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Get Leaner & Live Longer

326: The Power of Psychedelics in Creating Lasting Change Ft Austin Mao

Get Leaner & Live Longer

Nate Palmer

Nutrition, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 300 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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Have you ever wondered if psychedelics could unlock better mental health, emotional intelligence, or a deeper connection with yourself and others?

 

I talk with Austin Mao, who is a licensed natural medicine facilitator and co-founder of Ceremonia, a legal psychedelic center in Denver, Colorado. Austin is the Program Director & Head Minister and has guided over 500 individuals. We discuss the purpose of using guided psilocybin and ayahuasca experiences to foster profound healing and personal growth. Austin explains that connection is the foundation for healing, pairing modern science (psychotherapy/neuroscience) with mindfulness and shamanic practices. He shares incredible stories, like how physical pain of 20 years disappeared after one ceremony. We explore how their structured retreats help individuals integrate lessons by building capacity to process experiences, avoiding resistance, and teaching the skill of presence.

 

Key Takeaways

  • Transformation often occurs because people become accustomed to a lesser quality of living and do not realize the difference until it is shown to them.

  • The process at Ceremonia focuses on connection as the foundation for healing.

  • Many participants experience significant physical transformations alongside emotional and mental shifts; at least two out of ten people often have a life-changing physical transformation.

  • The two key variables determining a psychedelic experience are dosage and the subjective feeling of safety/capacity.

  • The most inconvenient truth about connection is that real connection comes from experiencing "now" (presence) and the impact you are having on someone else in the current moment, not from history or background.

  • A simple tool for practicing presence is asking yourself: "What's it like to be me right now?".

 

Resources

 

  • Upcoming Retreats Mentioned: Awaken Together (January 13-18); Heal with Ayahuasca (February 2-8); Weekend Retreat (March 6-8).

 

Nate Palmer:

The founder of The Million Dollar Body and author of "The Million Dollar Body Method", Nate has been coaching for over 15 years and has worked personally with over 1,000 clients.

 

Transcript

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Have you ever been curious about psychedelic, especially if they could potentially lead to

0:04.5

better health, better longevity, better mental health and emotional intelligence, or just

0:09.5

better connection with yourself and other people?

0:11.6

Well, that's what today's episode gets into.

0:13.9

And I know the name of the show is Get Leener and Love Longer, but this is something

0:17.5

that I'm fascinated with, and I like to go a little bit deeper.

0:21.0

So I invited on someone named Austin Mao who runs a company called Ceremony.

0:25.4

They do retreats for psilocybin and ayahuasca in different parts in Denver throughout Bahamaxico.

0:32.3

And just wanted to talk with him a little bit about what's the point of all this and what can someone expect to get

0:38.0

out of an experience like this, especially when done with a guide who can walk them through

0:42.4

the different pieces and give some integration parts as well. So this is a fascinating episode.

0:46.5

I feel like Austin left me with a really, really good question right at the end that I've been

0:51.2

thinking about a lot of reflecting on since our episode recording.

0:55.1

So it's been fantastic to have this experience and had someone with the knowledge and

1:01.9

expertise that he brought to the show.

1:04.0

So if you're interested at all in the world of psychedelics and what that actually looks

1:08.0

like and what people are getting out of it, why is it different from the current level of mental and emotional intelligence tools that we have going on? You're going to want to check this episode out. Welcome to Get Leener and Live Longer with Nate Palmer, which now I'm changing into learn about psychedelics with Nate Palmer. This is the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy, burn fat, and build a body

1:28.7

that feels as good as it looks.

1:30.0

I'm Nate Palmer.

1:46.4

I've been a coach since 2008. I believe that looking great and feeling unstoppable, don't require hours in the gym, or giving up all the foods that you love. This show is where I share real strategies that help you get leaner, live longer, and unlock your million dollar body. So if you're ready to cut through the noise, take control of your health, and finally feel like a high performer again, let's do this.

1:48.7

Austin, welcome to get leaner and live longer. So glad you're here. I'm really excited for this episode. It's going to be a ton of fun. Hey, good to be here, Nade. So for anyone who's not familiar with you or your work that you do with psychedelics, would you just give us a little bit of background on who you are and how you came into this line of work? Yeah, absolutely.

2:01.1

So I'm the co-founder of a nonprofit and legal psychedelic center in Denver, Colorado, called

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