Hi friends, Laura Dawn here, and it’s been a minute since I’ve published an episode on the psychedelic leadership podcast. And in this solo episode, I want to share my perspective on the current situation with psychedelic censorship. And this is going to be my final episode under psychedelic leadership.

And what I’m going to share here today really just feels like the perfect segue to introduce the new name of my show, which I’m going to share here in just a little bit. But in this episode, I wanted to talk about psychedelic censorship because, well, it’s hot. It’s up for a lot of people in a really big way right now.

So I want to share a snapshot of what’s going on, share my perspective on it, and a viewpoint I haven’t really heard many people speaking to, and why in some ways, despite the many challenges, I think there are some beneficial outcomes to censorship. Which I know is a strong statement, but I’m rolling with it.

I want to share how this censorship era as I’m calling it has impacted my decision making as a psychedelic entrepreneur and share some advice for anyone who’s navigating the fun complexities of social media with a psychedelic related message. And I’m going to be speaking to this on both an individual and organizational level.

I’m And I want to speak to the importance of building a stronger foundation for your business, particularly by moving more slowly at the true genuine pace of integration, by building a stronger, more integrated offering, and why companies who bypass this organic process will likely implode. And I’m suggesting that Now, I just want to name that I’m not speaking directly about any particular company in this episode, meaning I’m not casting judgment here, I’m not saying that anyone who is getting censored or who is going out of business deserves that because they’re out of integrity.

I don’t wish that upon anyone. All I’m saying is that these censorship guardrails are perhaps beneficial at this particular moment in time because I think it might be supporting the integrity of the larger movement overall. Okay. So just to offer a brief overview, which you likely don’t need. I mean, if you have even a pinky toe in the psychedelic space, you’ve probably noticed that psychedelic censorship is at an all time high right now, especially on meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, you know, um, Instagram is really just the worst.

It’s a major pain in the butt. And there are a few bigger brands and psychedelic companies who have had their accounts revoked. Some have been able to get their accounts back. Others I don’t think we’ll get their account back. We shall see. Again, I’m not naming names. All the names here. If you’re tracking it, you probably know who I’m talking about and it’s not just meta.

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people who are being impacted by changes in Google search and SEO search engine optimization. They just aren’t getting the traffic that they did. Even a year ago and it’s hurting their business, you know about a week ago I was catching up with a girlfriend who hadn’t dropped in with in quite a few months And she was telling me that she got shut down by stripe and that’s all Also becoming a huge issue in the space right now.

And between that and shifts in Google censorship, her business took a really big downturn overnight. And I know that she was doing really good work. She does really good work. And these are the unfortunate casualties that are happening. So I do have a lot of empathy. For a lot of people who are feeling it right now, and I’m calling this the censorship era.

And even though it feels like it’s at an all time high right now, this has been going on for some years at this point. Um, but I do feel like it’s been getting worse, especially in 2024. Uh, just for context, I also lost my own Instagram account for about three months. I was able to get it back and this was, gosh, at least a couple of years ago at this point, uh, when I was super focused on the psychedelic leadership podcast, I was leading with a strong psychedelic first message and losing my account was super stressful.

You know, it’s like our, our livelihoods are at stake, so I totally understand how challenging that can be. And to be honest with the growth of my Instagram account over this past year, the stakes feel higher. Um, but you know, I feel like the stakes feel high for pretty much anyone listening who’s even invested five days into content creation because you know, just like how much effort, how much love and devotion goes into Creating meaningful and thoughtful content and sharing a message that we care about and right now You know We live in a culture a business culture that over relies on social media And I think this is part of the problem and I think censorship is sort of Forcing a return to our grassroots, our underground network, which I think is actually a really good thing.

So even though we’ve been in this censorship era for years, I don’t think censorship is gonna last forever. I believe that we will see the other side of this, I really do. That being said, I also don’t think it’s going to change overnight. I think we’re going to be in this sort of muddy, liminal, in between space for a while.

You know, on a legal level, things haven’t been going in the direction I think many people hoped for or anticipated. And unfortunately, there’s also been a recent death in the space that has had a fairly large ripple effect. And I don’t want to go there. But I do think that all of these are contributing factors that aren’t helping the censorship situation.

