Tolomeo is Dargen D'Amico's first podcast, with LifeGate as media partner. Six episodes releasing every Tuesday from 11 November.
Who is Tolomeo? For Dargen D'Amico, he is an encounter that left very deep impressions. That is why the rapper, singer-songwriter and producer chose to symbolically give the name Tolomeo to a plant that embodies the spirit of our time. Tolomeo – Le impronte che lasciamo is the title of his first podcast, in which LifeGate also participates as media partner and editorial support. The six episodes are released every Tuesday, starting 11 November 2025, on all major streaming platforms.
"This project tells the stories of people whose lives encourage us to reflect on how much our actions, even the smallest ones, influence the history, the environment and the future generations of this country. The footprints we leave are more than simple traces of our habits. Even if we don't know it yet, we all have a role in this community. We will disappear, but our footprints will remain. We, at this moment, are the custodians of the world." These are the words chosen by Dargen D'Amico to introduce his podcast, produced by Giada Mesi with the support of Save the Duck. Alongside LifeGate, the other media partner is Tuorlo.
The protagonists are very different from one another in terms of background, skills and ideas, but they share something in common: through their actions, they try to make a positive impact on the world around them. It begins with Najla Aqdeir, an athlete who found in sport a tool for redemption and integration. Next come Cesvi deputy general manager Roberto Vignola, LAV emergency unit coordinator Beatrice Rezzaghi, journalist, activist and television presenter Giulia Innocenzi, winemaker Marta Venica and stand-up comedian Ivano Bisi.
"I chose them because I felt the need to tell stories that are fundamental today," Dargen D'Amico explains to LifeGate. "These are people who act every day, step by step, to rebuild the trust we have in ourselves and in human beings. A trust that has been wavering of late; and I don't think artificial intelligence will solve our problems, unless we first take responsibility for ourselves."
Having emerged artistically from the Milan hip hop scene of the early 2000s, Dargen D'Amico has twelve solo studio albums to his name. In recent years he has also become widely popular with mainstream audiences, thanks in part to two appearances at the Festival di Sanremo and his role as a judge on X Factor. For him, this is his first experience as a podcaster. "I became one partly because there was the opportunity to have LifeGate's support: I like your determination to report on the world's problems, but also to capture the glimpses of light," he reveals to us. "Glimpses that come from real, sincere stories, told by people who may have limited media visibility. I didn't want to make the classic podcast with big voices telling small stories, but the opposite: small voices telling great stories."
And this is precisely the main difference D'Amico sees between the podcast and music: "I tried to interpret other people's points of view, rather than my own." Borrowing a question he poses to his guests, we asked him what footprints he wants to leave with this project. "I would like to be an invitation to collaborate: in the end, the one thing we cannot deny is that we share this planet at this moment," he replies. "I would like to be a calling card for something luminous; not for fear, which is the primary generative mechanism of hatred. When you get to know others, you realise that what you see in the other is always yourself."