In this episode, Deb talks with Dr Suzy Green, founder of The Positivity Institute, about the profound links between mental health, personal growth, and positive psychology. They discuss nature’s role in mental well-being, the evolving use of psychedelics in therapy, and insights from adult development theory on wisdom and resilience. Dr. Green shares her journey into Positive Psychology, the importance of balancing positivity with life’s struggles, and how her work is transforming corporate wel...
Dec 18, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Dr. Mario Alam and Deb explore the profound intersections of personal growth, mental health, and societal transformation. They discuss the healing potential of psychedelics, their integration into cultural shifts, and navigating somatic trauma. From leveraging AI-powered mental health tools to creating safe spaces and fostering perseverance, this conversation delves into the transformative power of radical leadership and collective consciousness. Discover how innovative approaches, like the Rese...
Dec 04, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 31
TW: Suicide Dr Ian Gawler OAM joins Deb to discuss the profound impact of meditation on life’s challenges. They explore personal connections, silent retreats, and Ian’s health journey, including his battle with cancer and encounters with grief. Ian shares insights on death, dying, and the transformative potential of meditation. The conversation delves into the intersection of psychedelics, meditation, and mental well-being, highlighting the importance of open dialogue and evidence-based practice...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 30
TW: Suicide Professor Ian Brighthope joins Deb to discuss his journey in founding the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and his concerns about the medical and pharmaceutical industries. They explore the benefits of whole foods, essential vitamins, and minerals, the role of nutrition in mental health, and the therapeutic use of cannabis and psychedelics. Prof Brighthope also shares insights into a "low-stress diet," Indigenous health wisdom, and the importance of syst...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 29
TW: Suicide This episode is a deep dive into the intersection of family, connection, and community within the context of psychedelic therapy. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Sara Reed, shares her personal journey with psychedelics and the role they’ve played in her therapeutic practice. The conversation explores the importance of language and communication in understanding client experiences, the role of nature in psychedelic integration, and the need for culturally sensitive training. T...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 28
TW: Suicide In today's episode we dive into the fascinating world of altered states of consciousness with Dr Kim Hutchison, a neurologist and sleep doctor whose personal journey has led to a deep exploration of plant medicine and its potential to heal and transform. Kim's curiosity about mental frameworks, universal energy, and the boundaries of the self has brought her to uncover how plant medicine can break down barriers, elevate consciousness, and create new channels for healing and growth. W...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 27
TW: Suicide Robert Falconer overcame an incredibly difficult childhood as a troubled young man who battled suicidal thoughts and addictions. Despite these challenges, he not only survived but also flourished. While he has undoubtedly achieved tremendous success in material terms, what truly matters to him is his development into a compassionate individual. He has found purpose in the pain he has experienced by supporting other survivors, earning a Master’s degree in psychology, leading a non-pro...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 26
TW: Suicide Reid Robison, MD MBA, is a Psychiatrist, Researcher & Chief Medical Officer at Novamind. He has led over 100 clinical trials in neuropsychiatry and co-directed the molecular genetics laboratory at the University of Utah Department of Psychiatry. Reid is co-founder at Cedar Psychiatry, and serves as Medical Director of Center for Change, a top Eating Disorder treatment program. He was the coordinating investigator for the MAPS MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy study of Eating Disorders....
