THE NEW HEALTH CLUB

In this deeply personal episode, I speak with Laura Lewandowski, AI & Business Influencer, founder of the Smart Chiefs Newsletter, TEDx speaker, and one of Berlin’s most insightful businesswomen.She recently embarked on a guided magic truffle journey in the Netherlands. Known among her friends as the “AI Queen,” Laura is a powerhouse in business and tech—but even the smartest and most accomplished among us carry fears and emotional wounds.

For Laura, the truffle journey wasn’t just an adventure; it was a process of surrendering control, reconnecting with her body, and finding clarity after a seven-year relationship ended.

We explore how this experience helped her:

Navigate fears of crying, losing control, and confronting painful emotions

Use inner family systems exercises to map her emotional landscape

Reconnect with intuition and her body, leading to insights that influence her personal and professional life

Integrate the lessons into her day-to-day life as a mother and entrepreneur

See the power of letting go, and how pain can dissolve into joy

Key Moments

[00:05:00] Laura shares her initial fear of losing control and how surrender became a doorway to insight

[00:12:30] The guided session with two psychologists: setting up her inner family system

[00:20:00] How the psychedelic experience revealed disconnection from her feelings and over-reliance on her head

[00:28:00] Insights into decision-making, intuition, and the connection between mind and body

[00:35:00] Personal reflections on motherhood, prioritizing time with her daughter, and reshaping life and work balance

[00:45:00] How embracing emotional waves allows pain to transform into joy

Why You’ll Love This Episode

This episode isn’t just about psychedelics—it’s about emotional courage, intuition, and lifestyle transformation. Whether you’re curious about plant medicine, personal growth, or integrating life lessons into everyday routines, Laura’s story offers practical wisdom and inspiration.

Links & Resources

Laura Lewandowski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-lewandowski

Smart Chiefs Newsletter: https://smartchiefs.beehiiv.com/

Learn more about guided truffle journeys on The New Health Club Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-julie-holland-psychedelics-make-us-look-at-the/id1474605227?i=1000557560929

Takeaways

Letting go of control can unlock deep insights and joy

Psychedelic journeys can be a tool for personal growth, emotional integration, and body awareness

Intuition is strengthened when you observe without overthinking

Prioritizing meaningful relationships, like family, transforms how we structure life and work.

This episode will be in german, but SPOTIFY allows you now to listen to it in english.

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Hi, today’s guest is Veronika Gold, a therapist and counselor based in San Francisco with extensive experience in psychology. Originally from the Czech Republic, she grew up under communist rule and traveled worldwide before settling in the Bay Area in 2003. She’s passionate about contemplative practices like meditation, mindfulness, and exploring consciousness. Veronica holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Charles University and an M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from CIIS. She is involved in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy at SF Insight and Co-developed Ketamine Assisted Therapy at New Pathways and Polaris Insight Center. She’s known for her outstanding work and shares her inspiring journey from life under communism to becoming a therapist specializing in transformative trauma work.

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Dr. Christopher Timmermann is neuroscientist and co-director of the UCL Centre for Consciousness Research in London. He obtained a BSc in Psychology in Santiago, Chile and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bologna in Italy. He was also leading one of the first DMT research groups at Imperial College London.

His empirical and theoretical work focuses on the neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and beliefs of psychedelics, their relationship to consciousness and applications in mental health. The work he has led has been published in high-regarded journals, and has been widely covered by mass media outlets. He also founded and is the director of an educational non-profit in Chile, the ECOH Foundation.

He is the expert on 5MeO DMT right, which has been dubbed the “Mount Everest of psychedelics,” and fittingly, Timmermann writes, “its experiences are often referred to as “whiteouts.” But beyond its ability to eliminate the sense of space and time, its most interesting effect lies in the way it dissolves the self. This is key. The question of whether the self is necessary for consciousness to occur has been debated by philosophers for thousands of years — and it remains unsettled. But with 5MeO, something completely different happens: It radically deconstructs all possible worlds, sparing only awareness.