And you might be thinking to yourself, well, what about RFK? You know, of course I’m hearing lots of whispers of people expressing optimism that RFK is pro psychedelic. And I’m not here to make political commentary or predict the future. But I don’t think this situation with censorship is going to shift overnight because a single person doesn’t have the power to just flick a switch.

These things take time. And so I want to hold this view of the censorship era within an even broader context, because I think we are at the very beginning. Of the psychedelic movement. I think for those of us who have been in this space for a while, we feel like it’s very saturated and crowded. But every time I poke my head out of this bubble, I am always reminded of just how forefront we still are right now, right?

We are just seeing the very tip of the iceberg. Yeah, the wave hasn’t even fully formed yet. And that’s just my perspective. So I want to presence that context because I feel like how we choose to navigate these next few years are going to play a big role in the future of the psychedelic movement. Okay.

So before I share what I see as the silver lining of psychedelic censorship, I will share Just my overall perspective on censorship itself. It’s nuanced. I don’t think anyone can hold like a hard black or white viewpoint on something as complex as this. I will say that as someone who stands for cognitive liberty and radical sovereignty, there is a part of me that is also outraged by it all.

We have a fundamental right to speak our truth and the freedom of speech is an incredibly important value. I think we as a culture need to take a stand for. I also feel like we need to choose our battles and fighting force with force isn’t actually always the best move. Sometimes fighting force with flow is a better strategy.

That being said, I have a lot of respect for the people who feel like it is your purpose to fight the censorship battle. Thank you for doing that work. I don’t personally feel like that is my mission in life. And, of course, when we have our accounts revoked, it can feel violating. It’s a form of oppression.

I had a friend who recently just went through it and she was rightly very triggered by the situation. She said it was, you know, triggering this, this deep ancient witch wound, which I totally get and people’s livelihoods are at stake. And of course I want to share that context as I offer my perspective on what I’m calling the benefits of censorship because I’m holding all of us in this space with a lot of empathy and compassion for.

People who are really doing good work, right? And like my friend who I spoke to last week, who has really taken a hit because of these censorship shifts. Okay, that being said there’s also another part of me that deeply trusts what is happening right now And I think it’s very easy to forget that there is a much larger restructuring taking place And there are many invisible forces at play including the The intelligence of the sacred plant medicines and fungi medicines that hundreds of thousands of us, probably millions of us are intentionally praying with right regularly praying for the healing and awakening of humanity with these allies in ceremony.

There’s probably thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in ceremony every single night all around the world. And I think that. That has a huge impact, and I’m noticing in my conversations with a lot of my closest allies that there is a really deep sense of trust for what is happening with censorship, right?

In a way, I think it’s helpful for us to have these guardrails right now. Um, you know, I guess I’ll just say it because, you know. Imagine there wasn’t any censorship. It would be so much more of a free for all than it already is. You know, I had a, another sister leaving me a WhatsApp voice memo last night saying the exact same thing, right?

She is doing really incredible psychedelic advocacy work. And she was like, I think these medicines are working their magic. And I agree. She’s noticing a lot of the things that I’ve been noticing in terms of just, like, the shenanigans going on and just, like, the boldness and the how people are moving in the space.

And I think there’s a lot of divine orchestration going on, and yes, there will be casualties along the way, but the broader implications of censorship, I think, are putting on necessary guardrails to invite people to slow down, to create a stronger foundation and to move with more caution and awareness and integrity.

And anytime we face a challenge, we are presented with an opportunity to learn and to grow. And I think, for me, censorship is teaching us about creativity, and adaptability, and resilience, and what it means to move at the pace of integration, and actually how to roll with changes, and as I mentioned earlier, you know, fight force with flow, and do that by actually moving with change.

in attunement with a deep sense of listening to guidance from our plant medicine teachers. Okay. So I want to talk about one of these benefits that I’m noticing. I think censorship is encouraging people to listen more deeply, as I just mentioned, and focus on deeper truths and a deeper wisdom that is wanting to come through.

So part of the reason I wanted to share this episode is because this question is coming up all of the time. I’m getting emails about it. It’s coming up in my masterminds and workshops. I’m Where people are essentially asking, you know, how do I navigate this censorship environment? And a few weeks ago, a woman in my program asked a different but related question.

