As we continue to witness the interest in psychedelics rapidly escalating, more and more people are feeling the call to step into leadership roles in the psychedelic space. But leadership can mean many different things and can take many different forms.  In this episode of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, Natasja Pelgrom (from the Awaken Podcast) interviews Laura Dawn about Visionary Leadership, what it means to cultivate a practice with sacred plant medicines and be open to receive their transmission, and then what it takes to step out and lead from this heart-centered wisdom. We explore the nuanced balance of how we need to give ourselves permission to lead but how and why we need to hold the process of stepping out with our offerings with great responsibility, rooted in experience. Natasja askes Laura Dawn’s perspective on how we can set ourselves up for success by cultivating peer-to-peer support groups as well as cultivating relationships with elders whom we respect and can trust to offer us clear, lucid feedback and reflections to help steer us in a good direction. This is also most beneficial when it’s built on the foundation of personal practices. Because in the end, we can only take people as far as we’ve gone ourselves.Connect with Natasja PelgromThe Awaken PodcastPsychedelic Leadership Resources Click here to access the full episode transcript and list of resources4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondFree 8-Day Microdosing CourseFeatured MusicThis episode features a song called Serve the truth by Mary IsisConnect with Mary Isis

Breathwork is making a comeback, and for good reason. Through the simple act of conscious breathing, we can tune ourselves to new ways of being, reduce stress and tap into our body’s inherent healing wisdom. In this episode Laura Dawn drops in with Amanda Laine and Harry Taylor who have dedicated their lives to helping others achieve personal growth and elevated states of wellbeing, creating Inward Breathwork, the world's leading on-demand breathwork platform combining the most experienced facilitators in the world across ancient and new age techniques including Pranayama, Wim Hof and Buteyko method.Amanda and Harry share their very first breathwork experience that transpired at Burning Man and how it radically transformed their lives. They share their WHY for breathwork: why practice breathwork? Why should we care? They dive into the science of breathwork and Amanda and Harry offer different breathing techniques for activating the sympathetic nervous systems and parasympathetic nervous systems and the counter-intuitive reason why training the sympathetic nervous systems helps us manage stress. Finally, they offer easy to implement breathing techniques to reduce stress in the moments you need it the most.Featured ResourcesClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesClick here for a free one month trial with Inward BreathworkInward Breathwork Facilitator TrainingFree 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondClick here to access Brene Brown's podcast on how to end the stress cycleCreate festival (use code Laura for 10% off)Featured MusicEpisode #28 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast features a song called Rise Up, Buttercup!

Think about the last time you faced a major life challenge. What did you do to effectively navigate through that adversity? This was the question at the forefront of the research that Dr. Taryn Marie conducted on resilience that led her to discover the five practices of resilient people. These are the real-time actions resilient people take to effectively face adversity. Dr. Taryn Marie is a foremost international expert on resilience, in both leadership and life. She is the former Head of Executive Leadership Development at Nike, Global Leadership Development at Cigna, and founded Resilience Leadership, where she serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), leveraging over a decade of research on resilience, that gave birth to the empirically-based framework that became the foundation for her book "Flourish or Fold: The 5 Practices of Particularly Resilient People." In this conversation, Taryn offers her unique definition of resilience, we cover the five practices, and we talk about neuroplasticity. Taryn also weaves in a central theme of exploring the nuance of paradoxes like the paradox of control and surrender, or universality and uniqueness. Connect with Dr. Taryn Marie. Resilience Leadership Website.  @drtarynmariePsychedelic Leadership Resources Click here to access the full episode transcript and list of resources4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondFree 8-Day Microdosing CourseFeatured MusicThis episode features a song called Can't Rush the River by Aea Luz.

Kile Ortigo, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, certified psychedelic psychotherapist, and founder of the Center for Existential Exploration, where he offers depth-oriented psychotherapy and psychedelic integration services. In this episode we talk about Kile's book, Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration where Kile offers a powerful roadmap for integrating psychedelic experiences. Kile talks about psychedelic integration for the leaders of our time, a term he coined called "ego whiplash", spiritual bypassing, narcissism, the importance of shadow work and taking the time off for self reflection. Kile also discusses acceptance, how curiosity can only get you so far, and the difference between healthy and unhealthy surrender. Featured ResourcesClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesPurchase Kile Ortigo's Book: Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration (Use coupon code "livefree" for 20%)Free 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondTami Simon Interviews Keith Campbell on Insights at the Edge about the New Science of Narcissism. Featured MusicEpisode #26 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast features a song called Help Us Love by Mikey Pauker and Johanna OneHeart.

Have you ever heard of a darkness retreat? There’s been a recent surge of interest in exploring the transformational benefits one might receive by spending multiple days and nights in complete darkness. Robbie Bent joins Laura Dawn on the podcast to discuss what he recently discovered by spending 8 days in total darkness. Robbie Bent is the CEO of Inward, a healthy experience company that builds beautiful community spaces around ice baths and saunas, and also has the largest library of breathwork content in the world. Inward is a cutting-edge community for improving mental health in a fun and accessible way. In this episode, we dive deep into Robbie’s experience in total darkness and what happened when he emerged into the light. ResourcesClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesTry Inward Breathwork for 3 FREE DaysFree 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondFeatured MusicThis episode features a song called Intend & Surrender by Tara Divina. Tara is also an incredible Vedic Astrologer and dear friend. Learn more about Tara's offerings here.

