#039 Cory Firth: A psychological pilgrimage

 Psy Diaries episode summary:
We talk with Cory Firth — Founder of Dose Day — about the "ultimate contemplation," wildly impactful connection, and balancing chaos & order. 

Highlights:

00:00 — Come up

01:20 — NUGGET AND A NOODLE: Colorado may legalize medical MDMA; A message to the DEA, FDA and Health Canada

03:57 — What is Dose Day, and why did Cory start it?

08:10 — What are two positive outcomes from microdosing that you've seen? 

11:26 — Are we now able to lessen the effect of the FDA, DEA and Health Canada rules?

16:17 — Could psychedelics be fast-tracked into legalization soon?

22:25 — What is Cory's take on solo trips?

25:51 — Ray and Cory share mystical trip tales

30:14 — SOUL SEARCH: What is one company you like in psychedelics...


Cory Firth

Cory is a human-impact community builder and plant medicine advocate who has spent the better part of the last 5 years building communities in the mental health and wellness space, including his work as the former Executive Director of the Canadian Psychedelic Association. Today, Cory works as Chief Storyteller for the Nikean foundation and is the founder of Dose Day, a group-matching peer support community for intentional microdosers designed to match like-minded interests with real-world mental health outcomes. 

Cory has committed his career to a vision of the future where mental health and disease are viewed as holistic, collective experiences and the stigmatization of mental illness is replaced with compassion, transformation and community connection; a world where we all have the opportunity to reunite with our innate abilities to heal, overcome and actualize our full potential.

Find Cory here: 
https://nikean.org/ 
https://doseday.co/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryfirth