Heroic Hearts Project | Jesse Gould

Can You Survive This Podcast?

Jeff Apple

Education, Leisure, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Gould, a former Army Ranger, was plagued by severe PTSD after he returned home from combat. After quitting his job as an investment banker, selling all of his possessions, and wandering the world, he found himself in an ayahuasca retreat in the jungles of Peru. To his surprise, Jesse found that his symptoms of PTSD disappeared after the retreat, and his life was forever changed. He started HHP in April of 2017 “because I wanted to give my fellow veterans a way to heal their PTSD that had worked for me.” Since then, Heroic Hearts Project has helped hundreds of veterans overcome their suffering from PTSD by providing them not only with access to psychedelic programs, but with professional coaching, peer support, and other resources to empower them along their healing journeys. While HHP’s number one priority is always the direct care of veterans, we’re also working tirelessly to support research and advocacy efforts to improve access to psychedelics, offer programs for veteran spouses to better nurture the entire veteran family, and foster a community in which veterans can grow and give back to others who are suffering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome to Can You Survive this podcast. My guest today is an Army Ranger turned
0:14.2	psychedelics advocate and the founder of the Heroic Hearts Project. Jesse Gould. Welcome to Can You Survive this podcast?
0:23.7	Happy to be here. Thanks so much for having me and looking forward to this. Yeah, thanks so much
0:29.1	for coming on. So why don't we jump right in. Can you tell me a little bit about briefly,
0:35.4	like your military background and what drew you to joining the military?
0:40.4	Yeah. So I actually had a, I guess, somewhat unusual trajectory to the military. I actually had a
0:48.2	professional career beforehand. So I went to Cornell University, got a degree in economics.
0:53.5	I was actually working in finance, working at a boutique investment bank on Wall Street.
1:00.3	And through a lot of my life, I always had respect for the military.
1:03.9	It always intrigued me.
1:04.9	I always very much respected individuals who joined or served when they didn't have to.
1:13.1	Just sort of that concept of giving back to something bigger than themselves was always intriguing.
1:19.1	And but not coming from a military family by any means.
1:23.5	And so it was just kind of more of some idea that was bouncing around my head of like,
1:27.0	that's interesting.
1:27.6	Maybe that's something I could do, but who knows, you know, when you're a kid and you never
1:31.7	know.
1:32.5	But for some reason, it kind of just grew and grew.
1:34.9	And I think there's a combination of events that sort of led me to pull the trigger
1:40.5	for a lack of a better metaphor.
1:44.4	I don't know.
1:45.2	I feel like going through college, I just didn't get,
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