Leadershipedelics

Join us in today's episode with the dynamic Alex Atwood, seasoned entrepreneur, psychedelics coach, change-maker, and host of the Alchemist Lounge Podcast. Discover his transformative journey from the hospitality sector to advocating for wellbeing and wellness.

Explore love, self-discovery through psychedelics, Alex's unique perspective on religion and community, the role of music in psychedelic ceremonies, and the art of leadership. Learn how he promotes a healthy work environment while unlocking organizations' potential.

Dive into topics like yoga, meditation, microdosing, creativity, and mindfulness in this enlightening conversation. Connect with Alex and Sébastien via their websites and LinkedIn profiles.

Key discussion points:

• Psychedelics and self-discovery
• Religion and community perspectives
• Music in psychedelic ceremonies
• Leadership and unlocking potential
• Healthy work environments with yoga, meditation, and more

Connect with Alex:

• Website: https://alexatwood.co/
• Alchemist Lounge: https://alexatwood.co/the-alchemist-lounge/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexatwood/

Connect with Sébastien:

• Retreat updates: http://sacredcreativityretreat.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienfouillade/
• Website: http://fooyad.com

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Join us for a mesmerizing episode of Leadershipedelics that promises to captivate your senses! Today, we're thrilled to have Kasia from the Nourish podcast as our guest host, interviewing Sebastien Fouillade, the Founder of the Sacred Creativity Retreat and host of Leadershipedelics. Venture into the enchanting Sacred Creativity Retreat set in the breathtaking sacred valley of Peru. Learn about the intricate process of assembling exceptional guests, the meticulous preparation, integration, and the life-altering experiences that the retreat offers. Delve into the fascinating world of brain mapping and uncover the profound lessons that have transformed lives. Explore Sebastien's personal journey towards multidimensional authenticity and its true meaning. For our viewers, immerse yourselves in the captivating visuals that transport you straight to the heart of this extraordinary retreat. Don't miss this unforgettable adventure that will awaken your creative spirit and elevate your spiritual journey!

• Signup for updates on the next retreat at: http://sacredcreativityretreat.com
• Connect with Sebastien on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienfouillade/
• Sebastien's personal site: http://fooyad.com

About Kasia and the Nourish Podcast:

• Kasia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kkrzoska/
• Nourish podcast: https://nourish.buzzsprout.com/

PS: Thank you Kasia for being such an awesome host!

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Aleana Kali is the founder of Brands Are Alive. She helps people reconnect with their essence and creativity to develop their authentic brand and marketing strategy. Aleana shares important lessons on growing a business, the benefits of journaling, and some essential tips to help you with consistency and creativity. We discuss identifying non-healthy partnerships, respecting your own boundaries, the benefits of getting in front of the camera to address your audience, and much more.
This episode is loaded with goodness.

Previous interview on Aleana's journey
https://www.leadershipedelics.com/1860291/10096390

Highlights
◦ Journaling for business and personal growth
◦ Importance of consistency
◦ Identifying healthy partnerships
◦ Respecting your own boundaries
◦ Connecting with your audience through the camera
◦ Surrendering, attachment, intuition and more…

Connecting with Aleana
◦  The best place is her "Saturday MOJO" video newsletters. People can subscribe at: https://www.brandsarealive.com/blog
◦  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@brandsarealive
◦  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandsarealive/

About Sébastien & Leadershipedelics
◦ Support this work by subscribing on YouTube (interviews and music): https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics?sub_confirmation=1
◦ Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienfouillade/ 
◦ Personal site: http://fooyad.com 

Enjoy 🙏❤️

Today, we catchup with returning guest David Drapkin, Director of Education and Training at Psychedelics Today to talk about the Vital Psychedelic Therapy Training Program (https://www.vitalpsychedelictraining.com/) and his journey since we last met over a year ago. David reflects on what they learned in the first year of Vital, some of the highlights of the program, who can apply, and why this program is different from other Psychedelic Therapy Training programs.

