Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes
Life is a Festival #39: Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)
If you were an international DJ sensation, how would you use your fame to change the world?
Making Sustainability Sexy
Life is a Festival #38: Pete Phornprapha (Wonderfruit)
Pranitan "Pete" Phornprapha, scion of Siam Motors Group, has created an innovation lab for sustainability… disguised as a festival.
How to Celebrate Death
Life is a Festival #37: Klaudia Oliver (La Calaca)
Can we “undrown” ourselves from painful loss through a celebration of death?
We Can All Be Babes
Life is a Festival #36: Andrea Graham (The Librarian)
At Bass Coast, a beautiful boutique festival in the forests of British Columbia, everyone is a babe. What is a babe? A Bass Coast babe is a person of any gender who’s really feeling themselves.
Depression & Psychedelics: Dancing with the Black Dog
Life is a Festival #35: Dr. David Rabin MD, PhD (Apollo Neuroscience)
I interview my own psychiatrist about the myth of the “chemical imbalance” and how psychedelics interrupt neural pathways that associate depressive ideation with identity.
A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Life is a Festival #33: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
When the search for the Grail Castle becomes the prison of Hotel California, we need some tough love to wake the woke.
Can Free Love Save the World?
Life is a Festival #27: Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie (Love School)
According to Tamera, the revolutionary peace research eco village in Portugal, liberating love from fear, violence, and lies is the root solution for a true system change.
The Spiritual Side of Failure
Life is a Festival #24: Mauricio Boogieloop (Heart Ibiza)
How street performance taught Mauricio to embrace failure as a teacher, the history of Ibiza, and why Mauricio is optimistic about the future of the White Island.
Keep Psychedelics Weird
Life is a Festival #23: Erik Davis (Techgnosis)
Where’s the true weird in the age of Donald Trump and weird weather? Is depression weird, or is depression when things aren’t weird enough? Is Burning Man still weird or has it become too mannered and too known? Are there degrees of reality? How can we serve the psychedelic Renaissance while keeping the weird alive?
Authenticity, Anxiety, & the Artist
Life is a Festival #22: Atish Mehta (DJ atish)
Atish gets real about getting real.
From Activist to Ayahuasca Advocate
Life is a Festival #19: Tony Moss (Bird Tribe)
Eventually there is no difference between your life and ceremony… your life becomes a ceremony. And the secret is gratitude.
Find Your Rite of Passage
Life is a Festival #18: Life Rites with Max Carver & Ari Andersen
My personal story of embarking on the Mount Everest of shamanic journeys, the psychedelic medicine iboga which I took as part of an initiation with the Bwiti people in Gabon.
How to Party Without Breaking Your Brain
Life is a Festival #14: Dr. Molly
Life is a festival, let it be a long one full of cognitive liberty and healthy brains.
A Masterclass in Consent
Life is a Festival #13: Romi Elan (SoulPlay Festivals)
Would you like to live life like a festival? If the answer is an enthusiastic YES, join us for this dynamic conversation.
Family is the Headliner
Life is a Festival #12: Android Jones
If life is a festival, family is the headliner.
Planting Seeds for Legacy
Life is a Festival #8: Marcus Golden Barnes (Mixmag)
“Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
The Mythopoetic Antidote for Pornography Addiction
Life is a Festival #7: Zhenzan Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
With her ferocious wisdom like honey from the mouth of a Jaguar, Zhenzan teaches limitless passion.
The State of Psychedelics
Life is a Festival #3: Brad Burge (MAPS)
The Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies on patenting psilocybin, the promises and pitfalls of Ketamine for depression, MDMA for PTSD, and ayahuasca and cultural appropriation.
The Hunt for Sober October
Life is a Festival Podcast #1: Mikey Lion (Desert Hearts)
Mikey Lion, renowned DJ and Desert Hearts co-founder on Sober October, personal growth and the secret, psychedelic inspiration for Desert Hearts.