that's a lot. That is a lot. And it was maybe one from suicide, but a lot of it from, you know, motorcycle accident, car accident, snow machine. Those are more normal. Snow machine, bears, glacier, you know, bush plane, fishing. One of our friends fell off of Cornice and Denali in high school. Wow. And you always had this feeling like Alaska is unforgiving. So I was just talking to the guys in the break and sharing about Alaska.

1:34:36And it was like, you know, the nature is so pristine that it's the best day you've ever had in your life. Like that boat trip that I did with Tyler and Stuart and putting my parents in the sound, it's one of the best days of my life. And then the hanging of the depression. And I was trying to get into what is the sadness that is felt in that land? is it the sadness of the indigenous peoples? Like it's intense. Like it is not, we couldn't wait to leave. I mean, we loved it, but we also were like, we gotta go. Well, there's a gravity to it. It's heavy. Like anything can happen. Like you are in danger there.

1:35:21Plus it's gray and it's precipitating all the time and it's cold. So it's like, it's not exactly, you know, conducive to like, you know, a cheery mood. Especially not for you. Yeah, I struggle with that tremendously. Yeah, so it was wild. I mean, I would say that it definitely cracked open my literary creativity and Skolnick has been encouraging me to write that memoir as soon as possible.

1:35:55But I've had some pretty profound experiences there and yeah, and it's by the grace of God that I'm alive. It's by the grace of God that we're all alive. On that subject of being hopeful or having this belief in humanity and you were mentioning like, oh, the trees and the mycelium, I was reminded of this experience I just had attending the retreat, the summit for Regen Ventures, which is this venture fund that I'm on the advisory board of that was founded by a guy called Dan Fitzgerald, who's an amazing individual who comes from the investment banking world. And in part due to the tragic death of his daughter, his wife, and his daughter, Frankie, who died, I believe at age nine, two years ago, from a rare form of cancer, he made a career transition and decided to figure out a way to take his skillset and leverage it for the benefit of and he created this venture fund that invests in very cutting edge climate solution regenerative technologies.

1:37:08And so I got to spend a day and a half with Dan and his collection of founders who are all young people doing wild shit. Like you mentioned Mycelium, there was a founder there who's basically creating a library, a collection of like every form of Mycelium known to man and is on this like discovery mission and what can be learned from that data set in terms of like new applications for all kinds of things that would be a more sustainable solution to many of the products that we now use. There was a young Chinese chemistry PhD from Cambridge who has figured out how to create leather in the way that, by way of a process I don't fully understand, that has some, you know, kind of bear some relationship to what Uma Valeti is doing to create meat, right?

1:38:10Like creating real leather, but not from an animal. There was a guy who figured out there's a microbe that exists in the calderas of volcanoes that could be replicated that sequesters carbon. And I guess somehow also is a way of producing food, like crazy stuff, right? So I left that experience hopeful, like here are young people, really smart young people who are identifying and executing on like these amazing solutions. There was an Irish founder who, him and his partners have created this robot that crawls along the bottom of the ocean and plants seagrass to like regenerate the sort of underwater ecosystems, like really cool stuff.

1:38:59Yeah, see? So there is, I do believe in humanity and I can get caught up in my, you know, dystopian, you know, gloom scenarios. Yeah, and, you know, really like, in the election, like whoever wins, it's not the end of our civilization. Like it's just - I hope not. Of course it's not. Of course it's not. Well, civilizations end all the time. Well, I know. But I mean, what I mean, it's not the end of life on earth, maybe I should say. It's not the end of life on earth. I mean, and the point that we should, we could remember if we wanted to is remember the energy you're putting out in the world. So counter it, counter it with holding the vision that of course nothing's going to happen.

1:39:43Of course, it's going to be guided. Of course, it's going to be much better than what we feared. Of course, all you have to fear is fear itself. It's just not, you know, we've been in similar spots throughout the evolution of our society. It's not the worst time. And it's also the best time. You know, so where are you gonna invest your energy? Because where you put your attention is what expands. So we should put more into celebrating these incredible, innovative, fresh human minds and hearts that are creating a better world, you know? And you can say, well, that's, you know, that's not intelligent or that's too Pollyanna.

