In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Brett to break down the real state of money, markets, and sovereignty in a world drowning in fiat illusions.

We dig into why Bitcoin is the only free market left, how infinite liquidity props up dying institutions, and why most cryptocurrencies are just psychological casinos dressed as innovation. Brett explains the three functions of money — store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account — and why Bitcoin is the only asset that still meets the standard.

From generational nihilism to doomsday psyops, we explore how fear shapes time preference and keeps people dependent on failing systems. Bitcoin becomes the counter-move: hard money, honest incentives, and a way to build long-term meaning again.

We briefly touch on plant medicine as another tool for clearing the internal noise so people can take responsibility and actually build a life worth living.

If you want a grounded conversation that cuts through hype, delusion, and fiat theatre, this one is for you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Emily Becker to explore what it means to build a life completely off the script.

After travelling to Colombia in her late teens to live with a nun, Emily became obsessed with the wider world. That curiosity took her into the Peace Corps in rural Mozambique, hitchhiking across Africa, and eventually into a handmade life as a ceramic artist and doula in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico.

They talk about what freedom really is beyond money, how travel shattered her conditioning, and what living close to the land has taught her about food, community, and responsibility. Emily shares stories of hitchhiking with goats, teaching in a colonial system, learning new languages, and navigating the tension between service and saviourism.

They also explore how plant medicines opened her to real gratitude, how facing death dissolved her fear, and why spiritual growth now looks like making art, tending relationships, and choosing pleasure without apology.

If you’ve ever felt the pull to leave the familiar behind and create a life rooted in meaning, this conversation will speak to you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Steven Giannopoulos.

From years on the frontlines as a firefighter to months trapped under 24-hour surveillance on Big Brother, Steven shares how these intense initiations stripped him bare - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. What followed was a decade-long mission deep diving into recovery, nervous system repair, and eventually, reconnection through plant medicine.

From the chaos of burning buildings to the stillness of ceremony, they trace the path from adrenaline to awareness - from saving lives to learning how to truly live.

We dive into the medicine path, psilocybin and ayahuasca as teachers of humility, and the journey of rebuilding the nervous system through brotherhood and truth.

If you’ve felt the call to reclaim your power and rebuild your temple from the inside out, this one is for you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Sarah Connolly to explore what it means to live as a walking prayer.

Sarah is an ayahuasca dietara, space holder, transformation guide and host of the Big Little Soul podcast.

They return to the oldest elders on Earth - the plants - and the co-creative way of working with them. What begins as restriction becomes relationship. What feels like silence becomes instruction. Dieta as something earned and health as the way of less, not more.

If you’re called to earn your way back to the wisdom of nature, this one is for you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Markos Sikiotis to explore initiation, master plant dietas, and the art of spiritual discernment. They trace the path of returning to nature as the single greatest teacher through ayahuasca ceremonies, Shipibo plant dietas, and the lived wisdom of indigenous lineages. What begins as restriction becomes remembrance. What feels like silence becomes instruction.

From the discipline of long dietas to the living language of Icaros, Markos shares how plants repair intuition, rebuild the connection between mind and spirit, and teach the difference between light and dark. They speak on proof of work in the medicine path, the importance of asking how many dietas a curandero has, and why apprenticeship requires devotion, humility, and clean relationships with energy. They touch Bitcoin, sovereignty, resilience, music as medicine, and what it takes to protect your prayer in a world that feeds on attention.

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In this episode of Walking With Jaguars, Matt Blanco and Emily Hannah explore the path of initiation and remembrance - the process of returning to the body as the temple and nature as the teacher.

From solo traveling through South America to the lessons of ayahuasca and the wisdom of indigenous elders, this conversation reveals how true awakening is written into our biology. Every plant, every cycle, every craving is a messenger guiding us home.

They explore the intelligence of the feminine body, the sacred rhythm of moontime, and how nourishment becomes prayer when food is treated as medicine. Together they uncover what it means to live in right relationship with Earth, energy, and self.

If you’ve ever felt the call to slow down, to listen deeply this one is for you.

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In this first episode of Walking With Jaguars, Matt Blanco shares the story that seeded the entire project - a journey through science, spirit, and sovereignty.

From studying quantum mechanics in Australia to drinking Ayahuasca deep in the Amazon, from walking jaguars through the Bolivian jungle to living on a Bitcoin standard in Costa Rica, this is the story of how one man broke free from modern conditioning to remember what it means to be human.

This episode weaves the threads of mysticism, plant medicine, freedom, and truth - exploring how ancient wisdom and modern technology mirror the same universal law: Proof of Work.

If you’ve ever felt the call to live closer to truth, nature, and your original blueprint - this is where the path begins.

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