Cesar Marin of Cultivating Wisdom returns to the Mycopreneur Podcast to announce his newest venture, a psychedelic retreat for dads called 'The Summit Within' that is scheduled to take place near Medellin, Colombia at the LaWayra retreat center in late summer of 2026. Cesar spent 25 years as an international producer at CNN and draws from his vast repertoire of personal and professional experience to offer a window into the mindset required to create high value offerings for an aligned community.

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We're kicking off our inaugural Laughter Is Medicine retreat today at Coral Cove Wellness Resort in Jamaica and recorded this live podcast to capture the pre-retreat vibe. My co-host Andy Sudbrock of Sacred Path Retreats returns to the Mycopreneur Podcast to share insights from the legal psilocybin mushroom retreat industry in Jamaica, post-hurricane recovery efforts, and the growing role of laughter and play in the psychedelic retreat space.

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Cullom Cahill is a mushroom woodworker who I first discovered on TikTok. He brings his background as a carpenter into the mycomaterials space, evolving from early experiments using Ecovative home grow mycelium bricks to now having a product line of lampshades made out of reishi mycelium. This is the first podcast recording that's come out of our weekly Mycopreneur Incubator, meaning this session was recorded with a live audience.

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Adam Chilton is the Head of Brand at Real Mushrooms and Nammex, family companies that have shaped the mushroom supplement category in North America as we know it with decades of experience pioneering the industry.

We discuss the trajectory of the functional mushroom space over the last decade, the quality control and labeling issues that have emerged alongside the explosion of new mushroom brands and products, the trends around Lion's Mane-infused beverages and gummies, mushroom culture in China, and what Real Mushrooms is doing to combat misinformation in the functional mushroom industry.

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Rico from Twin Flames Mycology joins me today to discuss his extraordinary trajectory from being a homeless teenager who first encountered wild psilocybin mushrooms on a fateful kayaking trip to today where he runs a profitable independent business in the mycology research space and has built a family of his own. Twin Flames specializes in 'set it and forget it' home mushroom labs that enable turnkey mycology research for anyone. Their Lumina Mushroom Labs are available on their website and ship to all 50 states in the U.S.

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Sam Believ is the founder of Lawayra Ayahuasca Retreat in Colombia, the #1 rated ayahuasca center in South America and also one of the most accessible and affordable. He joins the Mycopreneur Podcast today to share his story coming into the world of ayahuasca as a Latvian national working in the oil and gas industry and the many serendipitous encounters that led to his current position. He also hosts the Ayahuasca Podcast

Sam and his team recently launched the Ayahuasca Course, a free online educational course to educate people about ayahuasca.

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Dr. Howard Kornfeld is a pioneer in the field of addiction recovery and a longstanding fixture of the international psychedelic community. He founded the clinic Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley, California and has been at the vanguard of the space for over five decades. Dr. Howard joins me today to discuss his visionary work in the addiction recovery space, some unheralded but tremendously promising treatments for addiction, the Esalen community and psychedelic luminaries, and his contributions to nuclear disarmament including being part of a team that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

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Holistic Veterinarian and pioneer in the functional mushroom for pets supplement market Doc Rob Silver of Real Mushrooms joins us again on the Mycopreneur Podcast to discuss his ongoing research to craft safe and efficacious mushroom supplements for pets. We discuss his preliminary research into setting up a pilot study for dogs microdosing psilocybin mushrooms, as well as emerging research into the inclusion of wild ushrooms in the diets of three different species of primates in Tanzania, and much more.

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Mattha Busby is a prolific drug journalist focusing on psychedelic culture and policy, the international politics of the Drug War, and other fascinating topics for such esteemed publications as Rolling Stone, Wired, Vice, and numerous other platforms.

He joins me on the Mycopreneur podcast today to discuss the role of Cocaine in the Drug War and the prospects for legalizing and regulating the substance, as well as the current climate of the 'Psychedelic Renaissance' and much more.

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Andy Sudbrock of Sacred Path Retreats joins me on the podcast today to discuss our upcoming Laughter Is Medicine psilocybin mushroom retreat in Jamaica that we're co-hosting at the spectacular Coral Cove Wellness Resort March 15-20 with an afterparty March 20-22.

This retreat is explicitly focused on fun and joy with the assistance of psilocybin mushrooms and a tropical paradise setting: Stand up comedy performances, kayaking, snorkeling, a visit to a world-renowned cannabis farm next door, live music, beach bonfires, and much more all amplified by locally grown Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms in a legal setting.

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