PT472 – Mike Finoia – Psychedelics and Comedy: Finding the Humor in Personal Growth
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Mike Finoia: standup comedian, Producer for the hit show, "Impractical Jokers," and co-host of the Comes a Time Podcast with Dead & Company bassist, Oteil Burbridge. His new Special, "Don't Let Me Down," is out now.
He talks about his early days of recreational drug use at jam band shows; a powerful psilocybin experience; passing out before his first ketamine experience and how his commitment has made subsequent experiences much smoother; and how his continued work has allowed him to focus on what's truly important. He's seen positive results from talking about his ketamine-assisted psychotherapy experiences on stage, and he's working on new material that will be much more focused on not just psychedelics, but the therapy, self-work, and growth he's gone through in his journey.
He also discusses the influence of other comedians; the bioavailability in different ketamine methods; how psychedelics are like a performance-enhancing drug; the importance of having a working, attainable idea of success and not getting caught up in other people's lives; the benefit of asking people in the audience to raise their hands if they've done psychedelics; and the importance of recognizing that psychedelics are absolutely not for everyone – at least if they're not ready.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Jessica and I'm a vital graduate. |
| 0:03.2 | After I completed the vital 12-month program, I went on to open up my own plan business here in the Netherlands, |
| 0:09.6 | offering legal psilocybin sessions, ceremonies and retreat, alongside educational and integration support |
| 0:16.6 | for people that literally come from all over the world to have the opportunity to sit with plant medicine here in a legal setting. |
| 0:24.6 | So besides that, I started to work with Microdosing Institute as well as a co-facilitator and explore more collaborations within the psychedelic space. |
| 0:34.6 | And some of those collaborations actually came out from the people that I got to know through |
| 0:40.0 | the vital program. |
| 0:41.4 | I also started to expand more of the educational work that I do with women of psychedelics. |
| 0:47.2 | And next year we will be providing more ceremonies and sessions and retreats besides |
| 0:53.3 | online and in-person events for all women |
| 0:55.8 | from all over the world. |
| 0:57.7 | And yeah, it's another exciting chapter coming up. |
| 1:01.9 | For me, the most rewarding part of this work is actually that I can bring all sides of me |
| 1:06.9 | to what I do. |
| 1:08.7 | If you are interested in getting involved in the psychedelic world and making a |
| 1:12.3 | meaningful shift in your life, visit vital psychedelic training.com for more information on joining |
| 1:17.9 | the next cohort. Are you working in psychedelics or taking steps to get involved? Lately, we've been |
| 1:24.7 | thinking about the future of this field, the people who are going to work |
| 1:27.7 | with psychedelics, and how they're going to show up. |
| 1:30.9 | So we decided to ask them, here's what we heard from people in a new survey who are working |
| 1:36.0 | in psychedelics right now or preparing to launch their careers. |
| 1:40.3 | Eighty-seven point six percent have been influenced by their own positive experiences with psychedelics. |
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