The Trip Report

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. This week, I am speaking with Dr. Jackie von Salm, Ph. D., co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Psilera , a biotech company pioneering early-stage psychedelic-inspired drug discovery and development for neurological conditions. If you’ve ever been curious about the intricate and fascinating...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, I'm speaking with Shirelle Noble , Deb Gardner , and Danielle Herrera, LMFT from Beckley Academy . They recently published A Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Learning Framework . This is a research initiative that aims to foster a unified and comprehensive educational paradigm for psychedelic p...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, I am speaking with Rick Doblin , founder and President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). December of last year was a milestone for Doblin and MAPS, as the organization submitted a New Drug Application for MDMA Assisted Therapy to the United States Food and...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, I am speaking with Marcus Capone , co-founder of Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS), a non-profit that seeks to create access to psychedelic medicine for veterans of the Armed Forces.  He is also co-founder and CEO of Tara Mind , a public benefit corporation that is making psych...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. This week, I am speaking with Greg Kubin , co-host of the Business Trip Podcast and co-founder and partner at PsyMed Ventures , a fund investing in frontier mental health technologies and treatments. Greg and I chat pretty regularly, sometimes weekly, about the state of play in psychedelics, neur...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, I am speaking with Brandon Deroche, founder of the PORTAL —the Partnership of Responsible Trippers Advocating Legalization.  PORTAL is a project from Propeller , the social impact and advocacy organization Brandon started more than 15 years ago to drive awareness and action for social move...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, I am speaking with Ken Jordan , co-founder and Editorial Director of Lucid News , an AP-style journalistic platform covering all aspects of the psychedelic field. Ken is a longtime journalist, writer, and media entrepreneur. In 2007, Ken co-founded The Evolver and Reality Sandwich , digita...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, we’re speaking with John MacLean, AKA The Juan MacLean , an electronic music artist, DJ, and co-founder and co-owner of Cardea —a psychedelic medicine space that facilitates experiences in New York City and Jamaica. I wanted to speak with John because he has a unique lens into the emerging...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, we’re joined by Dr. Gita Vaid , an NYU-trained psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and founder of The Center for Natural Intelligence in New York City. Dr. Vaid has been working with the likes of Richard Schwartz, Phillip Wolfson, and Deepak Chopra over the last several years to train healthcare p...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, we’re speaking with Matt Zorn . Matt is a partner at the law firm Yetter Coleman. His law practice is uniquely focused on regulatory law, and importantly for this conversation, he has been working on several psychedelic-related cases. I should warn you we get into the weeds straight out of...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, The Trip Report is speaking with Hadas Alterman , and let me warn you, you are in for a doozy. Hadas is the Director of Communications and Policy at the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association (APPA), and in this conversation, we leave no stone unturned. We discuss APPA, the organiz...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves , a psychedelic venture studio. Today, we are speaking with Yuriy Blokhin , founder and CEO of Homecoming , an all-in-one platform for transformational coaches, therapists, healers, and their clients. Yuriy is another entrepreneur in the psychedelic space that I occasionally have long and meandering conversations with about th...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast , a production of Beckley Waves , a psychedelic venture studio. Today, we are speaking with Oshan Jarow . Oshan is a writer, podcaster, and a fellow at Vox Media’s Future Perfect , a division focused on covering the crucially important issues that are often under-reported. In this role, Oshan writes about the intersection of economics and the contemplative s...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio. Today, we’re speaking with Jonathan Sabbagh , founder of Journey Clinical , a digital health tech company pioneering a collaborative care model for psychedelic-assisted therapy. Journey Clinical was founded in 2021 with the mission of creating a decentralized clinic model that would enable license...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast! Today, I am speaking with Dr. Jeeshan Chowdhury , M.D., Ph. D., founder & CEO of Journey Colab , a psychedelic startup developing a synthetic form of mescaline and an innovative care model for addiction treatment.  I met up with Jeeshan at the recent MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver for a conversation about the emerging field, his company, and...

Welcome back to The Trip Report Podcast! Today, we are talking with Dr. Rick Barnett . Rick is the founder of the Center for Addiction Recognition, Treatment, Education, and Recovery in Stowe, Vermont, and the Co-Founder of the Psychedelic Society of Vermont . He is also a clinical psychologist and licensed alcohol and drug counselor with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology. This comb...

Today I am speaking with Talia Eisenberg . Talia is the co-founder of Beond Ibogaine , an addiction and chemical dependence treatment center in Cancún, Mexico. I wanted to speak with Talia because the Beond model – a modern, medical-grade center – seems to me like the closest approximation to what the psychedelic medicine practice of the future will look like. Ibogaine has developed a reputation a...

Today I am speaking with Josh Hardman . Josh is the founder and Editor of Psychedelic Alpha , the preeminent business and policy data resource for the psychedelic industry. I first met Josh in 2020 when this whole domain of psychedelic business and investment was really taking off. Those were strange times—this was the peak of covid lockdowns, the lead up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, th...

Today I am speaking with Dr. Manish Agrawal . Manish is the founder and CEO of Sunstone Therapies and co-director of clinical research at Aquilino Cancer Center in Rockville, Maryland. Manish studied engineering at Auburn University and graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He did his medical residency at Georgetown University, where he also earned a master’s in Philosophy....

Today I am speaking with Dr. Amy Kruse . She is a neuroscientist, General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer at Satori Neuro , a venture capital fund focused on mental health, neurotechnology, and human flourishing. Amy earned a Bachelor of Science in Cell and Structural Biology and a Ph. D. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She went on to serve as a program m...

Introducing The Trip Report podcast by Beckley Waves, hosted by creator and author Zach Haigney. Beckley Waves, a venture studio spearheaded by psychedelic science and policy pioneer Amanda Feilding, seeks to build and support the infrastructure necessary for safe, legal and accessible psychedelic experiences. Expanding on our popular newsletter, the podcast is our latest endeavor to create a well...