E64 - Aubrey Marcus: Navigating Purpose, Prosperity & Plant Medicine Pitfalls
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today we are joined by the warrior poet himself, Aubrey Marcus, for a deep dive into the journey of awakening and integration. Aubrey shares what it means to be a warrior poet, stepping into the role of divine masculinity, and discovering his worth beyond his accomplishments.
Aubrey also opens up about the recent death of his father, and how he healed from grief and loss. He shares his path with plant medicine. Beginning at the age of 18, he has used psychedelics as a tool for growth and expansion, explaining that he doesn't know who he'd be without them. He shares how to avoid common pitfalls on the plant medicine path, and why integration is simpler than most think.
Aubrey also dives into his journey with building and selling a multi-million dollar company, what success feels like, and why money won't solve everything.
___________
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:06 Embodying the Warrior Poet Within
4:08 Asking the Question: Who am I?
11:35 Discovering Your Inherent Worthiness & Finding the middle way
19:15 The Death of My Father
23:48 Healing Unconscious Relationship Patterns
29:54 I Can’t Imagine My Life Without Plant Medicine
33:07 Pitfalls of the Plant Medicine Path
37:46 The Secret to Integration
43:00 Overcoming the Hungry Ghost of Desire
49:15 Success, Selling Onnit, and What Comes After Wealth
59:02 Projections, Polyamory & Transcending Jealousy
1:09:09 Embodying the Divine Masculine
1:12:13 Rebalancing Masculine & Feminine Energies
1:17:55 The Power of Community
1:26:43 Conclusion
___________
Aubrey Marcus is the founder of Onnit, a globally disruptive brand based on a holistic health philosophy he calls Total Human Optimization. Onnit remains an industry leader with products optimizing millions of lives, including many top professional athletes around the world.
Aubrey currently hosts the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, a motivational destination for conversations with the brightest minds in athletics, business, mindset, and spirituality with over 100 million listens. He is the author of the NYT Bestselling book Own The Day, Own Your Life and has been featured on the cover of Men’s Health and other publications. He has also produced several documentaries including Awake In The Darkness, Dragon of the Jungle, Ayahuasca, and Huachuma.
He is currently the visionary behind the donation based coaching platform Fit For Service which recently hosted the transformational music festival, Arkadia. If you ask Aubrey what he is most passionate about, it is raising awareness for psychedelic medicine, including dedicated philanthropic support to MAPS.org and Heffter Institute. He is a 27 year native of Austin, Texas where he currently resides with his wife Vylana.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aubreymarcus/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AubreyMarcusPod
Fit for Service: https://fitforservice.com
Website: https://www.aubreymarcus.com
___________
Download André's FREE Book Recommendation List: https://www.knowthyself.one/books
Know Thyself
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/
Website: https://www.knowthyself.one
Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4wglCWTJeWQC0exBalgKg
Listen to all episodes on Audio:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FSiemtvZrWesGtO2MqTZ4?si=d389c8dee8fa4026
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-thyself/id1633725927
André Duqum
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/
Meraki Media
https://merakimedia.com
https://www.instagram.com/merakimedia/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | If your desire is linked to this idea that getting what you desire is actually going to be satiating, |
| 0:07.9 | you're on a slippery slope. I remember I sold my company on it, life-changing payoff. I go to that |
| 0:13.8 | moment, log into my bank, and I see just an absurd number. And it's like, what the fuck am I going to do with this amount of money? |
| 0:21.5 | There's an ever-present invitation to show up in greater and greater service. |
| 0:26.5 | I see always what's possible for me, and it's always a little bit ahead of where I am. |
| 0:32.6 | These plant medicine experiences have shaped and formed who I am to such a great degree. It's almost hard to imagine |
| 0:40.7 | Aubrey Marcus without it. There's lots of traps on the plant medicine path. You have to be able to find |
| 0:46.5 | the ecstatic and find the rapture all over the place. If you really love the process of evolution |
| 0:52.6 | itself and you fall in love with the desire to evolve, |
| 0:55.6 | you're going to really be satisfied. I mean, it's one of the secrets to happiness. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello, beautiful beings. Welcome back to the Know They Self podcast where every single week |
| 1:09.2 | we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind, a deep heart to learn more about ourselves and the nature of |
| 1:15.2 | the world at deeper and deeper levels. My guest today is the warrior poet. He radically lives his |
| 1:21.4 | life to the fullest. I know him as somebody that loves to explore the boundaries and edges of his |
| 1:26.6 | own consciousness and he shares the diamonds that he finds with millions of people. |
| 1:31.3 | He's the founder of Onit, Fit for Service, Arcadia Festival. |
| 1:35.4 | He is a best-selling author, a podcaster, a philosopher, an ally, a brother, dear friend of |
| 1:41.3 | mine. |
| 1:41.8 | And he's somebody that deeply respect. And I'm inspired by his capacity to play big in the |
| 1:47.9 | material world, show up with a heart of service, and stay devoted in the spiritual and melt |
| 1:54.6 | and blur the lines between all of them. |
| 1:56.8 | Aubrey Marcus, thanks for being here. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from André Duqum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of André Duqum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.