Stephen Lewis Fisher

The Qualiteacher — Solar Consultant · Founder, Home of LILA · Impact Investor · Specialty Coffee & Gong Fu Cha · 200-HR Yoga
Austin, Texas B.A. Economics, UCLA '15 Eagle Scout, 51 Merit Badges @thequaliteacher
Experience
ONGOING

The Qualiteacher

@thequaliteacher · Instagram + Home of LILA
Curatorial vetting across four axes; Gong Fu Cha as core practice and connective medium
Provenance, craft, aesthetic, energetic signature — applied to clothing, herbs, food, coffee, tea, companies, and teachers. Gong Fu Cha (the mindful art of tea service and stewardship) practiced as a daily discipline and medium of weaving harmony through vocation, hospitality, and relationship. Parallel to Good On You, extended into aesthetics and energetics.
2024 — PRESENT

Founder & Steward, Home of LILA

Austin, TX · homeoflila.com
Ayurvedic/TCM adaptogenic herbal line, medicinal snacks, Web3 architecture
Five-SKU dosha-mapped line (STILL · BOND · FOCUS · BALANCE · RISE), medicinal snack line, ceremonial green-tea funnel with recurring revenue, three-token architecture (LĪLĀ · PRASĀDA · DHARMA). Telegram community LILA DROPS in active growth.
Q3 2023 — PRESENT

Impact Investor & Sovereignty Tech

Austin, TX
Pre-pre-seed investor in Own. · Active member, Lab484
Own. (NEMO Enterprises, Q3 2023) — human-sovereignty social media, creator ownership, merit-based discovery. Lab484: Web3/4/5 human-centered sovereignty technology community in Austin.
MAY — AUG 2024

Community Living & Regenerative Earth Skills · Wanosh Forest Gardens

Willits, CA · Pomo Territory · wanosh.org
Immersive stewardship: cob building, Hügelkultur food sovereignty, indigenous earth wisdom
Four-month immersion in community living at Wanosh Forest Gardens & Healing Grounds — an educational forest community center on Pomo territory in Northern California. Practiced natural building with cob structures, Hügelkultur food sovereignty farming, and whole-systems permaculture. Lived in reverence toward indigenous earth wisdom traditions, regenerative land stewardship, and the internal arts of relational connection.
Q2 — Q3 2023

Ayahuasca & Hapé Medicine Prayer Journeys

Pajé Penu · Noke Koi Tribe (Amazonian Brasil) · Spirit of Aranya · Santa Cruz, CA
Series of ceremonial prayer journeys held by Pajé Penu of the Noke Koi tribe
Deeply sustained ayahuasca and Hapé medicine work through alliance with Spirit of Aranya in Santa Cruz, California. Amazonian Brazilian lineage. The most thorough immersion in ceremonial plant medicine practice to date.
APR 2023

10-Day Vipassana Silent Meditation

Vipassana Meditation Center
Completed 10-day silent Vipassana retreat in the tradition of S.N. Goenka
Q3 2020 — Q2 2026

Residential Solar Consultant

Independent · California, Texas, Illinois
~6 years net-metering solar sales across three state markets
Salesforce, SubcontractorHub, Aurora, Solo, Enerflo. HOA/permitting, NEM 3.0, federal ITC, bonus depreciation, SGIP, C-PACE financing. Origination through close.
Q1 2020 — PRESENT

Indo-Tibetan Enlightened Lineage · Mystery School

Karma-yoga · Continuing practice
Meditation training, karma-yoga career integration, pilgrimages
Power trip quests: Mt. Shasta, Mt. Tamalpais. Sounds of Light pilgrimages in homage to Yeshua & Mary Magdalene: Mt. Bugarach, Southern France (Q3 2023); Egypt (Q4 2024).
Q2 2020 — Q4 2021

Family-Assisted Caretaker

Full-time · Grandmother · Santa Rosa, CA
Full-time elder caretaking, overlapping with solar sales introduction Q3 2020
Q3 2019 & Q3 2020

Reiki I & II Certified

Reiki Center of the East Bay · Oakland, CA
Reiki Level I (Q3 2019), Reiki Level II (Q3 2020)
Q1 2020

Coffee at Origin · Mayan Harvest Coffee

Bella Vista, Chiapas, Mexico · Dir. Rosalba Cifuentes
Lived with co-op stewards, premier reciprocity standards
Women-producer fair-pricing model. Hand-selected cherry, in-community milling and processing. Post-yoga-training immersion in the Chiapas Sierra.
Q4 2019 — Q1 2020

200-HR Hatha Yoga Teacher Training & Andean Plant Medicine

Southern Ecuador · Andean medicine family
Certified 200-hr hatha yoga; concurrent San Pedro, Ayahuasca & native mushroom ceremonies
Yoga teacher training in Southern Ecuador held alongside continued ceremonial work with an Andean medicine family — San Pedro, Ayahuasca, and native Ecuadorian mushrooms integrated into the training period.
Q4 2019

