From Fast Fashion to the Jungle: What Happens When You Finally Follow Your Heart? — Tuncin Uner (@tuncinuner)

This week, we sit down with Tuncin Uner, a former fashion designer who dared to follow her heart, leave the 9–5 behind and create a completely different life. Today, she is a ceremonial facilitator, student of plant medicine and was a part of the Colibri team in Corfu.

Tuncin shares her journey from working in the fashion industry in Sweden and realizing that the traditional 9–5 life was no longer aligned with who she was becoming, to moving across the world, finding plant medicine and eventually building a new life in Peru together with her partner.

We talk about her years in Berlin, her journey from partying to sobriety, getting stuck in a small village in Turkey during the pandemic, saving animals during devastating wildfires, living close to nature and the experiences that led her towards a deeper connection with herself and the natural world.

We also explore plant medicine, the importance of choosing safe and experienced facilitators, what a plant dieta is, how to approach these practices with respect, and why integration is just as important as the ceremony itself.

Tuncin shares how she followed the path from fashion to medicine work, why she chose to build a life in Peru and what it really takes to leave behind a life that no longer feels true.

This is an episode about courage, surrender and learning to trust your own inner guidance- even when fear is present and you cannot yet see the whole path ahead.

Listen and let us know what resonates with you.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro to Manualen Kom Aldrig & this week’s guest, Tuncin Uner

05:00 From fashion and the 9–5 life to plant medicine

10:00 Wildfires, wild animals, love & the journey to sobriety

15:00 What is a plant dieta?

20:00 Working with plant medicine without judgement

22:30 Journeying to the Yawanawá & the growing trend of plant medicine

32:50 Life in Peru

34:00 Who can benefit from plant medicine?

40:00 Leaving fashion behind & creating a new life in Peru

47:00 Growing into medicine work & Tuncin’s journey with cacao

50:00 Tuncin’s role in the Colibri team

55:00 How to leave the system & follow your heart

58:15 Courage, fear & taking the leap anyway

01:00:00 What Tuncin would add to The Manual That Never Arrived

01:04:00 How to work with Tuncin

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