When Your Purpose Takes Root

What if leading with purpose meant listening closely enough to recognize where life is guiding you? Mark Porteous speaks with filmmaker, herbalist, and Pineapple Peace Garden founder Katie Kamala Haley about the unexpected paths that shaped her journey. Katie shares how intuition led her from wellness and filmmaking to creating an edible food forest and living classroom where people can reconnect with nature, grow food and medicinal plants, and build self-reliance. Her story shows the power of starting small, learning through experience, and allowing dreams to unfold differently than expected.Katie and Mark explore the connection between nature, community, embodiment, and purposeful living through permaculture, organic gardening, local food systems, and native plants. Katie shares her approach to leading with intuition and discernment by creating space for inner guidance, fact-checking before reacting, and choosing intentional action over fear. Her message is simple: everyone can grow something, dreams take time, and the path to purpose may look very different from what we imagined.Key Takeaways:Starting before you feel fully prepared creates opportunities to learn through experience.A garden can become a practical teacher of patience, responsibility, gratitude, and reciprocity.Supporting local growers can strengthen relationships and resilience within a community.Native plants can help create healthier ecosystems by supporting pollinators and beneficial insects.Purpose can evolve over time rather than arriving as one clearly defined destination.About the Guest:Katie Kamala Haley is a women's wellness practitioner, herbalist, author, educator, with over 25 years experience working with medicinal plants.She is the founder of Pineapple Peace Garden, a learning garden in Central Florida, where she shares her passion for medicinal plants, organic gardening, herbal wisdom, and sustainable living. Katie is also the author of Messages from the Medicine: Mother Ayahuasca Speaks and A Diamond for India: Myths, Magic, and Medicine.Through her global work, Katie explores the powerful relationship between people and plants, encouraging others to reconnect with nature, cultivate wellness, and discover the wisdom that grows all around us.Connect with Katie:Katie Haley’s Website:http://www.PineapplePeaceGarden.orghttp://www.KatieKamalaWellness.comBooks:https://www.amazon.com/author/katiekamala1Social media:http://www.Instagram.com/katiekamala1http://www.facebook.com/cosmicflower9http://www.youtube.com/katiekamalahaleyAbout Me:Hi, I’m Mark Porteous; the Soul Connector.My stand is for ALL people to recognize themselves as Divine Beings who have chosen the human experience for a reason and to live in alignment with that knowing, so they can THRIVE in their purpose of transforming lives.I help mission driven entrepreneurs to make their Soul Connections so that they can impact and change the world, scale their businesses to six and seven figures, and enjoy thrilling Soul Success in every arena of their lives.Connect with me at:https://markporteous.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcporteoushttps://www.instagram.com/mark.porteous1/https://www.facebook.com/markcporteous/Take the Soulful Leadership Assessment here: https://markporteous.com/#tve-jump-184964db927Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.