PT 625 Greg Shanken — Collaborence, Community Access & Ethical Growth in Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Joe Moore sits down with Greg Shanken (Colorado Psychedelic Society, Collaborence Psychedelic Business Association; founder, Higher Frequency Network) for a wide-ranging conversation about building community infrastructure, navigating censorship, and creating accessible, ethical pathways into psychedelic healing. Greg shares his personal arc from lifelong depression to ayahuasca, ketamine, and Bufo; why he launched a vetted affiliate/partner network for our space; and how Oregon–Colorado collaboration can widen access while honoring reciprocity and conservation.
Key themes
- Collaborence: a two-day CO/OR event (online + in-person) connecting facilitators, professionals, and the public with pay-what-you-can access options.
- Access & affordability: how to widen entry points (microdosing, breathwork, scholarships/funds) within and beyond regulated service/healing centers.
- Censorship & platform risk: why repeated Meta account shutdowns pushed Greg to build community-based distribution outside big ad networks.
- Personal journey: depression, SSRIs/SNRIs/ADHD meds → ayahuasca (two-night initiation), IM ketamine, and later Bufo/5-MeO-DMT.
- Ethics & ecology: "blood toad," conservation, and the case for synthetic 5-MeO-DMT over toad-sourced material; parallels with peyote/mescaline carve-outs.
- Leadership & culture: bringing heart-centered leadership, breathwork, and microdosing into companies; moving from transactional to mutual-aid ecosystems.
- Regulated vs. underground: costs, insurance realities, sliding-scale models, and the role each plays in a healthy landscape.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore. Today on the show, we have Greg Shankin. And today we talk about a conference coming up on the October 4-5 weekend here. It's a conference called Collaborance that Greg and some others are putting together. And it is trying to bring together folks in Oregon and Colorado to talk about what's |
| 0:40.6 | been going on in their states around psychedelics and how they might be able to share lessons from |
| 0:45.6 | one to the other and much more. So check that one out. Links are in the show notes. Collaborance is |
| 0:52.3 | the name of the conference. You can probably find it in our socials as well. |
| 0:56.4 | So check that out. |
| 0:58.3 | And Kyle might even try to go to the Boulder location. |
| 1:03.1 | So there's in person and streaming online access. |
| 1:05.7 | So check that out. |
| 1:06.8 | I may not go, but we'll see. |
| 1:09.7 | I already kind of made plans, but I would like to see everybody. |
| 1:13.3 | And yeah, what else? Greg, Greg and I are friends. We met a few years ago. Greg taught it |
| 1:18.8 | vital for one of our business electives ages ago. He'll talk about that in the show a bit. |
| 1:24.8 | We have some overlap and apparently we've been at a number of |
| 1:28.3 | the same parties and just kind of learning that about each other, which is great. All right. I think |
| 1:34.1 | that's it for the intro. Thanks, Greg, for being here. And if you all want to support us, please |
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| 1:45.3 | A monthly donation would go a long way from you. |
| 1:49.2 | And we're working to build community there. |
| 1:51.7 | We're working to bring exclusive access, webinars and interactive zooms with you, film and book clubs and much more, possibly even like mastermind retreats and things like that so |
| 2:02.2 | check it out psychedelics today.com slash navigators um October 20 we have a course coming up called |
| 2:08.7 | advanced shadow work with Kyle Buller and Dr. Edo Cohen that one's going to be really great too |
| 2:14.0 | and then as always vital just stay tuned for our dates. We're working on that still. |
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