Psychedelics & Plant Medicine for entrepreneurs

“So intermittent hypoxia is the magic of breathwork. When you hold your breath for 60 to 90 seconds, you invoke a positive state, a positive stress on the body, and it creates an adaptive change to having less oxygen in the body.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 9:45· listen →

“When you hold your breath, right, for a long enough time, we create intermittent hypoxia and you reduce the oxygen supply to that mitochondria. You will make that mitochondria wake up and go, oh my God, I'm running out of oxygen. I need to do a spring clean.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 13:00· listen →

“The responses were as profound or more profound than the kind of psychedelic insights you get, um, like oneness, connection, feeling like you've been channeled by God and all that stuff, as you would from a big dose of psychedelics.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 15:31· listen →

“When you hold it to as long as I was saying, intermittent hypoxia, you produce ADOSE. ADOSE standing for anandamide, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. So this makes you feel naturally high.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 30:37· listen →

“We as entrepreneurs and leaders, that's what gets us where we are, is we think we have this energy above our neck most of the time. We're comparing, we're contrasting, we're judging, doing all the things that make our companies better, that make us better. And so I have to coach them to let go of that and to relax and be vulnerable and release expectations.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 32:05· listen →

“You need to be narcissistic enough to think your idea is the idea everyone needs. You have to be Machiavellian enough to, with maybe just a few dollars in your pocket, get to the end results and game the system for you. And you'd have to be enough of a psychopath to push the people who work with you as far as you can without pushing them over the line.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 3:59· listen →

“I would just say, don't just wander into a field and think you've identified right mushrooms, if that's the way you get them, because that can kill you. That part can kill you. But to be curious, to go into it with an open mind and open heart, and to give up control for a minute and just see where you go.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 22:44· listen →

“It's a purpose-driven journey that you're not just coming in to experience the medicine. There's a purpose for your stepping into and on this path.”

Conscious Leadership Through Psychedelic Journeys · 8:44· listen →

“You don't get the journey you want, you get the journey you need. And so my journey was nothing like what was— nothing came up that gave me any indication about what was next for me. What came up for me were a lot of things from my past that I thought I had processed, but I didn't process.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 20:26· listen →

“He came out of that journey just crying and very in touch with this realization that he needs to let go more and let people be who they are because they're all, they all have their own ways of expressing love and affection and respect and get out of his own way of how he thought he should be happy.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 43:12· listen →

“The mushroom is a bit of a house cleaning mechanism that helps you to make decisions and choices to move forward. So the vessel, the human vessel, is sort of like stronger and cleaner as you move forward in decision making.”

Conscious Leadership Through Psychedelic Journeys · 13:07· listen →

“The worst thing that can happen is you're gonna cry. The worst thing that can happen is that you're gonna feel some of the pain that you haven't processed because our culture hasn't actually taught us how to do that.”

Conscious Leadership Through Psychedelic Journeys · 21:29· listen →

“I would say one day with psilocybin makes me feel like I've done a year or two of talk therapy. I feel like that is how the progress trajectory is. It's an accelerator like none I've experienced.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 26:40· listen →

“I like to tell people that I won't say I'm a good person, but I'm a much better person than I was before I started. I will say in a leadership context at work, I'm probably 80% less of an asshole than I was.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 10:05· listen →

“Chip Conley says the CEO is chief executive officer, but also chief emotional officer. And when you think about that, and you think about the ripple effects of entrepreneurship, not necessarily financially, but emotionally, if we could get every apparent Blake or Tim or Steve Jobs or whoever to explore this... what an amazing, impactful ripple effect that really could be.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 29:52· listen →

“I would just say, don't just wander into a field and think you've identified right mushrooms, if that's the way you get them, because that can kill you. That part can kill you. But to be curious, to go into it with an open mind and open heart, and to give up control for a minute and just see where you go.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 22:44· listen →

“It's not a vacation, it's not a retreat. There's nothing to retreat from. We often talk about it's let, lean, learn. You let go of what you're meant to let go of. You lean into the challenges that show up and you learn from it.”

Conscious Leadership Through Psychedelic Journeys · 30:44· listen →

“After it happened, it was probably the most difficult period of my life. I mean, even more difficult than growing and scaling the company because like, as I said, when you're like, when you're in it, John, you don't realize how much you're in it and how much of your every living drop of energy is going into it.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 15:57· listen →

“For me, it basically started in the '60s when I was a chemistry major in college. And there was about a year or so before they made LSD illegal. And so we were just making it and doing it. And I freaking loved it. I wanted to live in that state for the rest of my life. I could, I can remember running circles around my professors and stuff like that.”

