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Hey, you guys, welcome back to the Gutsy Health podcast.

Today, we might stretch and reach a little bit further than what we're

comfortable with. Today we're going to talk about psychedelic medicines and we have an incredible

expert on with us today. His name is James Jesso. He's an author, a public speaker and he hosts a

podcast that's really interesting. It's called Adventures Through the Mind. I think he's going to be an

amazing person to interview on this topic because we have so many people saying, what's the deal with psychedelics and things like trauma and healing and does it help?

Or are you just kind of somebody who is trying to party?

We're getting so many different questions.

And he actually published two books, one decomposing the shadow,

lessons from the psilocybin mushroom and the true light of darkness. So I think we'll have a

really inspiring, interesting conversation today. And that can stretch our minds a little bit

further. So welcome, James. Thanks for being on today. Hey, thanks for having me. Tell me a little bit more

about your work.

And what does your work actually look like?

How are you integrating psychedelics?

So my primary channel of work is essentially researching and researching psychedelics,

psychedelic culture, psychedelic medicine, all forms of psychedelic research, and any sort of like

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