Beth Weinstein is the founder of the “Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, Purpose and Business” annual summit; the producer of the annual “True Path Entrepreneur” series; and was co-creator of the "Music is Medicine" festival and "Urban Ceremony", a music-mind-body-spirit weekend together with musician East Forest. 

As a spiritual business coach, Beth helps current and aspiring entrepreneurs, coaches, spiritual leaders, and healers align with your purpose and grow your business so you can help more people, create consistent income, and have an online business you love working from anywhere on Earth!

Beth has spoken on multiple stages, podcasts, and summits, and has been featured in The New York Post, Huffington Post, Shape Magazine, and more.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Beth Weinstein discuss …

• Beth’s first psychedelic experience at age 14
• How Beth’s first aya experience showed her the extraordinary healing potential of intentional psychedelic use
• The difference between working with trauma on an intellectual level and moving through it somatically
• How Beth’s true healing began when she started receiving mind-body-spirit psychedelic integration support 
• Cathartic somatic trauma releases within psychedelic journeys
• Shifting core beliefs around unworthiness
• How Beth’s medicine work connects to her entrepreneurial path 
• Entrepreneurship as a spiritual path
• The challenges of interpreting and working with “messages” that come through during medicine journeys
• Skillfully working with fear and “victim” states
• Tapping into the spirit of plant medicines
• The power of prayer and intention in psychedelic medicine work
• How your business marketing will not be effective if you do not share your gifts with the world from a place of deep authenticity
• The balance in business between your work serving you, and you serving others and the world

Beth Weinstein’s Links 

• Free Gift: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business/
• Free Gift: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business/
• Services: https://bethaweinstein.com/services
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/bethaweinstein
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethw.nyc
• Facebook Biz: https://www.facebook.com/BethWeinsteinbiz
• Join Beth’s Psychedelics Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychedelicsandSacredMedicines
• Join Beth’s Mastermind: https://bethaweinstein.com/mastermind

Jim Harris worked as a ski photographer and writer until he was paralyzed while snowkiting in Patagonia. It took over a week to reach definitive care in the States where five of his nine broken vertebrae were fused. “I feel lucky that the doctor never told me I’d never walk again,” says Harris, “There wasn’t much reason to think I would, and I might have believed him.” After his spine fusion he began to wiggle a toe. Within a few months, muscles in both legs began firing. In the years since that accident Harris has transitioned from wheelchair to walker to trike to mountain bike and continues to challenge the limitations of his disability. 

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Jim Harris discuss …

• How Jim’s experience growing up awoke his love of adventure and nature connection
• The way nature teaches us about actions and consequences through immediate feedback
• The kite surfing accident that paralyzed Jim
• Jim’s experience at a music festival where he ate magic mushrooms and experienced an unexpected recovery of motor function
• Recognizing that psilocybin is not a magic bullet but that it may have the potential to help restore some neurological function for people with spinal cord injury
• Exercised based therapy in conjunction with psychedelic therapy as an approach that may yield more healing than either done alone
• How psychedelics have helped Jim learn to “zoom out” and recognize his default thinking and behaviors
• Are psychedelics vs. traditional meditation a shortcut to experiencing “interbeing”?
• Jim’s excitement about deepening his work as a psychedelic support person working with people with spinal cord injury
• Some of the unique physiological effects psychedelics can have on people with spinal cord injury
• Jim's current work as an artist specializing in woodcut prints
• Books that have had a huge impact on Jim’s transformational healing process
• Learning to access flow states in different ways depending upon our current capacities

Jim Harris’ Links 

• Website: https://www.gorgeousstorm.com/
• Instagram: https://perpetualweekend.com/
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/gorgeous_storm/
• Email: [email protected]

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - https://tinyurl.com/yemfj2ur
• Book: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle- https://tinyurl.com/yr57ppyp
• High Fives Foundation - https://highfivesfoundation.org/ - the non-profit that helped Jim with his rehabilitation and works with injured athletes and disabled vets by providing grants and community building

Shiri Godasi is a teacher, author, visionary creatrix, depth poet and mother. She is passionate about creating a decolonized, psychedelic-positive counterculture and empowering people to step into radical authenticity/radical action and co-create a just world. Shiri is best known for her pioneering methods in the field of psychedelic integration and community bridging, including founding 5 entheogenic harm reduction organizations; directing a professional psychedelic therapy & creative leadership training program; and innovating an integration treatment protocol called The Psyched Soul™ Method. Shiri specializes in multidimensional, quantum-leap life transformations, soulcode recovery & realignment. Her approach draws from consciousness & cosmology, transpersonal psychology, quantum healing, Eastern philosophy and multidisciplinary arts, fusing ancient wisdom with modern practices for a ‘Psyched’ lifestyle.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Shiri Godasi discuss …

