Leadershipedelics

In this episode, meet Claire Jones. Claire is a Senior VP of Operations for a digital advertising company in Toronto. She’s passionate about people and mental health. She’s studying for a master’s in psychology & neuroscience, and also volunteers for several non-profit organizations focused on mental health. We talked a few weeks after Claire got back from her first ayahuasca journey in Costa Rica. She recounts her experience, from preparation, to the actual ayahuasca ceremonies, to the integration phase where the hard work begins. She shares many lessons she gained along the way and how she’s integrating them in her work. We cover many topics, from trauma to the importance of slowing down and making space and time for yourself. Enjoy. 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡The dire need for more focus on mental health in the worldPersonal aspect of traumaLack of early education in mental healthClaire’s journey to Costa RicaThe journey back and the integration periodLetting go the fear of vulnerabilityCreating space and time for yourselfAnd more…Connecting with Claire·      LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-michelle-jones/Connecting with Sébastienfooyad.com

In this episode, meet Shannon Dames. She is a professor and researcher at Vancouver Island University, a resilience Health professional investigator, and the Research and Development director for the Roots to Thrive Ketamine assisted therapy program. She is working to develop and study the combination of resilience development and psychedelic-assisted therapies within a novel outpatient mental health model.We discuss the role of community in the healing process and why the healing journey should start at the basement of the soul, rather than at the mind. Shannon talks about bringing together western medicine and the indigenous ways of healing and working with the medicines of the land. And finally, she shares her own personal healing journey.  Enjoy. 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Staying grounded while flowingOver-preparing’s impact on inspirationHealing through CommunityTaking resilience development beyond the mindOperating as whole personHealing at root level rather than top downThe basement of your soulPartnership with First Nations Honoring the indigenous ways of knowing and working with the medicine of the landShannon’s spiritual journey Connecting with Shannon Dameswww.linkedin.com/in/shannondames/www.rootstothrive.comConnecting with Sébastienfooyad.com

“What kept me in LA wanting to make films for all these years was my ego.”~ Martin de Bókay In today’s episode, I travelled to Arizona to meet with Martin de Bókay for a live video interview in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona. Martin, who goes by “French Guru” on Instagram, was someone I had to meet. After watching a few of his videos, it was clear he’d done a lot of deep personal work and had had quite a journey. Sure enough, the story he shared was nothing short of inspiring and energizing. Martin spent half his life in Europe and half in the US. He’s worked as a producer in the film industry in Hollywood on music videos, films, documentaries, TV shows and followed his dream to make films. On all accounts, he had it all, but it all came to a head when he realized he wasn’t honoring his core self and felt a strong calling to elevate himself and bring alignment to his life. He crossed path with the plant medicine Ayahuasca and then everything changed.This is his story.I recommend watching the interview on our YouTube channel if you can:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-mviHHUo5IDtq4Yz6EY4HQEnjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Creativity in the film industryFinding spiritual realization in hikesThe magic of SedonaWhen ego takes over your dreamListening to your internal voiceExperiential side of AyahuascaProtecting yourself in order to give to othersWeathering the unexpected in lifeHonoring your uniqueness and your core valuesBringing your passion and voice back into your life Connecting with Martin de BókayFrench Guru on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frenchguru/About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity RetreatContacting Sébastien: fooyad.comSacred Creativity Retreat: sacredcreativityretreat.com#creativity #create #creator #authenticity #authentic #yourvoice #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #spiritualjourney #journey #spiritual #inspiration #mentalhealth #filmindustry #hollywood #sedona #leadership #leader #leadershipedelics #podcast #live #interview

This week, meet Lakshmi Narayan. Lakshmi Narayan is the co-founder and editor of awake.net, a non-profit collective wisdom blog about the inner journey with entheogens, and founder and creative director of Awake Media a digital media coalition offering media products and services to clients in the transformational wellness community, particularly entheogenic medicine. She has a decades long interest in the cause of repositioning psychedelics in the public mind, and educating people about the benefits, cautions, best practices, and timeless wisdom that can be had from these experiences.We talk about Lakshmi’s spiritual journey from childhood to crossing path with Ayahuasca in the 90’s, well before it became as popular as it is today. We cover a lot of ground from ibogaine, to integrating 2 years of journeying over 20 years, from climbing the ladder of consciousness to remembering who we are and finally we talk about what led Lakshmi to start Awake Media and Awake.Net. This is a beautiful journey of awakening and following your path to help others 🙏💡Highlights💡Creating media that awakensThe divine delusion of individualismClimbing the ladder of consciousness20 years to integrate 2 years of intense journeysFinding the willingness to make change happenWalking on top of the AmazonPlant medicine as a dimensional doorwayThe story behind Awake.NetAccessible and affordable online integration coursesRaising money to fund 100 Ibogaine treatmentsSearching for mentors and masters  🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠“The journey of life is to remember.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️  About 2 years of intense journeying with psychedelics - “It took us 20 years to actually integrate” 😮”I just want to tell people who’re getting into it, don’t be in a rush to crystalize it into something you can sell or could teach.”“You have this body of knowledge that wakes up in you and it’s available to everybody because we’re very very old as a species.”Connecting with LakshmiHelp raise $1M for 100 Ibogaine Treatments: https://awake.net/feat-fund-for-entheogenic-addiction-treatment/Awake.Net: https://awake.net/Awake Media: https://awakemedia.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshminarayan/About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity RetreatContacting Sébastien: fooyad.comSacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

