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  1. 5h ago

    Feeding London’s Homeless for 40 Years – Paddy Boyle at The Manna Society

    What does a life of service actually look like? 🍲🤝 We go inside The Manna Society 🏠, a day centre near London Bridge and reportedly the oldest in Southwark. We sit down with Paddy Boyle, who has been there since 1986. Every day, Manna supports around 120 people who are homeless or in need, with six services under one roof: food, showers, clothing, housing and welfare advice, medical care, and access to computers. Paddy grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 and trained for the priesthood for five years with the Columban Fathers, a missionary order built on an “option for the poor.” When he left in ‘86, he walked into Manna wanting to work with people who needed it most. Forty years later, he still looks forward to Monday mornings. ✨ We cover: 🙏 Faith, purpose, and a relationship with God that “ebbs and flows”🏠 What it takes to run six services for 120 people a day🎄 The former rough sleeper from Belfast who received a £10 note at Manna’s Christmas dinner, and years later came back with £4,000 to give every guest £20💷 Why finance matters, and the simplest ways listeners can help🥫 The partners keeping Manna open: Southwark Council, The Fishmongers’ Company, FareShare, M&S and local churches, StreetSmart 📰 Why you shouldn’t let the news skew your view of the world, because most people are good💪 Resilience on the streets, and why every journey out of homelessness is different🌱 Life as a gift, and committing yourself to something that does good 💛 Support The Manna Society 🌐 Website: https://mannasociety.org.uk💷 Donate money: https://mannasociety.org.uk/support-us/donate-money/🥫 Donate food & clothing (see the most-needed items list): https://mannasociety.org.uk/support-us/donate-items/🙋 Volunteer in the kitchen or IT: https://mannasociety.org.uk/support-us/volunteer-for-us/ 🙏 A huge thank you to StreetSmart StreetSmart helps people experiencing homelessness across the UK by uniting the hospitality industry behind a simple idea. 🍽️When you eat at a participating restaurant, £1 is added to your bill, and 100% of it goes to local homeless charities.It costs the restaurants nothing, and its SleepSmart scheme now lets hotel guests give the same way. 🛏️Through trusted partners nationwide, that money turns into shelter, support, and a path to a brighter future. Special thanks to Kimberley Coke, StreetSmart’s Head of Comms, for arranging this interview. ❤️ 🌐 https://www.streetsmart.org.uk💷 Donate: https://justgiving.com/charity/streetsmart ❤️‍🔥 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 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: The Manna Society · StreetSmart · Kimberley Coke · Columban Fathers · St Vincent de Paul (SVP) · London Borough of Southwark · The Fishmongers’ Company · FareShare · Marks & Spencer · Peckham · Belfast

  2. Oct 23

    The world of politics with Anish Gawande, a national spokesperson of India’s Nationalist Congress Party (SP)

    What does it really take to be a good politician? 🏛️❤️ We sit down with Anish Gawande in his home in Mumbai 🇮🇳🏡. He’s a national spokesperson of India’s Nationalist Congress Party (SP), the first openly gay national spokesperson of any major Indian party, and our first ever politician on the show. Most nights he’s on prime-time Indian TV defending his party’s line in the 9pm debates. Most days, by his own account, he feels “more like a telephone operator than a politician.” 📞 This isn’t a conversation about party lines. It’s about care: why listening so people feel heard matters more than having the answer, why you can’t fake following up, and why the people who last longest in politics are the ones who know when to stay quiet. 🎓 Anish studied comparative literature at Columbia and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He’s the grandson of T.K. Tope, a Sanskrit scholar and law professor who assisted Dr B.R. Ambedkar on the Indian Constitution. He only got to know his grandfather through his writing. ✨ He founded Pink List India, an archive of Indian politicians who’ve backed LGBTQ+ rights. And he says a thesis on language politics in 1960s Senegal turned out to be the most useful preparation for India’s language wars. We cover: 📞 Why his days look more like a switchboard than a parliament, and why he loves it🏙️ His dream job: city councillor for Ward 225, turning Kala Ghoda into Mumbai’s Le Marais🎭 Why India needs an “Indian Cultural Service”💧 The man on the 40-foot water tank, and the five days of follow-up that changed his life🤝 “Slow Clout”: favours, barter, and why politicians are the world’s oldest influencers⏳ How his 85-year-old boss has stayed in the headlines for 60 years, 12 of them out of power🧘 Negotiation lessons: never negotiate angry, take your time, and keep your cards close🪳 The Cockroach Janata Party: 25 million followers overnight, and an introvert learning to lead a crowd🔥 “The worst communicator is a bored communicator,” and why wonder is the secret🤖 AI as a new industrial revolution: from exploitation to irrelevance, and putting joy first🏺 Pottery, touching grass, and why joy should become a currency ❤️‍🔥 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 💛 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: Anish Gawande · Nationalist Congress Party (SP) · T.K. Tope · Dr B.R. Ambedkar · Kalidasa’s Meghadutam · Columbia University · University of Oxford · Pink List India · Kala Ghoda · Le Marais · Andrew O’Hagan · Caledonian Road · Abhijeet Dipke · Cockroach Janata Party · Jalgaon · Pune · Yuval Noah Harari · Karl Marx · T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

