“All societies have drugs that they’re okay with and they draw these lines and they draw them in ways that can seem very arbitrary,” says Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of This Is Your Mind on Your Plants and host of the new Netflix series, How to Change Your Mind. GP interviewed Pollan about the relationship between humans and plants and ... Show More
Aug 12
Manifestation, Self-Worth, and the Energy You Attract
In this episode from 2019, manifestation advisor Lacy Phillips, founder of To Be Magnetic, explains why manifesting isn’t about forced positivity or endlessly visualizing your goals. Today marks the final day of the annual Lions Gate Portal, a rare cosmic alignment between the su ... Show More
43m 13s
Aug 5
Alicia Keys on Trusting Yourself and Living Authentically
In this episode from 2021, Gwyneth sits down with Alicia Keys for an honest conversation about identity, intuition, and self-worth. They talk about releasing expectations, learning to trust yourself, and the lifelong process of becoming who you really are. Keys reflects on how sh ... Show More
57m 54s
Jul 2021
Michael Pollan: This Is Your Mind on Plants
When you start your day with a cup of tea or coffee you are ingesting a consciousness-altering drug, which you are quite likely to be addicted to. That drug of course is caffeine, the stimulant used by 90 per cent of people on earth, and it is one of three mind-altering molecules ... Show More
56m 37s
Jun 2018
Michael Pollan: Psychedelics, Science, Fear and Hope.
Michael Pollan is the author most recently of mega New York Times bestseller, How to Change Your Mind, and of seven previous books that became global phenomena, including Cooked, Food Rules, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he als ... Show More
55m 12s
Dec 2023
Awe and Psychedelics with Michael Pollan
Laurie's former student and friend, Dr. Maya Shankar, has a Pushkin podcast we love called A Slight Change of Plans. If you like The Happiness Lab, then this show is right up your alley. In this episode, Maya and author Michael Pollan discuss the fascinating science of psychedeli ... Show More
37m 57s
Feb 2021
#284 - Hamilton Morris - Creating The Future Of Psychedelics
Hamilton Morris is a journalist, documentary producer and a chemist.Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is one of the most interesting documentaries around chemistry, psychoactive drugs, psychedelic culture and traditional uses for plant medicine ever.Sadly Season 3 is the last one, but Hami ... Show More
1h 22m
Aug 2022
Caffeine, the untapped potential of plants and intermittent fasting with Michael Pollan
To kick off the new podcast, I’m joined by acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan. Michael is widely known for his work demystifying the food and agriculture industry and is now opening new frontiers in the highly controversial field of plant psychedelics, and their poten ... Show More
40m 14s