Change is hard, but with curiosity and community, anything is possible. For the Trends w/ Benefits podcast, host Sara Russell blends ancient wisdom, modern science and actionable advice on subjects like sleep, psychedelics and mental health. She interviews humans who are deeply committed to both personal growth and our collective well-being. Sara’s conversations offer pragmatic tools, inspirational insights and evolving curiosity, so you have a smorgasbord of healthy habits to choose from wh ...
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Explore the kitchen and beyond with Nicole DiMascio, the creative force behind "Dope Kitchen." As a weed enthusiast and content creator, Nicole is redefining the cannabis culture by challenging the old stoner stereotypes with her dynamic blend of mindful cannabis use, healthy cooking, and active living. Nicole opens up about her journey from viral …
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#122 MUD\WTR's Shane Heath: Fueling a Business and Personal Evolution Through Art, Adaptogens and Action
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Long before Shane Heath became the founder and CEO of MUD\WTR, he was already on a mission to create healthy minds through healthy habits. Battling depression and anxiety from a young age, Heath traveled both the world and his own interior landscape to shift and evolve his perspective continually. He’s turned his personal journey into a company tha…
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Navigating authentic intimate relationships can have us twisting ourselves into emotional states that would make the Kama Sutra blush. Yet doing the work of self-reflection while being open to change can create profound connections, both with ourselves and others. By embracing our vulnerability and maintaining open communication, we can enrich our …
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Curiosity and listening are powerful tools on our healing journeys. Rachelle Robinett, founder and CEO of Pharmakon Supernatural, knows that to create profound growth and transformation, we need to be intrigued with what we consume—orally, visually and auditorily—and how that impacts our ability to lead balanced, satisfying lives. She shares insigh…
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What if every aspect of your life was suddenly disrupted? You can’t go to your job, you can’t see your friends and family, you can’t go home. For refugees and immigrants, such challenges compound with a lack of access to safe and inclusive healing modalities—including psychedelics. Enter Malek Asfeer, whose dedication to humanitarian causes include…
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As the Northern Hemisphere turns towards winter, many of us are feeling not only the encroaching dark and cold weather but also seasonal depression. While hustle culture pushes us to keep grinding, what we actually need is a little extra TLC. Enter LeTa Jussila, a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Licensed Herbalist and Fitness Trainer. …
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#117 Mental Health Is a Mosaic and Your Treatment Should Be Too - Dr. Raghu Appasani & Dorna Pourang
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We’re in the midst of a mental health crisis. More people are seeking mental health treatments than ever before. But while therapy is part of the solution, it’s not the final answer. On today’s episode, Dr. Raghu Appasani, a board-certified Integrative and Addiction psychiatrist, and Dorna Pourang, a psychedelic clinical research specialist, combin…
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#116 The Joy of Well-Being: Why You Should Focus on Your Joyspan with Authors Colleen and Jason Wachob
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How can we infuse a little bit more joy into health and well-being? How can we forge more meaningful connections? How do we identify our purpose? These are some of the deep inquiries we explore within and amongst ourselves. They can be overwhelming, and often we put off looking for the answers until a crisis hits. Fortunately, MindBodyGreen founder…
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#115 The Skin Deep Questions: How Emmy Award-Winning Director Topaz Adizes Is Changing the Way We Talk to Each Other
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Lao Tzu said, “We make a vessel from a lump of clay, but it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.” We often ignore the space in between, but Emmy Award-winning director, author, and experience designer Topaz Adizes knows that’s where the magic is. He believes in asking each other the right questions to provoke and challenge us.…
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Shirin Yoku, AKA forest bathing, is a mindfulness practice where you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of nature for health and well-being. It can alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress, as well as help improve sleep. In today’s sensory exploration, Olga Terebenina, co-founder of The Forest Bathing Institute, shares how this practice…
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Rockstar Melissa Etheridge is a cultural icon, activist, and mother who founded the nonprofit, Etheridge Foundation. The foundation supports the development of transformative plant medicine treatments. She shares her own journey with psychedelics, the concerns of neglecting holistic healing in favor of pharmaceuticals and offers a powerful message …
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Mia Sarno, aka “Dr. Mimi” is a gender-fluid, pansexual licensed clinical psychologist working with a clinic providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and is a study therapist for research with LSD and psilocybin. For this Pride Month episode, we dive into what “queering” means, why it’s important, and the both oppressive and liberatory past, prese…
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Former Army Ranger Jesse Gould is a frontrunner for psychedelic therapies for veterans. As the founder of the Heroic Hearts Project, he has spearheaded the research and acceptance of ayahuasca, ibogaine, ketamine and psilocybin therapy programs for military veterans. But that’s just the beginning of Gould’s work. His bigger vision encompasses what …
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We can’t control how others think, feel, or behave, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. One of the ways we do this is through self-centric storytelling. We make assumptions about others that put us at the center of the action. But that leaves us organizing around fear and control instead of truth and love. Today’s pod challenges you to upgrade th…
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Worried your relationships might have some codependent characteristics? They might. We’re social creatures, and whether we like it or not, we need each other. But sometimes, how we give and receive support devolves into unhealthy patterns of relating. So how do we remain interdependent without crossing the line into compliance, control and denial? …
