Hello everybody. Welcome to Psychedelics today. This is David Drapkin, your host. Thanks a lot for tuning in. Really great having you here. You probably love podcasts about psychedelics, don't you? I'm just guessing. Have you heard of and listened to

the Minority Trip Report, MTR? If you haven't, go check it out. It's okay. We're okay with you

having more than one podcast that you love. That is created and hosted by Rad Saraj, who today is my guest on the show.

And Rad is a friend.

We have danced together and smiled and laughed, and he is an amazing human being.

Very wise.

He's had a wonderful life, kind of traveling and living in different countries.

And most of the topic we're talking about,

you know, is, yes, mental health and psychedelics, the psychedelic ecosystem, finance and business.

But more than that is talking about self, our identity. The impact of culture, community,

family, trauma comes up a little bit as well, and particularly

RAD's work on Minority Trip Report, giving voices to those folks that might not get so much

microphone time or so much stage time as they deserve and as we need them to have to be truly just inclusive

and learning from each other and celebrating life together. So go check out his podcast. It's

fantastic. And one other piece that I wanted to share here is he speaks about Mission Club,

which to me sounds like a crowdsource kind of angel investing in psychedelic startups.

That's really cool.

But there was a part where we get really personal talking about ourselves and childhood and growth and different aspects of self that might be minorities that we're seeking to integrate now. So that was really beautiful

to get into that, Rad. Okay, here is his bio. Rad Saraj operates at the trifecta of capital

consciousness and culture. Rad is the founder of Mission Club, an education and investment platform

that's democratizing and mobilizing

a global community of angel investors into the psychedelic ecosystem. Radd advises and mentors

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