Mariah Gannessa of Four Visions Market: How an ethical business can actually help people thrive, being guided by indigenous wisdom, parenting as sacred work, saying yes to life, and more #009
We Are Already Free · Nathan Maingard | Transformational Guide and Holistic Wellness Facilitator
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Show Notes
Society's current economic systems are harmful for you, your loved ones and all of life on earth…but maybe you’re stuck in a job you don’t believe in, working for an extractive company just to make ends meet? Maybe you feel trapped because you need to afford supporting your children or family?
Thankfully, today’s guest, Mariah Gannessa, is a mother, co-founder of Four Visions Market, and seeker on the medicine path. She shares her experiences in aligning herself with indigenous medicine ways, sacred commerce, creating a business that is ‘beyond fairtrade’ and so much more.
In this episode you will discover how you can reconnect with the abundance of nature and align yourself with a reciprocal way of living.
Mariah shares:
- How Four Visions Market uses 'sacred commerce' and why it is 'beyond fairtrade'
- How we are birthing a new paradigm where we can all thrive
- How motherhood is the fire under Mariah's butt to 'get up and keep going' in creating a new reality
- Near the end, Mariah shares a spur of the moment blessing for the listeners of this podcast, which gives me tingles every time I hear it
There is so much practical inspiration in this episode. No matter what stage you are in your journey, there are steps you can take…little things which will create big ripples of positive change.
I’m your host Nathan Maingard and, as a highly sensitive person in a profoundly sick society, I was nearly crushed by my efforts to fit a mould our society just calls ‘being a good citizen’. Now I help people like me to feel, heal, and grow a beautiful world using gentle breathwork, empowering songs, stories and poems, and 1:1 sessions...as well as this podcast.
Support yourself, the planet, and this podcast:
- Heal yourself while supporting the sovereignty of indigenous peoples at https://alreadyfree.me/fourvisionsmarket (use discount code ALREADYFREE for 10% off your first purchase) (affiliate link).
- Sign up for the 5 Day Morning Practice Challenge to take control of your life!
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And now, please enjoy this heartwarming, inspiring and empowering episode with the delightful Mariah Gannessa.
Links and things from the episode:
- Fourvisionsmarket.com
- @fourvisionsmarket
- @mariahgannessa on instagram
- Magicfundamazon.com
- Nathan's song Eskawata Kayawai
- Children of the rainforest nonprofit
Timestamps:
06:17 How to receive from indigenous wisdom
11:34 How to walk in right relationship with indigenous cultures
13:27 Spiritual payments: making an offering of gratitude to Nature
15:04 Giving up conveniences to honour connection and communion with divinity
16:48 The Four Visions Market
18:20 Why indigenous communities need your economic support
23:14 Indigenous people get spiritual support but they need financial support
24:45 What is four visions market and why it's important
26:14 How Four Visions Market uses 'sacred commerce' and why it is 'beyond fairtrade'
29:41 MAGIC Fund: Movement for Amazonian Growth and Indigenous Cultures
30:42 Sharing gratitude and abundance for all
31:17 The new paradigm: we can all thrive
32:51 How to get involved in sacred commerce and get out of 'the cycle of no life'
34:13 Why you should fill the time you can with joy and nature
34:54 Some of the 'Little things' you can use to make big ripples in your life.
39:28 There's always medicine, wherever you are
40:51 How motherhood is the fire under Mariah's butt to 'get up and keep going' in creating a new reality
44:21 Journeying to the stars to meet her son (and how it was the most powerful ceremony she'd ever experienced)
46:50 How being with her child is being in spiritual work
47:42 Parenthood is the reminder of why we do what we do
51:42 How to support the wisdom ways you receive healing from
59:51 On being worthy of receiving from indigenous cultures
01:01:54 What We are already free means to Mariah
01:02:22 Say yes to life!
01:03:42 A final blessing from Mariah Gannessa