Don Estes: How Words and Waveforms Shape Reality · 24:09· listen →

“It really all boils down to the fact that the universe is a quantum universe and it goes way beyond just frequency and phase and amplitude, and it all becomes quantum-oriented... everything is, uh, related to like a black hole. And in the center of the black hole is a singularity, and that singularity has all of the potentials that could happen in that particular circumstance.”

Don Estes: How Words and Waveforms Shape Reality · 14:58· listen →

“The responses were as profound or more profound than the kind of psychedelic insights you get, um, like oneness, connection, feeling like you've been channeled by God and all that stuff, as you would from a big dose of psychedelics.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 15:31· listen →

“It was in 2010 I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ulcerative colitis, and that's what left me housebound for almost a year, shitting blood like 40 times a day. It was hell.”

Niraj Naik on Breathwork, Hypoxia & Natural Highs · 2:20

“Society tells us we're going to be happy when we get there. And you're right, they get difficult because in order to take a business beyond a certain level, we have to be able to connect with people in the way they can feel us.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 2:55

“So, people need 3 things... They need to be acknowledged for who they are as an individual. They need to feel like they're contributing to the cause. They want to have meaning in their life... And then, they want to feel like they belong to the group and they want to feel safe within the group. So, those 3 things are more important than money.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 6:38

“If I'm vulnerable at all, then I won't be respected. But it turns out, when I do it from a place of intelligence, then people felt more safe. Because when I'm vulnerable, then they can let down their guard.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 8:05

“It's a 3-legged stool, and we could sit on a 3-legged stool, but you take one of those legs away— thoughts, actions, or emotions— and don't consider all 3, then we tip over.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 22:25

“When I started incorporating the emotional side of life into my own growth, and then my business, the business grew 30 times. We're not talking 10x. We're talking 30x.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 22:25

“Our power as leaders doesn't come from our title. It doesn't come from our intellect. It comes from, are we able to get the people we work with to get on board with the vision?”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 23:40

“I hold my vision. This is my goal. And I say, this or better. And I keep working towards my goal, but I'm always open to other opportunities and other guidance.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 27:15

“So I quit my job that day. I felt it so strongly, John. I knew what was happening and I just didn't want to be there. I'd come off the street with complete strangers feeling a deep connection and I got into this workspace and I was like, this isn't my environment.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 10:22

“She said, yeah, I think we think of our neurological memory as the memory we have, but the body stores memories too, and pre-rational memories. And maybe you were just experiencing that.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 25:32

“There are very esteemed entrepreneurs like Blake Mycoskie and Tim Ferriss who have donated tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to psychedelic research because they think it's so important.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 29:51

“When our internal sense of self is not aligned with what's going on, usually we have a lot of success on the outside and we just literally need to upgrade what's going on on the inside. So our sense of self hasn't matched the great, great things we've done on the outside.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 1:22

“I think first and foremost, it's realizing that often what we want to work on is a blind spot. So we see how we show up and we know maybe we don't like that thing or we're uncomfortable or why do I hesitate? But to get to that area of our mind, it can feel like a blind spot. It can feel like I'm banging my head against a wall.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 4:55

“I was actually in the higher education space. So to do this was probably a shocker to everybody, but no, I was in corporate, very successful for over 30 years. And I got to the point where, like many people, there was a lot of burnout and to the point that it didn't quite feel as fulfilling.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 9:37

“What I see mostly is typically at an early age, some sense of need to seek the validation, sense of where that really served, and the continual path of seeking validation... And when you don't have a sense of, I'm good enough whether I do that or not, eventually you're left with, yeah, but what if I don't do that?”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 15:07

“I think what's good to know, because I don't think, I certainly would never sign up for something that you're losing control. You don't lose control. You're getting control back because we want to be in control.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 21:29

“I use the example of once you find out Santa Claus isn't real, you go, oh, you don't need to go back to every moment you ever thought he was real. You just now know he's not real. And your whole perspective is just, okay, he's not real now.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 33:37

“They'll usually almost always will come out, why am I not happy? Or why do I not feel fulfilled when I've done all these things? But they really feel guilty even bringing it up because they know they're fortunate and they know that they have everything that most people want and desire.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 34:05

“You just need to get out of the fricking box and look outside yourself. It's like there is so much more to the 9-to-5er.”

Conscious Leadership Through Psychedelic Journeys · 28:55

“If you don't remember anything else about what I've said, remember that, that you have to watch what you say. Because if you say it just one time, uh, and whatever, it just kind of comes and goes. But if it's a mantra, something that you say over and over and over again, it sets up reality through those sine and cosine ways to make that come true. So you have to really watch exactly what you say, uh, because otherwise it will come true.”

Don Estes: How Words and Waveforms Shape Reality · 13:37