Mycopreneur

Serial Entrepreneur and reigning Psychedelic CEO of the Year Kaia Roman joins us on the pod today to talk about her approach to leading multiple high-profile companies in the psychedelics industry, as well as to share intel on the reasons why having female executives in your C-Suite gives you a more balanced and nuanced approach to solving problems and creating a viable business. Please consider r...

Daniel Shankin is the Founder of Tam Integration, which is producing their annual Integration Jam April 28-30. This online virtual event will feature speakers from around the world sharing best practices across a wide range of topics - I'll be participating too, so pull up! We talk about a wide array of other topics in this episode as well - music, corporadelia, satire, new age mysticism, and more...

Andrew DeAngelo is a world-renowned cannabis and psychedelic entrepreneur, consultant, educator and writer who knows a thing or two about the state of the global cannabis industry. He returns to the podcast to share insights from his travels around the world to interface with key stakeholders in the cannabis space, and regales us with tales from the underground culled from his multi-decade career...

Douglas K. Gordon returns to the podcast to announce a new mushroom-focused collaborative venture with the Marley family in Jamaica. He shares updates about the regulatory environment for psilocybin mushrooms and the cannabis industry in Jamaica, as well as his take on how neighboring island nations may be able to benefit from the rise of psychedelic tourism. Please consider rating and reviewing t...

Numinus Founder & CEO Payton Nyquvest sits down with me at SXSW in Austin to talk about the trajectory that his company Numinus has been on to position themselves as being on track to be the first profitable publicly traded psychedelics company. We talk about the Numinus approach to the psychedelics space, music as a tool for healing, the road map for the next few years in this space, and more...

The Ousia team joins us today to pitch their Ousia Fountain at home CO2 extraction tabletop extraction equipment. Though this product and company are in fact real, we pitch it in a satirical skit aimed at taking down 'big tincture.' This unit is available for pre-order at https://ousialabs.com for $899 - the first 200 orders will receive $200 off. We hope this podcast is as educational and enterta...

Mareesa Stertz is the Co-Founder of Lucid News and the creator of the 'Psychedelics and Storytelling' retreats and workshops. She joins me today to discuss how we can leverage the power of storytelling to program ourself with narratives that defy conventional social programing and which better suit us as empowered individuals. Please consider rating and reviewing the podcast wherever you're listen...

Manoj Doss is a postdoctoral psychedelic research scientist at Johns Hopkins University and is currently researching the impact of psilocybin on episodic memory. He joins the Mycopreneur Podcast today to provide insights into the underlying neural mechanisms occurring during a psilocybin mushroom-engendered psychedelic experience - We learn about the different regions of the brain and how they are...

Masha Ty is the head of Corporate Growth and Education for Florida-based ACS Laboratory, an outfit which specializes in testing cannabis and mushroom products. We dive into the arc of Masha's journey from the traditional corporate world and into the cannabis and psychedelic industries, as well as the dynamics of transitioning an industry from an underground black market into a legal and regulated...

Jeremy Gardner joins us on the Mycopreneur podcast to share insights about the roles of technology and venture capital in shaping the psychedelic ecosystem of the future. After tremendous early success as a crypto investor, Jeremy has diversified his investments into a range of asset classes and ventures - which includes the emergent psychedelic industry. We dive into a range of topics from artifi...

Emily Eizen is a multimedia artist and cannabis entrepreneur in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in High Times, Playboy, and Forbes among other platforms - She joins us on the Mycopreneur podcast to share insights about her creative process, define what equity in the cannabis and psychedelic space means to her, and tell us about how she broke into the cannabis industry. Please consider rati...

Joe Moore and Kyle Buller are the Founders of Psychedelics Today, the planetary hub for individuals, practitioners, and professionals exploring psychedelics. They join me to talk about the state of the psychedelics space, which they continue to shape after six years being at the forefront of it. We talk about their Vital training program for psychedelics for professional training in psychedelic th...