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 25
TW: Suicide David Heilpern was appointed as a Magistrate in 1998, and was at the time the youngest magistrate in Australia. He ‘retired’ in May 2020. He sat in the criminal, mining, family, industrial, coronial and children’s jurisdictions of the Local Court, and was the Senior Civil Magistrate for five years. During his time on the bench, David was the principal educator for new magistrates throughout Australia and the Pacific and made several important reported decisions on criminal, environme...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 24
TW: Suicide Sabrina Santa Clara In this episode, Sabrina Santa Clara speaks on mindfulness, connection and cultural identity, drawing on her own history of trauma and pathways of healing. She has worn many hats in the past, with a background spanning roles such as yoga instructor, massage therapist, and somatic psychedelic therapist, among others. Her focus has since shifted toward training and educating others in the healing professions. Sabrina has developed a refined version of the Internal F...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 23
TW: Suicide Cathy Burke For 20 years Cathy Burke was the CEO for The Hunger Project Australia, and then Global Vice President, working to end hunger across South Asia and Africa. She was an integral member of a visionary team who developed leadership at scale in villages all over the world. Through her work, millions of the world’s poorest people stepped into their leadership and were able to feed themselves and their families. Now a speaker, coach, and leadership developer, Cathy coaches and tr...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 22
TW: Suicide Steve Ball Steve is a New Zealander who lived in Sydney before relocating to Amsterdam. He’s a Chief Technology Officer working in software development. As someone with Complex-PTSD since the age of nineteen, he pursued all conventional options for treatment within the health system but found that talk therapy was re-traumatising and antidepressants exacerbated his dissociative symptoms. In 2020, after reading the research results of MAPS’ clinical trials for treating PTSD with MDMA ...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 21
TW: Suicide Annie Mason Annie is an educator with a wide range of experiences including classroom teaching K-12, Special Education and Student Wellbeing. She was a Principal for over 15 years, worked as an Educational Consultant and lectured at a leading Australian university. Annie has travelled extensively, working in Hong Kong, the UK and Middle East and has a special interest in Gender Equity, Social Justice and Women in Leadership. Annie has been volunteering in Thailand and Cambodia for a ...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 20
TW: Suicide Dr Ruth Gawler Dr Gawler is a General Practitioner with a specialised interest in Mind-Body Medicine and Psychology. She is the President of the Meditation Association of Australia (MAA) , a Medical Practitioner and Meditation Teacher at The Gawler Foundation Managing Director of Insight Health Services She worked at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and was Medical Director of the Family Planning Association of Central Australia from 1991-1997 and worked for most of this pe...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 19
TW: Suicide Dr Eli Kotler Dr Eli Kotler is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He is the Medical Director of Malvern Private Hospital, an addiction and trauma hospital in Melbourne. Eli completed the inaugural Mind Medicine Australia Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (CPAT)™ course, and has since been on its Faculty. He's currently the Australian course Director. Due to his interest in trauma, Eli has been appointed an Independent Medical Examiner by WorkSafe...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 18
-- Your Host Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA Lived Experience Panel and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means. She is deeply passionate about conversations related to wellbeing. She uses her own lived experience as well as the reality of having two family members who ended their life seeing...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 17
TW: Suicide Glen Boyes Glen was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010/2011 to Helmand province as part of the counter IED task force. He took part in the biggest counter IED op in Afghan history safely clearing and returning a large village back to locals. This tour did not come easy as his team suffered 2 casualties in an IED blast 15 days into our tour. As soldiers, they stop that emotion and carry on with the job and the rest of the tour. Glen suffered PTSD through lockdown 11/12 years later. Worki...