We also talk about David's journey since our last episode, his upcoming move to Israel, a huge step for him and his family, and the reason, the pull, the calling behind the move. This was such an enjoyable discussion full of inspiration, reflection and lots of info on psychedelic therapy training.

Enjoy!

Previous episode with David to learn more about his personal journey:
https://www.leadershipedelics.com/1860291/9917407

Connecting with David or Vital
- David is on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddrapkin/
- Learn more about the Vital Certification program at https://www.vitalpsychedelictraining.com/
Applications must be received before March 19th, 2023.

Connecting with Sébastien
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel (interviews and more): https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics
- Seb's personal site: Fooyad.com
- On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienfouillade/

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Cover art and background interview provided by #midjourney

Today, join us to meet the Founder of Behold Retreats, Jonathan de Potter 🙏 Jonathan is a recovering strategy consultant, lover of big ideas, meditation, and the ocean, he grew up in Hawaii and now lives in Thailand on the small island of Koh Phangan. 

Jonathan shares his journey from his challenging times as a strategy consultant to his first Ayahuasca experience, which was also very challenging but very transformative. This led him on a path to dive deep into the world of plant medicine and consciousness, which eventually led to the creation of Behold retreats.  

We cover many topics from challenging plant medicine experiences, to the importance of proper screening in plant medicine retreats, to honoring energy workers, and more. We even make a small detour to discuss creativity, ChatGPT and the Age of Wisdom. Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Challenging plant medicine experiences
• The importance of screening in retreats
• Breathwork and meditation as preparation tools
• Reorienting our mind and consciousness
• The impact of trauma on Leadership
• Honoring space holders and energy workers
• ChatGPT and the Age of Wisdom
• Pitfalls of delegating our lives
• Staying in the present
• Acknowledging the journey

Connecting with Jonathan

• http://Behold-retreats.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-de-potter-aaa9813/

Connecting with Sébastien

• Subscribe to our YouTube channel (interviews and more): https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics
• Fooyad.com

This week meet the founder of High Priestess Healing, Jessica Posillico. Find out how after years dealing with anxiety, this former NYC teacher and corporate worker went all in on her holistic healing business, what it took to listen to the voice inside, answer the calling and manifest High Priestess healing. This is a truly inspiring journey. If you’ve ever wondered about energy healing, card reading, working with your fears and intuition, or what "following a calling” really entails, don’t miss this interview. Jessica shares some amazing lessons from her journey. Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Working with fear and anxiety
• What it means to follow your calling
• Energy healing
• Card reading
• Breaking patterns in relationships and life
• Trusting your intuition and listening to the voice inside
• The butterfly’s lifecycle (was one of my favorite insights)
• Being a manifestor
• The sea as a representation for leadership

Connecting with Jessica

• Website: HighPriestessHealing.Me
• Youtube: High Priestess Healing Tarot
• Instagram: High.Priestess.Healing3
• Everything: https://instabio.cc/HIGHPRIESTESSHEALING

Connecting with Sébastien

• YouTube channel (watch the interviews!): https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics
• Fooyad.com

Watch & subscribe on  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics

This week meet Luke Jensen, founder, and CEO of Neuro Enlightenment, a company at the intersection of neuroscience and plant shamanism. We worked with Luke and his team during the Sacred Creativity Retreat to measure the impact of ayahuasca ceremonies and creativity workshops on our guests, we were blown away with the results. 

Luke is from Nebraska and joined the US Marines when he was 18.  After returning from his deployment to Afghanistan in 2011 Luke was searching for meaning in life.  He experienced ayahuasca which changed and reshaped his perspective of reality.  This sent him on a quest to Peru where he spent time living in the jungle with Shipibo healers.  Luke started learning about QEEG brain mapping and different types of brain training.  He eventually became passionate about the potential of brain mapping and training in conjunction with plant medicines.  This led him to the creation of Neuro Enlightenment. 

We cover Luke’s personal journey from the Marines to his deep soul work that followed, what led him to brain mapping, and what he’s seen in his work at the intersection of neurofeedback and spirituality. After talking with Luke and using brain mapping during our retreat, I’m convinced this is a tool with huge potential in the psychedelic space. Interview not to be missed. We recorded this in person so checkout the video on YouTube as well which has extra footage from the retreat.

💡Highlights💡

• Spiritual health & the spiritual side of brainwaves
• Redefining yourself and healing from soul loss
• Brain mapping, QEEG, training, and neurofeedback
• Improving brain efficiency and resilience through neurofeedback
• Measuring the impact of psychedelics on brain plasticity and normalization
• Cats, neurofeedback & rocket fuel 

Connecting with Luke

• http://neuroenlightenment.com 
• Neuro Enlightenment on Facebook and Instagram
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-jensen-658454262/

Connecting with Sébastien

• YouTube channel (watch the interviews!): https://www.youtube.com/@leadershipedelics
• Fooyad.com

For the last episode of the year, last episode of season 2, and our 2022 Holiday Special, I am meeting with Hernan Savastano. Hernan is the father of Raina, husband of Angela, and talented plant medicine musician, facilitator, and space holder. He left the corporate world a few years ago after 18 years at Microsoft and Zillow working in User Research. Hernan and his wife now run a wellness and retreat center outside Seattle. Hernan recounts his journey from childhood to fatherhood, his work to heal, the missteps and lessons learned along the way, the role of plant medicine music in healing, and all the forms of medicine in his life. This is a powerful episode full of vulnerability and deep emotions. We cover a lot, from spiritual bypassing to healing generational trauma to holding emotional space for your children. We recorded this in person so watch the video if you can. This was one of the most moving interviews I’ve done so far, enjoy it and Happy Holidays.

Video available on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/AMo2xayB7AI

💡Highlights💡

• Reconnecting with yourself and finding alignment
• The forms of medicine: children, family, music, and plants
• Singing in your native tongue
• Becoming a father & healing generational trauma
• Holding emotional space for your children
• Letting the child inside speak
• Healing from the inside out
• Shadow work and spiritual bypass
• Patience and compassion during healing
• Psychedelic-assisted therapy

Connection with Hernan

• Find Hernan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hernan.savastano
• Snowgrass Lodge Wellness and Retreat Center: https://www.snowgrasslodge.com/ 
• Hernan on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hernans

Additional resources mentioned during the interview

• The Wisdom of Trauma movie by Gabor Maté: https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/
• Medicine songs by Alonso Del Rio – Camino de Estrellas:  https://open.spotify.com/track/5Hgxtfr17kPS4Sl9qGt99b?si=9a291814804345ed
• Medicine songs by Shimshai and Susana: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4AVYJdcFZH9nxlRxlEJWQo?si=BalHaN96ShKYmG95y7-U3w

Connecting with Sébastien

• Fooyad.com
• Spotify

Today on Leadershipedelics, we talk about music for psychedelic assisted therapy with Phil Dames, the music maker and director of operations at Roots to Thrive. We've had other members of Roots to Thrive on the show, Dr Pamela Kryskow and Shannon Dames. This is very intentional: they’ve got a great team and they’re doing great work. Roots to Thrive is Canada’s first and only multidisciplinary, non-profit healthcare practice to legally offer evidence-informed, group therapy programs that use a community of practice model, uniquely designed to address trauma and to promote resilience, and to also include the option of psilocybin-assisted and ketamine-assisted group therapy.” It’s a pleasure to get to know them and share their work. 

With Phil being a music maker, and music playing such an important role in psychedelic assisted therapy, we go deep in what it takes to create the perfect playlist for a therapy session, how different types of music are used at different points and with different medicines. We share many resources, all listed in the show notes. And of course, we bring it all back to leadership comparing leadership to a cattle dog, imagine that.

