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    Leadershipedelics

    Explore the intersection between leadership, psychedelics, and other deep spiritual experiences. Learn how these experiences have shaped leaders around us, how they have changed how they manifest their vision, shaped their lives and our world.
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    S2 E25: Claire Jones, Sr VP of Operations on mental health, Ayahuasca, making time and space for yourself

    S2 E25: Claire Jones, Sr VP of Operations on mental health, Ayahuasca, making time and space for yourself

    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 world
    • Personal aspect of trauma
    • Lack of early education in mental health
    • Claire’s journey to Costa Rica
    • The journey back and the integration period
    • Letting go the fear of vulnerability
    • Creating space and time for yourself
    • And more…

    Connecting with Claire

    ·      LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-michelle-jones/

    Connecting with Sébastien

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usOctober 25, 2022

    S2 E24: Shannon Dames from Roots to Thrive on healing starting at the basement of the soul

    S2 E24: Shannon Dames from Roots to Thrive on healing starting at the basement of the soul

    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 flowing
    • Over-preparing’s impact on inspiration
    • Healing through Community
    • Taking resilience development beyond the mind
    • Operating as whole person
    • Healing at root level rather than top down
    • The basement of your soul
    • Partnership with First Nations 
    • Honoring the indigenous ways of knowing and working with the medicine of the land
    • Shannon’s spiritual journey 

    Connecting with Shannon Dames

    Connecting with Sébastien

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usSeptember 12, 2022

    S2 E23: Martin de Bókay, the "French Guru" on finding, listening to, and sharing your own unique voice

    S2 E23: Martin de Bókay, the "French Guru" on finding, listening to, and sharing your own unique voice

    “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-mviHHUo5IDtq4Yz6EY4HQ

    Enjoy 🙏❤️

    💡Highlights💡

    • Creativity in the film industry
    • Finding spiritual realization in hikes
    • The magic of Sedona
    • When ego takes over your dream
    • Listening to your internal voice
    • Experiential side of Ayahuasca
    • Protecting yourself in order to give to others
    • Weathering the unexpected in life
    • Honoring your uniqueness and your core values
    • Bringing your passion and voice back into your life

     Connecting with Martin de Bókay

    About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

    #creativity #create #creator #authenticity #authentic #yourvoice #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #spiritualjourney #journey #spiritual #inspiration #mentalhealth #filmindustry #hollywood #sedona #leadership #leader #leadershipedelics #podcast #live #interview

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usAugust 25, 2022

    S2 E22: Lakshmi Narayan, Founder at Awake Media, co-Founder at Awake.Net, Rediscovering who we are, Climbing the ladder of consciousness

    S2 E22: Lakshmi Narayan, Founder at Awake Media, co-Founder at Awake.Net, Rediscovering who we are, Climbing the ladder of consciousness

    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 awakens
    • The divine delusion of individualism
    • Climbing the ladder of consciousness
    • 20 years to integrate 2 years of intense journeys
    • Finding the willingness to make change happen
    • Walking on top of the Amazon
    • Plant medicine as a dimensional doorway
    • The story behind Awake.Net
    • Accessible and affordable online integration courses
    • Raising money to fund 100 Ibogaine treatments
    • Searching 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 Lakshmi

    About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

    Season 2 E21: Amélie Beerens on Rediscovering Yourself and Creating a Business Without Walls

    Season 2 E21: Amélie Beerens on Rediscovering Yourself and Creating a Business Without Walls

    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 everything
    • Breaking the rules and rediscovering yourself
    • Dealing with burnout
    • Making time for self-care
    • Connecting with your whole self and emotions
    • Coming as you are, with the good, and the bad
    • Microdosing for sleep, creativity, and life
    • Shoe shopping and mind work
    • Breaking away from anxiety
    • Creative work to help others
    • Mavericks and certifications
    • EMDR 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 Amélie

    About Sébastien and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usJuly 27, 2022

    Season 2 E20: Honshin, Internationally renowned artist and poet on creativity and spirituality

    Season 2 E20: Honshin, Internationally renowned artist and poet on creativity and spirituality

    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 

    Season 2 E19: David Wood on substance regulation in the Canada vs. US, psychedelics access for end-of-life distress, and leadership

    Season 2 E19: David Wood on substance regulation in the Canada vs. US, psychedelics access for end-of-life distress, and leadership

