Creators and Guests

GEORGE MONTY George Monty is a podcaster, interviewer, cultural provocateur, and professional trespasser into forbidden questions. He is the creator and host of TrueLife, an ongoing experiment in conversation conducted somewhere between a philosophical laboratory, a psychedelic séance, and the moment at 3:17 in the morning when you suddenly realize the universe has been fucking with you. The premise is beautifully inconvenient: What if reality is stranger than the story we’ve been given about it? Monty has spent years following that question into the wilderness. Not the wilderness of mountains and rivers, but the stranger wilderness behind the eyes: consciousness, psychedelics, artificial intelligence, mysticism, neuroscience, trauma, addiction, technology, language, mythology, power, culture, death, transformation, and the great unresolved mystery of what the hell a human being actually is. His guests come from wildly different worlds: scientists and mystics, philosophers and psychonauts, artists and technologists, researchers and rebels, therapists and troublemakers, people who have spent decades studying reality and people who have simply stared at it long enough to realize something is wrong with the instruction manual. Monty does not interview people to collect answers. He interviews them to find the questions hiding underneath the answers. That is the rabbit hole. He is interested in the moment certainty begins to fracture. The instant a scientist discovers something their textbook did not prepare them for. The moment a mystic realizes language has become too small. The moment a psychedelic experience rearranges the furniture of the self. The moment artificial intelligence forces us to reconsider what intelligence was in the first place. He is suspicious of finished maps. Suspicious of institutions that confuse authority with truth. Suspicious of anyone who claims to have the universe completely figured out. Especially himself. Monty’s intellectual lineage runs through the beautiful troublemakers: Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, William Blake, Carl Jung, Philip K. Dick, Marshall McLuhan, Rumi, the Upanishads, Joseph Campbell, and the long subterranean tradition of people who looked at consensus reality, raised one eyebrow, and asked: “Is that all you’ve got?” But George Monty is not an academic, guru, therapist, prophet, or self-appointed master of consciousness. He is something considerably more useful: a curious bastard with a microphone. A lifelong student of the strange. A collector of impossible questions. A cartographer of the territory that begins where certainty ends. TrueLife is his laboratory, but the laboratory has no walls. Every conversation becomes another experiment. Every guest another doorway. Every strange idea another match struck in the dark. Sometimes the result is philosophy. Sometimes it is comedy. Sometimes it is terror. Sometimes it is revelation. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, the whole fucking architecture starts to wobble. Because beneath all the conversations, all the books, all the theories, all the psychedelics, all the technology, all the arguments about consciousness and civilization and the future, Monty keeps returning to one primitive human impulse: to look at the mystery without immediately trying to kill it with an explanation. That may be the real rebellion. Not believing everything. Not rejecting everything. But remaining curious enough to walk through the door. TrueLife is the experiment. Conversation is the psychedelic. Curiosity is the contraband. Reality is the rabbit hole. And George Monty is still climbing down.

Alan Willett is the master of the "friction points" of organizations highly dependent on technology. This ranges from organizations that create world-class software products to the organization that uses those products to create their own competitive advantage. What is a friction point? It is the space where the technology needs and the business needs meet, sometimes with harmony and often with discordant collisions. Either way, there is always heat generated. Alan is the expert who transforms organizational friction points to produce positive results for the business and the people that create and use the technology.

Today we welcome Anthony Bailey and Co- Founder of Entheogen Biotech to the TrueLife podcast. They have established a library with strains as strong as 4.4% tryptamine content. In establishing our library of over 100 strains of fungi we've established analytic techniques to determine tryptamine contents at home for up to 2% tryptamine and new methods using each HPLC's and Q NMR's machines. Our most unique offering is strain of mycelium that we stumbled upon in our breeding process, this particular strain produces psilocybin. We then took this strain and grew it in a bioreactor producing psilocybin in one-week versus the traditional eight-week life cycle of psilocybin. Now we embark on commercialising our findings and bring them to market their legal jurisdiction permits.

My name is Benjamin C. George or as some know me Mr. Wizard – I’ve worn and continue to wear as many hats as I can fit on my head at once. Author, Explorer, Entrepreneur, Artist, & Creator.

