Carla* intergenerational trauma, entrepreneurship, and psychedelic ceremonies

My guest today is Carla Maria de Souza. Carla is a Brazilian social entrepreneur and founder of Project Tres - a nonprofit organization in Germany operating in India and Kenya, working with women in vulnerability, contributing to their personal and financial independence with educational programs and fair trade practices.  In our conversation Carla makes a strong connection between her work and her personal and spiritual life. Carla has made use of her traumatic experiences during her childhood and teenage years as a tool to promote social impact and evolve as an individual. Her interests are in the topics of patriarchy, decolonization, and capitalism, as well as transgenerational trauma, inner work, spirituality, psychedelics, and indigenous culture.

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Being Underwater is a project about inner life in the digital age. Hosted by social entrepreneur and anthropologist Joana Breidenbach, this series of interviews tries to uncover the language we use to describe our inner worlds, as well as the tools or practices that help us decipher them. These conversations are important to engage in at any time, however with the onset of the digital age, they present a new urgency. As machines and algorithms threaten to know and understand us better than we do ourselves, we are faced with an evolutionary pressure to expand our consciousness and comprehend greater amounts of complexity. We must understand who we are, and what it is that we want, in order to define our relationship with technology, rather than allowing technology to define us. The project was conceived by Joana Breidenbach and edited by Siena Powers. Angus Sewell McCann composed the main theme music, and Vincent Augustus mixed the second theme. All visuals were created by Florentin Aisslinger.