    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. US
    • Psilocybin for end-of-life distress and the special access program
    • Pure synthetic psilocybin vs. natural
    • The war on drugs
    • Disruptive potential of psychedelics
    • Perspective in life and leadership
    • Breaking the stigma associated with psychedelics 
    • Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, the Mycelium network
    • David’s journey from the biggest national law firm in Canada to Psygen
    • And 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 David

    About Leadershipedelics and the Sacred Creativity Retreat

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usJuly 13, 2022

    Season 2 E18: Holly Huber on brain mapping & training, superpowers, divinity & spirituality, poetry, and burnout

    Season 2 E18: Holly Huber on brain mapping & training, superpowers, divinity & spirituality, poetry, and burnout

    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 psychedelics
    • Remote neurofeedback
    • Flow state and creativity
    • Our superpowers within
    • Divinity of life
    • Spirituality, magic, & poetry
    • Burnout and the brain
    • Brain, 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 Holly

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

    #neurofeedback #brainmapping #braintraining #psychedelics #divinity #magicaroundus #waterfall #creativity #leadership #mentalhealth #burnout #leadershipedelics #superpowers #humanity #peru

    Season 2 E17: Hanifa Nayo Washington on Fireside project, the art of listening, healing with songs

    Season 2 E17: Hanifa Nayo Washington on Fireside project, the art of listening, healing with songs

    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 process
    • Singing in morning rituals, ceremonies, with breathwork and somatic work
    • Reverence and awe about life
    • Connecting with the vibration of everything
    • The sacredness and honor that come from holding space
    • Finding coherence with each other in an intentional way
    • Importance of listening for leadership and change
    • Fireside Project’s mission and approach
    • Fireside Project’s new equity initiative 
    • The power of silence and reflective questions
    • Acknowledging and addressing power dynamics
    • Generational trauma, wisdom, and gifts
    • And 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 Hanifa

    IG 

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

    #listening #healing #songwriter #singer #mentalhealth #BIPOC #psychedelics
    #creativity 

    Season 2 E16: Jose Franchini Vasquez, Ayahuascero, family man, teacher, community leader

    Season 2 E16: Jose Franchini Vasquez, Ayahuascero, family man, teacher, community leader

    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 Ayahuascero
    • Working with plant medicine from the jungle
    • Diets, cleansing, and medicine songs
    • Clearing energy blockages
    • Running ceremonies
    • Life outside medicine work
    • Tobacco as a medicine plant
    • Healing with nature
    • The meaning behind Shipibo tapestries 

    Connecting with Jose

    • You 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 retreat

    Season 2 E15: Dr Pamela Kryskow on nurturing our humanity, childlike curiosity, healing and integrating with nature

    Season 2 E15: Dr Pamela Kryskow on nurturing our humanity, childlike curiosity, healing and integrating with nature

    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 journey
    • Pam’s daily morning ritual
    • Nurturing all the parts within
    • Gift of childlike curiosity
    • Foraging
    • Finding humility in how we talk about psychedelic experiences
    • Integrating an experience before jumping to the next
    • Using nature to heal and integrate your experiences
    • Somatic therapy
    • Importance 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 Kryskow

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming creativity retreat


    Season 2 E14: Kunti Trejo on being a medicine woman, creativity and temazcal ceremonies

    Season 2 E14: Kunti Trejo on being a medicine woman, creativity and temazcal ceremonies

    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 Kunti

    About Leadershipedelic, Sébastien, and the upcoming retreat

    #creativity #retreat #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #temazcal #medicinewoman #mentalhealth #peru #sacredvalley #create #liveinterview  #leadershipedelics #psychedelics #leadership #sweatlodge

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usJune 16, 2022

    Season 2 Ep. 13: Sean McCormick on health optimization, curiosity, leadership and psychedelics

    Season 2 Ep. 13: Sean McCormick on health optimization, curiosity, leadership and psychedelics

    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 ceremony
    • Depth of consciousness gained in realizing we are not our bodies
    • Getting your body to a place of vitality so your brain works properly
    • Lightheartedness and the AWE that is this life
    • Appropriate, responsible psychedelic experiences as tools to orient ourselves
    • When Google AI showed up in the middle of a 5-MeO-DMT experience
    • Cleansing the residue from daily interactions
    • Shipibo tapestries as a representation of energy
    • The role of curiosity and stupid questions, especially with kids
    • Leaders that make you lean forward
    • Leadership as a cedar tree
    • Health 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 Sean

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usMay 27, 2022

    Season 2 Ep. 12: Jéssika Lagarde on women on psychedelics, traveling the world, and creativity

