Welcome to Psychedelic Divas, where we explore the power and the pitfalls of the emerging world of psychedelics through the wisdom of the divine feminine. As the psychedelic underground pushes upward into our mainstream awareness and the legal above ground, Psychedelic Divas is here to serve as a guide for those who might be interested in exploring whether these medicines are right for them. Let’s be clear, these medicines are definitely not for everyone, and we are not promoting their use. ...
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Get cutting-edge insights from world-class leaders in health, fitness, longevity, entrepreneurship, music and brain science. In-depth interviews with 400+ world-renowned experts including James Clear, Dr. Casey Means, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr. Mark Hyman, Robb Wolf, Dr. Jack Kruse, Nir Eyal, Tony Horton, Dr. John Gray, Tim Ferriss, Lewis Howes, JP Sears, and many more. Originally launched in 2012 with the tongue-in-cheek title, The Fat-Burning Man Show, this podcast hit #1 in Health in 8 countrie ...
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James Swanwick: How to Break Free from Alcohol
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1:06:06Do you ever feel like you’re losing your edge? Today we’re here with my friend James Swanwick, creator of Alcohol Free Lifestyle, a movement guiding high-achievers like you to sidestep the sauce. In this episode, we’re exploring James’s journey from rock-bottom, hungover in the hallowed halls of IHOP, where dreams go to drown in corn syrup and regr…
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Ben Azadi: How Toxins Like Glyphosate Sabotage Your Metabolism
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58:38What if being overweight isn’t the problem, but actually a symptom of deeper dysfunction? The body doesn't lose weight to get healthy; it gets healthy to lose weight. And reclaiming your metabolic freedom may just save your life. Our guest this week, Ben Azadi is a living testament to the power of focusing on lifestyle factors like real food and fi…
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18. What the Heck is a Psychedelic Container?
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26:34In Episode 18, we break down the various elements that make up a psychedelic container: The overall physical, emotional and energetic structure that holds a psychedelic journey. Starting with safety (because it’s always a good idea to start with safety), this episode dissects the aspects that make up a well-held container such as facilitator expert…
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John Wang: Overcoming Burnout, Imposter Syndrome & Perfectionism
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1:02:58Have you ever struggled with burnout or imposter syndrome? No matter how much you accomplish, does it somehow feel like it's never quite enough? Today, we’re here with my friend John Wang, an author, speaker, and global traveler on a mission to help high-achievers overcome maladaptive patterns and break free from the invisible scripts and cultural …
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17. Psychedelics 101: Healing, Integration, and Inner Transformation
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46:27In this special episode, I’m sharing a conversation that originally aired on Modern Latina in Midlife with Sonia Flores, who invited me on for an open-hearted introduction to psychedelics, plant medicine, and the healing journey. This episode was created with beginners in mind. Those who are curious but maybe don’t know where to start. Sonia and I …
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Dan Faggella: The Radical Future of Human-AI Interaction
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1:09:50In a world where machines can outperform humans in nearly every conceivable domain, where exactly does that leave us? When artificial intelligence can fulfill our deepest drives and reward pathways more reliably than any human relationship, what happens to human connection, meaning, and purpose? Today, we’re exploring the world of artificial intell…
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16. A Healing Journey from Trauma to Transcendence
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1:03:37In episode 16, we go deep with Coltrane Lord. Coltrane is a psychedelic integration specialist, artist, and healer. We trace Coltrane's personal journey from trauma to transcendence, her transformative experiences with plant medicines, and the founding of the Wonderland Project, a nonprofit organization that connects marginalized women suffering fr…
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Joshua Weissman: Cooking is an Act of Rebellion
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1:15:02Today, we have a special in-person episode going back in time with our friend Joshua Weissman. This episode was actually recorded many moons ago, but after one of my computers died the files sadly went missing. Now years later, I was able to retrieve most of our conversation and finally edit this show together. Since the original recording of this …
