Beyond Coffee: How Medicinal Mushrooms May Support Energy, Focus & Wellness with Benjamin Bressington

On this episode of Morning Tea with Coach Kennedy, I sit down with Benjamin Bressington, founder of Bear Remedy, to explore the growing world of medicinal mushrooms and natural energy support. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Good morning everybody. Today is Wednesday, July twenty second, two thousand twenty-six. And this is your morning tea with Coach Kennedy. Last week we learned about the importance of finding out the real root cause of your symptoms with Magic Barclay. This week we're going to learn about the magic of bear remedies with Benjamin Bressington. Stay tuned. And today's guest is Benjamin Bress Bressley. Bressington? Bressington? Founder of Bear Remedy and the voice behind their medicine man persona. After spending a decade of advising Fortune 500 companies on behalf on behavior, sorry, design, Ben discovered the transformative power of medicinal mushrooms during his own health struggles. Hi, Ben. How are you today?

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Fantastic, Sarah, and you?

SPEAKER_00 2:16

I'm good, thanks. Would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself and how you discovered medicinal mushrooms?

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Well, yeah, so obviously I've got a little bit of an accent. So as an Australian in uh the redneck part of America, being uh Arkansas, I uh I uh discovered uh medicinal mushrooms through my own needs and my own purpose. I had a severe burnout, and uh after you go through a divorce and everything that goes with that, we did I know my ex-wife and I did over six years of IVF and fertility, traveling around the world, seeing some of the leading uh fertility specialists, and then I just ended up being completely burnt out in my life. Like that type of burnout that sits you on the couch, not motivated to do anything, even though you're doing cool stuff that people are like, oh my god, that's amazing, but like having no motivation to actually get anywhere. And uh I was literally looking for clinical trials for help, and then someone gave me some mushrooms that transformed my life, and I haven't looked back. So ever since then, it's just been helping more people experience this the true benefit of what's powerful when they have quality products. And I think that was one of my biggest problems in this space was like like finding out what is good, what is decent. You find something decent, and you're like, well, this isn't actually the best it could be. Uh, and then this is gonna resulted in me creating bare remedy in a company to bring just the best possible products to market.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Awesome. Most people think that mushroom supplements are BS. Why is why is yours different?

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Well, it's because what most people have tried is they've tried mushroom supplements and they don't work. They don't feel anything. And I usually say this because of the the technicalities of it's got a fart's worth of uh mushroom actually in that product, be it mushroom coffee or uh it's a water-based mushroom tincture, which it's just usually the worst quality extraction that exists. Because it's cheap and nasty, but it's sold for premium dollars, and people pay good money for stuff, and they end up having something that just uh doesn't work for them because it never had the even possibility of working for them, to be honest. Well, they try all the hype that goes around with all these mushroom coffees, and they taste like crap. They've got not usually the best form of mushrooms in the meter, and most people what they're feeling is they're feeling sugar or caffeine uh rather than the actual impacts of the mushrooms.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Explain it to me like I'm five. How do mushrooms give you energy without coffee?

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Yeah, so one of the cool things with our mushroom blend is what most people don't realize is if you have caffeine or coffee, what that does is it tells your body to fake its ability to have energy. So it's kind of like the fake it till you make it effect, which usually happens if you have a burnout. You hit the wall, you crash, right? Where with mushroom coffee or mushrooms being ones like Cordycep or even Lion's Man or these other ones, it actually tells your body to go into production mode. And what it does is it actually tells your body to be producing energy for the next four to six hours. That's why they call it clean, smooth energy. And there's multiple benefits to that from things like Redalia, which is actually a plant extraction, to marker or maca, all the way through to the different mushroom extractions. And that's what we put in our blended bottles. So we've got these optimizers blends to help people uh achieve something in their life, be it be more performance, more oxygen blood supply, or uh immune boosting or things like that.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

I see. What you say that you use the aman amanita mushrooms?

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Uh yeah, we used to use uh emanata mascaria, but unfortunately we're not able to sell that anymore because of a recent FDA ruling. So yeah, so emanita is a very, very good mushroom. We made an amazing gummy that people loved. Um, and it was a clean, uh it was fantastic for inflammation, but due to recent movements by the FDA, we actually had to drop that product line.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

Oh, so they're no longer in your product?

SPEAKER_01 6:16

No, not by our choosing, but uh by a hand we were dealt, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

What is the biggest mistake people make when trying to boost their energy naturally?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Uh they do not understand the difference between a caffeine, sugar spike, and clean energy. Clean energy will never feel like you've just taken a red bull. You won't get the jitters from it. And most people don't realize you hydration with clean energy is really, really important. So, what's gonna happen is your body just feels like it can do stuff, not that it has to do stuff. And you won't have that jittery high or that buzzed focus you get when you drink like a coffee or a caffeine drink and uh or or a sugar high. You'll just get into this ability to be able to focus and get stuff done. So that's really the main big difference for people.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

If someone could pick one mushroom to start with, which would change their life the most?

