Greg Kubin is the co-founder and general partner of PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund investing in the future of brain and mental health through psychedelic medicine, neurotechnology, and precision psychiatry. He is also the cohost of Business Trip, a podcast exploring the business of psychedelics, and has made over 20 investments in mental health companies after a decade as an entrepreneur.

In this episode, we explore why your healing journey must come before the spiritual breakthroughs you seek. Greg shares how traditions like Kabbalah teach that working through emotional trauma precedes access to higher consciousness, and how psychedelic experiences often surface unresolved pain as part of the psyche's healing intelligence. We discuss transpersonal psychology, transcendent experiences, the role of indigenous wisdom in modern medicine, and whether technology can shortcut meditation. If you are a founder or leader drawn to consciousness and inner work, this conversation will reframe how you approach your own healing journey.

Who This Episode Is For:

• Founders and CEOs curious about psychedelic medicine and consciousness
• Leaders committed to inner work and personal transformation
• Anyone navigating their own healing journey before seeking peak states

What You'll Learn:

• Why emotional healing must precede spiritual breakthroughs
• How transpersonal psychology helps people integrate altered states of consciousness
• What indigenous traditions teach us about these medicines
• The promise and ethics of neurotechnology and meditation devices

For full show notes: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/investing-in-the-next-frontiers-of-mental-health-psychedelics-nuero-tech-next-gen-therapy-greg-kubin

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Chapters:

(00:00) The investing thesis of a hippie venture fund

(05:47) The role of indigenous cultures in psychedelic medicine

(13:53) Precision therapy and personalized mental health

(18:52) Transpersonal psychology and transcendent experiences

(25:03) Why healing must come before spiritual gifts

(26:58) Can technology elevate meditation and consciousness

John Chavez is the founder of DMT Quest, a nonprofit focused on endogenous DMT, healing, and consciousness research. After a powerful mystical experience, he began exploring how altered states of consciousness might expand what we know about human potential.

In this episode, we explore altered states of consciousness through endogenous DMT, telepathy, meditation, and healing. We talk about how altered states of consciousness shaped his awakening, why altered states of consciousness matter for consciousness research, and what this field could mean for spiritual awakening, breathwork, nervous system regulation, and expanded consciousness.

Who This Episode Is For:

• People curious about endogenous DMT and mystical experience
• Entrepreneurs drawn to meditation and inner work
• Listeners exploring healing and spiritual awakening
• Practitioners interested in breathwork and nervous system regulation
• Anyone following consciousness research and human potential

What You'll Learn:

• Why endogenous DMT has become an important area of study
• How John's health crisis changed his life direction
• What he has observed about telepathy and energy
• How relaxed focus may change human capability
• Why the field is underfunded and what needs to change
• How DMT Quest is building bridges between mystics and scientists

For full show notes: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/exploring-the-mind-bending-world-of-endogenous-dmt-telekinesis-emergent-phenomena-john-chavez

Go Deeper:

If this conversation resonated, you can check out:

• Join my email list for ongoing insights on consciousness, spirituality, using business as a spiritual path and human potential.

• My book Conscious Accomplishment: How to Use Personal Achievement for Spiritual Growth

• My company Conscious Talent where business leaders and companies who value both inner work and professional excellence connect.

Chapters:

(00:00) Endogenous DMT and why it matters

(06:00) DMT in the body and the science questions

(12:00) Health crisis and mystical awakening

(19:00) Telepathy healing and energy experiences

(27:00) Gamma waves breathwork and focused awareness

(34:00) How DMT Quest started

(40:00) Funding gaps and the future of research

(45:00) Death the afterlife and how to support the mission

One of my closest friends Justin Mares knows more about health then just about anyone I know. He's built 3 food companies in Kettle & Fire, Perfect Keto, and Surely Wines which give him unique insight into how the stuff we put into our bodies is actually made. Now he is working on new company called True Medicine that is making it easier and more affordable to be healthy.