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Hadas Alterman is an attorney who co-founded Plant Medicine Law Group, the first psychedelic industry focused law firm. She helped shape the legal psychedelic frameworks in Colorado and Oregon and the professional standards for psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is also working as a the director of legislative strategy for Stand With Us. Our topic today is how we can tolerate and accept very different world views in a conversations. In these times, this seems to be the number one talent we need to come up with human being. So how can psychedelic journeys contribute to this and have us tolerate messy conversations and understand the other camp? 

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Dr. Leor Roseman, Senior Lecturer and Psychedelic Researcher at the University of Exeter, has explore this avenue. His study “Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis” a few years ago, was fascinating.I read about it in 2021, (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8170481/) and we recorded the first podcast. To me the idea made a lot of sense. Now, with the urgency amid the current situation after October 7th, his work seems more important than ever. In his scientific work Leor examines how psychedelics can serve as peacemaking tools by altering consciousness through a biopsychosocial lens, incorporating neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and phenom enology. With a background at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, under Prof. Robin Carhart-Harris and Prof. David Nutt, Leor was curious how psychedelics now can deliver a new peacemaking tool. His foundation Ripples, a non-profit dedicated to peace building supported by psychedelics, is now researching new ideas around understanding, without ignoring the actual conflict. The urgency right now is on the Israel and Palestine Conflict. But his work can be valid for other conflicted parties too.  

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Today, I am talking with Gul Dolen, a pioneering neuroscientist from Berkeley University and a leading expert in social behavior, psychedelics, and brain plasticity. Gül’s groundbreaking research has uncovered how hormones like oxytocin and serotonin interact in the brain to produce feelings of social connection. She has also explored how psychoactive drugs like MDMA can enhance social behaviors across species, including octopuses. Most recently, her work investigates how psychedelics can reopen critical periods of social reward learning, offering new hope for understanding and treating social disorders. We talk about the reopening of the brain’s critical periods and how MDMA therapy can change your mind.

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https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/gul-dolen

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This is the third special episode I recorded in collaboration with Joe Moore from Psychedelics Today at the largest conference in the field "Psychedelic Science 2025" in Denver last week. It very early in the morning, at 8am, and it was fabulous. Our guests in this episode are the hilarious comedian Dennis Walker, the energetic Co-founder (with Myriam Barthes) and CEO of Journey Clinical Jonathan Sabbagh, Philip Drechsel, my Co-Founder of The New Health Institute, and Tom Feegel, Co-Founder of the ibogaine clinic Beond (with Talia Eisenberg) Joe and I talk about the language of healing and how we communicate this to others, when we need to change all together. As Philip shared his healing story with ibogaine, it became clear what a healing opportunity we could experience here.

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Today’s episode is particularly special. I recorded this session in our hotel room studio during the Psychedelic Science Conference in Denver. The duo you’ll hear shortly is truly exceptional in their efforts to destigmatize psychedelics, a movement gaining significant momentum right now.

My guests are Professor Rachel Yehuda and Governor Rick Perry. Professor Rachel Yehuda is the Director of the Parsons Research Center for Psychedelic Healing at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She plays a pivotal role in pioneering psychedelic research related to veterans and PTSD.

Governor Rick Perry is a prominent American politician and the former governor of Texas. He also served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2017 to 2019. Perry has argued that ibogaine could be an incredible treatment for addiction and PTSD in veterans and has dedicated himself to advancing the public understanding and acceptance of psychedelics. In this episode, we discuss the evolving landscape of psychedelics in the United States, exploring why a bipartisan approach could be a powerful solution for rescheduling psychedelics and expanding access to healing therapies nationwide.

IG @rachelyehudaphd @secretaryperry https://www.nga.org/governor/rick-perry/ https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/yehudalab/yehuda-team/

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This is a special episode I recorded in collaboration with Joe Moore from Psychedelics Today at the largest conference in the field "Psychedelic Science 2025" in Denver last week. It very early in the morning, at 8am, and it was fabulous. Our guests: Daniel Goldberg Co-Founder and Partner at Palo Santo & Bridge Investments & Zac Kamenetz, Founder of Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Support, Joe and me were talking about the interactions of psychedelic community, the new role of Venture Capital in 2025 and what psychedelic systems are built in the current climate to support individuals and the bigger picture. Check out this episode, it's fun and very insightful.

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