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Do you have a favorite mood? Our frame of mind influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It also affects our relationships and our experiences. While so much of life is out of our control, one thing we can actively shape for the better is our mood. And we don’t just mean “Think happy thoughts” (does that actually work for anyone?) However, …
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Feel resistant to meditation? Or maybe you want to meditate more, but a formal practice feels out of reach because you don’t have the time or energy. Plus, it can be a little daunting to sit quietly with yourself after all the busyness of our distraction-filled lifestyles. Or maybe you just think meditation is boring. Meditation is a wonderful tool…
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Walking is a balm for our mental health, but something we neglect to do because, doesn’t it just seem too easy to actually help? Sometimes, it’s hard to believe something so simple (not to mention free) can provide so much benefit. But walking can improve our overall mood, reduce stress and anxiety and even help us sleep better. Plus, unstructured …
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After his time as a US Army Ranger, Neil Markey underwent a profound healing journey with mindfulness and psychedelics. He co-founded Beckley Retreats, a center that explores the power of psilocybin to improve our well-being. But Markey knows true health isn’t just a “one-and-done” experience. Markey emphasizes a holistic approach to healing that i…
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Our world slowly slides into focus as we cross the threshold from dreaming to waking. How do you feel in those first moments of waking? Well-rested and relaxed? Or vaguely anxious and stressed? These early morning minutes highly influence the rest of our day. This means the morning is prime time to cultivate awareness and intentionality for the ton…
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For the past couple of months, the MUD\WTR fam has been exploring the power of Atomic Habits by James Clear. We’ve read together and shared our successes and struggles with habit change. Today, we’re celebrating the culmination of our first-ever book club. We’re joined by MUD\WTR’s mental health advisor Raghu Appasani, who reminds us that regardles…
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James Clear, author of "Atomic Habits," says, "It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort." According to Clear, when we choose between two similar options, we "naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work." Because we value ease and convenience, choosing the path of least resistance makes sense when cultiva…
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Dreaming can be a form of overnight therapy, helping us creatively problem solve and process difficult emotions. Unfortunately, we chronically disrupt our sleep with too much screen time, alcohol, and caffeine, and not enough sunlight and exercise. Would you like to build better habits so you can tap into the healing power of dreamwork? Then check …
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For our hundredth episode I asked myself, “What does the MUD\WTR fam need most right now?” We’re creative, curious and care about our well-being, as well as the world around us. But even with all our mindfulness, we still make mistakes and have vices we haven’t been able to shake. We break our hearts trying to force ourselves to change before we ha…
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#99 The Impacts of Daylight Savings and Finding Your Circadian Rhythm with Jeffery Durmer (:macro)
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Dr. Jeffrey Durmer knows sleep is of prime importance. As a sleep neuroscientist, neurobiologist and neurologist, he’s an authority on how sleep creates physical, mental and emotional resilience. He says, “If you're going to build a house, you want to build it on the best foundation you can possibly make,” and that means prioritizing healthy sleep.…
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Our consciousness exists within—and is shaped by—space and time, our parents and peers and the larger culture. We can invite ourselves to notice what we include in our awareness, what we leave out and how our contexts impact us. In that awareness, we can develop a value system, which helps us define our sense of self. Once we design where we place …
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Living in a human body comes with its unique set of limitations. We have the capacity to soar to great heights, but also sink to some serious lows. Sometimes it takes all the energy we have just to get out of bed, shower or feed ourselves. So how do you make yourself feel better when it feels like you can’t do anything? Today’s episode offers some …
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Self-love needs to be a practice before it becomes an embodied state. But where to start? We thought it meant taking bubble baths and eating chocolate, but rituals of ease and pleasure only scratch the surface. So instead of giving you a list of strategies you’ve already heard before, I want to ask you: Who are you? What is love? And why does self-…
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#95 Cordyceps, Zombies, and the Apocalypse with Matt Held - Manager of R&D with MUD\WTR (:macro)
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We know the fungi cordyceps can infect ants and manipulate their behavior. But could cordyceps evolve to control us? That’s the premise of the post-apocalyptic TV drama, “The Last of Us.” The show inspires mycelial horror as a mutant cordyceps infection causes human society to collapse. It flips the script on how we typically think of cordyceps, wh…
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Shane Heath—founder and CEO of MUD\WTR—shares a ritual for how to overcome the voice of doubt as well as how to make the most of the 4,000 weeks of life each of us has, on average, on this planet. We also talk about the power of “Atomic Habits” by James Clear as we dive into MUD’s new book club. If you dig this podcast please leave a short review o…
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We all want to be wanted, but sometimes we become so enmeshed with others that we lose our sense of self. Our boundaries waffle, our preferences dim, and we play host to other people’s emotions, feeling grumpiness or anxiety that isn’t actually ours. Today’s episode answers a listener's question about how to separate what’s yours from what’s theirs…
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Psychedelics blur where we bump against the limits of the self as an individual and something else begins. They inspire a sense of being connected to something larger than ourselves, of being one with each other and earth consciousness. How can we relationally and responsibly engage with psychedelics? So what’s our responsibility to the plants and …
