William Padilla-Brown: Mushrooms, MycoSymbiotics & Truthtelling, Episode 102, The Psychedelic Entrepreneur Podcast

William Padilla-Brown is a Multidisciplinary Citizen Scientist practicing social science, mycology, phycology, molecular biology, and additive manufacturing. William founded and is the current CEO of MycoSymbiotics, a permaculture research and production business based in Central Pennsylvania focused on innovative practical applied biological science.

In this episode, William Padilla-Brown and Beth Weinstein discuss…

• William’s realization as a young man that he had spent more time interacting with human ideology than the wild reality
• William’s early development as an entrepreneur, beginning with selling cultures of edible mushrooms he found in the wild
• How William used permaculture design principles to design his own alternative higher education
• The intense hunger for knowledge that led William to develop expertise in foraging, cultivation, medicine-making and much more
• William’s entrepreneurial approach: how he handles automation, communications, marketing and human resources
• Bringing new foods and medicines into agriculture, such as mushrooms, algae and insects
• Creating ecologically regenerative systems to counter the “antibiotic” culture we were born into and depend on
• Anti-biopiracy – how DNA barcoding of the medicine you make legally protects it
• William’s thoughts on psychedelic legalization and the venture capitalists who are moving into the psychedelic space
• How the projects William designs sink carbon, reduce methane, clean the soil and produce compost
• The real meaning of the word “advertisement”
• Being an independent producer vs. a dependent consumer
• The real roots of the anxiety and depression running rampant in our world today
• The importance of knowing the source of your mushrooms, whether culinary, medicinal or psychedelic
• Synthetic vs. naturally grown psychedelics

William Padilla-Brown’s Links & Resources

Website ▶ : https://mycosymbiotics.com/

Instagram ▶ : http://instagram.com/mycosymbiote 

Instagram ▶ : https://www.instagram.com/mycosymbiotics/

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