Unleashing the Future: Jawna Standish's Insights on Technology, Wellness, & Self-Sovereignty

🎙️ Welcome to a special episode of Pathways with Amber Stitt: “Jawna Standish Unleashed” – recorded live at the Unleash Your Superpower Conference!

🤿 Get ready to dive deep into the intersections of neuroscience, technology, entrepreneurship, and future-thinking with the inspiring Jawna Standish. 

⚕️ In this episode, host Amber Stitt and guest Jawna Standish explore how seemingly different disciplines like crypto, gene editing, AI, and biohacking are interconnected, shaping not just our future, but our present.

💡 Key Highlights:

📖 Jawna’s Origin Story: From MBAs and tech startups to neuroscience and sailing the Greek Islands, discover the unconventional journey that led Jawna to democratize future-focused technologies and knowledge.

💲Making Sense of Crypto: Debunking myths about cryptocurrency, decentralization, and DAOs, and how these tools can empower people globally (not just “Bitcoin investors!”).

🔧 Biohacking & the Vagus Nerve: Jawna explains why gut intuition and nervous system health are essential—beyond trends and supplements—and shares actionable tips about baseline health and nervous system regulation.

⛵ Living Borderless: How technology and a global mindset open up new possibilities for life, work, and education (and why living on a sailboat in the Greek Isles isn’t as far-fetched as you think).

🗝️ Practical Tips: From water fasting to the continuous glucose monitor, learn why simple strategies matter most for wellbeing and longevity.

💪 If you’re craving a bold, holistic take on personal growth, future tech, and designing life on your own terms, you’ll love this episode!

📽️ To watch this episode: https://youtu.be/t_-AWKoUNQs

🔗 Connect with Jawna Standish:

📲 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawna-standish

📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neuroscience_jawna

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Transcript

Jawna Standish [00:00:00]:
And so I went in to study neuroscience to become a neuroscientist because I really went in to sort of understand the human psyche beyond psychology, because it affects our whole being, our body, how we show up in this universe, how we're all interconnected. And I started to see patterns amongst all of these things, like new technology, innovation. Even in science, we're doing things like gene editing with CRISPR technology and with AI, and we're talking about consciousness and crypto. And I just thought, really what's happening here is I just see a pattern amongst all these things. They look like different disciplines, but actually they're all the same. They're all about our future, and they're all happening now.

Jawna Standish [00:00:41]:
But most people don't realize that. They think it's a sci fi movie.

Amber Stitt [00:00:46]:
Hello and welcome to Pathways Unleashed, a special edition of Pathways with Amber Stitt. The Pathways Unleashed podcasts were recorded with special guests and the authors of the Unleashed Entrepreneur and the Biohacking Entrepreneur, who were celebrating the book launch at the Unleash youh Superpower Conference in Delray Beach, Florida, in April 2025. Let's join the conversation.

Jawna Standish [00:01:11]:
Hi.

Amber Stitt [00:01:12]:
Okay, so we just talked to your homegirl, Rachel.

Jawna Standish [00:01:16]:
I know.

Amber Stitt [00:01:17]:
Can you hear me okay?

Jawna Standish [00:01:18]:
I can, yeah.

Amber Stitt [00:01:19]:
Awesome. All right, so congratulations to your week. You are officially...I mean, we've been saying it, but not sure how to say, "You're published author in this chapter of this book."

Jawna Standish [00:01:28]:
It's really exciting.

Amber Stitt [00:01:29]:
And it's right there. We just finally got...I don't even know whose copy that is. You can hold it. The people that are still live, we are all day long today celebrating amazing co-authors, and Jawna and I have been seeing each other on Zooms and waving hello, and we're really going to get down to the nitty gritty and talk about the good stuff. And I love your chapter because, or, especially having you towards the end.

Amber Stitt [00:01:51]:
There's been a lot of entrepreneurial talk. You have an amazing story. You've done amazing things that I probably don't even know, but a lot of people are fangirling the fact that you lived, or still live on a boat.

