BBC recently interviewed me about microdosing psychedelic mushrooms.

It’s a short moment in the spotlight, but a really important one for me.

We are living in a mental health crisis, but it gets sort of lost in the noise.

Environmental issues, war, poverty, physical ailments… they are pretty easy to see.

Mental health… it’s easy to miss.

But I think mental health is the lead domino.

Everything, from how we treat ourselves, to how we treat each other, to how we treat nature, all the way to the businesses we start and passions we pursue — it all starts from within.

With 50% of people likely to have a mental health disorder and anxiety, stress, PTSD, depression, and suicide going in the wrong direction, it’s pretty obvious that we have a problem AND our current models of care are broken.

That’s why despite the stigma, dogma, and legal constraints, MUD\WTR has been donating to provide development and access to therapeutic usages of psychedelics.

Something needs to change.

Over the last 5 years, we’ve donated tens of thousands to organizations like M.A.P.S., Johns Hopkins, and Heroic Hearts. What I’ve seen in the studies is that these substances, though not a panacea, have shown incredible efficacy when done in the correct set and setting and with the proper pre and post-integration commitments.

In addition, we openly chose to not police what our employees put into their bodies to support their wellbeing.

Wild concept ey?

Though we don’t ‘encourage’ the use of psychedelics, (like some media outlets have said for click bait), if people feel that something like breathwork, meditation, cold exposure, or you bet, even micro dosing is a part of their health journey — good for you.

With offices typically stocked with alcohol and unlimited doses of drugs like caffeine, this shouldn’t be awe-inspiring, but we treat our team like adults and allow them to do what works for them to be at their best.

With many struggling and 2nd order consequences because of it, it’s really exciting to finally see accepted curiosity and solutions begin to come about in the mental health space.

Happy to contribute, even if in a micro kinda way.

“If you don’t like the fruits you are growing then change the seeds you are sewing.” — RVM

P.S. I micro-dosed today.