Speaking & Media
The Conversation Most Stages Have Never Had.
About Ana
When I speak, I do not deliver information. I create an experience that meets people in the body, the psychology, and the lineage simultaneously in the room, in real time, in a way that does not leave when the event ends.
Over twelve years of clinical work at the intersection of western psychology, eastern philosophy, and indigenous wisdom traditions have given me a fluidity across topics and a range of perspective that most stages rarely encounter in a single speaker. I can move from the neuroscience of transgenerational trauma to the ceremonial roots of psychedelic medicine to the attachment architecture underlying high performance and make every one of those conversations land with precision and humanity for whoever is sitting in the room. The translation shifts. The depth does not.
That range did not come from academic preparation alone. It came from a genuine love of being in front of people. I am a natural performer at heart, someone who has always understood that a room is a living thing and that the best speaking is not a presentation but a conversation between a speaker and the collective nervous system of everyone who showed up. That instinct, combined with over a decade of clinical precision and a body of work that sits at the rare intersection of east and west and indigenous wisdom, is what I bring to every stage I stand on.
I have presented at UCLA alongside an Olympic athlete leading voices in emerging behavioral health, spoken at professional clinical associations on the history and tradition of psychedelics in the indigenous world, led mental health conversations at documentary premiere screenings, addressed graduate counseling students at universities, appeared on health and dealmaking panels across the country, and spoken at corporate wellness and leadership events about the architecture of healthy relationships and human performance. Beyond the stage I am a frequent podcast guest, bringing the same clinical depth and cultural fluency to intimate long form conversations that I bring to live audiences.
What every room has in common is this. They leave understanding something about themselves that they did not have language for before they walked in.
Speaking Topics
Breaking the Line: Stop Carrying What Was Never Yours. Start Claiming What Always Was.
Based on Ana's upcoming book
Some of what you have been working hardest to change was never yours to begin with.
Breaking the Line changes the way an audience understands themselves. Grounded in the neuroscience of transgenerational trauma and the cutting edge science of epigenetics, this talk introduces audiences to one of the most powerful and least understood forces shaping human behavior, physical health, mental health, and spiritual experience. The patterns that feel most personal, most immovable, most shameful are often the ones that were written the furthest back. In the nervous systems of grandparents who survived things that were never spoken about. In the cellular memory of a lineage that has been quietly waiting for someone to finally stop and look at what has been passed down. It is a talk about precision, liberation, and the extraordinary discovery that waits on the other side of understanding what you actually inherited. Because underneath every piece of transgenerational pain is a corresponding gift. A resilience, a wisdom, a creative and spiritual intelligence that was forged in everything that line survived and has been waiting inside you all along.
Our souls choose the line they are born into. Not as punishment. As curriculum. And the work of breaking the line is not just the transmutation of what was painful. It is the reclamation of what was always meant to be yours.
The Flesh of the Gods: The Part of You No Performance Protocol Has Ever Reached
Most performance frameworks are extraordinarily good at optimizing what is already visible. The training, the nutrition, the strategy, the mindset. And yet even the most disciplined, the most accomplished, the most optimized people in the world find themselves hitting ceilings that none of those tools can move. Plateaus that have nothing to do with effort. Patterns in relationships that survive every intervention. A persistent sense that something at the root remains untouched by everything they have tried.
That is precisely where sacred medicine, used with clinical precision and deep cultural reverence, has always lived. Grounded in the history and tradition of plant medicine in the indigenous world and informed by over twelve years of clinical practice at the intersection of western psychology and ancient wisdom, this talk offers a framework for understanding psychedelic medicine that honors the traditions that carried it, applies the science that validates it, and holds the set and setting that allows it to do what it has always been capable of doing. Not as a trend. Not as a productivity hack. As a sacred and precise path to the parts of a human being that no performance protocol has ever been designed to reach.
Boring, But in the Best Way: Chemistry, Chaos, and the Quiet Power of Secure Love
Modern culture has trained us to measure love by its intensity. The spark. The butterflies. The magnetic pull that makes a connection feel undeniable and urgent and alive. The very sensations most people have been taught to trust as signs of compatibility are often the nervous system recognizing something familiar rather than something healthy. Chemistry can be the body recognizing chaos it already knows how to organize around. And that is why so many intelligent, self aware, deeply committed people find themselves repeating the same relational patterns with different people, wondering why insight alone has never been enough to interrupt them.
This talk explores the psychology beneath attraction, conflict, and emotional safety with clinical precision and radical honesty. Drawing on attachment theory, nervous system science, and over a decade of helping thousands of men and women find and keep secure love, I offer a framework for understanding why the connection capable of sustaining real intimacy, genuine growth, and lasting partnership often feels at first surprisingly calm. Almost boring. And why that calm is not the absence of passion. It is the presence of something most people have never actually had. Safety. And in the best possible way.
I am available for keynote speaking engagements, podcast interviews, panel appearances, documentary and media features, and press. My work sits at the intersection of clinical depth and cultural fluency and has taken me across industries — from behavioral health conferences and professional sports organizations to the entertainment world, where I work with actors, producers, and creative professionals on the psychological complexity of high visibility life, creative identity, and the particular kind of pressure that comes with building a public self while navigating a very private interior one. My areas of expertise span clinical psychology, somatic intelligence, ancestral healing, psychedelic medicine, high performance psychology, conscious leadership, inclusive wellness, and the intersection of ancient wisdom and western science.