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

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🔥 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

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

What does it actually take to build a relationship that lasts? 💑✨

We sit down with Julie Menanno — couples therapist, bestselling author of Secure Love, and one of the most followed relationship experts in the world with over 1 million followers. 💫 She's the woman couples turn to when they've tried everything and still can't stop having the same fight — and she has a remarkable gift for making the most complicated emotional dynamics feel suddenly, completely clear.

This isn't a conversation about relationship tips. It's a deep dive into why relationships can really struggle, what emotional safety actually means, and why the enemy in your relationship is never your partner — it's the negative cycle you're both trapped in.

💑 Julie Menanno is a licensed couples therapist and the author of Secure Love — described as a must-read for couples. She built her following on Instagram during COVID by translating the most complex relationship science into content that millions of people felt seen by. She works with real couples in private practice in Bozeman, Montana, is married with six children, and is currently writing her second book. She doesn't just explain what can be going wrong — she gives you the exact tools make relationships great.

We cover:

💬 Why couples can keep having the same argument — and what's really underneath it 🧠 Attachment needs: what they are, why they matter, and what happens when they go unmet 😢 The three things blocking you from using the skills you already have — fear, shame and unresolved grief 🪞 How to have a better relationship with yourself before you can have one with someone else ⚡ The "thousand paper cuts" — why small moments destroy relationships as much as big events ❤️‍🔥 What the best partners actually do in the moments that matter most 🙏 Gratitude as a tool for connection — and why it works neurologically 💔 What to do when a relationship feels hopeless — and why that moment can become the turning point 🗣️ The exact words to use when you need to be vulnerable but don't know how

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📚 Favourite book: A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens. Also loves Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks.

🎬 Favourite film: The Royal Tenenbaums.

🎵 Artist right now: Mumford & Sons — she just got tickets to see them in Bozeman and has been listening to the new album on repeat.

💬 Words to your younger self: "You deserved more than that. You deserved better than that."

🪣 One thing to add to the bucket list today: To appear on the Drew Barrymore Show.

🌍 One thing you'd love to learn more about: Italian — she's been learning for years and wants to keep going deeper.

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Mentions: Julie Menanno · Secure Love · Charles Dickens · Oliver Burkeman · Four Thousand Weeks · The Royal Tenenbaums · Mumford & Sons · Marcus Mumford · Drew Barrymore · Bozeman Montana · Instagram · Attachment Theory · Emotionally Focused Therapy

What if the way you're breathing right now is holding you back? 🌬️✨

We sit down with Jamie Clements — breathwork specialist and founder of The Breath Workspace — to explore one of the most overlooked tools for human performance: the breath 💨. From managing anxiety and panic attacks as a young rugby player 🏉, to working with the likes of Channel 4, Meta, the Four Seasons, and Heineken — and forging a friendship with England rugby legend Johnny Wilkinson — Jamie has built a practice that meets people exactly where they are, and takes them somewhere entirely new 🚀.

This isn't a conversation about breathing exercises 🙅. It's a conversation about agency 💪, nervous system mastery 🧠, and what becomes possible when you learn to work with what's been with you your entire life.

🧘 Jamie Clements is the founder of The Breath Workspace 🌬️, a breathwork specialist whose work spans corporate wellness 🏢, elite performance 🏆, and transformational retreats 🌿. His clients include teams at Channel 4, Meta, Four Seasons, and Heineken. He runs workshops, one-to-one coaching, and retreats across the UK 🇬🇧 — and is the creator of 21 Days of Breathwork 📅, a structured three-pillar programme designed to take anyone from the fundamentals to deeper states of healing and self-exploration ✨.

We cover:

🌬️ The three pillars of breathwork — functional breathing, nervous system regulation, and transformational conscious connected breathing 😤 Why most people are breathing wrong without knowing it — and the vicious cycle it creates 🔄 🧠 How breathwork can rival psychedelics for accessing expanded states of consciousness — without leaving the room 🌀 🏉 Working with Johnny Wilkinson: the balance between discipline and surrender, and why elite performers lose the love of the game 💔 😰 From panic attacks to peace: Jamie's own journey from passenger to driver of his inner life 🚗 💤 Mouth taping, deviated septums, and why what happens while you sleep matters more than you think 😴 🌀 The blueprint Jamie prescribes to anyone who wants to start — from micro-moments to monthly deep dives 📋 🔁 Why breathing better isn't just about breathing — it's about how you're living 🌍

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🔥 Fireside Chat 🔥

💫 Four words your course graduates use: Peaceful. Connected. Loving. Whole.

