Evolving Earth Podcast
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsExploring the future of technology and humanity. Do you ever feel that no-one is having the conversations that matter? The conversations about where we're headed as a planet and as a species? conversations with a global perspective rooted in secular humanism? Evolving Earth is a podcast about our collective future, and how we can create a world where everybody wins. Evolving Earth explores futurism, social impact entrepreneurship, humanism, environmentalism, trauma healing, art, environmentalism, and more. Will Sacks is a social entrepreneur based in Boulder Colorado USA. He previously founded Kindara, a women's health platform that helps millions of women better understand their fertility. Join our community to be immersed in conversations that matter and that shed light on our evolving earth.
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#24 Psychedelic Cannabis, Breathwork & Exploring DMT Space with Daniel McQueen
February 10, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBMy guest in this episode of the podcast is Daniel McQueen, a psychedelic activist, community organizer, innovator, teacher, and author. Daniel is a founder of the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness which was established in 2012. The center was among the first legal psychedelic plant medicine therapy clinics in North America. At the clinic, Daniel and his team have developed some groundbreaking, effective and innovative modalities, including cannabis-assisted psychedelic therapy and cannabis-...
#23 Using Psilocybin and Iboga to Heal From Addiction And Get Well With Tyler Chandler, Nicholas Meyers and Adrianne from DOSED
January 05, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBMy guests on this episode of the podcast are Tyler Chandler, Nick Meyers and Adrianne who are director, writer & cinematographer, and star of ‘Dosed’ respectively, an incredible documentary film about psychedelics and their role in treating substance abuse disorder and helping stop addiction. Learn more at www.dosedmovie.com ‘Dosed’ has won numerous awards so far including audience reward at the Santa Cruz film festival, audience award at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, and the documen...
#22 Using Neurodynamic Breathwork To Heal Trauma, Unite Us With Ourselves & Build A Global Community with Michael Stone
December 16, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBMy guest in this episode of the podcast is Michael Stone, the inventor of a new breathwork modality called neurodynamic breathwork and a co-founder of the Train Your Brain, Master Your Life workshop. Michael is one of the leading visionaries in psychedelic healing, and I'm honored and excited to have him with us to share his perspective and wisdom. Michael is a certified holotropic breathwork facilitator and founder of Holotropic Breathwork LA and Breathwork Online, where he is growing one ...
#21 Inside An MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Session with Marcela Ot’alora
November 02, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBThis week I speak with luminary and early psychedelic pioneer, Marcela Ot’alora. As a psychotherapist and an installation artist, Marcela has dedicated her life to exploring and understanding trauma through art and through MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. She was the co-therapist in the first government-approved MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study that ever happened in Spain. Marcela is also the principal investigator of phase 2 & 3 MAPS’ MDMA-assisted psychotherapy trials in Boulder, CO, USA. ...
#20 Zach Haigney on The Medicalization of MDMA, Psilocybin For End Of Life, and The Future of The Psychedelic "Industry"
October 21, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBThis week's guest is Zach Haigney, the founder and author of The Trip Report. The Trip Report is a fascinating online newsletter that delves into all the little nooks and crannies of the psychedelic world and the psychedelic renaissance. We discuss medicalization and the different models of psychedelic decriminalization and legalization that are happening around the country and the world. We talk about access and how to make psychedelic medicines accessible to everyone, and some of the diff...
#19 Dr. Will Van Derveer on Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Integrative Psychiatry & A Revolution in Mental Healthcare (Treating Depression & Anxiety with MDMA & Psychedelics)
October 03, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThis week I interview Dr. Will Van Derveer, a groundbreaking physician who is rewriting our understanding of mental health and wellbeing. Dr. Will is the founder of Integrative Psychiatry Centers where he and his team use the most innovative treatments, including ketamine, to identify and address the root causes of mental illness. Dr. Will also runs the integrative Integrative Psychiatry Institute whose goal is to create and sustain a revolution in mental health and combat our mental heal...