Co- Founder of The Church of Psilomethoxin

Cole serves multiple roles at Wholeness Center in Fort Collins, CO. He primarily coordinates MMED008, a LSD for Anxiety study sponsored by Minded, where he is also a trained Dosing Session Monitor. He is a Research and Clinical Intern through the Master's of Addiction Counseling program at Colorado State University. He has been trained by PRATI in Ketamine and Psychedelic Medicine, and currently co-facilitates ketamine-assisted therapy groups and sits for individual ketamine-assisted therapy sessions. Cole is the Founder of Lionheart Wellness. Lionheart Wellness offers coaching and consulting services in cannabis/addiction recovery, psychedelic research and therapy, business organization, and career alignment.

David Heldreth Patented Inventor (multiple others pending) - CEO, Research Leader and Educational Consultant for medicinal plants w/ special emphasis in cannabis and psychedelics

Do we have free will, or are we biochemical robots who do whatever causal forces demand? This is the critical question for humanity.

My career as an educator and author has brought me far and wide--from growing up in the Bronx, NY, to teaching in Spearfish, SD, and Troy, NY, to my current position in Newport News, VA. In addition to my work in the classroom, I have held many administrative positions, and have written and spoken on a variety of subjects from medieval mysticism to faculty evaluation, from Shakespeare to Paul Valéry. I am particularly interested in the ways technology has influenced modern life--in both good and bad ways--in everything from the ways we read, learn, and remember to the ways we engage in reflection and devotional practices. I am a lover of all things Flintstones, am a devotee of "The Odd Couple," "Northern Exposure," and "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin," and have always been a fan of the hapless and hopeless NY Jets. You can read my blog at "My Two Cents--Not That Anyone Asked."

A woman who is Tough, Fearless, & Lovely, the one and only Jen Maxfield. On her new book “More After the Break” she revisits ten memorable stories from her career as a TV news reporter, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded and revealing what happened after the cam-eras went away. She introduces readers to unforgettable people who will inspire you with their hopefulness, even when confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks.

You have massive potential within you for creation and contributing your unique gifts to the world. The only limiting factor is your mind. My writing, trainings and coaching programs are designed to help you master all areas of your life: health, career, relationships and spirit.

Today we speak with Matt Zemon A Psychedelic Medicine Advocate, #1 Amazon Best Selling Author, Collaborative Leader & Entrepreneur.

https://normanbacal.com/ Welcome to my journey. At one point in my career I had it all. I had built and led one of Canada’s prestigious law firms. I was one of the most successful film finance lawyers in the country. I sat on the board of directors of a Hollywood studio and represented companies like Warner Bros, MGM, Sony, Lionsgate. Then in 2014 the bottom fell out. The law firm collapsed. It was devastating to watch what I spent twenty-five years building disappear – just like that. They say overcoming adversity builds character. I was about to find out.

Today I’m excited to welcome & speak with Rangarajan Padamanabahn. An incredible individual with a passion for learning & helping others. We dive deep into the ideas of life, psychedelics, awareness & appearance.

Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime (Ayahuasca) Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada. She worked with Health Canada from 2000 until 2017 to achieve an Section 56 Exemption to import and serve the Santo Daime Sacrament (Ayahuasca). She is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity.

Richard Grove is the founder of Autonomy and hosts the weekly Grand Theft World podcast. He is an American conceptual artist and forensic historian who is passionate about his service and wants to share his knowledge and experience he has learned over the years as an entrepreneur. Richard is also known for being the founder of Tragedyandhope.com and hosting the Peace Revolution podcast.

Researcher interested in the questions: "In what capacity will the biosphere survive the coming centuries?" "How can homo sapiens step up and play a regenerative role instead of the current omnicidal one?" I'd love to participate in a professional setting with others that are interested in these questions. On an analytical and conceptual level (research, think tanks?) as well as on a practical and implemental level (coaching, workshops?). Spent the good part of the last ~12 years studying molecular biology and specializing in the microbial genetics. Over the last 3 years my interest shifted towards the macro scale : systems (both the anthroposphere and the biosphere which encompasses it).

WHAT I DO: I help humans "Manifest" their Dream Reality by providing Scientific Frameworks and Meditation Techniques, as well as the power of authenticity, to be used in our modern technology-driven society, for personal freedom in a shifting world. WHO I WORK WITH: I partner with impact creators including: - Coaches - Consultants - Course Creators - Digital Nomads - Freedom Seekers ... and other brain-possessing individuals. WHY IT WORKS: When people work with me, they get a deeply caring Norse/Viking by their side that won't stop until they reach their destination. We help them to help others with a clear mind, clear impactful goals, and the tech & training, practical and intuitive - to get them there.