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15. Seeding Consciousness with Tricia Eastman
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1:04:55Ancestral wisdom meets psychedelic healing with this week’s guest on Psychedelic Divas. In episode 15, I interview Tricia Eastman, a medicine woman and pioneer in the psychedelic movement. Tricia shares her rich ancestral background, including her family's traditions of Afro-Mestiza shamanism and wisdom passed down through generations. Together we …
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Mark Sisson: Why Walking Beats Running for Longevity
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1:08:57What’s better for longevity—running or walking? It’s a bit of a trick question. But if there is one answer, it’s definitely walking. If you want to be fit and live for a long time, you don’t need to subject yourself to suffer fests and slog through long runs. In fact, when you combine daily walks with the habit of sprinting just about once a week, …
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Tristan Scott: Hidden Dangers of EMFs and Artificial Blue Light
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1:09:54Have you ever had a concussion? Anyone who’s ever had their bell rung knows recovery can be brutal. But with enough time and the right treatment, our bodies also have the remarkable ability to heal. Today we’re going hard in the paint on brain health, electromagnetic fields and decentralization in tech, food and finance with our friend Tristan Scot…
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14. Building a New Foundation on the Shulgin Legacy
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1:00:12In episode 14 of Psychedelic Divas, my guest is Wendy Tucker, daughter of psychedelic pioneer Ann Shulgin, who was married to ground-breaking psychedelic chemist Sasha Shulgin. Wendy shares her extensive history within the psychedelic community, including hosting the infamous Friday Night Dinners that began as a family gathering and evolved into a …
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John Lee Dumas: How to Quit the Rat Race and Move to Paradise
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55:56Have you ever dreamed of dropping out of the rat race and moving to a tropical paradise? This week’s guest actually did it. If you’ve ever struggled through an 80 hour workweek, you know it can be incredibly profitable… but at what cost to your health, happiness and family life? How do you know when enough is enough? Today we’re here with fellow OG…
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13. Honoring the Legacy of Ralph Metzner
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1:07:12In this episode, I interview a dear psychedelic sister, Cathy Coleman, who was married to my teacher, Ralph Metzner for 31 years. Cathy is the author of the recently released book, Ralph Metzner, Explorer of Consciousness—The Life and Legacy of a Psychedelic Pioneer. This book contains over 60 tributes, essays and stories from people who were deepl…
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In this episode, we dive into the concept of “core wounds”—those deep psychological injuries formed in early childhood that shape our self-beliefs and behaviors. I share my personal psychedelic experiences and coaching insights, while also discussing the significance of identifying and healing these wounds for expanded self-awareness and personal g…
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Paul Chek: How to Optimize Performance and Longevity (without Biohacks)
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2:03:49Are you tired of the never-ending hacks, shortcuts, protocols and gimmicks that some call biohacking? 19-year-olds are juicing up with exogenous hormones and getting implants just to keep up with the Joneses on Instagram. The materialistic worldview pushed by those with something to sell in the world of health can lead to an unhealthy obsession wit…
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11. Unlocking the Hero's Journey with Psychedelics
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56:08Mareesa Stertz, visionary filmmaker, storyteller, and co-founder of Lucid News and the Global Psychedelic Society, shares her transformative journey with psychedelics, which began at a young age in Las Vegas with many challenging, yet enlightening, experiences. Mareesa discusses the pivotal role psychedelics have played in healing her trauma, the i…
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Bo Eason: How to Become the Best in the World at What You Do
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1:33:05What would happen if you trained like the best athlete in the world? How about the best actor or artist? Today we have the incredible honor of speaking with Bo Eason—a former star safety in the NFL, as well as an acclaimed playwright, author, and coach. After competing with all-time greats like Jerry Rice and Walter Payton in the NFL, Bo changed hi…
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10. How Cool—I’m on Somebody Else’s Show!
