# Mattias Desmet

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She Left It All for Bitcoin: The Ex-CMO's Journey to Financial Freedom | Efrat on “reDeFined” Podcast

Back in May 2026 I’ve been interviewed by Jeremy Almond, CEO of PayStand, on his podcast “reDeFind”. In his words: “In this episode, Jeremy sits down with Efrat Fenigson, host of the "You’re The Voice" podcast and former tech marketing executive, to explore the shift from corporate tech to Bitcoin…

Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time - Jack Klucznik & Nicholas Marino | Ep.162

What if Bitcoin is the only true measurement of time? Can it be the model of unification of time, energy, and memory? Jack Klucznik and Nicholas Marino are the co-authors of “Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time”, a 244-page paper that approaches Bitcoin through physics, treating it as a thermodynamic…

Break The Stake: How Corrupted Money Steals Your Energy - Jake Galt | Ep.163

Jake Galt is a recovering CPA turned author, marketer and entrepreneur who writes under a pen name borrowed from Atlas Shrugged. He began his career as an auditor and that front row seat to the hollowness of the fiat system sent him down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, first for the technology, then for n…

Canada's Controlled Demolition - Karla Treadway & Dave Bradley | Ep.164

Canada is being dismantled so fast it feels like a controlled demolition, a showcase of where Agenda 2030 wants to take the West. The country people once dreamed of moving to, with four people per square kilometer and nice neighbors, seems unrecognizable today. Karla Treadway is a writer, speaker, …

The Praxeology of Privacy: Cypherpunks Rebuilding the Internet - Max Hillebrand | Ep. 165

Max Hillebrand is a cypherpunk, crypto anarchist, and author of the new book “The Praxeology of Privacy”, a 587-page work bringing Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering together. He is a contributor to White Noise, a decentralized encrypted messaging app built on Nostr and the Marmot protoc…

Israel, Chronic Illnesses & Sovereignty - Matan Hakimi | Ep. 166

Matan Hakimi is the creator of "Gut feeling," Israel's most-listened-to independent health podcast, author of the book "Gut Rules," and many courses and retreats.. Diagnosed with colitis in his 20’s and told it was for life, he spent eight years on daily medication. At 28, he met a special healer, …

Is the West Out-Surveilling China? - Paul Walsh | Ep. 167

I call Paul Walsh a surveillance-tech whistleblower. Professionally he’s known as an independent technical expert on online safety, privacy, fraud, espionage and phishing, with global patents and advisory to agencies, governments & corporations. An early AOL pioneer, he co-invented the content labe…

Oct. 7 Aftermath: Trauma, Love & Israel’s Elections - Lino Hermesh | Ep. 168

Lino Hermesh lost his brother Omer, who was murdered in his home on October 7, 2023. He joins me again 3 years later to look at the aftermath: how tragedy amplified untreated traumas, mental state of survivors,  returned hostages and Israelis, why Lino stopped believing elections change anything, a…

Europe's Mass-Psychosis Getting WORSE | Prof. Mattias Desmet

The most fragile moment in 500 years of Western imperial dominance is also its most dangerous. As power slips away, the masses are forming into a new and frightening way. And it all has to do with psychology. Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"Presentation 3: Prof…

The Quiet Land Grab of America's Farms - Todd Weyl | Ep. 169

Todd Weyl is a cattle rancher, direct-to-consumer beef producer and the owner of Weyl Farms Direct, a 240-acre family farm his parents bought in 1965. Taught in agricultural college that beef would follow poultry and pork into the feedlot model, Todd finally began questioning the commodity system. …