The WakeUp Protocol

Nadja Haldimann
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Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right! The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught. Hosted by Nadja Haldimann, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix. Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true. This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed. If you’re waking up... welcome home.

  1. 4D AGO

    024 ~ Zach Bloom ~ Starved for Connection: Awakening Through Sobriety, Surrender & Inner Truth

    In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Zach Bloom, high-performance coach, and a man who knows firsthand what happens when the religion of perfection finally collapses. Zach’s path began in elite hockey and high achievement, where success was always just one finish line away, and peace never arrived. Beneath the striving lived a deep hunger for connection, belonging, and relief from the constant pressure to perform. His awakening came through contrast. Through addiction, sobriety, and the slow dismantling of an identity built on winning, striving, and self-abandonment. What alcohol once offered in fleeting moments of ease and connection, Zach eventually learned to access through recovery, meditation, and deep inner work. When everything fell apart, something far more honest came online. Together, Nadja and Zach explore what it means to wake up inside a culture obsessed with achievement. They talk about sobriety as a spiritual path, the wounded masculine, and the quiet grief beneath perfectionism. Zach shares how the 12 steps became a framework not just for recovery, but for mysticism, leadership, and self-trust. And why real success is an inside job. This episode explores: ✨ Sobriety as a spiritual and relational practice ✨ The collapse of perfection and performance-based identity ✨ Addiction as a hunger for connection ✨ The wounded masculine and emotional honesty ✨ Recovery as remembering what was always there ✨ Meditation, surrender, and inner stillness ✨ Leadership rooted in service, not ego ✨ Redefining success beyond achievement Zach’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t always come through expansion. Sometimes it comes through surrender, through hitting rock bottom, and through choosing truth, presence, and service over striving. If you’re exhausted from chasing success, questioning who you are without achievement, or sensing that something deeper is calling you home… this episode is for you. The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter ☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations ☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.com Connect with Zach 🌿 website: ZachBloom.com 🌿 Instagram: instagram.com/zachbloomofficial 🌿 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zach-bloom 🌿 Facebook: facebook.com/zachjbloom Help Us Reach More People 💕 Share this episode with someone navigating recovery or burnout 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.com 💕 Rate and leave a review to help this work reach the people who need it Thank you for listening 🌿

    57 min

  2. JAN 14

    023 ~ Darek Mazzone ~ Music Opens the Heart: Awakening Through Rhythm, Trance & Community

    In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Darek Mazzone, Polish-born DJ, filmmaker, and cultural connector whose life has been shaped by the way music opens the heart. Darek’s journey began in communist Poland, secretly listening to records from Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, and Vietnam. Sounds that became portals into worlds he could feel long before he could travel to them. That early spark grew into decades of championing global music on Seattle-based radio station and online platform KEXP, and into a life devoted to listening as a spiritual practice. Darek’s awakening didn’t arrive in a single moment. It unfolded through travel, service, and deep presence. From humanitarian work in refugee camps in Jordan and villages in Nepal, to Sufi rituals in Morocco and Turkey, to the ancient musical traditions that inspired his nonprofit, SAMA: Music + Art Each chapter revealed music as something far older than entertainment, an ancient technology for healing, connection, and belonging. Together, Nadja and Darek explore music as medicine, the spiritual power of rhythm and trance, and how shared vibration dissolves separation and restores our sense of humanity. They talk about community, ritual, and why awakening so often happens together, on a dance floor, in ceremony, or in a single song that opens something inside of you. This episode explores: ✨ Growing up in communist Poland and secretly listening to illegal international music  ✨ Music as a lifeline, portal, and early form of awakening  ✨ Rhythm, trance, and embodied presence across cultures  ✨ Music as one of humanity’s oldest healing technologies  ✨ Humanitarian work, service, and what music restores in times of crisis  ✨ Community, ritual, and collective experience through sound  ✨ Listening as a spiritual practice in a noisy world  ✨ Human connection beyond language, borders, and belief systems Darek’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t only happen in silence, it can also happens in rhythm, in movement, and in remembering how to listen. If you’re longing for a deeper connection to your true self, meaning beyond words, or a more embodied way of experiencing the world, this episode is for you. The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter ☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations ☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.com Connect with Darek 🌿 KEXP: kexp.org 🌿 SAMA: Music + Art: samamusicarts.org 🌿 Film: SAMA To Listen: samamusicarts.org Help Us Reach More People 💕 Share this episode with someone who loves music and meaning 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.com 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need it Thank you for listening 🌿

