The Permission Slip

Matt Kosterman
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  • Alternative Health

I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise.

  1. Aug 11

    S2 | E12 Jeremy Robinson

    I'm back with another episode of The Permission Slip, and this time I'm joined by Jeremy Robinson, a medicine sitter working out of beautiful Northern California. Jeremy's story starts long before he ever sat with a client — a latchkey Gen X kid raised in a strict fundamentalist household, quietly absorbing bullying rather than fighting back, until he ran away at eighteen and spent a year and a half homeless in Los Angeles, sleeping in unlocked cars on dealership lots. We trace how that early self-reliance carried him into a high-stress, high-hours corporate career — the kind that costs you six years of your daughter's childhood without you noticing — until COVID forced him home and the wall he'd been running toward finally arrived. Jeremy describes sitting by a pond, recognizing the shape of depression, and the moment he realized suicide had quietly become the only option his mind could see. That's the moment that scared him into calling his doctor, and the start of a very different road. From there we follow his journey into the medicine world: six weeks of talk therapy, then ketamine that cracked him open in ways he never expected, then MDMA and EMDR work that finally let him see his own father wound clearly, and eventually psilocybin, which stripped away every identity he'd built until only a steady, unwavering candle was left. We talk about what it meant to have a guide who never once assigned him meaning — who let him arrive at his own truth instead of handing it to him — and how that principle now shapes his own work with clients. Jeremy and I get into the practical and ethical texture of this work too: how he handles touch and consent in ceremony, how he vets whether someone is really ready for the medicine, why he always starts with ketamine before moving to MDMA and psilocybin, and how he pairs newer clients with people further along in their healing so no one has to carry their journey alone. We also talk honestly about the shadow side — the myth of the instant cure, the client who spent a year hitting himself with a sledgehammer before he could finally lay it down, and why this work is called "the work" for a reason. We close on lighter ground, trading notes on indigenous music traditions, the Huni Kuin tribe's medicine songs, the despacho prayer ceremony, and Sundance — reminders that this path, however hard, is also full of beauty. Special Guest: Jeremy Robinson.

    S2 | E12 Jeremy Robinson

  2. Aug 5

    S2 | E11 Joanne DiMaggio

    I'm joined this week by Joanne DiMaggio, a reincarnation specialist, researcher, and author who's spent over 40 years helping people uncover the past-life roots of their present-day pain. Joanne grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood in a devout Catholic household, and I loved hearing how her earliest questions about faith and fairness — asked in religion class and met with detention instead of answers — set her on a lifelong search for a bigger framework. That search led her to Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, and eventually The Search for Bridey Murphy, the book that cracked reincarnation wide open for her as a teenager. We talk about how she built her career from there: joining Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., founding her own past-life organization, earning her hypnotherapy certification, and later a master's in transpersonal studies. Joanne walks me through her two areas of focus — past life regression therapy and soul writing, a channeled form of written meditation she learned traces back through figures like Mozart. I shared my own recent past-life regression experience with her, including how the information came through for me not as imagery (I'm aphantasic) but as a distinct, located sense of "hearing" answers. The conversation gets especially compelling when Joanne shares case studies from her research — a man whose arthritis was confined only to his thumbs, traced back to a Civil War cavalry soldier who used his sword to disable enemy soldiers without killing them, and a woman with chronic sciatica linked to a past life as a jealous ballerina in revolutionary France, whose victim turned out to be her daughter in this lifetime. We also get into soul contracts, why some souls choose disability or hardship as a teaching tool for those around them, and why she sees a roughly 35% rate of spontaneous healing once clients understand the origin of their condition. Joanne closes by sharing what's next for her: a new book, Why Are There So Many Cleopatras?, answering the most common questions people ask her about reincarnation, and a new podcast called Healing Through Past Life Exploration. Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is a respected expert on the topic of reincarnation and Soul Writing.™ A member of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987, Joanne earned her master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University. She has published numerous articles and presented talks on past-life exploration, the pre-life planning session, and Soul Writing™ to global audiences. In addition, she has been a guest on nearly 100 radio programs and podcasts. She conducts private past-life regression and Soul Writing™ sessions via ZOOM. For more information, go to: www.joannedimaggio.com Special Guest: Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt.