Amber Stitt [00:02:00]:
But, there's all these things that you are doing, but the pulling all it together and pulling this how you see life and the energy behind the neuroscience, going with your gut. I kind of want to unpack and not give away your chapter, but it's almost like trusting yourself a little bit more. So there's that aspect of you and being a scientist. But then going way into the future with your work, and then we just talked with Rachel about it, too. But you're going to the core elements of life, but then you're also going way into the future and innovating.

Amber Stitt [00:02:31]:
So there's a couple ways I want to go through that without giving away your chapter that we're going to book sign this week. So really appreciate you being here. Let's go back a little bit and talk about. There's some things I want to tee up, mainly, "Life is short until you extend it." So that's something I pulled from your chapter I really liked. Let's go back to some of your work and what got you to this place of really helping others through the work you're doing today. It started back in the day, and it wasn't always the same as what you're doing now. So let's go a little origin story on you.

Jawna Standish [00:03:00]:
Okay well, first of all, thank you for having me. I'm very excited to be here and to meet you live in person. This is very cool. So thank you for saying all that. Because a lot of people say to me, "You work in crypto, you work in neuroscience, you work in tech, you work in venture capital. What are you doing? They're all over the place." And my philosophy is that actually these are all the future and they're happening now. And I feel like so many people don't have access to this information for a whole host of reasons.

Jawna Standish [00:03:27]:
A lot of it comes down to financial wherewithal. A lot of it comes down to whether or not you were born into privilege, to have the education and everything. And I just feel like we're in a time where information, in my opinion, should be made freely available everywhere. And so I have had this philosophy for a very long time, that democratization of information that is typically gatekept by...I don't want to call anyone out, but just say higher institutions, or finance, or venture capital, or even the medical and scientific community. I don't think it was always done intentionally. It was just because we live in a litigious society and there's all these reasons why we gatekeep. And I thought, here I am having all of these different experiences and education, and I felt like I wanted to share it with people because I work with people from all over the world, from all different backgrounds.

Jawna Standish [00:04:18]:
Some of them have zero education. Some of them left school when they were 8 years-old to help support their family, from all over the world. And these are incredible people. And I thought, there's so many people in the world that are unbanked, that don't have access to education, and these people make our world better. And so that was sort of like the impetus behind wanting to stitch all of these together into a common theme. And yeah, my origin story really is I started out sort of in the traditional way. I went and did the MBA thing and kind of worked in big tech, in venture capital, and then I co-founded a couple of my own startups in the tech space and then I started getting involved in crypto and then just on my own journey, wanting to understand at a deeper level the human being. And I know sometimes people will say, "Well this sounds woo."

Jawna Standish [00:05:05]:
But I actually think more and more people are very interested in this topic. And so I went in to study neuroscience to become a neuroscientist because I really went in to sort of understand the human psyche beyond psychology, because it affects our whole being, our body, how we show up in this universe, how we're all interconnected. And I started to see patterns amongst all of these things like new technology, innovation. Even in science we're doing things like gene editing with CRISPR technology and with AI and we're talking about consciousness and crypto. And I just thought really what's happening here is I see a pattern amongst all these things. They look like different disciplines, but actually they're all the same. They're all about our future and they're all happening now. But most people don't realize that.

Jawna Standish [00:05:52]:
They think it's a sci fi movie.

Amber Stitt [00:05:53]:
To me that's entrepreneurship, Jawna. If you want to say that doesn't connect. Serial entrepreneurs don't apologize for the different businesses they've been in.

Jawna Standish [00:06:00]:
Exactly.

Amber Stitt [00:06:01]:
And then there's discovery. And you're a scientist, so there's going to be some discovery.

Jawna Standish [00:06:04]:
Yeah. So I do a little bit of all of it.

Amber Stitt [00:06:05]:
To innovate.

Jawna Standish [00:06:06]:
And you had asked, I think, or I'm not sure if you tee'd this up, yet, but just like the whole sailboat thing I..., People were fangirling you. That's so cool. I love to hear that. I was gonna say so I am a sailing captain and I live on a Greek island in the Cyclades. So if anyone ever wants to sail through the Greek islands you can contact me, or you can contact Amber. But I never really did things the way that I was supposed to that I did probably...

