THE NEW HEALTH CLUB

Hi and welcome to a new episode! (Its super nerdy, I admit..)

This is one of the nerdiest episode at the TNHC so far, but also one that’s really necessary right now. In this episode I am talking about AI and Psychedelics. What is the connection? Is there one? It seems pretty much so.

“Sam Altman, chief executive of Open AI, is chairman of a start-up (Journey Colab) that aims to tap into the promise that psychedelic drugs have shown in clinical trials — and make them broadly available for people who suffer from mental health and drug-use disorders.

The man bringing artificial intelligence to the masses through the viral chatbot ChatGPT wants to revolutionise mental health care and addiction treatment with psychedelic drugs”. writes The Washington Post.

There are more things to address which I did with my great panel happening at Soho House Berlin a few weeks ago.

My guests for our talk about the role AI and psychedelics will play, is the incredible AI expert Nicole Büttner, Founder & CEO of Merantix Momentum,

Merantix believes that to unlock the profound potentials of AI, a collaborative approach is needed.

My second guest is the great Sergio Pérez Rosal, MD, part of the MIND Fundation and the CEO and Medical Director at OVID Clinics in Berlin, an established clinic in Berlin that works with Ketamine.

The three of us talk about

* if AI will be a really productive drug developer ?

* if AI can give you a spiritual experience?

* if we will need additional dimensions and tools to understand our future all together ? (God, there are so many questions.)

* if we need psychedelics to understand AI.

Enjoy this very interesting ride!

Talk soon, Anne

Hello you !

Apologies for the little break! Many things are going on… and surprises are coming.

Today I finally have Lauren Taus on the show and if you wanted to know everything about Ketamine, but hesitated to ask, well, she is your person!

Lauren Taus has become quite a name in the psychedelic world. She is based in Los Angeles and is a licensed psychotherapist practicing Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in Los Angeles, California. She integrates modern science and ancient wisdom to support personal transformation and much needed systemic change. She started “Inbodied Life” as a private psychotherapy practice, and it blossomed into a group practice that is also a platform for education through in-person, experiential trainings and retreats. Lauren sits also on the advisory board of Journey Clinical, an amazing psychedelic company based in NYC.

To me, Lauren is one of the most interesting and also important people in the new psychedelic space. Her social media language is really speaking to me, since she has a great way to really get into the important questions around psychedelics: how does change actually look like? On a daily basis ? Why do we all need TO, which means “time out” and how psychedelics can support us with that.

We talk

* Lauren’s way through the 12 steps program

* her acid trip with her dad, a doctor, who now works with her (And how it works, if your family is starting to look into psychedelics too).

* we talk about how a psychedelic journey can bring fun to our lives. Something I feel we should also talk about more often and with Lauren this is possible.

* and we talk about Ketamine… yup. A lot.

* Laurens’ journey to become a Ketamine therapist

Also, let me introduce PENELOPE SERVICES to you…

I just launched Penelope Services, a psychedelic concierge service for legal, safe and vetted expeerinces. The offering is for one on ones or small groups. If you are intersted in more information, get in touch — [email protected]

Talk soon!

Anne

Hi guys,

We received so many great responses regarding our collaboration with Dimensions! Thank you so much!

And of course we recorded a podcast with the CEO of Dimensions, Christopher Dawson and the COO Andrew Galloway to chat about how we will collaborate! 

Christopher, Andrew and I will chat about 

* their personal plant medicine journey

* the idea of Cannabis retreats and cannabis as a ceremony, 

* psychedelic cannabis & somatic work 

* the importance of science informed and trauma informed retreats

* the Co-Creation for a strong network of retreats in Europe can look like.

Please enjoy the show! Also on YouTube…

Just a few spots left on our retreat!

And our first retreat is coming up as we speak.

We only have a few spots left, so book a call and get your spring cleaning started !

https://april.tnhcretreats.com/

Until next time,

Anne

Hi guys! 

It is time for a new podcast! 

My guest today is Cindy Gallop or Lucinda Lee Gallop. And she is quite something!

I wanted to have Cindy on the show, because she engaged on a psychedelic journey (with 62) not because of mental health reasons. 

She embarked on a truffle journey, just out of very simple curiosity. And lust for life. And resetting perspectives. 

To me Cindy’s case also has an element for future ideas around longevity: what happens, if we keep our brain young? And how will this affect our body? 

Cindy says about herself to be “boringly drug resistant” but after her experience , things, aka her life changed. Cindy says. “ What it did just reinforce for me was a sense of history and the broadness of humanity. And the importance in the future, looking into the void, of finding light and connections.” 

