Flor Bollini on Feministic Shamanism in the 21st Century

05/26/22 • 53 min

In this episode, Peter and Erin interview creative entrepreneur, strategist and medicine woman, Florencia (Flor) Bollini. Flor is the founder of NANA, a transformative medicine company that provides integrative solutions for mental health and wellness. During the episode, Flor explains how she has devoted her career to helping humans achieve their full potential through a series of lifestyle modifications, including the progressive dosing of psychoactive medicines and women empowerment. Peter, Erin and Flor discuss how a wide variety of cultural and ancestral practices lend themselves to a complete toolkit for the healing of the mind, body, heart and soul as well as the importance of women in the future of psychedelics. Flor also shares her perspective on the ideal settings for healing, and why clinics aren't always optimal for a psychedelic experience. Finally, she shares her thoughts on what it means to answer the knock of destiny at your door, and how getting out of our own way allows us to transcend the person that we think we can become.

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Anna Rickman on The Why, How, and When of Music and Psychedelics

In this episode, Peter and Erin interview Anna Rickman, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Wavepaths. Wavepaths is a company that focuses on creating music and sounds to enhance psychedelic therapy and act as a therapy in and of itself. During the episode, Anna shares the story of how some challenging times through her youth led her to seek out therapy, which in turn guided her to an experience with ayahuasca. After a handful of sessions with the plant medicine, she notes that a switch seemed to flip both in relation to her mental health and the role music can play in a psychedelic environment, which led her to co-founding Wavepaths along with Dr. Mendel Kaelen, one of the early pioneers in the space who created many of the playlists in the early psilocybin studies. Peter, Erin and Anna also discuss the concept of experience as medicine, and how Wavepaths is creating their own adaptive and generative music for psychedelic therapy. Anna shares her tips for creating a playlist for a trip outside of a clinical setting, and the characteristics of music that make it so impactful and therapeutic.

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The Perfection of MDMA & The Stupidity Of Banning Drugs with Dr. Ben Sessa

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Peter is joined by Dr. Ben Sessa. Dr. Sessa’s professional bio reads that he’s the Chief Medical Officer & co-founder at Awakn Life Sciences, a licensed & approved psychedelic psychotherapist, a published medical & fictional author, & an experienced medical Cannabis prescriber; among other things. But his Twitter bio says “Doctor. Writer. Researcher. Psychedelic Medicine Lead for Awakn Life Sciences. MDMA, ketamine & psilocybin therapist. Vinyl lover. Determined pacifist. Awake.”

In this episode, Peter & Ben talk about the San Fran of the UK, drug policy, problems with prohibition, drug addiction, MDMA in clinical settings versus festivals, what makes MDMA so special, the economic incentives of legalization, and much more.

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