What Tania de Jong has said about Mind Medicine Australia
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 18, 2026
Tania de Jong, Australian entrepreneur, singer and co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, has been quoted on Mind Medicine Australia 2 times in 1 episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, most recently on September 18, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
De Jong says a hiring mistake was taking on staff with lived experience of mental illness who were not ready for a high-stress advocacy environment.
“we were attracting people who still needed to do more work on themselves rather than working in a high powered high stress environment”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #883: How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia's World-First Breakthrough (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:46
Responding to criticism of the organization's aggressiveness, de Jong argues that a less forceful campaign would not have succeeded.
“in terms of this particular campaign, I don't really think that anything less would have been enough”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #883: How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia's World-First Breakthrough (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 1:50:20
Episodes
#883: How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia's World-First BreakthroughThe Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 18, 2026 · 2 h 12 min
Tim Ferriss talks with Mind Medicine Australia co-founder Tania de Jong about how Australia became the first country to allow prescribing MDMA and psilocybin for psychiatric conditions.
Tania de Jong on other topics
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- Psilocybin therapy · 2 quotes