    1h 1m

  3. JAN 7

    022 ~ Mary Cadera ~ The Happiness Trap: Awakening Beyond Achievement, Anxiety & False Safety with Mary Cadera

    In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Mary Cadera, a psychotherapist and longtime executive leader who listened when her nervous system told the truth her job could no longer hold. Mary spent years in high-profile roles doing meaningful work on paper… while living in a constant state of hyper-arousal. Always bracing. Always scanning. From the outside, it looked like success. Inside her body, it felt unsustainable. Her awakening wasn’t a single moment. It was a slow, honest realization that the cost of success wasn’t just time or energy, but sleep, presence, and safety inside her own body. What followed was a courageous, intentional transition out of corporate leadership and into work that aligns with her values, her purpose, and her capacity to feel regulated, connected, and at home in herself. Together, Nadja and Mary explore what it means to build a life that actually feels safe from the inside. They talk about nervous system regulation, the myth of constant happiness, money and safety, and why true fulfillment begins when we stop overriding ourselves and start listening. This episode explores: ✨ The nervous system cost of high-performing careers ✨ Hyper-arousal, vigilance, and chronic stress ✨ Burnout as a signal, not a failure ✨ Money, success, and the illusion of safety ✨ Listening to the body instead of overriding it ✨ Regulation as the foundation for alignment ✨ Redefining fulfillment beyond status or payoff ✨ Creating a life that feels safe, present, and true Mary’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like choosing yourself quietly, steadily, and for good. If you’re feeling the toll of chronic stress, questioning the pace of your life, or sensing that your work no longer matches who you’re becoming, this episode is for you. The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter ☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to support regulation and integration ☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.com Connect with Mary 🌿 www.cadera.me Help Us Reach More People 💕 Share this episode with someone navigating burnout or a career transition 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need it Thank you for listening 🌿

    58 min

  4. 12/29/2025

    021 ~ Remember Who You Are: An Akashic Forecast for 2026 with Ahna Hendrix

    2026 isn’t asking you to fix the world, it is however asking you to remember who you really are and act in accordance with your truth! In this special episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann is joined by spiritual guide, Akashic Soul Channel, and podcaster Ahna Hendrix for a rare and timely Akashic Records forecast for the year ahead. This conversation is not a typical prediction or trend report. Instead, it is a soul-centered transmission that invites listeners inward at a time when the outer world continues to feel unstable, loud, and uncertain. Through the Akashic Records, Ahna shares guidance for navigating 2026 as a foundational year. A year of returning to inner authority, cultivating self-trust, and learning how to stay anchored in love while collective systems continue to shift and break down. Together, Nadja and Ahna explore what it means to live from the inside out. To build resilience through self-connection. And to remember who you are, even when the world around you feels like it’s changing faster than you can keep up. In this episode, you’ll hear: The central theme the Akashic Records hold for 2026 and why returning to the self is essentialWhy fear is not the enemy and how it plays a role in collective awakeningThe energetic significance of mid-2026 and why self-care and community will matter more than everHow love is expressed not only through softness, but through boundaries, truth, and actionThe importance of community without losing discernment or sovereigntyWhy the future timeline is still open and how individual choice shapes what comes next This episode is an invitation. Not to escape what’s happening in the world, but to meet it from a grounded, embodied, and sovereign place within yourself. If you’ve been feeling the call to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with your own inner guidance, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are. The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: ☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice! ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to help you integrate what you’re learning. ☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.com Connect with Ahna: 🌿 Website: ahnahendrix.com 🌿 Events: ahnahendrix.com/events 🌿 YouTube: youtube.com/@AhnaHendrix Help Us Reach More People: 💕 Share it with someone who feels ungrounded or overwhelmed by the year ahead 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol podcast on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need it Thank you for listening! 🙏💕✨

