Hello !
About Us
Hello, we’re Simone Fougère and Giulio Cavallo.
Discerning Reality was born from years of questions, conversations, lived experience, experiments, research, healing, creativity, music, travel, and the deep desire to understand what is really going on in this strange and beautiful life.
Both of us started questioning the world from a young age. We noticed that many things we were taught through school, media, culture, health systems, money systems, and everyday life didn’t always make sense. So we kept asking better questions.
Over the years, those questions led us into many worlds: health, history, nutrition, spirituality, plant medicines, creativity, sexuality, dreams, science, money, energy, love, intuition, the body, the mind, the heart, and the hidden structures shaping modern life.
At some point, our private conversations became too alive to keep to ourselves.
So Discerning Reality became a place to share what we’ve discovered, what we’re still exploring, and the tools that have helped us navigate life with more clarity, creativity, freedom, humour, and trust.
x Simone & Giulio
Who we are
Between us, we bring Italian roots, a Middle Eastern-born New Zealand upbringing, European and Asian international schools, American and New Zealand university studies, and years of living, working, creating, researching and surviving across places including New York, Paris, London, Ibiza and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our backgrounds weave through finance, tech, government, health, education, music, hospitality, publishing, events, natural health, creativity, and community life.
It’s a strange patchwork. But somehow, it all belongs here.
Discerning Reality is where it comes together.
It is a space for people who are questioning old scripts, wanting to trust themselves more, and looking for practical, intuitive and creative ways to play life better.
We don’t claim to have all the answers.
But we do love better questions.
Why “playmates”?
When we met, we chose to build our relationship with as little expectation as possible and with as much honesty, curiosity and play as we could manage.
We called each other “playmates” because life felt less heavy that way.
Since then, we’ve used games, questions, dowsing, dreams, movement, music, intuition, laughter, and honest conversation to understand ourselves, each other, and reality a little more deeply.
Some of these games help us make decisions.
