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by Miriam Raquel Sands | Clarity + Cacao
Unedited conversations about sovereignty: at work, in the body, and in life.I'm Raquel, a first-generation Salvadoran American, cacao maker, and income strategist in Northern Virginia, and the creator of the 3P Method: Purpose, Presence, Prosperity. This is where I think out loud about career transitions, income design, cacao as ancestral plant medicine, ritual, and what it means to build a life without extraction.Maybe you're leaving a system that doesn't fit. Maybe you're curious about cacao. Maybe you're the first in your family to figure this out. Wherever you're coming from, you're welcome here.Raw, unscripted, and made for the ones who are still figuring it out. Hit follow, and take your next step without panic. www.miriamraquelsands.com
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- 2 weeks ago10 min
My Cacao Online Shop Is Officially Open (Virginia Shipping + Where to Find Me This Winter)
Have a Virginia address? The Sands & Semilla online shop is live!! You can buy my small-batch cacao drinking blends, cocoa-scented candles, and a few other goods. I operate under Virginia cottage food law, so for now I can only ship within Virginia (a Virginia address is all you need). If you want to say hi in person and try some of the goods, I’ll be at the Christmas Farmers Market on the Mountain at Bluemont Vineyard on Sunday, December 13th, from 1 to 4 pm, and back at the Eat Loco farmers markets in March.What’s in the Sands & Semilla online shop?* Cacao drinking blends: cacao combined with spices and herbs for different effects, always with the cacao as the base* Cocoa-scented candles* Hand-designed and printed stickers and canvas tote bagsThis is the first phase of what I hope becomes a growing tree, a growing garden, a growing business, where all of us can flourish!🌱🌱My business operates under cottage food law, which means I can only sell and ship online within the state of Virginia for now. Once I set up a commercial kitchen and start producing out of it, I can ship to other states. More to come on that.You don’t have to live in Virginia; you just need a Virginia address. If you have a friend with a Virginia address, you can order cacao and have it shipped to them. Totally fine.I was surprised, and so grateful, to get my first online purchase unexpectedly earlier this month! This whole cacao business, the farmers’ markets, and this new chapter have been a happy surprise from the start. I didn’t know what to expect. I stay open and curious, and try to run this business in a spirit of creativity, community, consciousness, and intentionality.Ideally, I’d love this business to become part-time income. If you’d like to be part of my journey in one way or another, the online store is one way to do that, and so is sharing it with people who live in or travel to Virginia 🌱In a time of so much uncertainty, and so much change both internally and externally, I’m really, really grateful that my goods and my energy have been received with kindness. This business, this relationship, this community, and this offering keep growing slowly and surely.I’m still very much a part of the farmers market community!COMING SOON🤗🤗 : Christmas Farmers Market on the Mountain at Bluemont Vineyard* Date: Sunday, December 13th, 1 to 4 pm* Address: 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont, VA 20135This is going to be such a cozy time! The holiday season is my favorite time of year. I can indulge in cookies and baked goods, hot chili, gumbo, and a good Vietnamese pho. I grew up in Florida, but there’s something about the crisp season. It’s a time to tuck in and get cozy.Eat Loco farmers markets* They currently run markets in Reston, Ashbrook, and Brambleton.* I won’t be at Eat Loco for the winter. I’ll be back around March for the Arlington and Reston locations.* I might do another pop-up before then. Stay tuned…Northern Virginia seems small, but it holds so many different interests, cultures, foods, and kinds of people. Finding my community here is part of the fun.Why is winter the best time to drink cacao?Cacao is my thing, and winter is a wonderful time to experience it more consistently, more deeply, and more nourishingly.In the northern hemisphere, we tend to look inward in the winter. It’s darker, and we turn toward ourselves. The trees are quiet, and some animals have gone into hibernation or headed south. It’s a great season for grounding, for getting rooted in whatever that means to you. Maybe that’s your next chapter, your current work, your creative life, or your relationships.A warm mug of cacao in both hands is a simple way to practice that.I can’t wait to see you in person, or to keep hearing from you online. Feel free to shoot me an email. I’m just an email away. And I’ll still be doing the weekly Substack, so stay tuned for more.FAQsDoes Sands & Semilla ship outside of Virginia?Not yet. I operate under Virginia cottage food law, so online orders ship within Virginia only. Once I have a commercial kitchen, I can ship to other states.Can I order cacao as a gift for someone in Virginia if I live somewhere else?Yes. You just need a Virginia shipping address, so you can send it to a friend or family member there.Where can I buy Sands & Semilla in person this winter?At the Christmas Farmers Market on the Mountain at Bluemont Vineyard (18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont, VA 20135) on Sunday, December 13th, from 1 to 4 pm.When will you be back at the Eat Local
- Sep 28, 202631 min
Season 3: Ep 7🌾 Cacao, Reciprocity, and Legacy: What It Means to Thrive, Exchange, and Become
