Worth The Fight Podcast

The simplest path to time freedom, inner peace, and outer prosperity isn't about doing more. It's about doing fewer things, extraordinarily well, and building a life you don't need to escape from.

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Holistic High Performance is about reclaiming your energy, clarity, and passion so you can expand your impact, income, and inner peace without burning out. Get Your Passion Back and discover a more sustainable path to extraordinary performance, vibrant health, and a fully alive life.

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Love, peace + prosperity,

Matt PS: This video/audio recording cut off at the end. Stay tuned for more around your limitless potential and the power of simplifying our lives and businesses.

It was a delight pushing the edges with my friend Danielle. Thank you for sharing your powerful truth and courageous experiences with microdosing, breaking down walls, and opening your heart. It's very inspiring to hear how microdosing has impacted your friendships, your coaching, and your relationship to self.

Breaking down the walls isn't just about feeling better. It's about becoming available for human connection again.

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Signaling Safety, Hope & Better Days Ahead

The future of medicine is psychedelic. The future of humankind may be psychedelic. This feels like a cultural turning point—far bigger than medicine. It represents hope. A chance to rethink healing, reclaim cognitive liberty, and imagine a better way forward.

I'm not holding my breath but this sure feels like real progress and a move towards The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.

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Psychedelic pioneer and living legend Dr. James Fadiman shares his expansive wisdom on how to get the most out of an intentional microdosing protocol. There is an explosive cultural phenomenon of people using "micro" doses of psychedelic medicine to boost mood and energy levels; Dr. Fadiman breaks down why and the mechanism at play here, illuminating the wondrous Possibility in microdosing for health, well-being, expansive creativity, and deeper connection(s).

Show Notes Dr. James Fadiman:

We Discuss;

-Massive surge in microdosing: Cultural phenomenon [6:30]

-Microdosing for depression [9:30]

-Microdosing and Connection/Sex/Intimacy [12:00]

-Neuroplasticity: Massive leverage point [15:30]

-"Start low, go slow & take time off" [16:45]

-Safety of psychedelics and microdosing [18:00]

-Placebo effect [24:00]

-Pharma's failure: Depression keeps rising [33:00]

-Fadiman's pioneering psychedelics for creativity studies from 1960s [34:30]

-Practice of envisioning [41:30]

-Psychedelics vs. Pharma model [47:20]

-Dr. Fadiman's latest book: Your Symphony of Selves [54:00]

Connect with Dr. James Fadiman:

Check out Dr. Fadiman's latest book: "Microdosing for Health, Healing & Enhanced Performance":

https://www.amazon.com/Microdosing-Health-Healing-Enhanced-Performance/dp/1250355583

https://www.jamesfadiman.com

https://www.psychedelicexplorersguide.com

https://jordangruber.com/your-symphony-of-selves

Michael Holland joins the show for a raw, powerful conversation about the journey back home—moving through disenchantment and disconnection, and into embodied self-love. He shares how experiences with Ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and Psilocybin helped catalyze his spiritual awakening, fueling the energy, clarity, and purpose he now brings to the world. From his collaboration with Wim Hof to his viral impact inspiring millions, Mike is leading a Mind/Body/Energy movement rooted in simplicity: breath, movement, nature. This episode is a reminder that the path forward isn't more complexity—it's coming home to the fundamentals that make us feel fully alive.

Show notes:

1:10 Michael's psychedelic journeys with Ayahuasca and Bufo (5MeoDMT).

11:11 Journey to Self-love + the archetypes of psychedelic medicines.

14:00 Bufo 5MEO-DMT granted "Breakthrough" status from the FDA for treatment-resistant depression, Phase 3 Clinical Trials soon. 16:30 Big Pharma's energy: The greed and corruption. Warped profit motive

18:30 GLP-1, BS Inc alert. 20:00 Ego as your friend + Ego Death.

27:00 Michael's service mission to help a million people inspire health, so people can live their lives on their own terms.

30:00 Wim Hof 40:00 Michael's movement practice/breathing practice

46:00 Mind Body Energy

54:00 Microdosing psilocybin as an integration practice

Connect with Michael Holland/Website: https://mikerholland.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/michaelrobertholland

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mikerholland/

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It was a special honor to share the stage with spiritual neuroscientist Dr. Jasmine Escalera and explore the intersection of neuroscience, healing, and conscious living. Dr. Jasmine shares her personal journey confronting ancestral trauma and breaking inherited generational patterns, revealing how awareness, integration practices, and courageous inner work can transform our lives. Together we discuss psychedelics, relationships, and practical tools for cultivating deeper self-awareness so we can step into our fullest expression and live with greater purpose, presence, and freedom.

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Worth The Fight Podcast #159, James shares a powerful journey from addiction to alignment. Once trapped in crippling addiction and trauma-bonded relationships, he made the courageous decision to leave his old life behind—including the identity that came with it. Reclaiming his birth name, James, he stepped into a bold new chapter rooted in health, discipline, and service. In this conversation, he reflects on hitting rockbottom and unexpected healing that emerged through psychedelic experiences with LSD and MDMA, which helped him process deep wounds and transform the energy of trauma into the energy of life. Today, he channels the same intensity that once fueled his addiction into strength, humility, and purpose—deep flow, dedicating his life to growth and helping others transform their health.

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Trauma isn't just what happens to us — it's what we hold inside when there's no empathetic witness. In this video, I share how empathy, coaching, and radical accountability helped transform my life and the lessons I've learned from investing over $50K in my own growth and working with 200+ coaching clients.

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Love, peace + prosperity,

Matt

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