More about Cindy! 

Cindy Gallop I would say, is a real de-stigmatisation pro, a genius if it comes to tell it like things are. And then make them market ready. 

You guessed it, Cindy was an incredible advertiser, a female Don Draper, and we had many conversations over dinner about the rebranding or re-naming of psychedelics. 

Cindy studied English literature at Oxford University, receiving an MA in English language and literature. She was an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, worked on accounts like Coca Cola, Ray Ban and Polaroid, In 2003, Gallop won the Advertising Woman of the Year award from Advertising Women of New York She is also the the founder of the companies IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn. According to the TED blog, Gallop's TEDTalk "Make Love Not Porn" was one of the "most talked about presentations'' at the 2009 TED conference. She founded her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop LLC, in 2006. 

Find the full episode on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

Talk soon! Anne 

Hi guys! 

This is our second life recording at Soho House Berlin. This time, we are talking about a topic that is just developing as we speak. Psychedelic leadership.

What does it actually mean? Does it mean C Level people will engage in psychedelic experiences to look for better leadership practices and transformation?  Does it mean at one point companies can offer psychedelic therapy to their employees? Does it mean we will look into psychedelics for inspiration if it comes to business or creative ideas? Or does it mean we are looking for a new leadership style all together, with the support of psychedelic experiences?

Also, could we resolve epigenetic questions? Long standing political conflicts ? Many things to address and I was lucky to have a pretty good panel at Soho House to reflect on all these questions.

In this episode I am joined by 

Jörg Reinboldt, MD at APX Axel Springer Porsche, entrepreneur, investor

Dr. Gesa Miczaika, General Partner at Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund

PhD Dmitrij Achelrod, Helping leaders thrive at Evolute Institute. 

Achim Feige,.Co -Founder of Vertical Development, Transformation Architect I Human Potential Coach.

And don’t forget : we are on for the next event at Soho House on MARCH 9th! 

The New Health Club: the ‘Women Life Freedom’ movement: new healing modalities. 

This month, the topic is the ‘Women Life Freedom’ movement, and the future of psychedelic-informed trauma healing. The ‘Women Life Freedom’ movement is going strong, both inside and outside of Iran. The women (and men) protesting in and outside of the country and their families are experiencing harm and traumatizing moments, even if they are ‘just’ witnessing what is going on from outside of the country. Psychedelic-assisted therapy groups in Farsi are rising, and new tools of trauma healing are necessary. Speakers include: Dr Shabnam Sarshar, doctor and cannabis expert, Mona Irmscher, psychedelic therapist and facilitator from Amsterdam.

If you want to join, write to us: [email protected]

Until next time,

Anne

Hi and welcome to a new episode. We are back after a winter break, but we kick off the year with a pretty amazing guest. Dr. Molly Maloof, physician and entrepreneur, kind of the female Andrew Huberman, is finally on the show today! 

Molly Maloof is one of the first people I read about, in terms of the new psychedelic space. In 2017 she was featured in a financial times article called “How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD. A new generation of San Franciscans believes the drug makes them more creative”

Molly is one of the people in the psychedelic space, who marries science, medicine and psychedelics. Working on future topics in psychedelics, he has a pretty impressive track record of engagements in the new health space.

Molly is the Founder & CEO, Adamo Bioscience, working on biological, psychological, psychedelic, and technological solutions to become the foremost scientific company perpetuating the power of love.

She was a lecturer at Stanford University, taught the course “Live Better Longer: Enhancing Healthspan for Longer Lifespan” within the Wellness Department of the School of Medicine. (She received the highest student ratings in the department) 

She is the founder of DrMolly.co, a modern health and wellness media brand that inspires, educates, and motivates people to make the right lifestyle choices so they can actualize their potential.

She is the medical advisor: for Neurohacker, Drugs over Dinner, Osmind etc. 

Now, Molly has just released her new book “The Spark Factor”.

“A breakthrough program for women to revive their lost energy and vitality, developed by a leading biohacker and physician“. In her book, Molly talks about the spark we are all looking for on a daily basis. 

With cutting-edge biohacking insights, strategies for personalized nutrition, hormonal health and stress management, The Spark Factor is the book women have been waiting for to help them reclaim their vitality and achieve lasting health. 

Molly and I talk about

* supplement overkill and pill fatigue

* the redefinition of stress and health

* the possibility to address sexual trauma with the support of psychedelics

* sexual psychedelic therapy for the masses, the limitations of classic couples therapy and why we share so many phantasies around love drugs and love potions.

But wait, there is more! 

