Peggy Van de Plassche

The conundrum of healing ethically and scaling profitably in an uncertain regulatory environment.

Last week I attended and spoke at The Cannabis & Psychedelics Investment Summit in NYC. This event is targeted to family offices and private investors who have mostly already been active in the space. On the back of Wonderland it was interesting to compare and contrast the perspectives. Some of the same themes emerged; 1) importance of preparation and integration in psychedelics’ journeys; 2) correlation between psychedelics, mental health and longevity; 3) the scalability and profitability challenge.

My panel on “Psychedelics and Pharma: Investing into the Future of Medicine and Brain Health” brought some colors on what investors such as Shelby Clark of Lionheart Ventures and Vitaly Pirotsky are looking for in companies when pondering investments. Entrepreneur Michael Rubinov who founded 3R Pharma shared his perspective on what makes potential investors in his company tick. 

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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I shared my thoughts on stage at the Wonderland Conference on “Microdosing Psilocybin for Executives and Entrepreneurs” and on “Conscious Businesses”. 

Both are very much linked; #entrepreneurs  and #executives  who microdose are not only more mentally healthy and performant they are also more mindful and present, at work, at home and everywhere in between. 

Thus making professional (and personal) decisions from a new elevated perspective, acting not reacting, off their past autopilot and fearful responses. This is why #microdosing psilocybin is so important and impactful for the corporate world and the world at large.

Top 3 takeaways from the conference:

🧗‍♂️ Correlation between Psychedelics, Mental Health and Longevity

👨‍💼Lobbying, Veterans, End of Life Care and Civil Disobedience

🧠A flurry of actors, approach, products and businesses for one common reality

Learn more about how you can strategically microdose psilocybin to find more success, calm and joy at work and in your life.
I am working on an online course that will be available early next year. Add yourself to the waitlist at themicrodosediet.com now to benefit from the early-bird pricing.

#financialservices #mentalhealth #performance 

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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Welcome back to The Microdose Diet a podcast about personal and professional growth using alternative medicines, such as microdosing psychedelics. 🍄

I usually write about “magic” mushrooms and their ability to rewire our brain and calm our nervous system. However, adaptogenic mushrooms are pretty amazing too!    

Adaptogenic mushrooms are a group of fungi known for their potential to help the body adapt to stress and maintain balance. These mushrooms, such as reishi, chaga, cordyceps, and lion's mane, are typically used in traditional medicine practices, particularly in Asian cultures.

You can find them at your regular health store. I would not recommend buying supplements online due to high percentage of counterfeits. I take adaptogenic mushrooms, as tinctures, everyday mixed in my morning smoothie. You can also consume adaptogenic mushrooms as teas, and capsules.

Edibles often combine psilocybin (magic mushrooms) with adaptogens to boost their respective effect. A classic combination is psilocybin + lion’s mane to improve cognitive abilities. If you want to learn more about the microdosing products I am working on, check out my website and put yourself on the waitlist.

Adaptogens are considered non-psychoactive, meaning they do not produce hallucinogenic or mind-altering effects. Instead, they support overall well-being, boost the immune system, and provide various health benefits.

Let’s check out the awesome benefits adaptogenic mushrooms can bring you!

🧘Stress Reduction
🧠Improved Mental Clarity
💚 Immune Support
🏃Energy, Vitality and Physical Endurance
🧯Antioxidant Activity & Anti-Inflammatory Effects

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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If you want to learn more about how to microdose to reach your goals, add yourself to the waitlist for my book, “MORE! The Microdose Diet, The 90 Day Plan for More Success, Passion and Happiness”.
https://peggyvandeplassche.com/book

When entrepreneurs and executives consider microdosing psilocybin, the main focus might be on professional achievements, but it is highly likely that their entire life will benefit from the process. 
From better relationships with family and friends, to improved mental health, and greater athletic performance, the benefits of microdosing psilocybin won’t stop at the door of your office. 😄 

🧠 Rewire your Brain
🧘Calm your Body
🙂Master your Emotions
🤸Raise your Energy
🚀Find Professional and Personal Success

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 “More! The Microdose Diet, The 90 Day Plan to More Success, Passion and Happiness” I lay out a 90 day protocol to support you in upgrading your emotional, mental and physical state to put you back in the driver seat of your life. Bye bye old mindset👋 Hello Success, Passion and Happiness 🤩
Put yourself on the waitlist today @ https://peggyvandeplassche.com/book  

Steve Siebold “How rich people think” book contains 30 main differences when it comes to the emotions, thoughts and behaviors of “The Rich” regarding money. I focused on a subsection that I thought was particularly interesting. 

