MUD\WTR: Trends with Benefits by MUD\WTR

05.01.2024

#123 High Cuisine and Redefining Cannabis Culture with Nicole DiMascio

Explore the kitchen and beyond with Nicole DiMascio, the creative force behind "Dope Kitchen." As a weed enthusiast and content creator, Nicole is redefining the cannabis culture by challenging the old stoner stereotypes with her dynamic blend of mindful cannabis...

03.13.2024

#122 MUD\WTR's Shane Heath: Fueling a Business and Personal Evolution Through Art, Adaptogens and Action

Long before Shane Heath became the founder and CEO of MUD\WTR, he was already on a mission to create healthy minds through healthy habits. Battling depression and anxiety from a young age, Heath traveled both the world and his own...

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02.14.2024

#121 Embracing Vulnerability for True Intimacy with Kiana Reeves

Navigating authentic intimate relationships can have us twisting ourselves into emotional states that would make the Kama Sutra blush. Yet doing the work of self-reflection while being open to change can create profound connections, both with ourselves and others. By...

01.17.2024

#120 Discovering Herbal Wisdom: Rachelle Robinett's Journey to Holistic Health

Curiosity and listening are powerful tools on our healing journeys. Rachelle Robinett, founder and CEO of Pharmakon Supernatural, knows that to create profound growth and transformation, we need to be intrigued with what we consume—orally, visually and auditorily—and how that...

12.27.2023

#119 Exploring Psychedelic Therapy for Immigrants and Refugees With Malek Asfeer

What if every aspect of your life was suddenly disrupted? You can’t go to your job, you can’t see your friends and family, you can’t go home. For refugees and immigrants, such challenges compound with a lack of access to...

11.15.2023

#118 Getting to the Root of Seasonal Depression - Dr. LeTa Jussila

As the Northern Hemisphere turns towards winter, many of us are feeling not only the encroaching dark and cold weather but also seasonal depression. While hustle culture pushes us to keep grinding, what we actually need is a little extra...

10.18.2023

#117 Mental Health Is a Mosaic and Your Treatment Should Be Too - Dr. Raghu Appasani & Dorna Pourang

We’re in the midst of a mental health crisis. More people are seeking mental health treatments than ever before. But while therapy is part of the solution, it’s not the final answer. On today’s episode, Dr. Raghu Appasani, a board-certified...

09.13.2023

#116 The Joy of Well-Being: Why You Should Focus on Your Joyspan with Authors Colleen and Jason Wachob

How can we infuse a little bit more joy into health and well-being? How can we forge more meaningful connections? How do we identify our purpose? These are some of the deep inquiries we explore within and amongst ourselves. They...

08.09.2023

#115 The Skin Deep Questions: How Emmy Award-Winning Director Topaz Adizes Is Changing the Way We Talk to Each Other

Lao Tzu said, “We make a vessel from a lump of clay, but it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.” We often ignore the space in between, but Emmy Award-winning director, author, and experience designer...

07.19.2023

#114 Healing and Harmony Through Forest Bathing with Olga Terebenina

Shirin Yoku, AKA forest bathing, is a mindfulness practice where you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of nature for health and well-being. It can alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress, as well as help improve sleep. In today’s sensory...

06.28.2023

#113 Unbreakable melodies: Music, Addiction, and Healing - Melissa Etheridge

Rockstar Melissa Etheridge is a cultural icon, activist, and mother who founded the nonprofit, Etheridge Foundation. The foundation supports the development of transformative plant medicine treatments. She shares her own journey with psychedelics, the concerns of neglecting holistic healing in...

06.14.2023

#112 Queering Psychedelics with Mia Sarno

Mia Sarno, aka “Dr. Mimi” is a gender-fluid, pansexual licensed clinical psychologist working with a clinic providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and is a study therapist for research with LSD and psilocybin. For this Pride Month episode, we dive into what “queering”...

05.31.2023

#111 Treating Veterans with Psychedelics - The Heroic Hearts Project - Jesse Gould

Former Army Ranger Jesse Gould is a frontrunner for psychedelic therapies for veterans. As the founder of the Heroic Hearts Project, he has spearheaded the research and acceptance of ayahuasca, ibogaine, ketamine and psilocybin therapy programs for military veterans. But...

05.24.2023

#110 How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions (:micro)

We can’t control how others think, feel, or behave, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. One of the ways we do this is through self-centric storytelling. We make assumptions about others that put us at the center of the...

05.17.2023

#109 How to Find Balance in Relationships: Interdependence vs. Co-dependence

Worried your relationships might have some codependent characteristics? They might. We’re social creatures, and whether we like it or not, we need each other. But sometimes, how we give and receive support devolves into unhealthy patterns of relating. So how...