  3. Oct 16

    Entrepreneur Belle Hutt on Living With Narcolepsy & Building a 5K+ Subscriber Community

    What happens when the thing that should have held you back becomes the reason you build something? 💪✨ We sit down with Belle Hutt, a fitness entrepreneur and the world’s leading narcolepsy influencer, who was diagnosed at 17 and told there was no cure and it would only get worse. 😴 At the time she was falling asleep 14 times a day: in class, in the car, even standing up. Her doctor told her to rest. Instead, she ran a 10K, and her parents said, “Our little girl is back.” 🏃‍♀️ When COVID hit, she dragged the bed out of her Amsterdam flat, turned the bedroom into a studio and went live three times a day for free. 🏠 Over 1,000 people joined her first UK session. Eleven weeks later, more than a thousand signed up overnight to a paid private Instagram, with her husband staying up at night matching payments to usernames by hand. That money built the app. Today she has more than 5,000 paying members, a WhatsApp community that cheers every workout, and her first in-person retreat behind her. 📱❤️ This isn’t really a conversation about fitness. It’s about energy, the people you keep around you, and why being awake is the most incredible feeling in the world. We cover: 🧠 What narcolepsy actually is, and why Google gets it wrong😴 Hallucinations, sleep attacks, and stroking chips on a napkin thinking it was mayonnaise🏃‍♀️ The 10K that went against her doctor’s advice and changed her life💍 Meeting her husband Michael in an Austrian ski bar, and the dinner that won her mum over📹 Sharing videos of herself falling asleep, and why they’re for people with narcolepsy🏠 COVID, a bedroom studio, and 1,000 people going live overnight💸 Going from free classes to a private paywall to building her own app🧘‍♀️ “Just Starters”: why you only have to stand on your mat☀️ The five basics: sunlight, movement, better food, less alcohol, less stress 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion ❤️‍🔥 Loved this episode? ✨ Like, Share, and Subscribe to support bold, heart-led conversations.

  4. Oct 14 ·  Bonus

    A Hello From Your Host: 1.5 Million People Update, 55 Worlds, and What’s Next

    After 55 episodes exploring everything from espionage to ceramics, it’s time for a proper hello. Arthur Lonsdale shares how Pitching Passion reached over 1.5 million people in September alone, after switching to 90-second behind-the-scenes videos that take you inside fascinating worlds. We look back at the topics so far, from psychedelics, quantum computing and the afterlife to breathwork, backgammon and rainforests, and share what’s coming next. In this episode: How a change in content strategy took us to 1.5M+ people in one monthA look back at 55 episodes and the worlds we’ve exploredWhat’s coming next behind the scenesHow you can help the show grow Donate Here: https://studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard Email Feedback Here: arthur@thekollective.club Know a brand, place or person that deserves the spotlight? Work in PR? We’d love to hear from you: arthur@thekollective.club Follow us 📲Instagram: @pitchingpassion | @hitbypassion Support the show ❤️If you enjoy Pitching Passion, even £1 a month helps keep the episodes coming: patreon.com/TheKollective828 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion ⭐ Enjoying the show? Rate, review and share an episode with a friend. It helps more than you know.