#18 Dr. David Tusek on Salutogenesis, Eudaimonic Exchange, Psychedelic Healing & The Future of Human Health
September 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBContinuing with our series on Psychedelic Healing, this week on the podcast I talk with Dr. David Tusek - visionary doctor, entrepreneur, and health pioneer. In this conversation, we discuss a new vision of American healthcare, and how psychedelic medicine fits into this vision. Dr. Tusek is a recognized leader in healthcare transformation and he’s working on the front lines of the healthcare system to create exciting new models of care that result in better outcomes and that are more peopl...
#18 Dr. David Tusek on Salutogenesis, Eudaimonic Exchange, Psychedelic Healing & The Future of Human Health.
September 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBContinuing with our series on Psychedelic Healing, this week on the podcast I talk with Dr. David Tusek - visionary doctor, entrepreneur, and health pioneer. In this conversation, we discuss a new vision of American healthcare, and how psychedelic medicine fits into this vision. Dr. Tusek is a recognized leader in healthcare transformation and he’s working on the front lines of the healthcare system to create exciting new models of care that result in better outcomes and that are more peopl...
#17 Gareth Hermann and Marcus McNeill on Decriminalizing Psilocybin, Consciousness Expansion and Marketing the Psychedelic Renaissance
July 13, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBHow much would it cost to shift the mindset of our entire society towards accepting and understanding psychedelics in one year? What does the marketing department of the psychedelic revolution look like? What are the issues we face in promoting psychedelics? Who will fight us? In this episode, I speak with Marcus McNeill and Gareth Hermann, co-founders of Magic Agency, a marketing agency committed to helping push forward psychedelics and answer the above questions. Thanks to their “psych...
#16 Craig Salerno on Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Addiction and Integration
June 19, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBThis week we dive into Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy with Craig Salerno of the Boulder Wellness Ketamine Collective! If you’ve wondered about ketamine, what it is, and how it works this episode is for you. I’ve been trying to get a luminary in ketamine space on the show for a while, and I’m so glad that Craig accepted our invitation. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you will, too. Craig Salerno is a Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC...
#15 Marco Chung-Shu Lam on Permaculture, Plant Teachers, Fulfilling Our Spiritual Contract and Becoming an Integrated Human
May 19, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB“The longer people are on the medicine path, the more they wanna repair the damage between them and the natural world” - Marco Chung-Shu Lam How do concepts from permaculture and Chinese medicine mix with the intentional use of psychedelics? What do permaculture and Chinese medicine have to teach us about the Coronavirus outbreak? In this episode, we find out. This week I interviewed Marco Chung-Shu Lam, the founder, and director of the Mandala Integrative Medicine Clinic where he and hi...
#14 Dr. Joe Tafur on Covid19 (Coronavirus), The Epigenetics Of Trauma, and Finding Joy & Resilience Through Spirituality
April 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBThis week I had the opportunity to talk with integrative Family Physician, curandero, author, and speaker Dr. Joe Tafur. Joe is a gifted medicine man, healer, thinker, and doer. He is one of the few western-trained doctors who has also completed full training in traditional amazonian healing. As such he brings a powerful and unique perspective to the work we have to do to heal our culture. In March of 2017, Joe published his book The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploratio...
#13 - Dennis McKenna on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Spiritual Science, Natural Philosophy, and Psychedelic Plant Teachers (Ayahuasca, Psilocybin & DMT).
April 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBCoronavirus is top of mind this week for almost everyone so I took the opportunity to go deep with Dennis McKenna on what the pandemic means for us individually and as a society. Dennis is a psychedelic researcher, pioneer and author and founder of the Dennis McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy () Dennis and friends are hosing a series of events in tribute to Terrence McKenna in April 2020 - Learn more about those events here FRI 04.03 : 5:30pmPDT / 01:30BST : Premiere of never-releas...