05.10.2023

#108 A Simple Hack to Shift Your Mood (:micro)

Do you have a favorite mood? Our frame of mind influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It also affects our relationships and our experiences. While so much of life is out of our control, one thing we can actively shape...

05.03.2023

#107 Three Mindfulness Tools that aren't Meditation (:micro)

Feel resistant to meditation? Or maybe you want to meditate more, but a formal practice feels out of reach because you don’t have the time or energy. Plus, it can be a little daunting to sit quietly with yourself after...

04.26.2023

#106 Why Walking is Good for Our Mental Health (:micro)

Walking is a balm for our mental health, but something we neglect to do because, doesn’t it just seem too easy to actually help? Sometimes, it’s hard to believe something so simple (not to mention free) can provide so much...

04.19.2023

#105 The Power of Psychedelic Retreats with Neil Markey (:macro)

After his time as a US Army Ranger, Neil Markey underwent a profound healing journey with mindfulness and psychedelics. He co-founded Beckley Retreats, a center that explores the power of psilocybin to improve our well-being. But Markey knows true health...

04.12.2023

#104 How to Manage Morning Anxiety (:micro)

Our world slowly slides into focus as we cross the threshold from dreaming to waking. How do you feel in those first moments of waking? Well-rested and relaxed? Or vaguely anxious and stressed? These early morning minutes highly influence the...

04.05.2023

#103 The Importance of Atomic Habits with Raghu Appasani (:macro)

For the past couple of months, the MUD\WTR fam has been exploring the power of Atomic Habits by James Clear. We’ve read together and shared our successes and struggles with habit change. Today, we’re celebrating the culmination of our first-ever...

03.29.2023

#102 Embrace Your Laziness (:micro)

James Clear, author of "Atomic Habits," says, "It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort." According to Clear, when we choose between two similar options, we "naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of...

03.22.2023

#101 Your New Rest Ritual: Dreamwork (:micro)

Dreaming can be a form of overnight therapy, helping us creatively problem solve and process difficult emotions. Unfortunately, we chronically disrupt our sleep with too much screen time, alcohol, and caffeine, and not enough sunlight and exercise. Would you like...

03.15.2023

#100 Find Compassion for Your Flawed Habits (:micro)

For our hundredth episode I asked myself, “What does the MUD\WTR fam need most right now?” We’re creative, curious and care about our well-being, as well as the world around us. But even with all our mindfulness, we still make...

03.08.2023

#99 The Impacts of Daylight Savings and Finding Your Circadian Rhythm with Jeffery Durmer (:macro)

Dr. Jeffrey Durmer knows sleep is of prime importance. As a sleep neuroscientist, neurobiologist and neurologist, he’s an authority on how sleep creates physical, mental and emotional resilience. He says, “If you're going to build a house, you want to...

03.01.2023

#98 If You Can Change Your Mind, You Can Change Anything (:micro)

Our consciousness exists within—and is shaped by—space and time, our parents and peers and the larger culture. We can invite ourselves to notice what we include in our awareness, what we leave out and how our contexts impact us. In...

02.22.2023

#97 Three Steps to Cope When Life Becomes Overwhelming (:micro)

Living in a human body comes with its unique set of limitations. We have the capacity to soar to great heights, but also sink to some serious lows. Sometimes it takes all the energy we have just to get out...

02.15.2023

#96 Three Ways to Practice Loving Yourself (:micro)

Self-love needs to be a practice before it becomes an embodied state. But where to start? We thought it meant taking bubble baths and eating chocolate, but rituals of ease and pleasure only scratch the surface. So instead of giving...

02.08.2023

#95 Cordyceps, Zombies, and the Apocalypse with Matt Held - Manager of R&D with MUD\WTR (:macro)

We know the fungi cordyceps can infect ants and manipulate their behavior. But could cordyceps evolve to control us? That’s the premise of the post-apocalyptic TV drama, “The Last of Us.” The show inspires mycelial horror as a mutant cordyceps...

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02.02.2023

#94 Overcoming Doubt using Rituals with Shane Heath (:macro)

Shane Heath—founder and CEO of MUD\WTR—shares a ritual for how to overcome the voice of doubt as well as how to make the most of the 4,000 weeks of life each of us has, on average, on this planet. We...

01.25.2023

#93 Have You Ever Lost Yourself in a Relationship? (:micro)

We all want to be wanted, but sometimes we become so enmeshed with others that we lose our sense of self. Our boundaries waffle, our preferences dim, and we play host to other people’s emotions, feeling grumpiness or anxiety that...

01.18.2023

#92 Guide to Be A Thoughtful Psychonaut (:micro)

Psychedelics blur where we bump against the limits of the self as an individual and something else begins. They inspire a sense of being connected to something larger than ourselves, of being one with each other and earth consciousness. How...