  5. Oct 9

    What Does Music Give People with Award-Winning Songwriter Ankur Tewari

    What Making Music Is Actually Like with Award-Winning Songwriter Ankur Tewari  What does it actually feel like to write a song? 🎵✨ We sit down with Ankur Tewari — one of India's most celebrated singer-songwriters, lyricists, and music supervisors — for one of the most honest and quietly extraordinary conversations we've had on this show. Born in Brussels, raised on mixtapes of Dire Straits, ABBA, Boney M, Jagjit Singh and Mehdi Hassan, Ankur has spent nearly three decades turning feelings into songs that find their way into people's lives at the exact moment they need them most. A cancer patient listening through chemo. A heartbroken person who couldn't explain what they were going through until they heard a lyric. Half a million+ people a month finding themselves in his music. 🎶🌍 This isn't a conversation about the music industry. It's a conversation about what music actually is — and why the most honest songs are always the ones that travel furthest. 🎵 Ankur Tewari graduated from IHM Bhopal in hotel management before following the only thing that ever really made sense: music. Since 1998 he has been one of India's most versatile creative forces — a singer-songwriter performing with his live band The Ghalat Family, a sought-after music supervisor, and a lyricist whose work has shaped some of the most culturally significant projects in Indian cinema and television. His music supervision and sonic architecture for Gully Boy (2019) opened the floodgates to India's hip-hop revolution, winning him two Filmfare Awards — Best Music Album and Best Lyrics for Apna Time Aayega. He is the creative architect behind Coke Studio Bharat Seasons 1 and 2, where the song Khalasi entered the global Spotify charts and won a Bronze at Cannes Lions for diversity and inclusion through music. His credits span Amazon originals Gehraaiyaan and Made in Heaven, Netflix originals The Archies and Kho Gaye Hum Kahaan, and a small but unforgettable appearance on the set of Slumdog Millionaire with director Danny Boyle. He has played SxSW Austin, the Oscar South Asia gala at Paramount Studios in LA, and a sold-out six-city US tour. His new album Mr. Farek is a meditation on procrastination, daydreaming, and the lost art of doing nothing. We cover: 🎵 What music actually is — not an industry or a career, but the closest thing humans have to time travel, and why it makes you feel less alone in the world 🧠 The creative process from the inside — the meditative, trance-like state where a conversation at a bar, an image on the street and a feeling in your stomach suddenly meet and become a song 😰 Anxiety, grief and the song Asma Mile — how Ankur turned his own anxious period into a lyric about an uninvited guest that moves in and starts demanding rent 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥 FULL EPISODE LISTEN HERE ❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion 🍫 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk 🍫 ❤️‍🔥 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 🙏 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: Ankur Tewari · The Ghalat Family · Danny Boyle · Leonardo DiCaprio · Dire Straits · ABBA · Boney M · Joe Dassin · Jagjit Singh · Mehdi Hassan · Anand Shankar · Gully Boy · Slumdog Millionaire · The Archies · Kho Gaye Hum Kahaan · Gehraaiyaan · Made in Heaven · Coke Studio Bharat · Mr. Farek · Asma Mile · Apna Time Aayega · Khalasi · IHM Bhopal · Brussels · Belgium · India · Filmfare Awards · Cannes Lions · GQ India · Zee Cine Awards · Screen Awards India · Mirchi Music Awards · NH7 Weekender · VH1 Supersonic · Kalaa Utsavam Singapore · SxSW Austin · Paramount Studios · Amazon · Netflix · Spotify · Fisher-Price

  6. Oct 2

    Creator Marketing & Making Brands Thrive with Edward East, Founder of Billion Dollar Boy