Dustin Robinson is the Managing Principal of Iter Investments and their venture studio Nucleus. He has a background in law and has advised and invested in numerous companies across the cannabis and psychedelics space. On today's podcast, we learn what Dustin and the Iter team look for in a company before investing, why they've decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign for their data-driven Nucleus...

The Award-winning mycologist filmmaker Hamilton Pevec returns to the Mycopreneur podcast to share intel about his recently released film Azurescens: Through A Blue Lens. This film was recently crowned Best Edutainment piece at the Fungi Film Festival, and follows the pilgrimage of mushroom foragers in search of the fabled Psilocybe azurescens mushroom in the Pacific Northwest of the United States...

Justin Hanka is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Director of MindBio Therapeutics, world leaders in microdosing of psychedelics, Justin joins the Mycopreneur Podcast from his home in Melbourne, Australia to discuss the rigorous scientific inquiry and data collection that MindBio therapeutics is conducting in Phase 2 clinical trials assessing the medical efficacy of microdosing LSD to treat Major...

Ash Southard is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mushroom Design, a functional mushroom supplement and education company. She drops in on the Mycopreneur podcast to share observations of trends and important topics surfacing in the psychedelic space, as well as to caution against the proliferation of dogma that she has observed in the growing psychedelic retreat space, and more. Please consider rating, r...

Elan Hagens is a well known mycopreneur in Portland who has been teaching outdoor education and mushroom foraging for over a decade. Today she swings by the podcast to talk about her experience helping to shape Measure 109 in Oregon, her role in the mushroom community, and why getting a dog helped her make it in the world of science and outdoor education. Please consider rating, reviewing, and sha...

Just in Townsend is the CEO of MycoMeditations, a world class psilocybin mushroom retreat center in Treasure Beach, Jamaica. We learn about the dynamics of the legal magic mushroom industry in Jamaica, the practicalities inherent to running a premium operation in the mushroom retreat space, the flow of a week at a mushroom retreat with MycoMeditations, and the net positive benefits of having such...

Jon Dennis is an Oregon-based attorney specializing in psychedelic law - he is arguably the nation's foremost expert on the newly minted adult use legal psilocybin industry that's just rolled out in Oregon, and today on the pod he demystifies what the final rules and regulations around Oregon's Measure 109 entail. Please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Kukuni is a Los Angeles based psychedelic recording and performing outfit helmed by Willy Christie. Kukuni's debut release is out now on Liquid Culture records - Willy joins us on the Mycopreneur podcast today to discuss the anatomy of making a psychedelic record, with special attention given to the songwriting process, technical equipment used, and how to streamline nascent inspiration into an ac...

Charles McBryde is a new media creator and consultant based in Los Angeles - he joins the Mycopreneur podcast today to share insights from his time on the ground in Ukraine in an active theater of war, as well as his impressions about the 'cult of spirituality and new age mysticism' that's developing around the use of psychedelics in the U.S. Please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the epis...

Patrick Moher is the President of Microdose, one of the leading psychedelic platforms and the team behind the Wonderland psychedelic conference. He joins Mycopreneur to talk about his rise to the current position he holds, the future of the psychedelic industry, and why there's no room for absolutism in the psychedelic space. Please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing this episode. Hosted on A...

Willy Myco is an underground mushroom legend who has educated the world on all facets of cultivating mushrooms and running an underground mushroom business for decades. Today he joins us on the Mycoprneeur podcast to discuss the origins of his legacy, the genetics he's currently working with, the state of the mushroom community, and where we're headed from here as a movement. Please consider ratin...

Hernan Castro started cultivating Lion's Mane and other functional mushrooms after learning that they may be able to help his father cope with a serious medical diagnosis. In the years since then, he's leveraged his academic chemistry background to create a tincture and tea company called Desert Alchemist - Hernan discusses his approach to extraction, his tips for scaling your mycopreneurial ventu...

In this episode, we learn about the backstory of Third Wave founder Paul Austin - from the origins of his stalwart psychedelic brand Third Wave in a Budapest park on LSD, to the six year trajectory that has led him to become a published author and founding member of the Microdosing Collective - to the year ahead for Third Wave, and why the psychedelic conference circuit has not reached its full po...