💰World Class Has Positive Beliefs re Money
💵World Class Is Resilient, Self-Confident and Optimistic
🤑World Class Masters Nonlinear Thinking
💸World Class Invests in Themselves and Their Projects

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

Many things rob you of your energy and some of these things are actually more leakages than vampires.
If you desire more in your life (or simply more life), carefully read the list below, be on the lookout for the ones that apply to you, and be ruthless about eradicating them.

🧺Clutter and Dirt
📝Unfinished Things
📚Old Broken Stuff
🍕Nutrition and Digestion
🛏️Sleep
💤Monotony
🪑Sedentary Lifestyle
🏪Places and Activities
🧩 Being fragmented
🧠Busy Mind
😡Out-of-control Emotions

Now that you have a great overview of the energy vampires acting up in your life, if you start by reducing even by only 10% the energy leakage in three of the categories above you will already be in a way better place. And the more space and capacity you create, the more opportunity to move further along on the path of more and better energy to play with.

Good Luck!

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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You can learn more about Angie Wisdom at https://angiewisdom.com/

In this episode, I speak with Angie Wisdom (yes, that is her name 🙂), coach, speaker and author of The Non-Negotiable YOU.  In the past, Angie worked in financial services, and is now supporting entrepreneurs by refocusing their priorities (hint, you come first!).

She will share with you what is the concept behind The Non-Negotiable You, her top tips for more success, and the typical challenges business owners are facing.

💺 Buckle 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.

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

👩‍⚕️ How to Combine Alternative Therapies with Mainstream Healthcare for better results

I wrote and spoke quite a bit about my doubts regarding the healthcare system in North-America and Europe. My cynicism is mostly due to the massive conflicts of interest and incoherence existing in the space, making patients’ best interest, more often than not, an after-though. If you want to see an extreme example of that dynamic I recommend the drama Painkiller which explores America's opioid epidemic. 

Regardless of this very dire state of affairs, medical professionals still hold clout with most patients. This is why the power of the white coat could and should be harnessed to put back patients’ health and wellness at the center of the equation. Health workers may not be able to change the systemic flaws of the healthcare machine but they can use their considerable influence on the people they care for to maximize their chances of recovery.

From the placebo effect, to psychedelics, tapping meditation, autosuggestion, NLP, and visualization, medical professionals have an array of alternative medicines at their disposal that they are not using enough, or at all, to help their patients heal better and faster. Considering the power of their authority it is a missed opportunity for everyone. Below are some of the tools that could easily be incorporated to improve the results of our healthcare system. And great news for the taxpayers, they are free or cheap💸

I strongly believe in the value of Western Medicine, despite its focus on disease versus health, its incoherence, its massive conflicts of interest and its difficulty of access in North-America (yes, including Canada). However, we, patients, shouldn’t have to choose between alternative and mainstream medicines. One could easily augment the other, improving results and reducing costs. Today, patients (and medical professionals) interested in alternative options are left to their own device to research, train, and access therapies that could provide them with relied and healing. This is not the way to go.

We all agree that our minds are very powerful, so let’s make the most of them in a strategic and beneficial way for every last one of us!! 

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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💸 About Lisa Chastain:
https://lisachastain.com/
Lisa Chastain is a professional money coach that helps passionate and successful women shed the shame and guilt around their finances and to focus on healthy spending instead of restricted budgeting.

💰 Perception is Projection
💸 Blocks and Limitations
🤑 Create New Supportive Beliefs

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

I have been playing with writing on gaslighting for a while now, and the nudge I needed happened to me the night before I started this newsletter. For the longest time I believed everything I was told. I could not see through the lies, BS and manipulations of others. I don’t tend to lie, even white lies I do my best to avoid (which sometimes put me in “interesting” situations I have to admit), so I assumed, wrongly, that people were operating along the same lines.

Thankfully, once again for me, millennials, especially millennial women, put in focus these gaslighting behaviors for what they truly are - misbehaviors. After decades of passivity and guilt, I started questioning what I heard and what I was told, by the media, but also by the people “close” to me. And I realized that there were many people exaggerating their accomplishments, turning tables and plain lying.

The stories below are cautionary tales that if you are not careful you will end up being caught up in guilt, smallness, and misinformation by unscrupulous manipulative people! Hopefully you can follow the same easy strategies to avoid the smoke and mirrors and see right through the BS.

Listen to this post and get the upper hand on gaslighters! 🙌

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