PT432 – Stéphane Lasme – From NBA Dreams to Cultural Healing: Iboga and a Mission to Empower Gabon
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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In this episode, Joe interviews Stéphane Lasme, a former professional basketball player from Gabon who is now a partner at SteddeCapital, a private markets investment platform investing long-term capital into U.S.- and Africa-based opportunities across sports ownership, infrastructure, technology and plant medicine.
Lasme speaks of his childhood, growing up in Gabon with more traditional Catholic values while journeying deep into the jungle to visit his Grandmother every summer. It was there that he embraced the cultural aspect of Gabon and community, and first learned of iboga, which he had a profound experience with at age 12, and would later revisit in his basketball days. He discusses the drive and passion that led him to become the first person from Gabon to play in the NBA, and the subsequent pressure, stress, cultural differences, and "ok, what now?" moments that came at the end. He talks about Gabonese traditions; how iboga improved his stress relief and mental focus; how embracing yoga and Buddhist methods of self-discovery improved his life; scientific reductionism vs. the magic of mystery and trying to define an experience; and more.
While Gabon allows for the export of iboga, Lasme's goal is to build a lab and treatment center in Gabon and share the power of Gabonese culture with people – so they can experience the medicine in its own country, with its traditional rituals and music. He has begun the fundraising process, and through his investment and facilitation work, is working to get African athletes to invest back into Africa and make Gabon a major destination for iboga.
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| 1:25.1 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Segadalex today. This is Joe Moore coming at you from Breckin rich colorado today on the show we have |
| 1:27.5 | stephan lasmey who i actually got to link up with in a really unique situation um so uh let's see |
| 1:36.4 | here stephan he's a i think he was the first gubernese professional basketball player uh in |
| 1:42.9 | the united states um and played for UMass Amherst, |
| 1:46.0 | the Minutemen, and I think went on to the Golden State Warriors and a few other places. |
| 1:51.8 | So we got to link up in, where was it, Harvard, Massachusetts, which is not where Harvard University |
| 1:58.5 | is, everybody. It's a super duper rural town it almost felt like a |
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