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Medicinal Mushrooms with Olga Katic – Epi-3725

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re diving into the underground world of medicinal mushrooms with Olga from Mushroom Mountain. Olga grew up foraging mushrooms in the forests of Bosnia and Hercegovina, learning from her grandparents which ones to eat, which to toss, and how to live with the land instead of just on it. These days, she runs Mushroom Mountain, a powerhouse operation producing spawn for edible and medicinal varieties, plus mushroom extracts and honeys under the Mycomatrix label. But that’s just scratching the surface. Olga also leads a wild mushroom food safety certification program that’s FDA-endorsed and accepted by seven states so far. Continue reading →

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0:00.0

And we're a better way to do this.

0:08.8

Let me show you a better way.

0:16.0

You don't have to be another face in the crowd.

0:20.7

And we are live, welcome folks to episode 3,725 of the survival podcast.

0:27.2

We're kind of wrapping up today a summer series on mushroom growing.

0:32.2

I didn't do them every week or anything with our interviews, but we did quite a bit.

0:35.9

We had Olga, who is with us today, Olga

0:38.0

Caddick for Mushroom Mountain on, kind of lead that off. I did kind of a standalone,

0:42.1

just me, mushroom show. We brought on a couple with a small company specializing in specific

0:49.6

mushroom extracts. We brought on a guy last week, Kevin, who started a home-based business and now

0:55.9

sells fairly large scale. We also brought the folks on from Lawrenceport. So we've had a pretty

1:01.0

good view of mushrooms. And we've talked in and out on the medicinal properties, but we've never

1:05.9

really dived deep. This show is very much about self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

1:12.4

And we came at this mostly from the standpoint of growing food.

1:16.5

But we're also big on growing medicine around here.

1:18.7

We're big on herbs, mushrooms, and many other natural forms of wellness.

1:24.3

And when I found Olga and I found mushroom out, and I realized that somebody that, yes, they sell the fruiting blocks and all the materials and all that, but also somebody that's really deeply appreciative of the healing and nurturing qualities of the Third Kingdom.

1:39.9

So we'll have her on in just a moment to discuss that.

1:42.7

Before we do, let me remind you about one way you can help support the work that I do. And that would be to get a copy of my book, laws of life, ditch the system and design your life. This is something I say a lot, but I want you to really think about this. We have these people who do things like work for insurance companies.

2:01.2

We have social engineers.

2:02.2

We have all types of people like this.

2:03.8

They can generally take a person at the age of 25 and see if this person doesn't get cancer at 32,

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