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Modern Couples. love. purpose. growth.Beyond Convenience: Making Love Sacred — On Core Values, Commitment, Radical Honesty & Ceremonial Work as a CoupleIn this episode, I sit down with a role model Modern & Entrepreneurial Couple — Anna and Kaspar — and I have to say: their story deeply moved me.To witness how they live Love as Art, Family as Ceremony, and Community as Home felt both grounding and inspiring. They embody so much of what I believe modern couples can aspire to: a love that is intentional, sacred, and alive.What touched me most is how they balance it all — a healthy biohacker lifestyle, partnership, parenting, and growing businesses. Not perfectly, but consciously. They show that challenges can be inv...
2025-09-181h 16
Bliss & ButterSound, Silence & Spirituality w/ Adrian Freedman #20In this episode, I sit down with Adrian Friedman once more — for a heartfelt conversation about the transformative power of music. What unfolds is a beautiful, honest exploration of how music can be a portal — for healing, for connection, and for remembering who we are.Adrian shares his journey from conventional music-making into a more spiritual and intuitive path, one deeply rooted in ritual, presence, and ancestral wisdom. We talk about his latest album, Thousand Petals, a deeply collaborative and intentional creation that draws from various musical traditions to offer listeners a kind of sonic sanctuary — something to res...
2025-04-241h 36
Bliss & ButterFrom Fatigue to Full Power w/ Verena Garcia y Boullosa #19Verena Garcia y Boullosa is a holistically oriented medical doctor and health influencer on a mission to help people live a healthier life, fight fatigue, and reclaim their full energy and potential.In this episode, we dive deep into holistic health, biohacking, and longevity. Verena shares her personal journey of healing, including overcoming severe gut issues and unlearning conventional medical teachings to embrace a more integrative approach. We explore the importance of treating root causes rather than symptoms, how unprocessed emotions manifest in the body, and the role of spirituality in health.We also touch...
2025-04-101h 03
Bliss & ButterFamily Constellations & Healing Generational Trauma w/ Hylke Bonnema #18Hylke Bonnema is one of the most experienced and pioneering Family Constellation facilitators in the Netherlands, with over 25 years of experience in systemic work. Originally trained as a psychologist and body psychotherapist, his journey into constellation work began as a personal healing quest—one that led him to study directly with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations.In this conversation, Hylke shares his deep insights into transgenerational trauma, systemic healing, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. His work bridges psychology, shamanic traditions, and meditative practices, offering a holistic approach to understanding the hidden dynamics wi...
2025-03-131h 34
Bliss & ButterRelationships for Evolution w/ Kasper van der Meulen #17In this episode, my husband Kasper and I kick off our shared podcast! After lots of planning and requests, we decided to go live together for the first time, answering some of your questions. We cover a range of topics – from how to keep a sexy marriage alive while managing kids and two businesses, to deep dives on relationships and personal growth. We explore whether people are "meant to be" together, talk about the importance of aligning values, and share our thoughts on love, life purpose, and personal evolution.
2024-10-011h 21
Bliss & ButterMusic as Medicine w/ Adrian Freedman #16Adrian Freedman is probably one of the most versatile and inspiring musicians I have ever met. Starting piano lessons at the age of 5 and violin lessons at the age of 7, he’s evolved to a unique multi-instrumentalist that has studied many cultures and their musical heritage, and is now travelling the world to share his own.During our conversation, Adrian shares some of the wisdom he has gained from his life-long musical path, which has brought him to all corners of the world - from England to Tokyo, and on to the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.
2024-04-031h 29
Bliss & ButterBean to Bliss: Unwrapping the Story of Chocolate & Cacao w/ Malou Dronkers #15Malou Dronkers is an artisan chocolate and cacao maker from Amsterdam. She’s the founder of the handrafted chocolate brand “Macaomovement” and the co-founder of Wild Child Cacao, a manufactory of 100% pure bean to bar cacao paste.It's not easy finding anyone more passionate and knowledgeable about the art of chocolate making, and hearing Malou talk about beans, bars, roasting, flavour profiles and tempering usually gets people even more excited about the topic than they already are - sweet stuff, you're in for a treat!In this episode, we unwrap (pun intended) the story of chocol...
