Psychedelics #2 with veterans Jesse Gould and Juliana Mercer

Join Jon and Will as they discuss psychedelics with Heroic Hearts Project founder, former Army Ranger Jesse Gould, and Sabe Chief Experience Officer, Marine Corps veteran Juliana Mercer.  

Announcements and links:  

Speaking of psychedelics! Will and I are joining former Army Ranger guest from our episode on Trust Neil Markey - at an upcoming 5 day entheogenic wellness retreat at the BEAUTIFUL Imiloa Institute in Costa Rica November 19-23. There are still spots available! We’d love to meet you there… we’ll drop the link in the comments here in a second. https://imiloainstitute.com/retreat/reflect-reset-rewire/  

The next Mindfulness and Movement Experience with Movement Rx kicks off Octtober 27th. If you’re ready to improve your mental and physical wellness, join me and Will with our partners from MovemementRx for this 21 day online journey. https://movement-rx.com/mtm If you’re not sure, join me and Dr. Theresa Larson in either one of two upcoming webinars where we will introduce you to how mindfulness and movement work together to improve overall health and wellness.  These webinars are October 14th at 11am ET or October 21 at 6pm ET. Again, you can directly register for the experience through the MTM link provided earlier OR you can sign up for one of the two webinars at Movement-rx.com or with this link https://offers.movement-rx.com/mindfulness-movement-workshop-2  

https://www.heroicheartsproject.org  

Juliana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianamercer  

Jesse in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-gould  

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Time stamps:  

3:45 Welcome to our guests Jesse Gould and Juliana Mercer  

6:30 Will leads Opening Grounding Practice  

10:00 Juliana’s story  

16:00 Jesse’s story  

19:00 What is Ayahuasca?  

22:00 Something needs to change  

23:30 What is the Heroic Hearts Project providing for Vets?  

26:00 Juliana’s Experience with HHP  

27:00 Building a support team  

28:30 Sabe Journeys Retreats 

 29:30 The importance of creating a setting  

33:00 Not just for Vets!  

34:00 What it means to “download”  

35:00 D.A.R.E. kids unite!  

38:30 This is not for everyone, but for some people it is life-changing  

40:00 Know if this right for you before you jump in  

44:00 MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD (https://maps.org/research/mdma)  

47:00 Psycobilin, Ayahuasca, MDMAetc. - not all medicine is the same  

51:00 The Ceremonial Aspect  

52:00 A guide or coach is a great resource  

54:30 The decriminalization of drugs  

1:00:00 What life enhancing properties?  

1:05:00 Spirituality  

1:10:00 We're great at "one-upping" but Are you “one-downing” yourself?  

1:16:30 Jon leads Closing Grounding Practice  

Opening and closing Music: Malecon by Soyb & Amine Maxwell https://soundcloud.com/soybmusic https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-malecon Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/xbWzYbtMgIE 

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