Two new events are coming your way. 

If you want to join us in Paris, please RSVP here.

[email protected]

And this one too! In Berlin…

Please use the same address: [email protected]

See you guys soon,

Anne

Hi guys, 

This is the last episode for 2022 and what a year in psychedelics it was!

But before 2023 starts, we have a great episode for you, which gives you a taste of what’s to come at TNHC in 2023.

Live podcasts and events with an audience! So. Much. Fun. 

I find this such an energizing experience to have an audience in the room while recording, also providing room again for live Q & A. This is what we did with Rock at Soho House Berlin and it was a big success. More news to come on this soon!

Over to the episode.

Rock Feilding-Mellen, what a name. And yes, you can say, he is kind of psychedelic royalty. Rock is from the family of Beckley organizations in the UK. (The royals!) And one of these companies is Beckley Retreats, which he co-founded with his mother, Amanda Feilding, who is also the founder and CEO of the Beckley Foundation, a great friend and inspiration to me.

The Beckley foundation spear-headed much of the most groundbreaking scientific research upon which the new psychedelic renaissance is being built right now. 

But being the son of the “Queen of the Psychedelic Renaissance” like Forbes calls Amanda, wasn’t always easy for Rock. 

In this episode Rock talks about his route, via business and politics, to the realization of how transformational and healing psychedelic assisted therapy can be. And how Europe will play a big part in the current booming psychedelic renaissance. 

Oh, and there is also this…

Next year will be an important year in psychedelics, lots of things are happening. I am super thrilled that The New Health Club is Media Partner for Psychedelic Science organized by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) next year in Denver! 

Just wait what incredible guests we will have on the show for you... on site!

If you want to grab a “super advanced” priced ticket for PS2023, the sales ends on December 30th! Put in NHC15 and get 15% off. Just klick here! 

Talk soon! We will be back with the newsletter just a day before the new year starts. 

Enjoy Christmas and take some time off!

Anne

Hi guys, 

We have a really amazing podcast for you today.

“Becoming very famous and successful is its own form of acting out” says Patrick Cox and this got me thinging for days. 

Patrick Cox was super famous. I bought his shoes to be cool. When I went partying as a teenager, I danced in Patrick's “Wannabes”.  Patrick’s shoes made you belong to the so called cool Britannia in the 90ties, the band Oasis wore them, glamorous DJs and rockstars, cool Londoners, the cool nightlife world wore them. More than that. The whole fashion world, worldwide, liked Patrick’s fashion taste.

Patrick was a design super star, his nickname, Janet Jackson gave it to him, was Party Pat. And Party Pat had everything. Close celebrity friends like Elton John,  lots of money, charm, party stamina, talent, humor. And so on. 

Until these things turned out to only cover up his old trauma, the one that he experienced at age 4. Patrick “Party Pat” never thought about this time in his life anymore.

But a few years ago, Patrick lost everything, his company and his ability to ignore the old trauma with his certified tools: traveling, partying and ignoring. So he tried everything, to save his mental health. He started with rehab and the Hoffmann Process. But nothing worked. He even told his friends about a possible suicide. 

“People who hash-tagged gratitude used to drive me crazy, I was  like what do they have to be so grateful for? Also, someone in therapy told me the longest road is from the head to the heart and I was like, what the hell does that mean?” says Patrick. Before it was too late, he found toad venom, aka 5 Meo DMT. Toad Venom is found in the poison of Bufo alvarius, a toad native to the Sonoran desert in Mexico. Since these toads are endangered these days, there is also a synthetic version of 5 MEO DMT helping to save the toads. But the effect is as powerful as the natural version.

After a few experiences, Patrick said, he didn’t hate himself any more. He found out there was nothing wrong with him and he realized his childhood trauma had affected him all along.The only question was, who would he be now? What person was he after Party Pat had gone? 

“Instead of people telling me what to do, the toad just showed me.” says Patrick. 

Patrick and I talk about 

how an intervention form Elton Johns feels like, 

how alcohol lost it’s so called cool, why heavy partying and depression are siblings

how generation X never learned anything about healing

how trauma, you have experienced so long ago, will catch up with you, even if you have everything you think you should have. 

 I hope you enjoy this episode. It means a lot to me. 

See you next week with our selection of Christmas presents!

Anne

Hey hey! 

On Thursday, the famous Horizons Conference in NYC is kicking off and I will report from there.

So we have a new podcast out and you should grab a coffee and listen! 

New Podcast out! 

