A Practical Guide to Psychedelics and Sobriety
Experience from my 15 years in program. Over the past ten years, psychedelics have come front and center for millions worldwide. Over the past 24 months, if you haven't seen a documentary or read an article on the topic, you may be living in a cave. Whether you've...
7 Steps to Psychedelic Success
Imagine for a moment, your favorite place in the whole wide world. You’ve been visiting this special place every day for your entire life. It’s not a long or difficult journey. In fact, you can get there instantaneously if you just take a moment to imagine. As...
Please, Don’t Give Up On Happiness
Being an entrepreneur is hard but not hopeless. This whole solopreneur journey2 has been quite a ride. I start working with a new client and feel like the Universe loves me. Then I get ghosted by two clients and feel like I've suddenly done something to piss off the...
Self-Love Is An Output (Not An Input) To Healing
And a few ways to spot and stop gaslighting yourself. One of my favorite quotes by Bill Watterson, the creator of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoons, is, "Never in the history of calm down has anyone ever calmed by being told to calm down." Telling someone to calm...
Psychedelics and Control: An Unfortunate Combination
The first time I ever sat with ayahuasca I was in a small maloka in the Amazon jungle with four other travelers. Me, them, the curandero, and our shamanic tour guide all nervously sitting in the dark, listening to the jungle, and wondering what would happen next. I...
What Kind of Happy Are You
Happiness is a funny word. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” This reminds me of the saying, “If you...
How to Escape Startup Stockholm Syndrome
The only thing worse than being taken captive is sympathizing and bonding with your captor. But what if our captors are our own beliefs and aspirations? A friend sent me a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. After reading Chip’s Wounded Entrepreneur post, I...
Why Aren’t You Working “On” The Business?
In my twenties I was pretty rotten at dating. I’d go on dates and only reveal the parts of my personality I thought my date would be approve of. We’d hit it off, things would start to get serious, then as more and more of my true self began to bubble to the surface,...
The Hungry Ghosts of Entrepreneurship
In many Buddhist traditions, a rather obscure metaphor is one of the “hungry ghosts.” Imagine a ghoul-like figure with a giant head and gaping mouth connected to a hunger-deprived and bloated belly connected only by a needle-thin throat. The image itself visually and...
The two most transformative moments of my life
For the past 15 years, I’ve lived a rather wild and magical life straddling the worlds of business and spirituality. Working with amazing teachers from all over the world has allowed me to experience a completely new way of thinking; which has subsequently allowed me...
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