Hi TNHC community,

unfortunately we had some technical issues this morning with our newsletter and the podcast episode. We have corrected this, and now you should be able to listen to this week’s episode as always!!! Just hit play!

Thank you and enjoy!

Anne

New podcast! Jamie Wheal talks about psychedelics, bliss junkies & epiphany whores. You can’t miss this trip. 

Who is Jamie Wheal?

Jamie Wheal is the voice in the psychedelic space that is…. Let’s say unusual. No corporate talk, no black or white view on the world. Instead: listening to Wheal is a journey through the history, the future and the possible pitfalls of psychedelics. Mixed with rare insights and the ability to connect dots you thought could be connected. In other words: Jamie is a serious guy, but extremely entertaining. 

Jamie Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind, and the Pulitzer-nominated global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work he co-wrote with Steven Kotler.  He is the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance.

His work and ideas have been covered in The New York Times, Financial Times, Wired, Entrepreneur, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Inc., and TED. He has spoken at Stanford University, MIT, the Harvard Club, Imperial College, Singularity University, the U.S. Naval War College and Special Operations Command, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, the Bohemian Club, and the United Nations.

What do we talk about ?

* The collapse of meaning in the last decades and how meaning 3.0 could actually look like. 

*  A modern “Alchemist Cookbook” is and why ethical cult building could be interesting.

* Jamie explains how flow looks like and what it has to do with neurotransmitters

* We talk about the current state of psychedelics, Davos, capitalism and the franchise shaman. 

So will our future be your and my brain on psychedelics?

Some great reads for this week

Does Being Denied an Abortion Harm Mental Health? Ask The NYT? I would say yes. 

“Rabbi Ben Gorelick is facing up to 32 years in prison for distributing psychedelics. His defense rests on the argument that tripping is a Jewish rite” writes the Guardian. This will be a “psychedelic” signature case. 

The V.A is studying psychedelics for veterans, it is happening! 

Talk soon! 

Anne

AND DONT FORGET! 

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The New Health Club is a proud supporter of  International Therapeutic Psilocybin Rescheduling Initiative, a global coalition working to reschedule psilocybin under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.  With partner organizations such as MAPS, the Beckley Foundation and Drug Science. ITPRI is working to bring down barriers to advancing psychedelic medicine.  Please check them out at reschedulepsilocybin.org and consider donating to support their work.

Hi! I hope this message finds you all doing well and you can enjoy the holiday! 

This week was another great week for the New Health Club. I was a part of the Plant Medicine Week in Malta where I was able to host a few panels and meet with many new potential allies and supporters of psychedelic medicine. Stay tuned for more info!

I would love to update you on the podcast too! 

Moving forward we will be coming to you on a monthly basis. We made this decision as we felt this would be the most efficient way to bring you the most relevant, fascinating, and interesting people in the psychedelic field today. You can expect more incredible guests…

Also, The New Health Club will now start to bring psychedelics to the workplace. Yes, you heard it right! We are working on a model to bring psychedelic coaching to the C-Level and as a benefit to employees. For more information on this new initiative keep reading to see about our exciting new workshop that will be happening in London at the PSYCH Symposium. 

THIS WEEK’S PODCAST!

It should come as no surprise that I am a really big fan of Dr. Julie Holland, and we were finally able to get our schedules aligned to have her on the show! Dr. Holland is an American psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and author. She is the author of five books, including Moody Bitches, Good Chemistry, (which are a few of my favorites) She also wrote “Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER”, a memoir documenting her experience as the weekend head of the psychiatric emergency room at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

In addition to her prolific writing, she has been an important advocate for the appropriate use of consciousness-expanding substances as part of mental health treatment, as well as a medical monitor for MAPS studies, which involve, in part, developing psychedelics into prescription medication. Dr. Holland sits on a few advisory boards, most notably Palo Santo. She is one of the most inspiring people in the space. 

In spite of all of her professional accomplishments, what do I like about Julie? She is non-judgemental, is a visionary in seeing the big picture in the psychedelic renaissance, and as an interviewee a lot of fun to talk to! Please enjoy and as always we would love to hear your feedback about this conversation! 

