Medicine for These Times with Beth Weinstein

Sean T. McAllister is an attorney specializing in the regulatory, health care, business, and religious freedom aspects of psychedelic medicines and therapies in the United States.
His work includes, among many other clients and matters:
Advising doctors, therapists, and licensed professionals on psychedelic assisted therapy (typically ketamine), including defense of licensure in disciplinary proceedings
Assisting clients in getting licensed under Colorado's regulatory psychedelic therapy program
Advising clients on religious exemptions for psychedelic use, including serving as a lawyer for the Church of the Eagle and the Condor and the Church of the Celestial Heart, both of which received formal recognition from the US government to operate ayahuasca churches in the United States
Drafting Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act, which legalized four psychedelics in the state
Serving as a member of the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel
Serving as General Counsel for the Kura Alliance
Sean is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.

Episode Highlights
▶ Psychedelic law and policy reform in the US
▶ The role of indigenous communities and respect for traditional knowledge
▶ The evolution of decriminalization and legalization efforts
▶ Challenges with patenting and commercialization of plant medicines
▶ The importance of indigenous sovereignty and recognition in the psychedelic movement

Sean McAllister’s Links & Resources
▶ https://www.mcallisterlawoffice.com
▶ https://www.linkedin.com/in/attyseanmcallister/
▶ https://www.instagram.com/mcallister2928/
▶ https://www.facebook.com/sean.mcallister.710


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Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
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Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business
Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
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Allan McGrath Isbell is a relationship and intimacy coach and teacher, and the founder of the men's work organization Thirteen Pines.

Allan guides men, women, and couples on the path of sacred union, sexual polarity, and embodied transformation. For more than a decade, he has studied with some of the world's foremost teachers of embodiment, masculine-feminine dynamics, spirituality, and deep intimacy.

Through in-person retreats, workshops, online programs, and guided practices, his work has reached thousands of people around the world, and he's become a highly sought-after coach, mentor, and teacher.

His mission is to help people cultivate deeper intimacy and more freedom in life and love.

Episode Highlights

▶ Sacred sexuality and relational intimacy as Allan's core work

▶ Safety, presence, and authenticity as the foundation of deep relational work

▶ Cultural shifts, initiation, and polarity in modern relationships

▶ Community, lineage, and skillful facilitation in sacred practice

▶ Why prescriptive rules about masculine and feminine roles fall short

▶ Sex as a mirror for the health of the whole relationship

▶ Relational and consciousness work as a path to societal healing 

 

Allan McGrath Isbell’s Links & Resources

▶ https://www.allanmcgrathisbell.com/

▶ https://www.instagram.com/allanmcgrathisbell 

▶ Free 40-Minute Polarity Practice - His Presence, Her Receptivity: https://www.allanmcgrathisbell.com/free-polarity-practice 

 

Download Beth's free trainings here: 

Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business

Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business

▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching 

▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services

▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein 

▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

Download Beth's free trainings here:
Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business
Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching
▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services
▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein
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In this episode Beth explores the profound impact of authenticity, integrity, and unconscious patterns in business and personal transformation, inspired by the recent loss of Carolyn Elliott. She discusses the importance of aligning with your true self, the pitfalls of marketing hype, and the collective need for inner balance in these transformational times.

For more information on Sunarai check out this episode: https://bethaweinstein.com/podcast/sunarai-journey-home-to-your-quintessence-clarity-abundance/

 

Sunarai: The Path to Clarity, Abundance & Your Quintessence, is a 15-Week 1:1 Private Coaching + Alchemical Journey  using Transformational Neuro-linguistic Programming Sessions, Plant Spirit support, Soul Expansion Coaching, and a deep dive into your Gene Keys to clear the unconscious patterns blocking your clients, income, visibility and abundance. Learn more here: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/

 

Episode Highlights

▶ Carolyn Elliott's death and its impact on the spiritual community

▶ Integrity and congruency as the foundation of business

▶ Unconscious patterns and identity shifts in transformation

▶ Limitations of modalities like Existential Kink

▶ Inner balance and authenticity in times of collective change

▶ Personal integrity and its ripple effect on societal balance

▶ Working with support to integrate new identities

▶ Marketing hype and false success narratives

▶ Inner work as a path to planetary healing

 Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/

 

Download Beth's free trainings here:
Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business
Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching
▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services
▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein
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Jason Grechanik is a master tabaquero trained in the Mamankunawa tradition under curandero Don Ernesto Garcia Torres, with nearly a decade immersed in Amazonian plant medicine traditions. He worked for years at the Temple of the Way of Light, one of the world's most respected Shipibo healing centers. He is the co-founder of the Nicotiana Rustica project — bridging Amazonian sacred tobacco traditions with Celtic tree wisdom — and the host of The Universe Within Podcast, with 180+ episodes and 20,000+ monthly listeners. Jason has guided over 1,000 people through plant medicine work, been featured in DoubleBlind Magazine, and appeared on 30+ podcasts globally. He brings lineage, ethics, and depth to every conversation. 

Episode Highlights

▶ Jason's journey from a Santo Daime friend's influence to an unignorable calling into the Peruvian Amazon

▶ Life at the Temple of the Way of Light and the facilitator's role as a bridge between Shipibo and Western worldviews

▶ Tobacco as the "first plant" in Amazonian origin myths, a gateway to the wider plant world

▶ The real difference between tobacco and cigarettes, and the limits of a purely reductionist, molecule-focused view

▶ How tobacco moves through the body in dieta, often surfacing in dreams as movement through dark, blocked places

▶ Why trees are considered the deeper teachers, and what their age and rootedness offer that other plants don't

▶ Tobacco as portal, trees as ongoing teacher: how the two work together in dieta

▶ Ancestral knowledge, the limits of modern assumptions, and building a new maloka, a new earth 

 

Jason Grechanik’s Links & Resources

▶ https://www.jasongrechanik.com

▶ https://www.nicotianarustica.org

▶ https://www.theuniversewithin.com

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

 

Download Beth's free trainings here: 

Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business

Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business

▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching 

▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services

▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein 

▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

Download Beth's free trainings here:
Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business
Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching
▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services
▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein
▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz

Benjamin Forest is a retired military officer turned psychedelic author, speaker, and coach. His transformation began with a life-changing psilocybin journey that lifted him from decades of depression and into a radically new way of living.

After his own awakening through plant medicine, he began writing, speaking, and coaching around the subject. In 2025, he published his first book: "Trip of a Lifetime -- The Psychedelic Guide to Healing, Loving, and Living." 

Episode Highlights

▶ Military service and discipline

▶ Psychedelic experiences and healing

▶ Systemic challenges in veteran mental health

▶ The role of psychedelics in redefining masculinity

▶ Preparation and integration of psychedelic journeys

 

Benjamin Forest’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: www.benjaminforest.com

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/benjamin.forest.bliss

▶Buy his book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPDPXXXD/

 

Download Beth's free trainings here: 

Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business

Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business

▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching 

▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services

▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein 

▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

Download Beth's free trainings here:
Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business
Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business
▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching
▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services
▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein
▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz