Lopa van der Mersch: Business As A Tool For Spiritual Growth
This one time, a shaman told me to avoid caffeine for 3 weeks after a powerful energetic clearing.
No coffee, no green tea, no nothing. After tasting one too many coffee alternatives that tasted really, really bad, I discovered Rasa on Instagram.
Since then, I’ve become an avid supporter and unofficial ambassador of the brand, and its incredible products that are organic, sustainable, functional AND delicious. I’ve also become a huge fan of Rasa’s founder Lopa van der Mersch – and that’s without even knowing her mind-blowing story (which she shares in this conversation).
Trust me, this episode is a special one and will take you to new dimensions of understanding business as a spiritual practice, and social media as a tool for expansion.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What Lopa’s personal spiritual journey has to do with her business growing 20x in less than a year
- How she dropped out of school, lived in a jungle in Costa Rica, escaped a spiritual cult, made money dancing, worked with the UN and Richard Branson, and spoke at TEDx – all in one lifetime
- The importance of doing business from a place of truth and integrity
- The instrumental role that social media plays in the rapid growth of Rasa
- How to combine strategic business mindset with Divine guidance
- Being guided by plant wisdom
- Accessing new dimensions of consciousness and applying that to business
- How to use social media to challenge your beliefs and develop compassion
- Entering a new paradigm where spirituality and business fuel each other
- Business as a path to growth and personal development
- Lopa’s path to self-love
Related episode:
- 161 Rasa Founder Lopa van der Mersch: Business As Its Own Energetic Being, Plant Consciousness and Energy Intelligence
- 145 Michelle Sinnette: New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder
Resources:
- Rasa adaptogenic coffee alternative – use code BREAKFASTCRIMINALS on wearerasa.com to get 15% off
- The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power book by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
- Hakomi therapy method
Connect with Lopa:
About Lopa van der Mersch:
Lopa is the founder and CEO of Rasa, a brand making adaptogens accessible through holistically-balanced tonic adaptogenic coffee alternatives…while bringing some much-needed humor and realness to wellness. Growing a start-up from launch to breakeven in 8 months, while attachment-parenting two tiny humans (3 & 1), is no easy feat, and Lopa credits a steady diet of adaptogens, integrity, and playfulness as being key to Rasa’s success (and her not going completely insane in the process).
Lopa’s past is a wild ride that includes: dropping out of college to caretake a wildlife refuge, a short stint as a British dancing lady, cremating dead bodies, being the Biochar Queen who worked with Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room and spoke at TEDx, joining two cults (which offered both real spiritual value and real trauma), traveling the world, and finally, starting Rasa. Her love of business and adaptogens is only matched by her passion for tea ceremony and her knack for often-inappropriate humor, thanks to the sarcastic 12-year-old that lives inside her.
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Quotes by Lopa van der Mersch:
“Business is a path to growth and personal development.”
“Business is the tool for manifestation of our time.”
“There’s an amazing way that social media can amplify our experience of interconnectivity and the divine.”
“Social media capitalizes on some of the weaknesses of the human mind but if you use it consciously you can go right past that and use it to strengthen your mind.“
“This business is flowing out of what I know to be true and honest for myself.”
“Is my internal self vibrating in the sense of truth?
“Find the doorway into your own definition of truth.”
“The divine is always there, it’s just a matter of taking a breath.”
