The Iboga Leadership Summit Podcast

In the 13th episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast, Ros Stone speaks with Dr Andy Letcher; author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom , scholar of religion, folk musician, druid, and Programme Director of the MSc Psychedelics at EPIC (the Exeter Psychedelic Interdisciplinary Centre); for a conversation about the limits of translation, the politics of psychedelic knowledge,...

In Episode 12 of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast, host Ros Stone speaks with neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher Dr Manesh Girn for a conversation about the (psychedelic) nature of creativity; how plant medicines that are the subject of research can influence its design; the kinds of considerations that relatedly come into play when it comes to approaching the medicalisation of Iboga-ine...

In the fourth episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast, harm reduction advocate Susan Ousterman offers insights into what speaking truth to power is like in a reality where it’s easier to access illicit substances than mental health care.  Susan is the Executive Director of the Vilomah Foundation. Vilomah: A Sanskrit word meaning “out of natural order,” which relates to the experience of los...

In this episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast, Ryan Rich speaks with philosopher and international development consultant Jeremy Weate about what it means to bring the Bwiti tradition into contact with the mechanisms of modern medicine, policy, and commerce without losing its soul. Jeremy traces a journey that began on a London bus in 2004, when a chance conversation sparked a calling tha...

In the tenth episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast, Ryan Rich speaks with Moth Storyteller and creator of Memory Motel Terrence Mickey : author, workshop facilitator, and Bwiti initiate, for a conversation about the deep relationship between narrative, self-knowledge, grief, and the transformative reordering of perception that can occur through Iboga ceremony. Terrence traces a life shape...

“What happens when we [label patterns] is often an individual's identity kind of metastasizes to that diagnosis. And then that can even reify the patterns.” In this searching conversation, Ros Stone speaks with Sarah Siegel of Waking Wisdom Within , Root Healing and Bassé Root . Sarah is a certified alcohol and drug counselor, recovery coach, IFS-trained therapist, chaplain, and co-founder of Bass...

"What was driving my addiction was to numb, to anesthetize myself to the reality that the world was this shallow, meaningless place with just a bunch of sock puppet theater going on for spiritual endeavors." This conversation makes the case for sound quality as an overlooked variable in the future of psychedelic medicine. Ryan Rich is joined by Jonathan Weiss, founder of high-end audio companies O...

In the seventh episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit Podcast, Tobias “Edzing Nzame” Erny shares details of his most recent research into Iboga/ine as a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease with summit co-organiser Ryan “Ghenigho” Rich. The latest paper, celebrated in this episode, is part of an ongoing study in which participants are microdosing to manage the condition, sometimes with miraculously e...

Quentin reflects on how his early fascination with reptiles, forests, and living systems shaped his understanding of cultivation as a dialogue rather than a domination. He explains why many industrial agricultural models fail: they prioritize yield, uniformity, and speed at the expense of resilience, diversity, and ecological balance. Together with Raphael Nicolle, the conversation explores how tr...

This interview with entheogenic entrepreneur and philanthropist Simeon Schnapper celebrates the “apparent oxymoron” of introducing the wonder and awe of Bwiti and, more broadly, Indigenous sacred plant medicine traditions into a medical context.  Simeon is the founding partner of JLS, a pioneering plant medicine venture fund, and is widely recognised as the first psychedelic venture capitalist. In...

In this episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit Podcast, Spencer “Missambo” Burton speaks with Ryan “Ghenigho” Rich of the Iboga Leadership Summit team about his personal journey from Ibogaine treatment for opiate addiction to becoming a provider grounded in traditional Bwiti lineage and founding the Iboga Rebirth Church and cofounding the Missoko Bwiti Alliance in the United States. Born with cyst...

In the second episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit Podcast, anthropologist Sidsel Marie Henriksen shares details with Ros Stone of the Iboga Leadership Summit team about the gradual, relational process that her fieldwork involves; academic and cultural power dynamics that must be navigated in a commitment to ethical, non-extractive research; and the importance of dexterously understanding Iboga...

This is the first episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit podcast. With Patrick Moughenda Mikala Nzamba , a 10th-generation Missoko Bwiti shaman who is hosting the Iboga Leadership Summit (22-28 June 2026), in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Gabon. In this conversation with Ros Stone from the Iboga Leadership Summit team, Moughenda unpacks cultural perceptions of authenticity i...