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1:03:02My dear friend, Alan Levin, interviewed me for his podcast Crossing the Boundary. I first met Alan in a Ralph Metzner circle, and we have been dear friends for decades now, sharing many, deep transformational moments together both on and off the mat. It was an honor to be featured on his podcast and to share tales of our time together with Ralph. A…
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From Illness to Ironman with Brett and Harry of the Meat Mafia
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1:00:51If you could save $400,000 a year in medical costs by making a radical change to your diet, would you do it? Today we’re here with Brett Ender and Harry Gray, fellow Austinites, former college athletes turned entrepreneurs and hosts of the Meat Mafia podcast. From fitness to faith, we cover a lot of ground in this one and I hope you enjoy. In this …
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Suzanne Santo: How to Reinvent a Broken Music Industry
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48:51Why do so many famous, seemingly successful musicians wind up completely broke? In this bonus series, I’m interviewing incredibly talented musicians who are using cutting-edge podcasting technology to reinvent the music industry. Today we’re here with Suzanne Santo, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. A tireless creator, her sound has be…
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Stacey McCann: Why “Getting Fired” Needs to Go On Your To-Do List
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1:07:10How much do musicians actually make streaming and performing live? The truth is gnarlier than you think! But we’re working hard to change that. This is the third episode in our bonus series, where you’re hearing rapid fire interviews with musicians who are reinventing the music industry by using cutting-edge “Value 4 Value” technology. This is all …
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Johnny Elrod: What Real Musicians Think of AI-Generated Music
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52:42What do real musicians think of AI-Generated music? In this 4-part bonus series, you’ll hear rapid fire interviews with musicians who are using cutting-edge podcasting 2.0 tech to reinvent the music industry. This is all leading up to the first-ever “Sats By SW” Independent Music Summit and our live music performance at Antone’s hosted by the inven…
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9. Transforming Addiction with Microdosing
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1:09:21In this episode, Danielle Nova, co-founder of Flow State and the Microdosing Facilitator Training, shares her personal story of overcoming a 15-year addiction with the help of psychedelics. She offers her thoughtful insights into addiction recovery as the founder of Psychedelic Recovery, the critical role microdosing can play in healing addictive p…
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Ainsley Costello: How Bitcoin is Disrupting the Music Industry
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1:06:33Technology is disrupting the music industry once again. In this week's special 4-part bonus series, you’ll hear rapid fire interviews with incredible musicians who are using cutting edge podcasting tech to reinvent the music industry. We’re kicking off this bonus series with one of the top artists in the world of value-for-value music, Ainsley Cost…
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Israa Nasir: Why Hyper-Optimization Protocols Do More Harm Than Good
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50:39Do you feel a constant pressure to optimize every aspect of your life? What if hyper-optimization protocols actually do more harm than good? The glorification of hustle culture has given many of us the nagging feeling that no matter how much we do or accomplish, it's never quite enough. Living in a cloud of frantic, urgent, reactive energy can even…
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My guest for this episode of Psychedelic Divas is Valeria McCarroll, PhD, LMFT, a psychedelic educator, writer, and speaker who teaches courses on psychedelic humanities at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Having been in the field of psychedelics for over a decade, Valeria has developed and taught curriculum for the training of psyched…
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Anna Vocino: Say “NO” to Big Food and Build Your Own Business Instead
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1:00:18Have you ever wondered why almost every single packaged food contains industrial seed oils, anti-caking agents, preservatives, petrochemical flavorings and other non-foods? And why do so many growing companies that started as a healthier real food alternative ultimately sell their souls to Big Food? We're back this week with our dear friend, Anna V…
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7. What's It Like to Trip in a MRI?