Amber Stitt [00:06:34]:
You've always been a disruptor before people started saying that.

Jawna Standish [00:06:37]:
Yeah, and a people pleaser, too. And then you sort of outgrow those things and you realize you don't wait for permission, because if you wait, you will never get permission. You just have to do it. So I was of the school of just do it and ask for forgiveness later. And of course, not hurt anyone along the way, but that's really been my philosophy. And then the whole living on a sailboat thing was about self-sovereignty, of not feeling like I had to follow the path of...

Amber Stitt [00:07:04]:
The traditional American dream. And that's kind of evolved and is different, too, most recently.

Jawna Standish [00:07:08]:
Exactly. And all of that. And I've done a little piece of it, but it's just like, maybe that's not me. And I also love that I can invite people into my world and say, "Hey, let's meet here and I'll sail you there." And it's been an incredible journey and I get to work with people from all over. And like you said, be careful what you say about the sailing thing, but it's opened a lot of doors for people that maybe have never been sailing. You know, I'll say, "I'll take you sailing, or I'll teach you how to do that."

Amber Stitt [00:07:34]:
Wow.

Jawna Standish [00:07:34]:
And I just feel like, what are we on this earth for if we can't share those things and give those things to other people?

Amber Stitt [00:07:41]:
We talked an episode before about being borderless and technologies available to help us do that. And don't be afraid of it. We have so many options. I interviewed somebody a while back that was in the South Pacific, and he goes, "My children have the best education here, and my cost of living is low, but the US can make you kind of trick you into thinking that it's just so bad and so dangerous everywhere."

Jawna Standish [00:08:01]:
It's really not. In fact, I've never been more free living in the Greek Islands. And I'll just give anyone an example that is curious about that lifestyle. It's about 25% of the cost of living in America. I love America. I'm from the US but if anyone was looking to explore...and I've met lots of families that are sailing around the world with their children, and their children are some of the most amazing kids I've ever met, because like you said, they're actually getting a real world education by interacting with other people and new languages, cultures, cuisine. So, yeah, it's been a real treat.

Amber Stitt [00:08:33]:
How'd you pick that area then? Is there more business over there for what you're doing?

Jawna Standish [00:08:38]:
No, I chose it because I actually have family and cousins on this particular island, so that's really why.

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Amber Stitt [00:09:07]:
All right, so when people throw around crypto, I think people just think, "Oh, Bitcoin."

Jawna Standish [00:09:12]:
They think of that and they also think of nefarious activities. Because up until a couple of years ago, the legislation around the world wasn't ready for crypto, yet, because it was so innovative and it was so disruptive to the central banks, to big banking institutions.

Amber Stitt [00:09:27]:
And you were saying basically, I'm not going to get into politics, and medical, and all the pharma stuff, but basically, when there's rules like legality that happened, or litigious...there's foundational principles that have been developed. But then there's people that take advantage.

Jawna Standish [00:09:40]:
Exactly.

Amber Stitt [00:09:40]:
And they start to dominate and control. And there's some of that where this decentralization is opening and getting rid of that old school antiquated process.

Jawna Standish [00:09:49]:
Exactly. And in fact, the legislation, this has nothing to do with politics, or anything like that. I don't really go there. It's just like the legislation was designed for the industrial revolution, for banking. All those rails were put in place way back when. And so the world wasn't ready for it, yet. And so it allowed this window of people...It was like a wild west.

Jawna Standish [00:10:08]:
So if you wanted to engage in that, I mean, have at it. And people did. And so was it illegal? Was it wrong? It's a gray area. It's not really for me to say, but there was a lot of people taking advantage...

Amber Stitt [00:10:18]:
It hadn't been innovated, or established.

Jawna Standish [00:10:21]:
You're a bit of a cowboy and some people were celebrated for this. And in that crypto world, we sort of like this anti-establishment because we are all about disruption.

Amber Stitt [00:10:30]:
We're not shooting guns.

Jawna Standish [00:10:31]:
Yeah, and we're about decentralization of power to enable more people to have access to education, financial means to be able to feed their families. It's not all about making money off of a meme coin. Some people are truly feeding their families with this.