01.11.2023

#91 Is it OK to Go to Bed Mad? (:micro)

Ever wanted to battle it out with your partner at night but they were too tired, and then the sound of them drifting off to sleep enraged you? Maybe you exchanged prickly words right before turning down the covers and...

01.04.2023

#90 To Build Better Habits, Get Comfortable Failing (:micro)

Change is hard, it can stress us out and disrupt our routine. It takes energy and sometimes giving up on a new habit is a guilty relief because we have a chance to recover from all that effort. But failing...

12.28.2022

#89 A Prequel to Gratitude (:micro)

We’ve all heard about how beneficial it is to have a gratitude practices. It improves your mood, health, and relationships by focusing on the good rather than dwelling on the bad. But what if you aren’t able to feel grateful?...

12.21.2022

#88 Is it Seasonal Depression or Just Our Grind Culture? (:micro)

In The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine it is said: “People and nature are inseparable. In nature the cyclical movement of the heavenly bodies produces atmospheric influences that exert control over the rhythms of the seasons and is responsible for...

12.13.2022

#87 Life Lessons from Wise One María Sabina (:micro)

The story of María Sabina, a curandera who helped bring psychedelic mushrooms to the west, shows the pleasure and pain that results when ancient medicine suffers a culture clash. So for all of you self-experimenting with entheogens to explore altered...

12.07.2022

#86 A Guide For Facing Indecision (:micro)

Do you spend most of your time feeling indecisive, second-guessing yourself and stressing over the smallest decisions? Chill. That just means you’re a human being responding to a world that’s been turned upside-down. Still, we need to be able to...

12.01.2022

#85 Six Core Needs that Drive Us (:micro)

We all have core needs, but each comes with its own potential benefits and costs. We build towards stability, but crave variety; in order to create authentic connection, we need our individual integrity. To create a life of purpose and...

11.28.2022

Repost: MUD\WTR’s Shane Heath on How To Hire, Journaling Techniques and How Not to Use a Hyperbaric Chamber (:macro)

FREEZE OUR FOUNDER: MUD\WTR’s Shane Heath faces his cold plunge challenge TODAY at 4 p.m. PST. Place an order in the MUD\WTR store before then, and we’ll add a little extra time to Shane’s total plunge time. Tune in to...

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11.23.2022

#84 Three Sneaky Things That Rob Your Energy (:micro)

Some aspects of modern life are just flat-out exhausting. Working a job where you’re underpaid and undervalued. The ongoing climate catastrophe and never-ending systemic oppression. And of course, our digital devices that keep us locked in a loop of competition,...

11.17.2022

#83 How Do You Start Dating a Friend? (:micro)

Hollywood loves to sell us the romance of friends falling in love with each other. But how do you go from friends to lovers when you don’t have writers and directors telling you what comes next? In today’s episode, I...

11.15.2022

#82 From Prison to Permaculture - Chris Burroughs (:macro)

After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new...

11.10.2022

#81 How to Handle Burnout (:micro)

Thanks to our jobs, the way we monetize our hobbies, the endless multi-tasking and the constant notifications from our devices, we don’t ever stop working. We don’t rest. We’re in a culture of chronic stress and it’s affecting our mental...

11.08.2022

#80 Madame Gandhi on Electronic Music, Liberation, and Personal Power (:macro)

After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new...

11.03.2022

#79 How to Avoid Being Drained by Emotional Vampires (:micro)

Tired of people throwing their emotional garbage in your driveway, leaving you to clean up the mess? If you’re done letting other people trash your energy, listen to today’s episode for a practice that will help you clear out what’s...

11.01.2022

#78 Joey Odom on the Dangers of Digital Addiction (:macro)

Joey Odom is the co-founder of Aro, a company that’s working to address cell phone addiction. In the first half of this podcast, Joey interviews me. Then, we flip it around and I interview Joey (crazy I know), before diving...

10.27.2022

#77 How to Quiet Your Inner Critic Pt. 1 (:micro)

Is someone living rent-free inside your head? If your mind feels like a big family dinner where everybody gives their opinion on how you should be living your life, and then you get stuck cleaning up their dishes, it’s time...

10.25.2022

#76 Mark Divine on Commanding Navy SEAL Teams and Practicing Zen Meditation (:macro)

Mark Divine (@realmarkdivine) is a Navy SEAL Commander and Zen meditation practitioner. After a successful 20 year career as a Navy SEAL, Mark was hired to create a nationwide coaching and leadership program for the U.S. Navy’s primary operations force....

10.20.2022

#75 Sex and Psychedelics (:micro)

Sex and drugs are two of the most powerful tools we can use to alter our consciousness. Separately, they hold the power of transformation and healing. Because of this, they’re hotly-debated, steeped in stigmas and assumptions, and heavily regulated. So...