Anti-Hero's Journey

James Eshelman, a psychedelic guide and transformational coach, shares his story and journey in the world of psychedelics. He discusses his background growing up in a small town in the Midwest and his traditional upbringing. James talks about his career in finance and the struggles he faced with depression and alcohol abuse. He then shares his Jerry Maguire moment when he quit his job and embarked...

Gary Cardone shares his story and discusses the importance of finding the right platform and being a critical player on the team. He emphasizes the value of being a giver and helping others without expecting anything in return. Gary also talks about the need for more heroes in the world and the battle between heroism and villainy. He expresses his gratitude for technology and Bitcoin, highlighting...

In this episode, Doc Askins interviews Tony Blauer, a self-defense and fear management expert. Tony shares his childhood experiences of fear and how it led him to study violence and fear. They discuss the difference between anxiety and fear, and how fear can affect performance. Tony introduces the No Fear program, which focuses on improving self-awareness and clearing fear. They also explore the i...

https://advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Josh started his first business at twelve years old with a natural inclination for being an entrepreneur. Since then he has been involved in start-ups, corporate America, and in international business development. He has over a decade of experience in the Non-Profit Sector managing multi-million dollar companies in addition t...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Amanda Siebert is an author, podcast host, and personal trainer interested in health, drugs, and altered states, and inspired by martial arts, movement, and music (among many, many other things). She hosts the podcast Ibogaine Uncovered and has written two books about cannabis and psychedelic drugs, The Little Book of Can...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ This is Part 2 of our interview with Lyndsey Ryan, Clinical Program Director at TARA Mind (a ketamine-assisted therapy network). Yesterday's episode was an interview prior to her trip to The Mission Within in Mexico for an Ibogaine and 5MeO-DMT assisted course of therapy. Today, she answers the same questions from her per...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Lyndsey Ryan is the Clinical Program Director at TARA Mind. A Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Addictions Counselor (LAC), Lyndsey has spent 25 years performing research, training, and developing hybrid modality support so she can best support her clients in finding a safe refuge in their own mind and bo...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ In this episode, Doc Askins interviews Michael Higgs, a former Navy SEAL and program director of the Honor Foundation. They discuss Michael's military career, his experience with psychedelic medicine, and his work in helping veterans transition to civilian life. Michael shares how psychedelics helped him reconcile with hi...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ W. Bryan Hubbard is the former Chairman and Executive Director of the Kentucky Opioid Commission. In that role, he developed the Kentucky ibogaine project which aimed to develop ibogaine as a breakthrough therapeutic under the auspices on the commission. He previously ran the state’s Social Security Disability and Child Support Enforcement programs as Com...

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ After a 30+ year career in the television industry, especially as a CNN Sports Producer, Cesar Marin decided to become an entrepreneur and start a lifestyle and apparel brand dedicated to people who want to manifest that microdosing psilocybin changed their lives. His mission is to share with others his healing journey wi...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com Uniting people and forging authentic connections—that’s where my passion lies. As the President of Microdose, I bring individuals, businesses, and innovative ideas together to shape the future of psychedelic medicine and mental health. Having spoken at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, the first Medical Psychedelic House of Davos in Switzerland, Burning Man...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com Christopher Cordova (PA-C) is an Army veteran Physician Assistant with an orthopedic practice in Colorado. His lifesaving efforts on the battlefield were depicted in the Netflix film The Outpost, which tells the story of the Battle of Kamdesh at Combat Outpost Keating, wherein Chris performed a fresh whole blood transfusion to save the life of a fellow Soldier. SSG...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com Allison Wilson is the founder of The Hope Project, a non-profit that supports Veteran spouses, Gold Star Wives and Veteran women with scholarships to psychedelic healing retreats, preparation and Integration coaching and most importantly, community. Allison created The Hope Project after 16 years in the special operations communty as the spouse to a Veteran Navy SE...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com Dave Connell is a U.S. Air Force Veteran and author of Cooking with Magic: The Psilocybin Cookbook. Dave is also the Senior Editor at Supermind.co. Dave has been active in the psychedelic field for the past eight years and got involved after his personal experiences using psilocybin to self-treat depression and PTSD. https://www.navigatesni.com/free-consultation

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Deran Young is a licensed therapist specializing in racial trauma and legacy burdens. She is also a Co-Author of the New York Times Best Seller, You Are Your Best Thing, a retired military officer, & founder of Black Therapists Rock. Black Therapists Rock is a non profit organization with a network of over 30,000 mental health professionals committed to reducing t...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Dr. Andrea Lucie (Ph. D. in Mind Body Medicine). For the past 29 years she has worked for the Department of Defense including at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC), The Marcus Institute for Brain Health at the Universit...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ In this Bottom Line Up Front episode, Sarah and Doc discuss the recent Nature journal article "Magnesium–ibogaine therapy in veterans with traumatic brain injuries" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02705-w) and a PLOS One article, "Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs: A mixed methods study" (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com Tommy Aceto was a 16 year Navy SEAL medic and intelligence officer. Currently, he is a psychedelic medicine advocate with the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition and the Veteran Mental Health Chief Officer for Give To Give Foundation, which is a non profit that gives access to Dr. Joe Dispenza’s meditation work. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and is...

https://www.navigatesni.com/free-consultation Dr. Ben Peery lives in Western Colorado. Married with 3 daughters. 20 years working as an Emergency Medicine physician, 4 years as a SWAT medic. Last year I started a podcast speaking with front line responders (cops, paramedics, nurses, military veterans, trauma surgeons etc) about mental health. Avid bowhunter, fisherman, mountain biker, waterman. Co...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Dr. Erin Faules (MD) is a service driven doctor on a mission to educate and challenge others to take charge of their health. She is board certified in Family Medicine. She practiced rural ER and Hospital Medicine before settling into her true love of Precision Medicine and disease prevention. She now runs a virtual practice, where she uses genomics and comprehensi...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Prior to starting Shift, JR was Chief Revenue Officer at Pillir, a low code platform company based in Chandler Arizona. He joined the company in the fall of 2019 to take over go to market. He built a successful partnership with AWS - achieving the top status as an ISV Partner and the #1 ISV in terms of new logos for AWS’s SAP on AWS team in 2020 and built a scalab...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Floris Wolswijk is the founder of Blossom. Blossom serves as an informational hub for psychedelic insights, from cutting-edge research to the companies implementing psychedelic-assisted therapy. Floris has also co-founded FLO coaching together with his partner Lotte. They provide psychedelic-assisted coaching with a focus on adequate preparation and integration. F...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Graham Priest grew up as a working class kid in South London. He read mathematics and (and a little bit of of logic) at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He obtained his doctorate in mathematics at the London School of Economics. By that time, he had come to the conclusion that philosophy was more fun than mathematics. So, luckily, he got his first job (in 1974) in a...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Dru Johnson is visiting associate professor at Hope College in Holland, MI (was a professor at The King’s College in New York City), director of the Center for Hebraic Thought, editor at The Biblical Mind, host of The Biblical Mind podcast, and co-host of the OnScript Podcast. Before that, he was a high-school dropout, skinhead, punk rock drummer, combat veteran,...

https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Dr. Ben Malcolm earned his bachelor’s degree (BS) in pharmacology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, prior to his Masters in Public Health (MPH) and Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) at Touro University California. He then completed post-graduate residencies in Acute Care at Scripps Mercy Hospital and Psychiatric Pharmacy at the University of Californi...