Amber Stitt [00:10:46]:
Oh, okay, so keep going with crypto because, again, I want to demystify that and have people just think, "Oh, she just buys bitcoin and just watches the market." That's not what you're doing. You're doing things on the chain.

Jawna Standish [00:10:57]:
Yeah. So, I'll give you an example, so I've helped over a thousand different crypto projects launch on the blockchain across all chains. And I worked from the legislative side of it. So I worked with a group based out of the Marshall Islands because it was legislation that was most similar to Washington's LLC, the limited liability corporation. So, it was sort of a copy and paste of that. And because the rest of the legislation in the US wasn't ready at a statutory level for all the things happening, we said, "Okay, how can we make this work in the Marshall Islands so that people can still be registering their DAO's and their legal entities across board?" So I've seen a lot of different capacities in terms of it wasn't all about making money. In fact, a lot of these people were setting up non profit legal entities to be able to work with people from countries all around the world where these people would never normally get an opportunity because they needed like an HB1 visa to work in the US it's like if you put it on the blockchain, we're borderless.

Jawna Standish [00:11:53]:
You don't need a visa. I can still pay you. I can send it to you through a wallet. So we're not going through traditional banking SWIFT systems. And if you think about the percentage of the population, the number's in the billions of people that are unbanked, zero bank account, operate completely.

Amber Stitt [00:12:07]:
Well, that's what I brought up, too, with Rachel, in the previous episode was that I don't think a lot of people realize that not everyone can just walk into their own bank and open...

Jawna Standish [00:12:14]:
Even here in the US people really underestimate the power of paying in cash. And so cash then becomes sort of like a war on cash. It's like people that had more financial means don't use cash in general.

Amber Stitt [00:12:26]:
And that's where these families are actually feeding themselves through coins...

Jawna Standish [00:12:29]:
Different parts of the world, it's like, I don't want to call out any part of the world to stereotype it, but just say all over the world...like, I was working on projects where let's say instead of a company, instead of it being a traditional corporation, it was called a DAO. And maybe Rachel touched on this. No.

Amber Stitt [00:12:43]:
So I've read the acronyms and I actually wrote it down, but I didn't break it down. So that is the decentralized...

Jawna Standish [00:12:49]:
It's a decentralized autonomous organization. And you can think of it as a modern day innovative corporation, or LLC.

Amber Stitt [00:12:56]:
Sounds really fancy and scary.

Jawna Standish [00:12:58]:
Sometimes it's really just a group of people coming together with the shared mission. And then they decide to put their corporate charter, just in terms of what their mission, vision, values are. Who's on the board? If there is a board, you make that all available to everybody that, say, works there, or participates in that DAO, and those people get compensated. So whatever the mission is like, maybe...so there's one in the scientific community called VitaDAO, there's other ones called MoonDAO.

Amber Stitt [00:13:26]:
Where there's a subject matter expert gets paid for facilitating the product.

Jawna Standish [00:13:30]:
Yeah, it could be maybe they're a coder, they're a developer, maybe they're a community manager. And maybe in the beginning they're just paid a token to just sort of be a founding member. And then there are other ones...

Amber Stitt [00:13:41]:
It's kind of like a dollar for a transaction of real estate back in the day.

Jawna Standish [00:13:45]:
Yes. And so this allows them to receive that money in their crypto wallets without needing a bank. And then here's the thing, though, with crypto, eventually, if you want to actually hold cash in your hand, you do need to transact with a traditional bank. And what we see in a lot of these other countries where...

Amber Stitt [00:14:01]:
The government's kind of controlled?

Jawna Standish [00:14:01]:
They would find somebody that has a bank account and they'll just do sort of do this street market, black market like, "Hey, I'll send this to you. Give me the cash."

Amber Stitt [00:14:11]:
Got it.

Jawna Standish [00:14:11]:
But that happens even today, right? It happens everywhere. So to me, crypto just, it's like AI. I don't think it's anything to fear. My hope is that people give it a chance, because it's not going anywhere. When you have Blackrock, Jamie Dimon, Fidelity, and every other huge person across the globe, central banks, behind this, it's not going anywhere. So just think of it as a technology that enables simplification of moving money. And I think what the crypto space has done really well is enabling the technology.

