The Heart of Cacao and Conscious Business — with Ally Lyons

Ally Lyons is a holistic health practitioner and event experience curator.

 

She spent a decade leading operations for mission-driven startups and entrepreneurs.

 

Her own health challenges sparked an obsession with ingredient transparency.

 

Hours in grocery aisles turned into www.isitclean.org, a nonprofit rating ingredients and packaged foods to help people choose the cleanest option available.

 

In parallel, a Maverick community cacao ceremony opened a new door.

 

Ally deepened into herbalism, yoga, Reiki, and ceremony.

 

Daily practice with a friend became https://www.journeywithcacao.com/, sharing ceremonial cacao as heart medicine in community.

 

She now blends systems thinking with sacred ritual.

 

Clean food for the body.

 

Cacao for the heart.

 

Business as a conduit for love and service.

 

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to evaluate packaged food fast: a practical rubric for scanning labels and choosing the cleanest option in any store.

• A simple path to reduce overwhelm: “good, better, best” choices when access to perfect options is limited.

• How to build a mission tool from a personal pain point and invite community feedback to refine it.

• What makes cacao “ceremonial” and how sourcing, stewardship, and intention change your experience.

• A 10-minute cacao ritual to drop from head to heart: prepare, set intention, sip slowly, and listen to the body.

• How to discern plant allies and align daily practices with genuine inner signals rather than 'force of habit'.

• Ways to protect your energy as a founder: design roles around your zone of genius and partner for the rest.

 

Connect with Ally Instagram: @alzlyons Journey for Cacao: journeywithcacao.com Is It Clean: isitclean.org