In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Hamid Jabbar, also known as the Mineral Shaman, to unpack why so many Westerners break down on the medicine path, and what actually has to be cleaned in the body before any ceremony can do its work.

From a career as an attorney with a string of letters after his name, to the Shipibo lineage deep in the Amazon, to founding the Huachuma Foundation in the Sacred Valley, Hamid has spent years tracing the overlap between minerals and plant medicine.We dig into why the same practices that heal a Shipibo elder can leave a Westerner dysregulated, how industrialized food, pharmaceuticals and environmental toxins leave us depleted before we ever drink, and why Hamid came to believe that gray hair and baldness are signs of mineral imbalance rather than genetics.

The conversation deepens into Huachuma itself: why the cactus is being depleted faster than it is planted, where the powdered San Pedro sold online really comes from, and the conservation and ancestral nutrition work of the Huachuma Foundation. We also break down thirst, minerals and the body's ability to make its own water, dry fasting, Weston Price and ancestral eating, the paradigm collapse underneath the psychedelic legalization wave in Colorado, and why both men keep landing on the same truth: life itself is the most divine ceremony of them all.

If you want a grounded conversation about minerals, plant medicine, Huachuma, hair tissue mineral analysis, ancestral nutrition, water, mescaline, and why cleaning the vessel comes before the ceremony, this one is for you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Aaron to break down what sovereignty actually means when you stop treating money as a number in an account and start treating it as your time, your energy, and your freedom to say no.

From a kid in Canada who always sensed the money was broken but could never name it, to a hardcore Bitcoiner, prepper, and homesteader tinkering in the shop and chasing clean food. He dabbled in the stock market, lost, and realized the whole thing was rigged. He chased altcoins thinking he had already missed Bitcoin. Then the audiobooks, the meetups, and the slow build of conviction turned a sceptic into a self custody advocate who now sees the same corruption everywhere he looks.

We dig into why the money is broken: the bank fees that make no sense, the quiet truth that it was never your money, and inflation as a compounding theft you never feel because the number on the screen never changes. We break down quantitative easing, the illusion of choice between ten banks running one system, and why, in Matt's words, you think you are the customer when you are actually the thing being harvested.

From there we zoom out to the machine itself. We discuss the stock market as theatre, the 2008 bailouts, the Cantillon effect of being closest to the money printer, and the dark realization that taxes exist to destroy money the government already printed and spent.The conversation deepens into discernment. Follow the money and the whole show cracks open: pharmaceutical incentives, the climate narrative Matt sat through during his physics degree, the LED versus incandescent bait and switch, electric vehicle mandates, and crony capitalism dressed up as progress.

If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin, broken money, inflation, self custody, sound money, radical responsibility, discernment, sovereignty, community, and the link between fixing your money and reclaiming your health, this one is for you.

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In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Teo Pavlopoulos to unpack what it actually takes to break out of autopilot and start living your one life awake instead of on rails.

From a bro-science approach to health and growing up in Greece, to landing in Canada at 20 and feeling the rat race for the first time, to a mushroom ceremony in Belize that collapsed his entire sense of time, Teo now works as a consciousness guide with the NOAS Collective, helping high performers sync back up with their purpose. He is also a denturist by trade.

We dig into the autopilot: monkey see, monkey do, the routines that quietly swallow years, and why the mind is the last place anyone thinks to look for the problem. Teo breaks down the default mode network, the inner voice that believes it is you, and why so many driven people arrive at the goal only to find a book of bad jokes inside.

From there we get practical. We walk through the simple awareness practices that start to crack the autopilot open: using the car as a bubble of presence, setting alarms to catch where the mind actually is, and why meditation has to leave the cushion to be worth anything. We break down neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, how microdosing softens the path of least resistance, and why real change feels like walking a dirt trail until it becomes the new highway.

The conversation deepens into plant medicine and discernment. We talk psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca as a real intelligence that finds you at the right time, the danger of chasing ceremonies you are not ready for, why you cannot help anyone until they choose it, and the tree that grows in two directions: you cannot rise higher than you are willing to root down.

If you want a grounded conversation about the mind, the autopilot, the default mode network, microdosing, neuroplasticity, plant medicine, presence, and what it really takes to snap out of a life you never chose, this one is for you.

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