She said, how do I share my message publicly, like as a creator on social media? around what sacred plant medicines are teaching me if I’m not yet ready to be public and step out of the psychedelic closet. And I love this question and it really got me thinking and my response to her applies to this feeling that This perspective on censorship, and it applies to everyone who is on the medicine path, sharing a message publicly on social media.

And my response to her was this, What is the medicine teaching you about life? You know, we are living in the ceremony of life. That is the real larger context. We are doing this medicine work within. What is the underlying wisdom these medicines are offering you? And how are you embodying that wisdom?

Share that. Share from that place. Share from the living embodiment of who you are as a result of walking with wisdom on the medicine path. What are you learning about life itself? About your mind? About the stories you tell yourself? About who you are and what you are capable of? What are you learning about creativity?

About your deeper sense of purpose, about your relationships or your connection to this earth and the world around you. I think you can share all of that or any of that without ever mentioning the word psychedelics or sacred plant medicines. And if you’re on the medicine path, sharing the real depth of wisdom coming through, um, It will be so obvious to your audience, to people that you are on the medicine path.

There are so many indicators and signals that you can use without saying the thing, right? Words you can use, emojis that you can use, but it’s so much more than that. Like when you are in the living embodiment of your prayer on the medicine path, it will radiate out to people and become extremely, And I actually think that more subtlety is a really good thing right now.

And I think subtlety is making a comeback. I think we’re seeing this over naming and this over pointing to in the spiritual communities. If you’re a spiritual person, I don’t think you need to like call yourself a spiritual person all the time, right? You don’t need to over name it or over point to it And when we do that, I think and we’re we do that with other words and concepts You know, I think it just loses the magic of it.

It loses the depth of it. It’s like that old Buddhist parable that says, you know, don’t mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself. And I think we’re witnessing this hyper focus on the medicine themselves and what the world needs is more wisdom. Right? I really believe that. And how are we applying that wisdom to live in a better way on this planet?

To me, that’s really the most important question we can be asking ourselves. I think Ram Dass is such a great example of this, um, another girlfriend of mine was messaging me this week when we were having this conversation, um, yeah, and she was, she was reminding me of that. You know, that for Ram Dass, LSD was really a catalyst towards exploring the deeper truths about humanity.

And I think the longer we’re on this path, the more we come to that conclusion, right? Because the purpose of medicine isn’t to arrive back at more medicine. The purpose is to arrive with your feet on the earth. In connection with other people in community doing meaningful work, right? That’s the purpose.

And so I think this moment is a good time for the collective psychedelic space to pause, right? Anyone who is contributing their voice to this space and ask yourself, what is my core message? And Of course, it’s my perspective that plant medicines are really powerful illuminators of our path, right? That they help us uncover what that core message is in our lives and uncover the true core message.

Contribution we are meant to make and to me, that’s the whole purpose right of the medicine path to creatively translate altered states of consciousness into the beauty of meaningful life. Contribution and that is a life path and I think taking the time to reflect on, you know, this question that I keep asking, like, what is the deeper truth that I am being shown around my true purpose, my true, authentic, authentic, authentic.

I think the majority of people and the majority of people that I’m working with on the medicine path have a deeper layer of truth and wisdom to share that isn’t actually about the medicines themselves. And I think this is one of the big shifts that we are witnessing right now. And I think that defining what that core message is for you, that deeper truth, the deeper wisdom, I think that will actually help you build a stronger personal brand, for lack of a better term, ultimately a stronger audience.

Because you will hold the context of medicine work within the larger frame of wisdom and transformation and how do we get better at being good humans. And I think we’ve already entered the meaning economy, the wisdom economy. And if you can develop a body of work that is really a transmission of wisdom, you will be extremely successful for the years to come.

And so if your If you are on the medicine path, and I’m assuming that you are if you’re listening to this, especially if you are contributing to the psychedelic space, if you have a personal practice with plant medicines or you are sitting in communal ceremony, I really encourage you to bring this inquiry to the altar.

