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Enhanced Senses PodcastExploring the Intersection of Therapy, Climbing, and Ketamine“ It does not have to be only be a mountain guide and take people up mountains, only be a therapist, sit in an office and go through these structured exercises and that hour is over.” “[Ketamine] it has allowed me to access that trans space where I am not stuck with social like expectations, right?” - Jay LouieIn this episode of the Enhanced Senses Podcast, Jay, a trans non-binary therapist of Chinese descent from Hong Kong and first-generation immigrant, discusses their unique approach to therapy. Jay, who practices in California...
2025-08-2553 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureAn Honest Look at Power Dynamics in Outdoor Adventure Communities: Climbing Clubs, Mentorship, Assault, and ReciprocityCarlie’s running the Oregon Cascades 100 mile ultramarathon on August 23, 2025! Cheer her on (you might get your name on her race shoes) by supporting her fundraiser to get more girls and women outside: https://www.classy.org/fundraiser/6540872Carlie Graham lives in Seattle, where she's pursuing a career in finance while staying deeply connected to the outdoors. Carlie led the climbing team at UC Irvine in Southern California and remains passionate about making outdoor recreation more financially and socially accessible through community based groups.Angie and Carlie talk about:...
2025-08-2148 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastHow Psychedelics Benefit Professional Athletes with Ian McCallToday's guest Ian McCall is a retired American mixed martial arts world champion, psychedelic research advocate, psilocybin advocate, performance coach and mentor. He is the founder of Athletes Journey Home helping athletes heal from traumatic brain injury.Our conversation dives into many topics around the special needs and healing opportunities for athletes!Listen to hear about …-Ian McCall’s journey and non-profit work with Athletes Journey Home.-The role of pressure in athletic performance.-Impact of TBIs in athletes.-P...
2025-08-1140 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHiking with POTS, Book Publishing, and Self-Discovery on the Trail: Grit Lit Featured Author Christine ReedHow do you juggle chronic illness, unconventional work, and personal adventure challenges?Christine Reed, author of Alone in Wonderland, joined us to talk about body challenges on trail, behind the scenes of writing and sharing books, and her company, Rugged Outdoorswoman Publishing.We talk about:Adventuring with POTS, a form of dysautonomiaSelf-publishing and the journey to writing a bookBalancing adventure with businessPublishing an anthology of stories: BLOOD SWEAT TEARSRealities of menstrual periods when on big adventures
2025-07-3121 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastFlow is the Language of Dance“ And then we're completely connected versus I have my role, you have your role, let's see if we can work together. It's, we are an original conversation, and we're just playing in the moment together.” - Michael HaugThis episode if for anyone who wonders how flow takes form throughout our lives and how it is manifested in a physical activity, like dance.Michael began his dance journey in 2011, studying and teaching over 25 styles of partner dance, including Waltz, Tango, Salsa, and more. While he fell in love with the in...
2025-07-2843 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureYour Body Knows More Than Your Training Plan: Rachel Boim On Pain, FKTs, And Body DysmorphiaYou’re invited to our free Trail Talk on July 31: Injury Prevention in Outdoor Adventure with Rachel Lee Boim, DPT. Bring your questions about pain, strength training, recovery and more. RSVP at cairnproject.org/trail-talks!Rachel Lee Boim is a record holding endurance athlete and Doctor of Physical Therapy who has set Fastest Known Times on iconic routes like the Kilimanjaro Summit Circuit, Aconcagua, and the trail from Namche Bazaar to Everest Base Camp.Rachel began her mountaineering journey at age 33. Since then, her on- the-go li...
2025-07-1734 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastSkill Building for Ego Mitigation and Flow States“I think what we're trying to achieve is freedom. That's actually what we're trying to achieve, and that's what that flow state feels like. Freedom.”Louis Dorian, founder of Psychedelist talks about his martial arts journey and the parallel pursuit of psychedelic experiences and their impact on that journey in relation to flow states and ego mitigation. In this episode you will hear about … -Importance of mentorship and set and setting for how to use psychedelics-Martial arts as a method for self def...
2025-07-141h 02
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureSummits Are Optional, Sisterhood Is Not: We’re Shifting Mountain Culture for Girls and WomenWhen 6 in 10 women struggle to name an outdoor female role model, how are girls supposed to know they belong in adventure spaces?Cheri and Aubryanna were two of the young adults selected for the Summit Scholarship Foundation's 2024 Mt. Baker youth climb.Spoiler alert: This all-women’s rope team didn’t reach the physical summit of Mt. Baker. But they gained something just as powerful.Angie sat down with Aubryanna and Cheri to talk about ambition, fear, belonging, and what it means to come...
2025-07-0325 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastCreating Lifelong Cyclists — While Letting Your Weirdness Fly“ If you have a little bit of outside the norm-ness to you, that's totally cool. Don't put it in a box, let it fly.” - Annick ChalierThis episode is permission for anyone who has felt like they don’t fit into the mold they were given in life, to be goofy and let their weirdness exist in the world! Annick Chalier is a mountain and gravel bike skills coach and endurance coach working primarily with cyclists. After a career in the energy industry she made a hard pivot towards co...
