The Mush Room 🍄

Kaitlyn Kuehn also known as KK is a plant biologist with a thirst for mycology who couldn’t find the nerdy, science-forward fungi content she was looking for, so she built it herself. As the creator and host of Flora Funga Podcast, KK has spent years bridging the knowledge gap between plants, fungi, and humans. She’s also on a personal healing journey using medicinal mushrooms to manage rheumatoid...

Some connections are just meant to happen. Johnny met Omar at the Telluride Mushroom Festival and knew immediately this was a conversation worth recording. Omar Dasco-Uribe is an Ojai-based community builder, educator, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of the relationship between people, nature, and fungi. A chef for 14 years, a microdosing coach, and the founder of OHMS Collective, Omar has spen...

Microdosing coach Shannon Pereira was locked in her parents' basement during COVID, in a house where a family member was struggling with meth addiction, when a friend asked if she wanted to join a psilocybin microdosing study. That first dose in a bathtub cracked her open. This week on The Mush Room, John James Staniszewski and Shannon go deep on perspective shifts, the drug war, why every coa...

What's actually in your mushroom product? The answer might surprise you, and it's exactly why this conversation matters. In this episode, Johnny sits down with Chris Pauli, founder of Tryptomics, a psychedelic and cannabis testing laboratory based in Colorado. With deep roots in cannabis pharmacognosy and a vision for personalized natural medicine, Chris is one of the most knowledgeable pe...

Johnny sits down with Dennis Walker, founder of the Mycopreneur podcast, for an unplanned but perfect conversation that covers his first mushroom trip, why harm reduction and psychonaut culture kept him safe from the start, and how every kind of person, from NFL players to Navy SEALs to business executives, is finding their way to mushrooms. They get into the synthetic psilocybin debate, which sta...

Johnny sits down with Dr. Alex Paziopolous of the Pazio Institute for a deep dive into the real differences between ketamine and mushroom journeys, why intention and integration matter more than the molecule, and how his background studying ecology and tamarind monkeys led him into medical maintenance engineering. They cover mushroom rotation protocols, the five fibers your microbiome craves, how...

🍄 Is psychedelic prohibition finally coming to an end? In this episode of The Mushroom Podcast, Mr. Fungitarian sits down with Joe Robinson, founder of PsiloSafe and a 20-year veteran of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, to discuss the future of psilocybin, psychedelic legalization, safe access, and why the movement needs transparency now more than ever. Joe shares his journey from Bi...

What does it really look like to rebuild your life after rock bottom? In this episode, Johnny sits down with Johnny Chase, founder of Dry Culture, for one of the most raw and honest conversations about sobriety, identity, and discipline you'll hear anywhere. These two have history, and it shows. No filters, no fluff, just two people who've lived it. Johnny Chase opens up about what it felt...

Eight years ago, Johnny Staniszewski was a personal trainer and nutrition coach who got caught in the medical system, handed a prescription, and ended up in a two-and-a-half-year opiate addiction. One night, alone with a handful of mushrooms that had been sitting in his closet, everything changed. He woke up the next morning sober. He has not looked back since. In this first episode, Johnny sits d...