What if the most powerful kind of healing doesn't arrive until the second half of life? That question sits at the heart of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Scott Wright, documentary filmmaker; former radio DJ known across America as "The Shadow," and director of The Next Chapter: Psychedelics, Healing, and the Second Half of Life, premiering this June in Toronto. Scott didn't set out to make a film about psychedelics. He set out to understand his own life: the decades of insecu

What if the story medicine told women about menopause, that we're simply outliving our fertility, was never the real story? Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Dominique Debroux, documentary producer and nutritional chef behind Wise Women: Humanity's Untold Origins, trace that question through millions of years of human evolution. Through years of research with evolutionary scientists and anthropologists, Dominique and her filmmaker husband found that postmenopausal women predate Homo sapiens. They organiz

What if the story you've been meaning to write has been inside you all this time, waiting for the right kind of presence to draw it out? That question sits at the center of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Anubhav Bhattacharyya, book architect and co-founder of Chevaun, where he helps people take a book from rough outline to a published reality in seven weeks or less. His process is entirely human-driven, built on genuine collaboration and a conviction that everyone carries at

What if the moment you finally laugh at something that once broke you is actually proof that healing has already arrived? That's the quiet power at the center of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Barbara Ann Michaels—performance artist, interfaith minister, and the self-described Jester of the Peace. Barbara has spent decades using humor not as a distraction from pain but as a precise instrument for releasing it. She founded Humorville, an immersive pop-up wellness experience wh

What do you do when the conditions you're waiting for... never actually show up? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Emile Hung — a final-year medical student, premium ghost writer, and nutritionist who runs her entire online business from Havana, Cuba... through rolling blackouts, spotty Wi-Fi, and all the beautiful chaos that comes with it. Emile walks us through what burnout in medical school actually feels like from the inside — not the polished version we hear at conference

What happens when a plant medicine ceremony goes sideways... and there's no one trained to help? That's the gap Bárbara Espina decided to fill. In this episode of Inner Source, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Bárbara — a psychologist, plant medicine practitioner, and co-founder of CERT (Spiritual Emergency Response Team) — calling in from the Sacred Valley of Peru, where she's spent over a decade doing work most people don't even know exists. Bárbara shares how CERT came to life not from a p