Jawna Standish [00:14:43]:
Maybe where they could have done a little bit better and they're starting to do it now is explaining things simplistically. Right now, if I were to tell my mother, open a crypto wallet and here, I'll pop you some ETH, she would say, "Come again?"

Amber Stitt [00:14:56]:
So then you have to remember your key and that's like my biggest holdup is, what are you going to do with these people that just forget their stuff?

Jawna Standish [00:15:00]:
You need to remember your seed phrase. And so that's the part that's like kludgy and clunky. And that's because it was designed by engineers for engineers. And now when we get bigger companies involved, it's just like all those big names I mentioned, they know how to work with consumers because they've been doing it for decades and decades. And so I think we're going to blend that really exciting technology that enables a lot with sort of like the traditional knowing of how to work with the end consumer and marrying the two to provide something that's a little bit easier to use and has a better user experience.

Amber Stitt [00:15:34]:
Yeah. Anne Goldberg was talking about technology and I was like, "Okay, Apple versus Droid." And she's like, "Apple's better for the older person, too, because it's safer."

Jawna Standish [00:15:43]:
Yeah, and you also...

Amber Stitt [00:15:44]:
But knowing, just knowing that, knowing how to tap, so creating that end user experience is probably just...

Jawna Standish [00:15:50]:
It's huge. I'm not insulting you, but you just mentioned about the seed phrase. It's like if I were to show most people a crypto wallet, they would say, "I'm not really sure what I'm doing here." And, and I feel like we're getting so much closer to making it so much easier. And then not needing...

Amber Stitt [00:16:04]:
So, secure but easier.

Jawna Standish [00:16:05]:
Yeah, and not needing to remember your seed phrase because remembering your seed phrase, you have to actually write it down physically. And isn't that very old fashioned to do that?

Amber Stitt [00:16:14]:
Right. That's kind of funny that you'd have to go old-school to be hip with your cold wallet, or no...is that a cold wallet?

Jawna Standish [00:16:21]:
Well, a cold wallet is when...almost think of it as a digital paper version. So you would put that in your safe. Maybe you have a safe deposit box and you put that in there and it's got all of your...Get it off the chain and nobody can steal like...it's like taking it off-chain. But I always worry, what if there's a fire? What if that bank all of the sudden no longer has that...

Amber Stitt [00:16:40]:
Digitization that's supposed to happen.

Jawna Standish [00:16:41]:
Yeah, and what if it doesn't work?

Amber Stitt [00:16:45]:
Oh, see, we're gonna make it less scary. I promise people.

Amber Stitt [00:16:48]:
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Amber Stitt [00:17:01]:
If I'm going to nerd out for a moment, if we haven't already done that, can we talk about the vagus nerve?

Jawna Standish [00:17:06]:
Yeah. So, okay, we're going to go from crypto to the vagus nerve. It's sort of...

Amber Stitt [00:17:10]:
We have limited time together, my friend. Going back to the neuroscience part of you and what you talk about in your book and beyond. I've kind of paid attention to some of this personally. That's why I'm like, "Let me talk about this." But I think sometimes people don't take their literal internal, maybe gut feeling, intuition seriously. And that can really help protect people. And so literally, a gut check could save your life. Right?

Amber Stitt [00:17:31]:
Or, save your money, really.

Jawna Standish [00:17:32]:
I mean, I'll be quick, but you can kind of view...the book is titled "The Biohacking Entrepreneur". And for me, I love all of this longevity science, healthspan, joy-span, biohacking. My thing is, it doesn't matter what protocol you use, or what supplement you take, or if you're the next Bryan Johnson, or whomever, Andrew Huberman. If your core is not settled, meaning your nervous system, it's putting lipstick on a pig.

Jawna Standish [00:17:59]:
It really is. It's sort of like if that's not settled and taken care of, and for the most part, most people's are not.

Amber Stitt [00:18:05]:
So where is it?

Jawna Standish [00:18:06]:
So it basically, it weaves through like your spinal cord.

