Christine Marie Mason | Source | Founder and CEO at Rosebud Woman

Integrated Wisdom
From a traumatic upbringing and teen motherhood, Christine entered into an elite education and the world of high stakes consulting. She invested 3 decades in starting, growing and selling companies, while parenting 6 children, and doing deep training and teaching in yoga and philosophy, trauma healing, and embodied sexuality. A combination of healing practices, psychedelic medicine, a near death experience and grace have granted her a playful, vibrant, equanimous way of being. She has spoken or taught at hundreds of conferences, including Summit LA, TEDx and many women’s events, and written 8 books. She is currently the founder and CEO of Rosebud Woman, a multimillion dollar intimate wellness company, the host of The Rose woman Podcast on Love and Liberation, and the cofounder of Sundari Gardens, an ecovillage and community center in Hawai’i. Her most recent book, Reverence: Creating Ritual in Modern Life, was released in December, 2021. BA, MBA, current PhD Student. You can find her at rosewoman.com and xtinem.com.

Topics:
Intimate and Sexual Wellness Throughout the Life Cycle
Reverence and Ritual
Relationship and Presence
Spiritual Ecology
Conscious Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Natural Ways to Heal Mind, Body and Spirit

Intimate and Sexual Wellness Throughout the Life Cycle
Christine Marie Mason is the Founder and CEO of Rosebud Woman, an intimate wellness company making sustainable, plant-based products to support all the stages of a women’s sensual, sexual and reproductive life with a starting focus on perimenopause and menopause, educating on embodiment and intimacy, and inspiring a reverent lifestyle. She writes weekly letters on love, power and womanhood, and hosts the rose woman podcast on love and liberation. The pod focuses on conversations with a wide variety of experts and inspirers – from doctors to therapists, artists to founders – to help all of us know and love our bodies more and discover more freedom, joy, and power in our lives. A percent of profits from the sale of Rosebud products goes into the company’s Reverence Fund, which supports human rights, women’s rights, and environmental activism.

Spirituality, Yoga, Philosophy, Tantra, Mantra
Christine began teaching yoga in 2002. Her primary teacher is Mark Whitwell. She has completed teacher training with Rod Stryker (ParaYoga Level 1 & 2), Maya Yoga (500 hours), Baron Baptiste (Level 1) and continued training with other senior teachers, including a Thai massage certification, Love and Ecstasy Training, and Yoga Anatomy coursework. She’s YACEP and YA E-RYT certified. She holds a certificate in the practices and philosophy of yoga from the Mattamayura Institute. She trained in ZEGG forum facilitation, has completed 5 years of training with Thomas Huebl in collective, energetic, and subtle healing. As a yogi, she has presented, along with her colleague Adam Bauer, around the world at Blessfest, BhaktiFest, YogaWorks, Yoga Tree, Prasada, YogaSource, Jewel in the Lotus, LoveSpringSF, Yoga Center Amherst, the Throckmorton Theater, the Centers for Spiritual Living, and many more venues worldwide from Buenos Aires to the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh.

Conscious Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Christine is the founder of Rosebud Woman (2017-present) and Sundari Gardens (2017-present), an experiment in community, communication, and eco-conscious living.She has a 2020 patent pending on emotional distress and care micro drones. From 1996 to 2016, Christine was a tech founder and venture-backed CEO in B2B software. She has conceived, resourced, and built multiple organizations with $100M+ exits. She is currently an early-stage investor in the cloud, blockchain and biologics, and a mentor to young businesses and nonprofits. From 2011 to 2016, she served as a futurist and innovation advisor for global companies, such as Estee Lauder, Autodesk, and Panasonic. Christine’s areas of investigation include technologies as far-ranging as the human brain to machine interface, biologic patents, and short and midterm potentials for synthetic biology applications, 3D printing, unmanned aerial vehicles, cloud computing, big data, and video analytics. From 2009 to 2013, Christine curated and led 12 TEDxSanFrancisco events and convene gatherings worldwide.

Author
Christine is the author of eight books, including Reverence: A Guide to Ritual in Modern Life (2021); The Nine Gifts: A First Aid Kit for Mind, Body and Spirit (2020);
Bending the Bow: How Ordinary People Spark Visionary Social Movements (2019); Body Love: A Companion Journal to The Invitation (2019); The Invitation: Daily Love for Your Intimate Self (2018); Indivisible: Putting Connection First (2017); and Twisted: Yoga in America Since 1965 (2019).

Speaker
She has presented or spoken at Summit LA, TEDx, Maneuvering Menopause Summit, OmRising, The Visionaries Summit, The Future of Women, Women’s Innovation Network, Wharton Fellows, Thiel Fellows, Hewlett Packard Innovation Center, San Francisco Curator Network, TEDxEast (NYC), Success Boston, Sierra Nevada Alliance (winner of Sun Tzu award), TIE Midwest Chicago Technology Leadership Forum (TechForum), Union League Club of Chicago. Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum, Kellogg Venture Forum, Kellogg Entrepreneurship Forum, Kellogg Innovation Network, Illinois Venture Capital Association, Illinois Technology Association, Illinois Information Technology Roundtable, SIIA Content Forum, SIIA Software Division Conference, and Springboard.

Education
BA Northwestern. MBA, JL Kellogg School at Northwestern University. She is a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies.