Mycopreneur

Nick Gay joins us from Ousia Labs to drop intel on the Ousia Fountain, the world's first at home tabletop C02 extraction unit for distilling pure essences out of plant and fungal inputs. This is Nick's third time on the podcast and he provides updates on the ins and outs of producing such a unique product, which has found an unanticipated market with high end chefs and mixologists. Please rate and...

Ryan Paul Gates of Terrestrial Fungi is a world-renowned Cordyceps breeder, cultivator and educator. He joins us on the podcast today to share insights from his decade plus long journey at the vanguard of Cordyceps research in North America and to offer a window into the life of a mushroom geneticist. Please rate and review this episode wherever you're listening ( : Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Marko Randelovic is a content creator and social commentator who has quite literally seized the memes of production and taken over the world. this prolific digital creator maintains a growing suite of "Metaverse Quest" accounts that offer astute and biting hilariously deranged commentary on idiosyncrasies in niche demographics around the world; from Bali to Thailand to Serbia to the UK to the glob...

Lee Carroll is an Australia-based medical herbalist who is an integral part of the Real Mushrooms team. He joins us today to elucidate upon the qualities of Ergothioneine, an amino acid contained within mushrooms that has a range of impressive functions which are largely unknown to the general public. We hear about Lee's work with Real Mushrooms in educating the public about the best practices in...

Zach Leary is a journalist, psychedelic facilitator, and the host of the MAPS Podcast. He joins us today to share observations from a lifetime of experience at the forefront of underground psychedelic culture and his current experience as an integral part of today's psychedelic mainstreaming. Zach has a live online 8 week Psychedelic Studies Intensive Spring '24 Cohort course kicking off June 5th...

Dillan DiNardo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mindstate Design Labs - A Y Combinator-incubated psychedelic drug development company designing altered states of consciousness for mental health therapeutics. Dillan joins us today to talk about his journey to the forefront of the psychedelic drug development space, as well as to provide insight on the immense arena of untapped potential that exist...

Attorney Matt Zorn has had an outsized impact on the evolving drug policy landscape in the United States. Through his successful litigation against governmental agencies like the notorious DEA and the DOJ, Zorn has been victorious where few have even dared to tread. On today's episode, we unpack his guiding ethos and some of the strategy employed in his approach, as well as our fortuitous meeting...

Mitchell Gomez is the Executive Director of DanceSafe , an organization dedicated to health and safety in music and nightlife settings. DanceSafe is legendary for their on site harm reduction services at music festivals, raves, and many more types of settings via drug testing, education outreach, and advocacy. Mitchell shares intel on a vast repository of research chemicals, the status quo of the...

Jack from Everyday Dose mushroom coffee joins us to share intel on how he built the world's greatest mushroom coffee enterprise. We hear about the early days of raising funds from friends and family, the hockey stick growth of the first three months of the business, and the realities of scaling to a multiple 8-figure functional mushroom business in the Wild West of the supplement industry. Please...

Unkle Fungus is a boutique mushroom farm and crafter of exotic mushroom products based in Pennsylvania, USA. He joins us on the pod today to talk about the origin story and mycopreneurial evolution of the uncle Fungus brand, and to showcase the day to day realities behind running a family mushroom business. Please rate and review the episode wherever you're listening & share it with a friend (...

Dr. Rob Silver joins us today on a deep dive into the emerging product landscape of functional mushroom supplements for dogs. Dr. Rob has teamed up with industry leading power players Real Mushrooms to bring a line of medicinal mushroom products for pets to fruition. Please rate, review, and share this episode if you find it compelling and interesting ( : Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Shane Mauss is a stand up comedian with a decorated 20 year career in show business. He is one of the pioneers of stand up comedy for psychonauts, an emerging art form that provides context and nuance to the mainstreaming of psychedelics. Catch him on his never-ending tour by checking dates here: https://www.shanemauss.com/tour Please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing this episode. Hosted on...

Jason Ortiz of Last Prisoner Project returns to the Mycopreneur Podcast to issue a call to mobilize in support of cannabis policy reform in the U.S. by way of direct action in Washington D.C. on April 18th, 2024. On April 18th, 2024, we will be mobilizing the largest bi-partisan coalition of cannabis advocacy, industry, and grassroots organizations in the U.S. to lobby in Washington D.C. for a 420...

Dr. Jeff McNairy is the Chief Medical Officer at Rythmia , a luxury plant medicine and ayahuasca retreat center based in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Dr. McNairy has over 25 years of experience working in the medical field and draws from his background in psychology to help bridge the mystical nature of an ayahuasca experience with a medical framework and terminology that people from the western world...

Lucas Aoun is the founder of Boost Your Biology and a globally recognized authority on Mens Health and biohacking. We met in Amsterdam at the Biohacking Summit there in October 2023 and I was inspired by Lucas' pragmatic and unassuming approach to optimizing men's health. Please rate and review this podcast wherever you're listening - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rhana Hashemi is a drug educator and researcher who is the founder of Know Drugs, a paradigm-shifting purveyor of drug education for youth. She joins us today to shed light on her pioneering work in evolving the narrative around how we talk to youth about drugs. Please rate and review this podcast wherever you're listening ( : Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Meddling Mushroom is a widely respected mushroom cultivation educator and consultant who draws upon decades of experience in the field and a heart for service to uplift many in this emergent space. They join us today to share insights on the state of the mycology space, some best practices for streamlining your operation, and sage advice for how to be of service to others in the myco community...

Mason Marks is the Florida Bar health law section professor at the Florida State University College of Law. At Harvard Law School, he is the senior fellow and project lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and he also writes an extremely insightful weekly newsletter covering the psychedelic...

Dr. Rick Barnett is a licensed psychologist-doctorate and a licensed drug and alcohol counselor based in Vermont. He joins us today to discuss his participation in various psychedelic education programs and the state of the psychedelic therapy space in addition to other topics of interest. Please consider rating and reviewing the Mycopreneur Podcast wherever you're listening. Hosted on Acast. See...

Stephanie Wang is the Founder & CEO of KA! Empathogenics, a boutique purveyor of Kanna supplements that's focused on bringing full spectrum aliveness to people through their products and offerings. In this episode we learn about some of the KA! vision and strategy behind the brand, and hear about some of the reasons that Kanna has become so popular across the U.S. and beyond over the last few...

Today's podcast features New Brew Botanical Seltzer Co-Founder and CEO Justin Wolf discussing his companies trajectory and their mission to foster a new way of social ritual by infusing plant-based elevated experiences into their product line. Alcohol has had a strangle-hold on social rituals in the United States for many years, and companies like New Brew are intent on creating healthier products...

Healing Herbals & Entheogenic Emporium are boutique vendors of legal entheogens such as Kanna extract, blue lotus extract, and wild lettuce among other plant-derived substances. The legal entheogen market is booming, and we sit down with an expert on the subject matter today.  Check out the product offerings at https://healingherbals.store/ and https://www.entheogenicemporium.com/ to lear...

North Spore is one of the most reputable and robust mushroom companies in North America, and today I'm joined by their Co-Founder Eliah and Events & Education Director Louis to talk about their decade long trajectory from bootstrapped startup to powerhouse player. Please rate and review this episode wherever you're listening - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Travis Tyler Fluck is one of the most devoted and influential figures working in the psilocybin mushroom space today, and he joins me to talk about the status quo of mushrooms in Colorado under the current legislative framework there. We tap into a number of other dimensions during this hour-long conversation, which I sincerely hope you'll rate and review wherever you're listening to it. Hosted on...

Sherry Rais is the CEO of Enthea, a third-party administrator focusing on psychedelic-assisted therapy as a workplace benefit. Sherry joins me on the podcast today to talk about the work Enthea is doing to remove obstacles to health equity, her background working with the World Bank and UN, and the future of employer-provided psychedelic-assisted therapy. Please rate and review this episode wherev...