Don has been leading Ayahuasca ceremonies for over 20 years. I had the opportunity to sit down and interview him on his journey with this sacred plant medicine.

Topics

• The history of Ayahuasca
• The two ingredients needed to cook Ayahuasca: banisteriopsis caapi vine (MAOI) and the psychotria viridis (DMT) 
• How does it taste?
• How does one get started in becoming an Ayahuasca Shaman?
• When the phone rings, you pick it up
• Overcoming "Who do you think you are, whiteboy"
• Moving in with the shamans
• How many ceremonies does it take to become a shaman?
• How do you go about learning ancient native songs (Icaros)?
• Rituals around ceremony: Pre-ceremony, opening ceremony, during, closing ceremony. 
• The importance of Set and Setting
• Mention: Dr Gabor Mate 
• Thoughts on religion
• Clinical research on psychedelics
• Curanderos: Shamanic healers 
• Risks of Ayahuasca
• Dieting before Ayahuasca: Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI's/anti-depressants)
• Dieting certain foods that contain Tyramine (like fermented foods, alcohol, meats, processed foods, etc)
• Thoughts on western medicine and prescriptions
• Mention: Bill Richards from John Hopkins
• Smoking cessation with psilocibin, up to 80% effective
• Mention: Therapsil non for profit coalition for psilocybin therapy
• Saskatchewan world class psychedelics facilities in the 1950's
• Ayahuasca Churches that are exempt in Canada: Santo Daime and Ceu de Montreal
• What is the recommended limit of people in an Ayahuasca ceremony?
• Dosages
• Michael's experience with Ayahuasca
• Mention: Graham Hancock
• Ancient civilization in amazon jungle found
• The most profound experiences with Ayahuasca
• The afterlife and reincarnation 
• Sacrifices in becoming a shaman
• Closing words

• Links:
• Dr Gabor Mate https://drgabormate.com/
• Bill Richards from John Hopkins. https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/richards  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uexi_VHkg&ab_channel=PsychedelicSeminars
• Psychedelic research in the 1950's Saskatchewan: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/psychedelic-research-in-1950s-saskatchewan 
• Amazon civilization: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/amazon-jungle-ancient-population-satellite-computer-model/
• www.michael-davidson.com 

Matt Andrews is a nomadic investor. He invests in real estate and stocks and spends his time travelling the world and living life to the fullest with his fiance, Cassidy.  He currently builds his businesses out of an RV, or Airbnb's around the world. 

Topics discussed:

• Travelling internationally 3-6 months a year
• Dreaming ideas and making them happen
• Freedom by being organized financially
• The past struggle of saving 0% of income
• Financial education and budgeting 
• Asking the right questions creates abundance
• Being more generous towards causes
• Being intentional with money allocation: The financial bucket methodology
• Positive association towards money
• Reinforcing manifestation through opening named bank accounts
• Cash reserves/ Cash hub
• Focusing on personal finances
• Barbell growth analogy
• Credit card arbitrage and playing with fire
• Good debt vs. bad debt
• Going from saving 0% to 50% 
• Paying your self first and rules and exceptions around the golden goose
• Creative budgeting to experience more for less
• Visualization and dreams boards
• Attracting the life you want
• Results = Time spent x intensity x biggest leverage activity ^ consistency
• How many coaches Matt has had in the last 5 years (woah)
• 6 figure investment on education
• Morning routines
• Double daily intimacy 
• Orgasmic enlightenment 
• Alcohol dependence and quitting
• Caffeine - casual breaks from dependence to have mastery over oneself
• Matt's target of financial independence is June 21st, 2021
• Buying a 30 unit apartment building, aiming for a 300 unit apartment building
• Matt wants to get into coaching to help others

https://www.abundantcouples.com/

Kathleen McDonald is the founder and visionary of Precision Health Center. A futuristic model of care which merges conventional medicine with innovative approaches to medicine. Kathleen has spent many years working with top scientists and thought leaders around the world.

Kathleen completed her training at both University California San Francisco (UCSF) and University of Toronto. Her work experience includes top academic centres such as University Health Network with the Peter Munk Cardiac Surgery Team, University of Michigan Medical Centre, University of California San Francisco, and Sunnybrook Trauma Centre. Her experience includes Cardiac Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Internal Medicine and Trauma. 

Please note this podcast was recorded in spring 2020.

Topics covered:

• Working with the dream team on neurodegenerative diseases 
• Trying to reverse the devastating disease of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) 
• What is Epigenetics?
• Understanding genetic markers to be strategic on your individual health plan
• Inflammatory and detoxifying genetic markers
• Genetic making you more at risk for mood disorders like PTSD
• Meditation 
• Default Mode Network
• Psychedelic research on PTSD
• Adrenal exhaustion
• "Tapping" to switch someone from an Adrenaline state to a normal state
• Neurolinguistic programming 
• Smoking Cessation with hero doses of Psilocybin in a clinical setting, 60%+ effective 
• What's the difference between being tired at work vs. "clinical" burnout
• Kathleen's 9-5 life to working towards her ultimate purpose in a 2 week transition
• Kathleen's daily routine and diet
• Hormones in foods
• Covid 19 
• Vaccines

You can find more information about Kathleen at https://precisionhealthcentre.com/

Jay Wong is the CEO of Podcast Your Brand, Host of the Inner Changemaker Show and a Motivational Speaker. This podcast was recorded 3 years ago for an Executive MBA project where I was doing research on how to monetize personal development content like podcasting. It is finally uploaded- better late than never. 

Material mentioned in this episode:
A memorable bondage presentation
Vegabonding in Shanghai
Still figuring out life
Cashflow in 90 days
Stats on podcasting in 2017
Podcast processes
Favourite personal development courses
How much is enough?
Scarcity vs. abundance
Thoughts on psychedelics

Instagram: @thejaywong
Twitter: @thejaywong
www.thejaywong.com
www.theinnerchangemaker.com

Olga Davidson - how we met, international dating, relationship advice and strategies, marriage in 1 year, marriage agreements, saying the truth before you get married, thoughts on pornography, knowledge that has helped us in our relationship, what is next for us.

Olga Davidson is a Certified Nutritionist, Yoga Instructor, and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College. She is the Host of the Awakening Podcast and manages www.OlgaDavidson.com.

Material mentioned in this episode:
-Weekly relationship management report:
What have I been doing well
Areas of improvement on my side
What has your partner been doing well
Areas of improvement for your partner
Weekly action Plan:
- "What shuts down intimacy" by Tony Robbins
- Conversation related to feminine and masculine energy inspired by David Deida
- Big 5 personality trait test by Jordan Peterson: https://www.understandmyself.com/
-Dr John Demartini's Values Exercise: https://drdemartini.com/content/values
- Movie about Transnistria: « The last Soviets » https://youtu.be/qKFZMULHKcg 

Connect with Olga: www.OlgaDavidson.com
Instagram: @olgadavidson_

Connect with me: www.Michael-Davidson.com
Instagram: @michaelddavidson