Amber Stitt [00:18:10]:
Oh, it's long. I remember looking at this chart.

Jawna Standish [00:18:13]:
Yeah, and basically it just goes through the core of the body and it touches upon every organ. And you can kind of think of it as your body's Internet. And so for people to just understand, their nervous system has two parts, a sympathetic and a parasympathetic part. And if you're always in like this fight or flight mode, which most of us are, because life is busy.

Amber Stitt [00:18:31]:
Some of us are addicted to the chase of the game.

Jawna Standish [00:18:34]:
Exactly. Some people are addicted to the chase of the game. And it's no coincidence that all of these social media apps, they hire neuroscientists to make these.

Amber Stitt [00:18:43]:
The dopamine hits are like...

Jawna Standish [00:18:44]:
This is all by design and so I don't do that because I don't believe in doing that. But I will say, we are hired for that. And I've been called on a lot, in the gaming industry, to help make it more sticky. And I just don't participate in that because I feel like that's not the way I want to serve people.

Amber Stitt [00:18:59]:
Yeah.

Jawna Standish [00:18:59]:
But, yeah, so the vagus nerve, people can search that up, they can learn about it. It's really about...

Amber Stitt [00:19:03]:
You do want to get yourself out of that fight or flight.

Jawna Standish [00:19:05]:
You do. And you ideally can't live in one state, or it's unhealthy. You should constantly be in a state of flux, of a little bit of fight or flight, because it gives you the motivation. And people talk about cortisol being so bad, but actually cortisol is very healthy. And it's what gets you out of bed in the morning and it's what makes you run from a tiger. And so it's just when you're in a constant state of high cortisol, it has a negative cascading effect across the body. It lowers your testosterone levels, and men and women both have testosterone.

Jawna Standish [00:19:34]:
A lot of women are surprised to hear that. And that's where you get fatigue, brain fog. And then it has a cascading effect across your insulin, your glucose levels. And that's the part, to me, that we can do all of these fancy protocols, we can invest tons of money in supplements, but I'm of the opinion that, do all of that if you want, but address the baseline first, because if you don't do that, you're not really helping yourself.

Amber Stitt [00:19:58]:
Have you always been really good about this aspect?

Jawna Standish [00:20:01]:
No, I wasn't. So this comes from a learned experience. And I'll say, without getting into the details of it, I was involved in a partnership where I'll just say it was completely smoke and mirrors, and I was highly deceived. And it taught me a lot about how I'm very trusting and I know that about myself. And I know that maybe I shouldn't say it on a podcast, but it makes you a little vulnerable. But I also think I've never connected with somebody that wasn't a little vulnerable with me. So I don't want to lose that part of me. So that's why I thought maybe I'll write about this because we have so many biohacking protocols out there from Dr. Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia.

Jawna Standish [00:20:35]:
All these amazing people, and all the other co-authors in the book. But I thought no one really talks about this sort of just basic baseline. It's free.

Amber Stitt [00:20:43]:
Because you can set your environment. If you're in that state, what can you do? And maybe it's limiting the distractions.

Jawna Standish [00:20:48]:
It's limiting the distractions. And you know what is my favorite thing, and I hope it's okay to say here is, just do a water fast for 24 hours.

Jawna Standish [00:20:55]:
You know what? Most people have never gone more than 15 hours without eating. And we're blessed that we don't live in place where we...

Amber Stitt [00:21:03]:
Today I'm doing that. I haven't eaten all day. That's how I'm so dialed-in and laser focused. See, it's working!

Jawna Standish [00:21:10]:
It really does work.

Amber Stitt [00:21:11]:
But I'm just kidding. No, but I really have never done that. I'll try to do 15, 16 hours of no food. Like eat by 5, not eat by 10 in the morning. That works for me.

Jawna Standish [00:21:21]:
It has to work for you.

Amber Stitt [00:21:23]:
But I feel like I'm way more, less-inflamed, less-swollen, and you get less cravings, I think.

