Peggy Van de Plassche

My guest is Marcos Carvalho, a serial entrepreneur, who, in 2021, exited the company he co-founded, Nest Ready, a digital home buying platform for mortgage lenders. Since then he has moved to other things (better things?;)) and has been focusing on the psychedelic space.

💵From Tech to Fungi 
🚀Expertise Transfer
🍄The Future of the Psychedelic Space
⚖️Regulations

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the challenges faced by managers have never been greater.

✅54% of managers reporting work-induced fatigue and stress,
✅50% of employees believe their managers can steer their teams successfully in the coming two years,
✅2/3 of employees express a desire to become people managers, either now or in the future, 
✅1/5 current managers confess that they would rather not hold their current positions if given a choice,
✅19% of HR leaders believe that their organization's current selection process consistently identifies the right individuals for managerial roles.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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In recent years, a very peculiar trend has emerged within the celebrity sphere: actors transforming into self-development gurus. Figures like Matthew McConaughey, Will Smith, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Russell Brand, known for their prowess on the screen, have pivoted to sharing life advice, wisdom, and personal insights

So why is it scary to see so many actors turning into self-development gurus and what does it mean for you?! 

🤑It Is Only About Monetizing Attention
👉What Does It Mean For You (and Your Children, Your Spouse, Your Employees)? 
1. Question Everything!
2. Seek Diverse Perspectives
3. Get Off the Auto-Pilot
👑Matthew McConaughey: The Alt-Right Philosopher King of Hollywood
🤴Will Smith: The Fresh Prince of Personal Relationships
🏋️Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Steroids into Personal Growth
😈Russell Brand: Sexual Predator Turned Spiritual Guide

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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📆Embrace a Balanced New Year: Breaking Free from New Year's Resolutions

Learn more about the research behind the pitfalls of New Year’s resolutions and discover helpful strategies to help you navigate 2024.

The Overs - overworking, overachieving, overthinking, overexplaining, overgiving, overcommitting, and overaccommodating - are coping mechanisms aimed at creating psychological safety.

High-achievers acknowledge the negative impact of overfunctioning but justify it as necessary for staying "relevant" or "on top." However, overdoing harms our well-being.

Surprisingly, a 2018 meta-analysis revealed no correlation between actual performance and the perfectionism typical of overachievers. 

To break free from the grip of the Overs in the coming year, it's essential to recognize them as safety-seeking mechanisms. 

Here are some strategies to help you overcome overdoing in your life:
🤗 Heal Your Feelings Of Being Unsafe
🚧Set New Boundaries
🛑Differentiate Between Danger and Dislike
🫅Be Your Own Authority

As we embark on the New Year, let's challenge the notion that doing more is always better. Growth is indeed desirable, but true progress lies in understanding the role of fear in driving our behavior. By cultivating a conscious awareness of our brain's mechanisms, we can build a lasting sense of inner security – the ultimate goal for the year ahead.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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Ketamine, Microdosing, Breathwork at the Conscious Mind Clinic

In this latest episode, I engaged in an insightful discussion with Vanathy Paranthaman. Vanathy is the director of the Conscious Mind Clinic based in Vancouver. She is a registered Nurse with a focus on holistic health and wellness. She has extensive experience working with ketamine to treat various mental health conditions and as a therapeutic breathwork expert. 

Vanathy he is going to share more about her work and how she uses psychedelics with her patients.

Read on and learn more about how medical professionals use psychedelics to support their patients’ mental health.

💺 A Personal Journey to the Psychedelic and Holistic Space

🍄From Ketamine to Microdosing, and Breathwork

🙌Results and Success Stories

🙋Most Common Patients’ Questions

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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The Profound Benefits of Taking a Holiday Break: Investing in Well-Being and Productivity🎁

Research and anecdotal evidence suggest that a well-deserved vacation is not just a frivolous indulgence but a crucial investment in overall well-being and productivity. 