In this episode, meet with Amélie Beerens ✨ Amélie is a customer experience (CX) leader and career coach obsessed with putting humans at the heart of everything ❤️ Her journey to overcome trauma and burnout has reconnected her with her magic, her emotions, and her humanity. This has redefined how she approaches her work and how she helps others through coaching. We talk about breaking the rules to rediscover yourself, overcoming burnout & trauma and the tools she used along the way, from EMDR to yoga, from kambo to microdosing.  Amélie’s energy is infectious, you can feel her love for life and the creativity she brings to the world. She’s a true maverick, who helps others through creative work, showing up as she is, as her whole self.Enjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Humans at the heart of everythingBreaking the rules and rediscovering yourselfDealing with burnoutMaking time for self-careConnecting with your whole self and emotionsComing as you are, with the good, and the badMicrodosing for sleep, creativity, and lifeShoe shopping and mind workBreaking away from anxietyCreative work to help othersMavericks and certificationsEMDR therapy, yoga teacher training, Kambo, and more… 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠“We are all creatures of magic.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️  “The moment I started to feel better is the moment I started connecting with myself.”  “This element of being my real self and being able to be really compassionate with the people I work with because I can be compassionate with myself, that was what was missing with my practice before.”Connecting with AmélieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ameliebeerens_cxexpert/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliebeerens/Or simply: https://ameliebeerens.com/About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity RetreatContacting Sébastien: fooyad.comSacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

Today's guest is internationally renowned artist and poet, Nicholas Kirsten, known as Honshin 🙏Five years ago, Honshin’s art changed my appreciation of the present golden moment and reshaped my own spiritual path.  Now 5 years later, I had the privilege to meet with him in his studio and talk creativity, spirituality and even play a little harmonica while he shared his poetry. Honshin’s art and poetry reflect his experience with ancient Eastern spiritual practices and the philosophies of Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and ancient Mesoamerican cultures. He sees art as a form of spiritual quest and his artwork is a message from a pure heart. His intention is to communicate the unity of consciousness and life of all things in the universe.He lives in Sedona with his wife, Krystal Kirsten, where they operate two galleries - The Gallery of Wholeness, Harmony, and Radiance, and The Ascending Spirit Gallery. You have to stop there if you ever visit Sedona.This was truly a golden moment. Enjoy 🙏❤️Connecting with Honshin• http://honshinfineart.com/• honshinfineart@gmail.com• IG: https://www.instagram.com/honshin_fine_art/About Leadershipedelics and the Sacred Creativity Retreat•  www.leadershipedelics.com •  Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com•  Contacting Sébastien: fooyad.com#creativity #art #artist #sedona #spirituality #moment #present #goldenmoment #goldenmoments #presentmoment #beherenow #mentalhealth #leadership #leadershipedelics 

Meet David Wood, David has been on a mission to broaden regulated access to psychedelics. He is the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Psygen, a Canadian company manufacturing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelics for clinicians and researchers. David also runs R-Group Legal where he provides legal support for a small number of operators in the cannabis industry and the psychedelic space.We talk about substance regulation in Canada versus the US. We cover the special access program available for end-of-life distress for psilocybin in Canada. We cover the war on drugs and bring it all back to leadership with a bit of perspective on the mycelium network, and a touch of Steve Jobs, Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd.Enjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Substance regulation in Canada vs. USPsilocybin for end-of-life distress and the special access programPure synthetic psilocybin vs. naturalThe war on drugsDisruptive potential of psychedelicsPerspective in life and leadershipBreaking the stigma associated with psychedelics Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, the Mycelium networkDavid’s journey from the biggest national law firm in Canada to PsygenAnd more… 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠“The war on drugs lumped a bunch of substances together that have very little to do with each other, other than the fact they are all prohibited, and they all put you off baseline with very different ways and consequences.” “Psychedelics are a substance that are very disruptive to mental healthcare and to the pharmaceutical industry that supplies drugs for mental healthcare.” “Psychedelics are pharmacologically and therapeutically relevant but there is also something so connected to what makes us humans human that cannot be overlooked.”Connecting with DavidPsygen: https://psygen.ca/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dowood/About Leadershipedelics and the Sacred Creativity Retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sacred Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.comContacting Sébastien: fooyad.com

