Mormons On Mushrooms
30 episodes listed below
Post-faith healing with jokes, songs, and nerve.
Mormons on Mushrooms is a warm, unruly conversation series about rebuilding a self after certainty falls away. Episodes move from jokes and music talk into grief, religious shame, psychedelics, people-pleasing, friendship, and the strange pressure to become somebody.
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Mormons on Mushrooms is a post-faith storytelling show with the door left open and the conversation already moving. It is rarely neat. Mike and Doug talk like people who trust each other enough to interrupt, disagree, tease, linger, and circle back when the real point finally shows itself. The show’s center is healing after certainty, but its route is anything but linear. Music keeps returning. So do grief, psychedelics, creativity, parenting, shame, social anxiety, confidence, insecurity, and the effort to live without apologizing for an entire life. One episode can drift from sickness and pop stardom into familiar entertainers, racing, awards, and the fiction of the self-made person. Another sits with death, numbness, childhood memories of funerals, and the strange ways grief arrives in waves. The tone can be goofy. Then it gets grave without making a ceremony of the shift. That looseness is the appeal. The show does not present recovery as a branded method or a clean spiritual upgrade. It sounds more like two friends testing language against experience until something true enough appears. Guests fit into that current rather than replacing it. The Brady and Meg Parks conversation turns songwriting, distance, collaboration, and creative survival into a larger conversation about why making things can keep a person moving. Psychedelics are part of the landscape, but they are not treated as the whole answer. The deeper subject is what remains after inherited certainty no longer holds. Some listeners will come for post-Mormon processing. Others will stay for the way the show lets jokes, songs, memories, and blunt self-inventory live in the same room. It is intimate without being tidy. It is spiritual without sounding sanitized. It is for people who want healing talk that still has sweat, odd turns, and a little swagger in it.
Made for: For listeners processing Mormon faith loss, religious shame, grief, or identity change who prefer candid friendship over formal self-help. It also fits people drawn to psychedelics, songwriting, spirituality, and emotionally honest pop-culture tangents.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its swing from banter to vulnerability without losing momentum. Instead of packaging healing into lessons, it lets music, memory, psychedelics, and friendship do messy work in public.
Mormons on Mushrooms is a storytelling podcast hosted by Mike and Doug, where we explore alternative methods for healing and living a fulfilling life—especially in the aftermath of losing faith, certainty, or identity.We cover a wide range of topics, from music, mythology, and pop culture to spirituality, psychology, psychedelics, and all of the magic and mystery that life has to offer.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike and Doug connect religious shame and grief with candid reflection on identity, creativity, and spiritual life.
Mike and Doug let conversations begin in ordinary friendship, with a song played into the microphone or chatter about pickleball, then follow them toward grief and the residue of religious formation.
Mike and Doug turn grief, religious shame, and songwriting into the debrief you wish friendship made room for.
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A loose talk about money, work, and the strain that follows a calling into the job market.
The episode sits in the tension of what happens when a calling gets folded into money, following the hosts as they move from music into a freer exchange about creative work, resentment, and the wish for enough money to make everything else fade.
A loose, emotional hang about songwriting, distance, and the relief of making something real.
The episode settles into a tender conversation about healing, music, and the choice to put personal mental health first. It opens with a clear warning about vulnerable material, then moves into the idea that making things can help pull people out of dark thoughts.
A loose, vulnerable conversation about toxic religious shame, pop culture, and the appeal of honest, messy conversation.
Mormons on Mushrooms comes across as a loose, candid conversation about healing, toxic religious shame, and pop culture. It starts with an unmissable nudge toward mental health and keeps a self-aware edge by treating the hosts as amateurs rather than authorities.
A grief conversation that keeps finding music, memory, and the odd mercy of being known.
Waves of Grief stays close to how loss lands in the body, moving from an early memory of hugging parents after a death to the loss of a best friend before coming home from a mission.
Pickleball banter opens into a loose, conversational look at extroversion, people pleasing, and the pressure to stand out.
The episode opens on pickleball jokes and a sweaty D-UPR check, then settles into a loose conversation about extroversion, people pleasing, and the way social energy can both refill and wear someone down.
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Spiritual coaching for soul-led purpose.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
Mike, laid off in April with a final day in June, says six years of practice from Mormons on Mushrooms helps him "breathe through the contractions" of fear.
This episode opens midstream.
The conversation comes in hot.
Mormons on Mushrooms opens with a mental-health reminder and a note that the hosts are amateurs.
The show opens in its familiar loose gear.
It opens with pickleball.
Hosts discuss alternative methods for healing from toxic religious shame, blending spirituality, psychedelics, music, and pop culture.