💡Highlights💡

• Ketamine therapy in group setting
• Crafting and curating playlists for psychedelic-assisted therapy
• Creating more inclusive playlists
• Different music for different medicine
• Structuring a playlist
• Customizing at the cohort level
• Use of tension and textures in songs
• Leadership as a cattle dog

Connecting with Phil

• Roots to Thrive: https://rootstothrive.com/

More about Phil
Phil is the Director of operations at Roots to Thrive, a 12-week program aimed at addressing PTSD, treatment resistant depression, anxiety, and others.

Phil comes to Roots to Thrive with a focus on developing the structure to guide and inform the operations of the program. Phil has a long history of working with families and corporations, in the management of their financial well-being. Phil’s passion surrounds men’s health and the cultivation of environments that promote emotional awareness and expression. Phil developed the structure of the Roots to Thrive virtual program, which is currently is being used for RTT and RTT-KAT.

Resources mentioned in the show

Eric Sienknecht:
https://open.spotify.com/user/estnick46

Patterns by Solar Fields (“brain scrambler”): https://open.spotify.com/track/1wnZN0xG2bWmlKHP0iYeSG?si=2823b8178bcc4bc2

4am by Jade Cicada:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IIVlJeo9O2DpSCBuWWLtu?si=e53e660bd9544457

Portals (Avengers Endgame):
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OVtnS3l4vThGxkdqCxN6K?si=01944b094e3c4f94

About the Johns Hopkins playlist mentioned during the interview:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/inside-the-johns-hopkins-psilocybin-playlist

Wilbur Weekend playlist by Eric Sienknecht:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7raeMhIkbeCyOCXmoAeNY1?si=5f276f4f7d47474a

Connecting with Sébastien

• Fooyad.com
• Spotify

Today, we talk about psychedelic music and therapy with Jason LeValley, the founder and Editor of the online Psychedelic Scene Magazine. Prior to Psychedelic Scene, Jason built a popular and successful radio station which was recognized as Best New Radio Station by Tucson Weekly. Jason shares his love and knowledge of psychedelic music bands, and his experience earlier this year with ketamine therapy, which stressed the importance of doing your research before selecting a clinic and the importance of using the right music for a psychedelic therapy session. We also explore the intersection between psychedelic music, recreational vs. therapeutic use of psychedelics, and creativity.  

Enjoy 🙏❤️

💡Highlights💡

• Psychedelic Scene Magazine
• Lessons from Jason’s ketamine experience
• Importance of integration work
• Antidepressants and psychedelics
•  Music for therapy
• History of psychedelic music
• Recreational use vs. therapeutic use and creativity

🧠 Memorable Quotes 🧠
[About Ketamine Clinics] “You have to research which clinic you’re going to and what their practices are, because a lot of clinics will just take your money and tell you to come back for more without really helping you.”

 “There has to be integration involved because just the ketamine alone is not enough to have a therapeutic value. It’s the combination of it: the integration with the ketamine therapy.”

[About Music in Psychedelic Therapy] “If you’re listening to music that has lyrics, you sort of take on the theme of the lyrics and get removed from your own eternal self-processing.”

“Presumably at some point people who are seeking healing through psychedelics will be healed and then what? Will they be done with psychedelics or will they want to continue to take them for the purpose of inspiration and recreation.”

Connecting with Jason

• Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlevalley/
• Psychedelic Scene Magazine: https://psychedelicscene.com/

Links to resources mentioned

• Ketamine treatment article: https://psychedelicscene.com/2022/03/29/the-ketamine-conundrum/
• Article on 5-MeO-DMT experience: https://psychedelicscene.com/2022/05/23/the-5-meo-dmt-experience-a-tool-for-transformation-and-healing/
• John Hopkins: MusicFor Psychedelic Therapy - https://open.spotify.com/album/2zY5p176SfmupXceLKT6bH?si=T4vBos94RV2SEg-CAzw8Jw
• East Forest: Music for Mushrooms: https://open.spotify.com/album/2LFyfGcBrrsvF8tECUs5gK?si=NXxlrUmuQjGtwxWhziyGnQ

Connecting with Sébastien

• fooyad.com