Pitching Passion

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...

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 mil...

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 ca...

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...

What does it take to turn a dying craft into a global art movement? 🔨✨ We're in New Delhi , inside the studio of one of the most extraordinary creative minds working today — a man who walked away from the world of finance to revive ancient Indian metalwork techniques, and ended up showing his pieces in the garden of Karl Lagerfeld's former home in Paris, on the cover of Vanity Fair , and...

What if your dentist could add years to your life? 🦷✨ We're in Tribeca, New York , inside one of the most extraordinary clinics in the world — a place where dentistry meets longevity science, and where a visit isn't only about drilling and filling, it's about uncovering the root cause of everything from brain fog and fatigue to snoring and cardiovascular disease. We sit down with Cod...

What happens when you take Hollywood-level talent management — the contracts, the standards, the deal-making — and drop it into the fastest-growing, most chaotic corner of the entertainment industry? Thomas Drachkovich has lived both worlds. After seven years at Amazon Studios across LA, Mumbai, and London — helping launch The Family Man, Four More Shots Please, and developing UK series including...

What does it actually take to throw a legendary party? 🎉✨ We sit down with William Bartholomew — one of Britain's most celebrated party organisers, with nearly five decades of experience and a client list that reads like a who's who of royalty, rock stars, and the world's most powerful institutions. He's the man you call when a marquee, a Michelin-starred caterer, and Elton John....

What does it really take to build a restaurant people choose as their favourite — not just the best they've ever been to? And what happens to a chef's world when the place he's poured 11 years into catches fire at 2am? Jun Tanaka is the Michelin-starred chef and owner of The Ninth on Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia, London — one of the city's most beloved neighbourhood restaurants an...

What does it really take to build a business from scratch, sell it for over $100 million, and then look the future of your entire industry in the eye?  Oli Marlow-Thomas founded Ad-Lib.io in 2017 as a sole founder, grew it into a leading Google-certified creative optimisation platform, and exited to Smartly in January 2022 — in just over five years. He's now Chief Innovation Officer at Smartly...

What if everything you believed about death, consciousness, and the meaning of life was wrong — and a brain surgeon could prove it? Dr Eben Alexander is one of the world's most credentialled neurosurgeons who spent over two decades training and practising at some of the world's top academic medical centres, including Harvard Medical School. In 2008, he fell into a seven-day coma caused by...

We sit down with Pandora Morris — former lawyer turned mental health expert, and founder of the Hurt to Healing podcast, which she launched in 2022 after realising there was nowhere she could turn to hear people talk honestly about what was going on in their heads. Since then she's built a community around exactly that, interviewing everyone from Ruby Wax and Joanna Lumley to neuroscientists a...

What does it actually cost to plan a wedding for people who already own five homes — and why is the best wedding she's ever been to a paper-tablecloth ceilidh at a cricket club? 💍✨ We sit down with Sarah Haywood — Britain's premier wedding planner, author of The Wedding Bible, and the woman CNN turned to as their bridal expert for the royal wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Th...

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 cr...

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, Badla...

What happens when a single psychedelic experience changes the entire course of your life? 🍄✨ 🎧🔥❤️‍🔥LISTEN VIA LINK IN BIO & -❤️‍🔥🔥🎧 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 mushroom...

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 deep...

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 a...

What does it actually take to build a relationship that lasts? 💑✨ We sit down with Julie Menanno — couples therapist, bestselling author of Secure Love , and one of the most followed relationship experts in the world with over 1 million followers . 💫 She's the woman couples turn to when they've tried everything and still can't stop having the same fight — and she has a remarkable gi...

What if the way you're breathing right now is holding you back? 🌬️✨ We sit down with Jamie Clements — breathwork specialist and founder of The Breath Workspace — to explore one of the most overlooked tools for human performance: the breath 💨. From managing anxiety and panic attacks as a young rugby player 🏉, to working with the likes of Channel 4, Meta, the Four Seasons, and Heineken — and...

What if you were forced to bank billions for the Mexican drug cartels while secretly working with the DEA? 🇲🇽💰 In this explosive two-part episode, Keith Bulfin shares how he went from running a boutique investment bank to becoming the financial architect for some of the world’s most dangerous cartels – all while secretly working with US authorities. 🕵️‍♂️ We dive into: How “creative banking” turn...

What does it take to be confident? 🪞✨ We sit down with Sheridan France inside her stunning London clinic 🏛️🌸 — one of the most respected facial aesthetics practitioners in the UK, with over 20 years of experience and a client list she can't talk about (but you can Google her mentor). She's the woman people fly across London to see when they finally want it done right , and the woman who...

Walking It Out: Pilgrimage, Singing and the Cure for Modern Disconnection with Dr Guy Hayward 🚶‍♂️🎤💫 🌿 Dr Guy Hayward reveals how ancient practices like pilgrimage and communal singing combat today's epidemic of isolation and disconnection.🛤️ From walking sacred routes to embracing ritual in nature, he shares actionable ways to reconnect body, soul, and community.🧠 Explore the science-bac...

What does it really mean to welcome someone to your restaurant — and to do it every day for over four decades? 🍽️🤝 We sit down with Sally Clarke inside her iconic Notting Hill restaurant, Clarke's (London) 🏡✨ — a place now serving the grandchildren of its original customers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. Sally takes us behind the scenes of a life built around seasonal menus that change every single service...

What really happens when someone leaves prison—and why a fixed address can be the difference between stability and sliding back into survival mode. 🚪🏠​Kingsley Bempah (CEO, ARK Resettlement Services) explains the “housing first” reality: without a home, people can struggle to access benefits, healthcare (GP), and safe supervision in the community. 🧾🩺​ In this episode, we explore how ARK suppor...