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This week on Leadershipedelics, meet Doctor Pamela Kryskow. Dr Kryskow is the medical lead on the Roots to Thrive Nonprofit team that provides psilocybin therapy for patients with end-of-life anxiety who have section 56 exemptions from the Health Minister of Canada. She is a founding board member of the Canadian Psychedelic Association and is actively involved in research related to psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, mental wellness, chronic pain, and neurogenesis. She is also a co-investigator on the largest microdosing study which is ongoing with over 14,500 enrolled participants. We talk about mentors in our human journey, the curiosity of children, foraging, the healing power of nature, giving time for integration without rushing to the next thing, light heartedness, and human connections in life.This is a beautiful interview. Enjoy. 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Mentorship in our human journeyPam’s daily morning ritualNurturing all the parts withinGift of childlike curiosityForagingFinding humility in how we talk about psychedelic experiencesIntegrating an experience before jumping to the nextUsing nature to heal and integrate your experiencesSomatic therapyImportance of light heartedness and connections🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠“You have to nurture all these parts of you, you have to nurture the physical, the spiritual, and the intellectual and recognize you’re not a thing, you’re not a title. You are many things.”“Life is to be savored and enjoyed in the moment.  If you’re going to do a profound medicine that is going to be transformative, why not transform? why not take advantage of it and see the world through the new eyes and the widening of the blinders.”“Everyone is on a unique path in their life and needs different things at different times.”Connecting with Dr Pamela KryskowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-kryskow-345a6a200/ About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming creativity retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

This week, meet Kunti Trejo. Kunti is a medicine woman from Mexico who lives in the Sacred Valley of Peru. She practices many modalities of healing and has dedicated her life to the service and study of ancestral traditions of natural medicines and ways to heal from Mother Earth. Kunti is also a mom and a talented artist who paints, creates clothing, and performs medicine songs. We talk about the traditional Temazcal sweat lodge ceremony, her path to become a medicine woman, and the healing aspects of creativity.I’ve known Kunti for several years, wrote about our first encounter in the book Stairway to Healing and have always been impressed with her work, her music, and her art.  We’re also collaborating on a sacred creativity retreat this October (more info at retreat.fooyad.com).  For this interview we met in person down in Peru ❤️ on a hill overlooking the Sacred Valley as the sun was setting, near the retreat center we will be using later this year. Watch it on YouTube, this was a magical moment.Enjoy!❤️🙏Connecting with KuntiYou can follow Kunti on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/kuntideavalon/And see her art here: https://www.instagram.com/kunti_original_art_store/About Leadershipedelic, Sébastien, and the upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comThe retreat will take place on Oct 5th 2022 in the Sacred Valley of Peru. More information available at:  http://retreat.fooyad.com#creativity #retreat #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #temazcal #medicinewoman #mentalhealth #peru #sacredvalley #create #liveinterview  #leadershipedelics #psychedelics #leadership #sweatlodge

This week, we meet with Sean McCormick. Sean is an expert in performance biohacking , the host of the Optimal Performance Podcast and a certified life and performance coach with clients like NFL and MLS players, CEOs and TV stars. Disclaimer: Sean helped me in my own journey when I was making big changes to my life.We talk about his journey from starting Float Seattle over 10 years ago, to the insights he’s gained along the way, as a dad, as a coach, from his experiences with psychedelics and as an expert health optimizer and entrepreneur.  Sean shares his first experiences with Ayahuasca over ten years ago and his more recent experience with 5-MeO-DMT (Toad) where somehow Google AI showed up in the middle of it. We talk about children and the importance of curiosity in their lives and we bring it all back to leadership and cedar trees. Enjoy 🙏❤️💡Highlights💡Starting Float Seattle, becoming a dad, and Sean’s first Ayahuasca ceremonyDepth of consciousness gained in realizing we are not our bodiesGetting your body to a place of vitality so your brain works properlyLightheartedness and the AWE that is this lifeAppropriate, responsible psychedelic experiences as tools to orient ourselvesWhen Google AI showed up in the middle of a 5-MeO-DMT experienceCleansing the residue from daily interactionsShipibo tapestries as a representation of energyThe role of curiosity and stupid questions, especially with kidsLeaders that make you lean forwardLeadership as a cedar treeHealth optimization🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠 “The leaders you resonate with the most are the ones that make you lean forward.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️ “What’s a good leader? It’s not someone who has all the answers all the time, it’s someone who asks great questions and finds solution and gets people excited about what they’re doing.” “We should all suspend our beliefs and keep an open mind and an open heart to continue to learn because there are lessons in every moment of every day that if you’re paying attention and open to receive, you’re going to learn things. And that’s going to make you a more complete person.” “Insatiable curiosity, just engagement with the world, engagement with the people around you, with the ideas you’re thinking about, that level of curiosity can be taught and instilled in young people.” “Insight doesn’t come watching Netflix. These important moments that orient your way happen in the shower, on the beach somewhere, meditating by a creek, on a walk without your phone. And they also happen when you are in an altered state of consciousness (with psychedelics).” Connecting with SeanSeanmccormick.comInstagram: @realseanmccormickInstagram: @optimal_podcastLinkedIn: Seanmccormickcoaching https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/optimal-performance/id1004775385About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

