Enhanced Senses Podcast

What does it mean to almost lose something you love because you burned out? And what's the difference between burning out in isolation versus burning out inside an ecosystem that holds you? This episode is about burnout, community, and the ecosystems that we build around our passions in order to support doing them sustainably. This past weekend, I went camping and kiteboarding with a group of...

Whose story are you living, and how do you find your way back to your own? Brian Stanton is a stage actor based in Los Angeles with an MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. He is most known for his award-winning original solo play BLANK and his award-winning film @ghostkingdom, both personal pieces exploring the complicated and emotional truths of his adoption experience. He also ho...

Is paragliding the stupid thing that you do, or is it the path that leads you to realize your life might be worth more than paragliding? Ari DeLashmutt asks that question. Not rhetorically. He's watched people answer it both ways. Ari is a paragliding instructor and men's coach, helping men be safe in the air and secure, authentic and free in their lives on the ground. He runs men's re...

What worlds do you have the power to move between? Vex has painted murals around the world. She's been a full-time artist for most of her adult life. And she'll tell you that her career was guided into existence by early experiences with psilocybin and LSD, taken after losing her father and asking the questions most of us eventually ask: what is the point of life? How do I make mine count?...

What happens when the container isn't strong enough to hold you? Erin Witter is a certified and licensed natural medicine facilitator in Colorado's regulated psilocybin market, trained in psychedelic preparation and integration, and a practicing psychospiritual transformation coach. He was the very first guest on Enhanced Senses Podcast and in this episode, he turns the mic around and inte...

What does your process reveal about who you're becoming? Alyssa didn't think they were an artist. They couldn't draw what they saw the way other people could. But at 16, when they tried psychedelics, something shifted. Art and the medicine became inseparable. And they realized their non-traditional relationship with creativity, the way they actually work, was the thing that made them u...

What if every unexpected turn in your life was actually leading somewhere? Jonathan Schecter has followed that thread his whole life. From making mixtapes as a kid, to pioneering an internet radio show documenting LA's underground rave scene, to walking away from a full-time DJ career at its peak because meditation made him uncomfortably aware that something wasn't right. Every portal led...

What did the experience open, and how are you living with it? Kyle Buller is the co-founder of Psychedelics Today, one of the world's leading psychedelic media and education companies, and co-creator of Vital Psychedelic Training, a 12-month program in psychedelic integrative studies. A licensed therapist specializing in psychedelic integration, spiritual emergence, and breathwork, Kyle brings...

What does it feel like to be you? That's the question this podcast has always been asking. And on the one year birthday of Enhanced Senses Podcast, I'm finally answering it for myself. In this episode I share the origin story of ESP — not the practical one, but the real one. The moment under a fire dome in the desert in February 2023 where everything clicked. The threads I'd been carry...

Some things don't live in your mind — they live in your body, in land, in place. In this solo episode, Danielle reflects on twenty years of snowboarding, the conditions that made her who she is, and what it means to build toward becoming something rather than arriving at it all at once. She explores how mountains hold memory in ways the mind sometimes can't, why we don't have to collap...

Becca Ploener is a high stakes performance coach for athletes, musicians, leaders, and performers ready to expand their impact with increased clarity, power, and presence under do-or-die pressure. What You'll Hear: Why anyone drawn to adventure sports, performance, or entrepreneurship is risk-driven, not risk-averse—and how shame around being "too risky" holds us back The difference...

Emily shares her 10-year journey of denying her calling as an artist—from standing in an art studio at 17 feeling the "garage doors slam down" telling her to get a "real job," to burning out after achieving six figures by age 23, to finally giving herself permission to lead with art instead of waiting for some future destination of success. What You'll Hear: -Why creating i...

KK's passion for biology started when she was 6—she would go over to her neighbors' house to pick their flowers because they simply amazed her. Every time KK went to a greenhouse, she would take the freshly fallen flowers and bring them home with her. KK's interests continued into college when she learned that all medicine stems from plants and fungi. She started taking plant biology c...

The day this episode launches is my birthday and the following week Enhanced Senses turns 9 months old! To celebrate, this is my first solo episode—the raw, unscripted story of what the systems, struggles, and mindset shift needed to build something that matters. What You'll Hear: -The 5-episode buffer system that saved my podcast -"Do it for the plot" as a decision-making framework...

Ona Praderas is an embodiment wellness coach and community care specialist. She supports organizations, individuals, and groups by creating safe, inclusive spaces rooted in compassion. Ona empowers individuals and groups through presence-based practices that shift mental focus and foster self-awareness. In this episode you will hear about …  -Why it’s important to help mothers rediscover their sen...

“I think that we have this opportunity to become even more intimate with nature and to loosen some of the shackles that we've been given over thousands of years that have told us that we are separate and we are different from nature because I think that it's one of those things that creates this deep unending yearning of the human soul that is soothed by this awareness and understanding th...

 "I think storytelling is how we carry our culture, right? And I think those myths and metaphors and stories are really powerful. What I'd say is that with the psychedelic medicine work is we have the opportunity to put a new narrative on our story." Flow Portal: Microdosing and Trailrunning Catalyst: Feminine intelligence and age of the sage awakening Enhanced Sense : Space holder a...

“ I think what's really important about psychedelic assisted therapy and coaching is being able to provide frameworks that are free from dogma or forced beliefs that give the person a lattice to rebuild themselves onto, otherwise psychedelics become extremely destabilizing and they can lead to reconstituting yourself in a very strange way.” - Henry Murray Henry Murray has played many roles in...

Enhanced Senses has 20 episodes! When things got chaotic kiteboarding - kite pulling one way, currents the other, wave in my face - Samantha was able to come back to her breath. In this interview she shares that's what a meditation practice gives you: the ability to slow things down when everything's moving fast. Samantha Charlton has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 20 years,...

“ It reminds us that we can do hard things, and when you can get through the most challenging thing you've ever done in your life up to that point, it's what else can you do that you may think is too hard for you or too scary if you could do that? Let's go. What's the next thing? So they can really map that empowerment that they receive on the trail into every area of their life.”...

Sami Bierman is a co-founder of Bloom River Journeys, a facilitator, river guide, artist, and creative currently pursuing her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health and Counseling. With a deep belief in the healing power of nature and community, Sami is passionate about weaving together therapeutic work, artistic expression, and outdoor adventure to foster meaningful connection and transformation. Whe...

“ It does not have to be only be a mountain guide and take people up mountains, only be a therapist, sit in an office and go through these structured exercises and that hour is over.”  “[Ketamine]  it has allowed me to access that trans space where I am not stuck with social like expectations, right?” - Jay Louie In this episode of the Enhanced Senses Podcast, Jay, a trans non-binary therapist of...

Today's guest Ian McCall is a retired American mixed martial arts world champion, psychedelic research advocate, psilocybin advocate, performance coach and mentor. He is the founder of Athletes Journey Home helping athletes heal from traumatic brain injury. Our conversation dives into many topics around the special needs and healing opportunities for athletes! Listen to hear about … -Ian McCal...

“ And then we're completely connected versus I have my role, you have your role, let's see if we can work together. It's, we are an original conversation, and we're just playing in the moment together.” - Michael Haug This episode is for anyone who wonders how flow takes form throughout our lives and how it is manifested in a physical activity, like dance. Michael began his dance j...

“I think what we're trying to achieve is freedom. That's actually what we're trying to achieve, and that's what that flow state feels like. Freedom. ” Louis Dorian, founder of Psychedelist talks about his martial arts journey and the parallel pursuit of psychedelic experiences and their impact on that journey in relation to flow states and ego mitigation.  In this episode you will...