Peggy Van de Plassche

🍄The current uncertainty in the rules of engagement is an opportunity for us to rewrite the playbook on how to navigate our daily lives;
🍄It is time to redesign our lives and be purposeful with our resources, aligning them as much as possible with what we love;
🍄Map out where you are allocating your #time and energy;
🍄What are these people, activities and places that are accretive (or not) to your life? How much time and energy are you allocating to those?
🍄Redesign your life to minimize the energy-suck, as much as possible and maximize the energy boosts;
🍄What are the people, activities, places that would bring you loads of energy and joy, but had been cut out for #efficiency reasons?
🍄Trying out new things is a great way to find out if activities, people, places not yet on your radar could be bringing you more joy and energy;
🍄In 2023, try something new every month; Ideally, pick activities that will bring you closer to your #authenticself ;
🍄What if some activities that were “absolutely not you” would actually bring you tons of positive #energy and #joy ?
🍄Some changes will require to rock the boat; but all these #changes , big and small, will bring you closer to your Authentic Self.
🍄Being your Authentic Self is the only way to feel safe, secure, worthy, happy, at peace, regardless of the external circumstances. This is your North Star.
🍄Being back in control of how you want to spent your time and energy versus blindly following your auto-pilot will ultimately give you a lot of #freedom and #personalpower .

#changestartsnow #changestartswithyou #changesforthebetter #personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #personaltransformation #happiness #mentalhealth #engagement #people #opportunity #love
 #happiness #spirituality #personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #personalgrowthtips #psychedelics   #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #stress #selfcare #selflove #selflovejourney

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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😎Key Takeaways:
🍄 We are all looking for the same things - #success  + #joy ;
🍄 Most of us believe that we have to trade off success for joy and vice-versa;
🍄 The benefits of microdosing psilocybin are multiples; including more Joy & Success;
🍄 3 reasons it is a great time for you to start microdosing psilocybin; 
🍄 First,  you are likely on a break and you can try something different without the interference of work; it is a stressful and triggering time; you have objectives for 2023;
🍄 Second, you want more success, and the increased #performance  and #focus  from microdosing psilocybin will come handy in reaching your desired outcomes;
🍄 Third, you want more joy. Microdosing will bring you more #compassion  #awareness   #optimism   while reducing your #reactivity  , #negativepatterns and #autopilot  

🍄 I am the author of "Paris, Mushrooms, and Me", a memoir on the #personaltransformation I have experienced during my first 6 weeks of #microdosing  #psilocybin  Think “Bridget Jones meets Eat, Pray, Love with a microdosing twist”
If you want to reserve your copy, please send me a note to be added to the waitlist: [email protected]

🍄 If you are interested in knowing more about me, you can visit my website, https://peggyvandeplassche.com/ and subscribe to my weekly newsletter  https://peggyvandeplassche.substack.com/

🍄 If you are an #agent  #publisher  #producer  or psychedelics professional interested in a collaboration, you can contact me at [email protected]

🍄 I am speaking on Microdosing Psychedelics for #work  , #relationships  and #happiness  You can contact me at [email protected] to discuss #speaking  engagements.

  #microdosing101 #happiness #spirituality #personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #personalgrowthtips #psychedelics #psychedelic #psychedelicsrenaissance #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #stress #selfcare #selflove #selflovejourney #depression #anxiety #anxietyanddepression

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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• Let’s focus on how we want to feel in 2023 (versus the traditional depressing goal-setting)
• Recovering one’s Authentic Self is not for the faint of heart.
• First, we will have to look at the conditioning that we are operating under.
• Second, we will have to release our many, many, many layers of conditioning.
• Third, as we become more authentic, some relationships (and goals) will fall apart.
• The first thing to feel more positive emotions is to calm our nervous system.
• Taking supplements, microdosing psilocybin, moving our body, walking outside, cutting alcohol and cigarettes, sleeping well are the basics for a calm nervous system.
• Start with the intention of being calm, at peace, filled with positive emotions.

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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💎 Mental health challenges can be unbeknown to us;
💎 Mental illness comes from multiple causes, including hostile environments;
💎 People who live more authentically are prone to greater psychological well-being;
💎 Childhood conditioning derails our Authentic Self;
💎 Self-Love Deficit Disorder is real and painful for most of us;
💎 Mid-life crisis might be an attempt to recover our Authentic Self;
💎 Mental and emotional pain can create physical pain;
💎 Specific physical ailments have been linked by some to mental causes.

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

Most institutions in the Western world had to quickly adjust to the new reality following the #metoo and #blacklivesmatter movements. None of these institutions suffered from these new behaviors, despite the scale and pace at which they unfolded.

However, 10-12 years ago, most of us could not have imagined that we could operate under these new rules, so quickly and seamlessly.

So why would it be different for emotional abuse in the workplace (and elsewhere)? What make us believe that “we” can’t change that? We don’t have to believe that manipulation, abuse and disrespect are the prices to pay for prosperity, stability and progress as an individual and as a society.

If Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, to only name a few, were able to have a vision of a widely different world despite the tremendous challenges they were facing, why couldn’t we? In the grand scheme of things, asking for respect in the workplace can’t be more difficult to obtain than freedom.

We would be horrified today to witness behaviors that not that long ago were routines and widely accepted. I recently watched “She Said”, a wonderful movie on the Harvey Weinstein debacle and the birth of the #metoo movement. To think that for decades he acted unimpeded, while hundreds of people knew about his crimes and that The FBI even opened an investigation (but District Attorney Vance decided to shut it down. This being obviously totally independent with the fact that Weinstein donated to Vance’s reelection campaign🙄) seems absolutely out of this world. But it did happen, in our lifetimes, not 50 years ago, not 30 years ago, but only 5 years ago. If this had not been under the umbrella of an institution, Weinstein would have been indicted as a sexual predator decades before. But the entire system thought they needed him, that they could not talk, that “it was the way it was”, that they were powerless.

We need to ask ourselves who are benefitting from our obedience and silence. Not the victims (or survivors if they are on the other side), but the perpetrators. I hear the “not rocking the boat” argument and I will counter: what if it was our son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother and so on? Would we be so silent? Would we be ok with knowing that everyone around them stayed silent?

Are we really OK thinking that some employees commit suicide, have depression, anxiety, stomach ulcer, and other niceties because we don’t want to rock the boat? Because “it is what it is” ? Because “survival of the fittest”? Because “no gain, no pain”?

As adults we teach kids to stand up to bullies, what are we really doing ourselves?

I strongly believe that we deserve better workplaces (and better educational institutions, religious institutions, etc…) and that we won’t have to trade of prosperity or even stability for it. No reason justify us tolerating bullies anywhere, anytime.

We just need to speak up. Together.

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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FMP, the answer to this question is a resounding YES! I worked for many organizations over my 20 year career and it became obvious to me that most of them are seriously deranged.

☠️The behaviors that employees are considering as normal are actually not only abnormal but also harmful to their health - physical and mental ☠️

☢️ Office Politics = Bullying + Manipulation + Emotional Abuse ☢️

Research has shown that individuals with narcissistic and psychopathic traits have above-average success when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder.

The culture of organizations had been shaped by the exact same people who thrive in it.

In addition, the anonymity that an organization provides allows for bad actors to grow in the fullness of themselves and behave in ways that would be at best frown upon in another setting. 

Egocentrism✔️

Lack of empathy ✔️

Disregard for the rules ✔️

Lack of accountability ✔️

Manipulative ✔️

Controlling ✔️

🤔The rest of us have only a few choices: adopt the same behaviors, endure the abuse, or leave🤔

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