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1:10:58What’s it like to trip in a MRI? That question would send most people running for the emergency exits, but not this week’s guest Executive Coach, Author and Speaker, Amy Wong. Amy shares her experience as a participant in a cutting-edge psilocybin study led by renowned researcher Robin Carhart-Harris at UCSF’s Neuroscape Neuroscience center. Combin…
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Chef James Barry: Why Eating at Fancy Restaurants is Terrible for Your Health
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59:12Why do fancy restaurants fill their meals with junk oils, sugars, chemical preservatives, and worse? With rampant food inflation and razor thin margins, even the fanciest, most exclusive and expensive restaurants can’t resist the tendency to cut corners on ingredient quality. That means that no matter how much you spend on eating out - with few exc…
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I’m your host, Carla Detchon, and this episode is a little different in that it’s a live talk I gave at Psychedelic First Friday, a monthly event hosted by the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society, which is held at Green Magic Yoga. In this episode, I’m the one being interviewed by the lovely Dr. Jen Christian, who I originally met on the Clubhouse App. …
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Matt Beaudreau: How to Nurture Genius and Courage in a Habitually Compliant Population
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1:15:18What’s the difference between education and indoctrination? Is our education system broken, or is it operating as intended? The public school conveyor belt is a relic of the Prussian military model, designed to produce compliant workers for factories rather than sovereign thinkers with upward mobility. We’re left with a blindly obedient population …
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Paul Millerd: Why He Blew Up His Life (and You Should, Too)
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1:35:42Is your work aligned with your true calling in life? Or are you being paid to overlook your overwhelming disinterest in the work? Is your work-life driven by an illusion where the trivial is disguised as important? Tragically, this week’s guest admits, “I spent 10 years doing an enormous amount of work but feeling as if I created nothing of substan…
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Mark Divine: Master Your Mind’s Energy to Become Uncommon
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1:01:14What does the concept of longevity mean to you? Does it mean pumping your body full of exogenous hormones, peptides, stem cells, brain implants, and gradually replacing your organs with lab-grown pig parts? Perhaps some of us will sign up to be a brain in a jar? Or can we cruise into our second century by living a simple life of self-reflection, me…
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Adam Gilbert: Overcome Self-Sabotage and Unlock Your Full Potential
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50:22When you know what you’re supposed to do, what keeps you from actually doing it? We’re all guilty at times of procrastination, pleasure-seeking, indulging in distraction and escapism, and even self-sabotage. Perhaps it’s all part of the human condition. But since knowing what to do is different from actually doing it, it’s essential to set up syste…
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Gabrielle Lyon: Why Meat-Eating and Strength Training are Key to Longevity
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1:06:30Have you heard that eating animal protein causes cancer? Or that you’ll save the world if you only give up hamburgers forever? Despite dutifully reducing our consumption of animal protein for decades, rates of obesity and chronic disease have skyrocketed. In the face of relentless anti-meat propaganda, what if the blanket advice to follow strict pl…
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Loretta Breuning: Why You’re Not Happy (and What to Do About It)
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58:23If you’re not happy all the time, do you feel like you have a problem? No matter how much you achieve, does it feel like it’s never quite enough? This is totally normal. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the pursuit of happiness, but it’s critical to understand that even in the best case scenario, happiness is fleeting. It’s not something we ev…
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Dr. John Gray: How to Overcome Tech Addiction, Optimize Hormones, and Reignite Romance
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1:42:03Do you feel like you’re addicted to screens? Technology was supposed to improve our quality of life, but instead it’s fueled a war on our attention, happiness, and sanity. Some of the most intelligent brain scientists in the world are paid ungodly sums to make sure you’re as addicted as possible, hijacking your reward pathways so they can mine your…
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5. Sex, Drugs & Consciousness with Britta Love
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1:01:59Advisory: There is a brief, non-graphic mention of sexual harm/assault contained in this podcast. We are exploring the depths in this episode. You know, those parts that we're not supposed to talk about in polite society: sex, drugs, consciousness. Today's guest embodies them all. This episode features Britta Love, an advocate for sex workers' righ…