* What does money mean to you now?And not just in the short term. What does money mean to you in the long term? In your relationships with others? In the lifestyle you’d like to have? In your values? Or the values that you want to develop? What does money really mean to you?* And what does time mean to you?In the short term. In the long term. Are there certain things you’re not willing to trade in exchange for your time or your money?And looking at these examples of the buffalo and cacao: Neither is extinct now.But the legacy—the history, the systems, the things that transpired in order for these entities, these life forms, to exist as they do now—means that they are not what they used to be.I don’t think the buffalo can just roam as they once did. Just like cacao. Now there are farms. There are supply chains. There are markets.So what does it mean to be in relationship? To be in a reciprocal relationship? To have reciprocity in your life?But for me, as I develop, continue to experiment, and continue to learn in this business as a farmers market vendor, as someone who still has an office job, I ask myself the same questions:How long will a job be worth it for me?When is enough enough?And for the sake of what or who?I feel a deep sense of pride and humility and gratefulness that I get to be a steward of cacao on behalf of my ancestors.And in this way, I develop and hone and strengthen my relationship with my ancestors. With my family. With my lineage. With my culture. With my history. And I also get to create a new chapter.A new sense of meaning and value and culture.Because I don’t speak Nahuatl. I don’t speak Qʼeqchiʼ.And now there is a new language I speak. I am cultivating new ground. And I think that’s ultimately where we will wrap up this journey. Because the journey is, I think, creating, sustaining, and then creating again.That’s the circle.And I think we, as a people, are coming to that full-circle moment.Share with a friend :)Thanks for reading Miriam Raquel Sands ! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
- Sep 12, 20262 min
Ashburn Eatloco Northern Virginia Today 🌿
Hi friends! If you haven't met me in person and are in the northern Virginia area come on out to Ashburn! I'll be here from 9am - 2pm at the Eatloco Farmer's market.I sell hand-made cacao drinking blends (grounded cacao herbs and spices ready to drink in the morning or night time. Add in with your coffee or milk/creamer of choice), hand-poured cocoa scented candles, tote bags and stickers all hand-designed!This may be my last farmers market of 2026 so stay tuned for an update on my online shop where Virginia residents can buy cacao, drinking blends and candles from meNote: My business currently operates under cottage law which means that I can only ship in the state of Virginia for the time being next year. I hope to get a commercial kitchen and be able to ship throughout the East Coast and the USA.See you soon! Thanks for being part of this online and in-person community ❤️ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
- Aug 17, 20261h 49m
The Last: What a Year of Building Resilience Actually Looked Like
The word edge comes from Old English, and it carries two meanings folded into one: the cutting side of a blade, and a point — a tip, a limit, a place where something ends.I find that distinction worth sitting with longer than we usually do. An edge is both a tool and a boundary. It’s the thing that can sever, and it’s also the place where something simply stops. We use the word constantly without touching either of its original meanings — I’m at the edge of something; this is an edge for me to push through — but we rarely ask what we’re actually invoking when we say it. A blade. A limit. Something that can cut, and something that contains.This is the real question underneath capacity: how do you define how much you have, in any given moment, with any given person? And once you know — or even if you don’t fully know, even if you can’t articulate it — are you willing to act on that information? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
- Aug 3, 202649 min
Season 3 EP 6 Appropriation, Ethics, and the Cacao Lineage: What It Means to Tend to Something With Integrity
Hello, hello — and welcome back to The Cacao Series.This corner of my larger podcast is where I sit with the cacao plant — its medicine, its history, its agriculture, its sociology, its ancestry, and my own. It’s where I talk about what makes my cacao blends different (emphasis on blends, because I don’t grow cacao, I don’t own a farm, and I don’t pay farmers in the global South directly). I do my best to ethically source from Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Guatemala — and one day, I hope to collaborate deeply with the people, the farms, and the land. Maybe one day I’ll even have a farm of my own.But today’s conversation is heavier. Necessary, but heavy.We’re talking about appropriation. We’re talking about ethics. We’re talking about culture, power, history, and the invisible threads that shape how we consume, create, and build businesses in 2026.And we’re talking about cacao — not as a trend, not as a “ceremonial” marketing buzzword, but as a plant with lineage, land, people, and memory.Why This Conversation Matters (Especially Now)We’re living in a time of deep division, deep denial, and deep anger. A time of I’m right, you’re wrong rhetoric. A time when people cling to identity as a shield instead of a doorway.And when we talk about appropriation, discrimination, capitalism — these massive forces that shape entire cultures — it’s easy to collapse everything into individual blame. But I don’t blame individuals for the entirety of history. I don’t blame my white friends for Jim Crow. I don’t blame every white person for the KKK.What I do acknowledge is that cultures — not individuals — create patterns. Cultures create systems. Cultures create the conditions that allow extraction, exploitation, and entitlement to flourish.And cacao sits right in the middle of that conversation.Where the Word “Appropriation” Even Comes FromI always start with etymology because the root always grounds hard conversations.Appropriation comes from the Latin appropriare — to make one’s own.To own. To possess. Someone sees something. They like it. They want it. They take it. They