SPEAKER_01 7:12

For most people, there would be a debate between either lion's main for mental cognition, clear memory recall, clear brain thought, or coidiceps for energy? Coidiceps are some of the best uh energy-producing mushrooms out there that exist. And that's why you'll see a lot of blends have coidiceps and lion's main, for example, because it's maximizing the benefits of both in the performance.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

What happens in your body during a 3 p.m. crash and how do you adapt adaptogens fix it? Adaptogens fix it.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Yeah, well, so the big thing about uh natural adaptogens is that it gives your body what it's what it needs, not what you're telling your body what it wants. So this is gonna be really, really important because for some of the mushroom supplements or some of the uh holistic health supplements, what you may feel is you may feel like you've actually got to have a nap for 20 minutes. Uh and what your body needs is just a little bit of rest to be able to power itself through to that next session, which is what makes it uh really important important. But also which makes it a little bit frustrating in the holistic space because mushrooms may do one thing for someone and one thing for somebody else, but it's all based on where you are in your daily, weekly, monthly cycles yourself. Like if you're completely burned out and you're just uh trying to steal energy, uh it's gonna be very, very hard for the adapter gyms to work as they should.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Give us a 30-second morning routine for someone who wants more energy without more coffee.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

So, yeah, if you don't want more coffee, uh, or if you just want to use uh cleaner tea or what have you, or just one cup of coffee instead of six, uh, what you may want to do is try energy gummies mixed with or form micro booster and uplift because what you're now giving yourself is clean energy. So you turn in that coffee or tea that you have in the mornings into a superfood, and then you're enriching it with the immunity and cognition benefits of the mushrooms, giving yourself a very potent uh clean supportive system to help your body and help stabilize your hormones throughout the day.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

You have you say that you have some drops, correct?

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Yeah, so we have tinctures, so they're just droppers, yep.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Do you put that in a drink or on your skin? Or how do you take the tiniatures?

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Yeah, so some people actually take it, they add it to their coffee, or they add it to their tea, or you literally can take it straight, so you just uh pull one mil dropper out and put it under your tongue. Uh it's kind of like a strong alcohol shop because of uh our extraction process. And every time you do that, you're literally having 90 grams of mushrooms.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Wow, I bet that's quite a quite a punch. What makes what makes mushrooms such a superfood that to give our body the energy that it needs?

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Because mushrooms have got a lot of the nutrients and the benefits that our bodies want, and it actually combines at a cellular level. And there's a mixed array of mushrooms, so it's when you're actually combining these mushrooms into these tinctures, you can make a very powerful blend to give your body a fighting chance against everything that gets thrown at your body. So it's amazing how the body actually adapts and embraces mushroom-based products.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

And you mentioned that you discovered this process because of your own personal needs. I'm kind of curious to if we circle back to that. And can you tell us what it was that led you to the discovery?

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah, so I looked into this a lot more, but just because of uh personal depression and anxiety would be one of the main things. And that being able to create a motivation to actually do something. So dealing with also obviously undiagnosed ADHD and everything that goes from that, from being someone who was born before the 2000s, is something that we just uh usually lived with. So it's it was battling that and realizing how that was self-sabotaging a lot of what I was doing, and I was looking for a different option to be able to get me through.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

And how did those using the mushrooms benefit you? What what type of benefits did you notice that you got from Yeah?

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Well, I found the instant relief within about 30 minutes of the depression and the brain fog that was uh holding me back, and then I that gave me the motivation to actually start getting stuff done and chipping away at things. So that got me into action. Uh got me started sharing it with other people. We've started building a community. Now we're building a 28-acre mushroom grow farm and uh planning on uh helping over a thousand people this year generated in excess of $100,000 a year through our uh distribution models. So it's allowed us to literally go from being depressed and a sad, miserable fella on a couch to someone who's literally leading a new change of community and helping people create a massive change in their lives.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

That that sounds very, very beneficial. I I can I can see why you wanted to continue to developing your product and how it became what it is today.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

So you went from advertising Fortune 500 companies to becoming the medicine man. What happened there?

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Yeah, so that was just through through burnout, really, and they've got getting tired of working with uh Fortune 100 companies and dealing with all the politics and everything that goes with it. They have meetings about scheduling meetings and meeting agendas and other crap that goes with that, and just uh it's about getting into action, right? I mean, I'm like, is this really how I want to spend the next 30, 40 years of my life? Or uh do I want to do something more? And when the mushrooms came about, it really came about on the journey. That's where we created the vision to actually help a million people a year on their holistic health journeys every single year, and now we're furthering that by helping a thousand people to create wealth and uh literally share the profits of our company back with everyone who's a part of it.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Perfect. And did you have anything else that you wanted to share with us and how people can work with you or to uh order your product?

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Yeah, so if everyone is looking at uh, well, I don't know if these things will work with me. Uh, I've already spent a lot of money on mushroom supplements, I'm not 100% sure. What we do is we've actually got a sample back where people can actually just order our samples for free. They just pay shipping and handling, so they don't even have to pay the cost of the product, they just pay for shipping, and we give them a single-day dose. Uh, and we're pretty certain that from a single-day dose, they can actually try, they will, they will get a result. Uh, and they'll actually feel something, and based on that, they can then order our products to really uh experience them. So I just recommend that they go check out bare remedy.net, b-ar-eremedy.net, and then they can order some of the samples or some of the full products and experience what's possible for them.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

All right. And do you have any social media that they can or or any type of messaging, like an email, or do you they just email you from the website?

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Uh they uh there's live chat, there's social media, there's multiple if if there is a channel that exists, we're on it.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Perfect. Well, then, thank you so much for your time today. I appreciate you so much, and I enjoyed learning about the mushroom coffee.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

My pleasure. That's what we're here for.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

All right, have a good day. Thank you. Okay, everyone, if you want to check out the mushroom coffee better remedies, feel free to check it out and bear remedy.net. And if you want more coaching tips and tricks or how to find out how to boost your energy naturally, feel free to check me out on guiding pathways, on Facebook or Instagram. And as always, take care, everybody. Bye bye.