Welcome to Can You Survive this podcast.

My guest today is the founder of a company called Third Wave, and he is the author of the book,

Mastering Microdosing, How to Use Subperceptual Psychedelics to heal trauma,

improve performance, and transform your life.

Paul F. Austin, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me on.

This is a bit of a unique flavor of podcasts.

I mean, we were just talking about this before we went live

around the sort of broughtment at the end that you've set up. So let's see how we fare prior

to the, can you survive this thing. But I'm excited to come on and talk about psychedelics for

your community, your veteran community, and everyone else who's listening to the

show, I think psychedelics have shown such incredible healing potential for a lot of challenges

and issues that we are currently faced with. And they're fascinating substances that we've

been using for thousands of years. And it's fun just to provide a sliver of insight about the practicalities and microdosing,

how they work, all these sorts of things.

Yeah, amazing.

Can you tell me, why don't you tell me a little bit about the book?

Like, when did you write it and like, how did you come to write it?

What kind of research did you do to, uh, to put the book together? So I started third wave in 2015. So about eight

and a half years ago now is when I started publicly educating people on the, let's say,

benefits and risks of psychedelics. And I came into that

path as someone who had, in my late teenage, early formative years, basically in college, I had my

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