The Unfolding with Olivier

The Unfolding with Olivier is a podcast exploring connection, meaning, and what it means to stay human and thrive in a rapidly changing digital age. Through intimate conversations with people who have followed lives of meaning, passion, and curiosity, the podcast explores inner and outer paths of growth. We speak about life transitions, relationships, intimacy, purpose, healing, creativity, and business. Each episode invites listeners to slow down, reflect, learn, and reconnect with what feels meaningful. A place to unfold together.

The Unfolding with Olivier is a education podcast hosted by Olivier Passebecq, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Olivier Passebecq hosts The Unfolding with Olivier, a education show with 16 episodes published.

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  "Most Of Us Are Trying To Fit In, Not Belong" Creating Real Community For Queer Men | Gary Albert

  Sep 20, 20261h 58m

  "Most of us have spent so much of our lives trying to fit in rather than find belonging." Gary Albert is a somatic sex therapist, a clinical hypnotherapist and a trained classical musician who won a full scholarship to one of the world's leading conservatoires. He is the founder of Pleasure Medicine, a sober conscious dance and connection workshop for queer men that fills every two weeks in London with almost no promotion. He also spent more than a decade in London's club and after party scene, going out on a Thursday and getting home on a Monday, chasing a validation he almost never received. He lost friends to overdose and chemsex. His own body eventually shut down. What pulled him out was a naturopath, a breakdown in an East London cafe, and a chance meeting that changed the direction of his life in a single morning. Everything he teaches now comes from having lived the thing he helps other men leave behind. In this conversation you will learn the difference between fitting in and finding belonging, why almost everything called community is really just an event, what people are actually reaching for through apps and chemsex, the shadow side of our freedom, and why our greatest gifts come from our greatest wounds. You will also hear one of the most striking stories of synchronicity I have had on this show. Gary is not speaking from a pedestal. He is, in his words, in the waters swimming with the rest of us. That is what makes this land. Whether or not you are queer, this one will change how you walk into a room. Gary Albert is a somatic sex therapist, hypnotherapist and the founder of Pleasure Medicine. Find him at pleasuremedicine.co.uk, at eroticevolution.co.uk, and on Instagram at @pleasuremedicinedance and his WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E4fIypCZwAvCumiTOtEOaN . To know more about Olivier Passebecq's activities, events, retreats and one to one consulting: olivierpassebecq.com and @olivierpassebecq on Instagram

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  On Belonging, Ritual, and What AI Can't Replace | Carolin Goethel

  Aug 6, 20262h 1m

  Carolin Goethel wears many hats. Facilitator, community weaver, bridge builder and nature based guide. She co-founded the Wild Minds Collective, a trio of deep ecologists and nature guides who run retreats and vision quests. She has spent years building things from the ground up: she helped launch the UK arm of the Food Assembly, worked on a universal basic income experiment in Berlin, organised citizens assemblies to bring everyday people into the conversation about AI and has been stewarding the Church of Interbeing, a non religious Sunday community ritual in a refurbished Berlin church, since 2021 and was the Germany Activation Lead for The Week, a project mobilising courageous conversations about the climate. She trained as a rite of passage guide with the School of Lost Borders, where she learned to hold twelve day containers in which people go out on the land alone for four days and four nights, without food and without shelter, to mark a threshold in their lives. This conversation is about what technology cannot give us, why she believes the world is stuck in a domination paradigm, and what she found when she stopped looking for wisdom elsewhere and went searching for her own roots instead. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:49 What do you do? 05:07 Democratising AI 10:22 What she learned organising citizens assemblies 15:27 Is AI something to be afraid of? 20:46 Outsourcing yourself to a machine 25:57 AI as an idea generator, not a replacement 28:11 Other ways of organising society 36:55 The stories underneath our systems 41:51 Remembering that she is also indigenous 44:00 Cyclical living and the seasons 48:38 What are rites of passage? 1:00:24 How to create a rite of passage for someone you love 1:06:58 What does a facilitator actually do? 1:09:23 A Sunday community ritual in Berlin 1:13:41 Where it all started 1:22:17 Family, roots and being a generalist 1:27:02 Navigating power in groups 1:32:53 Do you lose power by sharing it? 1:35:09 Is there hope for the world? 1:41:01 What is a vision quest? 1:54:33 Guiding vision quests today Follow Carolin on Instagram @carolin_goethel and visit carolingoethel.com Follow me on Instagram @olivierpassebecq and visit olivierpassebecq.com