reshape it. They profit from it.That’s the lineage of the word.Cultural appropriation, as a term, didn’t even exist until the 1970s, when British historian Kenneth Coutts‑Smith wrote about cultural colonialism. And we’ve been trying to define, refine, and understand it ever since.Culture is not just food, clothing, music, or rituals. It’s not just what you can taste, touch, see, or hear.Culture is also:- values - mannerisms - invisible codes - inherited ways of being - the things you feel but can’t always name In Latin America, you greet everyone when you enter a home — with a hug or a kiss on the cheek. In the U.S., you don’t. In Europe or the Middle East, it’s two kisses. Culture is embodied. It’s lived. It’s practiced.So when we talk about appropriating culture, we’re talking about taking something that is lived and embodied — and removing it from its context, its people, its meaning.Appreciation vs. Appropriation: The Line Is CommodificationThere’s a version of this conversation that says:Appreciation is fine. Appropriation is not. But the line between them is not “liking something.” The line is commodification.I can appreciate Holi — the Indian festival of color — without selling it. I can practice yoga for my own healing without turning it into a brand. I can meditate with mala beads without pretending I’m a lineage holder.The moment you:- extract - distort - profit - whitewash - remove context - erase the people who created it …you’ve crossed into appropriation.And that’s where cacao is being mishandled today.The Yoga Example: When Appreciation Turns Into IndustryYoga changed my life. It found me when I was a self‑conscious high schooler shelving books in a library. It gave me breath, softness, community — something that wasn’t punishment or diet culture. But when I went deeper, I saw the commodification:- no national regulation - Yoga Alliance as a membership badge, not a lineage - studios selling certifications like products - white‑washed versions of ancient practices - people becoming “experts” in traditions they didn’t descend from And something in me said: I don’t have the right to teach this.Not because I’m unworthy — but because I refuse to extract from something that isn’t mine to sell.That same instinct guides me with cacao.Because appropriation isn’t just “taking.” It’s stripping.Stripping the meaning. Stripping the
- Jul 20, 20262h 3m
The Penultimate: Beginning of the End and the Cost of Definition
The word edge comes from Old English, and it carries two meanings folded into one: the cutting side of a blade, and a point — a tip, a limit, a place where something ends.I find that distinction worth sitting with longer than we usually do. An edge is both a tool and a boundary. It’s the thing that can sever, and it’s also the place where something simply stops. We use the word constantly without touching either of its original meanings — I’m at the edge of something; this is an edge for me to push through — but we rarely ask what we’re actually invoking when we say it. A blade. A limit. Something that can cut, and something that contains.This is the real question underneath capacity: how do you define how much you have, in any given moment, with any given person? And once you know — or even if you don’t fully know, even if you can’t articulate it — are you willing to act on that information? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
- Jul 6, 202635 min
Season 3 episode 5: What Culture Actually Means — And Why It Changes Everything
This episode, we’re going somewhere I’ve been wanting to go for a while. We’re going deep into culture — what it actually means, where the word comes from, how it has been used and misused and weaponized and reclaimed. And then, inevitably, we’re going somewhere personal: my own culture, my own mosaic, and what it means to be first-generation born in the United States with a whole lot of layered, tangled, beautiful, complicated inheritance.Start at the Root: What Does “Culture” Actually Mean? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
- Jun 18, 202648 min
What Is an Edge, Anyway? On Limits, Capacity, and the Luxury of Knowing What You Want
The word edge comes from Old English, and it carries two meanings folded into one: the cutting side of a blade, and a point — a tip, a limit, a place where something ends.I find that distinction worth sitting with longer than we usually do. An edge is both a tool and a boundary. It’s the thing that can sever, and it’s also the place where something simply stops. We use the word constantly without touching either of its original meanings — I’m at the edge of something; this is an edge for me to push through — but we rarely ask what we’re actually invoking when we say it. A blade. A limit. Something that can cut, and something that contains.This is the real question underneath capacity: how do you define how much you have, in any given moment, with any given person? And once you know — or even if you don’t fully know, even if you can’t articulate it — are you willing to act on that information? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.miriamraquelsands.com
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Unedited conversations about sovereignty: at work, in the body, and in life.I'm Raquel, a first-generation Salvadoran American, cacao maker, and income strategist in Northern Virginia, and the creator of the 3P Method: Purpose, Presence, Prosperity. This is where I think out loud about career transitions, income design, cacao as ancestral plant medicine, ritual, and what it means to build a life without extraction.Maybe you're leaving a system that doesn't fit. Maybe you're curious about cacao. Maybe you're the first in your family to figure this out. Wherever you're coming from, you're welcome here.Raw, unscripted, and made for the ones who are still figuring it out. Hit follow, and take your next step without panic. www.miriamraquelsands.com
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