• Life as essentially relational in nature 
• Our choices and behaviors as an expression of our ways of relating
• Creating our own reality
• What defines a woman’s value and worth in today’s society?
• Shedding identities so we can life life on our own terms
• Shiri’s year of psychedelic “celibacy”
• Shiri’s separation from her former partner and her new life as a single mom
• How psychedelic integration can lead to profound insights and transformations in the dimensions of self-worth and boundaries 
• Exploring the question, “Can I be secure as who I am without needing any external affirmations of validations?”
• Leaning into self-love and self-care
• Meeting reality as it is 
• Working with feelings of unworthiness
• Problems with the glorification of the psychedelic lifestyle
• Women in leadership roles facing the challenge of owning their imperfections  
• Dealing with dissonance between your personal reality and the presenting reality 
• Conscious uncoupling
• Shiri’s business mastermind, which is just about to open for the year
• Shiri’s book-in-progress about psychedelic integration

Shiri Godasi’s Links 

• Website: www.psychedsoul.com
• Website: www.psychedelicintegrationcoach.com
• Website: www.psychedeliaintegration.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.psyched.soul/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepsychedsoul
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoiiwKQHRLpU2s64g465EYw
• Free Audience Gifts: https://www.psychedsoul.com/freebies
• Shiri’s Upcoming Mastermind: https://www.psychedsoul.com/soulpreneur

Paije, the founder of Third Eye Doula, began as a traditional full-spectrum doula in the birth community. She finds passion in holding space and creating safe containers for her clients to evolve and cross thresholds of the human experience using the doula model of care as a foundation for her work with psychedelics. Third Eye Doula is a health and wellness brand focused on ceremonial experiences, transformational retreats, and meaning making systems to help facilitate growth, stimulate creativity and offer a greater purpose for those who seek healing.

Paije primarily works with 5-MeO-DMT, ibogaine, psilocybin and MDMA. She is currently training to become a provider of iboga after undergoing a Bwiti initiation in Gabon, Africa earlier this year. Third Eye Doula is based in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico where she and her team offer ceremony, retreats and integration services. 

Topics discussed in this episode . . .

• Paije’s background as a traditional doula and how this informs her work as a medicine woman
• Paije’s personal journey healing from deep depression as a young woman
• Becoming a mother at age 25 at a time when Paije’s husband was in active addiction
• Paije's husband’s and her own first ibogaine experiences
• Using ibogaine and bufo in close proximity as part of a larger healing process
• The importance of preparation, integration and provider choice when considering working with iboga
• How Paije and her husband partner with an ibogaine clinic to provide aftercare
• The extended period of enhanced neuroplasticity available after taking iboga/ibogaine
• Navigating transformative medicine work as a mother and partner
• What is was like for Paije to go through a traditional Bwiti initiation and rites of passage in Gabon
• The unique “set and setting” working with iboga in Gabon
• How Paije came to receive her Bwiti name through her iboga visions
• Some energetic differences between iboga and bufo
• Different approaches to dosing with bufo
• What bufo has taught Paije
• Some pros and cons of using psychedelic medicines during pregnancy and postpartum while nursing and the need for a customized approach
• Microdosing as a parenting tool and Paije’s microdosing mentorship program
• The critical importance of self-care as both a psychedelic medicine facilitator and a mother

Paije West's Links 

• Website: http://thirdeyedoula.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thirdeyedoula_/

Carista Luminare, Ph.D., has more than 40 years experience as a counselor, consultant and educator to individuals, couples and families. In her private counseling practice, she integrates her lifelong research on how our early bonding patterns profoundly impact our self-identity and adult relationship dynamics. She uses her unique attachment approach to rewire relationships from insecure to secure love and [email protected]

Topics discussed in this episode . . .

• Carista’s work preparing parents to guide their child’s’ development in the most supportive way possible
• Creating a sense of love and security for a baby while they are still in the womb
• How we project our early attachment style from childhood onto our adult partners
• Trauma bonding
• The self-awareness required to provide a sense of security and safety for our children and how to know when we need help
• The deep need for children to have a “go to” person they feel can get help from when they are in distress
• What is trauma?
• What is secure love?
• The four attachment styles between parent and child
• How different attachment styles can play out in adult relationships
• Can attachment issues be healed and transformed?
• Recognizing we are triggered and how this limits our capacity to navigate conflict
• How Carista works with clients to heal trauma somatically
• Collective trauma
• The difference between self-regulation and co-regulation
• How narcissism and codependency can express in relationship
• Carista’s experience helping clients with psychedelic integration
• Is humanity ushering in a higher consciousness? Is there hope for our world?
• Daily practices that can help us be more grounded in these challenging times

Carista Luminare’s Links

• www.ConfusedaboutLove.com
• www.TrueSelf.net
• www.HealingNarcissismandCodependency.com
• www.LuminaryLeadership.net
• Book: Parenting Begins Before Conception: A Guide to Preparing Body, Mind, and Spirit For You and Your Future Child - http://tiny.cc/p6f2vz

Rebecca Kronman, LCSW is a licensed therapist and founder of Plant Parenthood, a digital and in-person community of parents who use psychedelics. She is also an assisting trainer with Fluence, a company that trains healthcare practitioners in harm reduction informed psychedelic preparation and integration. 