#12 - Dr. Hannah C. McLane on MDMA Therapy for Marginalized Groups, the Psychedelic Revolution, and Healing Collective Ancestral Trauma
February 07, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBIn this episode, I speak with Dr. Hannah C. McLane, founder of the SoundMind Center - a brand new Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Center in Philadelphia opening in June. Eight of their therapists are part of a select group of professionals training with MAPS to offer MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy as part of their Expanded Access Program. The mission of the center is to create a space, a community and a movement around using psychedelics to heal our bodies, our minds, and our souls. Hannah ...
#11 - Sophia Rokhlin, Author of When Plants Dream, on The Globalization of Ayahuasca, and The Emerging Psychedelic Renaissance.
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Sophia Rokhlin author (along with Daniel Pinchbeck) of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism, and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance. In this conversation we explore the potential and risks of the global ayahuasca boom, neo-shamanism, the utopian impulse, spiritual bypass, how to consume ayahuasca responsibly, and reforestation and regeneration efforts currently underway in the Amazon. More about the book: Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transf...
#11 - Sophia Rokhlin, Author of When Plants Dream, on The Globalization of Ayahuasca, and The Emerging Psychedelic Renaissance.
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Sophia Rokhlin author (along with Daniel Pinchbeck) of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism, and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance. In this conversation we explore the potential and risks of the global ayahuasca boom, neo-shamanism, the utopian impulse, spiritual bypass, how to consume ayahuasca responsibly, and reforestation and regeneration efforts currently underway in the Amazon. More about the book: Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transf...
#10 - Benjamin De Loenen on Ancestral Wisdom, Ayahuasca, and Remembering Who We Are
November 18, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBHow do we connect more deeply with ourselves, our community and the earth? In this episode I speak with Benjamin De Loenen, founder and executive director of The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS), an organization dedicated to making ayahuasca, iboga and other psychedelic plant practices valued and integrated parts of society. In our western culture I believe people have become disconnected from each other and nature, and as a result we've lost...
#9 - Inside A Psychedelic Therapy Session: A Firsthand Experience of Healing Trauma With Psychedelics (LSD, Psilocybin, Ketamine, Iboga, MDMA and Cannabis)
September 27, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBThree months ago I had the opportunity to experience an eight-hour psychedelic healing session. It was one of the most memorable and transformative experiences of my life. The session was so impactful and healing that I feel a responsibility to share about it so that others might benefit. A note before I dive in: Some psychedelic medicines are sadly still Illegal in many jurisdictions and it takes work to find a legal context for this type of work. Please check your local laws and be safe...
#8 - Rick Doblin on The Frontiers of Culture and The Future Of The Psychedelic Renaissance
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 77 MB(Photo credit: Ted.com watch Rick's TED Talk here) This week on the podcast I speak with one of my heroes: Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Rick has spent the last 30 years on a crusade of the heart to deliver the healing potential of psychedelic medicines to our culture. After transformational experiences with psychedelics in his 20's, and amid the political environment of the Vietnam war, Rick dedicated his li...
#8 - Rick Doblin on The Frontiers of Culture and The Future Of The Psychedelic Renaissance
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 77 MB(Photo credit: Ted.com watch Rick's TED Talk here) This week on the podcast I speak with one of my heroes: Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Rick has spent the last 30 years on a crusade of the heart to deliver the healing potential of psychedelic medicines to our culture. After transformational experiences with psychedelics in his 20's, and amid the political environment of the Vietnam war, Rick dedicated his li...
#7 - David Mandell on Creating Something From Nothing & The Zen Of Being A Startup CEO
August 15, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBToday's guest is David Mandell, a multi-time entrepreneur, startup sage, and a managing partner at VentureVoodoo partners, a consulting firm specializing in CEO and Leadership Coaching. We've spent the last 6 episodes delving into the big picture of mission-driven entrepreneurship, and in this episode we get super tactical. David breaks down for us some of the issues faced when creating something from nothing. We talk about the 3 jobs of a CEO, how to hire the absolute best people, what he...
