Keith Kurlander is a psychotherapist, co-founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, and host of The Higher Practice podcast. The discussion covers psychedelics, trauma, nervous system regulation, and mental health.

Topics include the therapeutic and disruptive effects of psychedelics, trauma as a physiological state, the importance of listening to one’s inner purpose or "North Star," rising mental health challenges, and the impact of technology and AI on psychological well-being.

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🎙️ Podcast: The Higher Practice for Optimal Mental Health

🌐 Website: psychiatryinstitute.com

📘 Book (coming March 2026): Psychedelic Therapy

Resources
👥 People: Amrit Desai, John Demartini, Ken Wilber, Stanislav Grof, Will Van Derveer

William Person is a former Olympic bobsledder for Team USA. He talks about what it was like flying 90 mph down the ice, taking up to 80 Gs, and what happened after the cheering stopped - brain fog, headaches, memory and focus loss, sensitivity to sound and light, disorientation, depression, and suicidal thoughts.

We talk about the hidden suffering in sports, how CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) might relate to ADHD and other mental health struggles, why so many athletes and veterans go untreated, and the deadly consequences that follow. William shares his lowest moments, his fight to stay alive, and how hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) helped him when nothing else could.

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🍭TikTok: @hyperbarichealing

📘 Facebook: One Man With a Chamber | William Person

💼 LinkedIn: William Person

📸 Instagram: @willp1234567

▶️ YouTube: @braininjurysurvival

💰 GoFundMe: CTE Recovery for Athletes and Military

Resources
🎢 Six Flags Magic Mountain — Goliath

📰 Sledding Athletes Are Taking Their Lives. Did Brain Injuries Play a Role? – The New York Times

⚖️The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)

👥People: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jamie Foxx, Jay-Z, Joe Namath, Kanye West, Lance Armstrong, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Jackson, Russell Crowe

🎬 Films: A Beautiful Mind, In Whose Name?, Jerry Maguire, One Battle After Another

💥Incidents: 2025 Anaconda Shooting, 2025 Grand Blanc Township church attack, 2025 Midtown Manhattan Shooting, Washington Navy Yard shooting

Ewelina Kurtys is a neuroscientist and Strategic Advisor at FinalSpark, a Swiss company building computers from living brain cells. We talk about how neurons differ from silicon chips, why they’re more energy-efficient, how they’re grown and programmed in the lab, and how biocomputing could shape the future of AI.

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🌐Website: finalspark.com

💼LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ewelinakurtys

Resources:

🏢Companies: AlpVision, Amazon, Cortical Labs, Ekai.io, Google, Microsoft, Neuralink

👤People: Elon Musk, Fred Jordan, Martin Kutter