Jawna Standish [00:21:28]:
You absolutely do because you're changing your entire gut microbiome. And so once that shifts up...I don't want to overstay my welcome here, but once you do that...so your brain, your gut, and your heart all have neurons and they're all communicating with your brain. And so if you have an unhealthy gut, which most people do, 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy and they're unaware of it. It's not their fault. It's just, again, this information has largely been gatekept and it's been for very privileged people that had access to longevity clinics that are 100K a year.

Jawna Standish [00:22:02]:
The average person can't afford that. So now all of this stuff is showing up on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, which I love because people can get a free education on this. But people should know that their gut actually, that's where all your serotonin is produced, the feel good, happy hormones.

Amber Stitt [00:22:18]:
I guess most people don't even think that as the reason.

Jawna Standish [00:22:22]:
Yeah, they don't think of that. And then if you're just sort of grinding away and you're a busy entrepreneur and you don't make time for taking care of yourself. I know it sounds so cliche, but that's the biggest shift I've made, too, is you have to be a little selfish. You have to take care of yourself first.

Amber Stitt [00:22:37]:
Literally go simple to the baseline of it all.

Jawna Standish [00:22:39]:
Baseline. It's like the water fasting, that's a lifestyle for me. It's changed my life. And also, I'm not diabetic, I'm not pre-diabetic, but I wear a continuous glucose monitor because I don't want to become one. Because like I said, 88% of Americans are metabolic, metabolic syndrome, basically. And that's just due to our diet. That's what the government recommends is the pyramid. If you eat that diet...

Amber Stitt [00:23:01]:
Oh, that's a whole other episode.

Jawna Standish [00:23:02]:
You will be on insulin. And then, it's just interesting.

Amber Stitt [00:23:05]:
That's a whole other episode we can't get...

Jawna Standish [00:23:07]:
We'll go there another time.

Amber Stitt [00:23:08]:
But yeah, I love collecting all the data. But how can people find you outside of maybe seeing you tomorrow? Celebrating the new book. So congratulations.

Jawna Standish [00:23:17]:
Thank you so much and thank you, again, for this opportunity. I'm so happy to be here and talking with you. Well, people can find me on social media, for example, on LinkedIn, it's Jawna-Standish. On Instagram, it's Neuroscience_Jawna.

Amber Stitt [00:23:30]:
Okay. And I'll link it in the show notes, too. Not to give you, like you gotta remember because I know sometimes we have everything just pre-programmed, but, yeah. So if we were to follow you, are you helping people today? What is your work today?

Jawna Standish [00:23:43]:
Yeah.

Amber Stitt [00:23:43]:
Because you're working with a lot of projects, too.

Jawna Standish [00:23:45]:
I'm working with a lot of different...

Amber Stitt [00:23:46]:
Blockchains, so that's not really for all.

Jawna Standish [00:23:47]:
Yeah, it's not for all. And I'm also working with corporations, so some Fortune 500 companies, I'm working with their sales teams, but I'm also working with a lot of blockchain foundations, and helping projects get launched on the blockchain. And we're weaving in the whole AI piece of this, the consciousness component, and sort of the longevity piece of it.

Amber Stitt [00:24:06]:
So that's really the community that can be...you guys can all help each other out, it sounds like. So I want to make sure that people know what would overlap for their business.

Jawna Standish [00:24:14]:
Yeah.

Amber Stitt [00:24:14]:
So they could work with you.

Jawna Standish [00:24:16]:
Anyone in business, really.

Amber Stitt [00:24:17]:
Okay. More to come, Jawna. And I'll be booking my trip next year, so we'll just get you that itinerary and we'll be ready to go.

Jawna Standish [00:24:23]:
Come to the island of Syros. You will not be disappointed. It's the island that nobody's heard of, but it's...Greek people know about it. Okay. All right. So thank you so much.

Amber Stitt [00:24:31]:
Can't wait.

Jawna Standish [00:24:32]:
Thank you, thank you.

Amber Stitt [00:24:33]:
Good to see you officially.

Amber Stitt [00:24:35]:
Thank you for joining us for this special edition of Pathways Unleashed, recorded at Owwll headquarters here in Delray Beach, Florida. Join us for more powerful conversations with real people who dare to design life on their own terms. Until next time, keep taking action on your unique path!