Misty Tripoli hasn't been back in 25 years. She and Doug are cousins who lost touch, reconnected through a peptide-induced vision and an Instagram follow, and sat down to talk about everything that happened in between. What happened in between is a lot. Bulimia for 16 years. A top fitness career in LA built entirely on a facade. One bong hit that collapsed the third dimension and sent her looking for who she actually was. A Nike contract that arrived within two weeks of her walking away from everything. Eighteen years in the jungles of Mexico, off the grid, building an oasis she didn't even know she wanted until the money to build it showed up. And underneath all of it, the same thread: faith. Not the kind that denies what is hard. The kind that lets you hold a vision even when you are bankrupt, even when you almost run out of money twice, even when the how is completely invisible. Doug brings his own thread into this one. A glioblastoma diagnosis. A transformed relationship with death. The strange freedom that comes when you stop pretending you are going to live forever. What grief actually feels like when you hold your mom on her last breath. What it means to feel more alive than ever at the exact moment the doctors say you probably won't be. Timestamps of Key Moments 00:00 — Intro: A 25-year gap, a peptide flush, and the Instagram follow that brought them back together 03:30 — Head cheerleader and bulimic at 16: how Misty held both realities at once 07:00 — Dad leaving at eight, a teacher who noticed, and a mother who raised seven kids alone with no financial support 12:00 — What Wendy Tripoli actually was: youngest elected state legislator in Utah, wise woman, seeker, and the black sheep who had to find her own way in 18:00 — How Misty describes feeling her mom now: the tarot deck by the bed, coffee in the jungle, and answers that just appear 24:00 — LA fitness queen, keeping up with the Joneses, and everything built on a lie 29:00 — One bong hit, the veil falling, and the moment Misty connected to the power she had always known was there 35:00 — Quitting the corporate job, meditating eight hours a day, and dancing alone on the beach as the Groove Method is born 41:00 — What Groove actually is: ancient tribal dance, unified movement, and why it hits like a spiritual experience even though all you did was shake your ass to hip hop 47:00 — Nike signed her within two weeks: the story of how she went from bankrupt to a seven-year contract by just showing up and doing what she does best 53:00 — Moving to Mexico: Oliver on the beach, one last night in Puerto Vallarta, and the moment she decided she was never going home 58:00 — Two suitcases to one: how Misty got rid of everything she owned in two weeks and never looked back 01:03:00 — Faith as the actual mechanism: why most people can't take the leap and what Misty did differently 01:09:00 — Reprogramming money beliefs with Abraham Hicks, money trees in her mind, and going from nothing to the Body Groove app becoming the number one advertiser on Facebook 01:16:00 — Finding the land: stripping down, swimming to the back of a cenote, and buying it on the spot without knowing what she would build 01:22:00 — Doug's diagnosis, what changed, and why he has never felt more alive 01:30:00 — Death, fear, and faith: why you cannot hold both, and what it actually looks like to carry death sweetly 01:38:00 — Misty holding her mom on the last breath, the room filled with loved ones, and why she cried once and then started talking to her more than ever 01:44:00 — Stillness as the path back to faith: sitting in the jungle, watching molecules become closets, and the wisdom that lives in nature 01:50:00 — The future of the oasis: buying the surrounding land, full food production, chickens, goats, and her own surrender experiment in the jungle Follow Doug: IG: https://www.instagram.com/doug_cartwright/ Join the Alchemy Accelerator: https://www.alchemysalescoaching.com/ Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: @AlchemyPodwithDougCartwright Follow Misty: IG: @mistytripoli