Yagé Ceremony · Putumayo Tribe

Leipzig, Germany
Ceremonial Yagé work held by Putumayo tribal practitioners
Initiation into the Yagé tradition of the Putumayo region of Colombia, conducted by tribal practitioners in Leipzig, Germany. The entry point of the plant medicine path.
Q2 2019

Coffee at Origin · Finca Santa Elena

Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia, Colombia · Dr. Samuel Roldán & Paula Concha
Cherry picking at 1,500m, honey processing study
Caturra/Geisha/Bourbon/Typica. Ecological depulper, solar glass dryer, raised beds, 20–25-day drying cycle. Tasting notes: strawberry, Concord grape, cranberry, roasted almond.
APR 2019

World Rainbow Gathering

Sierra Nevada Sacred Land, Colombia
Attendance and integration at the World Rainbow Gathering on sacred indigenous land
Participation in the World Rainbow Gathering held on the sacred land of the Sierra Nevada, Colombia. A temporary intentional community devoted to peace, prayer, and harmonious living with the earth — deepening the thread of indigenous reverence and community stewardship.
Q2 2018

Specialty Coffee Consultant

Nairobi, Kenya · Independent
Built and trained two barista teams to Blue Bottle-grade specialty standards
Calibration protocols, sensory training, service choreography. High-level hospitality systems for specialty execution.
PRE-2020

European Coffee Culture Study

Amsterdam · Berlin · Copenhagen
Third-wave coffee field study across Northern Europe
Roastery models, café culture, and extraction standards in three capital cities of the European specialty coffee movement.
JUL 2015 — DEC 2017

Lead Barista, Blue Bottle Coffee

Los Angeles & San Francisco
Bar leadership, training, calibration, single-origin extraction
Two and a half years inside one of the defining institutions of American third-wave coffee. Hospitality standards, sensory calibration, service choreography.
Education
2013 — 2015

B.A., Economics — UCLA

UCLA Men's Rowing · Delta Sigma Pi, Xi Omicron chapter
2010 — 2013

A.A. × 4 — Santa Rosa Junior College

Economics · Business Administration · Linguistics · Natural Sciences
PRE-2010

Renaissance Classical Homeschool

Trivium: formal logic, Latin, Italian, veritas-focused biblical history
FOUNDATION

Eagle Scout · BSA Troop 58, Santa Rosa, CA

Troop record: 51 merit badges · Senior Patrol Leader
The Qualiteacher — Vetting Framework
I. ProvenanceOrigin, hands, traceability
II. CraftMaterials, construction, attention
III. AestheticVisual language, point of view
IV. EnergeticWhat it does to the field around the body
Domains: Clothing & Adornment · Adaptogenic Herbs · Coffee & Tea · Foods & Provisions · Skincare & Body · Home & Habitat · Companies & Founders · Practices & Teachers
Crafts & Competencies

Trade & Solar

  • Residential Solar Consulting 6 YRS
  • Salesforce CRM FLUENT
  • SubcontractorHub CRM FLUENT
  • Aurora Solar FLUENT
  • Solo FLUENT
  • Enerflo FLUENT
  • NEM 3.0 / ITC / SGIP / C-PACE PRACTICED
  • Appointment Setting & Close FLUENT

Brand & Product

  • Brand Strategy & Storytelling FLUENT
  • Ayurvedic/TCM Formulation PRACTICED
  • E-commerce & Marketplace Ops SHIPPING
  • Tokenomics Architecture DRAFTING
  • Community Building PRACTICED

Coffee, Tea & Hospitality

  • Specialty Coffee Extraction EXPERT
  • Gong Fu Cha CORE PRACTICE
  • Bar Leadership & Training EXPERT
  • Sensory & Calibration PRACTICED
  • Blue Bottle Standards CERTIFIED
  • Origin Sourcing (3 countries) PRACTICED

Practice & Tradition

  • Hatha Yoga Instruction 200-HR
  • Indo-Tibetan Meditation SUSTAINED
  • Vipassana Silent Meditation 10-DAY
  • Reiki I & II CERTIFIED
  • Plant Medicine (Yagé · Ayahuasca · Hapé · San Pedro) SUSTAINED
  • Classical Logic (Trivium) FOUNDATIONAL

Stewardship & Service

  • Eagle Scout · BSA RANK
  • Merit Badges 51 · RECORD
  • Senior Patrol Leadership PRACTICED
  • Cob & Natural Building PRACTICED
  • Hügelkultur & Food Sovereignty PRACTICED
  • Elder Care & Caretaking FULL-TIME

Investing & Sovereignty Tech

  • Impact Investing PRACTICED
  • Pre-Pre-Seed Diligence PRACTICED
  • Human Sovereignty Frameworks FLUENT
  • Web3 · Web4 · Web5 ACTIVE
  • Creator-Ownership Models FLUENT
Languages
English Native
Spanish Conversational · DUOLINGO
French Working · DUOLINGO
Italian Reading · CLASSICAL
Latin Reading · CLASSICAL