HERE ARE OUR NEWS FOR THE WEEK!

Evidence continues to emerge that psilocybin might be an effective treatment for depression. 

Here are some of the latest news on the use of magic mushrooms for the treatment of mental illness. With so much happening in the space and at breakneck speed here are some of the more noticeable articles that caught our eye. 

This article will be a great read for the easter (and passover) holidays! One of our favorites here at TNHC Dr. Robin Carhart Harris, now at UC San Francisco and the Imperial College London presented a new study that demonstrated….

“Psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus, according to a new study by scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London.” 

You know there is a paradigm shift when the New York Times is featuring psychedelics on their front pages!

Here is more in the next level of the mushroom news:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/health/psilocybin-depression.html

* https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/are-psychedelics-addictive-side-effects-and-risks

* https://www.businessinsider.com/psilocybin-magic-mushroom-rewire-brain-depression-treatment-study-2022-4

And last but not least this one is for all of you who have been struggling to get their nightly ZZZ’s. (If you are like me you are going to be following this development closely!)

https://www.greenmarketreport.com/psychedelics-want-to-win-over-the-sleep-aid-market/

OUR EVENTS! 

Mark Your Calendars!

The New Health Club will be part of the PSYCH Symposium on May 11th and you can get 10% off with our code here…

As mentioned we will be hosting a workshop on how to bring psychedelics to the workplace…  Drop us a message, if you want to join!

[email protected]

Hi everyone!

This is an important episode we are launching today! 

And just like that, there will be a whole new generation of politicians working on integrating psychedelic-assisted therapy in the healthcare system and into new laws. What will the BTM (Betäubungsmittelgesetz in Germany) look like? Will we see a decentralization of mental health care? Why is pretty much everyone microdosing, although it is still really illegal? I am thrilled to talk to Mario Brandenburg from the FDP party today about the coming years, psychedelics, and yes, Germany.

Because there is not the slightest piece of fresh information on this in German, we decided to run this episode in German. But there will be one soon in English. 

Politics & Psychedelics

So my guest on the show today is Mario Bradenburg, a member of the German Bundestag and a member of the FDP, the German liberal party. Last year, he was one of the first politicians in Germany, who started to look into the possible rescheduling of psilocybin and made a request, how the old government under Angela Merkle could be encouraged to spend more money on clinical trials in terms of psychedelics. 

Now, since the election, Brandenburg is part of the new government and might be one of the German politicians engaging in making psychedelic-assisted therapy available in Germany in the coming years. 

Who is the guy? 

Mario Brandeburg, born in Rhineland-Pfalz,  is a spokesman for research, technology, and innovation for the Free Democrats FDP in the German Bundestag, chairman of the Education and Research Working Group, and deputy member of the Digital Agenda Committee.  His topics are research and technology, digital growth, and biotech. 

In May 2021, Brandenburg and some FDP colleagues submitted a so-called "Kleine Anfrage zu Medizinische Forschung mit Psilocybin und anderen psychedelischen Wirkstoffen in Deutschland" (small inquiry on medical research with psilocybin and other psychedelic substances in Germany) 

In which he presented a list of questions to the federal government at the time, on the basis of which the government had to provide information about the current assessment of psilocybin as a therapeutic agent. That's how I became aware of Brandenburg and invited him to the podcast after the change of government.

On the show today, we talk about 

* legalization of cannabis in Germany and the decriminalization movement in the US.

* decentralized mental health models and what would happen if you don't have to wait months to see a psychiatrist or therapist. 

* the War on Drugs, why FDP leader Christian Lindner is talking about ending the criminalization of users and 'draining the black market'. 

* why the Germans are afraid of microdosing and Silicon Valley,

and the question that particularly concerns me: 

* after the pandemic and Covid, do we need speed decriminalization of new psychedelic tools that will help us to really cope with the massive wave of mental health problems?

I hope you enjoy this episode!

Talk to you soon,

Anne

Journey Clinical is a “decentralized Ketamine Clinic” (Jonathan) and the “Shopify for psychotherapists” (Myriam)  It can’t get any more interesting, I think.

