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 17 - Cesar Marin
Cesar Marin, owner and founder of Cultivating Wisdom, is a dynamic entrepreneur and esteemed former CNN producer. With a passion for empowering individuals through knowledge, he has successfully built a platform that promotes personal growth and enlightenment through the practice of Microdosing. Cesar's commitment to wisdom cultivation has made him a respected figure in the psychedelic industry. His visionary leadership continues to inspire and transform lives.
Episode 16 - Stephanie Wang
Stephanie is passionate about the power of plants and evolving consciousness. She is the Founder and CEO of KA! Empathogenics, with a mission to restore full-spectrum aliveness for all beings. KA! offers 100% plant-based empathogenic supplements featuring kanna - a heart-opening succulent from South Africa that is clinically proven to activate an immediate sense of grounded energy, helping people feel more alive, capable and connected as they navigate everyday stress.
Previously Stephanie was the President of The Alchemist's Kitchen and Director of Evolver, a conscious lifestyle company in New York. She was also a documentary and narrative film producer. A native Hong Konger, Stephanie began her career in corporate finance on Wall Street and was a number one ranked equity analyst in the retail sector with HSBC Securities, Hong Kong.
Episode 15 - Henry Winslow
Henry is the founder of Tricycle Day, a free twice-a-week newsletter covering the top stories in psychedelic research, policy, and business that's actually fun to read.
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...