1:40:40or it's two, but we are gonna start to realize more and more how much our thoughts create a reality and how much the mind is affecting the quality of life, the state of mind. And if we're intelligent enough to choose, why not choose an expansive scenario instead of a horrible scenario? So I just, you know, life will go on. no matter what happens, just get some Shreemu. Get some Shreemu. Coming in, putting a button on it with the plug. Yeah, get some Shreemu. Remember that you are loved and celebrated no matter who you are listening to this podcast and go out and be with the ones you love. Be a bridge, reach a handout to someone and go out in nature and create whatever it is that's inside your heart that you love, what your biggest desire is, what your biggest excitement is.

1:41:43Go to your biggest excitement and concentrate on that. And, you know, what will be, will be, you know? Well put. I did wanna say, like, I love the idea that you're kind of expanding your offerings and kind of moving into this exploration with food service. And on that point, like if you're a restaurateur, if you're a chef, if you're a caterer, if you're, I don't know, you know, anybody who is in that food world, like, and this interests you, you should definitely reach out to Julie. Like it's cool that Shreemoo is finding its way onto menus in various restaurants and in these sort of boutique shops.

1:42:25Because we think of it like, well, it's either you order it through the website or it's in some grocery store, right? And right now it's in Air One in Los Angeles, but there are all these other kind of cool, more community-based opportunities that are more connected to this idea of like community building, right? Like when you're on the menu on a sandwich in a small little restaurant or little shop, and people are walking in off the street and there's a story to be told, like that's a different experience. Totally different experience. And we are actually, we have a chocolate mousse actually that's doing very well in food service right now.

1:43:03That's incredible. You can get it at the Magic Castle, right? That's right, Magic Castle. So if you go to the Magic Castle, most famous sort of magic experience in the world, it's like sort of this iconic institution here in Los Angeles, like your deserves on the menu there, which is cool. So anyway, thanks for that. Yeah, and also even chefs, like we recently just connected with Paul Girard, who's an amazing chef in the community. And he's been using Shreemu and his offerings with his clients and he's loving it. And the stuff that he's making is just blowing our minds. So we're just into the collaboration.

1:43:40We wanna connect with you. We wanna know you. And we wanna make life together, you know? So that's why I'm so excited about these collaborations and really being in the community because it really is, you know, with Shreemu, there's a connection made over this ritual of food, over this food. So thank you. All right, well, come back another time. Thanks, my love. Share some more. Thanks for inviting me. Love you. Appreciate all your wisdom shared today. And if people are interested in learning more about you and Srimu, they can go to srimu.com, S-R-I-M-U.com. If you wanna pick up the Cloud9, use code RRPCloud9 and you get a 20%, what is it?

1:44:2422. 22 % discount. the URL, the link for the giveaway, you can find in the show notes on the episode page or in the description below if you're watching on YouTube. And if you're interested in learning more about Julie, you should check out her Water Tiger Spiritual Community Program, like where you share. Do you wanna talk a little bit about that or where else other people can find you and learn about what you're doing? Yeah, thank you. Thanks, babe. Yeah, so if you want to join me for some life guidance and spiritual counseling, I have an online platform called Water Tiger. It is a way to no way.

1:45:10It is honoring the individuality in each being, and it's a living portal now of over 50 techniques that you can stream and select at your discretion. and we have a monthly call for two hours where I transmit planetary updates and also answer questions and give life advice on every single aspect of what it means to be a human being. So if that interests you, you can find it on my Instagram at Srimati, S-R-I-M-A-T-I or also at my website, juliepyatt.com. We have some exciting new offerings in that with healing immersions that deal with specific issues like trauma, like opening creativity, like creating boundaries in your life and embodying health and vitality.

1:45:59So if you're challenged in any of those areas, we have immersions that are specifically designed to target those areas. So I hope to see you there. All right, thanks. Let's do it again sometime. Thanks, babe. Peace. Bye. Namaste.

1:46:20Thank you.

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