Bliss & Butter

In this episode, I sit down with Adrian Friedman once more — for a heartfelt conversation about the transformative power of music. What unfolds is a beautiful, honest exploration of how music can be a portal — for healing, for connection, and for remembering who we are. Adrian shares his journey from conventional music-making into a more spiritual and intuitive path, one deeply rooted in ritual, p...

Verena Garcia y Boullosa is a holistically oriented medical doctor and health influencer on a mission to help people live a healthier life, fight fatigue, and reclaim their full energy and potential. In this episode, we dive deep into holistic health, biohacking, and longevity. Verena shares her personal journey of healing, including overcoming severe gut issues and unlearning conventional medical...

Hylke Bonnema is one of the most experienced and pioneering Family Constellation facilitators in the Netherlands, with over 25 years of experience in systemic work. Originally trained as a psychologist and body psychotherapist, his journey into constellation work began as a personal healing quest—one that led him to study directly with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations. In this...

In this episode, my husband Kasper and I kick off our shared podcast! After lots of planning and requests, we decided to go live together for the first time, answering some of your questions. We cover a range of topics – from how to keep a sexy marriage alive while managing kids and two businesses, to deep dives on relationships and personal growth. We explore whether people are "meant to be" toge...

Adrian Freedman is probably one of the most versatile and inspiring musicians I have ever met. Starting piano lessons at the age of 5 and violin lessons at the age of 7, he’s evolved to a unique multi-instrumentalist that has studied many cultures and their musical heritage, and is now travelling the world to share his own. During our conversation, Adrian shares some of the wisdom he has gained fr...

Malou Dronkers is an artisan chocolate and cacao maker from Amsterdam. She’s the founder of the handrafted chocolate brand “Macaomovement” and the co-founder of Wild Child Cacao, a manufactory of 100% pure bean to bar cacao paste. It's not easy finding anyone more passionate and knowledgeable about the art of chocolate making, and hearing Malou talk about beans, bars, roasting, flavour profiles an...

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a well-known somatic practitioner, educator, author, podcaster and mother. Her work evolves around the themes of birth, motherhood, sex, relationships and trauma healing, with the aim of helping women to live a life of pleasure and power. In this podcast episode, we explore the challenges and needs of new mothers during the fourth trimester of their pregnancy - the postpart...

Victoria Etherington is a certified coach, specialising in supporting people in preparing for and later integrating psychedelic or other peak experiences. She is also the co-founder of Entheogenesis, a legal psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands with an in-depth 5 week preparation and integration programme supporting the experience itself.  She also works with breathwork and other somatic modaliti...

Susanne Roursgaard is the creator and founder of the The Gaia Method, with decades of experience as a practitioner, therapist, teacher, workshop leader, midwife, sexologist, family therapist and couples counsellor.  Her work evolves around  helping people shed blockages, old patterns, trauma and limiting beliefs that disconnect them from themselves and their bodies - through a combination of gentl...

Apparent UFO sightings and the question as to whether there is extraterrestrial life has been influencing humanity for as long as we can remember.  While some people think that it's a complete myth rooted in conspiracy theories, others believe that extraterrestrial beings are indeed living amongst us at this very moment, with either good or bad intentions - depending on who you ask. As a natural s...

Nicole Nyima Costerus has been studying and immersing herself in a wide range of different spiritual practices from around the world for many years now, which have brought her to many unusual places across the globe, and caused her to travel off the beaten path. In this episode, we talk about her recent initiation as a vodou priestess in the tradition of Benin of West Africa, her time in sacred di...

Hein Pijnnaken has been at the forefront of Microdosing education, research and destigmatisation since  founding the Microdosing Institute in 2017 together with his business partner Jakobien van der Weijden. The Microdosing Institute is a global platform for education, research and community, that aims to unite indigenous wisdom with modern science to enable responsible, conscious and effective mi...

Laura van der Vorst is a leading hormone health expert, certified functional nutritionist and successful wellness entrepreneur. She co-founded her first company healthcoachfx.com, which aims to help women find back into hormonal balance naturally, with her mother Petra in 2014, and recently became the co-creator of & a teacher at the Women Empowerment Coaching Certification Training. In this c...

Salman Hatta takes us on the journey from his head to his heart. Leaving his life as a well-paid, successful, yet unfulfilled professional at top notch investment banks and highly promising startups behind, he decided to walk a completely different path - lead by his heart's calling.   Nowadays, he’s a certified life and psychedelic integration coach, yoga teacher, somatic breathwork facilitator,...

Sexologist, psychologist, biohacker and author Anna Lindfors helps us gain a deeper understanding of sexuality, sensuality, womanhood and cycle based living in this episode - and the inherent interconnectedness of these concepts. Our conversation aims to explore and answer questions such as what stands in our way of experiencing sexual pleasure, whether women are by nature "less sexual" than men,...

Yarrow Willard, aka. the "Herbal Jedi" is probably one of the most knowledgable and enthusiastic herbalists out there - with mush-room in his heart for mushrooms. In this conversation, we dig deep into the mycelial layer of our planet and explore the magnificence of these age-old organisms that secretly run life on earth - whilst also being more than comfortable living in space! Get ready for some...

In this conversation Marie Terluin, who is trained in the QHHT regression technique by Dolores Cannon, takes me on a deep dive into the universe that is past life regression therapy. We talk about what to expect during a past life regression journey, its potential benefits with regards to personal development and deeper insight into your own being, and hear some anecdotal stories from Marije and h...

Men seem to think that we as women share all of our most intimate secrets with each other and that there's no taboo topics that sisters can't discuss. While this might be true at the individual level, this definitely doesn't hold up when it comes to the broader societal level of conversations around womanhood, women's health and the challenges of having a female body. In this w...

Marijuana is seen by many as a recreational drug - or substance of addiction and abuse. In this episode,  cannabis connoisseur Crue Kopecky and I explore a different perspective on the hemp plant and its high-enducing female flowers, and discuss its medicinal, spiritual and downright practical properties in a fun and light-hearted conversation. Our discussion touches upon the ways in which the pla...

Hello beautiful people and welcome to Bliss and Butter - the podcast where I interview experts and legends of all walks of life about science, health, spirituality, alternative healing modalities, the beauty and absurdity of life, the mysteries of the universe - and whatever else our conversations take us to.  As the listener, you’re invited to join us with an open heart and an open mind. I invite...