Walking with Jaguars

Matt Blanco
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Every week, we dive deep into the creativity and resilience of the human spirit, plant medicines and everything else that will lead to a life of self-discovery, freedom and good relations. Topics explored frequently: ancestral health & indigenous wisdom, ayahuasca, master plant dietas, spirituality, bitcoin and entrepreneurship in digestible ways to improve your life.

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    #11 - Matt & Emily - The Thousand Blessings of the Unknown

    In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with his wife Emily for a long-overdue life update - the story of packing up an entire life, leaving Costa Rica, and answering a seven-year call to the Peruvian Andes. From the expat comfort of Costa Rica to a self-governed indigenous community at 3,000 meters in the Sacred Valley of Peru, this is a conversation about what it actually takes to leap into the unknown - two cats, everything they own, visa battles and all. We dig into why Costa Rica stopped feeling aligned: the Americanized expat bubble, the highest pesticide use per capita in the world, the mold that comes with jungle humidity, and a cost of living that rivals the West. And we explore everything Peru has opened up: Quechua-speaking neighbours, offerings to the Apus on every mountain trail, markets exploding with produce, a culture where everyone is a producer instead of a consumer, and life in a place where ayahuasca and the medicine path are woven into the fabric of daily life. We also go deep on marriage. Why we chose matrimony over a government contract, merging our lineages with a barefoot wedding on the summer solstice, commitment in the age of hookup culture, and why your partner is the mirror that forces your evolution. Then there's the chaos: rejected visas, endless lawyers and paperwork, accidentally buying a farm, and the lesson that when spirit calls you onto a new adventure, it always comes with challenges you're not yet equipped for, but are absolutely capable of overcoming. The mind can always see the thousand fears. It can never see the thousand blessings. If you're standing on the edge of your own leap into the unknown - a move, a marriage, a new chapter - this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awaken the spirit: https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ Follow Emily's Socials: Instagram | Skool Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: Instagram | Twitter | Youtube

    #11 - Matt & Emily - The Thousand Blessings of the Unknown

  2. Mar 2

    #10 - Riki Bassic - From Fiat to Faith: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth

    In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Riki to explore what it means to wake up inside systems that no longer make sense, and why Bitcoin often becomes the first crack in the illusion. We begin with institutions. Government, money, education, media, and the quiet bureaucracy that seems to operate without consequence. We break down how short political cycles create short-term thinking, how unelected administrators hold real power, and why so much of modern life feels performative rather than accountable. From there, we move into money and incentives. Inflation, debt culture, credit expansion, and the illusion of wealth. We talk about what happens when you start questioning the monetary system, how Bitcoin reframes time preference and sovereignty, and why opting out can feel like regaining clarity rather than making a financial bet. The conversation deepens into plant medicine. Riki shares his first ayahuasca ceremony and how it confronted him with blind spots around love, fatherhood, and self-worth. Finally we explore faith. Riki describes how ayahuasca unexpectedly brought him into Christianity, not through doctrine or performance religion, but through direct experience. If you want a grounded conversation about institutional illusion, Bitcoin as a realignment tool, plant medicine, faith, family, sovereignty, and long-term thinking, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Riki's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube | Website

    #10 - Riki Bassic - From Fiat to Faith: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth

  3. Feb 23

    #9 - Aga Akaiyah Fortune - Detoxing the Mind, Body and Spirit with Kambo

    In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Aga, also known as Akaiyah Fortune, to explore Kambo as both a physical medicine and a consciousness practice, and what it looks like to work with it responsibly. We dive into physical detoxification and what people are actually carrying in their systems. Candida overgrowth, mold exposure, heavy metals, parasites, and how compromised detox pathways can impact mood, energy, clarity and resilience. Then we dive into the wonderful world of Kambo. Aga explains how Kambo interacts with the body’s detoxification pathways through peptide signaling. We break down preparation and integration, contraindications and unpack a controversial but important topic: tapering off SSRIs and opiates with the support of Kambo. From there, we zoom out to ethics and access. We talk about the current free for all with psychedelics, potency culture, bad dosing advice, and why proper screening and guidance matter more than ever. We also explore the tension between lineage and direct revelation, when tradition is essential, and when the plants can teach you directly, which is a topic I love to ponder. Finally, we bring it home to voice and creativity. Aga shares her journey of vocal liberation, how years of inner work opened the channel, and how healing eventually becomes play. We talk about why music and medicine are inseparable, how sound moves energy in ceremony, and what it means to finally live as an artist. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Aga's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Ceremonies | Music | Candida Cleanser Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #9 - Aga Akaiyah Fortune - Detoxing the Mind, Body and Spirit with Kambo