The principle of decentralization is becoming obvious in our society and will be even stronger in the future. In the way cryptocurrency is disrupting our traditional currencies and presents a decentralizing force, the healthcare system shows similar signs of decentralization.

The company Journey Clinical, Jonathan Sabbagh, and Myriam Barthes, my guests today, are very good examples. VCs named their company one of the top 15 startups in the psychedelic field, as Business Insider reports in 2021. 

Journey Clinical is a turnkey telehealth platform that enables licensed psychotherapists to include legal, evidence-based Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies (PAP) in their practice, starting with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Their novel decentralized clinic model provides member psychotherapists with unprecedented access to a KAP-trained medical team, as well as a robust care management platform designed to deliver personalized treatment plans for enhanced clinical outcomes.  

* Over 1M+ licensed mental health professionals in the U.S. now have access to transformative psychedelic therapies to expand their practice and significantly improve patient outcomes. 

* Myriam describes the new clinical system as a triangle. In the first corner is the patient, in the second the journey clinical doctor, who is able to describe and administer the ketamine, in the third corner is the Journey Clinical member psychotherapist, vetted and often independent, who works with the patient after the treatment. 

* Jonathan describes the company as a “one-stop-shop where all the required treatments get offered to you”. This means, as a patient, you would not have to run around to physicians, psychiatrists, or therapists, who would eventually contradict each other in their diagnosis or where at least one party would not be open to Ketamine Assisted psychotherapy. 

* JC is your new psychedelic house doctor. Trustworthy, but independent from an often innovative un-friendly national healthcare system, if that even exists in the country you live.

* Jonathan and Myriam are both Swiss and married to each other, which makes this an interesting company, I think. And I mean being Swiss and married to each other. ;)

Both have a background in finance and both have experienced how their lives have transformed with psychedelics. Jonathan, working in hedge funds, suffered from a heavy burnout and undiagnosed PTSD and addiction condition, he looked into ayahuasca and MDMA experiences. Myriam is a firm believer in plant medicine, she had her own psychedelic healing story.

We talk about

* How therapists join the network, can access educational videos, then join peer consultation groups, and then can start referring patients to the Ketamine therapy

* How Ketamine can support tapering off antidepressants that patients will still need to take

* How repressed feelings and underlying topics of patients made their way to the top during COVID, which amplified peoples crisis and depression even more

* How with a few Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy sessions things start to bubble up

* How the modern psychedelic clinic can look like very soon

So I hope you like this new episode!

Talk to you soon,

Anne

“You miss a week in the psychedelic industry and you miss a year” Sa’ad Shah 

WE ARE BACK! 

So here it is, the new year. And we are starting fresh and excited! 

But I am still thinking about the last month and the two major events in the psychedelic industry and ecosystem. The Microdose Conference in Miami and Horizons in New York City. How important it was to meet, besides all the Covid related difficulties, in person. 

I was able to understand the real meaning of this ecosystem and where this is going. For me, it made such a difference! 

That's why this year will find us (so far so good and fingers crossed reg, Covid) 

At  

South By Southwest SWSX in March  

The first Nordic Psychedelic Conference in Oslo in May

The next Microdose Conference in Miami

Watch out for more info to come! 

My guest on The New Health Club Show today is Saad Shah, managing partner of the Noetic Fund.

Saad basically grew up all over the world, went to the JFK School in Berlin, worked in real estate banking, corporate credit, and derivative sales & trading.–and he holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.

The Noetic Fund is a powerful investment group in the new psychedelic field, a group of venture funds launched by Grey House Partners GP Inc. to invest in emerging and early-stage wellness, therapeutic and pharmaceutical companies around the globe.

The fund has $170 million in assets under management and is one of the venture-capital firms that's deployed the most funding into the psychedelic industry. The firm has invested $56 million in psychedelics since early 2020 when Shah started the fund. (Companies like Beckley Pstech, Cybin, Compass Pathway, Eleusis, Mind Med, Numinus, Wake etc.) 

In this episode

* Saad and I talk about his interest in theology and mysticism as an investor and eventually taking ayahuasca in Brazil: his own classic hero’s-journey type of story.

