Rasa Founder Lopa van der Mersch: Business As Its Own Energetic Being, Plant Consciousness and Energy Intelligence

Lopa van der Mersch Rasa founder podcast interview

Lopa van der Mersch is many things: Serial entrepreneur. Mother of two. Sustainability advocate. TEDx speaker. Recovering cult member.

Three years ago, she added a new chapter: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic coffee alternatives revolutionizing people’s relationship to energy.

Lopa is one of my biggest inspirations in the world of conscious entrepreneurship, and a return guest on Funded by Source. If you’re called to try Rasa, use code BREAKFASTCRIMINALS for 15% off.

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We discuss:

How Indian martial art Kalaripayattu, also known as Kalari, changed Lopa’s life
The power of anchor habits
What’s been going on at Rasa since our first conversation on the podcast
How to practice presence in your day-to-day life
Remembering to remember
Growing a self-funded business from a garage to 20 employees
Moving towards a 9-figure culture-changing consumer package goods business
Switching to a new paradigm of business: community-owned business
Interacting with a business as its own energetic being
Energy intelligence powered by adaptogens
A peek into product development at Rasa
Which Rasa can help you access your creative energy
Being a conduit for people to be impacted by plant consciousness
Transparency as an energy cultivating practice
Lessons from 2 months off social media
Social media energy hygiene practices

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About Lopa van der Mersch:

Lopa van der Mersch is many things: Serial entrepreneur. Mother of two. Sustainability advocate. TEDx speaker. Recovering cult member. Three years ago, she added a new chapter: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic coffee alternatives revolutionizing people’s relationship to energy.

2015 was what Lopa now calls “her own personal 2020” — she left a cult, had emergency surgery while pregnant, lost a family member, and had a traumatic birth. Beaten down and exhausted, she needed a source of energy that could sustain her without burnout, crashes, or jitters.

What she needed didn’t exist, so she worked with a clinical herbalist and Rasa was born: adaptogen-rich blends that nourish & energize while providing enough rich, roasty flavor to convert even the most devoted coffee fanatic.

What started with a mom elbow-deep in herbs in her kitchen is now a movement, with triple-digit YoY growth and over 100K customers worldwide.

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Quotes by Lopa van der Mersch:

“Being an entrepreneur is birthing another entity that has its own life force.”

“Coffee borrows energy from tomorrow to fuel today.” Chinese saying

“You are a miracle manifestation of spontaneous possibility.”

“Your financial picture is your energy picture.”

“When you’re hiding something, there’s an energy stuck in that.

“The quality of your energy impacts and infuses everything you do.”

“Your body is the basis of your manifest experience. If you work with the body, that lays the foundations for all other more subtle layers of awakening.”

“In India they recommend that when you start a business, you pick astrology for it, and read the chart of the business to understand how it’s moving in different layers of karma and energy.”