In this episode, Sid explores how LGBTQ+ musicians can be woven naturally and meaningfully into music curriculum across grade levels — not as a special unit, but as part of the musical story students encounter every day. From Tchaikovsky’s emotional world, to the creative partnership of Barber and Menotti, to Wendy Carlos’ groundbreaking work with …

In this first installment of a multi-episode series, Dr. Sid Adams explores why LGBTQ+ inclusion is essential to building healthy, expressive music classrooms. Drawing on his doctoral research on how LGBTQ+ music students experience school music programs — and how policies and practices influence their decisions to disclose or hide their identities…

In this episode of The Incisive Music Classroom, we explore how to move from awareness of bias to action by intentionally designing classroom experiences that promote a sense of belonging. You’ll learn five practical strategies to help every student feel seen and valued: Start with empathy — listen deeply and seek to understand. Reflect on systems …

🎧 Episode 4: Understanding Bias in Music Education Bias isn’t always intentional — but it shapes how we teach, listen, and lead. In this episode, Sid explores how unconscious assumptions influence everything from repertoire choices to classroom expectations, and how awareness can transform our teaching. You’ll walk away with five practical strategi…

Every student’s musical voice is shaped by who they are... their culture, language, gender, race, ability, and lived experiences. In this episode, we explore how those identities influence learning, expression, and belonging in music education. Host Sid Adams shares stories from the classroom and the field... from a Korean student seeing their cult…

Representation is an important first step toward inclusion, but it’s not the finish line. In this episode, we explore how music education can move beyond simply who is in the room to focus on how the room feels for every student. Through storytelling, performance, and reflection, we look at how music-making helps students build empathy, compassion,…

In the premiere episode of The Inclusive Music Classroom, host Dr. Sid Adams (he/him) invites listeners into an open and reflective conversation about belonging, identity, and the power of inclusion in music education. Drawing on his experiences as a music educator and researcher, Dr. Adams shares the inspiration behind the podcast and the importan…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome to the final episode. We have come to the end of a very interesting journey exploring the various facets of the psychedelic space. Listen as we discuss favourite episodes, changes in perception and the philosophy of psychedelics. We would like to wish a warm "Later Gator" to all our listeners and hope that yo…

Send us a text Welcome back to another awesome interview with the amazing Dr. Joe Tafur. Dr Tafur is an integrative Family Physician, curandero, speaker, and author of The Fellowship of the River. A fantastic book on the role of spiritual healing in modern healthcare. Joe spend 6 years working and training under master Shipibo Ayahuasquero Ricardo …

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to another amazing interview with the awesome Avi Esther. Avi is a natural medicine woman, Conception-Birth Wisdom Keeper, and facilitator of amanita muscaria, and Solanaceae deliriants also known as the nightshades such as datura, henbane, belladonna and mandrake. Avi has been researching and using these compo…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to an amazing interview with the awesome freelance journalist Ed Prideaux who has written content for BBC, VICE, Financial Times and other media outlets. Ed developed Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder due to adolescent LSD use and has lived with extensive flashbacks for close to a decade. He ha…

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to a great interview with the magnificent Adam Butler. Adam is an author, psychedelic philosopher and passionate DMT psychonaut focusing on mental health, neuroplasticity, self-exploration, and the extreme limits of human potential and ability. Combining an academically trained intellect, empathetic heart, and …

Send us a text Dr. Erica Zelfand is a licensed family doctor specializing in integrated mental health and functional medicine. In addition to treating patients of all ages in her private practice, Dr. Zelfand is ketamine prescriber, facilitator of therapeutic psychedelic experiences, international speaker, and medical writer. She often presents at …

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to a great new episode with Dan Borowski. After hitting a deep emotional low Daniel embarked on a journey of healing that led him to discover magic mushrooms. In his book, “SHROOMED: My Healing Journey with Psilocybin”, he shares his personal story of how these psychedelic fungi helped him overcome depression, …

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to an incredibly relevant interview with Mary Telliano. Mary is an innovative end-of-life coach, grief counselor, and Death Doula with over a decade of experience. Through her transformative work at the Anam Cara Academy, she is reshaping how we approach end-of-life care. Mary is exploring new areas of healing …