* We address how his own interest and fascination with psychedelics became his new path in life, and what he is looking for when he invests in a company

* How to nurture “the scientific advancement of mental, emotional, psychological and physical health by investing in alternative therapies, modalities, and sciences that are committed to optimizing our human experience” which is the Noetic vision and no small plan. 

* The idea of spiritual capitalism and how this one could look like. 

AAAAANNND DONT FORGET! ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT FOR OUR SPECIAL FIELD TRIP OFFER! 

For those of you, who haven't heard about the Special Offer yet, here are all the details for you: New year, new ideas, and new perspectives on our lives. 

This is what it is all about! As you know, Field Trip Amsterdam offers a wide range of truffle programs. The center-based in Amsterdam is designed to promote a process of personal development and inner healing in an inspiring, meditative and restful environment. Until January 15th 2022, you will get 30% off the price if you book through The New Health Club! 

Do you want to experience a safe, legal, and vetted truffle experience? Are you thinking about psychedelic-assisted couples therapy? Or would you like to look into truffle group therapy? All these options are now 30% off at Field Trip Health in Amsterdam.

So just contact us at [email protected] 

Talk very soon! 

Anne

Hello you, favorite community! 

I hope you are already able to enjoy the coming holidays. 

I am grateful and very happy about our collaboration with Field Trip since we share the same values in terms of looking at psychedelics as a tool for the years to come.

This year, I am really proud to present our special Christmas offer to you. 

2022 is coming, we need new ideas, new perspectives on our lives.

As you know, Field Trip Amsterdam offers a wide range of truffle programs.

The center-based in Amsterdam is designed to promote a process of personal development and inner healing in an inspiring, meditative and restful environment.

And guess what?

And here is our incredible & magical Christmas offer for you!

Between December 15th and January 15th 2022, you will get 30% off the price if you book through The New Health Club!

Do you want to experience a safe, legal, and vetted truffle experience?

Are you thinking about psychedelic-assisted couples therapy?

Or would you like to look into truffle group therapy?

All these options are now 30% off!

If you want to learn more, get in touch via [email protected] and we will take it from there!

But hey, that’s not all for Christmas! 

We got a new episode of The New Health Club show ready for you and it is another special Christmas gift for you. 

Today I am talking about couples and (magic) truffles, and yes, I mean psychedelic-assisted couples therapy. I was really excited to have two experts on that topic on the show, since my own perception of a couple and a relationship changed slowly but surely after my own psychedelic experience.

So why could this type of therapy be groundbreaking for the coming years? Why could it be a version of therapy 2.0? And if so, what would it look like?

Who would you and your partner be, if you met without the trauma you might carry with you?

Today, we got two experts, who are executing an interesting version of truffle-assisted couples therapy. 

I talk to the therapist Jeanine Souren and psychiatrist Hans van Wechem, both are in charge of couples therapy at Field Trip in Amsterdam. 

So a few words on Jeanine and Hans.

With an extensive professional career in mental health, Jeanine Souren holds degrees in psychology, psychotherapy, clinical sexology, and couples & family therapy. She is accredited and licensed in the Netherlands and has worked as a lead clinician in several mental health settings. She is passionate about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in combination with psychotherapy. Jeanine believes that by tapping into the deep psyche through psychedelics, suppressed patterns, emotions and beliefs can be made conscious again, allowing for healthy change.

Hans van Wechem has almost 30 years of experience in psychiatry and started his career as a registered couple and family therapist before specializing in (group) psychotherapy of patients with early childhood trauma and attachment disorders. After a life-changing psychedelic experience, he recognized the potential of psychedelics in therapy. He now contributes to projects such as MAPS in their efforts to investigate MDMA for the treatment of PTSD and has a wide network in the psychedelic community. His main interest lies in contributing to a future in which the use of psychedelics will become widely accepted, both as an evidence-based treatment and as a powerful catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.

So how do the typical couples topics 

dealing with an affair

regaining trust

roles in a relationship  

intimacy or battling disconnection looks like in the light of psychedelic-assisted couple therapy? And how could we support an idea of conscious uncoupling with exactly that kind of therapy?