This week on the Leadershipedelics Podcast, meet Jéssika Lagarde. Jéssika is a psychedelic-assisted medicine guide in the Netherlands. She’s also a freelance writer in the psychedelic space and co-founded Women on Psychedelics (or WOOP), an educational platform that advocates for the end of stigmatization around women’s mental health and substance use, and the normalization of psychedelics for therapy and healing. Jéssika’s passion for storytelling, women's empowerment, and psychoactive substances comes alive in WOOP's content since 2020.We talk about Jéssika’s travels across 30 different countries, the impact psychedelics have had on her life, what she’s learned from guiding others in their journey, the act of creating for reconnecting with your body, and the story behind women on psychedelics and much more. Enjoy 🙏💡Highlights💡Lessons from travels to 30 different countries in 5 yearsImpact of toxic relationships on self-love How working with psilocybin and magic truffles changes her lifeSelf-expression and flow state to reconnect with the bodyBeing present with the act of creatingStory behind Women on PsychedelicsHolding space to enable others to be vulnerableLessons from guiding psychedelic sessions Listening to the love inside yourselfLeadership is like mycelium (again) 🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠 “There are two types of travelers, people who are looking for something and people who are running away from something and back then I was a mix of both of those.” “Psychedelic experiences have connected me much more with my true essence behind everything that has happened to me, all the insecurity, all the narratives, all the stories I tell myself about who I am, and they brought me to this deeper part of me.” ❤️ Seb's favorite ❤️ “These (psychedelic) compounds can bring you more self-awareness and when we start from this place of self, that’s where it ripples, and it can affect other people with that.”  “Leadership is like the mycelium network. It’s how you’re able to connect people with other people, see everyone as their own unique person, no one being better than the other but when we all come together, we can create this incredible thing.”Connecting with Jéssikawww.womenonpsychedelics.orgwww.instagram.com/womenonpsychedelicswww.instagram.com/theglobalpathsAbout Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: reatreat.fooyad.com

This week we meet with Jason Grechanik. I met Jason 7 years ago when he was a facilitator for ayahuasca ceremonies at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Amazon jungle. I was super impressed then and I’m even more impressed now after our conversation. Jason has such a depth of knowledge. He shares the wisdom he’s gained from his fascination with ancient cultures and what he’s learned from his lifelong journey working with plants as food, nutrition, and medicine. We also talk a bit about martial arts, where he got his discipline from and the importance of principles in challenging times. And of course, we all connect it with leadership. I really loved this conversation. Enjoy.💡Highlights💡Plants as food, medicine, and nutritionMartial arts, shamanism, ancient culturesInsights from running dietas and facilitating ceremoniesWhat it means to be a “bridge keeper”Self-discipline in spiritual workShift of consciousnessFear as the root of sufferingLeaders as a reflection of usThe profound resonance withinPrincipled leadershipTrusting in a higher source of goodness🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠(there were even more but couldn't list them all)“Nothing is free there is a reciprocity for everything.”“Most of us, we’re constantly in this state of all of these thoughts arising and we believe they’re all real and we live our lives in this cloud, in this fog.”“We want the world to be sane or good and yet we don’t want to be doing the work ourselves, so we expect other people to change the world. That’s one of the things these plants are pointing towards, it’s that it’s up to us to change the world, it’s not up to anyone else.”“It’s much easier to have a principle when we agree with the thing that is happening. It’s much difficult to have a principle when we don’t but that’s when the principle becomes so vital.”“When something is coming from the heart, there is truth there, it’s ‘life giving’ and that principle we should cherish like a gem.’”  Connecting with Jasonwww.NicotianaRustica.orgHis podcast: YouTube:  bit.ly/YouTubeUWApple  :  bit.ly/AppleUWSpotify:  bit.ly/SpotUWhttps://www.facebook.com/universewithinpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/universewithinpodcastAbout Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreatwww.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.comOctober 2022 Creativity Retreat: https://www.fooyad.com/sacredmedicinecreativity