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to a wild and fascinating episode with the awesome Steve Cantwell. Steve grew up Morman in Utah before mistaking salvia for synthetic cannabis during his first drug experience and took a trip of a lifetime… literally. Steve spent 8 years in an alternate reality, indistinguishable from our base reality before ar…

Send us a text Hello everyone and welcome back for another great episode with the magnificent Christopher Solomon. Christopher has been cultivating a relationship with Salvia Divinorum for over a decade after a profound healing experience. Drawing from personal experience and studying somatic psychotherapy, Christopher has pioneered techniques to u…

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to another great episode with the amazing and insightful Denise Rue. Denise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Hypnotherapist. For over three years, Denise worked as a retreat leader and lead therapist at a legal psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica overseeing approximately 1,500 psilocybin sessi…

Send us a text Hello and welcome back to another great interview with the awesome Gabe Charalambides. Gabe is a Stanford educated aerospace engineer who after exploring his mental health through Buddhism and psychedelics founded an Oregon based psilocybin retreat called Odyssey LLC. Odyssey was created in 2022 and is expanding locations in and arou…

Send us a text Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and a Trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Projec…

Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome back to another great episode with our latest magnificent guest Greg Wrenn, who is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Greg wrote "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis", to share the long journey of his abusive childhood, lost adolescence and subsequent ayahuasca experiences o…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to another great episode with the badass Michael “Punky” Higgs. Punky is a former Navy SEAL who retired with the rank of Command Master Chief and spent 30 years in Special Operations. Michael was inadvertently exposed to psychedelic medicines while supporting a teammate with PTSD, which led to his own pr…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to another great episode with the awesome Kathryn LaRoe-Higgs. Kathryn is a licenced social worker, certified trauma professional II, MH integrative medicine provider, psychedelics prep/integration specialist and facilitator. With over a decade of experience working with special forces veterans and curre…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to another fantastic episode. We are really excited about our next guest, the fantastic John Chavez who is the founder of the nonprofit, DMT quest. After an endogenous DMT experience left him perplexed he decided to find his own answers and dove headfirst into the endogenous DMT scientific world and crea…

Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome back to another great episode with our next guest Marci Lock, also known as Sun Dari. Marci is a transformative life coach, drawing off personal life experiences and plant medicine to evoke positive embodiment of authentic self in her clients. Marci uses her personal life philosophy and spiritual retreats to be …

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to a great episode with the incredibly cool Danny Such. Dan has been an avid psilocybin user for a decade, a professional psychedelic guide in legal settings for 6 years and has facilitated 2500 plus individual journeys. His interest in mushrooms was sparked from a hobby in foraging, and it led to him cu…

Send us a text Hello and Happy New Year everyone! We are really excited to release the next episode with Kevin Thorbahn. Kevin is one of the initial volunteers to explore the DMT space in the extended-state intravenous N,N-DMT program run by DMTx. The DMT program was initiated in February 2016 by Daniel McQueen, co-founder of Medicinal Mindfulness.…

Send us a text Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all. Today’s fantastic guest is author, documentary film maker, and creator of Blue Honey Media…. Andy Schuelein. Andy has spent the last 30 years immersed in the psychedelic movement and has created a multimedia anthology of intriguing psychedelic history. Listen as we discuss the symbology of S…

Send us a text Hey everyone! Welcome back to another great episode and a fantastic interview with our latest guest Jake. Jake is a cofounder of The Ghost Lab, which is providing a unique and important service in the emerging psychedelic space. The Ghost Lab is an ISO17025 accredited laboratory that does accessible analytical testing for psychedelic…

Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome back to another fantastic episode with the magnificent Dr. Bruce Greyson. He is the Chester Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and has consulted with the National Institutes of Health and addressed symposia on consciousness at the United Nations an…

Send us a text Welcome back everyone to another great episode of the show. Today we're joined by seasoned technology leader Alex Ni, CEO of Divergence Neuro. Through Alex's career he has held many titles. His journey on the road to developing and growing divergence neuro started at burning man where he wore an eeg set in order to monitor his brain …

