Mushrooms, MycoSymbiotics & Truthtelling with William Padilla-Brown Beth Weinstein - business coach for spiritual entrepreneurs & psychedelic coaches %

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

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