📖 A book that isn't obvious: You Are the Happiness You Seek by Rupert Spira.

🧒 Words for your younger self: It's not that serious — don't forget to laugh 😂.

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Mentions: Jamie Clements · The Breath Workspace · Johnny Wilkinson · Channel 4 · Meta · Four Seasons · Heineken · 21 Days of Breathwork · Rupert Spira · Cornwall · Winterborne · Conscious Connected Breathing · Box Breathing · Transcendental Meditation

What if you were forced to bank billions for the Mexican drug cartels while secretly working with the DEA? 🇲🇽💰

In this explosive two-part episode, Keith Bulfin shares how he went from running a boutique investment bank to becoming the financial architect for some of the world’s most dangerous cartels – all while secretly working with US authorities. 🕵️‍♂️

We dive into:

• How “creative banking” turned Keith into the cartels’ master money mover

• The morning federal agents showed up at his door – DEA, FBI, Mexican police and more 🚨

• Being thrown into maximum-security prison to earn the cartels’ trust

• Setting up a covert bank in San Diego and moving millions across borders

• Walking into meetings where a single mistake meant execution on the spot

• Why cartels now run like global corporations, using AI, shell companies and real businesses 🧠

• The mental strategies, preparation and emotional discipline that kept him alive

Key takeaways for high-performers:

• Preparation beats panic: Keith planned every exit route and scenario mentally—up at 4am scouting meetings. Apply this to deals, negotiations, or crises.

• Trust no one fully: Cartels and agencies both had moles; triple-check alliances in business or partnerships.

• Inner calm under fire: Face fear head-on with self-talk and perspective ("Others have it worse") to stay rational when stakes are life-or-death.

• Read people ruthlessly: Use face recognition and gut instinct to scan rooms and navigate ruthless players—key for pitching, investing, or scaling.

This is not a movie. It’s a real story of money laundering at scale, human trafficking, covert ops – and what it actually takes to survive when you can’t fully trust either the cartels or the agencies controlling the game. 🎯

If you’re obsessed with high-stakes decision-making, psychology under pressure and the dark underbelly of global finance, this conversation will stay with you for a long time.

Hit play, and step inside a world you were never meant to see. 🎧🔥

BIO: Keith Bulfin is a former investment banker turned undercover operative for the DEA, FBI, and CIA, infiltrating Mexican drug cartels to expose money laundering networks.

Imprisoned in Australia on trumped-up fraud charges to build cartel trust, he ran a covert San Diego bank, laundering millions while feeding intel to US agencies for over two decades.

Today, he fights human trafficking, consults on financial crime, and shares survival tactics from high-stakes ops—planning, gut instinct, and mental resilience.

Keen to learn more: Keith’s book tells the full story:

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What does it take to be confident? 🪞✨

We sit down with Sheridan France inside her stunning London clinic 🏛️🌸 — one of the most respected facial aesthetics practitioners in the UK, with over 20 years of experience and a client list she can't talk about (but you can Google her mentor). She's the woman people fly across London to see when they finally want it done right, and the woman who will very politely tell you that the treatment you came in for is not what you actually need. 💋

This isn't a conversation about fillers. It's a conversation about confidence, beauty as energy, the psychological weight of how we see ourselves — and why the most attractive people in any room are rarely the most symmetrical ones.

🩺 Sheridan France trained directly under Dr. Frederick Brandt — the celebrated New York dermatologist known as the Baron of Botox, who treated some of the biggest names in music and entertainment. ✨ Rated number one for lip filler in London, and a pioneer of the liquid facelift, Sheridan built her reputation on a single principle: you bring out what's already there — you never change the person. Her background spans nursing, midwifery, and a near-qualification in clinical psychology, which shows. She doesn't just see a face. She reads a room.

We cover:

💋 Why confidence can't be injected — and what it actually comes from 🌍 What Italy and France understand about older women that Britain still doesn't 📱 Social media, the Kardashian era, and the quiet shift back towards natural 🎨 What it feels like to see a face the way an artist sees a canvas ⚠️ The unregulated filler market: what's being bought online, and why she won't touch another practitioner's work 🌟 Training with Dr. Frederick Brandt — the Rolling Stones, Damien Hirst's skull party, and the conversations she can't repeat 💉 The four pillars of anti-aging — and the one question no patient ever thinks to ask 🪞 Why overfilling is the industry's biggest problem, and what the patient-centred alternative actually looks like 🧘 Why your twenties are the most anxious decade, and why getting older is, genuinely, fabulous

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🔥 Fireside Chat 🔥

💫 A few quirky things that give you joy: Walking. And watching her golden doodle's absolute refusal to acknowledge the new baby — despite golden doodles supposedly adoring children.

🧘 A mantra you want to embrace now: Accept yourself. Love yourself. Value what you've got now.

🎬 A favourite artist that isn't obvious: Maria Callas.

🧒 Something you wish you knew when you were younger: That everything changes. And everything will be all right.

🌍 Two things IN for you right now: The South of France. London — still fabulous, however much it changes.

🚫 Two things OUT: Trainers on women. She's wearing them today, but she wants her heels back — and she will be wearing them this summer.

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Walking It Out: Pilgrimage, Singing and the Cure for Modern Disconnection with Dr Guy Hayward 🚶‍♂️🎤💫

🌿 Dr Guy Hayward reveals how ancient practices like pilgrimage and communal singing combat today's epidemic of isolation and disconnection.🛤️ From walking sacred routes to embracing ritual in nature, he shares actionable ways to reconnect body, soul, and community.🧠 Explore the science-backed power of gratitude, prayer, and embodied rituals for mental health.​

• 😔 Depression as disconnection: Combat isolation by linking to nature, others, and something greater—stories and pilgrimage anchor us in belonging.​

• 🚶 Pilgrimage mindset: Drop expectations, set intentions, engage holy wells and trees—turn walks into soul-charging art without rigid beliefs.​

• 🎶 Singing unites: From folk chants to evensong, group song bypasses talk to forge instant bonds; it's the football stadium of spiritual practice.​

• ✨ Daily rituals win: Gratitude shifts perspective instantly; walk to work, pray creatively, fast or sport—science shows they extend life and joy.​

Dr Guy Hayward co-founded the British Pilgrimage Trust (2014) 🗺️, mapping UK routes to sacred sites. Cambridge PhD on singing's community power 🎓; Founded Choral Evensong Trust. Maverick blending tradition, vulnerability, and modern mental health through walking, song, and analog connection

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🎧 Listen, reflect, and let this episode open a new doorway for you.

🔥 Fireside chat🔥: Dr Guy Hayward 🎙️

Three things that give you joy that we wouldn’t know about?🥣 Porridge (recreating tongue sensations), 🌊 lying in a river with water washing over you.​

A mantra you want to embrace?👂 "Listen to the intimate connection with myself".​

A favorite book, film or artist that isn’t obvious?📖 Tolkien (deeper dive into his magical world, languages, perspectives).​

The world dealt tough cards—something not landed your way. How do you jump out?🔍 Look at wheWalking It Out: Pilgrimage, Singing and the Cure for Modern Disconnection with Dr Guy Hayward 🚶‍♂️🎤💫

🌿 Dr Guy Hayward reveals how ancient practices like pilgrimage and communal singing combat today's epidemic of isolation and disconnection.🛤️ From walking sacred routes to embracing ritual in nature, he shares actionable ways to reconnect body, soul, and community.🧠 Explore the science-backed power of gratitude, prayer, and embodied rituals for mental health.​

• 😔 Depression as disconnection: Combat isolation by linking to nature, others, and something greater—stories and pilgrimage anchor us in belonging.​

• 🚶 Pilgrimage mindset: Drop expectations, set intentions, engage holy wells and trees—turn walks into soul-charging art without rigid beliefs.​

• 🎶 Singing unites: From folk chants to evensong, group song bypasses talk to forge instant bonds; it's the football stadium of spiritual practice.​

• ✨ Daily rituals win: Gratitude shifts perspective instantly; walk to work, pray creatively, fast or sport—science shows they extend life and joy.​

Dr Guy Hayward co-founded the British Pilgrimage Trust (2014) 🗺️, mapping UK routes to sacred sites. Cambridge PhD on singing's community power 🎓; Founded Choral Evensong Trust. Maverick blending tradition, vulnerability, and modern mental health through walking, song, and analog connection

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