2023-12-051h 20
Bliss & ButterThe Fourth Trimester & Rebuilding Mother Culture w/ Kimberly Ann Johnson #14Kimberly Ann Johnson is a well-known somatic practitioner, educator, author, podcaster and mother. Her work evolves around the themes of birth, motherhood, sex, relationships and trauma healing, with the aim of helping women to live a life of pleasure and power.In this podcast episode, we explore the challenges and needs of new mothers during the fourth trimester of their pregnancy - the postpartum period. In our modern society, there's little to no common understanding on how mothers should best be supported in the first days and months with their newborns, as intergenerational exchange of knowledge and...
2023-11-281h 35
Bliss & ButterPsychedelic Integration - Making Sense of it All w/ Victoria Etherington #13Victoria Etherington is a certified coach, specialising in supporting people in preparing for and later integrating psychedelic or other peak experiences. She is also the co-founder of Entheogenesis, a legal psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands with an in-depth 5 week preparation and integration programme supporting the experience itself. She also works with breathwork and other somatic modalities in Berlin, either in a group or 1-1 context - hosting intimate breathwork ceremonies, encouraging an exploration of the subconscious.In this episode we discuss what integration means in the context of a psychedelic or peak experiences, and why i...
2023-11-221h 20
Bliss & ButterThe Wisdom of the Body - Trauma Release & Dearmouring w/ Susanne Roursgaard #12Susanne Roursgaard is the creator and founder of the The Gaia Method, with decades of experience as a practitioner, therapist, teacher, workshop leader, midwife, sexologist, family therapist and couples counsellor. Her work evolves around helping people shed blockages, old patterns, trauma and limiting beliefs that disconnect them from themselves and their bodies - through a combination of gentle bodywork, de-armouring, breathwork, sound and energy work.In this conversation, we talk about why armour forms in the first place, where it tends to manifest in the body, the advantage of lovingly "inviting" the body to release stuck energies ins...
2023-10-311h 25
Bliss & ButterThe UFO Phenomenon: Modernity's Favourite Myth w/ Jerry Mattox #11Apparent UFO sightings and the question as to whether there is extraterrestrial life has been influencing humanity for as long as we can remember. While some people think that it's a complete myth rooted in conspiracy theories, others believe that extraterrestrial beings are indeed living amongst us at this very moment, with either good or bad intentions - depending on who you ask.As a natural sceptic, Jerry Mattox has been researching the matter in an almost scientific way for years now, and has gained a lot of interesting and surprising insights that have caused him to b...
2023-10-241h 24
Bliss & ButterAncient Traditions in Modern Times w/ Nicole Nyima Costerus #10Nicole Nyima Costerus has been studying and immersing herself in a wide range of different spiritual practices from around the world for many years now, which have brought her to many unusual places across the globe, and caused her to travel off the beaten path. In this episode, we talk about her recent initiation as a vodou priestess in the tradition of Benin of West Africa, her time in sacred dieta with the Yananawa tribe in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, as well as her experience of spending prolonged periods of time in complete darkness a...
2023-10-181h 16
Bliss & ButterMicrodosing Psychedelic Substances w/ Hein Pijnnaken (Microdosing Institute) #9Hein Pijnnaken has been at the forefront of Microdosing education, research and destigmatisation since founding the Microdosing Institute in 2017 together with his business partner Jakobien van der Weijden. The Microdosing Institute is a global platform for education, research and community, that aims to unite indigenous wisdom with modern science to enable responsible, conscious and effective microdosing with psychedelics. Hein is an NLP Transformational Coach, and has almost 30 years of experience with various psychedelics - both in the context of personal use as well as in a guiding role. In our conversation, we outline what microdosing is (and wha...
2023-09-291h 35
Bliss & ButterHormone Health or Hormone Hell w/ Laura van de Vorst #8Laura van der Vorst is a leading hormone health expert, certified functional nutritionist and successful wellness entrepreneur. She co-founded her first company healthcoachfx.com, which aims to help women find back into hormonal balance naturally, with her mother Petra in 2014, and recently became the co-creator of & a teacher at the Women Empowerment Coaching Certification Training.In this conversation, Laura generously shares her knowledge around all things hormone health. Our discussion takes us all the way from the most basic questions such as "what is a hormone and how does it differ from a neurotransmitter?" to more in-depth...
