Hello, everybody, welcome back to Psychialyx today with your host, Kyle Buller and Joe Moore.

Today on the show, we are joined by Mark Habistraw.

Mark is a friend of ours that we met at a retreat center a number of years ago and just kind of

stayed in touch. He kept reaching out to us and we kind of kept the relationship alive. I think

when we met him, he just co-founded a mushroom farm and was growing edible mushrooms for

leaf farmers markets and restaurants in

Alabama. And since then, he's really stepped into the psilocybin world by helping to co-facilitate

retreats around the world in Jamaica, in Mexico, and in Amsterdam. And he's attended a lot of

these retreat centers that have really

emerged within the past few years. So he has some pretty interesting insights on just how people

are operating and what to really look out for. And just, I guess, has his pulse on, you know,

the emerging market, I guess you would say, in psilocybin retreat centers,

since he's worked or volunteered at a number of them. And so we thought it would be really

interesting to bring him on, to share his experience with you. And hopefully, if you are

planning on attending any of these retreats, to really kind of know what to look for, how to stay

safe and to get the most out of your experience there. So really excited to have Mark on finally.

I know Joe did an interview with him for our clinicians class, exploring what to look for in

retreat centers and kind of exploring his own process with it.

So I think you're really going to like this episode. It looks very insightful as I was asking

deeper questions. And that's been the one thing that's really stuck out in our friendship

over the years, just seeing him kind of asking the questions, digging deeper, and really kind of

pushing his personal and professional development. So yeah, really fun to catch up with Mark on a podcast

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