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  “Your Deepest Wound Is Where Your Power Lies” On Building Movements With Integrity

  Jun 22, 20261h 40m

  Makenzie Darling spent over a decade building campaigns that reached millions of people, from anti-bullying programmes with Major League Baseball and ESPN to a global kindness campaign that touched 125 countries. She later became chief of staff inside some of the fastest growing organisations in the psychedelic and consciousness space, helping build the systems, governance and community structures that took them from a handful of people to national scale. But her own path here started somewhere much harder: she grew up the black sheep of a family marked by addiction, and within months lost both her parents, her job and her health all at once. She rebuilt everything from there, and now teaches leaders and founders how to build movements instead of businesses, with a sharp focus on power, accountability and what it actually means to lead with integrity. This conversation is about what she learned from the inside of organisations that lived up to their values, and the ones that didn't. Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:04 What do you do? 03:12 Karmic assignment vs purpose vs passion 06:23 Psychedelic churches and the psychedelic renaissance 10:53 Becoming an entheogenic minister 12:10 From educational technology to movement building 14:58 It ends with me 17:28 The ayahuasca journey and the dam 21:15 Messiah complex and the ego in plant medicine 24:28 What is a movement maker? 26:46 Extraction dressed as devotion 28:37 Patagonia and corporate movements 32:54 Power literacy and decentralisation 37:59 Does power corrupt? 41:30 Inside the incubator 44:50 Ancestral healing and epigenetics 50:28 Her mother's addiction and death 51:44 Riches to rags and accessibility in healing 59:51 Community, loneliness and rebuilding 1:04:42 Designing for belonging 1:11:07 Cultural appropriation in psychedelics 1:13:58 The Enneagram 1:18:10 Faith, God and reclaiming the word 1:21:34 Cults vs movements 1:25:35 Being let down by spiritual leaders 1:32:17 Holding both the genius and the flaws 1:38:06 Closing reflections Follow Makenzie on Instagram @global_movement_maker and visit globalmovementmaker.com Follow me on Instagram @olivierpassebecq and visit olivierpassebecq.com

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  Cold Water for Resilience, Creativity and Learning to See Yourself with Love | Sara Barnes

  Jun 4, 20261h 18mS0

  <p>Sara Barnes is a published author, a Level 2 Open Water Swim Coach and one of the UK's most recognised voices on cold water immersion. Based in the Lake District for nearly three decades, she has written three books, The Cold Fix (Vertebrate Publishing), The Winter of Our Lives (HarperCollins) and Where the Beck Flows, the first release on her own independent press CROOKED LAKE. She has written for Outdoor Swimmer magazine and the Outdoor Swimming Society, made three short films including the award-winning Dear Heart and Skinny, and was featured on the 2021 BBC series The Lakes with Simon Reeve.<...

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  “What Growing Up in Iran Taught Me about Freedom and Desire” | Safa

  May 18, 20261h 28mS0

  <p>Safa grew up in Tehran in a deeply religious and restrictive culture where desire was taboo and her body never felt like her own. Today she coaches bold leaders to transform their relationship with intimacy, recognising it as the untapped key to their power, creativity and impact, and she is writing a book about it.</p><p>This conversation is about what we inherit, what we carry in silence, and what becomes possible when we finally stop.</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters</p><p>00:00 Intro 01:28 Growing up in Tehran 06:18 Quietly rebelling 08:37 Religion and the bubble 15:46 Sexuality and silence 19:56...

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