2023-09-191h 26
Bliss & ButterWelcoming Change & Trusting the Path w/ Salman Hatta #7Salman Hatta takes us on the journey from his head to his heart. Leaving his life as a well-paid, successful, yet unfulfilled professional at top notch investment banks and highly promising startups behind, he decided to walk a completely different path - lead by his heart's calling. Nowadays, he’s a certified life and psychedelic integration coach, yoga teacher, somatic breathwork facilitator, reiki practitioner, ecstatic dance DJ, jewellery designer and program director at 1heart Journeys, an organisation that organises transformative ayahuasca retreats for entrepreneurs, founders, and changemakers. In our conversation, we talk about the main cat...
2023-09-111h 07
Bliss & ButterEmbracing Sexuality, Sensuality & Cycle-Based Living w/ Anna Lindsfors #6Sexologist, psychologist, biohacker and author Anna Lindfors helps us gain a deeper understanding of sexuality, sensuality, womanhood and cycle based living in this episode - and the inherent interconnectedness of these concepts.Our conversation aims to explore and answer questions such as what stands in our way of experiencing sexual pleasure, whether women are by nature "less sexual" than men, how our nervous system influences our ability to experience pleasure, how trauma can limit our sexual expression and influence our relationships, which practices we can use to reconnect to our bodies, sexuality and sensuality, and how the...
2023-09-061h 09
Bliss & ButterMedicinal Mushrooms, Psychedelics & The Wood Wide Web w/ Yarrow Willard #5Yarrow Willard, aka. the "Herbal Jedi" is probably one of the most knowledgable and enthusiastic herbalists out there - with mush-room in his heart for mushrooms.In this conversation, we dig deep into the mycelial layer of our planet and explore the magnificence of these age-old organisms that secretly run life on earth - whilst also being more than comfortable living in space! Get ready for some mindblowing mushroom wisdom, lots of fungal fun facts and plenty of low-blow shroomy puns.Besides explaining the main benefits of a few "classic medicinal mushrooms" such as reishi...
2023-08-211h 25
Bliss & ButterPast Life Regression & The Journey to Your Higher Self w/ Marije Terluin #4In this conversation Marie Terluin, who is trained in the QHHT regression technique by Dolores Cannon, takes me on a deep dive into the universe that is past life regression therapy. We talk about what to expect during a past life regression journey, its potential benefits with regards to personal development and deeper insight into your own being, and hear some anecdotal stories from Marije and her clients.Throughout the episode, we also dive deeper into concepts such as reincarnation, the higher self and the soul's journey. We clarify common questions like as whether one...
2023-08-131h 31
Bliss & ButterSacred Master Plants - Ayahuasca, Peyote, Huachuma & Iboga w/ Anthony Smith #3'Curandero' Anthony Smith has been working with a wide range of sacred plant medicines for just under three decades now. His work has expanded all across the globe, and he is doubtlessly one of the most experienced practitioners out there. His journey with the plants began many years ago when he found himself in the Amazon rainforest as one of the first Western apprentices of well known Ayahuasceiros such as Don Pablo Amaringo and Shipibo Master Don Basilio Sinarahua.During this episode, we go into some incredible stories of back when he first travelled to...
2023-08-071h 49
Bliss & ButterSexual Health, FemTech & Quitting the Shame Game /w Kristin Weitzel #2Men seem to think that we as women share all of our most intimate secrets with each other and that there's no taboo topics that sisters can't discuss. While this might be true at the individual level, this definitely doesn't hold up when it comes to the broader societal level of conversations around womanhood, women's health and the challenges of having a female body.In this week's episode, Kristin Weitzel - one of the world's leading female biohackers - and I open up the exact conversation that we feel like women are not having (enough), and talk...
2023-08-071h 35
Bliss & ButterMarijuana Medicine w/ Crue Kopecky #1Marijuana is seen by many as a recreational drug - or substance of addiction and abuse. In this episode, cannabis connoisseur Crue Kopecky and I explore a different perspective on the hemp plant and its high-enducing female flowers, and discuss its medicinal, spiritual and downright practical properties in a fun and light-hearted conversation. Our discussion touches upon the ways in which the plant used to, and still is being invited to serve in sacred ceremonial settings, how to avoid getting caught up in it's potentially addictive nature, its potential benefits as a natural remedy for a number of common a...