#6 - Fletcher Richman on Sales Robots, #GivingFirst And Professor-less Universities
August 09, 2019 20:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBToday's guest is Fletcher Richman, CEO & Cofounder of Halp, a company backed by Techstars and Slack that makes an internal helpdesk to streamline workflows for the teams at Adobe, HomeDepot, SeatGeek, and hundreds of other companies. Fletcher also helped found the Seed Angel Forum, an investor forum for early stage entrepreneurs and investors, and is a partner at Kokopelli Ventures, a micro venture fund in Boulder CO. In our conversation we explore Fletchers path into the world of busine...
#6 - Fletcher Richman on Sales Robots, #GivingFirst And Professor-less Universities
August 09, 2019 20:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBToday's guest is Fletcher Richman, CEO & Cofounder of Halp, a company backed by Techstars and Slack that makes an internal helpdesk to streamline workflows for the teams at Adobe, HomeDepot, SeatGeek, and hundreds of other companies. Fletcher also helped found the Seed Angel Forum, an investor forum for early stage entrepreneurs and investors, and is a partner at Kokopelli Ventures, a micro venture fund in Boulder CO. In our conversation we explore Fletchers path into the world of busine...
#5 - Gabe Zichermann on The Rise Of Social Entrepreneurship & The Power of Failure to Guide Us Towards A Meaningful Life
July 31, 2019 15:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBThis week on the podcast, I feel super blessed to welcome Gabe Zichermann, author, entrepreneur, investor, and thinker. Gabe has founded 6 companies and written 3 books on gamification, and Behavioral Design have set the standard in teaching how to build for engagement across many industries and countries. After the collapse of his recent startup, Gabe embarked on a journey to understand the fear of failure and how it limits us personally and professionally. This project, called Failosoph...
#4 - Mark Krassner on the Mind-Baby Connection and Transforming Society One Fetus At A Time
July 24, 2019 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBToday's guest is Mark Krassner who is the founder and CEO of Expectful (www.expectful.com) and a social entrepreneur on a mission to transform human consciousness. In this interview we continue our series on mission-driven entrepreneurship and we dig into the topic from the perspective of a successful entrepreneur running a venture backed startup on a mission to stop trauma before it begins. Mark and I explore what it means to be a social entrepreneur, his definition of fulfillment, the ...
#3 - Aaron Stachel on Impact Investing and the Similarities Between Investing in Startups and Flying Helicopters
July 15, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBToday's guest is Aaron Stachel who is a partner at First Mile Ventures, a Colorado based Venture Fund. In this conversation we talk about Aaron's take on impact investing and the company creation process, as well as how he selects investments for First Mile Ventures and the similarities he sees between investing and flying helicopters. Check out First Mile at https://www.firstmilevc.com/ Show Notes: 00:39 Aaron introduces himself and we talk about investing in technology companies and flyi...
#2 Kiah Hochstetler - Funding Impact Companies & The Bright Future Of Impact Investing
July 08, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBIn this second episode of our mini-series on social entrepreneurship and impact investing I speak to Kiah Hochstetler, COO at Goodworks Ventures, a unique family office and fund out of Missoula Montana, USA (https://goodworksventures.com/) Kiah and GoodWorks fund social impact companies. In our conversation we discuss the spend-down model they use at GoodWorks, new models of financing (including revenue share investor a la Indie.vc) and how founders who want to change the world should thin...
#1 Darren Kelly - Creating Clinics In Africa, Getting Rich vs. Doing Good, & Lessons Learned Building Multiple Successful Companies
June 14, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 50 MBProlific entrepreneur and investor Darren Kelly has a unique perspective on creating companies and doing good in the world. As an successful investment banker, investor and social entrepreneur he walks us through his story of building early internet companies, to emigrating from Canada, to investing and helping grow Penda Health in Kenya. Darren also runs the Southern Sun Angel Capital Group. If you are raising capital check them out here www.southernsunangelcapital.com In this first of a...