Send us a text Hello everyone and welcome back to another great interview with our latest guest, Luke Jensen. Luke was a United States military veteran who served in Afghanistan and came back home disillusioned by his experiences. Lost and with out purpose he experienced ayahuasca and now lives in the Peruvian Amazon working alongside the medicine …

Send us a text Hello everyone! Welcome back to another great installment of Tapped Into Psychedelics with our wonderful guest Shannon Duncan. Shannon is an entrepreneur and author of the landmark book Present Moment Awareness. In his latest book, Coming Full Circle, Duncan shares what he learned during his own intensive multi-year process of healin…

Send us a text Hey everyone and welcome back to a great interview with the glorious Larry Norris, PhD. Larry is the cofounder of Decriminalize Nature, which began in Oakland, CA in 2019 and has sprouted across the US. Decriminalize Nature related policy has now passed in twenty cities nationwide with close to one hundred more cities considering dec…

Send us a text Hello everyone, welcome back to another fantastic interview with our next guest, Chad Harmon. Chad is the CEO of Psycheceutical Inc, a publicly traded psychedelic bio pharmaceutical company developing unique psychedelic delivery methods. Chad Harman is a 25-year cannabis and health insurance executive who insights into the psychedeli…

Send us a text Hello everyone, today our guest is the fantastic Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph.D. Jahan completed his dissertation on psychedelics in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Doctorate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He earned his master's in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy U…

Send us a text Hello everyone, and welcome back to another great interview with our wonderful guest, Dr. Ryan Westrum. Ryan is the founder and visionary mind of Healing Souls, and has been a shamanic energy healer and mental health practitioner for over 20 years. Ryan leverages his background in traditional therapeutic methods and infuses his work …

Send us a text Hello everyone, we are excited to introduce you to our latest guest, the magnificent Frederica Helmiere. Frederica holds two masters degrees from a joint-degree program between the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Yale Divinity School. She has been a designer and facilitator of transformational learning expe…

Send us a text Happy Canada day everyone! Today’s guest is Jachym Fibir, Co-Founder and CEO of April19 Discovery. Their innovative AI driven approach uses state-of-the-art computational chemistry to design and develop the next generation of psychedelic-inspired compounds to treat neurodegenerative indications and increase longevity. Listen as we di…

Send us a text Hello everyone! Today’s guest is the awesome Ian Benouis, former West Point graduate, US Army officer, Blackhawk helicopter pilot, and combat veteran. Ian is now a civil rights lawyer fighting for religious exemptions for churches using psychedelics as a sacrament and the founder of the Church of Psilomethoxin. He is Patient Number O…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Hi everyone and welcome back to the show. Today on the pod, my guest is Johnathon de Potter. Johnathon is the founder of Behold Retreats and an all around inspirational human.…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Hello Everyone and welcome back to the show. Today's episode features the great and wonderful Randall Hansen, PH. D. who joins us to discuss his book Triumph Over Trauma. Rand…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Welcome back to the show everyone. Some exciting news, we've recently just launched a website tappedintopsychedelics.com, please check it out and give us your feedback. Today …

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Welcome back everyone. Today on the podcast we're sitting down with Dr. Michelle Weiner DO, MPH a double board certified clinician based in Hallendale Beach, Florida. Dr. Wein…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Welcome friends to another excellent instalment of our journey delving into psychedelic substances. Today on the pod we are joined by retired Corporal Sherry Bordage as she sh…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Hello Podcast family! Thanks again for tuning into another great episode. Today we're joined by an absolutely wonderful human, Levi Barker. Levi is the lead Iboga provider at …

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Hello Everyone, and welcome to another great episode. Don't forget to subscribe for more great content as it drops. Today on the show we have the great and wonderful Reverend …

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Let's Talk About Sex Baby, Lets talk about Psychedelics and Me... Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! We're continuing with our special February theme exploring sex and psychedeli…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Happy Valentine's Month! This is the first episode of a special series we're doing on sexuality and psychedelics. Joining us on the pod today is Daka Ziji, owner of Gay Massag…

Send us a text Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions of the host and guests are their own. Discussion of the topics on this podcast is not a substitute for medical advice. Happy New Year Everyone! Joining us on the Pod today is Neil Markey, CEO and co-founder of Beckley Retreats. Neil is passionate about sharing the science-backed benefits of ps…