🤥 Spot the Gaslighting and See Through the BS

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.

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