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.



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 & Breath-work: From asking the universe for signs and seeing white butterflies and repeating numbers to discovering prayer and breath-work, 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.


0:00 From Skeptic to Spiritual Seeker
1:01 Meet the Founder of Behave Candy
1:49 Where Do You Fall on the Woo Scale?
2:19 Breaking Free from Religious Control
4:00 The Book That Started It All
6:15 The Ambition for Wealth and Freedom
8:48 The Reality of Entrepreneurial Lows
11:05 Navigating Personal and Family Crises
12:51 Plant Medicine and the First Journey
15:17 Living in Fight or Flight
20:34 New Year's Eve at Rock Bottom
23:48 Healing the Inner Child


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