Really work with your plant medicine teachers in a co creative way and ask great spirit for guidance, for support. You know, show me the path towards my highest service. And when we ask those questions, a lot can be illuminated. And when we lead from that centered alignment, from that place of what is my true service, And I think it’s my true core calling and my true core contribution that that is how we build very strong scaffolding for our business, for our lives, and financial success and abundance is just a byproduct of attuning to that truth as your true north.

And so, of course, all that I’m sharing here has been pretty, Present for me, especially for the past couple of years, and it’s essentially why I paused. The psychedelic leadership podcast. It was in ceremony that I kept getting the message This is about a year and a half ago that only focusing on psychedelics misses the point and I kept receiving the insight and guidance to stop leading with a psychedelic first message and to show the outcomes of what being on the path looks like and I At that point too, I was feeling the, sort of, the, the oppression, the force of censorship, and instead of fighting it, I decided to move in a different direction based on that guidance that I was receiving, and when I started sharing from that place, Well, you know, it was real hyper virality started happening for me and that growth was a result of focusing on the wisdom and my life path rather than the medicines themselves.

So, I know some of you already know this story. I’ve grown my account about, you know, 200, 000 followers in just over a year. Honestly, those numbers and the followers, it’s like, it’s all kind of bullshit. I don’t care about that. For me, it was just a clear reflection. It was an indicator. I was implementing insights and guidance that I was and that growth was a result of that.

It was like clearing a channel for me and the ceremony of virality is its own portal of initiation. This is not for the faint of heart. I was growing so fast that I had to pause multiple times and recalibrate. I feel like I’m just at the end of a larger recalibration now that I’m relaunching the podcast.

But I’ve been in it for, you know, almost a year now. And I really want to emphasize that that kind of growth and virality is not for everyone. And it really shouldn’t be the goal. Also, how I think about, you know, leading with purpose as your true North, money and financial success is just a natural by product of that.

I think when you speak from your truth, that magnetism and growth and alignment is just a natural outcome of that. Right? And that takes a lot of courage to follow that truth and to take a stand for whatever it is that is genuinely coming through you. And this process has not come without its challenges, especially when you’re building your brand and your business on a message and then you pivot.

And again, this depends on your true path. I want to emphasize that you do not need followers or social media to be quote unquote successful. I think it is imperative, especially at this moment in time, as we are witnessing this great restructuring that we get clear on what our own definition of success is.

Is if you haven’t done that recently, I really encourage you to write out a few paragraphs defining what does success mean for you. The most quote unquote successful people that I know people who are living their definition of success and who are deeply fulfilled doing the work that they’re doing people who are facilitating psychedelic transformation.

They aren’t even on social media. And I wish more people would know that and their programs and their practices are thriving because they are focused on cultivating their path of mastery and mastering their facilitation art form of transformation, whatever it is for them, whether it’s through one on one work or with groups, you know, leading online programs is its own form of facilitation mastery.

And they have a thriving business. And, and I’m going to put myself in this category too. My business has been thriving because I’ve really focused on my own form of mastery and facilitation and For those of us who have been taking that time to grow more slowly to be dedicated to the path of mastery, we are doing really well because we have a lot of referral based business.

And I think that is the strongest foundation you can possibly build. If you focus on creating something at a very high level that has true depth. To it. And I think a lot of offerings are lacking that depth in the space right now. I think I want to talk about this in another episode, but I truly believe that if you build something deep and profound that actually supports psychedelic transformation, then your referral business will be a big part of your income.

And I, again, I think that that is the strongest, scaffolding you can build for your business, especially in 2025 and beyond. Again, it comes down to getting clear on and uncovering what is your true path and trusting that path. Because if you want to do underground one on one guide work, then you don’t need social media.

I feel like ever since I was five years old, I knew in my bones that I was meant to inspire millions of people and have a platform. And that’s the path that I’m following. Right? So I think it really comes down to getting clear on what is your definition of success. What is your true North and follow that.

And maybe some of you are listening to this and you’re like, no, actually, Psychedelic advocacy or psychedelic education is my purpose. I need to point to the thing. I need to talk about it. And that’s beautiful. And thank you for doing that work. It’s incredibly needed. And if you are sharing a psychedelic related message on social media, please do so.