Today, I have a pretty special guest, a partner at “The Firm” aka McKinsey. Tobias Silberzahn is a partner in McKinsey’s Berlin office, where he is a member of the healthcare practice and innovation practice.

As we know, McKinsey gets called in when things are good (time to expand!) or bad to help bosses make difficult decisions. And fire people. So in these new times McKinsey needs to look into mental health topics in companies too. 

Over the last 13 years with McKinsey, Tobias has served mainly digital health startups, established healthcare companies and ministries of health. He leads McKinsey's global Health Tech Network, a community of >1500 digital health companies. His focus area is healthcare innovation and health-tech business building where he supports clients on R&D, commercialisation and scaling questions.

So Tobias needs to look into new mental health tools, if it comes to employees, but at one point he also might look as McKinsey into psychedelic pharma companies.

Tobias and I talk about: 

* the great resignation and how “the firm” looks into these topics 

* the idea of healthcare, that genZ, millennials and generation X are sharing and not sharing 

* how the future of a corporate mental health can look like

* How much an employee needs to become its own mental health entrepreneur and how far a company should intervene in their employees life. (The big question) 

Workshop @Wonderland Miami!

At the Wonderland Conference in Miami, we are hosting a workshop about the “'Multigenerational Psychedelic Experiences – how to customize retreats” 

Meaning? We are addressing the big WHAT IFS and how we eventually can work around them with a customized retreat idea. 

So…

* What if there is a real lack of communication afterwards with friends and family?

*  What if the psychedelic experience of one part of the family will change the family system? (and it will...)

* What if people “assume” there was an abuse in their childhood, but are not sure 

* What if people want to spice up their relationship life with psychedelics and what if it leads to unexpected changes ?

Let me know, if you are interested in that and please be in touch!

[email protected]

Talk soon!

Anne

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November 3rd to the5th is Wonderland time. Enjoy 10% off here with your TNHC 10 code and meet the psychedelic ecosystem.

Good morning everyone!

We are coming back to you know every Thursday again since we like to sync the newsletter with the podcast again. So you can look forward to two podcasts a month, a weekly newsletter every Thursday, recommendations, and pioneering thoughts on psychedelics! 

Today, I can finally welcome Dr. Gabor Maté to the show! One of the most empathic, unapologetic, and science-driven people in the mental health space. I love that combination! And yes, we are also talking about psychedelics and trauma, but what I really like about Gabor is that he sounds like a contemporary, cool philosopher, helping to explain the exciting and disruptive times we live in.

If you have not heard of Dr. Gabor Maté…. 

Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions, and a wide range of other conditions.

Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and he looks to address this in their recovery. 

In the Realm of hungry ghosts

When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress;

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; and (with Dr. Gordon Neufeld)

Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

And out on September 13th! 

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. 

(Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2023.)

What Gabor & I talk about!

* How most psychiatrists today are trained in a narrow fashion

* About Gabor’s ayahuasca ceremony and how he learned about his closed heart, the deepest pain, and the deepest love 

* Our healing in the present and within ourselves, and how we can’t find it somewhere else or in another person

And there is one thing I would like to add. My conversation with Gabor became crucial also for personal reasons. I talked to him about my recurring experience in truffle trips, since on my trips I always found myself in various concentration camps. 

So our podcast turned into an integration session. Gabor explained to me how the experience of being in a concentration camp could be a symbolic experience. 

Why would I keep myself in a mental camp and not experience life in full, Gabor asked me. And maybe the concentration camp was my cultural vocabulary as a half german to provide me with the idea of the worst existence a human being can think of. Also, I belonged to the country that came up with concentration camps.

In my recent trip in July, my camp experience did not show any more. Something was resolved. I am figuring out what it could be. 

What I recommend this week!

Microdosing Lessons!

My friends Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky creators of the Podcast Business Trip FM. just launched a killer podcast package on microdosing. They talk to James Fadiman, Balazs Szigeti and Mind Med & Diamond Therapeutics. Here comes your crash course and update on the microdosing “situation”. 

Breathwork in Berlin!

If you happen to be in Berlin, I highly recommend the psychotropic breath classes at Ohia! A place in Mitte that is offering Yoga and Sound Bath, but the breathing classes are incredible.

Please let me know…

Before I leave you here, I have a favor to ask. 

At “The New Health Club”, we are getting more and more interested in the question of what happens AFTER a psychedelic experience. 

Do you need to get a divorce or did you break up with a partner? Do your children react differently to you? Can you communicate in a new way with your parents? Do you need to look into new friends? 

Any thoughts and questions you have, I am curious about. Please send me your thoughts to 

[email protected]

Talk to you soon,

Anne