Let’s explore the myriad benefits of taking a holiday break.
📉Stress Reduction
↗️Enhanced Productivity
🧠Improved Mental Health
🤝Strengthened Relationships
🧙Enhanced Creativity
🏋️Physical Health Benefits
💻Increased Job Satisfaction
🧬Boosted Immune System

It is not a mere pause from work but a strategic investment in well-being and productivity. 
After all, a recharged mind, a healthier body, and enriched personal relationships contribute not only to individual success but to a thriving, balanced, and more productive society.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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🧹 Preparation: Clear your body and your space as much as you can in the days and weeks prior to microdosing. The cleaner your body, mind and environment the more room for the magic to unfold!

🧠 Intention: Think about what you would like to see transform in your life with the help of microdosing. Is it more calm, more success, more passion, more happiness? Connect to your intention as you microdose.

💊 Regimen: I recommend taking 1 cap every 3 days in the morning for 3 weeks. Then for the next 3 weeks take 1 cap every other day. If you want more oomph, for the next 3 weeks, take 1 cap from Monday to Friday. Take a 3 week break. Rinse and repeat as you see fit! Listen to yourself.

✍️ Integration: If you want to maximize the results of microdosing I recommend combining it with additional practices, such as journaling, tapping meditation and guided visualization. If you want more guidance pre-order my book “The Microdose Diet” on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com. You can also add yourself to the waitlist for the online course.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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In the last few months I have come to the sad realization that many of my relationships were unhealthy, and more precisely narcissistic. When you think about it for a minute it does make a lot of sense. Like many, I was conditioned to be a people-pleaser, a giver, so logically takers and self-centered selfish individuals absolutely love me.

Enjoy learning more about how to start curating your network for a more balanced equation:
📰Educate Yourself
💻Take Stock of Your Life
💪Take Responsibility 
✂️Start Cutting 
❤️ Focus on You & Increase Your Self-Worth
🥊Expect Push back

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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How do you disrupt yourself in order to bring a shift significant enough that your life will be back on the right rails towards your own success, passion and happiness?

Starting to microdose psilocybin might seem to you like a tall order. The stigma associated with psychedelics might feel overwhelming, or you might be afraid of being high, of breaking the law and/or of potential side-effects for your health. Maybe you don’t know where to buy quality products and what protocol to follow. Perhaps you just have never taken the time to start!

I believe The Holiday season is the best time for you to start microdosing psilocybin for multiple reasons. Read on and see for yourself!

In addition to the aforementioned questions, below are some questions for you to ponder - I will do the same! Journaling is a perfect way to reflect.

• If I continue on this trajectory, what will my life look like in 5 years? In 10 years? Is that picture uplifting?
• What do I wish I had done in 2023? What do I wish I hadn’t done?
• What do I wish I had felt?

There were a few principles I understood correctly:

• Incremental changes will only bring you incremental results, 
• Assessing what you desire based on where you currently stand / what you currently have is a very limiting approach,
• The first thing that needs disruption is yourself. Not your career, marriage, weight…it is your core being that needs to be shaken up.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

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Ideally engage in these practices 2-3 weeks before you start microdosing, so you are clearer when you introduce psilocybin.

🍎 Detox Your Body
🧽 Clear Your Mind
🧹 Clear Your Space
👄 Upgrade Your Language
💡 Set An Intention
Intention is your why, goals / objectives are your how.

Hopefully you will stick to most of these practices and make them part of your daily life. You are now ready with plenty of room to bring on great things and people in your life! 😄 It is the perfect time to start microdosing! You can get more details around how to microdose, the benefits of microdosing and what a day in the life of a microdoser looks like in my previous videos.

Peggy Van de Plassche is a value creation strategist and senior advisor with over 20 years of experience in private equity, financial services, healthcare, and technology. She works with investment firms, boards, and C-suite leaders to accelerate portfolio company performance, drive operational transformation, and unlock long-term value. Peggy specializes in the execution of complex value creation plans—spanning capital allocation, digital enablement, transaction advisory, and leadership alignment. Her work consistently bridges strategy and implementation, helping investors and operators maximize EBITDA and enterprise value. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, she also brings deep expertise in public-private partnerships and institutional capital deployment—critical levers for competitive advantage in today’s global landscape. Her clients have included BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. Learn more at peggyvandeplassche.com.

#privateequity #privatemarkets #alternativeinvestments #investing #investments #invest #venturecapital #investor #entrepreneur #digitaltransformation #ai #exit #tech #technology #finance #financialservices #healthcare