And it has felt like a struggle, then I want to share a couple of resources with you, including my preferred method for checking the current status of hashtags, which are changing all the time. This is the most accurate and up to date resource. And if you want to access that, Go to LauraDawn. co forward slash 70 and I’ll send it to you.

And if you are talking about psychedelics on social media, I think it’s more effective to be aware of banned words and hashtags rather than over rely on these other strategies that we’re witnessing. People are using the dollar sign to replace the S in like microdose or psychedelics. This is just a personal opinion, okay?

I’m just, personal perspective. I just think it looks bad. I think it degrades the quality of your message and it makes it look bad. I think just cheaper and I, I feel like it looks bad for us as a movement. You do you. I think if you are going to use the word psychedelics or microdose to just spell it as is without putting these other characters in there.

And you know, a lot of people will express to me, well, my content isn’t being shared. And that’s just because from my perspective. It’s not that you’re being censored or banned. It’s just that psychedelics and microdosing are still a very niche topic and think about it. A niche topic is not the, the essence, the formula for going viral, right?

For getting a lot of shares, but that’s not the metric we should be Um, using as a benchmark, really, you just want to be cultivating a real, true, authentic, genuine relationship with, I’ll use the, the term a thousand true fans. I like this model rather than trying to have, you know, hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.

I think. Really just cultivating a thousand true fans is a much more effective and reliable social media strategy moving forward. Okay. I also think that Instagram shouldn’t be anyone’s primary content strategy, especially for wisdom creators who are offering any kind of program or education. If you are.

I’m starting to use this term, an educator entrepreneur. I think long form content is the backbone of any solid strategy and that will become increasingly true in 2025 and beyond. And I think I’m going to record another episode on this topic, explaining the difference between what I’m calling shallow content versus deep content.

Like Instagram, TikTok, X, there is a place for that within a larger strategy. I think of those as more shallow content, media outlets, and. And I’m not using the term shallow as an insult. I’m just using that term as a comparative to deep, long form content. So for example, what I’m doing right now, this is deeper, longer form content that I can share on Instagram and platforms like this, podcasting and YouTube are also not censoring the content.

The way that meta platforms are like Instagram and Facebook, we could also put written articles like sub stack or LinkedIn articles, or just publishing to your own website, which is probably one of the best strategies. Um, Email of course is the backbone. And I will say that some email platforms do sensor around psychedelic related content.

So you need to be aware of, of that as well and move with caution. I mean, if you are in this game, then you absolutely want to be growing your email list, but I think that these long form methods of sharing content, where you are sharing a depth of perspective, your knowledge, Your point of view where you are sharing your wisdom with people.

I think this is the primary way to build a real, genuine, authentic connection and relationship with your audience. And this path, what I’m doing right now, this is also a path of mastery. There are many pieces to this puzzle, and it’s really, it’s not for the faint of heart and it’s not for everyone. So I’m only offering that, you know, long form content strategy for people who know that reaching a wider audience is part of your Dharma.

It’s part of your true path. And that’s why it’s essential to get clear on, you know, what is your path to walk in this lifetime. And one of the things I really learned this past year, you know, taking a pause on the podcast was understanding the difference between a leading narrative and a supporting narrative within a core message.

And This lesson was being reflected back to me on multiple levels, especially on the level of the podcast. Psychedelic leadership as a podcast name was actually starting to block my deeper truth, my core message, these deeper insights and gems of wisdom that were really wanting to be expressed through me.

And my core message includes psychedelics, but it’s really about human flourishing and creativity and the necessity to urgently wake up in the face of the existential threats facing humanity, right? That is the larger context. And that is the, the larger frame of my Transilience Framework as well. Right, my Transilience Facilitation Program, it’s a seven month program starting in January that is helping to support psychedelic transformation but within a much larger context of human flourishing.

And for those of you who are familiar with my work, you know that that framework is extremely in depth. When you start talking about, you know, human flourishing and the cultivation of wisdom and how do we apply that wisdom in our lives, right? If that’s what you’re really talking about, how psychedelics can support human flourishing and the actual embodiment of wisdom so we can be living on this earth in a better way, then You immediately find yourself wading through the deep end of an extremely multidimensional and multidisciplinary model from psychedelic neuroscience to Buddhist philosophy to earth based traditions to cognitive science and embodied cognition to somatic intelligence.