2025-06-3048 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureField Notes: Surviving A Flash Flood in the Grand Canyon 🌊 (and Call for YOUR Stories!)🎙️ Introducing: Field Notes, a series featuring your written and read stories.We're now accepting submissions from our community, and we’d love to feature your voice in the mix.We’re looking for personal essays set in the outdoors. Think friendship, change, healing, ridiculous encounters, anything that captures a moment where the outdoors shifted your perspective of the world or yourself.Find guidelines and how to submit your story at cairnproject.org/podcast.✏️ Field Notes | Caught in the Current: Lessons from Surv...
2025-06-1916 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastCreating Space for Creativity and StorytellingEmbracing expressive creativity, all parts of ourselves, and the natural world.Nathan Morgan is a Nashville-based visual storyteller who blends technical precision with deep emotional intelligence. With two decades of storytelling experience, he began as a photojournalist in California before chronicling Nashville’s commercial rise through as a local who moved back home.Today, as founder of Morgan Visual Productions, Nathan leads a team that helps brands simplify their why, amplify their story, and magnify their ROI. Their approach is grounded in curiosity, empathy, and creating safe spaces—because befo...
2025-06-1640 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Urban Training and Creative Resource Sharing can Shape the Future of Outdoor Adventure: Rachel Fagiano's StoryThink you need alpine access, fancy gear, or a mountain town zip code to train for a major expedition? Think again. Rachel Fagiano is an avid hiker, mountaineer, rock climber and ice climber based in New York City.They have a career background in racial justice, and now their work focuses on creating safe and welcoming environments and improving access to the outdoors for communities that have been traditionally excluded in those spaces.We talk about:How a climbing Groupon led to a...
2025-06-0538 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastMartial Arts as a Container for Personal DevelopmentMartial arts is not only about self-defense it can also be about personal reflection and growth.Diego Pinzon Rubiano is originally from Colombia and now an active member of Australia’s psychedelic community, Diego brings both international perspective and practical experience to his work. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Canberra and a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University in California.Diego has contributed to Australia’s pioneering psilocybin trial for end-of-life depression and anxiety at St. Vincent’s Melbourne and has served...
2025-06-0251 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureWhat it Takes to Paddle 2,000 Miles to the Arctic with a Friend (and Write a Book About It!): Grit Lit Featured Author Natalie Warren✨3 Adventure Opportunities:Join the June 100 Challenge! Combine outdoor movement with storytelling and giving back. We’re uniting 100 women to accept the challenge and will give prompts for accountability and storytelling tips throughout the month of June! This is free to join and a wonderful way to make an impact through spending time outside.RSVP for our free May 28th Trail Talk with registered dietitian Claire Shorenstein! Get your endurance and adventure nutrition questions answered. Sign up for free here.Looking for a fun way to k...
2025-05-2227 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastEnergy Beings in Physical Bodies with Neil CannonAn energetic and metaphysical conversation shared within a grounded and human experience lens. Neil Cannon is bestselling Author of The Vitality Code & The Vitality Secret, Mentor, Speaker, Coach. Since 2015, Neil has been facilitating health transformations by addressing the underlying cause of chronic illnesses: chronic inflammation. This way, his clients become free from illness, pain and medication. His approach addresses the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic “Pillars of Vitality.” His readers, customers and clients have reversed a variety of symptoms including but not limited to: eczema, arthritis, type-2 diabetes, excess body...
2025-05-1952 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastHow Coaching Shifts Performance NarrativesMental Performance Coaching helps athletes to reframe the stories they tell themselves about their performance and how they engage in their sports.From her personal journey as a ski and whitewater kayak athlete who found mental performance coaching helpful for her own mental challenges with extreme sports. Lynn has Identified that there is a deficit of mental performance coaching in the extreme sport space and is working to offer her experience back to other athletes. Lynn Barlow uses she/her pronouns. Lynn has spent the past 12 years working and p...
2025-05-1248 min
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Women’s Hiking Communities Build a More Inclusive Outdoors with Gunjan of MyTrailPals📢 RSVP for the free Trail Talk on May 28: Adventure Nutrition and Q+A | Sign up for the June 100 Challenge!🎧 Gunjan Utreja is a first-generation Indian immigrant to the United States who earned a master’s degree in engineering and built an 18-year corporate career. A journey to self-care led her to co-found the HikeQueen Buddies community, which inspired the creation of MyTrailPals—a mobile app designed to integrate outdoors into everyday existence.Angie and Gunjan talk about:Growing up in India and moving...
2025-05-0837 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastBridging Mindfulness, Whitewater Kayaking, and Cancer RecoveryAdam Spillman’s cancer recovery bridges lessons from whitewater kayaking, mindfulness, and breathwork into giving back to the community through coaching.Five years ago, Adam embarked on a transformative journey when faced with a life-altering diagnosis, Stage 3c testicular cancer. In the depths of uncertainty, and given one week to live without treatment he discovered an extraordinary path to healing and resilience through the profound practices of breathwork and cold exposure.Immersing in these modalities, Adam experienced a profound shift in perspective, finding peace, and a newfound appreciation for th...
