Into the Woo is a modern guide to ancient healing and all things woo—whether you're woo-skeptical, woo-curious, or a full-on star seed child, you're in the right place.
Hosted by Ariana Cleo, a conduit on the journey from grief to joy, each episode features intimate conversations with healers, founders, and familiar faces as they share their coming-out-woo story and the healing modality that transformed their life.
Together, we explore everything from Indigenous healing practices and ancestral wisdom to spiritual traditions, mystical philosophies, natural medicine, and yes—witchy rituals and spells
Trust your intuition, let the magic guide you, and don't be afraid to get a little woo
Rock Bottom, Manifestation & Inner Child Healing with Behave Founder Mayssa Chehata
In episode 26, host Ariana Cleo sits down with Mayssa Chehata, founder and CEO of Behave Candy and host of the Rock Bottom Podcast, to explore what happens when the life you're trying to manifest has to fall apart before something new can take its place.
Mayssa began her journey as a true Woo skeptic. But after leaving her corporate career to build Behave, she entered a period that challenged nearly every part of her identity—from divorce and family struggles to the pressures of building an investor-backed company and eventually hitting what she describes as her rock bottom. Along the way, spirituality went from something she actively resisted to an essential part of how she healed. Into_The_Woo_Ep1_Mayssa_Chehata…
In this episode, we dive into:
-Manifestation & the Life Blow-Up: Why calling in a radically different life can force us to confront the beliefs, relationships, and patterns that no longer align with who we're becoming.
-Rock Bottom & Reinvention: Mayssa opens up about navigating divorce, family addiction, entrepreneurship, financial pressure, and the period that ultimately forced her to turn inward.
-Mushrooms & the Journey Into the Woo: How her first mushroom experience gave her a new reference point for love, acceptance, connection, and what might exist beyond the life she could see.
-Inner-Child Healing: How a manifestation program unexpectedly led Mayssa into deeper inner-child work and helped her begin understanding the wounds and subconscious patterns shaping her adult life.
-Prayer, Signs & Breathwork: From asking the universe for signs and seeing white butterflies and repeating numbers to discovering prayer and breathwork, Mayssa shares the practices that helped her move out of fight-or-flight and reconnect with herself.
-Whether you're navigating your own rock bottom, questioning the life you've built, or wondering why everything seems to be falling apart just as you're trying to call in something new, this conversation is a reminder that sometimes transformation begins with disruption.
Show Notes:
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Ariana IG (https://www.instagram.com/ariana.cleo)
Mayssa IG (https://www.instagram.com/mayssa)
Find behave candy online or in a store near you https://www.eatbehave.com/pages/store-locator
Produced by Peoples Media (https://www.peoplesmedianetwork.com/)
11 Sept 2026
Conscious Parenting, Breaking Generational Trauma & Becoming Your Own Parent with Dr. Shefali
In Episode 25, host Ariana Cleo sits down with Dr. Shefali—clinical psychologist, New York Times best-selling author, and the visionary leader of the conscious parenting movement. Together, they explore why conscious parenting is super important and how parenting serves as one of our greatest spiritual opportunities to dissolve our egos, heal ourselves, and break generational patterns.
Dr. Shefali challenges us to look in the mirror, unpack our unhealed triggers, and move away from rigid cultural conditioning to arrive at our most authentic self.
In this episode, we discuss:
-The Importance of Conscious Parenting: Why raising our own consciousness is the most crucial work a parent can do, far transcending gentle parenting behavioral strategies.
-Healing Generational Trauma: How breaking old generational patterns and trauma allows us to step into our most authentic selves.
-Confronting the Ego & Triggers: Understanding how our children act as mirrors for our unhealed inner child, offering us a profound invitation to grow.
-Becoming Your Own Parent: Why true liberation begins when we stop looking for external validation and learn to soothe, love, and parent ourselves.
-The "Asshole" Manifestation Theory: A refreshing take on why difficult people will always cross our paths, but keeping them in our lives is entirely our choice.
-Speed Round Fun: Dr. Shefali shares her Cancer sun sign, her boundaries on extreme woo-woo modalities, and the one survival product she must have on a desert island.
Show Notes:
ITW IG (https://www.instagram.com/intothe_woo)
Ariana IG (https://www.instagram.com/ariana.cleo)
Dr. Shefali IG (https://www.instagram.com/doctorshefali/)
Pre-order Dr. Shefali's highly anticipated new books, Raising Conscious Sons and Raising Conscious Daughters, arriving this September anywhere books are sold.
Visit Dr. Shefali's website for exclusive pre-order bonuses: drshivali.com (https://drshivali.com/).
Produced by Peoples Media (https://www.peoplesmedianetwork.com/)
2 Sept 2026
Functional Mushrooms, Quitting Coffee & the Neuroscience of Spirituality with Rainbo Founder Tonya Papanikolov
In episode 24, host Ariana Cleo sits down with Tonya Papanikolov, the founder and CEO of Rainbo, to explore the powerful intersection of ancient fungal wisdom, neuroscience, and the modern "woo" journey. Tonya, who identifies as a "star seed child," shares her personal evolution—from childhood dreams and visions to harnessing the healing potential of functional mushrooms.
Together, they bridge the gap between scientific fact and the mystery of the natural world. In this episode, we dive into:
-Fungi 101: Decoding the difference between culinary, functional, and magic mushrooms, and why fungi are the original "networkers" of our ecosystem.
-Neuroscience & Psychedelics: How adaptogenic mushrooms like reishi and lion's mane support nervous system regulation, and the role of psilocybin in resetting the brain's "default mode network."
-Breaking the Caffeine Cycle: Tonya's personal experience using plant medicine to overcome coffee addiction and trade cortisol-spiked energy for natural, sustainable vitality.
-Healing Modalities: Why breathwork, forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku), and the intelligence of nature are just as potent as any supplement for managing burnout and nervous system health.
-Whether you're a medicinal mushroom enthusiast or simply "woo-curious," this conversation offers actionable insight on how to live a healthier, more connected life.
Show Notes:
ITW IG (https://www.instagram.com/intothe_woo)
Ariana IG (https://www.instagram.com/ariana.cleo)
Tonya IG (https://www.instagram.com/tonyapapanikolov)
Rainbo IG
Produced by Peoples Media (https://www.peoplesmedianetwork.com/)
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