Media · Chicago
The Mush Room
A podcast with the people actually moving this field — the doctors, the scientists, the farmers, and the ones whose lives fungi changed. Long-form, on purpose.
Year
2026
Role
Host
Location
Chicago, IL
Scale
Long-form interviews
Status
In production
Photo — the grow room
01The brief
The good conversations were happening off-mic.
Mushroom media splits two ways: research too dense to reach anybody, and content too loose to be true. Neither format lets a working farmer and a clinical researcher sit in the same room and finish a thought.
I had been having those conversations for years anyway — at conferences, on farm floors, after the panel emptied out. They were the best part of the day and nobody was recording them.
02The build
Built for the conversation, not the clip.
The guest list
Doctors, scientists, farmers, and people whose lives fungi changed. Some of them bring the research and some bring the story. The best episodes bring both
The format
Long-form and unhurried. Nothing worth saying about fungi fits in fifteen minutes, and the part people quote is usually forty minutes in.
The room
Set up for conversation rather than performance. No stage, no audience, and no incentive for anybody in the chair to overclaim.
The standard
Claims get pushed on. If a guest states something the evidence does not carry, we deal with it in the room instead of in the comments.
Where it goes
Audio wherever people listen, full video on YouTube, and the sharp ten minutes cut for Instagram and LinkedIn.
03The receipts
Where it's at.
JUL
2026
First episode out.
4
episodes
4
Guests
3
disciplines
Clinicians, researchers, and growers in the same feed.
04On site
The mic, the guest, the cut.
Incubation
Fruiting racks
Harvest
05What it taught me
The story is the part people keep.
I came in assuming the research would carry the episodes. It does not. The papers give a claim its spine, but what changes what somebody does on Monday is hearing a person describe the moment it worked on them.
Rigour without a story does not travel. A story without rigour should not.
02Next project
micro diiscipline
—Work with me
I'll help you skip
the expensive part.
Farm design · operations · product · regulatory strategy