    S2 | E11 Joanne DiMaggio

  3. Jun 15

    S2 | E10 Christopher Solomon

    I'll be honest — Salvia was a plant I'd never tried and mostly knew through the lens of chaotic internet videos. So this conversation with Christopher Solomon cracked something wide open for me. Christopher came to the States from Johannesburg at fourteen, studied psychology and finance, and spent years in a database job he found soul-crushing before finally following the thread that had been tugging at him since high school: a deep, ongoing relationship with Salvia divinorum. We trace his whole arc in this episode — the bizarre early experiences, the moment an "intrusive" inner voice told him to meditate first and changed everything, the female salvia entity who told him she'd always been there, and the day a small dose seemed to dissolve a physical lymph node that had stumped his doctors. From there we get into the real heart of his work: low, titrated doses, somatic awareness, and treating the plant as something that demands silence, stillness, and respect. Christopher shares how Salvia affects the default mode network more than any classic psychedelic, why it pairs so well with meditation and somatic therapy, and how he guides clients through Zoom sessions for everything from crippling anxiety and depression to inflammation, arthritis, GI issues, and insomnia. We also talk honestly about the contrast with ketamine — reverse tolerance versus addiction, "diminishing returns," and the importance of listening when a medicine tells you to back off. Whether you're a curious psychonaut or someone exploring gentler tools for healing, I think you'll come away seeing this plant in a completely new light. Christopher Solomon is a somatic Salvia guide, teacher, and inventor of a pipe that aids in the mindful exploration of Salvia Divinorum. Incorporating lessons learned directly from Salvia and as a student of somatic psychotherapy, Christopher is pioneering techniques to use Salvia as a therapeutic tool for guided self-healing, meditation, and introspection. Christopher lectures about the proper, intentional, and therapeutic use of Salvia, offering a blend of scientific, esoteric, and therapeutic perspectives. He also cultivates a medicinal Salvia garden for use in his therapeutic practice with clients. His main goal is to teach people how to use Salvia for themselves in a manner that is supportive, informative, and empowering. He has a B.A in Psychology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and received his training in somatic psychotherapy from the Hakomi Institute of California. You can find Christopher at salviahealings.com and through his community, the Somatic Salvia Network, at somaticsalvianetwork.com. Special Guest: Christopher Solomon.

    S2 | E10 Christopher Solomon

  4. Jun 8

    S2 | E9 Dr. Katie Simons, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator and Coach

    Katie Simons came to the healing world the long way around. With a doctorate in pharmacy from Idaho State University and ten years inside the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System — working in internal medicine, medication safety, and eventually as a patient safety manager — she had every credential the western medical world could offer. And then COVID happened, and the whole thing cracked open. In this conversation, Katie and I trace her origin story from pharmacist's daughter to closeted psychedelic explorer to full-time medicine guide and hypnotherapist now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first psychedelic experience — an epiphany on MDMA at a Phish show in her early twenties — cracked open a question she couldn't put back: Is this how happy I could actually feel? That question lived quietly alongside her professional life for years, until burnout, a divorce, and a first encounter with ayahuasca in 2022 collapsed the compartmentalization for good. We get into the pharmacology of psilocybin and MDMA — including a remarkably clear-eyed look at the actual risks (and frequent fearmongering) around drug interactions with SSRIs and SNRIs. Katie brings her clinical background to bear here in ways that feel genuinely useful and grounding, not alarmist. We talk about harm reduction for solo journeys, what to look for (and watch out for) when seeking a facilitator, and why psychedelics aren't a replacement for the inner work — they're a tool that breaks the chains, but you still have to walk out of the cave yourself. We also explore somatic breathwork, hypnotherapy, and the subconscious belief systems that keep the nervous system locked in survival mode long after the original wound has passed. Katie's framework for what healing actually means — not the absence of hard feelings, but access to choice — is one I keep turning over. And I get honest about my own stumbling blocks: the addiction to suffering, the pressure to perform as someone who's "done the work," and the places where my own nervous system still has the wheel. This one goes deep. I'm grateful Katie was willing to go there with me. Special Guest: Katie Simons.

    S2 | E9 Dr. Katie Simons, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator and Coach

