15/11/2025
My interview on the CBS show Living It Up with Donna Drake did not unfold the way I imagined.
There were tech issues. The schedule shifted. The segment was cut in half.
Then Donna opened with, “Everyone was shroomin’ it up,” and everything took a turn I did not see coming.
We talked about psychedelics.
Then functional mushrooms.
Then grief.
Then the strange ways life rearranges itself while you are trying to stay upright.
I wrote about the whole experience.
About why mushrooms became part of my healing and how Pop Cosmic grew out of the pieces of a life that had to be rebuilt.
About the wisdom inside the mushrooms we grow and the people who have supported this journey.
If you want to read the full story, it is up on Substack now.
The link is in our profile.