OODA Loop PTSD Breakthrough: Marine Aviator, Ibogaine Therapy, and The Mission Within
From No Way Out by Mark McGrath and Brian "Ponch" Rivera
March 9, 2026 · 54 min · Episode 156
About this episode
Jay Kopelman shares his transformative journey through PTSD and ibogaine therapy.
Send us Fan Mail A Marine aviator who once introduced himself as a “raging asshole” sits down with us to share how everything changed—fast. Jay Kopelman had years of TBIs, PTSD, and white-hot anger had wrecked his home life and numbed his spirit despite therapy, SSRIs, sleep meds, and nightly drinks. A scholarship to The Mission Within took him to a clinically monitored retreat in Mexico, and the ibogaine journey hit where talk therapy couldn’t: the root. He saw his son always wearing a clown...