What do you do when you arrive in a country that’s been completely rebuilt from the ground up… and nothing you need exists yet?

For Jean Vezina, the answer was simple: you build it.

In this episode, Jean shares his journey from arriving in Timor-Leste during a time of chaos and reconstruction, to founding Caltech Group - an organisation that grew not from a grand master plan, but from solving one problem at a time.

From building roads for peacekeepers, to creating businesses simply because they didn’t exist, to turning plastic waste into desks for schools - this is a story of resilience, adaptability, and showing up when it’s hard.

We dive into:

• What it really means to build in uncertainty
• The mindset of “fixing what’s missing”
• Why sustainability only works when people, planet, and profit align
• And the simple philosophy that underpins it all: just keep showing up