Mycopreneur

Josephine Nakakande is the Executive Director of Environmental Conservation and Agricultural Enhancement Uganda (Eco-Agric Uganda). Josephine teaches critically vulnerable and abjectly impoverished Ugandan women how to cultivate oyster mushrooms as a source of abundant and healthy protein, and also provides them with entrepreneurship training so that they can sell their harvests at market. In her...

Jasper Degenaars is here to educate the world about mushrooms and normalize the use of Psychedelic Medicine. He is the director of the world-renowned Fungi Academy in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, and a passionate mycophile who believes that the power systems of the world can be redistributed among people and communities through appropriate leveraging of mycelial networks. Jasper and I had a chance to...

Simon Yugler is a depth psychotherapist and psychedelic integration coach from Portland, Oregon. In this episode we talk about how to navigate the emerging psychedelic therapy space, strategies for integrating a profound psychedelic experience, and the unscrupulous psychedelic medicine providers who peddle Neo-colonialism as new age wellness. We also wrestle with the ramifications of the liberaliz...

Eric Mueller is a professional mushroom cultivator who runs Mueller's Mushrooms. Eric is a purveyor of specialty mushrooms and has mastered the science of cultivating the neurocognition enhancing Lions Mane mushroom, as well as immunity boosters like Turkey Tail and Reishi. Mueller Mushrooms started in true bootstrap mycopreneur fashion -- while still in high school, Eric cloned a wild oyster mush...

Veterans Walk and Talk is a private membership group that provides free psilocybin micro dose capsules and plant medicine therapy protocols to all military veterans.  As Founder and Director Colin Wells states "Our wars have been going on for so long that no one even talks about them anymore" Yet the most dangerous theater for our military veterans is not in Kabul or Abu Gharib, but rather ri...

Alan Lilienthal is a creative genius who takes decisive action with his unique skillset -- he is the frontman for bilingual international hip hop supergroup Tulengua as well as the host of the KPBS podcast Port of Entry. Alan and I cover a lot of ground in this podcast, with topics ranging from how psilocybin can help fuel the creative process, to our mutual empathy for migrant populations, to the...

Michelle Janikian has built a thriving freelance business writing about psilocybin and other mind expanding substances. She is the author of the book "Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion" and writes about drug policy, culture, and harm reduction for such publications as Playboy, Rolling Stone, Double Blind, and Teen Vogue. In this episode, we visit a sprawling ecological park in the mountains of Me...