Third Wave Podcast

Paul F. Austin speaks with Rak Razam & Joel Brierre, creators of Bridging Heaven Retreats, about the "marriage" of meditation and 5-MeO-DMT. 

Rak Razam is an alchemical storyteller with his finger on the pulse of tomorrow and the heart of today. A screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, journalist and culture maker, his focus is on the cultural paradigm birthing in this brave new world. Co-founder of the World Bufo Alvarius Congress (www.wbac.info), he has become one of the world’s leading experts on 5-MeO, giving lectures and panel discussions at events worldwide. He has been facilitating bufo toad retreats in Mexico since 2016.

Joël Brierre (aka: the entheogenic yogi) is a pioneer in the modern psychedelic movement, and has years of experience in the realm of 5-MeO-DMT and the Bufo Alvarius toad. His unique approach of applying classical non-dual yogic philosophy for both the preparation and integration from the entheogenic experience gained attention from around the world at the first World Bufo Alvarius Congress (WBAC) in 2018 and continues to shift the landscape of psychedelic use. Currently Founder & CEO of Kaivalya Kollectiv and President of Tandava Retreats.

Find episode links, summary, and transcript here.

Highlights:

• Rak Razam’s journey through Psychedelics as a media professional.
• Joel Brierre’s spiritual re-entry into psychedelics, and his contributions through retreats, public education, and trainings.
• How Rak and Joel’s paths converged, leading to the creation of Bridging Heaven Retreats.
• Joel and Rak’s approach to designing a low-dose 5-MeO meditation retreat.
• Weaving ancient yogic philosophy into 5-MeO practice.
• Considering 5-MeO harm reduction as the substance becomes increasingly widespread.
• Looking ahead: continuing explorations with neurofeedback technology and 5-MeO-DMT, and mapping the frontiers of consciousness.

Episode Links:

• Rak Razam’s Website
• Joel Brierre’s Website
• Kaivalya Kollectiv
• Bridging Heaven Retreats
• Tandava Retreats
• Rak’s Ayahuasca documentary, Aya Awakenings
• F.I.V.E. (5-MEO-DMT Information and Vital Education)
• VICE article featuring Rak’s first 5-MEO-DMT session.
• Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga

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Laura Dawn, founder of Grow Medicine, joins Paul F. Austin to explore the intersection between psychedelics and creative problem-solving.

Through her signature Mastermind Programs and Plant Medicine Retreats, Laura Dawn weaves together science with ancient wisdom. She teaches business and thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals how to mindfully explore psychedelics and sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools for inner transformation, fostering emotional resiliency and unlocking new depths to our creative potential.

Through mindset, somatic coaching, and plant medicine integration, she inspires leaders to align body, mind, and heart to get unstuck and take centered action in alignment with a deeper sense of purpose to influence meaningful change.

Laura Dawn has a Masters in Science specializing in Creativity & Change Leadership. Her degree explores the intersection between psychedelics and creative problem-solving, helping leaders and teams consciously work with sacred plant medicines to think more creatively and cultivate heart-centered leadership in order to unlock innovative solutions to the complex challenges we collectively face.

Find episode links, summary, and transcript here.

Highlights:

• Laura’s current transition from Austin, Texas, to Costa Rica.
• Grow Medicine, Laura’s donation- and education-based platform.
• Laura’s evolutionary path with psychedelic medicines, starting at an early age.
• The two burgeoning studies of psychedelics and creativity—and how they come together.
• Laura’s Systems Change Model for Psychedelic Leadership.

Episode Links:

• Laura’s Website
• Laura’s Instagram
• Grow Medicine
• Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund
• Blessings of the Forest
• UMIYAC
• Laura’s podcast, The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast
• Third Wave Coaching Certification
• Book, Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
• Third Wave’s Virtual Summit (Featuring Laura)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Words Are Vibrations Podcast Hosted by James McCrae
• Book, How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis by JamesMcCrae

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Laura Dawn, founder of Grow Medicine, joins Paul F. Austin to explore the intersection between psychedelics and creative problem-solving.

Through her signature Mastermind Programs and Plant Medicine Retreats, Laura Dawn weaves together science with ancient wisdom. She teaches business and thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals how to mindfully explore psychedelics and sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools for inner transformation, fostering emotional resiliency and unlocking new depths to our creative potential.

Through mindset, somatic coaching, and plant medicine integration, she inspires leaders to align body, mind, and heart to get unstuck and take centered action in alignment with a deeper sense of purpose to influence meaningful change.