I mean, All of that is required to bring together and, and so much more really to truly understand just actually just just start scratching the surface of understanding how psychedelics can help support us on the journey of human flourishing. And there were many people that I wanted to interview whose work that I was studying work that falls into this larger frame.

This. It’s a multi disciplinary model of human flourishing that we’re choosing not to come on the show because it just didn’t make sense for them in terms of like their public profile, why they would be appearing on a psychedelic leadership podcast. I totally understand. And it started to feel a little more frustrating because ultimately what it comes down to is that I don’t want to be having any conversation unless it’s in the context of the poly crisis.

we face. I don’t want to talk about psychedelics, sacred plant medicines, human flourishing, business, creativity, any of it, unless we’re talking about the action required, the shift of perspective and belief systems, or the wisdom we need to cultivate In order to effectively live in a better way on this beautiful planet and I feel really passionate about that and that’s why I’m actually shifting the name of my show to Dear Humanity because for me it’s really about the the wisdom and science of human flourishing and personal mastery in service to To the collective healing and awakening of humanity and in service to this beautiful planet that we live on, that we haven’t been doing the best job of taking care of.

And that to me is the core essence of what gets me out of bed every morning. And so for This evolution of my podcast, psychedelics plays a supportive role, but it’s not the leading narrative. And this is really tying everything that I’m sharing together around getting clear on what is your core message.

Are you meant to be sharing a deeper wisdom? Um, or maybe not, maybe you are meant to be sharing about psychedelics themselves. That being said, I feel like it’s important to just add this very brief side note. I personally don’t believe we need more programs that are focused on the medicines themselves.

I think that this is actually part of another issue I’m seeing in the psychedelic space where so much of the content is revolved around dosing and timing and We have seen the Stamets stack and the Fadiman protocol regurgitated a million times at this point. First, it’s widely available online. You don’t need to pay someone else to give you that information.

Second of all, if you have a direct practice with medicines, I think that if you want to be a leader in this space, creating your own protocols and your own curriculum as a result of what those medicines are teaching you, this is pretty much going back to what I was expressing earlier. And third, I truly believe that talking about the medicines themselves is far less than one percent of the equation of what we need to know and embody to effectively support psychedelic transformation.

And I have a pretty good finger on the pulse in terms of what programs are out there. And yes, my program Transilience is built on a multidimensional framework, a multidisciplinary framework. Um, but it’s not just my program. There are other programs that I am working on. hearing great things about because they are held within that unified framework and those programs have a lot of respect for the people that have created them.

It took them a really long time to create. And from what I’m noticing is the differentiating factor and from people that are going through programs that don’t have a unified framework, are really just focused on the medicines and they’re mostly not unified because they just have a lot of different teachers coming to teach a sliver of knowledge that people who are going through those programs are really unhappy and feel like it was a waste of their time, energy, and money.

And the reason I’m sharing this is because I just find it fascinating. It’s paralleling what I’m pointing to here in this episode. It’s pointing to this deeper need that people are longing for this shift that we are witnessing right now to go deeper than talking about just the substances themselves and reach for the underlying Wisdom and how do we embody that wisdom in our lives?

And I think this is the primary benefit that censorship is offering all of us to dig deeper and to not forget the Bigger picture the bigger purpose of what we’re all doing this for and to actually just speak to it To that thing, because that’s the most important narrative. And when we lead with that narrative, it’s a whole different ball game in terms of communicating your message online.

And this leads to another benefit that I think we’re going to see as a result of censorship is that I think there’s going to be a weeding out of people and organizations who have been moving very quickly, who are over leveraged, who hold financial return as their North Star, perhaps because they took on outside investment too quickly and too early, and who don’t have a true depth of real transformative curriculum or or offering that supports the outcomes of psychedelic transformation, because developing an offering like that really takes time.

And so my perspective is the weeding out of these organizations is actually a good thing. And I think the lesson in what we’re witnessing with the, The implosion of different organizations and the collapse and falling apart of different organizations is for all of us to move more slowly. And I’m going to use the word, you know, move at the pace of integration because that’s what we’re ultimately doing here.

