Wachama Podcast ~Personal Development & Social Innovation

By Wachama

Wachama is podcast with passionate changemakers from Wageningen and around the world. Our guests share their personal story that led them to initiate or participate in various interesting projects. Topics vary from food, to finance, health, entrepreneurship, environmental actions, green energy, circular economy, personal development. If you tune in you can hear the words: sustainable, circular, healthy, conscious, awareness, contribution, money, nature, humanity, trust in most of our episodes. Interestingly wachama is a word in Swahili which means people get together in groups.

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Ep. 7 Gijs Dalen Meurs ~Consciousness In Life And Finance With Eyevestor

Wachama Podcast ~Personal Development & Social InnovationOct 11, 2018

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Ep. 25 Eduardo Carvalho ~Working for Mother Ayahuasca

Dear Listeners!
In this episode you can get to know a bit about the plant medicine world, more specifically we talk about Ayahuasca. My guest on the show was Eduardo Carvalho who works on the plant medicine field as a musician for the past four years. In this episode through Eduardo’s stories you can get to know about his involvement with the plant medicines, his journey up until this point, but also some general information about Ayahuasca and its role in society. Indigenous plants and traditions play a significant role in how modern humans/societies can re-evaluate themselves while trying to find refuge from the technology and money driven materialistic systems. This episode can be also a useful resource if you wonder what these plants are all about, in what context are they being used. Moreover, check out the links below for further information about the mentioned organizations and their work.

Full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIAOlPTWUYo

Wachama's website:
https://www.wachama.org/

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3riwVYt20rySWH8RLNn2YD

Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/wachama-podcast-personal-development-social-innovation/id1438770642

Eduardo's Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/EdZyFreQuency/

The World Ayahuasca Conference:
https://www.synergeticpress.com/reflections-on-2019-world-ayahuasca-conference/?

ICEERS:
https://idpc.net/profile/iceers

http://old.iceers.org/

Ayahuasca Foundation:
https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/

MAPS~Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies
https://maps.org/

The War on Consciousness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w&t=14s

Beckley Foundation:
https://beckleyfoundation.org/

Dec 20, 201901:25:29

Ep. 24 Tessa Weber -PR from the heart

Dear listener!

In this episode you can get to know Tessa Weber, who is a PR professional, media and presentation trainer, lifestyle coach. Her unique combination of expertise led us to touch up on topics like:

-The role of trust in today’s world, but also the almost unavoidable notion of being fake.

-The thin layers between PR, marketing and sales and how these fields meant to support each other.

-How to operate as a PR professional with solid value system and morals?

Because of her background Tessa is able to see and recognize blockages and patterns on the level of an individual and also able to scale up and see through entire organizations as well.

She helps entrepreneurs, startups and established bigger companies to communicate their true message and fully align their core values with their activities and communication.

Often times entrepreneurs struggle to really dig deep in their soul/heart and find the one key message. The one, that would help them in building a thriving business with meaningful products and services. The transformational training developed by Tessa contains methods and tools to find this key message and break through blockages that hinder accessing it and with that holding back many of us from our true potential.

Find useful links below:

Full episode on YouTube:

https://bit.ly/2l1BJ19

Tessa's website:

https://www.greenpepr.com/

Tessa's Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessaweber/

Wachama's website:

http://wachama.org/

Wachama's FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/wachamatribe/

Zsolt on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/zsolt_j_varga/

Books mentioned:

The Five Minute Journal

https://bit.ly/2kYi5mF

The Obstacle is the way:

https://bit.ly/2gK1kGs

The War of Art:

https://bit.ly/2m8Ehum

Eckhart Tolle- A New Earth

https://bit.ly/2yMWmne

Sep 23, 201901:24:15

Ep. 23 Bart Pronk ~The right-hand man of Wim Hof the Iceman

Dear Wachama People!

In this episode you can hear fascinating background stories about the evolution of Wim Hof Method from Bart Pronk, who has been working with the Hoffice and Wim Hof since the early days.

Bart also shares some details about his experiences like: his first ice-bath, the journey to Poland to record the WHM 10 weeks course, the preparations and his first climb in record time to the highest mountain in Africa, the Kilimanjaro.

Besides hearing the interesting "old" and recent stories we also discussed present and future happenings and plans around Bart and the Wim Hof Method.

Enjoy the show!