  5. Jun 1

    S2 | E8 Luke Lindstrom, Conscious Channel and Intuitive Healer

    I first crossed paths with Luke Lindstrom at a Paul Selig workshop last fall, and from the moment we started talking I knew I wanted to get him in front of a microphone. Luke is 28 years old, grew up outside of Detroit, and by his own description was barely functioning by the time he finished high school — isolated, angry, lost in pornography addiction, and cycling through therapists who never asked the right questions. What turned things around wasn't a prescription or a traditional talk therapy breakthrough. It was a somatic therapist in Texas named Steven Terrell who looked at Luke in their very first session and said, simply: you are so angry. That moment of being truly seen cracked something open. From there, Luke's path wound through Loyola University, Sivananda yoga, a deep immersion in the channeled teachings of Matt Kahn, and eventually his own emergence as a conscious channel — someone who describes the experience as a kayaker being guided by a stream, personality and divine intelligence meeting somewhere in the middle. He's built a YouTube channel and social media presence around that work, and he posts multiple times a week. What I find most striking about Luke isn't the channeling itself — it's the lived honesty he brings to everything adjacent to it. He talks openly about pornography addiction and the years it took to genuinely resolve it, not through white-knuckling but through learning to meet himself with love and curiosity. He talks about being 28 and never having been in a romantic relationship, and he doesn't frame that as a wound — he frames it as clarity. He believes you can't receive a real partnership until you've stopped needing one to feel whole. We also go deep on his day job as a peer support worker in a mental health residential facility, and what it's taught him about stigma, humility, and the razor-thin line between stability and homelessness. Luke's perspective on the unhoused people he encounters — both at work and around his Old Town neighborhood — is one of the most grounded, unsentimental expressions of unity I've heard on this show. He's not theorizing about oneness. He's making friends with the guy outside the grocery store. We also touch on Ho'oponopono, Paul Selig's attunements, somatic body work, the chemical imbalance myth, antidepressants, judgment as a form of avoidance, and the way pain in the body just wants to be acknowledged. A rich, wide-ranging conversation recorded on Valentine's Day — the first day of the Fire Horse in the Chinese calendar. Felt auspicious. Special Guest: Luke Lindstrom.

    S2 | E8 Luke Lindstrom, Conscious Channel and Intuitive Healer

  6. Apr 16

    S2 | E7 LeRoy Gordon, Fitness and Yoga Instructor, a Reiki Healer and a Men's Group Leader

    LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns. We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper. We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there. Bio LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive. Email: Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com Instagram: /royflashgordon Threads: /royflashgordon Substack: https://sovereignsols.substack.com Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon.

    S2 | E7 LeRoy Gordon, Fitness and Yoga Instructor, a Reiki Healer and a Men's Group Leader

  7. Apr 9

    S2 | E6 Wendy Perkins Shoef, ADHD Microdosing and Neuro-Pleasure Coach and More

    In this episode, I sit down with Wendy Perkins Schoef — ADHD coach, microdosing guide, and neuro pleasure coach who specializes in working with solo entrepreneurs. Wendy shares her remarkable origin story: raised by a single Catholic mom in LA, navigating an ADHD brain through college and careers spanning real estate, biometrics, and web development, before finding her true calling after a divorce sent her on a journey of sexual self-discovery and eventually into orgasm coaching and nervous system work. We dig deep into her holistic framework of Goal, Set, Setting, and Intention — the foundation she uses whether she's helping a client build their business, choose a microdosing protocol, or regulate their nervous system. We talk about the differences between psilocybin and LSD as microdosing tools, why LSD is a "non-specific amplifier," and how the right substance choice depends entirely on what's going on in your body, mind, and environment. We also get into the profound connection between sexual energy and creative energy, the jaw-pelvic floor link, yoni dearmouring, the stigma around prostate work for men, and harm reduction resources for those exploring psychedelics. Wendy also opens up about parenting her son Max, who was born with a brain injury, and how that experience has deepened her understanding of the nervous system and shaped her approach to her work. About Wendy Wendy is an ADHD microdosing and neuro-pleasure coach, researcher, and co-host of the Psychedelic Revelations podcast. She works with brilliant, creative, capable people who are also a little bit fried—navigating chronic stress, ADHD, burnout, or all of the above. The ones who’ve read the books, tried the supplements, made the to-do lists, and yet still feel tired but wired, overthinking everything, spinning in place while their responsibilities grow by the hour. Wendy’s approach is rooted in a core belief: your nervous system is sacred, pleasure is a birthright, and ADHD symptoms are signs of a dysregulated nervous system—not a broken brain. Through microdosing support, nervous system regulation, embodied practices, and a BIG helping of tech support, she helps people remember their own divine intelligence and step back into who they truly are so they can make the impact in the world they’re meant to do. Her work blends research, lived experience, and a deep reverence for the body’s wisdom to support transformation that actually lasts. Website: https://thesuccessdoula.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendygoesdeep/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesuccessdoula Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesuccessdoula Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesuccessdoula TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wendygoesdeep Special Guest: Wendy Perkins Shoef.

    S2 | E6 Wendy Perkins Shoef, ADHD Microdosing and Neuro-Pleasure Coach and More

  8. Apr 3

    S2 | E5 Karen Kubicko, Psychic Intuitive, Reiki Master & More

    Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense. In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York. Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them. Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics: How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room. This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now. About Karen Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love. Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives. Connect with Karen Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com Website: www.KarenKubicko.com Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/ X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/ RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2 E1, 2014). For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/ Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

    S2 | E5 Karen Kubicko, Psychic Intuitive, Reiki Master & More
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I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise.

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  • Creator
    Matt Kosterman
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Matt Kosterman
  • Show Website
    The Permission Slip

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