You know, as leaders in this space, we are literally, I mean, I hope you are translating real insights and wisdom from ceremony. From your plant allies into aligned inspired action through meaningful contribution and integration and transformation are slow and steady for a reason. Right? There are biological mechanisms that.

Prevent radical transformation from happening overnight. Another way we could say this is to move at the pace of neuroplasticity, move at the pace of synaptic connecting and pruning at the pace of neuroadaptive change. Right, so all we have to do is look to our own biology, to look to nature for how we can move at a more rhythmic pace, at the pace of integration.

When we hear our elders say, you know, stay behind the medicine, to me this is what they mean. It’s moving at the pace of deep listening, of attunement, which requires a lot of trust and courage and commitment because there are so many outside forces, you know, pressurizing the system, pressuring us to keep showing up, to keep doing.

And. I think those who succumb to those pressures and force the process and move more quickly and really bypass the organic process of growth, right? Tree roots take time to grow for a reason. I think people who bypass that process, um, I don’t think they’re going to make it through this censorship era.

And I think it’s just, again, a reminder for us to root more deeply into our own center and walk in alignment with our own true core calling. So I am generally of the mindset that your longevity and success in the psychedelic space will depend on the strength of your teachings, the strength and wisdom of your offering, and the strength of your community and network.

And I think people who prioritize their path of personal mastery in service to the collective will be in demand for decades to come. To come, and I believe that this is the real warrior training of our time. I think of it as, you know, walking the medicine path of mastery. This is a time to gather yourself internally, to strengthen yourself, to strengthen your capacity to pay attention and to listen and to move in alignment with that listening, to attune to that pace, to build your systems and your foundations.

Right, develop offerings that will become your legacy work, offerings that have depth and that can really truly support the larger arc of transformation and integrating these powerful catalysts of change into the fabric of our everyday lives. Devote to that path as a sacred offering to the collective.

I think if you focus on that. As your North star, I think everything else will work out for you. And if you are on the medicine path, and you are also what I’m calling an educator entrepreneur, and you want to deepen your solo practice with plant medicines because you feel called to birth an in depth, Body of work that is unique to you.

I am offering transmission alongside my program, Transilience. This is specifically for entrepreneurs creating an in depth, multidisciplinary body of work. And if you would like more information about what that container looks like, please email me at support at laura dawn dot co with the subject line transmission.

I will send you the information and the application form. This is going to be a very small cohort. A very high level creators who are devoted to this kind of path of mastery in service to the collective evolution of humanity. So with that said, this is the final episode of the psychedelic leadership podcast.

I am renaming this show to Dear Humanity, which feels just so deeply resonant with my core. Message and my core truth and my core why and why I’m doing all the work with psychedelics that I’m doing I still have my psychedelic leadership organization. That is the backbone of my psychedelic related training programs Transilience is a seven month psychedelic facilitation program for psychedelic coaches, integration guides, and microdosing mentors that starts January 17th.

Applications are open. I encourage you to check out all the details at lauradawn. co forward slash transilience. And just to reiterate, Transilience is my program for training psychedelic coaches to master the art of supporting psychedelic transformation. The depth of integration that occurs in the 99. 9 percent of time that someone is not in ceremony.

While transmission is for those of you on the medicine path, specifically birthing a body of work and you want to share that work through online programs or retreats, for example. And once again, if you would like to receive the resources that I mentioned earlier, just go to lauradon. co forward slash 70.

And I’ve already released the intro for Dear Humanity. I’ve decided to rename this show rather than launch an entire new one. So the next episodes will be coming out at episode 71. And I would so appreciate it if you could subscribe or leave me a review for this show so I can help gain some traction again after pausing for almost a year.

And I just want to end by saying thank you. Thank you to everyone for being here with me, for supporting my path. I’ve received just so many words of encouragement and love and support from so many of you. And this path, it’s just, it isn’t always easy, you know, especially in a time where so much is changing and we have to listen and adapt accordingly.

So So yeah, I’m just, I’m trusting my path as much as possible and I’m doing the best I can to keep showing up for truth. And thank you for supporting me along the way. Once again, my name is Laura Dawn and that’s all from me for today. And I look forward to sharing the Dear Humanity podcast with you.