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May 13, 2025

Episode 219 – Tiffany Hurd & Rachel Pastor – Trailblazing a Path of Radical Healing and Conscious Leadership Through Microdosing

“We’re a products-based company that is teaching people how to intentionally and effectively work with the medicine that can optimize and elevate the way that they live their life. It’s a tool, it’s a wellness modality, it’s a therapeutic resource for you depending on what your individual need is.” – Tiffany Hurd and Rachel Pastor


 
  • Rachel Pastor
    Rachel Pastor is a dynamic entrepreneur, transformation expert, and advocate for holistic wellness. Overcoming a five-year battle with heroin addiction and homelessness, Rachel discovered the transformative power of mindset, habits, and psychedelics, which led her to a life dedicated to helping others heal and thrive. As the founder of Golden Rule Mushrooms, Rachel channels her passion for mental well-being and personal growth into providing tools, resources, and products that empower individuals to elevate their lives, overcome anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other challenges. Her mission is to create a movement that inspires clarity, joy, and transformation in the lives of many. Rachel’s career has been defined by her commitment to empowering others through innovative methods and heartfelt leadership. As a sought-after speaker and author of Unf**k Your Fitness Mindset, her achievements include founding Colorado’s largest fitness festival and creating the Xperience Method—a global movement integrating neurolinguistic programming, fitness, and nutrition. She has collaborated with high-profile individuals such as Zachary Levi and Chris and Heidi Powell, and has helped thousands worldwide achieve lasting transformation. Rachel’s visionary leadership and authentic approach distinguish her as a trailblazer in the wellness industry
  • Tiffany Hurd
    Tiffany Hurd is a Microdosing Advisor, Business Leadership Mentor, and Speaker passionate about helping individuals and businesses harness the transformative power of psychedelics for personal growth and professional development. With 7+ years in the psychedelic space and guiding over 250 individuals and teams through intentional microdosing practices, Tiffany combines neuroscience-backed protocols with leadership strategies to foster emotional resilience, creativity, and clarity. Her unique approach empowers people to heal trauma, unlock their full potential, and show up as the best version of themselves in their personal and professional lives.
  • Drawing from her own journey of overcoming childhood instability and discovering the healing potential of psychedelics, Tiffany brings a deeply authentic and heart-led perspective to her work. She has collaborated with industry-leading businesses, medical professionals, and executives to integrate innovative strategies that inspire growth and create lasting impact. Tiffany’s mission is to take a stand for healing and transformation, offering individuals and teams the tools to elevate their lives and drive meaningful change.
  • Tune into this fascinating conversation fundamentally based in the healing power of psychedelics and microdosing as Tiffany and Rachel walk Patrick forward from his youthful recreational macro-dosing of mushrooms and LSD to explain the more recent years of mainstream therapeutic microdosing. Rachel and Tiffany dive into the many reasons that make this medicine so valuable and beneficial, from getting to the root and source of life hindering issues such as anxiety, PTSD and depression to opening up creativity and possibility in life and business. They discuss the research and science behind microdosing and the 2 key essentials to 10x your microdosing experience. Tiffany and Rachel address common fears and stigmas and explain how microdosing differs from macro-dosing, alcohol, or smoking pot. They each share their personal story of early trauma, transformation and discontent, which led them on their individual path to the profound benefits of microdosing which, at the heart of it all, they desire to share with all people.
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  • Show Notes
  • [00:42] Patrick introduces his next TEDM guests Rachel Pastor and Tiffany Hurd.
  • [02:10] The gang’s all here! Tiffany, Rachel and Patrick roll right into it, with the deeper work that Tiffany and Rachel are doing in the world.
  • [03:40] Microdosing evolution. Tiffany shares a bit about the research of James Fadiman who was at the forefront of bringing microdosing into modern society through a protocol he created. James eventually shared his data and research on a Tim Ferriss podcast which blasted microdosing into the mainstream.
  • [07:15] Using anxiety and microdosing as an example, can people achieve a positive outcome? Yes, but Tiffany explains the more profound effect they have observed both with having specific goals for the session paired with coaching or support. Rachel expands on that to speak of her experience with microdosing and 2 important keys to 10x your results.
  • [11:07] Tiffany dives into the difference a person can expect from microdosing with psychedelics vs a macro therapeutic session and how our brain is functioning during that experience.
  • [15:58] Sticking with anxiety – Rachel describes how microdosing with psychedelics differs from attempting to alleviate anxiety with a drink, smoking a joint, or taking anxiety medication. The process for many, is much more palatable than a macro-dose therapeutic experience.
  • [24:21] Rachel shares some of the reasons people would seek them out, what they are trying to heal or emotions they desire to expand and elevate through the use of psychedelics.
  • [26:37] Tiffany explains how plant medicine can help by starting with setting the intention for openness to get to the root of a pattern or a mental and emotional loop we are stuck in, to bring it forward, then soften to it and heal.
  • [30:58] While psychedelics are a great avenue to support our journey of self-discovery, Tiffany also talks about the benefits microdosing can have for us socially and recreationally. Again, intention setting is fundamental to the experience.
  • [34:02] With more physicians, psychiatrists and therapists getting educated on alternative holistic medicine, the use of psychedelics in healing is becoming more mainstream vs. simply relying on the pharmaceutical approach.
  • [35:05] Tiffany recounts the origin of LSD (April 19 is a psychedelic holiday called Bicycle Day!) and why someone may choose to work with LSD over mushrooms.
  • [38:19] So why this path? Tiffany shares her story from childhood instability to corporate burn out and what led her to psychedelics to complement the personal development work she had been doing. With her main intention for psychedelic healing fulfilled, Tiffany had a strong desire to educate herself and others, which through a few iterations brought her to the work she’s doing with Golden Rule.
  • [44:21] Rachel takes the baton and walks us through her journey – a heroin addict and homeless from the age of 15 – 20 to an awakening experience, a death or change moment, at the age of 20 that led to a deep transformation. Rachel created her mission in life to impact the masses in the joy of wellness which began in fitness and later transformed into sharing the message that plant medicine can elevate and change lives.
  • [53:05] Given Rachel’s past with addiction, was there ever a point she felt concerned about taking psychedelics?
  • [53:40] Patrick touches on habit vs choice.
  • [55:03] Rachel describes the typical demographic they work with and support.
  • [57:02] Golden Rule. Tiffany shares their business model and the products and services they offer.
  • [58:14] So you want to start this journey with microdosing. Where do you start? Tiffany guides us through the process starting with a quiz from their website, the products they offer, along with the support, courses and coaching available.
  • [60:15] Lost on our life path. Microdosing can be such a powerful tool for self-discovery to open our perspective into clarity and possibility.
  • [62:41] Many people have the thought process that by microdosing they’ll be impaired or lose control. The purpose of working with a micro amount is that we are still fully in control and fully present. Tiffany shares how microdosing works to quiet the parts of our brain whose function is fear response, it helps to lower that noise so we can move forward with our life.
  • [66:18] Final thoughts from Tiffany about the value of this conversation and the empowerment both she and Rachel have experienced by taking this road.
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