About Laura Dawn

Hi, I’m Laura Dawn (aka Live Free Laura D)

Author, Speaker & Founder of AYA Visionary

Who Can Benefit From My Work

  • If you resonate with the entrepreneurial, visionary or creative archetype (or aspire to)
  • you have some big inner visions you’d like to anchor into reality to help contribute to a better planet;
  • And you’re also interested in how psychedelics, sacred plant medicines or microdosing can be a a powerful tool for transformation, growth, healing and manifestation...

Then you just might want to stick around to read some of the articles I’ve published, check out my next retreat, and follow along with my 1111 newsletter. 

One of the central questions that guides my work is: 

How can we mindfully and consciously leverage the power of psychedelics and sacred plant medicines so we can step into our creative power more fully, become more resilient in these times of rapid change and effectively anchor our inner visions into reality with a solution-oriented approach to solving some of the greatest challenges we face on the planet?

I spend the majority of my time focusing on learning about the intersection between these topics:

 

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Quantum physics
  • Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous wisdom 
  • Evolutionary biology 
  • Peak performance/bio hacking
  • Psychedelics & sacred plant medicines 
  • Microdosing 
  • Flow states 
  • Creativity 
  • Resilience 

Drawing upon these fields of study, I’ve created a unique Visionary framework (through my writing, online programs, as well as my AYA Visionary Retreats) to support you in radically expanding what you believe is possible to create with your life.

Before I share a little background about me, here’s how my work can benefit you:

I explore topics like: 

  • How to tap into flow, open your channel of inspiration and create with a purpose
  • How to leverage Microdosing as a powerful tool for integration, manifestation and transformation
  • The path of the Creative Visionary Bodhisattva 
  • Bring more ceremony into your life 

About Laura Dawn 

  • I built my first online brand to 1.5 million people on facebook that was solely focused on spreading positivity. 
  • I sold that brand to help fund a retreat center that my husband and I built from scratch. This project changed my life. We started with nothing but raw land and built a off-grid Volcanic Hot Spring Retreat Center we called Sacred Source Springs
  • I’ve been leading transformational retreats for the better part of a decade. 
  • My last company was focused on health and wellness, helping people reconnect to the Earth and our natural food source. 
  • I’ve written two published books: one on food addiction and one for the Wiley brand; Mindful Eating for Dummies. 
  • After 5 years of pouring our lives into building our retreat center, the volcanic eruption forced us to evacuate and we chose to sell Sacred Source Springs.
  • That year was what I consider one long dark night of the soul, and I received a crash course in grieving.  
  • It was a painful time but I knew had a purpose. With no more liability in the US, I choose to step out of the psychedelic closet in 2018 to share my story about how psychedelics changed my life, helping me heal from depression and addiction, and founded my new company AYA Visionary. 
  • The majority of my time is now dedicated to speaking, writing and teaching the Visionary framework I’ve developed (and continue to develop every day). 
  • I have been business coaching for company’s, entrepreneurs, online brands and businesses since I was about 20 years old.  
  • I now consult for aspiring retreat leaders, companies looking to step into the retreat space, retreat centers and visionaries looking to create retreat centers as a quarter-time focus. 

Some other interesting and notable things about me:

  • I was raised by two entrepreneurs and I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life.
  • I gave away everything I owned and left my hometown when I was in my early twenties with a backpack and never turned back. 
  • I had my first psychedelic journey with psilocybin when I was 15, which means I’ve been working with psychedelics for 21 years. I saw the healing potential for these medicines even as a teenager and intuitively started Microdosing about 2 decades ago when I went to school. Ayahuasca has been my primary plant teacher for a decade. 
  • Yes, I believe there is a time and place for safe, recreational use of psychedelics. 

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