The Liberated Leader Podcast

The Liberated Leader Podcast

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The Liberated Leader Podcast episodes

  • S1E8 - Non-Psychoactive Kratom, Lucid Dreaming & Toxic Positivity with Brian Flasche

    “Kratom is not FDA-approved, but neither are vitamins so it falls under this field of pseudo-pharmaceuticals. Big Pharma can’t monopolize it so the FDA doesn't approve them. That said, it doesn’t mean these medicines aren’t absolutely miraculous.”


    In this episode, we chat with Brian Flasche.

    Brian is the owner of Botanical Solutions, co-founder of the Las Vegas Psychedelic Society, and one of the Decriminalize Nature NV leaders.

    Through Botanical Solutions, he provides Kratom, dream enhancing plants, herbal remedies and integration coaching to help his clients improve their quality of life.

    The Las Vegas Psychedelic society is a non-profit organization focused on supporting and strengthening the local community with online and in person integration circles, classes, and events.

    With the team over at Decriminalize Nature NV, he advocates for drug policy reform through the decriminalization of natural psychedelic medicines like mushrooms, ayahuasca, iboga, and mescaline.

    Connect with Brian Flasche: Website | Botanical Solution Instagram |  Las Vegas Psychedelic Society | Decriminalize Nature Nevada

    ** Please sign the petition here to keep Kratom legal **

    Resource Links:

    • All About Kratom - the non-psychoactive plant
    • Oneirogens - dream enhancing plants
    • Lucid Dreaming Book: Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumper
    • What is Toxic Positivity
    • Celebrities on Psychedelics: Elon Musk & Will Smith 
    • Join your local psychedelic society
    • Heroic Hearts Project - a non-profit that connects military veterans struggling with mental trauma to psychedelic therapy options
    • Meetdelic - a psychedelic wellness conference

    • If you like this episode, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast

      To Your Liberation & Beyond!

      1 hr 1 min
    • S1E7 - Ayahuasca, Breathwork & Somatic Experiencing with Ayahuasca Kaur (Sarai Darbandi)

      “Learning how to slow down [is] the biggest thing and the most challenging for most of us in the west...tap into breathing and realize that that is the doorway into our parasympathetic nervous system.”  

      In this episode, we chat with Ayahuasca Kaur (Birth Name: Sarai Darbandi).

      Ayahuasca Kaur is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Ayahuasca Preparation & Integration Coach. She specializes in childhood trauma, helping people optimize their Ayahuasca experiences and transformations.


      The Multidimensional Journey, her coaching practice, was created in 2018 and provides educational resources like podcasts, videos, and content dedicated to the Ayahuasca Preparation & Integration process as well as group breathwork experiences and individual coaching for deeper work.

      She is extremely passionate about upholding integrity and ethics as this wave of psychedelic therapy happens across the West.


      Connect with Ayahuasca Kaur: Instagram | Website | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok

      Join Ayahuasca Kaur in her next breathwork class here (first time free!)


      Resource Links:

      • Somatic Experiencing by Dr. Peter Levine 
      • Jon Kabat-Zinn, the Father of Zen Mindfulness
      • Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges  
      • Breathwork by David Elloitt  
      • InnerEthics by Kylea Taylor 
      • Transgenerational Trauma
      • Dissociation, Derealization & Pendulation
      • The Ayahuasca Foundation
      • 12-Step for Adult Children of Alcoholics

      • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast

        To Your Liberation & Beyond!

        1 hr 3 min
      • S1E6 - Leaving Mormonism, Parents for Psychedelics & EMDR with Peter Gulka

        “The imagery of the college kid who is looking to get high needs to be let go. Yes, college kids go out and get high, but I’m 43 yr old and I’m involved in these substances because they are helpful tools in my own healing.” 


        In this episode, we chat with Peter Gulka

        Peter began his journey of healing with plant medicine in 2017 after over 20 years of anxiety, depression, and OCD symptoms that began in adolescence. 

        After medication no longer served to manage those symptoms, he sought relief elsewhere. 

        Through deep personal experiences, Peter was empowered to continue the healing work with EMDR psychotherapy, and a variety of other modalities. 

        He coaches those seeking to prepare for and integrate from a psychedelic experience and is proud to work alongside mental health professionals collaboratively. And, also serves as a producer for the “Mormons on Mushrooms” podcast, working closely with the Mormon and ex-Mormon communities in which he was raised. 


        Connect with Peter Gulka:  Website | Instagram | Facebook


        Resource Links:

        • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
        • Mama Dragon - a non-profit that supports Moms of LGBT children
        • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Mormon Community
        • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
        • Internal Family System by Dr. Peter Schwartz
        • Plant Parenthood - a community of parents who use psychedelics
        • Dr. Viktor Frankl
        • The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Vanderkolk

        • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast.

          To Your Liberation & Beyond!

          1 hr 22 min
        • S1E5 - Former C-Suite Executive, Psychedelic Effects on Women & Transformational Microdosing with Dana Harvey

          "It's important to have people who are experiencing [the psychedelic effects on women's health to be] at that leadership level where they can bring it into the greater consciousness of all genders”

          In this episode, we chat with Dana Harvey


          She's an entrepreneur, non-profit leader, professional communicator, ex-C-suite executive, mom and recovering workaholic who knows the feeling first hand.

          Plant medicines helped Dana recover her love for life and the joy in her soul. 

          Now, as a Transformational Microdosing and Psychedelics Coach, as well as the founder of The Flourish Academy, Dana supports other high impact leaders in rebalancing their lives, changing their perspectives, and flourishing into authentically fulfilled versions of themselves.

