From AI Research to Alternative Healing - Looks Like Work, Season 3, Ep 21
What happens when the version of success you built your life around… stops working?
Palveshey Tariq was a rising star in AI and quantum physics, collecting accolades but burning out inside. After a breaking point that nearly ended her life, she chose to begin again—this time with devotion, discipline, and plant medicine.
In this conversation, we talk about what it really means to rewire your life from the inside out. About how fear often fuels achievement, how the body keeps whispering until it screams, and how integration—not insight—is what changes your life.
We also get deeply real about how many of us trade authenticity for love. About the parts of us we abandon for approval. And how we start to come back home.
This one isn’t just about healing. It’s about un-pretending. About devotion as a structure. And about building a life that’s rooted in integrity—on your terms.
Inside this conversation:
Why success ≠ vitality—and how to spot the difference
What psilocybin revealed about ownership, not escape
The identity we trade for conditional love (and how early it starts)
The power of asking, “How do you know it’s true?” (and what’s truer)
What discipline and devotion look like when they’re self-respect, not punishment
How your body becomes your loudest truth-teller
The four core drivers of behavior: fear, desire, duty, and love
Palveshey doesn’t promise easy answers—just better questions, and a whole lot of clarity.
This episode is for the high-achievers who feel hollow, the seekers who want structure without shame, and anyone curious about how consciousness meets responsibility.
Palveshey’s Question
“How do you know it’s true?”
And the gentler, more potent follow-up:
“What’s truer?”
"In order for a spiritual awakening to happen, there has to be a mental breakdown.”
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