At her private practice in Brooklyn, she works with clients using mindfulness, experiential techniques and ketamine assisted psychotherapy to address depression, anxiety and life transitions. She also helps clients prepare for psychedelic experiences, incorporate insights or cope with challenges post-experience.

She has been featured in GQ, NBC News, Double Blind, Chacruna and The Plant Medicine Podcast. Outside of work, she is a mother of two boys ages 5 and 7.

Topics discussed on this episode . . .

• How Rebecca’s expertise in mindfulness, somatic healing and psychotherapy intersects with her personal and professional work with psychedelics
• The current poverty of discussion about psychedelics and parenting and the birth of Plant Parenthood
• Perspectives on how psychedelics can help us become better partners and parents
• How psychedelics can help us process issues from our families of origin, including ancestral trauma
• Rebecca’s move away from the organized religion she was raised with and how she has integrated elements of ceremonial medicine work into her family’s spiritual life
• How couples in the Plant Parenthood community are engaging with psychedelics to work on their relationships
• Rites of passage for children and how to adopt but not appropriate indigenous approaches
• The need for affinity communities within the broader psychedelic space 
• How mothers are subject to a unique level of scrutiny during pregnancy
• Indigenous paradigms of parenting and psychedelic use
• The healing power of fun
• Accessing altered states without psychedelics – e.g. through meditation or yoga - in support of psychedelic integration work
• Disembodiment as a survival mechanism and learning to listen to the body
• What does a harm reduction approach look like for pregnant and/or nursing mothers using psychedelics?
• Thoughts on parents introducing psychedelics to or even using psychedelics with their children once they have reached an appropriate age
• How Rebecca is drawn to offer her children significant experiences in nature to nurture their capacity for awe and wonder
• Motherhood as a mystical experience

Rebecca Kronman’s Links & Resources

• Website: https://www.plantph.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plant_parnt_hood/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plantparnthood/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/plantphood
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE057s0wZscIOC77gcMQzsA

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Podcast: Psychedelic Parenting with Jonathan Thompson - https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/
• Video podcast: Psychedelics, Pregnancy & Parenthood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IYPKF7vUrA

Shiri Godasi (She/Her) is a teacher, visionary creatrix, depth poet and mother. She is best known for her pioneering methods in the field of psychedelic integration and community activism, including founding 5 psychedelic harm reduction organizations. She is now focused on helping folx come into right-relationship with psychedelics through her professional training program for psychedelic integration providers and emerging creative leaders, The Psyched Soul PlaySkool of Integration & Soulpreneurship. She is passionate about creating a psychedelic-positive counterculture and empowering others to step into radical authenticity/radical action to co-create a just world. Her approach draws from transpersonal psychology, New-Earth sacred commerce, Eastern philosophy and shamanism, fusing ancient wisdom with modern practices for a ‘Psyched’ lifestyle.

Topics discussed in this episode …

• The catalyzing moment of Shiri’s psychedelic journey
• Working with intergenerational trauma stored within our psyche
• Undoing the damage of The War on Drugs
• Considering the true meaning of the “re-creational” use of drugs
• How different psychedelic medicines Illuminate different aspects of our being
• Each psychedelic as a uniquely different type of “teacher”
• Ayahuasca as a primary teacher for Shiri and her connection to its Mother/Grandmother archetype
• How ayahuasca helped Shiri prepare for motherhood both physically and psychologically
• How various schools of psychology, coaching and her own inner “fieldwork” have played into Shiri’s integration methodology
• The importance of community in psychedelic integration
• The value of having professional integration support
• Bringing language to the unconscious
• Shiri’s “Psyched Soul” method which incorporates psychedelic education, soul retrieval, shadow work and life optimization
• Integration as a lifelong process
• How Shiri has recently been abstaining from psychedelics in service to her mental health
• Integration as being in right relationship with the modality of psychedelic healing
• Motherhood as the greatest psychedelic trip of all time

Shiri Malcolm Godasi’s Links

• psychedsoul.com
• psychedelicintegrationcoach.com
• IG: @the.psyched.soul
• FB: @psychedsoul

Dr. Dan Engle is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance.