Laura Dawn has a Masters in Science specializing in Creativity & Change Leadership. Her degree explores the intersection between psychedelics and creative problem-solving, helping leaders and teams consciously work with sacred plant medicines to think more creatively and cultivate heart-centered leadership in order to unlock innovative solutions to the complex challenges we collectively face.

Find episode links, summary, and transcript here.

Highlights:

• Laura’s current transition from Austin, Texas, to Costa Rica.
• Grow Medicine, Laura’s donation- and education-based platform.
• Laura’s evolutionary path with psychedelic medicines, starting at an early age.
• The two burgeoning studies of psychedelics and creativity—and how they come together.
• Laura’s Systems Change Model for Psychedelic Leadership.

Episode Links:

• Laura’s Website
• Laura’s Instagram
• Grow Medicine
• Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund
• Blessings of the Forest
• UMIYAC
• Laura’s podcast, The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast
• Third Wave Coaching Certification
• Book, Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
• Third Wave’s Virtual Summit (Featuring Laura)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Words Are Vibrations Podcast Hosted by James McCrae
• Book, How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis by JamesMcCrae

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Resilience expert Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal joins Paul F. Austin for a special 2-part interview exploring resilience, leadership, & psychedelics. Dr. Taryn Marie is the #1 international expert on resilience, in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, through the concepts of resilience, by 2030. She is recognized as a leading global authority on resilience, wellbeing, and mental health, and she is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI) and believes that resilience is the key to individual and organizational actualization and acceleration across the globe. By leveraging over a decade and a half of original research on resilience, she developed the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People.

Highlights:

• Dr. Taryn's personal and professional path of resilience, vulnerability,
• The myth of the Vulnerability Bias.
• How psychedelics can help us tap into our resilience.
• The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People
• Why the practice of vulnerability is so challenging yet essential to our growth and wellbeing.
• The gifts of transformation hidden in the ‘reverse bucket list’ moments of life.
• Dr. Taryn’s latest projects to positively impact the world through resilience.

Episode Links:

• Dr. Taryn’s Website, Resilience Leadership Institute
• Book, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
• Dr. Taryn’s podcast, Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience Podcast
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction
• Book, Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Dr. Taryn’s TEDx Talk: How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage

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This episode is brought to you by Third Wave’s Coaching Certification Program. This is an opportunity for coaches with existing practices to be a part of a movement that will change lives.

Hanifa Nayo Washington thrives at the intersection of mindfulness, belonging, and healing justice to co-create organizations, gatherings, and experiences rooted in the values of beloved community so all people can heal from the emotional, physical and spiritual impacts of systems of oppression, trauma, and disconnection. 

Hanifa Nayo is the Co-founder and Organizing Principal of One Village Healing, an online BIPOC centered healing, resilience, and psychedelic wellness space. She is also the Co-founder and Chief of Strategy at Fireside Project the nonprofit that runs the Psychedelic Peer Support Line, that is helping people minimize the risks of their psychedelic experiences while democratizing access to free high-quality emotional support during and after any psychedelic experience. The line has supported over 5,000 callers since launching in 2021.

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Highlights:

• Hanifa's life of discovery and service that led her to co-found Fireside Project.
• Her insights about belonging, and how psychedelics influenced them.
• Defining—and challenging—the term 'Psychedelic Space' and how to "make equity real” in the context of psychedelics.
• Spiritual Resilience and Sacred Activism.
• Hanifa's upcoming plant medicine retreat for black women.

Episode Links:

• Hanifa’s Website
• Hanifa’s Instagram
• Fireside Website
• Fireside Instagram
• Fireside Facebook
• Fireside Twitter
• Fireside LinkedIn
• One Village Healing
• Niyonu Spann, Beyond Diversity 101
• Hanifa’s Colors Within Retreat at Nina Wasi

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Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, he is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he is a clinical professor of medicine and professor of public health. A New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Weil is the author of 15 books on health and wellbeing, including Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better, and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own; Fast Food, Good Food; True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure; Spontaneous Happiness; Healthy Aging; and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. He is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading online resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He is also a founder and partner in the growing family of True Food Kitchen restaurants. 

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• The influence international travel had on Dr. Weil from an early age.
• Dr. Weil's years at Harvard: first psychedelic experiences and early research on Cannabis.
• Pioneering integrative medicine—and becoming classified as a “dangerous person” by the White House.
• Dr. Weil's story of using Cannabis while speaking in front of Congress.
• Expanding the paradigm of psychedelic research.
• Defining Integrative Health.
• Lessons from the psychedelic wave of the sixties.
• Misunderstood medicinal and psychoactive plants.
• The future of the psychedelic landscape.