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Dr. Cate Shanahan: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health (and What to Eat Instead)
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1:14:49Are we blaming red meat and butter for the problems vegetable oil caused? Contrary to popular belief, there is no correlation between either saturated fat or animal fat consumption and heart attacks. Despite that fact, doctors learn that there is. So why does the American Heart Association lie to doctors and the public about the true cause of heart…
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Govinda Tidball: Health Sovereignty, Medical Privacy & Web5 Technology
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1:19:22What do you think of censorship? It's a bizarre and uncomfortable feeling when some unelected, self-appointed anonymous party behind the curtain decides what you're not allowed to say or learn. We live in a world where little people like us are legally responsible for every word we put online. But when our overlords in Big Tech censor potentially l…
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4. From Menstruation to Menopause - Psychedelic Women's Health with Melissa Whippo
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1:09:13In this episode, we explore the role psychedelics, especially ketamine, can play in women’s health from menstruation to menopause. Psychotherapist Melissa Whippo shares her history working with women both before and after birth to help them with anxiety, depression and other mood disorders. Melissa was behind the first study to determine whether ke…
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Matthew Lysiak: How Fiat Money-Printing Destroys Our Health and Enables Endless War
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1:07:01Does it feel like a dollar isn't worth a dollar anymore? At first, inflation feels good for some of us. Homeowners see their houses rapidly increase in nominal price, the stock market appears to rise, even used cars and trucks sitting in the driveway growing older somehow appear to become more valuable. But when you fill up your cart at the grocery…
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In this episode, I dive into the recent developments in the psychedelic world, exploring the FDA advisory panel's surprising vote against the use of MDMA for treating PTSD. Join us as I unpack the implications of this decision and reflect on what it means for the future of psychedelic therapy. To put it in context, I provide a little historical bac…
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Dr. Jack Kruse: Reclaim Your Health, Wealth & Freedom in the Face of Medical Tyranny
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1:48:32In the face of creeping medical tyranny, a rapidly devaluing dollar, rampant tech addiction and an epidemic of chronic disease, what can we do to reclaim our health, wealth and freedom? We're back today with our friend Dr. Jack Kruse, a respected neurosurgeon, author, mitochondriac and pioneer of medical freedom. Dr. Kruse was one of the very first…
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2. How Guided Psychedelic Journeys Changed My Life with Sheri Salata
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1:00:04What’s a nice girl from the Midwest doing with an underground psychedelic guide? (Thanks for the inspiration, Michael Pollan!) The good, the bad and the transcendent—Sheri discusses her various journeys and the messages she received. Sheri and Carla discuss the various merits of snorting versus smoking 5-meO-DMT The power of integration. Sheri shar…
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In this inaugural episode of Psychedelic Divas, Carla Detchon speaks to the painful two-year process behind the creation of Psychedelic Divas. Follow along as she details her journey from terror to triumph as she perseveres in finally integrating the message the Universe handed her two years ago. RECEIVE YOUR FREE GUIDE: “PSYCHEDELIC SAFETY TIPS IN…
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Anjan Katta: Creating A Computer That’s Actually Good for Us
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56:09What if technology actually made our lives better instead of worse? When you're scrolling non-stop on your phone, do you ever feel like you're at the casino? If you've ever opened 200 tabs on your browser, stared blankly into a screen, or doomscrolled the day away, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Modern computers and smartphones are evolut…
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Dr. Casey Means: Solving for the Root Cause of the Metabolic Health Crisis
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1:09:50Have you ever ignored your doctor's advice? Most doctors enter the medical field with noble intentions, but are unaware of the systemic corruption and profit driven nature of the industry. The hard economic truth is that nearly every institution that impacts your health makes more money by managing chronic disease than by curing patients. The pharm…
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Welcome to Psychedelic Divas where we demystify the world of psychedelics through the wisdom of the divine feminine. In each episode you’ll hear from amazing psychedelic filmmakers, doctors, authors, researchers, educators, storytellers, ceremonialists, underground guides, long-term keepers of the psychedelic flame and more. Our intention with this…
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