His medical degree is from the University of Texas in San Antonio. His psychiatry residency degree is from the University of Colorado in Denver, and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship degree is from Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr. Engle is an international consultant to several global healing centers facilitating the use of long-standing indigenous plant medicines for healing and awakening. He is the founder of Full Spectrum Medicine, a psychedelic integration and educational platform; and Thank You Life, a non-profit funding stream supporting access to psychedelic therapies.

Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries, as well as his new book, A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy.  

Topics discussed in this episode …

• Our duty to heal on behalf of the generations to come 
• How our adolescent culture doesn't appreciate that crisis precedes transformation 
• Dr. Dan’s experience immersing with ayahuasca for a year in the Amazon 
• The “medicine space” as a technology in and of itself 
• How it is evolutionarily advantageous that we experience transcendent states 
• Living at the pace of nature in the Amazon 
• How stabilizing our psychology and neurology allows us to more deeply surrender 
• How life is happening for us rather than to us 
• The different energetics of masculine and feminine integration styles 
• Dr. Dan’s “dark night” after returning from the jungle 
• How meaning and embodiment complement each other 
• How a trauma encodes in our body 
• How medicine work can support us in learning how to express our dharma 
• Kuya as an institute for transformational medicine where science meets the soul 
• Our culture as chronically stuck in sympathetic overdrive 
• The importance of investigating our belief systems 
• Living from a place of interbeing as an expression of our true essence 
• Pain without meaning as suffering; pain with meaning as transformation 
• The loneliness of the liminal space 
• Healing from our own our projections and judgements 
• Life as a ceremony and an expression of beauty 
• How the transformation of a parent changes the trajectory of the child’s life

Dr. Dan’s Links

• drdanengle.com
• thankyoulife.org
• fullspectrummedicine.com

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Kuya: www.kuya.life
  Book: Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
• Book: The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
• Book: The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, Stephen Cope
• Book: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit, Joseph Chilton Pearce
• Book: Dark Night of the Soul, John of the Cross
• Film: Neurons to Nirvana 
• Thomas Moore, spiritual writer

Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical recommendation, diagnosis, or treatment. The use of information in this podcast is at one’s own discretion, and is not an endorsement of use given the complexity inherent in these medicines, and the current variable widespread illegality of their usage.

Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker, and the author of several books including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible.

Topics discussed in this episode …

• Whether psychedelics have the capacity  to heal us, awaken us, and bring us to our truth
• Knowing our “YES” and “NO” as core to our embodiment and presence
• Questioning the mentality that distinguishes between the recreational and sacramental use of psychedelics
• Profound experiences both Michaela and Charles have had with the psychedelic, iboga
• How psychedelics have informed Charles’ parenting
• Family patterning and how it comes up in coded forms that we unconsciously pass on to our children
• How psychedelics can help us see and transform our inherited programming
• The impatience with superficiality Charles feels based on the awareness of other dimensions psychedelics have given him
• How the personal dramas of both children and adults are part of the becoming of the soul
• How we have been living a story of separation that inhabits each person in a unique way
• The earth as conscious and alive 
• The split in the psychedelic community around the dominant narratives in relation to the coronavirus
• If our prayers for peace are to be powerful, they have to be consistent with our actions
• If we really want peace, we need to become a champion of peace and hold each other sacred
• Being inoculated from the despair triggered by the news by living in closer connection with nature
• What it means to take “refuge in incompetence”
• How psychedelics are just beginning to make inroads into our culture and are an intervention we need
• The love and camaraderie we can feel with fellow explorers on this path

Charles Eisenstein’s Links

• Website: https://charleseisenstein.org
• Book: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible
• Short Film: And the Music Played the Band

The Psychedelic Mom Podcast is for anyone with an insatiable curiosity and a deep desire to heal, wake up, and live a wildly authentic life.

Psychedelic means “soul-revealing” and I, your host, along with special guests, explore how just about anything in life can be deeply psychedelic if approached in a soul-revealing way.

Through intimate and "psychedelic" conversation with leading experts, scientists, psychologists, visionaries, artists, entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers, psychonauts and newbies ... We'll dive deeply into myriad topics including consciousness, spirituality, cosmology, transformation, human optimization, biohacking, parenting, relationships, ancient wisdom, modern science, purpose and passion, and the path to freedom, wholeness, joy.

I open up about my own healing journey with earth medicines and psychedelics: the ups, and downs, my many different experiences with different medicines, and the modalities rooted in both modern science and ancient wisdom that support my transformational psychedelic work and path to wholeness.

I am a mother of four, an entrepreneur and visionary exploring the fertile edge of consciousness. I am a facilitator of transformational journeys globally and a certified spiritual director, psychedelic integration coach.