2025-05-0552 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastFind the Others: Psychedelic Community PerspectivesShake up the snow globe, find the others, and embrace the flow of psychedelic experience during this conversation with Portland Psychedelic Society Executive Director, Max Kelemen.Max’s professional foundation is rooted in the non-profit sector: trained in leadership, ethics, policy reform, and facilitation with a Master’s in Public Administration. As a proponent of experiential learning through group dynamics and outdoor adventure, he has worked as a guide, facilitator, and administrator for organizations like: the Northwest Outward Bound School, SOS Outreach, and New Vision Wilderness. Through these roles, he has developed skills that weave...
2025-04-2855 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastLife Pivots: Lessons from Traumatic Brain Injury“I want to be a big bright bulb and shine out to other people.” Brandon Scheid is a professional kiteboarder and designer originally from Michigan, now based in Hood River, Oregon. With over a decade of experience pushing the limits in kiteboarding, Brandon built a career on the water—traveling the world, competing at the highest levels, and later transitioning into gear design. In November 2023, his life took a dramatic turn after a severe paragliding accident left him with a traumatic brain injury, as well as multiple fractures to his ba...
2025-04-211h 02
Enhanced Senses PodcastPortals for Transformation: From Whitewater Kayaking to Everyday LifeHow can you bring the simplicity and “dream life” feeling of a Grand Canyon river trip back into your everyday life? And what does “real life” truly mean?In this episode, Becca and I chat about portals of healing and transformation, discussing the impact of multi-day river trips, coaching programs, and how plant medicine journeys are just another version of these portals. We also explore achieving flow state and how it might relate to dissociation. Throughout our conversation, Becca’s approach to cultivating a lifestyle of play shines through!Wild Woman...
2025-04-1447 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastFrom NHL to Wellness AdvocateWhen you experience the “darkest of the dark” moments in life and are able to bring back insights from those depths to others.Kyle shares his journey from a NHL career to transitioning back to a life outside of hockey and finding ways to give healing opportunities back to his communities.Kyle Quincey is a 13-year NHL veteran who played for teams including the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche. Now a wellness advocate and speaker, Kyle draws from his personal journey — overcoming multiple concussions and navigating his son Axl’s...
2025-04-0746 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastNervous System Insights for Healing and Outdoor Recreation"To grow our capacity to feel and still feel safe."Stephanie Mankarios is an interesting guest to the show as she brings a wealth of knowledge from her Somatic Trauma Practitioner background and specialization in the nervous system and secure attachment. She works with individuals and groups to help them guide their nervous systems back to safety.Weaving her specialized background into the realm of outdoor recreation can help us to better understand how we may show up in physically high stress environments, which is never totally separated from our inner emotional...
2025-03-3154 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastTheater as a Healing ModalityWelcome to the second episode of Enhanced Senses Podcast! I am so excited to share Brian Stanton’s story. Brian’s work building Psychetheatrics reflects his own healing journey with the transformative power of acting and theater. Brian Stanton was born, adopted and raised in Kansas City, Brian Stanton currently makes his living as a stage actor based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Acting at California Institute of the Arts. Beyond theatre, Stanton recently received a Certificate for Psychedelic-Informed Practice, Harm Reduction and Integration from Psychedelics Today’s Vital Education Program. Th...
2025-03-2457 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastEndurance Bike Racing, Recovery from Alcoholism, and Psychedelic HealingWelcome to the first episode of Enhanced Senses! I am so excited to share Erin Witter’s story. Erin’s story resembles the premise of Enhanced Senses perfectly. In this episode you will hear about his story of …-Competitive endurance bike racing and struggling with alcoholism. -How breathwork and psychedelic ceremonies can help shift these addictive activities -What it looks like to embrace a well balanced life -Giving back with psychedelic coaching and promotion of community events in Colorado.Links to get into c...
2025-03-1746 min
Enhanced Senses PodcastWhat is Enhanced Senses Podcast?Welcome to the trailer for Enhanced Senses Podcast!Enhanced Senses Podcast explores the connection between external creative pursuits—such as sports, art, and outdoor recreation—and the internal journey of emotional healing and transformation. Stay tuned for the first episode releasing on March 17th and then weekly on Mondays!Check out and contribute to Enhanced Senses Podcast Patreon! Apply to be a guest and share your story!
2025-03-1005 min
Flora Funga Podcast139: How to Start a Podcast: Step by Step ChecklistAsk Flora Funga Podcast anything OR Leave a ReviewThis week we have a unique twist to Flora Funga Podcast. My friend Danielle Peecher is interested in starting her own podcast and has questions on how to start one. Listen and learn on how Flora Funga Podcast was created and how to start your own too.Resources Mentioned on www.florafungapodcast.com/139Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launStart for FREE (Get $20 Credit)Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase...
2024-11-271h 13