Mason Taylor is a simple guy. He deal's mushrooms! He's also a health educator, speaker and podcast host who loves sharing his special interest in navigating the ever changing world of health and wellness. Mason's business Superfeast is all about powerful tonic herbs that assist in elevating your mind, body and spirit.
If there's an enlightened gronk out there, it's him!
Mason's Website:
www.masonjtaylor.com
Mason's Business:
www.superfeast.com.au
Mason on Instagram:
@masonjtaylor
Verbatim from the transcripts — each quote links to the moment.
“I'm to the extent where I like using organic vodka, bicarb with MSM, and you get in and you scrub.”
“P's get degrees, passes get degrees.”
“Don't come at it from the angle of like, you know, what you're doing is bad, what you're doing is wrong. It's never going to really get you that far.”
“Yeah, she's just like, you know, and I was like, look, Trish, you know, and like, I know you I know why you want the mushrooms, but you know, I'm really— you live near Lane Cove National Park, you can go and harvest your own turkey tail mushrooms there and dry them this way. And she's like, mate, 4 kids, full-time job, no time, give me the fucking mushrooms, mate.”
“You are trapped, enjoy it.”
“Did you feel like you were trying to learn everything through a book? Were you a student of "The 4-Hour Workweek" or anything like that? Did you get into any of that stuff? I mean, I respect, like it's not like it matters, like Tim Ferriss, if you're listening, I respect your work. No, I like it, but no, I don't work that way. I'm not a systemized person. I'm very, you know, I'm very touchy-feely. I need to be out there experiencing things. I need to experience them over long term. I'm not quite, I've curbed my fanaticism. I'm still an extremist in my own right, but I feel like I've kept that into a place where I just keep myself on the edge of chaos these days.”
How should I start listening to my body if I feel disconnected from it?
Gently open up awareness of your symptoms without pressure or self-judgment; don't frame it as 'what I'm doing is wrong,' take small persistent steps (light movement, appropriate herbs), and get a trusted practitioner if you don't have time to become an expert yourself.
How do I decide when to seek medical help versus self-manage pain?
Check that you're doing it for yourself, not external social pressure; treat pain as a signal to feel rather than suppress, and avoid over-medicating to the point of numbing the body's signals; use gentle, sustainable, persistent steps and look back after a year to measure progress.
How do you build confidence and responsibility when running a health/wellness business?
Accept you are 'trapped' by the responsibility of a business and choose to enjoy it; consistently make yourself accessible to answer hard questions, don't rely solely on cherry-picked testimonials, and acknowledge the edges of your own expertise by referring people to practitioners when appropriate.
How do I evaluate conflicting health information like pesticide risk without becoming paranoid?
Ask a higher-quality question about why you want to avoid something (e.g., pesticides) rather than following a rigid rule; don't let it become a source of constant stress, and only treat it as a short-term action trigger rather than an identity-defining dogma.
What's one free, non-purchase action to improve yourself today?
Sit quietly, feel yourself in the present moment, acknowledge where you've come from without resentment, then imagine decades into the future and how you want to feel (e.g., strong knees, playing with grandkids) as a safe intention to act from.
While travelling and working as a ski instructor in his early 20s, Mason developed a fungal infection on his arm and extreme immune deficiency, which prompted him to study longevity practices, tonic herbalism and medicinal mushrooms after returning to finish university.
Mason describes landing in Santorini at 19 with little money, working club doors, travelling through Turkey, Italy and Spain, then bluffing his way into a 3-week Austrian ski instructor course despite never having skied, before travelling Southeast Asia and South America.
A mother of four, including two autistic children, struggled to get Super Feast mushrooms into her family's diet via hot chocolates or smoothies until she started secretly adding them to spaghetti bolognese, reducing the severity of the family's annual flu.
Mason recalls complaining to his friend Sebastian, a fellow Byron Bay business owner, about feeling trapped by his business, and Sebastian's blunt reply that he is indeed trapped and should enjoy it became a defining moment for Mason's acceptance of responsibility.
Drawn from the episode transcripts.
Mason Taylor explains there are three broad categories: soil-grown culinary mushrooms like portobellos, psychedelic/psilocybin mushrooms, and medicinal tonic mushrooms (like shiitake and reishi) that grow on living or dead wood and are used for immune and longevity benefits.
From episode 289→After years of backpacking and working as a ski instructor, Mason developed a fungal infection and immune deficiency. He returned to Australia, dove into studying tonic herbalism and medicinal mushrooms in his final year of an international business degree, and started Super Feast in 2011 from a spare room in his mum's house in Gladesville, Sydney, without taking outside investment.
From episode 289→He suggests gently opening up awareness of your body's signals without excessive pressure or guilt, taking small persistent steps (light movement, appropriate herbs), seeking out a trusted practitioner when needed, and avoiding both total avoidance of symptoms and overreliance on medication that numbs the body's signals.
From episode 289→Every episode featuring Mason Taylor on The Daily Talk Show.
