Chill Country Report

Austin-based musician Conner Stephens joins us to talk about his struggles with substance abuse and his journey to sobriety.

This is a heavy episode and contains potentially triggering topics.

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We discuss the devastating floods that occurred across the Texas Hill Country over 4th of July weekend, what we're doing to help, and how you can help too.

Chris attended his first legislative hearing at the capitol for SB5–Dan Patrick's new "THC Ban" bill. SB5 is essentially SB3 repackaged for the special session.

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Chris and Madison drive around Austin and prospect new potential retailers for their cannabis edibles.Chris talks more about the positive changes he's noticed since doing mushrooms for the first time in a therapeutic setting.Madison talks about his changing relationship with cannabis and his recent experience with "micro-dosing."

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Chris recaps his first ever psilocybin mushroom experience.

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Ross Bolen is a New York Times best selling author, founder of Bolen Media, host of The Ross Bolen Podcast, and long time mental health advocate.

Ross and Madison worked together for nearly a decade at Madison's first company–Grandex Media (Total Frat Move & Rowdy Gentleman). They recently reconnected and recorded an episode of The Ross Bolen Podcast where they discussed the rise and fall of Grandex and Total Frat Move.

Now, Ross joins Chris and Madison on YNT for a more personal conversation. Ross opens up about his long time struggles with mental health and how he's overcome a debilitating panic attack disorder through psychotherapy and other therapeutic strategies.

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Ana Rodriguez is a therapist, writer, international speaker, and healer who seamlessly bridges the worlds of high performance and deep healing—helping individuals move beyond intellectual understanding into embodied transformation. Born in Colombia and raised between South America and the U.S., she carries the richness of two cultures, each offering unique perspectives on connection, resilience, and self-discovery. Moving between these worlds taught her to navigate complexity with discernment, embrace multiple truths, and meet people at different levels of their human experience. This deep understanding allows her to hold space for those balancing leadership and vulnerability, ambition and authenticity, responsibility and personal liberation.

Her approach is deeply intuitive yet evidence-based, balancing structure with soul, science with metaphysics, and strategy with presence. Ana’s work goes beyond traditional talk therapy, guiding clients into their bodies, nervous systems, and emotional landscapes to release long-held patterns of perfectionism, avoidance, self-sabotage, and disconnection. She understands both the pressures of leadership and visibility as well as the deep wounds of oppression and intergenerational trauma. In her care, both the high achiever and the wounded inner child are met with radical compassion, allowing clients to finally break free from cycles of emotional isolation.

In a world where most people live from their heads—overanalyzing, overworking, and staying disconnected from their deeper truth—Ana’s work is about integration. She helps clients shift from intellectualizing their struggles to fully embodying their healing, reconnecting with their intuition, emotions, and the wisdom of the body. Whether supporting someone through a career transition, creative burnout, relational complexity, or a profound personal awakening, she creates a space where transformation is not just a concept, but a lived experience.

At the core of Ana’s work is a belief in expansion—emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. Whether you’re seeking to release the weight of responsibility, tap into your deepest relational needs, or fully embody who you were meant to be, she offers the tools, insight, and presence to help you live fully—not just in your mind, but in your body, your relationships, and your purpose.

Selva Wellness Collective is a lived dream—a space Ana founded to embody the kind of healing she believes in: holistic, inclusive, and deeply transformative. More than just a practice, it is a representation of what’s possible when mind, body, and spirit are integrated, multiple healing traditions are honored, and individuals are given the space to return to themselves fully and freely.

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Chris breaks down polling data that shows Texans overwhelmingly support legal cannabis. Madison and Chris talk about how they are managing their mental states during the looming "THC Ban" bill legislation (SB3) that threatens their hemp business (chillcountry.com).

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We recorded another episode in the car. The camera overheated so we lost the video about 10 minutes in, but we recovered the full audio.

We discuss Chris's upcoming psilocybin therapy session, Madison's parenting strategy as it relates to technology, God vs. Materialism, surrendering, and our new plans to become better communicators through writing.

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Madison comes to terms with the fact that perfection isn't possible. Chris has a plan to create a sense of community in his central Austin neighborhood.

Madison and Chris also discuss the power of gratitude, the importance of community, reincarnation and what happens when you die, branding, the efficacy of psychedelic assisted therapy, and the goal of this podcast.

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A lot of our conversations happen in the car, so we decided to kill two birds with this episode. Chris updates us on his latest ketamine assisted psychotherapy session where he gained insights into his desire to control everything. Madison finally understands what it means to be "in touch with your feelings."

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