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Ever wanted to battle it out with your partner at night but they were too tired, and then the sound of them drifting off to sleep enraged you? Maybe you exchanged prickly words right before turning down the covers and wound up curled away from each other in fetal position, being careful not to touch. Rather than losing precious REM to talk things o…
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Change is hard, it can stress us out and disrupt our routine. It takes energy and sometimes giving up on a new habit is a guilty relief because we have a chance to recover from all that effort. But failing is part of the practice. So how do you pick yourself back up and try again? If you need a spotter, I got you, with six steps to a more compassio…
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We’ve all heard about how beneficial it is to have a gratitude practices. It improves your mood, health, and relationships by focusing on the good rather than dwelling on the bad. But what if you aren’t able to feel grateful? What if you’re stressed out, disappointed or angry? If forcing yourself to feel grateful is aggravating your anxiety instead…
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In The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine it is said: “People and nature are inseparable. In nature the cyclical movement of the heavenly bodies produces atmospheric influences that exert control over the rhythms of the seasons and is responsible for change to the myriad living and nonliving things…the coldness of winter forces inactivity and sto…
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The story of María Sabina, a curandera who helped bring psychedelic mushrooms to the west, shows the pleasure and pain that results when ancient medicine suffers a culture clash. So for all of you self-experimenting with entheogens to explore altered states of consciousness to be your best self, great! But…how are you helping those that help you he…
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Do you spend most of your time feeling indecisive, second-guessing yourself and stressing over the smallest decisions? Chill. That just means you’re a human being responding to a world that’s been turned upside-down. Still, we need to be able to figure out what to make for dinner, which jobs to turn down and who to build community with. In today’s …
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We all have core needs, but each comes with its own potential benefits and costs. We build towards stability, but crave variety; in order to create authentic connection, we need our individual integrity. To create a life of purpose and meaning, we need to find our personal balance between these complementary, yet contradictory motivations. Luckily,…
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Repost: MUD\WTR’s Shane Heath on How To Hire, Journaling Techniques and How Not to Use a Hyperbaric Chamber (:macro)
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FREEZE OUR FOUNDER: MUD\WTR’s Shane Heath faces his cold plunge challenge TODAY at 4 p.m. PST. Place an order in the MUD\WTR store before then, and we’ll add a little extra time to Shane’s total plunge time. Tune in to watch it all go down on IG Live: @drinkmudwtr We're also donating 5% of all new sales to the MINDS Foundation, a group that provide…
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Some aspects of modern life are just flat-out exhausting. Working a job where you’re underpaid and undervalued. The ongoing climate catastrophe and never-ending systemic oppression. And of course, our digital devices that keep us locked in a loop of competition, comparison and a compulsion to be constantly plugged in. But other things sneak up on u…
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Hollywood loves to sell us the romance of friends falling in love with each other. But how do you go from friends to lovers when you don’t have writers and directors telling you what comes next? In today’s episode, I give you a script to follow when your best friend starts giving you butterflies so you have a shot at your own happily ever after. Sa…
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After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new farmers with a focus on formerly incarcerated men and women as well as those suffering from substance abuse issues. M…
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Thanks to our jobs, the way we monetize our hobbies, the endless multi-tasking and the constant notifications from our devices, we don’t ever stop working. We don’t rest. We’re in a culture of chronic stress and it’s affecting our mental health. I’m not here to give you more stretches you can do at your desk to help you work longer. I’m here to tea…
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After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new farmers with a focus on formerly incarcerated men and women as well as those suffering from substance abuse issues. M…
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Tired of people throwing their emotional garbage in your driveway, leaving you to clean up the mess? If you’re done letting other people trash your energy, listen to today’s episode for a practice that will help you clear out what’s not yours, fill back up with the good stuff and protect you from the racoons of other people’s problems. Sara :microd…
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Joey Odom is the co-founder of Aro, a company that’s working to address cell phone addiction. In the first half of this podcast, Joey interviews me. Then, we flip it around and I interview Joey (crazy I know), before diving into the dangers of digital addiction. Joey was introduced to me by the great Chris Keener of MUD\FILMS. Thanks Chris, Joey di…
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Is someone living rent-free inside your head? If your mind feels like a big family dinner where everybody gives their opinion on how you should be living your life, and then you get stuck cleaning up their dishes, it’s time for a quiet mind retreat. In this episode, I’ll show you how to stop extra thoughts weighing you down, so your mind feels less…
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Mark Divine (@realmarkdivine) is a Navy SEAL Commander and Zen meditation practitioner. After a successful 20 year career as a Navy SEAL, Mark was hired to create a nationwide coaching and leadership program for the U.S. Navy’s primary operations force. The program aims to give the SEALs the best leadership and mental management tools in the world,…
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Sex and drugs are two of the most powerful tools we can use to alter our consciousness. Separately, they hold the power of transformation and healing. Because of this, they’re hotly-debated, steeped in stigmas and assumptions, and heavily regulated. So if sex and psychedelics can shake up the status quo on their own, what happens when we combine th…
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