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Pitching Passion

Pitching Passion

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 🎙 Interviews: Spies, rock stars, chefs & founders, experts & more 🔥 The un-Googleable stories To get exclusive access and benefits become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 Want to support: Donate and or become a member here https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassionPitching Passion Social Sciences
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  • Psychedelics, Plant Medicine & Functional Chocolate with Funga Founder | Milana Abensperg und Traun

    Psychedelics, Plant Medicine & Functional Chocolate with Funga Founder | Milana Abensperg und Traun
    May 1 2026
    What happens when a single psychedelic experience changes the entire course of your life? 🍄✨🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassionWe sit down with Milana Abensperg und Traun — founder of Funga, a platform and product brand on a mission to reconnect people with the healing power of nature. A young Austrian woman who took a hero dose of magic mushrooms on a remote Indonesian island, moved to Mexico City to immerse herself in plant medicine culture, and came back to Europe to build something that didn't yet exist. She's the first person in the UK to bring Kanna — an ancient South African succulent — into functional chocolate form. And she did it with months of obsessive attention to detail, sourcing from some of the best medicinal mushroom growers in the world. 🌿🍫https://fungachocos.comThis isn't a conversation about getting high. It's a conversation about consciousness, healing, the forgotten wisdom of indigenous plant traditions — and what it actually feels like to build a passion project from nothing, on purpose.🌿 Milana studied functional mushrooms and plant medicine for two years in Mexico, building fungaonline.com — an educational platform designed to make these topics accessible and beautiful. Her debut product, Funga Chocos for Grooving, combines cordyceps mushroom and Kanna in chocolate form — the closest thing to a microdose without the psychedelic. Her next product, Funga Chocos for Dreaming, is already in development.We cover:🍄 A hero dose of magic mushrooms in Indonesia — and the clear before-and-after it created 🌍 Two years in Mexico City learning from healers, facilitators and a French mycologist who sings to his mushrooms 🍫 Why she built a functional chocolate instead of a supplement — and the months of obsession that went into every detail 🌱 Kanna — the ancient South African empathogen that binds to serotonin receptors, regulates your amygdala, and is nature's answer to the morning SSRI ⚡ Cordyceps — the energy and stamina mushroom used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years, and why most of what's on the market isn't the real thing 🧠 The mycelium network, human connection, and why a high dose of psychedelics is the fastest route to understanding we are all one 🌙 Why she's building a chocolate for dreaming next — and the Blue Lotus plant from the Amazon she's obsessed with 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk 🛍️🔥 Fireside Chat 🔥💫 Three things that give you joy: Morning routine. Kanna — the gift that keeps on giving. And dancing.🧘 A mantra you want to embrace now: Trust the process.🎬 A favourite book, film or artist that isn't obvious: True Romance — and it ties back perfectly, because Kanna is a heart opener and this product was originally going to be called Fungo Chacos for Loving.🧒 Something you wish you knew when you were younger: Not to spend too much time worrying about how things will come about. There's some sort of divine guidance, and even the bad things will lead somewhere good.🐋 One thing on your bucket list: Swimming with whales.🌍 One thing IN right now: Being more intentional about how she consumes alcohol.🚫 One thing OUT: Social media.❤️‍🔥 Loved this episode? ✨ Like, Share, and Subscribe to support bold, heart-led conversations.WANT MORE OR TO SUPPORT? 👉 Become a patron and get exclusive access & behind-the-scenes perks:www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 💎☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassionMentions: Milana Abensperg und Traun · Funga · · Kanna · Cordyceps · Lion's Mane · Reishi · Blue Lotus · Magic Mushrooms · Psychedelics · DMT · Microdosing · Mycelium · Serotonin · Amygdala · ChatGPT · Carl Jung · Sigmund Freud · Transcendental Meditation · Mexico City · Indonesia · South Africa · Chinese Medicine · Magnesium · Melatonin
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    46 mins
  • Working Undercover for Drug Cartels, Surviving Prison & the $4 Trillion Money Laundering Crisis | with Keith Bulfin