I've been a long time follower of his newsletter @ and a few years ago he started sharing staggering information on what is happening to the U.S. population's health citing our food system as a culprit.

Check these stats out which we discuss in the episode:

1. The average testosterone of a 22 year old American male is the same as a 67 year old man 20 years ago
2. In 1990, there were 0 states with obesity greater than 20%. In 2018, there are 0 states with obesity less than 20%. Obesity, which is correlated to lots of health issues, has more then doubled in the past 28 years.
3. 25% of the pesticides we use in the U.S. for growing food (including organic) are illegal in Europe
4. The new food pyramid in the U.S. claims that sugary cereal is more healthy then eating an egg or piece of beed
5. 93% of streams, rivers and lakes in the US had some sort of like microplastic contamination in them

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-alarming-state-of-america-s-health-food-quality-justin-mares

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Let me start off by saying, I have zero interest in participating in what many call the transhuman movement. Specifically, implanting some type of technology into my body in order to alter or enhance the way in which I experience the world.

That being said, I do think it's important to understand what is going on. This is clearly going to be a thing in our lifetimes that will vastly impact culture and society and I'd rather be informed. A few weeks ago someone had recommended Singularity Weekly to me and I was startled to see how far along we are in this field.

I wanted to have Joe Allen the author of singularity weekly and Steven Bannon's War Room transhuman expert.

The most interesting thing that emerged from the conversation was the realization that transhumanism is very much a religion. There is a group of people that are attempting to transcend their current condition and achieve salvation. In these higher states, they also strive to achieve greater abilities of unity and access to higher intelligence.

Gee. Sounds kind of like most wisdom traditions. I guess the main difference is the mechanism they believe will usher into this change is technology. Joe called this worship of technology as our savior an inversion of spirituality. I tend to agree, but this new understanding certainly helped me better understand what is more fundamentally driving the leaders of these movements.

I can't say that my opinion has really shifted. I am increasingly getting excited about living a more analog life. Having less technology dominates my experience and generally being more connected to nature. This probably means I will have to move from my urban existence at some point, but I am okay with that. I increasingly think living in Urban areas with high degrees of invisible environmental toxins make it harder to be healthier than it needs to be. And I care more about myself and family being healthy than nice dinners with friends and access to luxury experiences. I think we will start to see this appeal to more and more urban professionals in the next decade. I guess we already are.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/brain-implants-and-spirituality-have-more-in-common-than-i-thought-joe-allen

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It can be quite frustrating to be experiencing something unfamiliar that our medical system doesn't have an answer for. Unfortunately, I know from experience as documented here!

This is very common with many "spiritual", "mystical", "energetic", etc. experiences and effects, that are often referred to as emergent phenomena.

A few months ago, I was delighted to discover the The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. The EPRC is a group of 180+ researchers, scientists, medical, therapy and spiritual professionals that are trying to tackle the hard problem of gathering data and research on the large catalogue of emergent phenomena experiences that humans may face and the efficacy of different protocols for handling them.

Daniel Ingram is one of the co-founders of the organization and also the author of one my favorite books on Buddhism Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.

The EPRC's aim is to give health care systems, mental health providers, and those who are helping to teach and promote various practices the information they need in order to make better decisions about how to both promote the benefits of these practices and manage the various effects that they can produce.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/when-will-healthcare-acknowledge-effectively-treat-spiritual-phenomena-daniel-ingram

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It can be quite frustrating to be experiencing something that our medical system doesn’t have an answer for. Unfortunately, I know from experience as documented here!

This is quite common with many “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences and effects, that are often referred to as emergent phenomena.

A few months ago, I was delighted to discover the The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. They are large group of researchers, scientists, medical, therapy and spirirtual professionals who are trying to tackle the hard problem of gathering data and research on the large catalogue of emergent phenomena experiences humans may face and the efficacy of different protocols for handling them. 

