Pitching Passion

Hair Stylist to the Stars Greg Hill on the World of Hair and How to Make the Most of Yours

What would it mean to finally understand your hair — and know exactly what it can do? 💇✨ We sit down with Greg Hill — master stylist at the renowned Josh Wood Colour salon in London, and the man trusted with the hair of some of the most photographed women in the world. Greg has spent decades helping people discover what their hair is truly capable of, and in this episode he opens up about the craft, the psychology, and the surprisingly profound relationship between how your hair looks and how you feel about yourself. This isn't a conversation about trends. It's a conversation about understanding your hair type, working with what you have, and why a little know-how can go further than you'd ever expect. ✂️ Greg trained at the legendary Nicky Clarke salon, later styling hair for the likes of entrepreneur and icon Trinny Woodall for over a decade — helping to define one of the most admired hair looks in British media. An influencer of what Good Housekeeping has called the ghost wave, Greg built a loyal following through a social media channel that started as self-promotion and became something far more useful: a genuine education in hair. He visits clients at home, works from Josh Wood Colour, and has a reputation built entirely on results. We cover: 💇 Why understanding your hair type is the single most important thing you can do 🌊 The ghost wave — how Greg and Trinny accidentally created one of the most imitated looks around 🧠 Why hairdressers are amateur psychologists and what the chair reveals about people 🎤 From opera singer to master stylist — and why hairdressing was always the thing 🪞 The difference between a haircut that frames you and one that drags you down 📱 Why Greg's social media became an education channel — and what he's teaching people to do themselves 💡 Practical tips on volume, blow-drying technique, product, and protecting your hair from heat ❤️ What it means to truly see someone — and why a great stylist does far more than cut hair 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion [https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion] 🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk [https://audreyschocolates.co.uk/] 🛍️ 🔥 Fireside Chat 🔥 [TO BE ADDED] ❤️‍🔥 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 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 WANT MORE OR TO SUPPORT? 👉 Become a patron and get exclusive access & behind-the-scenes perks:www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion [https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion] Mentions: Greg Hill · Josh Wood Colour · Trinny Woodall · Nicky Clarke · Sam McKnight · Good Housekeeping · Diana · Christy Turlington · Naomi Campbell · Claudia Schiffer · Cindy Crawford · Iris Murdoch · Judi Dench · Instagram · YouTube

Making Movies That Last with Producer Sam Pressman

What does it truly take to keep a story alive — from the first spark of an idea all the way to an audience's memory? Sammy Pressman is a producer and the head of Pressman Film — one of independent cinema's most storied production companies. Founded in 1969 by his father, the legendary Edward R. Pressman, the company has produced over 100 films, including American Psycho, Wall Street, Badlands and The Crow, accumulating over two billion dollars in global box office revenue. Sammy now leads the company, continuing its tradition of bold, director-driven storytelling. Pressman Film was founded in 1969 by Edward R. Pressman — widely regarded as one of the great independent producers of his generation — after he made his first short film in London to a Beatles track and walked away with a three-picture deal. Sammy grew up in and around that world, went on to shoot behind-the-scenes footage on Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant and The Man Who Knew Infinity, and now runs the company his father built. Their latest film, Dead Man's Wire, directed by Gus Van Sant, premiered at Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is coming to Netflix. Learn more at pressman.com [https://www.pressman.com/] We cover: 🎬 How film serves as a collective dream machine — and why it matters more than ever 🔥 Growing up with Edward Pressman and what he meant when he said "films always matter" 💸 The reality of producing — raising money, burning it, and building something out of light 🌍 Why every movie is a miracle — and why you never really know what will connect 📱 Attention spans, the iPhone, and what independent film is up against 🤝 The future of fandom — blockchain, fan credits, and building real community around film 🎥 Behind the scenes of Dead Man's Wire with Gus Van Sant ❤️ The messages Sammy wants film to carry into the world right now 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 __ https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion [https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion] __ 🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk [https://audreyschocolates.co.uk/] 🔥 Fireside Chat with Sammy Pressman 🔥 🎬 Favourite scene in any film: Singin' in the Rain. Gene Kelly's dance. Just so joyful. 🎭 A character from a film you'd want to meet: Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange. To box him. 🌟 One thing you'd add to your bucket list: Having a child. Or winning something marvellous. Torn between the selfless and the purely egoic. ✅ One thing IN right now: Being a married man — and everything that holds. 🚫 One thing OUT: Unkindness. Very little patience for people who can't bring themselves to understand someone else. 🙏 Something to bring more gratitude to yourself for: How hard I work. The work that isn't complete is always louder than the work that is. I need to allow myself to not always be productive. ❤️‍🔥 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:patreon.com/TheKollective828 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion [https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion] Mentions: Sammy Pressman · Edward R. Pressman · Pressman Film · Gus Van Sant · Werner Herzog · Colman Domingo · Bill Skarsgård · Dacre Montgomery · Saar Klein · John Robinson · Oliver Stone · Terrence Malick · Wim Wenders · Dziga Vertov · Gene Kelly · Ben Affleck · River Phoenix · Matt Damon · Paul Williams · Neil Young · Roger Ebert · Edward Abbey · G.H. Hardy · Ramanujan · American Psycho · Wall Street · Badlands · The Crow · Bad Lieutenant · Dead Man's Wire · The Man Who Knew Infinity · Good Will Hunting · Elephant · Milk · True Romance · Wings of Desire · Tree of Life · The Sweet Smell of Success · A Clockwork Orange · Singin' in the Rain · The Man with a Movie Camera · The Monkey Wrench Gang · A24 · London School of Economics · Venice Film Festival · Toronto Film Festival · Netflix · Hollywood Forever

Psychedelics, Plant Medicine & Functional Chocolate with Funga Founder | Milana Abensperg und Traun

What happens when a single psychedelic experience changes the entire course of your life? 🍄✨ 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion [https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion] We 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.com This 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 [https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion] 🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk [https://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 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion [https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion] Mentions: 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

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

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 [https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion] 🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk [https://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. ❤️‍🔥 Loved this episode? ✨ Like, Share, and Subscribe to support bold, fearless conversations. WANT MORE OR TO SUPPORT? 👉 Become a patron and get exclusive access & behind-the-scenes perks: www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion [https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion] 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

Iconic ceramicist and entrepreneur Emma Bridgewater on making things that matter

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 ❤️‍🔥 Loved this episode? ✨ Like, Share, and Subscribe — and if this conversation gave you something, come join us on Patreon. WANT MORE OR TO SUPPORT? 👉 Become a patron and get exclusive access & behind-the-scenes perks:www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 [https://www.patreon.com/TheKollective828] 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion [https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion] Mentions: Emma Bridgewater · Stoke-on-Trent · Laura Ashley · William Morris · Guy Hayward · British Pilgrimage Trust · Victoria and Albert Museum · Wedgwood · Minton · Spode