Meet Holly Huber, a Neuromodulation Consultant in the pursuit of bolstering  the spiritual consciousness and connection of humanity. Holly has worked with neurofeedback in mental health and for intensive brain training with peak performance elites. She’s seen humans push themselves past the possible, find Spirit and their superpowers.She’s doing work with the NeuroEnlightenment team in the Sacred Valley, provides NeuroTraining and is starting NeuroRetreats in the US this August.We talk brain, psychedelics, the divinity of life, poetry, and the magic around us. This episode was loaded with insights, filmed on location in front of a majestic waterfall which you have to see it (on our YouTube channel) to believe it (and also explains the background noise and 12 hours to clean our audio).Enjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Brain mapping & training and psychedelicsRemote neurofeedbackFlow state and creativityOur superpowers withinDivinity of lifeSpirituality, magic, & poetryBurnout and the brainBrain, heart, and consciousness  🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠 “I have worked in mental health, and I worked in peak performance, and over and over I see this divinity, this beauty within life and aliveness with people.“ “Resiliency is an opening and a flexibility to life. It is changing the tread in your journey to fit the new paths that you’re on.”  “Psychedelics are such an opener and connector and then it’s up to us to do something with it afterwards.”Connecting with HollyWebsite: neuroholly.comTarot website: thebrightheart.comBook: Our Dreams That Are Promises: Huber, Holly: 9798812389062: Amazon.com: BooksAbout Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com#neurofeedback #brainmapping #braintraining #psychedelics #divinity #magicaroundus #waterfall #creativity #leadership #mentalhealth #burnout #leadershipedelics #superpowers #humanity #peru

In this episode of Leadershipedelics, meet Hanifa Nayo Washington. Hanifa is a social entrepreneur, cultural producer, and healing justice practitioner. She is a facilitator, reiki master, singer, song writer, and a creator who works at the intersection of mindfulness, place making, and social justice to create organizations, gatherings, spaces, and experiences rooted in the values of beloved community.She is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Fireside Project. She is involved with the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, East Forest’s Journey Space, and the Global Wellness Institute Psychedelics & Healing Initiative. She is the co-founder of One Village Healing, a BIPOC centered healing, resilience, and psychedelic wellness space and is a lead facilitator of the New Haven Community Leadership Program. We cover a wide range of topics including Hanifa’s medicine songs, her creative process, and how these songs have helped her and others in their journeys. We talk about the importance of listening in our lives, in leadership, in helping one another, and to drive change. We cover the Fireside project, its mission, training approach, and upcoming equity initiative. Hanifa closes our interview by singing a song from her Mantras for the Revolution album.Enjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Hanifa’s creative and integration processSinging in morning rituals, ceremonies, with breathwork and somatic workReverence and awe about lifeConnecting with the vibration of everythingThe sacredness and honor that come from holding spaceFinding coherence with each other in an intentional wayImportance of listening for leadership and changeFireside Project’s mission and approachFireside Project’s new equity initiative The power of silence and reflective questionsAcknowledging and addressing power dynamicsGenerational trauma, wisdom, and giftsAnd much more🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠“Listening is at the heart of change, of connection. When we think about social justice movement and liberation, listening, or not, is how we use our power.”“When we are listened to, it is one of the most absolute gifts and declaration of respect we can give one another.” “Healing is a birthright and people just need more and more access to it.”Connecting with Hanifawww.handsofhanifa.comMantras for the Revolution albumIG @thehandsofhanifa@firesideproject@onevillagehealingAbout Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com#listening #healing #songwriter #singer #mentalhealth #BIPOC #psychedelics#creativity 

For this interview, I flew to Peru to meet with Jose Franchini Vasquez, an Ayahuascero from a small village in the Peruvian jungle near Pucallpa. Jose has been working with the plant medicines Ayahuasca and Chacruna for over 13 years. He was taught by his uncle, the highly honored teacher Antonio Vasquez Galarreta, and he is the brother of Pepe Franchini Vasquez who was featured in the movie The Last Shaman. I’ve known Jose for several years and we’re working with him and his brother on a very special retreat for this October.Jose opens and closes the interview with one of his medicine songs known as an Icaro which makes this meeting even more special. We talk about his journey with plant medicine, the diets, fasting, and challenges he had to overcome. We discuss how he heals others whether they’re from his village or as part of a retreat. We talk about life outside his medicine work as a teacher, dad and respected community leader, the meaning behind Shipibo tapestries and the properties of tobacco as plant medicine. The interview is both in English and Spanish with many thanks to Kunti Trejo for providing her help as translator. Don’t miss this one. Enjoy.💡Highlights💡The journey of an AyahuasceroWorking with plant medicine from the jungleDiets, cleansing, and medicine songsClearing energy blockagesRunning ceremoniesLife outside medicine workTobacco as a medicine plantHealing with natureThe meaning behind Shipibo tapestries Connecting with JoseYou can connect with Jose through our contact form on the retreat.fooyad.com web page and we will forward you your contact information. About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming creativity retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: retreat.fooyad.com