The Heart of Cacao and Conscious Business — with Ally Lyons
Ally Lyons is a holistic health practitioner and event experience curator.
She spent a decade leading operations for mission-driven startups and entrepreneurs.
Her own health challenges sparked an obsession with ingredient transparency.
Hours in grocery aisles turned into Is It Clean, a nonprofit rating ingredients and packaged foods to help people choose the cleanest option available.
In parallel, a Maverick community cacao ceremony opened a new door.
Ally deepened into herbalism, yoga, Reiki, and ceremony.
Daily practice with a friend became Journey With Cacao, sharing ceremonial cacao as heart medicine in community.
She now blends systems thinking with sacred ritual.
Clean food for the body.
Cacao for the heart.
Business as a conduit for love and service.
In This Episode, You Will Learn
How to evaluate packaged food fast: a practical rubric for scanning labels and choosing the cleanest option in any store.
A simple path to reduce overwhelm: “good, better, best” choices when access to perfect options is limited.
How to build a mission tool from a personal pain point and invite community feedback to refine it.
What makes cacao “ceremonial” and how sourcing, stewardship, and intention change your experience.
A 10-minute cacao ritual to drop from head to heart: prepare, set intention, sip slowly, and listen to the body.
How to discern plant allies and align daily practices with genuine inner signals rather than habit.
Ways to protect your energy as a founder: design roles around your zone of genius and partner for the rest.
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