Episode Links:

• Dr. Weil’s Website Andrew Weil Center For Integrative Medicine
• Book: The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin
• Dr. Weil’s book, The Natural Mind
• Dr. Weil’s book From Chocolate To Morphine
• Dr. Charls Nichols’s research at LSU on Psychedelics
• Book: Wizard of the Upper Amazon by F. Bruce Lamb 
• Book: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass
• Book: The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilber
• Book: The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• Video: “1950’s Housewife on LSD”
• Books: Pharmako Series by Dale Pendell

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Dr. Erica Zelfand is a licensed family doctor specializing in integrated mental health and functional medicine. In addition to treating patients of all ages in her private practice, Dr. Zelfand is ketamine prescriber, facilitator of therapeutic psychedelic experiences, international speaker, and medical writer. She often presents at medical conferences on the clinical applications of psychedelic healing and advocated for the recent legalization of psilocybin assisted therapy in Oregon. She also trained in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through MAPS. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Erica talks with Paul F. Austin about physical wellness, integrated mental health, and legal psilocybin in Oregon.

For a full summary and transcript, go here.

Podcast highlights:

• Dr. Zelfand's journey into medicine and psychedelics.
• Psychedelics and a new medical paradigm.
• Key healing systems.
• The role of the thyroid in functional medicine
• The role of testosterone in functional health.
• Psilocybin facilitator training with Inner Trek in Oregon.
• Who can access and facilitate psilocybin services in Oregon?
• Microdosing and Oregon's Measure 109.

Episode links:

• Dr. Erica Zelfand
• Dr. Janine L. Malcolm
• Inner Trek
• The Microdosing Collective

Get 20% off Dr. Zelfand's course, the Science of Psychedelics. Use Coupon code: THIRDWAVE (https://ScienceofPsychedelics.com)

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This episode is sponsored by Beckley Retreats, a leading holistic wellbeing company that offers transformative self-development programs by leveraging the science-backed power of psychedelics in concert with supportive therapeutic modalities. As a trusted partner of Third Wave, we strongly recommend the upcoming retreats for Beckley in Jamaica, as well as many other locations. Head to go.beckleyretreats.com/thirdwave to book your transformational psilocybin program today.

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator, facilitator, and entrepreneur. As a coach, Joel is dedicated to the development of conscious, creative, and entrepreneurial leaders. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company at the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of nearly 50,000 coaches and participants from every continent on the planet. Coaches Rising has collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development.

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Highlights:

• Coaches Rising and the evolution of coaching.
• Translating “emergence” from theory to practice.
• Joel’s journey into coaching, psychedelics, and other transformative modalities.
• The difference between coaching and therapy.
• Why coaches should have a referral network.
• Necessary skills to develop conscious, creative, and entrepreneurial leaders.
• Values, principles, and systems of meta modernism.
• Future developments for Coaches Rising.

Show links:

• Joel Monk
  • Coaches Rising
  • The Summit
• Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., the founder of Internal Family Systems
• Ken Wilber, No Boundary
• Steve March and Aletheia Coaching
• Ken Wilber, The Religion of Tomorrow
• Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse
• Jeremy Johnson, Seeing Through the World

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This episode is sponsored by Beckley Retreats, a leading holistic wellbeing company that offers transformative self-development programs by leveraging the science-backed power of psychedelics in concert with supportive therapeutic modalities. As a trusted partner of Third Wave, we strongly recommend the upcoming retreats for Beckley in Jamaica, as well as many other locations. Head to go.beckleyretreats.com/thirdwave to book your transformational psilocybin program today.

As co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, Neil Markey is passionate about sharing the science-backed benefits of psychedelics in conjunction with the contemplative practices that support holistic wellbeing. At Beckley Retreats, he’s dedicated to building a business that operates with the utmost integrity, both internally and across the many communities it will touch.

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Episode Highlights:

• The inspiration Neil draws from his involvement in his family business, Creative Metal Design.
• Neil's transformative journey from the US Army Special Operations to business, mindfulness and psychedelics.
• The evolution of the Beckley Foundation and how it continues to set the standard of conscious endeavoring in the psychedelic space.
• Neil's transition from the corporate world into his journey starting Beckley Retreats.
• The inspiring—and challenging—aspects of starting a unique psychedelic retreat program.
• The unique experience Beckley Retreats create through its programming.