    1h 10m

  5. 12/26/2025

    020 ~ Cori Lovejoy ~ Diversity is Our Strength: From Transphobia to Self Love

    In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Cori Lovejoy, a cultural connector, spiritual seeker, and deeply thoughtful human who has lived life on both sides of a binary most of us never question. Cori spent nearly five decades navigating the world in a male body while carrying a truth she didn’t yet have language for… a truth shaped by shame, fear, and relentless self-suppression. Her awakening didn’t arrive gently. It came through plant medicine, profound inner reckoning, and moments where staying alive required choosing courage over everything familiar. What followed was not just a gender transition. It was a spiritual one. A journey into self-love, embodiment, and what it truly means to be human in this world. Together, Nadja and Cori explore what it means to live beyond binaries, not only in gender, but in identity, belonging, and self-expression. They talk about shame and sovereignty, consciousness and contrast, and the quiet but radical power of choosing to stay, choosing to live, choosing to tell the truth. This episode explores: ✨ Living beyond binaries and prescribed identities ✨ Shame, self-suppression, and reclaiming sovereignty ✨ Living life in a male vs female body ✨ Awakening through courage and radical honesty ✨ Embodiment as a pathway to self-love ✨ The role of plant medicine in inner reckoning ✨ Choosing life when everything familiar falls away ✨ Style, art, and community as expressions of truth Cori’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t mean becoming someone new. It means allowing yourself to finally be who you’ve always been. If you’re questioning an old identity, navigating a transition, or longing to live with more honesty, softness, and courage, this episode is for you. The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: ☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice! ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to help you integrate what you’re learning. ☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.com Connect with Cori: 🌿 Instagram - Personal: @cori.lovejoy    🌿 Instagram - Community: @DressUpBellingham 🌿 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/corilovejoy Help Us Reach More People: 💕 Share it with someone who feels ungrounded or overwhelmed by the year ahead 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol podcast on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need it Thank you for listening 🌿

    59 min

  6. 12/17/2025

    019 ~ Erin Hilleary ~ The Art of Being Human: Awakening Through Consciousness, Emotion & Creative Flow

    In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Dr. Erin Hileary, a somatic therapist, transpersonal coach, artist, and lifelong explorer of consciousness whose path has been unfolding for more than two decades. Erin’s journey began back in her Burning Man days, when she first started tuning into energy, intuition, and the unseen patterns shaping a life. From Reiki and Vipassana meditation, to yoga, bodywork, and a doctorate in consciousness studies, to single motherhood, loss, and the kind of life initiation that asks you to use everything you’ve learned. Every chapter led her toward ONE embodied realization: Consciousness isn’t something you study. It’s something you live. Together, Nadja and Erin explore what it means to live awake in a world of constant stimulation, distraction, and disembodiment. They talk about emotional energy as creative fuel, belief systems as reality-shapers, and how learning to listen to the body becomes a direct path to truth, sovereignty, and aligned action. This episode explores: ✨ Consciousness as awareness and presence ✨ Emotional energy as fuel rather than something to suppress ✨ Somatic wisdom and the body as an access point to truth ✨ Flow state, creativity, and art as spiritual practice ✨ Yin and yang, masculine and feminine balance ✨ What it means to be human in the age of AI ✨ Tantra as devotion to life, not performance ✨ Living an “enlightened lifestyle” rather than chasing enlightenment Erin’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t come from transcendence or escape. It comes from inhabiting your life fully… body, breath, desire, and choice. If you’re feeling disconnected from your body, questioning your direction, or sensing that your creativity and presence want more space… this episode is for you. Connect with Erin 🌿 Website: erinsutra.com Explore Erin’s Work 🌿 Somatic therapy and transpersonal coaching 🌿 Consciousness studies and embodiment practices 🌿 Retreats, book clubs, and sacred site experiences The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter Receive grounding tools, nervous system support, and behind-the-scenes reflections: thewakeupprotocol.com Help Us Grow the Podcast 💕 Share this episode with someone navigating a life transition 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach more awakening souls Thank you for listening 🌿

    1h 1m

  7. 12/03/2025

    018 ~ Daniel Wise ~ The Road Home: Awakening Through Solo Travel, Sacred Texts & Listening Within