This week we meet with Susan Guner. Susan is a trained, somatic, trauma-informed holistic psychotherapist. She’s also the host of the Psychedelic Conversations Podcast. Her mindfulness-based approach is grounded in transpersonal psychology and integrates the mind, body, and spirit aspects of human experience for personal growth and development. This approach focuses on gaining a holistic perspective and increasing self-awareness through introspection, insights, and compassionate self-exploration. We talk about resilience, self-agency, congruency, somatic and psychedelic therapies. Susan shares how her journey shaped her approach to therapy, we talk about the story behind Today’s Vibe posts which are often dark and intense, and much more. 💡Highlights💡The story behind the intense “Today’s Vibe” postsThe importance of self-agencySomatic therapy, what it is, and how it can helpWorking with trauma, darkness, and intensityUnderstanding that healing takes timeThe “being skinned alive” concept in healing experiencesBalancing lightheartedness with serious workSafe “containers” and why they matterThe need for a more trauma-informed societyThe power of fragility and leadershipBook recommendations🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠“The healing never happens magically. The only time I’ve seen healing happening super fast is when the person is really ready to let go of everything. They’re ready to shed, they’re ready to just release what’s holding them back and they just go for it.” “We became this culture where we can’t take anything, any information that has any negative or dark or intensity to it. We can’t handle it. This is becoming a bigger problem because it’s showing us where that capacity is, where that resilience is.” “My idea of healing is becoming so strong and resilient that you become so unshakable and centered within you that you can contain everything.”  “Let’s not forget we are fragile being. We are made of bones, skin and blood. We are here for a reason. We are in this physical realm experiencing this physical body which is finite. “Connecting with Susanhttp://www.facebook.com/susan.gunerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-guner/http://www.instagram.com/susangunerhttps://psychedelicconversations.com/About Leadershipedelics  www.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.com

This week we meet with Saba Candari. Saba has extensive experience in the wealth management and financial sectors, he is the founder and CEO of Entheo Ventures. His primary focus is to offer business management and financial support to underserved organizations leading the resurgence of plant medicine and psychedelics. We talk about Saba’s early life arriving in the US at age 7, having to play catchup in a new country, the challenges that followed, and his very intentional journey to become the person he is today. We cover the learnings from his psychedelic experiences and what it took to integrate them back in his life (hint: it wasn’t doing more psychedelics). We talk about making space for yourself, leadership, authenticity and more.Enjoy. 💡Highlights💡Intentional transformationMoving away from what drags you downSurrounding yourself with people to learn from5-MeO-DMT journeyAre psychedelics shortcuts or not and for what?Connecting with NatureGiving space to integrate lessons from psychedelic experiencesMaking space for yourselfEnergy and authenticity in leadership🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠“Once I went through that journey of being healthier, eating cleaner, not drinking, not doing some of the things that dragged me down, that was really the beginning of my journey.”“As far as psychedelics go, when the phone rings I pick it up. I have to be called to it or I won’t just do it. If it doesn’t call me, I’m not going to get peer pressured in doing it.”“Psychedelics are shortcuts, but they are shortcuts to see something. It’s like binoculars. I can see I can get there, it’s true, it exists, I can get from point A to point B but the reality is that you still have to do the work to get to it.”“Take your time, turn your phone off, take a pause in life and start taking an inventory of yourself. And to me that was more important than running to another ceremony.” More about SabaSaba Candari is a 15+ year veteran in the Financial Service industry. He began his career helping entrepreneurs position themselves for successful early-stage capital raises. Soon after, he pivoted into strategic development of internal infrastructure for sustainable growth and scale of midsized companies.The next decade of his career was spent working with high net worth clientele to build and grow personal wealth as a Certified Wealth Strategist®, managing over $130M in assets under management with Cetera Financial Group and SagePoint Financial. Saba has specialized in serving C-Suite level executives in both their personal and business-related ventures.  Saba completed his BA in Business Management and MBA at Pepperdine Business School, and holds the following licenses; Series 7, Series 66, CWS, and is a Member of the Financial Services Institute. As the Founder and CEO of Entheo Ventures, Saba’s primary focus is to offer high-level business management and financial support to the underserved companies and organizations leading the resurgence of plant medicines and psychedelics, as tools for the evolution of humanity.IG: @sabacandari @entheoventuresTwitter: @sabacandari @entheoventureshttps://entheoventure.com/https://microdose.buzz/news/psychedelic-groundbreakers-entheo-ventures/https://www.linkedin.com/in/saba-candari-mba-cws%C2%AE-96893911/About Leadershipedelics  www.leadershipedelics.com Sébastien's projects: fooyad.com