May 22, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 16
TW: Suicide Dr Gita Vaid Gita Vaid MD is a board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy's innovation and clinical practice. A lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center and member of the Mount Sinai Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research and Trauma Center, she is a Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic (MAPS) trained psychedelic psychotherapist practicing ketam...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 15
TW: Suicide Stephen Proud is a psychiatrist in private practice in regional WA with 45 years’ experience in medicine and 25 years as a psychiatrist. He has worked as a GP in rural WA, Perth and rural Zululand South Africa. He has taught GPs and psychiatric registrars for many years in Perth. He has built and run two psychiatric hospitals, one in Perth and the other an innovative rural retreat where patients lived for a month to undergo extensive psychotherapy, meditation and community living. He...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 14
TW: Suicide Megan Smoak is a Clinical Psychologist, Board endorsed clinical supervisor and lecturer in Clinical Psychology. Megan works with clients at any stage across the lifespan including young children and adolescents. Megan has experience working with a wide variety of clinical challenges including management of ADHD in children & adults, anxiety & phobias and working with transgender children and adolescents to support any mental health challenges in a safe and supportive therapeu...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Until his recent retirement from politics, Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade, Investment and Tourism. In this role Mr Robb negotiated Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Japan and China, as well as the 12 country Transpacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement. Mr Robb is currently Executive Chairman of The Robb Group (A corporate and investment advisory company), a Board Member of the Kidman cattle enterprise, Chair of Asialink and pharmacogenetics company, CNSDose, and str...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Dr Ted Cassidy is a psychiatrist and co-founder of Monarch Mental Health Group which provides innovative next step treatments for people suffering from Depression, PTSD and anxiety. Monarch Mental Health is Australia's first outpatient clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy and Australia's largest provider of outpatient magnetic stimulation therapy (TMS), as well as a range of other next step treatments including ketamine, portable direct current stimulation telepsychology and telepsychiat...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Trigger Warning: Suicide & SA Annette Baulch & Graeme Sudholz have been relationship counsellors, sex therapists and retreat facilitators with a tantric flavour since 2006. Their inclusive approach is known for changing lives through changing relationships, as couples learn to open their hearts and come home to love. Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA Lived Experience Pa...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Kerry is a nurse of 44 years, mother of four and grandmother to nine, specialising in palliative care. She had suffered depression, addictions and suicidal ideation all her life. “Trauma by omission” Gabor Mate calls it. Every antidepressant, therapy, book, course and seminar failed and just left her feeling hopeless and wanting to die even though she was so blessed. At age 58 she had an opportunity to try DMT. It reset her brain and gave her joy, self-love and connection for the first time in h...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 9
TW: Suicide Tony Mantz aka “Jack the Bear” has been in the music industry since 1981 working in all facets of it , including being a radio announcer on MMM FM Melbourne for the duration of the 90’s. He has had an interest in psychedelics since first hearing about them on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast back in 2009. In Jan 2020 he had the most transformative experience of his life through an intense weekend of carefully administered and facilitated ceremonies with an experienced practitioner us...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 8
TW: Suicide Rising into the public eye as esteemed Founder of Cutting Edge Post, one of Australia’s largest and most awarded post production companies and working on over 50 US and Australian movies and over 700 episodes of scripted drama television as well as many thousands of television commercials, John Lee is renowned as a skilled Technical Director and entrepreneur who has pursued a colourful and dynamic career. After Johns daughter Freyja committed Suicide and John was spiralling downhill,...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 7
TW: Suicide A passionate Mental Health Advocate, mentor, leader and speaker. Simone was voted (Inside Small Business Magazine) as one of the top 50 Business Leaders for 2020. She is a successful entrepreneur and CEO. She was Head of social enterprise for World Vision Australia, responsible for the start up and international scaling of Change Coffee. Contributing all sales to the global economic empowerment of women. Simone holds a degree in Psychology and guest facilitates leadership workshops f...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 6
TW: Suicide Brian Follett Walker (born 5 September 1954) is an Australian politician and medical practitioner. At the 2021 Western Australian state election, Walker was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Legalise Cannabis WA member for the East Metropolitan Region. His term commenced on 24 May 2021. Walker was born in Malaysia to Scottish parents, and was educated at Scotch College, Perth, prior to studying medicine at the University of Dundee. Walker has a longstanding c...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
TW: Suicide Marjane is a trauma-informed addictions and mental health counsellor with over 7 year’s experience in spiritual healing practices and ancestral plant medicines. Marjane grew up in France, completing a degree in Biology there, and then her Masters in Australia. Marjane undertook training as a trauma informed counsellor and has a strong understanding of the power of plants and medicinal fungi. She strongly believes in the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy for to help save lives. Ma...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Van is first and foremost a heart-led man who lives through an intention of self-responsibility. He was gifted the opportunity to live a childhood dream as a professional Rugby Union player in Australia and abroad over 13 years, and as a professional coach over 7 years nationally. Van worked in a theatre support role for Orthopaedics and devices for three years on retirement and fell passionately into Permaculture organic farming and its synergistic relationship with nature and cycles. Navigatin...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 3