          Dana’s approach combines 20+ years of experience coaching, mentoring entrepreneurs and executives with specific training around microdosing, tripsitting, somatic integration, mindfulness, questions-based thinking, and breathwork. 

          She has been honoured to apprentice under a highly experienced psychedelic therapist, trained in Compassionate Inquiry and Hakomi, and to gain firsthand indigenous wisdom through her personal relationships in these communities.



          Connect with Dana Harvey: Website | Instagram| Facebook | Clubhouse 

          Find Dana moderating The Flourish Academy Rooms on Clubhouse:

          • Tuesday @ 8am PST = Chaia Moon’s Multiverse
          • Wednesday @ 8am PST = Cannabis, Entheogens and Women’s Wellness
          • Thursday @ 8am PST = Psychedelic Microdosing 101
          • Friday @ 8am PST = Psychedelic Tripsitting 101

          • Resource Links:

            • Nine Perfect Strangers on Hulu
            • Vicky Sander, Founder of SheEO - Mantra = “This is who I am. It’s good that I’m like this. I can depend on what I know and what I do to take meaningful action in this world. I love my life”
            • James Fadiman “Father of Microdosing”
            • Psychedelic Promotes Neural Pathway & Plasticity
            • Vancouver (BC) Women In Psychedelics & Entheogens Community Group - Come join a monthly in-person event when you're in town!
            • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast.

              To Your Liberation & Beyond!

              58 min
            • S1E4 - Harm Reduction, Holding Space & MAPS Canada with Michael Oliver

              "When you feel safe in your physical environment, then you feel a lot more safe to explore your internal environment. That’s the key thing!"

              In this episode, we chat with Michael Oliver

              He's a leader, community builder and psychedelic practitioner based in Vancouver, BC. 

              Michael is the co-founder of The Flying Sage, a psychedelic community of healers and educators, and is also the Volunteer Coordinator and Executive Assistant for MAPS Canada. 

              Through his own practice, Michael seeks to offer transformative experiences to leaders, entrepreneurs and change makers who are seeking to self-actualize and step into their own leadership journey.

              Connect with Michael:  Website | Instagram


              Resource Links

              • UBC Student Psychedelic Society 
              • All About Tripsitting 
              • Fantastic Fungi Documentary on Netflix 
              • Volunteer with MAPS Canada - remote opportunities available! 
              • All About Harm Reduction
              • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast. 

                To Your Liberation & Beyond!

                42 min
              • S1E3 - Self-Acceptance, NLP & Integrative Life Coaching with Jamie Star Crawford

                “The more specific the picture I see in my mind, it’s possibility. When i see the possibility, it’s believability. When it’s believability, then I can pursue readily.”

                In this episode, we chat with Jamie Star Crawford.   

                She's a dedicated Integrative Life Coach, mental and emotional wellness specialist, entheogenic integration coach, visionary mentor, and passionate creator. 

                After experiencing decades of multi-layer illness and mind-body dysfunction, she pursued a pathway of holistic healing that led her into dozens of modalities, teachings, and experiences that would shape her mission and purpose for others. 

                Today, she supports others with navigating life transitions, creating self mastery, and living on purpose through healthy mindsets, emotional wellness, physical vitality, and spiritual congruence. 


                Connect with Jamie:  Website | LinkedIn | Instagram 

                Jamie's 10-week virtual course - Truth Serum - is for women who want to create radical self-acceptance, self-expression and freedom. Starts Nov 16, 2021 with limited seating :) 

                "Self acceptance is when I accept everything that I am and everything that I’m not together...while knowing that I’m none of it."

                Resource Links

                • The Third Wave's Microdosing Coaching Program
                • Ed Mylette's Internal Thermostat Explanation
                • Neuro-Linguistic Programming
                • Studies on Psychedelic Medicine from MAPS, John Hopkins University & Imperial College London 

                • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast.

                  To Your Liberation & Beyond!

                  1 hr 9 min
                • S1E2 - Katukina Kambo, Satori Breathwork & TRE with Maxwell Honey

                  “If you don’t have any tools [to down regulate] going into a ceremony to deal with stress, it’s Russian Roulette. Psychedelic is an amplifier of whatever you’re carrying, so if you’re carrying a lot of stress going into ceremony, it could very likely just amplify that.”

                  In this episode, we chat with Maxwell Honey.  


                  He's a breathwork teacher, wellness coach, TRE provider, and Katukina Kambo practitioner. His approach to personal empowerment is based on a unique combination of modern science, shamanic spirituality, trauma integration, embodiment training and 15+ years' experience working with entheogenic medicines.

                  Connect with Max:

                  • Website
                  • Satori Breathwork Group
                  • Instagram
                  • Resource Links

                    • David Wolfe & Raw Food Diet 
                    • Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
                    • Katukina Tribe
                    • Bea's experience with Kambo
                    • All About Kambo

                    • If you like this episode and want more, please support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcast.

                      To Your Liberation & Beyond!

                      1 hr 7 min
                    • S1E1 - Nomadism, Spiritual Journey & Failed Psychedelic Experiences with Bea Chan

                      In this inaugural solocast episode, Bea dives deep into her story of breaking away from societal norms and embarking on a spiritual journey that includes a 1-way flight to Thailand, failed psychedelic experiences and sacred medicine ceremonies including Kambo, 5-me0-DMT & Ayahuasca...that all led to starting AKITA "A Kick In The Ass" Agency & The Liberated Leader Podcast.


                      Enjoy! 


                      Resource Links: 

                      • Royal Conservatory of Music 
                      • Digital Nomad - My old travel blog, JohnnyFD - who I first heard this concept from, Nomad List
                      • Transformational Coaching Program by Jim Fortin

                      • To Your Liberation & Beyond! 

                        56 min

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