This week we meet with Stefany Nieto, the COO of Gwella Mushrooms. We cover Stefany’s journey from working on sustainable projects at an early age to her work at Gwella and her experiences with psychedelics. We talk about killer bees 🐝 in Kenya, water filtration 💧in India, growing food 🌱 in the Arctic, Gwella’s product philosophy 🧠, and much more. This episode is packed with insights. Enjoy.💡Highlights💡Sustainable projects: Killer bees in Kenya, water filtration in India, and Green IgluFirst experience with magic mushroomsPreparation, intention setting, and integrationHaving your identity tied to a companyHonesty with yourself about your needsLearnings from guiding othersMicrodosing and creativityGwella’s product philosophy Mycelium as the essence of leadership 🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠 “It wasn’t my place to tell them how to do things or what to do but rather to ask them what they wanted to do and how could I support that. It really shaped the way I do business now.”“Nothing will stagnate, things will move on, even if they don’t seem like they will in that moment.”  “It’s a real healthy balance to be able to dream big but also look at what we can realistically do and set realistic timelines.”☀️ Special Offer ☀️Get 20% off your order at https://gwella.store/ with code: LEADELICS20  Note: Leadershipedelics is NOT getting paid for promoting Gwella, we're just a fan.More about Stefany & how to connectStefany is a 26-year-old entrepreneur whose early life was characterized by adaptation and resilience despite immigration woes, loss, and financial hardships. Her values have taken her around the world, re-conceptualizing ideas and creating meaningful impact, including water purification in India and micro-loans in Kenya.  As a full-time student at 19, Stefany dove headfirst into her first company, Green Iglu, a NFP tackling food insecurity in remote Canada, including the Arctic, through tech and training. After eight years, Stefany is now exploring a new space, wellness, and psychedelics, through Gwella as Co-Founder and COO. The company is focused on designing mushrooms for modern life.  Deeply committed to Toronto’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Stefany continues to consult for startups and mentor low-income women and newcomers to Canada as the launch their entrepreneurial journeys. https://www.instagram.com/stef.psych/https://www.stefanynieto.com/About Leadershipedelics  Podcast: https://www.leadershipedelics.com/ 🙏Sébastien: https://www.fooyad.com 🕺

This week we meet with Rick Elliot. Rick grew up in Canada, worked on oil fields to put himself through school and moved to California for a career in software development. He co-founded a tech startup in 2008 which was acquired later. He worked there until recently. Rick joins us after a long weekend of sacred ceremonies with the powerful psychedelic substances Ayahuasca and Bufo Alvarius. We talk about his spiritual awakening from his first experience with Ayahuasca and the lasting impact it’s had on his relationship with his wife, children, himself, and his happiness. This discussion is full of beautiful insights about parenting, being in the moment and happiness.  Enjoy 🙏❤️ 💡Highlights💡Spiritual awakening from Ayahuasca ceremony and its lasting impactBeing in the moment as a dad and husbandGratefulness as a tool to address sufferingModeling finding happiness as a parentFocusing on what mattersPreparation and integration for an Ayahuasca ceremonyFinding a professional path aligned with your SelfBufo Alvarius (toad) experience 🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠 About his first Ayahuasca experience: “It completely changed my perspective and it made me realize my kids, my family, those are the things that are important, and I was far too fixated on some of the things that were getting in the way professionally, like my ego, my desire to feel important or achieve more things.”Since his first Ayahuasca experience: “I found more moments in the last two years where I’ve been able to be really present with my kids and have amazing moments where I felt super connected with them and the amount of joy just being with them is amazing.”How to connect with RickLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcelliott/ About Leadershipedelics  Podcast: https://www.leadershipedelics.com/ 🙏Sébastien: https://www.fooyad.com 🕺

This week we meet with Erin Cochrane. Erin is the cofounder and director of product at Gwella Mushrooms and the cofounder and facilitator of Healing While Healing, a community-based support network. Her experience spans health sciences, environmental regeneration, intentional communities, and plant medicines both nutritional and sacred. We talk about Erin’s soul-searching journey from an early age to her travels to Latin America and the creation of Gwella Mushrooms.  🙏❤️ 💡Highlights💡Erin’s travels to Latin AmericaSoul searching in intentional communitiesInterconnected systems & eco projectsExperiences at Fungi AcademyCommunity group sacred ceremoniesCommunity as an integration toolMushrooms as the essence of leadership Gwella Mushrooms' newly released Intention Cards 🧠Memorable Quotes 🧠“It’s one of my favorite parts about growing up, you always come back to something from before and you see something new, or you turn something a different way and you get to enjoy or experience a whole other side of it.”“Nothing makes you more geared toward the sacredness of life than farming or taking part in that natural cycle of life and death.” “Learning how to quiet the Mitote, as the Toltec called it, the endless chatter of the mind. I really wanted to learn how to become friend with that and quiet it. That creates space for your self-reflection and for allowing yourself to process things, slowly, more patiently, more compassionately with yourself.”“When you heal yourself, you do heal those around you.”☀️ Special Offer ☀️ Erin also shared a special offer for our listeners: get 20% off your order at: https://gwella.store/ using the code: LEADELICS20 How to connect with Erin CochraneLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-cochrane-820224170Personal site: https://www.erinholistichealth.com/Twitter:  @ErinHeather29About Leadershipedelics  Podcast: https://www.leadershipedelics.com/ 🙏Sébastien: https://www.fooyad.com 🕺