100 Episode Club

Mycopreneur Podcast has joined the 100 episode club.

Yesterday’s release with Johns Hopkins psychedelic research scientist Manoj Doss marks episode 101 - I was so buried in forging the path ahead, the triple digit milestone episode release went unnoticed until one episode after.

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how quickly this podcast and the platform built around it would take off. I say that now, but it didn’t feel like it at first.

The podcast languished as a small, obscure passion project for much of the first year of its existence - sometime during the second year of the show, it started to pick up serious momentum. In a heavily saturated media landscape full of white guys with psychedelic podcasts, there’s only one way to stand out as far as I can tell - be wildly original and consistent.

As I’ve often talked about on the podcast and in interviews with other outlets, the first satire reel I ever made went viral. The ‘Woke Capitalist Psychedelic Retreat Center” racked up 170,000 views on IG overnight, and another 100k on TikTok. This showed me that satirizing the psychedelic community is a viable and popular form of social commentary - as well as a great way to promote the podcast.

A lot of people who first encounter my satire, and even some who have followed me for a year, still have no idea that the actual Mycopreneur Podcast regularly features heavyweight academics, corporate executives, respected underground cultivators, and world class journalists on the program. To celebrate reaching the 100 episode club, here’s a look at some of the people who have helped to shape the arc of this platform over the first two years of it’s existence.

1. Michelle Janikian - This is the first episode I ever released, and we got to do it in person . Michelle and I were neighbors and she was among the first half dozen people I asked to interview - the momentum from this first episode helped me to feel confident that I could produce this podcast, and I have a debt of gratitude to her for supporting this project in its infancy. She’s also a badass author, and you can find her book ‘Your Psilocybin mushroom Companion’ here. 2. Simon YuglerSimon and I have been good friends since our freshman year at the University of San Francisco in 2007. He was actually the first interview I recorded for this podcast, and continues to do incredible work around depth psychology and psychedelic integration in his native Portland community and beyond.

1. Josephine NakakandeIf you asked me who my favorite person in the global mushroom community is, Josephine would likely be my top of mind answer. She exemplifies everything a mycopreneur can be - a community steward, a contagiously joyful individual, and a huge success story against all odds. You can find out more about her work teaching critically vulnerable women in rural Uganda how to cultivate mushrooms *here*

2. Alex Dorr

Alex has been a wonderful supporter of the podcast, and a dear friend, since the minute we connected. I greatly admire his approach to his work as the Founder and CEO of Mushroom Revival , and draw inspiration from him on a regular basis.

1. Ksenia Klimov

This is the first (and so far only) Mycopreneur episode that was recorded 100% in a language other than English. We did this episode in Spanish, and it served to help catalyze more connections across Latin America. It also showed me that I can do things with this platform that no one is expecting and still be successful.

1. Jacob AlvarezJacob exemplifies a devoted and infinitely curious mycopreneur who is marching to the beat of his own drum - my type of person. He has relentlessly pursued the pioneering of beefsteak fungus cultivation - a feat that no one else has managed to achieve.

1. Haya Al-Hejailan

Haya represents extraordinary courage in her journey to help normalize psychedelic medicines in the Southwest Asia North Africa Region - she has been an outspoken and effective advocate for psychedelic therapies in her home country of Saudi Arabia - where I actually used to live - and is helping to spearhead a momentous change in the cultural framing of psychedelics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and beyond.

I could name every person from every episode here, but the people referenced above paint a fairly comprehensive picture of the diversity and global expertise represented by the 100 mycopreneurs who have appeared on the show - I did one solo episode. These episodes stand out as a wonderful representation of what I want this podcast and platform to be.

Next I’d like to shout out some people who have inspired me and supported the podcast and Mycopreneur platform along the way via making introductions, publishing my work, and generally being awesome -

Zoe Wilder - Thank you for being an early adopter and consistently introducing me to fantastic guests, and for helping to platform my first piece of published writing on a legit platform in the space

Reggie Harris - Thank you for putting me on as a panel moderator at the California Psychedelic Conference and the Oakland Psychedelic Conference

Josh Hardman - Thanks for inviting me to publish on Psychedelic Alpha, and for bringing me to a wider international audience for better or worse ( :

Simon Yugler - Thanks for being a great friend for 15 + years and being a grounding presence in these crazy times

Cynthia Salarizadeh - Thanks for the incredible support and the behind the scenes influence

Pete & Colleen Sessa - Thanks for hooking it up with the opportunity to host Cannadelic and the Entheo Awards

There are a hundred other people I’d like to shout out, but that will come over the course of the next chapter as we continue to build together.

Thank you all for being part of this independent myco media experiment, and here’s to the next 100 episodes - and everything else - that the Mycopreneur podcast and platform brings forth.