    Some humans move through the world with the kind of clarity you only earn by getting lost, turning inward, and listening to life in a whole new way. In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Daniel Wise, a coach, business consultant, traveler, and lifelong seeker whose awakening unfolded through decades of synchronicities, heartbreaks, spiritual books, and long stretches of alone-time traveling the world. Daniel’s path began with a simple invitation: “Pay attention!” From hitchhiking across France to sitting in Buddhist monasteries… from reading The Way of the Peaceful Warrior on a hostel floor to navigating the tender transitions of fatherhood, identity, and purpose… Every chapter brought him closer to ONE truth: The real journey is always inward! Together, Nadja and Daniel explore what it means to live awake in a world that constantly tries to pull us back to sleep.  How to trust intuition over logic, how to walk through uncertainty with curiosity, and how to take full responsibility for the life your soul is asking you to build. Daniel talks about: ✨ How travel can function as a rite of passage ✨ Escaping the “logical mind” and learning to feel again ✨ Synchronicities that confirmed his awakening ✨ Why many adults never complete a rite of passage ✨ Moving from victimhood to agency: “If it is to be, it is up to me” ✨ Conscious parenting and raising kids ✨ The role of meditation, journaling, and nature in staying aligned ✨ Redesigning identity and purpose as you approach midlife transitions Daniel’s story reminds us that awakening doesn’t require a single dramatic event. Sometimes it begins in the smallest pause… the space between breaths… the moment you stop forcing and start listening. If you’re navigating a transition, feeling the pull for something more, or sensing that an old identity no longer fits… this episode is for you.  Connect with Daniel 🌿 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/charityexecutivesearch/ Work with Daniel 🌿 Coaching for senior executives and leaders preparing for retirement, reinvention, and a more conscious next chapter The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter Receive grounding tools, energy practices, and behind-the-scenes updates: http://www.thewakeupprotocol.com Help Us Grow the Podcast 💕 Share this episode with someone navigating a life transition 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help this work reach more awakening souls Thank you for listening 🌿

    42 min

  8. 11/19/2025

    017 ~ Lee Kindell ~ The Recipe for Love: Awakening Through Harmony, Efficiency & Everyday Service

    Some humans radiate a frequency you can’t forget... equal parts joy, vision, and grounded love. They don’t just talk about possibility… they live it, breathe it, and build with it. This week’s guest, Lee Kindell is one of those rare beings. In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Lee Kindell, founder of MOTO Pizza, visionary entrepreneur, and joyful alchemist of service, creativity, and love. While most people were shutting down during the pandemic, Lee was opening up. What began as a small side project turned into a thriving movement. A community-centered Detroit-style pizza experience built around kindness, intention, and a 120-year-old sourdough starter named Betty. This conversation is about awakening through purpose, presence, and heart. Lee shares how his journey from running a youth hostel to building MOTO Pizza became a living practice of manifestation and love in action. He talks about the role of ayahuasca in his awakening, how he defines love as “harmony and efficiency,” and why positivity and laughter are the most powerful forms of service. Together, Nadja and Lee explore what it means to live awake in the modern world, to lead with joy, to stay curious in chaos, and to use creativity as a bridge between spirit and matter. Lee offers insights on: ✨ How humor and play can raise your vibration ✨ Turning challenge into creative purpose ✨ The role of service, community, and gratitude in awakening ✨ How humor and play can raise your vibration ✨ Manifestation through alignment, not control ✨ Bringing consciousness into business and everyday life Lee’s story reminds us that awakening isn’t just found in ceremony or meditation, it’s baked into the everyday acts of creation, kindness, and connection. This episode is for anyone learning to lead from the heart, to find purpose in the ordinary, and to remember that love in all its forms is the true recipe for life. Connect with Lee: 🌿 Instagram: @motopizzashop 🌿 MOTO Pizza: www.motopizza.com The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: Subscribe for updates, tools, and future episodes: http://www.thewakeupprotocol.com Help Us Grow the Podcast: 💕 Share it with three friends who need a reminder of what love in action looks like 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform 💕 Leave a review to help us spread the message Thank you for listening 🌿

    58 min
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Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right! The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught. Hosted by Nadja Haldimann, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix. Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true. This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed. If you’re waking up... welcome home.

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  • Creator
    Nadja Haldimann
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The WakeUp Protocol
  • Show Website
    The WakeUp Protocol

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