This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Joe Moore and Kyle Buller, co-founders of Psychedelics Today, one of the world’s leading platforms for psychedelic media, education, and thought leadership.

Since launching Psychedelics Today in 2015, Joe and Kyle have been at the forefront of shaping informed, responsible conversations around psychedelic medicine bridging science, spirituality, culture, and personal transformation.

Joe brings over two decades of experience spanning psychedelic study, technology, and large-scale project management. A seasoned speaker and podcast host, he is deeply engaged in conversations around drug policy, environmentalism, and ethical use of psychedelics in both medical and personal growth contexts. Kyle’s path into this work began with a profound near-death experience at age sixteen—an initiation that led him into deep exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology, somatic healing, and breathwork. With a background in clinical mental health counseling and years of experience supporting people in crisis, Kyle brings a grounded, compassionate lens to integration and healing.

In this rich and timely conversation, Sam, Joe, and Kyle explore what it truly means to build a psychedelic culture rooted in responsibility, humility, and care. They discuss the importance of education, integration, and embodied practices like transpersonal breathwork, as well as the evolving role psychedelics play in mental health, spirituality, and collective awakening. This episode offers listeners both a wide-angle view of the psychedelic landscape and a deeply human story of why this work matters now more than ever.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Susan Miller, one of the most influential and trusted voices in modern astrology.

An internationally known astrologer, author, and entrepreneur, Susan is the founder of Astrology Zone, a pioneering platform she launched in 1995 that now reaches more than 13 million readers worldwide each year. For decades, Susan has helped people make sense of their lives through the language of the planets, offering guidance that is both practical and deeply compassionate.

Susan’s work is beloved for its warmth, clarity, and philosophical depth. Her readers value her ability to translate complex planetary movements into meaningful insight and helping them navigate relationships, career choices, personal growth, as well as life’s turning points with greater awareness and confidence. In addition to authoring 18 astrology books and her popular Year Ahead calendars, Susan writes monthly astrology columns for international editions of Vogue and other leading publications, bringing Western astrology to a truly global audience.

In this thoughtful conversation, Sam and Susan explore how astrology can be used not as prediction, but as a tool for self-understanding, timing, and conscious choice for the year ahead. They discuss how planetary cycles reflect inner growth, collective shifts, and the larger rhythms of life as well as why astrology continues to resonate so strongly in uncertain times. This episode is an invitation to see the cosmos not as something happening to us, but as a mirror that helps us live with greater intention, perspective, and grace.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Abbie Rosner, writer, baby boomer, and one of the leading voices exploring how the psychedelic renaissance is reshaping the experience of aging.

Based in Washington, DC, Abbie is the author of the forthcoming book Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging and the creator of the ELDEREVOLUTION newsletter, where she challenges outdated narratives about getting older and offers a bold, meaningful vision of elderhood rooted in growth, healing, and consciousness expansion.

In this thought-provoking conversation, Abbie explores what makes working with psychedelics in later life fundamentally different than in youth. With decades of lived experience, emotional maturity, and insights from half a century of clinical research, older adults are uniquely positioned to benefit from these medicines.

She reflects on the oft-quoted line from Michael Pollan that psychedelics may be “wasted on the young,” and examines the specific issues of aging such as grief, meaning, end-of-life awareness, and spiritual integration, that psychedelics can help address.

Together, Sam and Abbie also discuss practical considerations, including safety, legal access, and the evolving role of spiritual and community support for older adults exploring psychedelics. Drawing on interviews with dozens of elders and her deep engagement with current research, Abbie makes a compelling case that aging can be a threshold into greater joy, purpose, and wholeness. This episode invites listeners to reimagine elderhood not as decline, but as a powerful frontier of consciousness, and a new counterculture in the making.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dr. Christopher Macklin, medical intuitive, author, and founder of the Global Enlightenment Project.

Born with heightened awareness and the ability to perceive energy and multidimensional phenomena from a young age, Christopher initially tried to follow a conventional path building a successful career as an aviation engineer. But life had other plans. A series of personal and financial collapses ultimately led him to homelessness on the streets of Manchester, England, marking the beginning of a profound spiritual awakening.

In a moment of complete surrender, with nothing left to cling to, Christopher made a sacred commitment to dedicate his life and healing abilities to serving humanity. What followed was an intense period of inner work and devotion, spending years in deep meditation to integrate his gifts and understand the divine healing he was being called to offer. This “dark night” became the crucible through which his true purpose was forged, transforming devastation into destiny.