If you want to know more about Jeanine and Hans' offers and want to look into a couple's experience in 2022, here is your chance. 

If you want to learn more, get in touch via [email protected] and we will take it from there!

And hey, our shirts are an amazing gift too! ;) Shop here. 

Wishing you happy holidays!

May your coming year be full of wonders…

Anne x The New Health Club Team

Hello everyone and welcome!

Today I am thrilled (and I mean it..) to announce the collaboration between The New Health Club and Field Trip Health. This collaboration is close to our heart at TNHC, since Field Trip Health and TNHC are sharing many values:  a thoughtful, safe, legal, and science-based use of psychedelics. 

Field Trip EU offers a wide range of truffle programs to rediscover life through psychedelics. Scientifically supported psychedelic experiences that liberate and inspire you! 

So watch out! Exciting content, offers, podcasts, AMA sessions, and much more will come your way over the next weeks. 

And you, as our trusted fanbase and community will be the first to know. 

Now over to my guest today! 

Onur Yildirim is the Director of Field Trip Health Amsterdam, a place that offers legal, safe, and vetted experiences and possibilities to rediscover life through psychedelics.

Field Trip Health stands for scientifically supported, legal psychedelic experiences that liberate and inspire you, and works with a step-by-step, professional approach to the use of psychedelics. This includes preparatory sessions and integrative therapy sessions. 

In Amsterdam, Field Trip is working with truffles, in The US and Canada with ketamine.

Onur, who leads a team of experienced therapists and psychiatrists at Field Trip,  was originally trained in clinical psychology and worked as a psychologist during the first years of his career. Later, Onur earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Radboud University and worked in the R&D and MA of established pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Novartis, where he championed the research of psychedelic molecules as potential antidepressants. After his time in the pharmaceutical industry, he began his entrepreneurial career which eventually led him to Field Trip.

So you want to go on a truffle trip…

Onur and I talk about what happens if you make the decision to engage in a psychedelic journey at FT, who are the people that are interested in this, and why the times of Covid are encouraging people to look into psychedelic support systems, if possible.

And full disclosure, I have done a guided Truffle experience at Field Trip in Amsterdam and it brought me many new insights. I decided to engage in a truffle experience twice a year - as a tool to support my own life’s and founder's journey.  

So you really want to go on a truffle trip? 

You heard so much about it? You think you might need a different perspective on things? You need news answers and inspiration for the years to come? But you have many questions, things you can’t figure out in terms of truffles? You need some more information?

Here is your chance to join us for an ASK ME ANYTHING session with Onur Yildirim from Field Trip, which we are hosting on... 

November 30th/ 6pm CET/ 12pm EST/ 9am PST 

If you want to join, send an email to 

[email protected]

Onur and I will answer all your questions!

Talk to you soon,

Anne

Calling all architects! (And people, who live in old buildings ;-) 

Today we have a little bit of a special topic. Can buildings be traumatized in the same way as human brains? Well, it is a conversation I had many times with the architects aka room therapists Ester Bruzkus and Peter Greenberg, my guests on the show today. 

But first, a few updates, since so much has happened last week. 

Your Sunday Morning Dose is here! 

Every Sunday from now on, you can find our second newsletter in your inbox, introducing a quick update on the new psychedelic world.

So grab your morning coffee (as you can imagine we are offering you soon non -psychoactive mushroom coffee with your Sunday news dose…) and get informed about this new exciting psychedelic ecosystem and industry. And yes, this will be in English AND German. 

The Microdose Conference in Miami was...incredible.

It was pretty much the first time a big part of the industry met in person, after two long years. 

The panel on healing Veterans with MDMA-assisted therapy was such a highlight and I was thrilled to be on the panel with Rachel Yehuda and Amber & Marcus Capone.

Aaaand, don’t forget Horizons in New York City! One of the best conferences in the psychedelic world. Horizons is happening soon and I will be there. Hope to see you! 

But now back to the podcast and the question…

Can we heal traumatized buildings? 

My guests today are the two architects Ester Bruzkus and Peter Greenberg and you might wonder: what will we talk about in a podcast like this one, if not about psychoactive compounds and psychedelics? And where does architecture come in?