Daniel Ingram is one of the co-founders who is helping driving this effort along with 180+ other people.

Their aim is to give health care systems, mental health providers, and those who are helping to teach and promote various practices the information they need in order to make better decisions about how to both promote the benefits of these practices and manage the various effects that they can produce. 

In my opinion, accelerating the acknowledgement and effective treatment of these types of experiences in mainstream healthcare is an imperative as wisdom practices like meditation and substances like psychedelics scale up in society.

We must develop an adequate support system to help people as they go through their own evolutionary process that right not leaves a lot to be desired. I deeply hope this happens so people can navigate this more gracefully and avoid the confusing fact finding mission I had to go on 4 years ago.

I found Daniel a joy to talk to and we touch upon lots of historical information about the effort of trying to make higher states of consciousness recognized by mainstream institutions. It was a fascinating conversation that I hope enjoy!

Today's guest is someone I have followed since 2016 when I participated in a startup growth program called Reforge where he was a guest lecturer. Simply put, Andy Johns is one of the most prolific startup growth executives in the modern era. He has been an leader or key player at 8 consecutive billion dollar startups including Facebook, Twitter, Wealthfront, Quora, and others.

In this conversation, Andy shares his personal experience of working on his mental health and consciousness through the context of being an ambitious person in the world of high growth startups.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-inner-journey-of-one-of-silicon-valley-s-top-growth-leaders-andy-johns

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This week's episode is with my good friend Zach Poitra who I have worked with in a Shamanic capacity for 3 separate ayahuasca retreats.

Zach's story is amazing. After working for an investment bank for 10 years, he moved down to Peru to live in the jungle and work on himself. What he thought would be a temporary stint transpired into him meeting and training with his shamanic teacher for 4.5 years before becoming a full-time shaman himself. Now after many years helping others with their own inward work, he has felt a calling to re-enter the world of finance which was something he would have never anticipated.

He provides an inside look at what the life of a Shaman is actually like demystifying a lot of common misconceptions I know I originally had. We also talk about his inner experience of being guided to return to finance which too many, seemed like a surprising move. Personally, I think its a fantastic example of surrendering to the universe and when we do this things often take different forms then what we would have expected.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/what-it-s-actually-like-to-be-an-ayahuasca-shaman

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My friend Robby Bent joins us to talk about his amazing online / offline company Othership. A lot of people are turned off by wellness and mindfulness in the current way it is packaged and introduced. Robbie and his team have incredible perspective to this dynamic and are taking a different approach with their physical Othership locations and amazing breathwork app which I love. By focusing on creating something that's cool and avoiding all the spiritual woo woo, they are casting a wider net to these powerful practices that ultimately drive transformation.

Check out their site and app: https://www.othership.us/

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/breathwork-and-rebranding-transformation-with-robbie-bent-ceo-othership

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Today my great friend Dylan Beynon, CEO of Mindbloom joins us on the show. Mindbloom is the market leader in providing ketamine assisted therapy in the US and our a trailblazer as these substances become more deeply integrated into our society and institutions. Dylan is one of the smartest and most thoughtful people I know making this an electric conversation. If you want to know more about the business side of pyschedelics and where the industry is heading, this is a must listen.

Today my great friend Dylan Beynon, CEO of Mindbloom joins us on the show. Mindbloom is the market leader in providing ketamine assisted therapy in the US and our a trailblazer as these substances become more deeply integrated into our society and institutions. Dylan is one of the smartest and most thoughtful people I know making this an electric conversation. If you want to know more about the business side of pyschedelics and where the industry is heading, this is a must listen.

For full show notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/the-future-of-the-psychedelic-industry-with-mindbloom-ceo-dylan-beynon

🌀This podcast is sponsored by Conscious Talent - where business leaders and companies who value both inner work and professional excellence connect. Learn more and join the Conscious Talent network here: https://www.conscioustalent.com/