Today, Christopher works with thousands of clients around the world, offering healing that addresses physical, emotional, and energetic imbalances while teaching principles of divine sovereignty and alignment. Together with his wife, Amanda, he supports an awakening humanity through the Global Enlightenment Project, reminding us that even our greatest losses can become doorways to profound service and grace. This episode is a powerful testament to resilience, faith, and the unexpected paths that lead us home to ourselves.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam takes a pause from guest conversations to reflect on the year that’s now coming to a close.

It is a moment to look back with gratitude at the conversations that mattered, the connections that nourished the soul, and the quiet shifts that don’t always make headlines but change us nonetheless. This episode is an invitation to slow down and honor the journey, not just the milestones.

Sam shares highlights from the past year, including meaningful discussions with incredible guests who brought wisdom, courage, and insight to the show. Beyond the conversations, he reflects on the internal growth that unfolded along the way and the moments of clarity, challenge, and transformation that shaped both his work and his inner life. It’s a reminder that progress isn’t always loud or linear, and that growth often happens in subtle, unseen ways.

Most of all, this episode is a gentle call to join Sam in celebrating even the small things. The quiet wins. The lessons learned. The ways we showed up when it mattered. As the year comes to an end, Sam invites listeners to acknowledge what they’ve lived, what they’ve become, and what they’re ready to carry forward. Tune in for a heartfelt reflection that honors where you’ve been and opens space for what’s to come.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Susanne Biro, an executive coach with over two decades of experience helping CEOs and senior leaders transform not just how they work, but how they live.

As the author of This Could Be Everything and creator of the Inner Life Leadership approach, Susanne teaches that no amount of external success can compensate for the absence of inner fulfillment, self-respect, and self-awareness. Her work invites us to rethink leadership entirely and not as a role bestowed from the outside, but as a practice cultivated from within.

In this insightful and deeply human conversation, Susanne shares how tools like her Self-Inquiry Tool (SIT) help reveal the thoughts, emotions, and patterns that quietly shape our behavior and impact others. She explains why real leadership begins with the “Power of I” and the courage to own our experience, our choices, and the way we show up. From this place of accountability and genuine presence, trust becomes not something we demand but something we embody. Susanne’s message is clear: the quality of our inner life determines the quality of our relationships, our work, and ultimately, our impact.

Together, Sam and Susanne explore how leaders, and all of us, can create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. They discuss why developing others is the highest expression of leadership and why that level of service is only possible when we have first committed to our own deep self-development. This episode is a powerful reminder that transformation starts within and that doing the inner work is not only essential, but profoundly liberating.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW, a psychotherapist, educator, and leading voice in the intersection of psychedelics, sexuality, and healing.

With over seventeen years of clinical experience, Dee Dee serves as Clinical Director of Chrysalis Integrative Psychotherapy, Women & Gender Diversity Advisor for the Chacruna Institute, and part of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy team at Woodstock Therapy Center.

Their groundbreaking forthcoming book, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality, redefines what it means to heal sexual trauma and reclaim embodied joy.

In this deeply compassionate conversation, Dee Dee shares their own journey of recovery and awakening and how personal experience with trauma inspired a re-examination of the medical model of psychedelic healing. They reveal how true healing goes beyond symptom relief, inviting us to reconnect with pleasure as a spiritual and therapeutic force.

Through case studies and insights from their extensive clinical work, Dee Dee illuminates how psychedelics such as MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and 5-MeO-DMT can help people release shame, rediscover the body as sacred, and open to deeper love and connection.

Together, Sam and Dee Dee explore how redefining sexual trauma and embracing embodied pleasure can transform not just individuals but also our collective relationship to intimacy, spirituality, and power. This episode offers a brave and hopeful vision, that pleasure itself is medicine and that through awareness, integration, and compassion, we can come home to the wholeness that was never truly lost.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Will Burkhart, a Naval Academy graduate, former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, explorer, and founder of Badass Coaching and Badass Adventures.

From combat zones in the Middle East and Africa to wilderness expeditions and psychedelic ceremonies, Will has devoted his life to exploring the edges of human potential. Now, as a Co-Active Certified Professional Coach, he helps others access their own inner power, courage, and freedom through adventure, awareness, and expanded consciousness.

In this electrifying conversation, Will shares how his path from military intelligence to mindfulness, from structure to surrender, has shaped a radical approach to transformation.

He discusses the difference between expanded consciousness and altered consciousness, and what it means to live a psychedelic-catalyzed life, one in which awe, presence, and curiosity are part of everyday existence. Through his retreats and coaching, Will invites people to move beyond peak experiences and into an ongoing state of flow, creativity, and connection.

Together, Sam and Will explore the evolving role of psychedelics in personal and collective growth, from micro- and flow-dosing to creative approaches to set and setting that integrate art, sound, movement, and nature. This episode challenges listeners to redefine what it means to be truly alive, to live not from fear or limitation, but from the wild, awakened center of their being.

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