Luiza Florence Black (@luizaflorence) is an award-winning Brazilian host and journalist who has collaborated with many channels and publications like NBC, HBO, New York Times and Los Angeles times.

She is also a mother, herbalist and moon ceremonialist. Luiza participated in the most recent Conscious Social Media Program to launch a project dedicated to healing Hashimoto’s disease with science, nutrition and spirituality. In this episode, Luiza shares her grounding and healing energy with us.

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We discuss:

• Luiza’s experience taking the Conscious Social Media Program
• A conscious way to approach social media strategy
• Finding coherence between your job and spiritual practices
• What is permaculture and biodynamic farming
• Practices to feel grounded
• Being influenced by her spiritual medium grandmother
• Overcoming fear of spirituality
• Her struggle to find out the truth about her health
• Being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease
• Autoimmune disease as a pathway to spirituality
• How yoga, chanting and visualization led to miraculous healing
• What happens in a moon ceremony?
• Losing home in Malibu fires
• How Luiza lost her Instagram account with 200K followers and what she did next
• Creating new possibilities using social media
• What brought Luiza from Brazil to USA
• What role acai played in her meeting her husband
• The power of voting with your dollar

Mentioned: 

• Conscious Social Media Program
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Connect with Luiza Florence Black: 

• @luizaflorence
• @meuamigohashimoto

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