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Daron Babin interviews John Nichols, a Director of Product Management at Caretaker Medical. They specialize in Wireless Hemodynamic Monitoring.

Caretaker Medical is a Digital Health startup in Charlottesville Virginia with a fantastic group of scientists and engineers who have developed the world’s most innovative, wearable vital signs monitor and early warning device.

The company has multiple FDA clearances for it’s flagship product, VitalStream, which continuously and non-invasively measures beat-by-beat blood pressure, advanced hemodynamics, heart rate and respiration rate, from a comfortable biosensor and streams the data to remote displays, tablets, smartphones, or a secure HIPPA-compliant Web Portal to allow Patient Monitoring and Notifications from anywhere in the world.

Sarah Tilley, CEO of Beautiful Space, discusses her journey into the psychedelic therapy space and her work with couples using psilocybin. She emphasizes the importance of individual freedom within relationships and the need for couples to address trauma and develop a deep understanding of each other's needs. Sarah also highlights the ongoing psychoeducation and preparation involved in her therapy program, which ultimately leads to building intimacy and fostering long-term desire in relationships.

Melissa Lavasani is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Psychedelic Medicine Coalition (PMC). Prior to founding PMC, Melissa was the proposer of Washington DC’s successful 2020 ballot measure Initiative 81, the Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act, and led the campaign to the largest ballot initiative victory in the history of our nation’s capital.

Jay Nelson is a writer, researcher, and award-winning screenwriter obsessed with three questions: (i) What is consciousness? (ii) Is there an edge of experience? And (iii) How best to explain ecological awareness? After originally getting his start in acting, Jay soon found a love for psychology and explaining the human mind. But after a near-death experience realigned all of his perceptions in 2013, he started moonlighting in neuroscience, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. He has been called a philosopher, a shaman, and a man of science. But, by his own description, he’s a “moderately well-read person who wants to test the limits of human perception.” You can find him online at www.jaynelson.com.

Lindy Nelson is a lifelong student of what makes a human a human. She has always believed that we are more alike than we are different, and is forever on the journey towards a better understanding of how to share that knowledge. From managing escape rooms to restaurants, film sets to corporate offices, she is adept at seeing all of the pieces that make up the whole. She leads with patience and the mantra that we should each use what we have to improve where we can.

Eric Burden is the owner of Denver Spore Company. Denver Spore Company is an online store that sells fungal genetics. The company offers beginner-friendly kits, strains, and grow bags. The company also sells magic mushroom spores and has third-party lab-tested potency profiles. 

Burden has been working with mushrooms for 17 years. He started the Denver Spore Company after Denver County decriminalized magic mushrooms. Burden wanted to provide quality products in a timely manner and give people access to grow their own medicines at home.

Deborah Mash is one of the world's foremost experts on the psychedelic drug ibogaine. She is the CEO and Founder of DemeRx Inc., a clinical-stage drug development company advancing ibogaine and its active metabolite noribogaine for the treatment of opioid use disorder. 

DemeRx has partnered with ATAI Life Sciences -- a global biotech platform with a special focus on psychedelic medicine -- to develop ibogaine for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Building on the extensive human data available around ibogaine. DemeRx and ATAI will submit Clinical Trial Applications for a Phase II study in opioid-dependent patients. This joint venture will also develop screening procedures, dosing guidelines, and best practices for opioid withdrawal management to ensure patient safety.

Dave Rodman is an attorney whose entire career in law has been spent in cutting-edge industries. Dave’s expertise in business, corporate, intellectual property, and securities law, coupled with his embrace of novel sectors has allowed him to actively work with clients in cannabis, crypto/blockchain, and psychedelics to provide practical, risk-based solutions, to innovators and founders so that they can achieve their goals while minimizing their exposure.

As the founder and Managing Partner of The Rodman Law Group, Dave has built his firm from a solo practice into a 14-lawyer shop and experienced all the victories and defeats that go along with starting and scaling a business, and while the job is by no means finished, the fact that he has faced many of the same difficulties that his clients deal with as they work to realize their dreams, allows Dave to offer critical advice that goes beyond clinical black letter law. 

Dave has been focused on sensible drug policy since before he was a licensed attorney and is a founder member of the Psychedelic Bar Association. Dave actively represents companies that are participating in the legal psychedelics market.

Metta Mats was born out of love for the experience that doing yoga on a piece of art brings to the practice. They noticed there was no truly great yoga mat with art on it. They spent years perfecting a unique surface made of safe materials to protect the artwork we put on our mats and provide a grip to support all types of yoga. Metta Mats' yogic mindset of continual improvement is infused into the artisanship that they bring to their product.

Each mat is made by them, by hand in Philadelphia, PA and they have sent out mats all over the world. Metta Mats is committed to making the world's most vibrant, highest-performing, environmentally-friendly yoga mats. They developed this product out of a deep respect for the practice of yoga and the value of art.

Their mats aren't just about the art, they feature a surface material that we developed and perfected over the span of a few years. Our goal is to fuse this art with yoga to help inspire mindfulness and growth throughout your practice.

David Dardashti and the Ibogaine Clinic have over 15 years of development and research with ibogaine treatment protocols and thousands of successful treatments, helping people recover and move forward from trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, and substance abuse. Their advanced and natural Ibogaine Treatment helps people successfully detox from Suboxone, Methadone, Fentanyl, Heroin, Oxycontin, Kratom, Antidepressants, Stimulants, and other addictive substances. 

Founder and Rabbi, David Dardashti, truly loves helping others and his passion for ibogaine is very much related to his passion to heal and help others find wellness. The Ibogaine Clinic has focused largely on addiction, depression, and PTSD treatment for many years, but the healing powers of ibogaine and David’s candid nature allow for a treatment experience like nowhere else. David’s ongoing research extends into the use of ibogaine in the treatment of many other neurological and physical conditions.

HempLucid becomes the first company to offer psychedelic therapy as an insurance benefit. Chase Hudson is the founder and CEO of HempLucid, with over 2000 stores in the USA. Hemplucid is dedicated to providing lucid information and products to help people understand and experience the benefits of the hemp plant in their lives.

Chase has become intimately familiar with psychedelic therapy and has offered ketamine therapy through the insurance plan of his many employees. He co-produced Lamar Odom: Reborn alongside Zappy Zapolin and Kaia Roman.