Episode 138: Herbalism As A Pathway For Spiritual Awakening With Nana Meriwether, Former Miss USA

Nana Meriwether is a Former Miss USA and professional and Olympic-level volleyball player. 

 

Meriwether went on to work for Harper’s Bazaar as Head of Editorial Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the former Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s Bazaar - America’s first fashion magazine. She has written for and contributed to Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Vogue Australia, The Huffington Post, CR Fashion Book, Cosmopolitan magazine and she edits a wellness blog called, Well, There’s This.

 

She is the founder of Cale, a wellness company focused on alcohol alternatives. The brand innovatively makes wine out of herbs with their first releases being low-alcoholic wine grape varietals infused with healthful, adaptogenic and functional herbs, botanicals, mushrooms and plants.

 

In This Episode:

• Nana was born in South Africa, went to high school in DC, and shares the rest of her origins story.
• How and why she got into pageants and spoiler alert, she became Miss America. 
• How preparing for pageants was Nana's first foray into manifestation and shadow work. 
• The event that started her spiritual awakening.
• How she came up with her low alcohol plant-based wine Cale which is pronounced like kale. 
• How her trip to Costa Rica changed the course of her life. 
• The magic of plants!
• Nana's morning ritual to start her day from an aligned place. 
• How Nana deals with imposter syndrome. 
• Herbalism as a pathway for connecting to a Higher Power.

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