Kori Harrison came from the tech start-up world in Silicon Valley and through her transformational journeys with sacred plant medicine found her way to Field Trip. At Field Trip, she has been leading (a predominantly male) team to build and develop one of the first apps in the psychedelic space, called Trip App, supporting people through the psychedelic experience that includes preparation and integration, and extends to an online community for intentional consciousness expansion, In this succinct and powerful conversation, Kori speaks about her transformational journey and how plant medicines continue to help support her in becoming a better leader; and a leader that fully embodies and embraces the divine feminine. I love everything about this conversation.  Learn more Field Trip, download the Trip App and learn more about Kori’s personal journey at koriharrison.com.ResourcesClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesFree 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondFungi Academy's Sacred Journeywork online course. Receive 15% off with the discount code "LiveFree". Featured Music. This episode features the song "Time for Greatness" by the wonderfully talented Fia.

Ben Joseph Stewart is a filmmaker and producer of the Psychedelica series that just launched Season 2 on Gaia TV and released DMT Quest featuring names like Wim Hof. He also hosted his own talk show on GaiaTV called Limitless and is passionate about exploring optimal human performance. In this episode Laura Dawn speaks to Ben Stewart about psychedelics, pseudoscience, how we connect to a sense of belonging by connecting to a feeling of safety, and what it means to wake up to more of ourselves. We talk about the intersection of Eastern Philosophy, Quantum physics, brain harmonics, psychedelics and more. www.benjosephstewart.comAdditional Resources MentionedClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesNeural Correlate of LSD with Connectome-Specific Harmonic WavesFree 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & BeyondMusic FeatureEpisode #23 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast features a song called Reconnected by the talented Murray Kyle. Discover more of Murray’s music on Bandcamp. 

Mahina Nani was born into a bloodline of Ancient Hawaiian Healers that is centuries old and carries the wisdom teachings of Ho’o’ponopono. In this episode of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, Mahani shares the meaning of H’o’ponopono. By learning to take full responsibility for our actions and opening to the power of forgiveness, we can step into “right relationship” with ourselves and those around us. When we have the courage to do this, we can then put an end to intergenerational trauma and experience greater harmonious alignment in our lives. This was also a special episode in honor of Mothers Day. My own mother, Lucy joined us for this conversation and after Mahina opens up a ceremonial container and channels a powerful prayer, my mother and I shed many tears of forgiveness as we share a real-time practice of Ho’o’ponopono. In a tender and vulnerable moment, my mother asks for my forgiveness around a pre-natal birth trauma that was revealed to me in an ayahuasca journey.  Resources Mentioned Click here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesZero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and MoreThe Book of Forgiving: The FourFold Path for Healing Ourselves & The WorldDownload Ho’o’pono’pono by Mary Isis for Free on Bandcamp3-Month Microdosing Mastermind Free 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & Beyond

Former UFC Hall of Famer, Rashad Evans, speaks openly about how his “mind blowing” and “earth shattering” experience with the Toad medicine (5Meo-DMT) radically changed his life. In this episode, Rashad shares about how his entheogenic experiences were a familiar kind of home-coming that offered him a consciousness-shift that inspired him to quit drinking alcohol, become vegan, improve his relationships, and find a deeper sense of meaning in his life. A special thank you to Unlimited Sciences for making this interview possible. ResourcesClick here to access the full episode transcript and list of resourcesJoin the 3-Month Microdosing MastermindFree 8-Day Microdosing Course4 Music Playlists for Psychedelic Journey’s & Beyond

In this episode, Laura Dawn features her conversation with both Dr. Jim Fadiman, author of an all-time classic The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide alongside Jordan Gruber, who both co-authored a new book called Your Symphony of Selves: Discover More Of Who You Are.When you think about your Self, do you consider yourself to be one “Unified Self? Or is it possible that you have multiple selves? And if you did consider yourself to have more than one Self, would that be a sign of pathology or health? Adopting this notion that we have more than one Self is what Jim Fadima and Jordan Gruber call “healthy multiplicity”. This concept directly sits at odds with the prevailing notion that we only have one unified self, in the fields of health care and psychology. Jordan and Jim argue that embracing our multiplicity of Selves is actually a sign of health and wellbeing, not a sign of pathology. In this episode, we dive into what they call the “healthy selves model”  and explore questions like: how many Selves do we really have? Are all of our Selves an expression of ego? Can one of our Selves be “our higher self? What if we don’t like one of our Selves that seems to wreak havoc on our lives, should we give that self a back seat amongst our entourage of selves? Can one of our selves be a different age or even a different gender? How does this concept of multiple selves fit with shadow work or childhood trauma? Or working with psychedelics?Click here to access the full episode transcript and list of resources