A short intro of Bart from his website:

Bart has been with Wim since 2011. He has been his right-hand man, his compadre, his aficionado and his buddy. He’s travelled to all corners of the world with the Ice-Man organizing events, taking part in ice-baths and breathing exercises and learning the secrets to a happy, healthy life from the master himself.

Bart has been with the Wim-Hof company: Inner Fire, since the beginning. He was the driving force behind the 10 week online program and has started many other initiatives and programmes to further the intellectual reach of the Wim Hof Method.

Bart’s personal achievements include climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro three times, each time setting a new record time, and each time in just a pair of shorts. His experience ranges from personal workshops, through to large group classes and scientific lectures all around the world.

Full episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/4JmQQuXpC-E

For more about the Wim Hof Method and the 10-week course.

Check out: https://www.wimhofmethod.com

10-week course:

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/elearnin..

Barts website:

https://www.bartpronk.com/

Barts Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/b4rtos/?hl=en

Wachama's website:

https://www.wachama.org/

Zsolt on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/zsolt_j_var...

Aug 18, 201901:41:09

Ep. 22 Jan Hellinga ~DiSC model and gut feeling in sales and entrepreneurship

Dear Wachama People!

In this week’s episode you can get to know Jan Hellinga, who is the director of Omeo Groep, mentor and business coach who also guides start-ups at StartHub in Wageningen.

After finishing his studies in Dronten and Wageningen, Jan was working on the field of plant protection for 10 years, then he spent around 10 years in sales and in the last 10 years he is into coaching and mentoring.

This could seem very technical, materialistic and rational however, Jan at the same time is and always been very curious about why people do what they do?

His innate curiosity about people’s behavior led him to read through the most relevant psychology literature already during his youth.

Regardless technical, business and psychological knowledge decisions are often based on emotions, instincts and on our gut feeling.
You know, following the gut feeling is one of my favorite topics.

In this one hour long podcast we touched up on the topics of entrepreneurial decision making (rational/instinct based), personality types based on the DiSC model, meditation and new and evergreen business and sales practices. In short, it is all about self-awareness and human relationships.

Enjoy the episode and feel free to contact Jan or me or just leave a comment in the comment section.

Useful links:

Full Episode:

https://youtu.be/Zd7YGTkupF0

Wachama’s website: https://www.wachama.org/

Wachama on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lz...

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3riwVYt...

Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Omeo Groep (Jan’s company):

https://www.omeogroep.nl/

DiSC model:

https://www.discprofile.com/

The ‘artistic’ entrepreneurship:

(Steve Blank: "Entrepreneurship is a Calling")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51eQ2vPZSs

Jul 04, 201901:05:26

Ep. 21 Hoe Ren Wong ~From oil rig to inner peace

Dear Wachama Peeps!

In this week’s episode you can get to know Ren Wong from Singapore. We had a fascinating conversation with Ren and touched up on all kinds of topics. We came to the conclusion that you cannot really live a fulfilled life if your occupation is not in alignment with your values and what your inner voice/your soul is calling you to do. To establish your value system, you might need to try the extremes first to find your middle way. And to be able to hear and find out what your inner calling is, the constant chatter of your mind needs to be silenced. Ren tried out himself in the oil business and later he started to study about renewable energy sources. Coming from an ultra-urban environment (Singapore) he is experiencing and finding values in rural life close to nature. The other important dimensions of Ren’s journey is health and self-exploration. Dealing with autoimmune disease since his childhood made him very aware of what he consumes from food to new and body care. Seeing almost every input as information he became very conscious to filter out the unnecessary “noise” and toxins” of the world. The role of fasting when food is restricted or Vipassana silent meditation that restricts noises and many other virtual inputs provided him already deep insights how the world around him and his mind and body operate. Further explorations led him to discover the healing and magical power of plants that can heal our mind, body & soul all together with our environment and economics. Enjoy the episode and leave some comments in case you want to engage.

Useful links:

Full episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/9eOC-dQM5lU

Wachama’s website:

https://www.wachama.org/

Wachama on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lz5nlQwOmn8rNnQvF2HZA

Ep. 20 Alex van Tuyll ~Organic waste management & food growing with AMI

Dear Wachama People!

With the development of agriculture throughout history we are witnessing the process of more and more control over Mother nature. It is especially true in the case of modern agriculture whit all of its inventions such as fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, high-tech machinery and gene-technology. And even more specifically in the case of controlled indoor systems. Unfortunately, most of such innovations aimed to set up centralized systems, externalize social and environmental costs when they create their business models. Our health is in jeopardy and resources are being wasted along the supply chain. While these system superiority over nature itself is often claimed.

