The Unfolding with Olivier

Makenzie Darling spent over a decade building campaigns that reached millions of people, from anti-bullying programmes with Major League Baseball and ESPN to a global kindness campaign that touched 125 countries. She later became chief of staff inside some of the fastest growing organisations in the psychedelic and consciousness space, helping build the systems, governance and community structures...

Sara Barnes is a published author, a Level 2 Open Water Swim Coach and one of the UK's most recognised voices on cold water immersion. Based in the Lake District for nearly three decades, she has written three books, The Cold Fix (Vertebrate Publishing), The Winter of Our Lives (HarperCollins) and Where the Beck Flows, the first release on her own independent press CROOKED LAKE. She has writte...

Safa grew up in Tehran in a deeply religious and restrictive culture where desire was taboo and her body never felt like her own. Today she coaches bold leaders to transform their relationship with intimacy, recognising it as the untapped key to their power, creativity and impact, and she is writing a book about it. This conversation is about what we inherit, what we carry in silence, and what bec...

Most men have been running the same script their whole lives. They just don't know it. Nico Kars is a conscious kink facilitator and co-founder of kinkHEARTED — "from the heart, from the start." But this conversation goes somewhere much deeper than kink. ◼ Why most men are wired to fail in bed without knowing it ◼ What slowing down completely changes in intimacy ◼ The one practice that transforms...

Khandiz Joni is a Chartered Environmentalist, systems designer, multidisciplinary artist and founder of REGENASYST, a pioneering set of imagination games helping organisations move beyond sustainability towards genuinely regenerative ways of being. She holds a certificate from Cambridge University's Institute for Sustainability Leadership and has spent over two decades working at the intersect...

What happens when you build the perfect life and feel completely empty inside? Simon J Lamb had the flat, the relationship, the well-paid job. He had done everything right. And he was experiencing the worst depression of his life. This conversation traces his journey back to aliveness. Through a seven day silent retreat where he discovered that depression is just anger without enthusiasm. Through...

Boryana Uzunova is a serial entrepreneur, sustainable fashion pioneer, Forbes 30 Under 30, TEDx speaker, and founder of The Nold — a circular fashion marketplace challenging how the world buys and sells clothes. She has partnered with Farfetch on an environmental impact tool still active on their platform, competed in the Harvard startup finals, and closed her biggest funding round hours after giv...

What is really happening inside men right now — and why neither politics nor pop psychology seems to have the answer. Andy Hix is a leadership coach who works with senior leaders at companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, JP Morgan and Lloyds. He runs corporate workshops on men's mental health, coaches high-performing leaders through burnout and emotional exhaustion, and gives talks on...

Echo Giesel Widmer has lost more than most people ever will. And she has never been more alive. A death doula, grief guide, somatic practitioner and DJ, Echo grew up surrounded by loss and chose to make death her greatest teacher rather than her greatest fear. In this conversation we explore what it means to truly grieve, why so many of us are sleepwalking through our own lives, and how facing mor...

Ellisiv Marley named her Instagram account "Life is Now Be Happy" the day she decided to keep living after losing her firstborn son. 150k followers later, she is a daily ice swimmer, sauna master and NLP coach helping high achievers find meaning and purpose again. In this conversation I with explore with her grief and how to carry it, the core belief that was quietly running her life for...

Haneen Khan went from corporate lawyer to sex and intimacy coach, not through a conventional path, but through her own journey of discovering that performance and people pleasing were keeping her from real connection. In this conversation we explore what actually makes intimacy work, why so many of us are measuring sex by completely the wrong metrics, and how the simple act of saying no might be t...

In this episode of The Unfolding, I sit down with Alec James, attachment and relationship coach and author of How to Date a Gay Man, for a deep and honest conversation about love, trauma, and healing in gay relationships. We explore why so many gay men struggle with intimacy, secure attachment, and emotional safety, and how growing up without relational mirroring often leads to shame, anxious–avoi...

Personal growth isn’t always clean or comfortable. In this conversation, we explore where it gets real. Olivier Passebecq and Nicholas Policarpio explore the profound themes of personal growth, healing, and the establishment of the Human Expansion School. They delve into the impact of corporate culture on well-being, the essence of Tantra, and the complexities surrounding consent and intimacy in m...

Many men are longing for connection, but don’t feel safe enough to reach for it. In this episode of  The Unfolding , Olivier Passebecq sits down with  Hans Van Veen , with whom he co-founded and has been hosting the global NVC Men’s Group for over five years. Together, they explore what it means for men to relate in today’s world. Touch, safety, vulnerability, fear, loneliness, conflict, and the q...