Welcome to the Minority Trip Report Podcast
Minority Trip Report ™ (MTR) is a podcast spotlighting stories of personal transformation and under-represented leaders in mental health, psychedelics, and consciousness.
Hosted by Raad Seraj
Available wherever you listen to your podcasts
This thoughtful and engaging podcast is a wonderful breath of fresh air. Going beyond the many generic and stale podcasts out there, Raad guides his guest and the listeners on a journey that artfully interweaves candid autobiographical narratives with quality information. Expect to be touched, informed, and inspired.
Manesh Girn, Chief Research Officer, EntheoTech and MTR Guest
Season Two
Join us for season two of the Minority Trip Report Podcast.
Episodes will be available here, or on Apple, Spotify or Google Podcasts.
Episode 9 - Charlie Smith
Charlie Smith is a producer, writer, director, editor, and founder of Feenom Films; a full-range media company on a mission to create content inspired by exploring consciousness. His documentary, "The Art of Healing" (featuring New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk) premiered to a sold-out audience at Psychedelic Science 2023.
Episode 6 - Adam Aronovich
Adam is a PhD Candidate in Medical Anthropology and the creator and curator of Healing from Healing, casting a critical, skeptical and humorous gaze at Healing and Transformation Culture.
Episode 3 - Ishrat Husain
Dr. Ishrat Husain who is Head of the Clinical Trials Unit and Lead of the Mood Disorders Service at Center for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Treatment Innovation in Mood Disorders.
Episode 5 - Sabba Nazhand
Sabba Nazhand is a self-made tech executive, investor, and advisor, on a mission to help bring more diverse voices to the psychedelic space through technology and a startup mindset. Sabba immigrated to the US as a child from war-torn Iran and spent his early career building towards a version of the American dream from dabbling in entrepreneurship to leading companies and global teams while living in Hong Kong, London, and NYC.
Episode 2 - Nikhita Singhal
Nikhita Singhal is a fourth year psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. Nikhita completed her undergraduate degree and medical training at McMaster University. She is passionate about engaging in advocacy work, empowering individuals with lived experience, and contributing to medical education.
Episode 7 -Mycopreneur
Dennis Walker, otherwise known as the viral sensation Mycopreneur. He was named the Psychedelic Influencer of the Year at the 2022 Entheo Awards and has been featured in Rolling Stone and Forbes. He is the chief puppeteer at the Psychedelic Puppet Show and has traveled to 75 countries.
Episode 4 - Simran Sethi
Simran Sethi is a multimedia journalist, academic, and founder of the Asian Psychedelic Collective.
Named one of the “50 Most Influential Global Indians” by Vogue India and the “environmental messenger” by Vanity Fair, Simran has written for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Guardian. Her book Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love—named one of the best food books of 2016 by Smithsonian.
Episode 1 - Heesoo Cho
Heesoo Cho is the co-founder of SABI Mind, a psychedelic-assisted therapy clinic group based in Calgary AB. In seeing the devastating impact of serious mental health challenges on friends and family, Heesoo put his energy and expertise towards opening up safe access to psychedelic treatment, with a focus on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Season One
The inaugural season of the Minority Trip Report Podcast.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcast episodes.
Episode 15 - Jonathan Lu
Jonathan Lu is the co-founder of VCENNA, a drug discovery company that creates mental wellness solutions from psychoactive plants used ceremonially in Ancestral Eastern traditions. Jonathan is an engineer that has been studying 2000 year old Chinese texts in search of compounds, formulations, and rituals that have been lost to history...
Episode 12 - Sisi Lee
Sisi Li is the Senior Data Architect Lead at Porta Sophia, a non-profit online library for innovators and patent examiners to find relevant prior art in the field of psychedelics. She has a B.Sc in molecular and cellular biology and psychology from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin...
Episode 14 - Kowsheek Mahmood
Kowsheek Mahmood is a software engineer by trade, currently working at Adobe’s Substance 3D & Immersive Labs. Kowsheek joined Adobe through its acquisition of BRIO, where he was the Head of Technology for the web-based 3D presentation platform. Prior to this, Kowsheek served as CTO for several companies in the FinTech, transportation, and marketing automation spaces...
Episode 11 - Sanjay Singhal
Sanjay Singhal is an Author and philanthropist best known for founding and selling Audiobooks.com. He is the author of the auto-biographical “Zero to Tesla”, and an active philanthropist with Nikean Foundation, founded in 2019 with the hopes of promoting psychedelic science and bringing to the forefront novel medicines for mental health disorders...
Episode 13 - Mary Lin
Mary Lin is the cofounder of Odin, a startup that builds powerful tools allowing people to invest together in anything. Long term, Odin’s vision is to drive systemic change, by creating better ways for people to connect, collaborate and create value.
Episode 10 - Adam Aronovich
Adam is a doctoral candidate in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry. He is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) and has spent close to 5 years living and working in the Peruvian Amazon, facilitating workshops and retreats while conducting extensive fieldwork and qualitative research...