    Season 2 Ep. 12: Jéssika Lagarde on women on psychedelics, traveling the world, and creativity

    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 years
    • Impact of toxic relationships on self-love 
    • How working with psilocybin and magic truffles changes her life
    • Self-expression and flow state to reconnect with the body
    • Being present with the act of creating
    • Story behind Women on Psychedelics
    • Holding space to enable others to be vulnerable
    • Lessons from guiding psychedelic sessions 
    • Listening to the love inside yourself
    • Leadership 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 Jéssika

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usMay 18, 2022

    Season 2 Ep. 11: Jason Grechanik on the wisdom of plants, ancient cultures, martial arts, ayahuasca, and more...

    Season 2 Ep. 11: Jason Grechanik on the wisdom of plants, ancient cultures, martial arts, ayahuasca, and more...

    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 nutrition
    • Martial arts, shamanism, ancient cultures
    • Insights from running dietas and facilitating ceremonies
    • What it means to be a “bridge keeper”
    • Self-discipline in spiritual work
    • Shift of consciousness
    • Fear as the root of suffering
    • Leaders as a reflection of us
    • The profound resonance within
    • Principled leadership
    • Trusting 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 Jason

    His podcast: 

    About Leadershipedelics, Sébastien, and upcoming retreat

    Leadershipedelics
    en-usMay 05, 2022

    S2 E10: Susan Guner on building resilience, self-agency, congruency, and somatic therapy

    S2 E10: Susan Guner on building resilience, self-agency, congruency, and somatic therapy

    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” posts
    • The importance of self-agency
    • Somatic therapy, what it is, and how it can help
    • Working with trauma, darkness, and intensity
    • Understanding that healing takes time
    • The “being skinned alive” concept in healing experiences
    • Balancing lightheartedness with serious work
    • Safe “containers” and why they matter
    • The need for a more trauma-informed society
    • The power of fragility and leadership
    • Book 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 Susan

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    Leadershipedelics
    en-usApril 28, 2022

    Leadershipedelics S2E9: Saba Candari, CEO of Entho Ventures on intentional transformation, making space for yourself, and psychedelics

    Leadershipedelics S2E9: Saba Candari, CEO of Entho Ventures on intentional transformation,  making space for yourself, and psychedelics

    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 transformation
    • Moving away from what drags you down
    • Surrounding yourself with people to learn from
    • 5-MeO-DMT journey
    • Are psychedelics shortcuts or not and for what?
    • Connecting with Nature
    • Giving space to integrate lessons from psychedelic experiences
    • Making space for yourself
    • Energy 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 Saba
    Saba 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.

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    Leadershipedelics
    en-usApril 13, 2022

    Leadershipedelics S2E8 - Stefany Nieto on sustainable projects, psychedelics and building products at Gwella

    Leadershipedelics S2E8 - Stefany Nieto on sustainable projects, psychedelics and building products at Gwella

    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 Iglu
    • First experience with magic mushrooms
    • Preparation, intention setting, and integration
    • Having your identity tied to a company
    • Honesty with yourself about your needs
    • Learnings from guiding others
    • Microdosing and creativity
    • Gwella’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.”

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    More about Stefany & how to connect

    Stefany 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. 

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    Leadershipedelics
    en-usApril 06, 2022

    Leadershipedelics S2E7 - Rick Elliott on being a dad, husband, finding happiness, ayahuasca and bufo alvarius

    Leadershipedelics S2E7 - Rick Elliott on being a dad, husband, finding happiness, ayahuasca and bufo alvarius

    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 impact
    • Being in the moment as a dad and husband
    • Gratefulness as a tool to address suffering
    • Modeling finding happiness as a parent
    • Focusing on what matters
    • Preparation and integration for an Ayahuasca ceremony
    • Finding a professional path aligned with your Self
    • Bufo 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 Rick

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    Leadershipedelics
    en-usMarch 30, 2022

    Leadershipedelics S2E6 - Erin Cochrane on intentions, communities, and Gwella Mushrooms

    Leadershipedelics S2E6 - Erin Cochrane on intentions, communities, and Gwella Mushrooms

    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 America
    • Soul searching in intentional communities
    • Interconnected systems & eco projects
    • Experiences at Fungi Academy
    • Community group sacred ceremonies
    • Community as an integration tool
    • Mushrooms 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.”

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    How to connect with Erin Cochrane

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    Leadershipedelics
    en-usMarch 23, 2022
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