The WakeUp Protocol
The WakeUp Protocol
Podcast Description
Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right!The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught.Hosted by Nadja Haldiman, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix.Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true.This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed.If you’re waking up... welcome home.
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The podcast focuses on themes of spiritual awakening, personal healing, and the exploration of profound life experiences. Episodes cover topics such as grief, near-death experiences, and illness as a form of initiation, with discussions like how to build a soul-led business rooted in creativity and synchronicity, and the importance of presence and deep listening in relationships.
Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right!
The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught.
Hosted by Nadja Haldimann, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix.
Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true.
This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed.
If you’re waking up… welcome home.
In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Darek Mazzone, Polish-born DJ, filmmaker, and cultural connector whose life has been shaped by the way music opens the heart.
Darek’s journey began in communist Poland, secretly listening to records from Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, and Vietnam. Sounds that became portals into worlds he could feel long before he could travel to them.
That early spark grew into decades of championing global music on Seattle-based radio station and online platform KEXP, and into a life devoted to listening as a spiritual practice.
Darek’s awakening didn’t arrive in a single moment. It unfolded through travel, service, and deep presence.
From humanitarian work in refugee camps in Jordan and villages in Nepal, to Sufi rituals in Morocco and Turkey, to the ancient musical traditions that inspired his nonprofit, SAMA: Music + Art
Each chapter revealed music as something far older than entertainment, an ancient technology for healing, connection, and belonging.
Together, Nadja and Darek explore music as medicine, the spiritual power of rhythm and trance, and how shared vibration dissolves separation and restores our sense of humanity.
They talk about community, ritual, and why awakening so often happens together, on a dance floor, in ceremony, or in a single song that opens something inside of you.
This episode explores:
✨ Growing up in communist Poland and secretly listening to illegal international music
✨ Music as a lifeline, portal, and early form of awakening
✨ Rhythm, trance, and embodied presence across cultures
✨ Music as one of humanity’s oldest healing technologies
✨ Humanitarian work, service, and what music restores in times of crisis
✨ Community, ritual, and collective experience through sound
✨ Listening as a spiritual practice in a noisy world
✨ Human connection beyond language, borders, and belief systems
Darek’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t only happen in silence, it can also happens in rhythm, in movement, and in remembering how to listen.
If you’re longing for a deeper connection to your true self, meaning beyond words, or a more embodied way of experiencing the world, this episode is for you.
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