    What does it actually take to make a brand impossible to ignore — and why are so many of the world's biggest names still getting it completely wrong? Edward East is the founder of Billion Dollar Boy Group, a global leader in creator-led brand building that he has grown from a two-part startup in 2014 to one of the most awarded and fastest-growing social agencies in the world. With over £50 million in revenue, 200+ people, and campaigns running across multiple global markets, BDB has become the agency of choice for brands including Heineken, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, and L'Oréal. BDB Group brings together three distinct businesses: Billion Dollar Boy, the global social agency with Creator Instinct® at its core; FiveTwoNine, the world's largest platform and community for creator entrepreneurs; and Companion, BDB's proprietary AI-powered influencer marketing platform. Named Social and Creator Agency of the Year by both Adweek and The Drum in 2025, and recognised in the Financial Times 1000 fastest-growing companies in Europe for the fifth consecutive year, Ed's group is defining what modern brand marketing looks like. We cover: 📱 Why brands have shifted from TV-led to social-first — and what it actually means to build a social-led brand with creators at the heart of it 📊 The insight from 5,000 creator-led assets: why leading with your product kills reach by 40%+, and what to do instead 🎯 How to brief creators effectively — freedom within a framework, and why your job is only 50% of the final output 🏆 Campaign case studies: taking Lipton from the 21st to the 4th most talked-about brand globally, the Arg Haus mockumentary for Argos, and the Ikea x Chupa Chups April Fool's collaboration 🤖 How AI is accelerating the creator economy and giving more power to individuals 🌍 The global-to-local challenge — how BDB solved it for Lipton across multiple markets simultaneously 🛠️ Companion, FiveTwoNine, and how BDB is building infrastructure for the creator economy 💡 Entrepreneurship lessons: sensible risk, why the path to success is always squiggly, and why focusing on what's going right beats obsessing over what isn't 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion This episode is proudly sponsored by Audrey's Chocolates — use code thekollective10 for a discount on your order. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review — it means everything to independent podcasts like ours. 🙏 ❤️‍🔥 Support Pitching Passion on Patreon Get early access to episodes, exclusive content, and help us keep the show going: patreon.com/TheKollective828 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: Edward East, Billion Dollar Boy (BDB), Billion Dollar Boy Group, FiveTwoNine, Companion, Heineken, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, L'Oréal, Garnier, Lipton, Argos, Arg Haus, Ikea, Chupa Chups, Quaker Oats, Thomas Straker, All Things Butter, Hugo Philip, Cool Pancake, Trip (drinks brand), Kendall Jenner, Douglas Booth, Red Bull, Amazon, Tesco, Cannes Lions, Campaign Awards, The Drum, Webby Awards, Shorty Awards, Adweek, IPA Effectiveness Accreditation, Financial Times 1000, Global Influencer Marketing Awards, South by Southwest, Cannes, Meta, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Vine

  7. Sep 25

    What Is Quantum Computing, What Is AI Really, & How Is the World About to Change? with Tech Investor Daniel Doll-Steinberg

    What if everything we currently know about computing, intelligence, and the nature of the universe is just the tip of the iceberg — and we're about to go much, much deeper? Daniel Doll-Steinberg is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the most prescient minds working at the intersection of quantum computing, AI, and the future of humanity. He has spent nearly three decades riding — and calling — the biggest waves in technology: from the early internet to blockchain, from AI to quantum. He created one of the first global standards for digital rights management, transforming the software and gaming industries. He was the first co-founder of the Atari Token Project — a groundbreaking metaverse project built with Atari, an Ethereum founder, and gaming legends. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as the British government's representative to the European Commission alongside the Chairman of Rolls-Royce. He is now co-founder of Eden Base and Q Base, an ecosystem and fund investing in quantum technology, and the author of Unsupervised — ranked one of the best books of 2023 by Bloomberg. His latest investment: Quantinuum, one of the most significant players in the quantum computing space. We cover: ⚛️ What quantum computing actually is — and why it's not a faster computer but an entirely different kind of machine 🌊 The tech investment cycle — how Daniel timed the internet, blockchain, AI, and now quantum, and why 2026–2032 is the window 🤖 Why AI is not intelligent — it's a tractor, not a horse, and what that really means for the jobs it will replace 💼 The coming collapse of the professional job market — lawyers, doctors, accountants, consultants — and why nobody in power is preparing for it 🎓 Why the education system is dangerously unfit for the world being built right now 🔬 What quantum unlocks for humanity — personalised medicine, materials science, drug discovery, and weather modelling 🌌 The deepest question: what quantum plus AI might tell us about consciousness, sentience, energy, and the true nature of the universe 💰 How Eden Base invests — the six-year fund, bottleneck strategy, and why the National Wealth Fund of the UK uses their thesis map 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion This episode is proudly sponsored by Audrey's Chocolates — use code thekollective10 for a discount on your order. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review — it means everything to independent podcasts like ours. 🙏 ❤️‍🔥 Support Pitching Passion on Patreon Get early access to episodes, exclusive content, and help us keep the show going: patreon.com/TheKollective828 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Eden Base, Q Base, Quantinuum, Cambridge Quantum, Atari Token Project, Atari, Ethereum, Unsupervised (book, Bloomberg 2023), Richard Feynman, IBM, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Level 39, Tech Nation, Rolls-Royce, European Commission, National Wealth Fund (UK), Volkswagen, Microsoft, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, Eric (Edenbase partner), Ptolemy, Newton, Einstein, Vermeer / FrontPage, My Chemical Romance, Oasis, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, Google, Facebook, Meta, Anthropic, Venture Capital, Tech, Investing