Alex van Tuyll is a Master student in biosystems engineering at Wageningen University. His initial interest started with a home-made hydroponics system, that he set up in his home’s attic as a teenager.

This experience determined his choice of higher education as he wanted to learn as much as possible about, how to set up indoor agriculture systems. After several years of investigating such systems he learned a lot about their viability. His main motivation behind these studies is to use organic waste for food production. On his journey on figuring out how to create more efficient nutrient cycles, Alex found an approach being developed known as AMI (pronounced like ‘Jamie’): aquaponics, mushrooms, and insects. Studying AMI Alex faced the complexity how nature actually works within the system itself. This new insight made Alex’s view shift from willing to control nature to set up systems that are mimicking natural principles and collaborating with it. So far it was a pretty steep learning curve during the Wageningen years and it is not over yet, there is still lot to learn and investigate.

Full episode on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/drXCwqA37Yw

If you want to look into Alex’s work, check out his website:

https://alexgrowsup.com/

Or follow him on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/alexvantuyll

Zsolt on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/zsolt_j_varga/

Wachama website:

www.wachama.org

Wachama on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/wachamatribe/

Wachama on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/3riwVYt20rySWH8RLNn2YD

Wachama on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wachama-podcast-personal-development-social-innovation/id1438770642

Jun 10, 201954:14

Ep. 19 Siets Bakker ~ Moving Questions

Dear Wachama People!

In nature everything flows. Most of the problems in our lives occur when the natural flow is broken and blockages emerge that result tension. These natural patterns are recognizable on individual, social or organizational level.

Siets Bakker is an author, speaker, coach and trainer who works with Moving Questions. This means that she can guide her clients quickly at the level where actual long-lasting change is made. They are able to look beyond the symptoms because the questions she asks aim to find the root cause. This method makes it immediately clear what the next best steps are.

Siets’ work as a consultant consists of leading team activities with boards, management and staff, change assignments and teaching others how they can make their own Moving Questions, via lectures, workshops and presentations.

Useful links:

Siets Bakker's website:

http://sietsbakker.com/

Moving Questions book on Amazon (softcover):

https://amzn.to/2K05NnW

Moving Questions book in Dutch Rake Vragen:

https://www.hetnoorderlicht.com/15/rake-vragen

Moving (Great) Questions Card Game:

https://bit.ly/30EgZwk

Zsolt on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/zsolt_j_varga/

Wachama website:

www.wachama.org

Wachama on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lz5nlQwOmn8rNnQvF2HZA

Wachama on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/wachamatribe/

Wachama on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/3riwVYt20rySWH8RLNn2YD

Wachama on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wachama-podcast-personal-development-social-innovation/id1438770642

May 27, 201901:13:36

Ep. 18 Allan Supercamp ~The bread opens the heart and the herbs do the healing

Dear Wachama People,

After a long break the Wachama podcast continues and season 2 starts with the one and only Allan Supercamp (Campbell). Allan was on the first ever episode of the Wachama podcast which was recorded about 18 months ago. In this episode we can get an update about how Allan’s plans altered and how his life changed.

Allan was planning to buy a sailboat and sail across the Atlantic Ocean. He was taking huge steps to accomplish his dream such as: saving money, following courses, looking for sponsors. During this long and challenging process, it turned out that Allan’s wife Elke was expecting a baby. The priorities shifted suddenly and the boat project is on stand by for a while.

While focusing on his family and the process of becoming a father Allan returned to his ‘old’ passion of making sourdough bread and this time the passion is slowly becoming a craftsmanship.

Besides discussing Allan’s past and present projects we also touched up on the topics of education, healthcare and addiction. Towards the end of the podcast Allan shared the experience of getting familiar and being in the process and assisting of the home-birth of his son Paco.

So if you tune in you can hear some fascinating stories, insights and bits and pieces from all walks of life AS USUAL 😊.

Full episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKBv8LiKdtg&feature=youtu.be

Wachama Clips on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKBv8LiKdtg&feature=youtu.be

Paysan Boulanger (in French)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzskBsUnCc

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (Gabor Mate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPKpX9Rxqs

Allan on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/nayasupercamp/

Zsolt on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/zsolt_j_varga/

Wachama website:

http://wachama.org/

Wachama on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/wachamatribe/