Founded in 2002 in Berlin, Ester Bruzkus Architekten is an internationally established architecture and interior design practice with global ties but based in Berlin. They are well known for extensive experience with design at many scales: from the design of tables and furniture to exquisite residences and workspaces to international theatres, restaurants, and hotels. Ester was named as one of Architectural Digest’s “Top 200 Influencers in the Design World,” Growing up in Berlin, she studied architecture at Berlin’s Technical University and later at the School of Architecture in Belleville, Paris. 

Before founding her own Berlin office in 2002.

Peter received his Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and graduated cum laude with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University where he also studied philosophy and the history of art. He is a licensed architect in the United States in Massachusetts and New York and is a certified Interior Designer. Since Peter has become Partner, the firm has won several international design competitions, has won many design awards, and has completed several significant projects, including the restaurants Remi and Villa Kellermann Tim Raue, and projects for Relaxound, Volkswagen’s Autostadt, and the PSD Bank.

As you can see, here are two pros to talk about trauma, but this time not in brains, but in buildings and houses. The question is though, can buildings be as traumatized from severe historic incidents, as much as brains? And could this have an effect on people living in these buildings? 

Of course, the follow-up question I am asking myself would be: could the trauma and the aura of a building be transformed, if these buildings might host psychedelic treatments and can we help buildings to heal? And redefine them? But let’s ask Ester and Peter, the experts on room karma and real building therapists. 

Talk soon! 

Anne 

Hey, hey, hey. The year ends on a really exciting note! (Not the last one as you will see shortly) 

The season of the psychedelic conferences has started!

Here is Wonderland… in Miami

Next week, Wonderland kicks off and this will be the first IRL meeting for a huge part of this industry. (Of course, you can join online!) I am thrilled to moderate the panel about the heroic dose and VETs.

Or do you prefer Horizons in NYC? 

But that's not all! Horizons happening in New York City is here in December and we can offer you a discount code: NEWHEALTH. This code is good for 10% off Conference tickets now through 11/10. I was attending the last time in 2019 and I was able to listen to incredible scientists!

And yes, there is Australia, coming up with its own (digital) psychedelic conference Mind Medicine Summit… 

There has been an interesting conversation going on about decriminalization and Australia is making waves. Scroll down for your promo code, because first I want to talk about my podcast guest today! 

But podcast first! 

My guest is Patrick Moher, CEO at Microdose Psychedelic Insights and yes, creator of the Wonderland Psychedelic Conference in Miami. Patrick is an entrepreneur working in Psychedelics and Cannabis. He is a passionate and unapologetic environmentalist, founded Ethical Image, and co-founded a couple of companies. 

I have met Patrick many times last year, mostly on Air Table, where he hosted the Microdose conference virtually. With Microdose online, one was able to see,  what was happening in the incredible new field and the big names of the psychedelic renaissance all made their appearance.

But now, Wonderland is near, the first big IRL conference in Miami, where most people in the psychedelic world will meet for the first time. (Who knows, maybe Wonderland might become the Art Basel Miami for Psychedelics? ) The event will certainly be an important meeting of science, capital, and entertainment, meaning names like Mike Tyson and Lamar Odom speaking about their personal healing with the support of psychedelic therapy. A new development in the recent entertainment world, that I think is becoming very interesting, helping to destigmatize the psychedelic topic.

Ok, and now back to Australia. 

The New Health Club is thrilled to be an  “Education Partner” for the Mind Medicine Australia Global Summit on Psychedelic Medicines for Mental Health taking place ONLINE from 19-20 November 2021 preceded by the 2-day Introductory Workshop in Psychedelic Therapies.

The speaker list is impressive and features names, that will change the world of mental health rapidly. (All of these names you should keep in mind anyway....) 