  4. 12/22/2025

    #8 - Bram Kanstein - Beyond Bitcoin: Freedom, Plant Medicines and Universal Truth

    In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Bram to explore what sovereignty actually means when you stop treating it like a financial concept and start living it as a moment to moment practice. We unpack why Bitcoin is not the destination, it is the anchor. Bram breaks down how Bitcoin creates a shared, verifiable truth in a world of narratives and manufactured uncertainty. We talk about why sovereignty is really the ability to make conscious choices, why outsourcing your decisions is the quiet form of slavery, and how opting into responsibility is the only way out. We also bridge Bitcoin, plant medicine, and the importance of having children despite fiat money being one of the greatest spiritual crimes of the modern era. If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin, truth, sovereignty, plant medicine and building a life with clarity and responsibility, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Bram's Socials: Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Youtube | ⁠⁠Retreats Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #8 - Bram Kanstein - Beyond Bitcoin: Freedom, Plant Medicines and Universal Truth

  5. 12/14/2025

    #7 - Nell Hunter - Building Bitcoin Communities

    In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Nell Hunter to unpack what it actually takes to build a real Bitcoin circular economy and live with sovereignty in a world designed to make people outsource their power. We dig into the Bitcoin Basin in Queenstown, New Zealand and why building peer to peer community is both inspiring and brutally hard. Nell breaks down how circular economies solve the chicken and egg problem, HODL vs spend, and how 43 local businesses accepting Bitcoin becomes a living proof point that the money can work in real life, not just on Twitter. From raw milk regulations to cash bans to broken incentives in farming and business, we explore how central planning quietly rewrites entire economies one rule at a time. The thread running through it all is simple: when you insert a third party into every transaction, you delete the free market and you delete responsibility. Finally, we bridge Bitcoin and plant medicine as parallel initiations. Both demand proof of work. Both reveal how much you cannot explain to people who have not lived it. And both push you toward the same destination: radical responsibility, clearer perception, and a life you actually chose. If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin adoption, circular economies, sovereignty, and the deeper psychology behind why people refuse to see what is right in front of them, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Nell's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Basin Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #7 - Nell Hunter - Building Bitcoin Communities

  6. 11/30/2025

    #6 - Brett Higson - The Immaculate Choice of Bitcoin

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #6 - Brett Higson - The Immaculate Choice of Bitcoin

  7. 11/23/2025

    #5 - Emily Becker - What A Well Travelled Life Can Teach Us About Death

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Emily's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #5 - Emily Becker - What A Well Travelled Life Can Teach Us About Death

  8. 11/23/2025

    #4 - Steven Giannopoulos - Fighting Fires To Find The Temple Within

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Steven's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #4 - Steven Giannopoulos - Fighting Fires To Find The Temple Within

  9. 11/07/2025

    #3 - Sarah Connolly - Living A Life In Prayer

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠ Follow Sarah's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube

    #3 - Sarah Connolly - Living A Life In Prayer

  10. 10/31/2025

    #2 - Markos Sikiotis - The Brilliance of Master Plant Teachers

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/⁠ Follow Markos's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Youtube

    #2 - Markos Sikiotis - The Brilliance of Master Plant Teachers

  11. 10/29/2025

    #1 - Emily Hannah - Initiations into Remembrance

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/⁠ Follow Emily Hannah's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Skool Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Youtube

    #1 - Emily Hannah - Initiations into Remembrance

  12. 10/26/2025

    #0 - Matt Blanco - Where Ayahuasca meets Bitcoin

    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. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/⁠ Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Youtube

    #0 - Matt Blanco - Where Ayahuasca meets Bitcoin
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Every week, we dive deep into the creativity and resilience of the human spirit, plant medicines and everything else that will lead to a life of self-discovery, freedom and good relations. Topics explored frequently: ancestral health & indigenous wisdom, ayahuasca, master plant dietas, spirituality, bitcoin and entrepreneurship in digestible ways to improve your life.

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  • Creator
    Matt Blanco
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Matt Blanco 2025
  • Show Website
    Walking with Jaguars