Mike Morgan (Moral Injury in Policing, The Healing Power of Ayahuasca and the Failure of Drug Prohibition) - Episode 1162

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Mike was born and raised in North Bellmore, New York where he graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in accounting in 1991. After starting his accounting career, he realized that his real passion lay in Law enforcement. Mike wanted to become an FBI agent, but they were on a federal hiring freeze at the time, and coupled with the fact that he wanted to experience a different way of life,

He applied to, and was accepted into the Atlanta Police Department where he began his career in August 1993. He worked in Atlanta Until he was hired by the Suffolk County Police Department, New York in October 2003 where he worked until he was medically retired in October 2022.

After retiring, Mike began experiencing some depression issues, some anger issues and eventually realized that he had PTSD. Mike found healing Through plant based medicine, specifically Ayahuasca, and after journeying with that medicine, he both healed his PTSD and dedicated his life to helping other men and women military veterans/1st responders heal their own PTSD and trauma issues.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pioneer Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, law enforcement veteran and the man behind the resilient warrior, Mike Morgan.
0:13.2	Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from Mike's journey into the world of law enforcement, some notable calls, working with SWAT,
0:24.3	his own powerful mental health story, how ayahuasca helped him break through some of his own
0:30.7	challenges, how he's using his journey to help other first responders, and so much more.
0:38.9	Now before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just take a moment. Go to whichever app you listen to this on,
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0:52.9	elevate this podcast, therefore making it easier for others to find.
0:57.3	And this is a free library of well over 1,100 episodes now.
1:03.5	So all I ask in return is that you help share these incredible men and women's stories
1:09.1	so I can get them to every single person on planet
1:13.2	earth who needs to hear them. So with that being said, I introduce to you Mike Morgan. Enjoy.
1:21.6	Music. Well, Mike, I want to start by saying thank you so much for taking the time and coming on the Behind the Shield podcast today.
1:48.4	Well, I want to thank you very much for having me. It is an honor and a pleasure.
1:52.0	So I know that we're not too far from each other. Where on planet Earth be finding you this afternoon?
1:58.0	I am in Lake Worth, Florida. So for those of you who are into equestrians, it's just south of Wellington, which is the
2:04.7	winter equestrian capital of the world, and just about 45 minutes north of Fort Lauderdale,
2:10.0	Florida.
2:11.0	C. Ocala calls itself the horse capital of the world.
2:14.0	So have they ever had like a gang war to figure out who's the ultimate horse capital, even though that's excluding all the other countries that probably have more horses? Exactly. I think it'd be a great show. Let's see if we can pitch it. I'm sure that's... A lot of money of all places. Yeah, someone would pick it up. I know they would. All right. No doubt. I mean, after all, they were they were televising
2:35.4	cornhole during COVID. So after that, I realized that the bar was so low that any of us could be
2:39.7	on television. Brother, there's crazy shows on ESP, somebody, there's like 19 ESPN channels,
2:45.9	but my wife and I will watch them and record these insane subjects, sports that they come up with these days,
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