    Working Undercover for Drug Cartels, Surviving Prison & the $4 Trillion Money Laundering Crisis | with Keith Bulfin
    Apr 24 2026

    What does it take to survive on both sides of the law? 🌎🔥

    We're back with Keith Bulfin — the former investment banker from Melbourne who was persuaded to work undercover for the DEA, spent three years in a maximum security prison to build cover, and then found himself running a covert bank for the world's most dangerous drug cartels in Mexico City. In this second conversation, we go deeper. Prison violence. Cartel surveillance. A warehouse meeting where Keith didn't know if he'd walk out alive. And why following the money may be the only way to dismantle organised crime.

    🕵️ Keith Bulfin spent over two decades operating at the intersection of intelligence, covert finance, and organised crime — working with the DEA, intelligence agencies, and government bodies across multiple continents. He now uses that network to help corporations and institutions recover stolen funds and dismantle financial crime — one piece of the jigsaw at a time.

    We cover:

    🔒 What 23.5 hours a day locked in a cell does to your mind — and how Keith coped with claustrophobia🏴‍☠️ Being stabbed, beaten, and why standing your ground in prison is non-negotiable🇲🇽 Walking into a Mexico City cartel meeting not knowing if you'll be executed💰 Running a covert bank — and why the cartels know everything about you before you arrive🇩🇪 A Berlin spy operation involving a diplomatic bag, Iranian money, and a shocking twist🧩 The Jigsaw Method — why intelligence agencies only need 25% of the picture, and Keith only needs one piece💸 $4.4 trillion washed through the global banking system — and why digital currency is making it worse🔍 How Keith uses criminal networks to recover stolen funds that law enforcement can't touch🌐 Why attacking the balance sheet is the only real way to bring down a cartel

    🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & ❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion

    🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk 🛍️

    🔥 Fireside Chat 🔥

    💫 Something that gives you joy: Swimming every day.

    🧘 A mantra you live by: Be strong.

    🎬 Favourite book/film: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    🧒 Words to your younger self: Be strong.

    🌟 Something you want more of: Enjoy life.

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    Mentions: Keith Bulfin · DEA · Drug Enforcement Administration · Mexican cartels · Colombia · Bahrain · Berlin · German intelligence · Iran · Dubai · Bitcoin · Money laundering · United Nations · US Department of Justice · FBI · JP Morgan Chase · Bank of America · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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    47 mins
  • Iconic ceramicist and entrepreneur Emma Bridgewater on making things that matter

    Iconic ceramicist and entrepreneur Emma Bridgewater on making things that matter
    Apr 17 2026

    What does it really mean to make something that matters? 🏺✨

    We sit down with Emma Bridgewater — one of Britain's most beloved ceramicists, entrepreneur, and now Dame — the woman who walked into a derelict Victorian pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent and decided to bring it back to life. That was 1984. Today, over 360 people work there, and her hand-decorated pottery sits on breakfast tables across the country. 🫖

    This is a conversation about creativity, community, and what gets lost when we stop making things with our hands. Emma talks about the moment she knew she had to start the business, why she still wakes up at night worried about dying crafts skills, and what she believes shopping — yes, shopping — is the most political act we can do. 🏭🌿

    We go deep on the joy of making, the grounding power of creativity, why social media is driving us apart, and what it means to run a business with genuine soul for over four decades. Emma is warm, funny, fiercely principled — and completely compelling. 💛

    In this episode we cover:

    • The gift for her mum that started it all 🎁

    • Why she chose Stoke — and why she'll never leave

    • 30 pairs of hands touching every piece 🙌

    • Why creativity is the antidote to anxiety

    • Objects, memory and why things carry emotional freight

    • What she's learned about keeping integrity over 40 years

    • The simple pleasures that ground her every day 🌿

    • What she'd say to anyone thinking of starting a business



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    Mentions: Emma Bridgewater · Stoke-on-Trent · Laura Ashley · William Morris · Guy Hayward · British Pilgrimage Trust · Victoria and Albert Museum · Wedgwood · Minton · Spode
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    48 mins
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