Professor David Nutt (UK) Head of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and lead advisor on psilocybin assisted therapy for treatment-resistant depression, 

Dr. Gabor Maté (Canada) renowned trauma and addiction physician, 

Professor Roland Griffiths (USA) Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 

Dr. Bill Richards (USA) world-leading therapist trainer and psychologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 

Dr. Ben Sessa (UK) psychiatrist, researcher, and writer and currently leading the Imperial College trials on using MDMA therapy for alcohol dependence, 

Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris Director of Psychedelics Division, Neuroscape, UCSF, 

Francoise Bourzat (USA) Center for Consciousness Medicine & Somatic counselor,

Dr. Lynn Marie Morski (USA) President of the Psychedelic Medicine Association,

Professor Matthew Johnson (USA) Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a focus on psychedelic research for the treatment of mental illness, 

Dr. Reid Robinson (USA) psychedelic psychiatrist 

Ronan Levy (Canada) Co-founder and the Executive Chairman of Field Trip Health and more… 

And here is the special offer for THE NEW HEALTH CLUB Community.  

Your special 10% off discount code is ‘MMA2021’ and you can use it on the website when purchasing event packages. The event website is live, and tickets are available at

https://summit.mindmedicineaustralia.org/.

 See you there,

Anne

Good morning! 

Hope all is well and here is my little reminder! We got a really good offer for you if you want to attend WONDERLAND, the first psychedelic conference in IRL in a year, hosted by https://microdose.buzz/. The line-up? Well, everyone will be there, and me too. 

And here is your special The New Health Club offer! The code “TNHC” will give you $500 off the business tickets.

But, wait there is more.

The New Health Club and Field Trip Health /Netherlands will cooperate starting mid-November. You will be the first one to know about our magic truffle venture! 

But now over to my incredible podcast guest! 

My guests today are Daniel Goldberg and Tim Schlidt, founders of the Palo Santo fund. The two of them and their really impressive team got a big plan for the coming years: investing across the new psychedelic ecosystem and funding a new paradigm in well-being.

Palo Santo’s diversified investment fund is helping to increase the supply of clinically effective and accessible mental health and addiction treatment solutions needed in today’s world.

Daniel Goldberg began seeing mental health as part of a spectrum and not something that needs to be so pathologized. As a founder of Palo Santo and Bridge Investments, Daniel has been actively investing with and supporting inspired entrepreneurs for 20 years. Years ago he saw the transformational potential of psychedelic medicines and has developed a deep network of relationships across the psychedelic research and business communities. His passion for the space is purpose‐driven and science-informed. He is thrilled to be a part of Palo Santo’s mission of supporting promising treatments while ensuring widespread access to safe, legal, and effective solutions.

Tim Schlidt brings extensive knowledge investing across life sciences and healthcare services and has held a lifelong passion for understanding and improving treatments for CNS disorders. He believes psychedelics are poised to shift the paradigm in mental health treatment and his primary mission in co-founding Palo Santo is to invest in companies and solutions that allow for broad access to those most in need of mental health care. Prior to co-founding Palo Santo, Tim covered the life sciences and health care services sectors as a private equity investor at Madison Dearborn Partners and an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and Greenhill.

We talk about Daniel’s and Tim’s personal psychedelic experience they had BEFORE the founding of Palo Santo, the shift and the incredible change they saw coming, when a new generation of scientists engaged in psychedelics, about the psychedelic pharma model and what compound is Daniel’s and Tim’s favorite and we chat about what will possibly be happening and what I will see, if I would dare to take 5 MEO DMT: but that will happen on the next episode.

Aaaad don't forget, this episode with Palo Santo is sponsored by “Plant Medicine Law Group” the American boutique law firm serving the psychedelic and cannabis space. 

PMLG was founded by three women in November 2020. Their mission is to expand equitable and legal access to plant medicine and help companies in the psychedelic and cannabis industries succeed in a complex, emerging market. PMLG provides clients with strategic expertise to successfully launch, fund, and grow their businesses.

I got to know Adriana Kertzer, one of PMLG's founding partners, during a digital conference. She then invited me to join the interfaith working group Faith + Psychedelics. Plant Medicine Law Group's goal is to help entrepreneurs in the psychedelic and cannabis industries succeed in complex and emerging industries. 

They’re committed to humanizing the legal process and empowering you with the information and guidance you need to build the next generation of successful businesses. The PMLG team embraces complexity, encourages innovation, and aligns themselves directly with your vision.

Talk to you soon,

Anne