Ibogaine Uncovered explores the real-world impact of one of the most powerful and misunderstood psychedelic medicines on the planet. Hosted by Talia Eisenberg, co-founder of Beond and longtime advocate for psychedelic healing, the podcast takes listeners inside the personal journeys of those who’ve experienced ibogaine firsthand.
Whether you’re curious, cautious, or considering this path for yourself or someone you love, Ibogaine Uncovered offers a rare, thoughtful window into the medicine, the science, and the humanity behind it.
Four years ago this week, Courtney Barnes walked into Beond as one of the country's leading psychedelic policy attorneys.
Talia Eisenberg and Courtney Barnes discuss the part of the ibogaine story that rarely gets told: everything that happens after. The conversation covers preparation and what she wishes she had done differently, the long work of integration, what she had to give up, and where ibogaine policy is heading in the United States.
Courtney Barnes is a partner at Feldman Legal Advisors and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, licensed in California, Colorado, and Texas. She was a lead drafter of Denver's psilocybin decriminalization initiative and serves as general counsel to veteran focused psychedelic organizations including Heroic Hearts Project. She came to Beond in 2022 while researching ibogaine for a nonprofit client.
Timestamps
(02:00) Why an attorney working on ibogaine policy decided to sit with it herself
(06:00) Heartbreak in LA, two oracle cards, and the question she carried into the room
(09:00) Arriving at Beond underprepared, and coming off fourteen years of Vyvanse
(12:00) Meeting her inner child and the memories she had completely repressed
(17:00) The difficult first year, and the support system she wishes she had built first
(22:00) Two months later, when her inner voice said no more to Vyvanse
(29:00) Four years out: rebuilt relationships with her mother and sister
(35:00) What she would tell someone who feels called but afraid of what they might find
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8 Jul 2026
#64 - Melissa Pruett: Motherhood on Ibogaine
A new mother walks through the one-way door of postpartum and loses the thread of who she was. She came to Beond to find her way back.
Melissa Pruett joins host Talia Eisenberg to share a story of becoming rather than being broken. One year postpartum, she opens up about the moment her body couldn't produce milk and the perfectionism it exposed, the postpartum depression she was slow to admit, and the "surrender moment" that led her to ibogaine. She describes a flood dose with no visuals, just an intimate question-and-answer with her "higher mind" that answered the fifty questions she'd written down and delivered one core truth: just how enough she already is. She shares the song "Truth Teller" that poured out of her between journeys and plays it live, the second journey's confronting blind spots, a ten-year dream that resurfaced, and the honest, unglamorous reality of integration back home.
Melissa Pruett is a mother and entrepreneur who founded her beauty and wellness practice in Arizona more than twelve years ago. She is now expanding into a holistic space in Austin built around helping women uncover their own natural essence. She lives with her partner Andrew and their son Ever.
Find her on Instagram at @melissapruett24.
Timestamps
(01:00) Who Melissa is and why she came to Beond
(02:00) Postpartum and the milk that wouldn't come
(06:00) A surrender prayer and the sign at a birthday dinner
(15:00) Arriving at Beond and the power of peer community
(20:00) The flood dose and "just how enough you are"
(35:00) "Truth Teller," the song that poured out
(52:00) A ten-year dream resurfaces
(59:00) Integration, grace, and advice for new moms
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9 Jun 2026
#63 - Hilda Sánchez: Is Ibogaine Safe?
Hilda Sánchez has been quietly doing some of the most important work at Beond since she joined the team. She came from traditional hospital medicine, where the job is to intervene, stabilize, and move to the next patient, then she walked into a psychedelic treatment center and everything she knew about nursing got turned inside out.
Today, Talia and Hilda talk about what it actually looks like to keep someone safe during an ibogaine treatment. From the moment a guest is medically approved through arrival, pre-treatment assessment, the treatment itself, and every hour of their stay after, safety is the thread running through all of it. Hilda walks through the certifications nurses complete, the cardiac monitoring protocols, trauma-informed consent forms, and the difference between flood and fractional dosing. She also talks about how protocols have evolved over several thousand treatments and the guests who shaped her along the way. This is a conversation about what it means to grow as a practitioner inside a team that grows together.
Hilda Sánchez is a lead nurse at Beond Ibogaine Treatment Center in Mexico. She trained as a nurse in Puebla and worked emergency and operating rooms across Tulum, Nayarit, and Puebla before joining Beond three years ago. She has supported thousands of ibogaine treatments and helped shape the clinical and trauma-informed protocols the Beond team uses today.
(2:00) Why Hilda became a nurse and what brought her to Beond
(6:00) What shocked her: psychedelic nursing vs. hospital medicine
(12:00) Nurse training: ACLS, trip sitting, and cardiac monitoring
(16:00) Trauma-informed intake: consent forms and customization
(22:00) Flood dosing vs. fractional dosing
(33:00) Treatment-day protocols: EKG, UDT, and the treatment room
(43:00) Code blue training and emergency readiness
(52:00) Personal breakthrough and advice for those on the fence
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