  8. Sep 21

    Becoming India's Most Googled Woman - Actress Anveshi Jain

    What does it actually feel like to become the most searched name in a country of 1.4 billion people? 🔍✨ We sit down with Anveshi Jain — actress, entrepreneur, and one of the most recognisable names in Indian entertainment — for a conversation about fame, self-belief, and what happens after the world starts watching. In 2019, Anveshi became the most Googled woman in India after her breakout role in Alt Balaji's hit web series Gandii Baat (Season 2) sent her into overnight, nationwide stardom. But it took 720 failed auditions to get there, and she's spent every year since figuring out what to build on top of that recognition. 📚 Anveshi trained as an engineer and holds an MBA before pivoting fully into acting, music, and content. She's delivered close to five TED Talks, including one on sex education for young people and a widely resonant talk on touch starvation in men titled "We Don't Really Know The Men We Love." Beyond acting, she's a recording artist, is currently writing a book, developing a new TV series, and created the mobile-shot narrative series Main To Museebat Hu — nine episodes, 70 million views, no crew, no tripod. She talks candidly about what fame actually gave her (and what it didn't), the cultural pressure to "underplay" her success to stay marriageable, and how she rebuilt her own sense of self-trust from the ground up. We cover: 🎬 720 rejections before Gandii Baat changed everything overnight🔍 What it's really like to become the most searched woman in India — and why it didn't fix what she expected it to🗣️ Her TED Talk on touch starvation in men, and what she learned making it✍️ Why she's writing a book mid-heartbreak, against everyone's advice🌍 Meeting Drake (Champagne Papi) and what he told her about self-worth🧘 Her three go-to meditation practices — six-phase meditation, EFT tapping, and heart-focused stillness💍 The cultural pressure to "underplay" success so she stays marriageable🎭 Building a character from childhood memory, using acting techniques inspired by Money Heist🩺 Living with a health condition that requires check-ups every six months — and what she's learned about resilience because of it 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 https://linktr.ee/pitchingpassion 🎁 Listeners get 10% off using the code thekollective10 at audreyschocolates.co.uk 🛍️ WANT MORE OR TO SUPPORT? 👉 Become a patron and get exclusive access & behind-the-scenes perks:www.patreon.com/TheKollective828 💎 ☕ Want to make a one off donation to support the show 🙏 : https://buymeacoffee.com/pitchingpassion Mentions: Anveshi Jain · Alt Balaji · Gandii Baat · Oprah Winfrey · Drake (Champagne Papi) · Jay Shetty · Money Heist · NSD Pune (National School of Drama) · Main To Museebat Hu · Jeremy Clarkson · Pranjal (brother) · Martin · Commitment · Ramar on Duty · Dragon · Tera Chalava · Who's Your Daddy · Judaa · Gudiya Ki Chaali · Boss · Mumbai · Birmingham · France

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    Pitching Passion
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    2024 - 2026
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