Get first access to Beckley Retreat’s incredible upcoming programs HERE.

Episode links:

• Beckley Retreats
• Beckley Foundation  
• Beckley Psytech
• Neil's LinkedIn
• MindKind Institute
• Book, “The Second Mountain” by David Brooks
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Creative Metal Design

Get first access to upcoming programs with Beckley Retreats HERE.

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Dan Peterson, Esq. is a DC-based attorney, entheogenic practitioner, and depression survivor who uses his legal background and personal experience to expand equitable access to responsibly-administered transformative experiences. He is the Executive Director and Founding Member of the Association of Entheogenic Practitioners while also running his legal practice, Peterson Law, LLC. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dan talks with Paul F. Austin about the evolving psychedelic legal landscape, including the role of religious freedom in protecting practitioners and how to build community and accessibility through the Association of Entheogenic Practitioners.

Highlights:

• From conventional D.C. attorney to psychedelic legal advisor.
• Tracking psychedelic legal developments in the US.
• The likelihood of getting arrested in the psychedelic space.
• Creating the Association of Entheogenic Practitioners.
• Building a culture of responsible practice, reciprocity, and accessibility.
• Ensuring DEI in the psychedelic space from a legal perspective.

For a full summary and show links, go here.

Episode Links:

• Dan Peterson
• The Association of Entheogenic Practitioners
• Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategies
• Andrew Huberman podcast
• Scholarly article on how psilocybin occasions mystical experience
• David Foster Wallace

Keith Ferrazzi is a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and an enthusiastic team transformation coach committed to helping teams harness Radical Adaptability and Co-Elevation® to positively transform organizations in an unpredictable work world. Keith's mission for the past 20 years has been to serve extraordinary teams as they achieve great missions while building deep friendships along the way. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Keith talks with Paul F. Austin about the intersection of plant medicine, business, and effective leadership. Highlights include:

• Keith’s experience with plant medicines.
• Building meaningful community.
• The two different awakenings with psychedelics.
• Leading Without Authority and Keith’s newest book.
• Defining “co-elevation”.
• Creating “radical adaptability”.
• Psychedelics for Fortune 50 companies and executive teams.
• How plant medicines help develop soft skills for leadership.

For a full summary and show links, go here.

Episode links:

• Keith Ferrazz
• Tony Robbins
• Deepak Chopra
• Insight seminars
• Werner Erhard
• Davos Conference
• DLD Conference
• Sanjay Gupta

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This episode features two guests: Martin Polanco, M.D. and Sean Hansen. Martin is the founder of The Mission Within, a clinical program that serves special operations veterans and specializes in treatment-resistant and complex conditions such as mild traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, depression, and/or addiction as a result of experiences during military service. Sean Hansen, was a combat veteran and licensed attorney, who moved into high-performance coaching following his experience with ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT through The Mission Within. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Martin and Sean talk with Paul F. Austin about preparing for, experiencing, and integrating ibogaine and 5-MeO journeys, the benefits of combining these medicines, and groundbreaking research to drive legal policy reform.

This episode features two guests: Martin Polanco, M.D. and Sean Hansen. Martin is the founder of The Mission Within, a clinical program that serves special operations veterans and specializes in treatment-resistant and complex conditions such as mild traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, depression, and/or addiction as a result of experiences during military service. Sean Hansen, was a combat veteran and licensed attorney, who moved into high-performance coaching following his experience with ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT through The Mission Within. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Martin and Sean talk with Paul F. Austin about preparing for, experiencing, and integrating ibogaine and 5-MeO journeys, the benefits of combining these medicines, and groundbreaking research to drive legal policy reform.

Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., is an Endowed Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Trauma and Director of Mental Health at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She is a recognized leader in the field of traumatic stress studies who revolutionized our understanding of the neurobiology and treatment of PTSD. Most recently, Dr. Yehuda established and now directs the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research, and was named one of the most influential women in the psychedelic field. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Rachel talks with Paul F. Austin about her research, including a forthcoming study on MDMA-assisted therapy for trauma survivors.

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and pharmacology, who is one of the world’s foremost research experts on ibogaine. In this episode of the Third Wave podcast, Dr. Mash talks with Paul F. Austin about how she began studying ibogaine and using this powerful substance to treat addiction, her experiences getting research funding, and spearheading ibogaine clinical trials.