Peggy Van de Plassche
Peggy Van de Plassche is a seasoned advisor with over 20 years of experience in financial services, healthcare, and technology. She specializes in guiding boards and C-suite executives through transformational change, leveraging technology and capital allocation to drive growth and innovation. A founding board member of Invest in Canada, Peggy also brings unique expertise in navigating complex issues and fostering public-private partnerships—key elements in shaping the Future of Business. Her skill set includes strategic leadership, capital allocation, transaction advisory, technology integration, and governance. Notable clients include BMO, CI Financial, HOOPP, OMERS, GreenShield Canada, Nicola Wealth, and Power Financial. For more information, visit peggyvandeplassche.com.
Episodes
167 episodes
💻 ChatGPT-5 Deep Research: Overpromise, Underdeliver
Ever feel like you’re managing an overconfident junior analyst — only this one costs $20/month and never sleeps?That’s been my relationship with ChatGPT-5 lately. Brilliant at first glance, charming in tone, but when de...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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8:36
💎 When a $135-million pearl challenges the art world
What makes something valuable? Its beauty, its rarity… or the story it tells?A few years ago, I met artist Abraham Reyes — heir to the world’s largest natural pearl, the Giga Pearl, appra...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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13:43
💭 What if the next step in your personal growth… was to stop growing?
For years, I was a model student of personal development — from the most structured to the most woo-woo.Therapy. Energy work. Coaching. Yoga. Breathwork. You name it — I did it. And it worked. I’m calmer, more ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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10:07
🔍Rethinking What Really Shapes a Career
💬 What’s the Best Career Advice You’ve Ever Given?Last week, I was speaking at the Club Canadien de Toronto during the Francophone Summit on Finance and Investment 2025. The panel was about Power, Leadership, and I...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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8:08
📖Forget Self-Help — Read a Biography Instead
The most underrated form of personal development? Reading someone else’s life.Not the polished business bios that read like PR exercises. But the real ones — messy, contradictory, deeply human stories of...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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10:30
💪 Expand Your Career Longevity — Invest in Yourself
When I say invest in yourself, I don’t mean another AI course, eMBA, or leadership retreat in the Rockies.I mean literally: invest in your appearance, fitness, and energy.Why? Because ageism is alive and well
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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7:33
🤖 Is Your Agentic AI a Solution Looking for a Problem? 💭
I’ve seen it too many times. New tech emerges — blockchain, crypto, digital transformation — and companies rush headfirst into POCs, MVPs, and pilots… …forgetting to ask the most important question: 👉 Why?
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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17:26
💰What I Learned About Economic Development in the Emirates
I spent a month in the UAE. And I came back thinking — they’re doing what we in the West keep talking about… but with coherence and conviction.In the Emirates, economic development isn’t an afterthought — it’s a ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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10:51
Finding a Job and Doing Business in the UAE: More Complex Than It Seems 😉
In North America, the first question is usually: “What can you do for me?” In the UAE, it’s more often: “Who are you? What are your values?”That simple difference reshapes everything—hiring, compensation, execution,...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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21:01
🌴 Networking in the Desert: Why Dubai Feels Different
✨ One week in Dubai and already noticing patterns in how people actually do business here.Networking feels… different.Meetings in days, not monthsFull attention, not 25 min with an Apple Watch ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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12:36
⚖️ Structural Inequality: Polite Silence vs. Blunt Truth
💸 In Dubai, inequality isn’t hidden. It’s right there: Lamborghinis next to labor buses. Nobody pretends it’s sad, nobody calls for change. It simply is. The pecking order is clear, unapologetic, and accepted.😶 In the West, we p...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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11:11
🏃Four Weeks, Two Cities: Hitting Reset in the UAE
I’m pressing the reset button: 4 weeks, 2 cities, ~many coffees. Dubai Sep 10–20 → Abu Dhabi Sep 22–Oct 3.Why? Because sometimes it’s riskier to stay put than to move. The UAE’s dynamism is a pull; today’s noise ...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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12:46
🤖How to AI-Proof Your Career (and Actually Thrive)
AI-proofing your career boils down to 2 moves: 1) Amplify everything AI can’t do (or doesn’t do well). 2) Double-down on your secret sauce.Why now? The IMF estimates ~40% of global jobs are exposed to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 52
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19:38
😱Did You Lose Someone to Conspiracy Theory?
Ever had a perfectly normal coffee turn into a TED Talk on how cannibals run the world? Same. ☕🌀My new newsletter is a field guide to the conspiracy slide—how a chat that starts with “sugar is bad” ends with “the lizard people a...
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Season 3
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Episode 51
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12:38
💩The Art (and Agony) of Taking Sh*t
If you know me well, you know my tolerance for nonsense is… minimal. If you don’t know me well, you probably think I’m endlessly calm and kind. Both are true.The problem? We’re living in a world where public headphone-f...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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23:13
👨Let Me Talk To Your Husband
👨🔧 “Let Me Talk to Your Husband.” Because apparently, you need a Y chromosome to understand drywall.If I had a dollar for every contractor who said that to me, I’d be sipping rosé in a manicured garden in Monaco—not ...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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🚀 From VC to CEO: Melissa Widner on Building Smarter Capita
🚀 From VC to CEO — and Why Founders Are Rethinking DilutionWhat happens when a venture capitalist jumps into the trenches to run one of her portfolio companies?In this week’s podcast & newsletter, I sat down with the br...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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27:01
📆 When did grabbing a coffee become a logistical nightmare?
Between calendar invites for brunch, soft-circled plans, 20-text back-and-forths, and the ever-popular last-minute “doctor’s appointment” excuse… I’m starting to think we need a project manager just to have lunch.We used to meet...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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12:29
👥 Building a Business with Heart and Hustle: A Conversation with Stéphanie Reniers
🚀 From Startup to Global HR Tech — and a Family Move to Dubai What does it take to build a 500-person company, raise three kids, and still prioritize culture over growth-at-all-costs?This week on the podcast, I sat down with <...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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26:42
🎯 How to design a career—and a life—that works for you
🚀 Success, Strategy & Staying HumanA friend reached out recently—unhappy in her role and ready to make a move. We spoke about the job market (not great), office politics (they pass), and the uncomfortable truths of ageism and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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19:11
What does it really take to build and scale deep tech across borders?
What does it really take to build and scale deep tech across borders? (Hint: It's not just capital or code.)Last week’s event The Humans Behind the Next Wave—co-hosted by La French Tech Toronto,...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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15:40
📍Dubai Is Calling: What Oscar Orellana-Hyder Wants Westerners to Know
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I’m a sucker for new frontiers.And lately, one signal keeps getting louder: a growing number of Canadians and Americans—myself included—are turning their attention to the UAE. Not just because...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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37:46
🧭 How to Invest in Great Companies (and Build a Better Capital Market)
Last week, we celebrated FrontFundr’s 10th anniversary—a milestone not just for the company, but for the Canadian innovation economy.In the past decade, nearly $300M has been invested via FrontFundr by almost 20,000 investors
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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19:38
💡How to turn external tech teams into a strategic asset
What if tech outsourcing could actually be… a strategic advantage?On this week’s podcast, I sat down with Sean Languedoc, founder & CEO of Outforce AI, to talk about why outsourcing is so often broken—and how to fix it....
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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34:51
