Third Wave Team

Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics, and is the author of Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life.

As the founder of Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC’s Worklife.

Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.

Learning how to master this skill will be crucial in the story of humanity’s present-future evolution.

Veena works closely with C-level executives for companies looking to scale to $30 million and beyond. She is passionate about setting up systems and processes to help assess a business, visualize goals, and set clear actionable steps to achieve them.

Veena has 17 years of experience in the publishing, education, and marketing industries — from being an editor for a leading medical aesthetics magazine in South East Asia, to co-founding and becoming the CEO of Mindvalley’s affiliate network (Mindvalley Engage) and then Senior Partner at Mindvalley group of companies.

She has scaled marketing, operations, and business development for multiple brands globally, and learned the heart and science of people mastery from renowned authorities in leadership and relationships.

Veena lives in Malaysia with her husband and son. They’re a family that loves music, food and travel and she’s a self-confessed TV junkie and a sucker for puzzles and word games.

In Dorth’s role as General Manager, he’s able to leverage his 18+ years of experience leading content, operations, social media and marketing organizations in executive, C-level roles. Prior to joining Third Wave in 2023, he worked at Bleacher Report as their General Manager (before and after their acquisition by Turner Sports), as well as Fandom as their Head of Content and Marketing, Gartner, and Tripscout/@hotel in similar roles. Some of his highlights including growing these companies’ social accounts by at least 30X, acquiring House of Highlights, executive producing Game of Zones, launching Bleacher Report, Fandom, and Tripscout Apps, creating The Lab within Bleacher Report, and rebranding Fandom and Tripscout editorial and social media accounts.

Heading up our Psychedelic Coaching Institute, Joseph is an “outside the box” thinker, holistic health expert, and personal transformation coach. Across the last twenty years he has helped thousands of individuals transform their physical and emotional health through public speaking, coaching, podcasting, and live events that have focused on mindset coaching, proper exercise, sleep optimization, nutrition, breathwork, cold immersion, and most recently psychedelic medicines.

Joseph is the founder of RUNGA, an experiential health & wellness company that hosts transformational live events and online coaching programs. Joseph also spent 8-years as an executive at Spartan Race where he was head of the company’s fitness and sport departments.

After receiving her Bachelor Degree from Boston University and her Masters Degree from Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), Karina quickly realized that a career in public policy wasn’t for her and her true passion was creating high-quality, relevant content for mission-driven companies to help build their audiences and develop an influential brand identity. This passion led her to many opportunities, including Head of Content at Mindvalley and working closely with influential authors and leaders in the personal development space.

Karina has since developed a deep relationship with plant medicine to facilitate her own personal growth and has made it a personal mission to help spread the word of these powerful medicines through valuable and informative content.

She lives in Eden, Utah, with her husband and their two beautiful sons. For fun, Karina loves to paint, cook, sing, and cultivate her own Psilocybin mushrooms.

Leanne Kallal is a lifelong learner, personal development expert, and course curriculum design specialist with over 14 years of experience working with leading companies in the online personal growth industry. Her passion for delivering transformative experiences, connecting with people, and living life to the fullest is at the forefront of everything she does.

When she’s not designing transformational learning experiences, Leanne is busy traveling the world and enjoying new cultures and food, writing (she’s a closet author in the making), producing her personal podcast, enjoying time in nature, and of course she makes sure to enjoy some psychedelics along the way (especially mushrooms).

The Productive WellnessPreneur aka Reneé Clair is a productivity consultant for small business entrepreneurs in the wellness industry. She helps businesses lighten their workload so they have more time and energy to enlighten others. She is passionate about deep values of boundary-setting and self-compassion through her fun approach to otherwise dull productivity tasks. Reneé specializes in process, project, and change management which often includes recruiting, training, automation, and time management.

Reneé lives in San Antonio and works from home, travels often to her fave state of California, loves to sing karaoke and is a big fan of chocolate and tea.

Reneé holds a MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology as well as a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification.

Dr. Gabby has taught hundreds of students and clients proven strategies for positive change in life and work during her 20+ year career.She completed her doctoral work in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies with a dissertation on women healers – and studied plant medicine with indigenous healers in New Mexico and Guatemala. She has been a University Professor of Integrative and Holistic Medicine since 2007 and a regular presenter at global conferences. She was named one of the Top 100 Women of the Future in 2022 for her work in emerging technologies. Her first book, All This Healing is Killing Me, was published in April 2023.

With a background in psychoneuroimmunology and extensive experience with plant medicine traditions, Jeff brings a unique perspective to the Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute team. In the marketing universe, he’s masterminded multi-million dollar campaigns across multiple industries for change-making brands and big-name gurus.

A self-confessed rhythm freak, when Jeff isn’t writing he’s likely either drumming or thinking about drumming. He also loves being in nature, qi gong, mountain biking, yoga, meditation, traveling, reading broadly, and exploring deep into inner landscapes accessible through the world’s wisdom traditions. Originally from Seattle, he currently lives in the lovely town of Heidelberg, Germany with his wife and daughter.

Max is an experienced audio producer, having worked on Hip-Hop, guided meditations and more. He earned a BS in Audio Media and Technology and has spent 15 years dedicated to projects that make an impact.

In his hometown Cincinnati, Max played an integral role at a non-profit music center for at-risk youth during its formative years, developing recording and performance programming. His spiritual callings took him across Asia for over three years while studying and practicing contemplative healing arts. He returned to the U.S. and founded True Resonance, a wellness and media company.

Max is passionate about producing media that transforms and brings his intuitive yet detail-oriented craft to Third Wave.

He enjoys spending time with his partner and their two cats, creating music for journeys, hosting tea ceremonies, and studying the Internal Family Systems therapy model, which he aspires to offer someday as psychedelic integration support.

Jacqui is a lifelong learner with a diverse background in communications, therapy, and project management. She holds an undergraduate degree in Professional Communications and has trained in both Expressive Arts Therapy and Relational Somatic Therapy. As a certified yoga teacher, Jacqui understands the mind-body connection and has incorporated this into her past work as a career counselor and teacher.Jacqui is a lifelong learner, continuously expanding her knowledge in the realms of consciousness and well-being. She has a particular interest in how psychedelics can aid healing and is always deepening her understanding of the possibilities psychedelics hold for a better world.

In her free time, Jacqui indulges in activities that nurture the mind, body, and spirit, such as snowboarding, hiking, and aerial silks. Committed to making a positive impact in the world, Jacqui is dedicated to helping individuals reach their full potential and live a fulfilling life.

Vlad is the founder and CEO of Serenichron and FusePress. A skilled Systems Architect, Vlad is responsible for managing our business and technology systems – a fancy way of saying he keeps everything up and running.

Educated in Economics and Information Technology, Vlad’s career journeyed from computer assembly lines to government contracts, before shifting into the software industry – where he worked first in QA and later in interactive game design for Gameloft. After a period of self-actualization, Vlad spent some time as a journalist for the Romanian news media organization and nationally televised show Zona IT, before joining Third Wave soon after its inception.

Enthusiastic and curious about mechanisms, systems, and gadgetry, Vlad may be found wrenching, hammering, soldering, or designing something, when he’s not doing breathwork and meditation exercises. His personal psychedelic favorite is ayahuasca, although LSD and psilocybin also provided valuable, meaningful experiences.