Mycopreneur

Oli Genn-Bash is The Fungi Consultant, a steward of the UK mushroom and psychedelic community who joins me today to discuss a number of different juicy topics on the intersection of mushrooms and society.Please rate and review this podcast wherever you're listening -

Justin and Melissa are the Founders of Twisted Tree Nursery , a Southern California based company that makes substrate for mushroom cultivation among many other myco projects. Twisted Tree has quickly become one of the most trusted vendors and community builders in the mushroom space, and today we take you on a tour of their backstory and current projects in the mushroom world.Please rate and review wherever you're listening ( : and share with a friend or two

Jashid and Prithvi are the founders of Nuvedo, the leading mushroom startup in India. They return to the Mycopreneur Podcast to share updates from their mycopreneurial journey over the last year since I joined them at Shroom Sabha, the first mushroom festival in India. Their recent achievements include appearing on Shark Tank India, being featured in Condé Nast, producing a documentary on fungi in remote Northeastern India in collaboration with the world renowned Fungi Foundation, and much more.Please rate and review wherever you're listening ( :

Robert Latin is the founder of Healing Herbals , purveyor of legal entheogens. Today Rob joins us on the podcast for the second time to discuss his recent acquisition of a Kava bar on Long Island, New York, as well as to detail the extensive selection of legal entheogens available on the Healing Herbals website. We discuss the trials and tribulations of navigating compliance in the plant medicine space, the role of various entheogens across cultures, and much more.Pleas rate and review this episode wherever you're listening ( :

Rob Hoffman is a professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and an editor / peer-reviewer of various academic journals. We dive into the history of Reishi in China, it's reference in ancient Chinese Pharmacopeias, the etymological origins of Reishi, and much more.Please rate and review the podcast wherever you're listening.

Lee Carroll is the lead herbalist at Real Mushrooms, pioneers in the functional mushroom industry with 40+ years experience. Lee joins us for the second time to discuss the nutritional benefit of mushrooms in regards to fighting inflammation in the body and reducing cellular stress. He discusses the often overlooked importance of Ergothioneine, an amino acid found mainly in mushrooms, as well as the importance of honoring tradition in our relationship with mushrooms.Use code Lee for a discount on your purchase from Real MushroomsPlease rate and review the podcast wherever you're listening ( :

Kat Murti is the Executive Director of SSDP, Students For Sensible Drug Policy, an advocacy org working to end the War On Drugs and ensure access to research and civil liberties. She joins us today to raise public awareness of the proposed scheduling of DOI and DOC by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. DOI and DOC are two research chemicals that are vitally important to psychedelic research - SSDP is taking the DEA to court to ensure that these two chemicals remain unscheduled, a process which we discuss on the episode today in addition to covering a lot of ground around drug policy reform and the War On Drugs history and aims at large. Please rate and review this episode wherever you're listening.

Cullen Clark of Aether Apothecary joins us to present his pioneering research into "The Lost Muti" , a hypothesis which explores the untold story of fungi in Southern Africa including potential use of entheogenic and medicinal mushrooms by ancient indigenous tribes in the region. Cullen shares his on the ground experience interviewing tribal elders and analyzing 300 plus petroglyphs and cave paintings over the last 6 years, and also shares the story of documenting two new to science - yet likely old to the local cultures - psilocybin mushroom species in Lesotho and South Africa.Please share, rate, and review this episode ( :