2023-08-061h 24
Bliss & ButterIntro "Bliss & Butter"Hello beautiful people and welcome to Bliss and Butter - the podcast where I interview experts and legends of all walks of life about science, health, spirituality, alternative healing modalities, the beauty and absurdity of life, the mysteries of the universe - and whatever else our conversations take us to. As the listener, you’re invited to join us with an open heart and an open mind. I invite you to be curious. To not judge a book - or rather episode - by its cover. To hear us out. To question your own beliefs. To definitely not...
2023-08-0501 min
Zukunftsmusik Archives - das ist taktlos160 – Musik Macht Politik160 Musik Macht Politik
3. Mai 2012 / 21:03 bis 22:00 Uhr
Live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe
Moderation: Theo Geißler & Marlen Reichert
Schostakowitsch hat gegen Stalin ankomponiert, die Bands der 60er Jahre rockten für eine Revolution und was ist heute? Heute ist Musik meist nicht mehr als Unterhaltung. Hat die Musik die Politik verloren? Wann ist Musik eigentlich Politik? Wie wirken Sponsoring und politische Vorgaben auf Musik?
Darüber diskutiert taktlos am 3. Mai 2012 um 21.03 Uhr in BR-Klassik live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe.
Gäste
Susanne Asche (Leiterin des Kult...
2012-04-1800 minMusikmarkt Archives - das ist taktlos160 – Musik Macht Politik160 Musik Macht Politik
3. Mai 2012 / 21:03 bis 22:00 Uhr
Live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe
Moderation: Theo Geißler & Marlen Reichert
Schostakowitsch hat gegen Stalin ankomponiert, die Bands der 60er Jahre rockten für eine Revolution und was ist heute? Heute ist Musik meist nicht mehr als Unterhaltung. Hat die Musik die Politik verloren? Wann ist Musik eigentlich Politik? Wie wirken Sponsoring und politische Vorgaben auf Musik?
Darüber diskutiert taktlos am 3. Mai 2012 um 21.03 Uhr in BR-Klassik live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe.
Gäste
Susanne Asche (Leiterin des Kult...
2012-04-1800 minAnkündigung Archives - das ist taktlos160 – Musik Macht Politik160 Musik Macht Politik
3. Mai 2012 / 21:03 bis 22:00 Uhr
Live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe
Moderation: Theo Geißler & Marlen Reichert
Schostakowitsch hat gegen Stalin ankomponiert, die Bands der 60er Jahre rockten für eine Revolution und was ist heute? Heute ist Musik meist nicht mehr als Unterhaltung. Hat die Musik die Politik verloren? Wann ist Musik eigentlich Politik? Wie wirken Sponsoring und politische Vorgaben auf Musik?
Darüber diskutiert taktlos am 3. Mai 2012 um 21.03 Uhr in BR-Klassik live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe.
Gäste
Susanne Asche (Leiterin des Kult...
2012-04-1800 minBildung Archives - das ist taktlos160 – Musik Macht Politik160 Musik Macht Politik
3. Mai 2012 / 21:03 bis 22:00 Uhr
Live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe
Moderation: Theo Geißler & Marlen Reichert
Schostakowitsch hat gegen Stalin ankomponiert, die Bands der 60er Jahre rockten für eine Revolution und was ist heute? Heute ist Musik meist nicht mehr als Unterhaltung. Hat die Musik die Politik verloren? Wann ist Musik eigentlich Politik? Wie wirken Sponsoring und politische Vorgaben auf Musik?
Darüber diskutiert taktlos am 3. Mai 2012 um 21.03 Uhr in BR-Klassik live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe.
Gäste
Susanne Asche (Leiterin des Kult...
2012-04-1800 minMedien Archives - das ist taktlos160 – Musik Macht Politik160 Musik Macht Politik
3. Mai 2012 / 21:03 bis 22:00 Uhr
Live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe
Moderation: Theo Geißler & Marlen Reichert
Schostakowitsch hat gegen Stalin ankomponiert, die Bands der 60er Jahre rockten für eine Revolution und was ist heute? Heute ist Musik meist nicht mehr als Unterhaltung. Hat die Musik die Politik verloren? Wann ist Musik eigentlich Politik? Wie wirken Sponsoring und politische Vorgaben auf Musik?
Darüber diskutiert taktlos am 3. Mai 2012 um 21.03 Uhr in BR-Klassik live aus dem Schloss Gottesaue in Karlsruhe.
Gäste
Susanne Asche (Leiterin des Kult...
2012-04-1800 min