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• Find your Niche: Outline a Personal Development Plan, visualize and clarify your aspirations, vision and values. Evaluate your Motivations, your Energy, your Dreams.
• Think Project. Visualize your concept, clarify your directions and objectives. Outline your Project Plan and roadmap. 
• Dream with a Plan: Explore the Opportunity by Mapping your Project. Visualise, Clarify and Simplify. Play it Smart. Define your Tactic and Action plans. 
• Develop your Project by iterations. Evaluate the Desirability, the Feasibility and the Viability of the Project. Learn by practice. 
• Change your Game: Outline an 90-day Action Plan, 1-year Smart Objectives and 3 years Vision. Define your Tactic Plan.
• Outline a Communication Plan: storytelling, manifesto, core values, online presence… 

I imagined, developed and launched Blue Lotus Hua Hin, the first Learning Center for Plant-Based Cuisine in Thailand.

Which means for three years: Hiring + Coaching the Instructor Team • Business Development • Quality Control • Teaching, Coaching students • Project Management + Problem Solving • Storytelling + Online Content Creation • Curriculum Development: Pure Energy, Green Thai Cuisine, Chef's Training, Instructor Training + Business Coaching • Plant-Based Menu Development for the restaurants of the resort + Training the cooking team

What now? I am a Project Consultant and Coach. I work remotely from the island of La Palma, Spain.

I help Dreamers to change their Game.

As an avid-trail-runner, I started 15 years ago to experiment and explore plant-based eating for active people. While running a cooking studio in Haarlem (NL), I wrote more than 10 books on plant-based cuisine and explored the emerging vegan scene in The Netherlands, France, California, Croatia and España...

I worked as the Executive Chef & Project Manager to launch Yi Athens Raw Vegan Café in Greece, MK Culinary Academy in Thailand and TOM's Juice Bar in St Barth and as a consultant for Apollo Group to develop the plant-based cuisine on board the Oceania and Regent cruise lines.

I keep promoting Plant Strong Lifestyle for Active People and Plant-Based as a NEW Speciality Cuisine.

I started with hacking games and learning english to develop games. I quickly ended-up working in my twenties as a software developer and a database architect. Thanks to the internet wave on Europe, I became a web project manager, specialized in game design.

For the past 25 years, I worked as a consultant and project manager, applying agile methods for web development, game design and digital production. I have a Master of Science degree, in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a specialization in Project Management. I taught project management, agile methods and creative design as a guest lecturer for 10 years in France (Master of Video Games), the Netherlands (Utrecht School of Arts) and Singapore (Ngee Ann Polytechnics).

• Be Mindful of the WHEN to eat

• Don’t worry so much on the HOW-MUCH

• Care about your recovery

• It is not a diet that matters… it is your lifestyle

+ a Myth Buster on Superfoods

Read Mindful Eating Plan made easy.

· Whole plant-based Food

· You are what you DO daily. It’s not just a diet, it’s a lifestyle…

· Pure Energy, a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet for Active People

· Moving Daily over Exercising

· Physical Activity and Recovery Cycle

· Micro-Nutrition and Nutrient Density

· What matters is not only “what” you eat but “when”·

Read the article "Pure & Simple Plant Food, a manifesto"

• What is Time Restricted Eating?

• What is early TRE?

• How-to plan your 6-day Experiment?

• Frequent Questions on early TRE

Read the article 6-Day Eating twice a Day Experiment. Also the inconvenient truth about Time Restricted Eating (is it ok to skip your breakfast?) And What did I learn from 2 years of practicing Time Restricted Eating?

· What does TRE mean?

· Who I am? and what I am doing?

· Why Fasting? And Why Time Restricted Eating?

· How I restrict my eating window ?

· What I appreciate with Time Restricted Eating

or Intermittent Fasting 16:8

Read the full article What did I learn from practicing TRE?

· The Simplicity of Running

· A Daily Dose of Humility

· A Morning Dose of Positive Energy

· Keep a Creative Mindset, Keep on Learning

· Build-up, slowly but surely

· Run your Personal Best

· Diversity is more fun

· Running Daily? Meaning every single day?

· Born to Move. How did I start running?

Read the article Why do I run almost every morning?

· Times are Changing

· The food industry got the message pretty quickly…

· There is still room for a creative answer

· Why talking about Plant-Based Cuisine and not vegan food?

· Plant-Based, a new speciality cuisine!

· Fast Casual is the new chic

Read "Plant-Based Cuisine, a new Speciality"

Hey Chefs, Plant-Based Cuisine is the creative opportunity of a lifetime!

· Plant-Based Food products are on the rise

· Prepare food in-house and from scratch

· Cultivate your Style

· Set your own Rules

· Start with a Market Challenge

Read the full article on A Tribute to SOUL Plant-Based Cuisine

· What does the 5-DAYTOX Challenge mean?

· WHEN? Plan your Experiment

· WHAT NOT to eat?

· Why experimenting?

· How to do the 5-DAYTOX Challenge?

· What to Eat: a transition to a plant-based diet

· How-to , Day by Day Experiment

· What I appreciate with the 5-DAYTOX CHALLENGE:

Read the article Forget Detox, try a 5-DayTox Challenge

We started this podcast as I was the director of education and founder of Blue Lotus Hua Hin. Ivor was instructor in plant-based cuisine, nutrition and our social media manager.

Both passionate about learning & teaching, as we were starting a Plant-Based Cooking Instructor Program, we decided to share what can be useful for our listeners and our students. We selected the topics based on what was the most meaningful, intriguing and fun for us. We kept our conversations, lectures in 20 minutes episodes.

Our idea was:

• Exploring our interests

• Sharing crazy ideas, practical things to experiment & learn

• Keeping up with the Plant-based world evolution!

• Talking about self-development & lifestyle design

Below your can see the 80 topics that we covered by categories.

Listen to Blue Lotus Café on Apple - Spotify - Google podcasts

- Anchor.fm, our recording, hosting and distribution platform. We also hosted a weekly live on the Blue Lotus IG channel.

• Our Audience

• Our Manifesto

• the Podcasting Workflow in details:

- Pre-Production

- Recording

- Post-Production + Sharing on Social Media

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify.

• The Original Idea

• What is the Blue Lotus Café podcast about?

• Our Audience

• Our Manifesto

• Our Podcasting Workflow: Pre-Production, Recording, Post-Production

• What I like about Podcasting?

• What I enjoy about the Experience?

• Some of the most popular episodes of the podcast

Read the article "Our Experience of Podcasting" on MEDIUM

• Future of Vegan Junk Food

• Future of Dining

• Future of Catering

• Food Costing as a Chef

• Opening a Cooking Studio

• Trends 2020

• Cooking Workshop Development

• Recipe Development

• Becoming a Chef

• Evaluating Food Costs

• Vegan Gold Rush

• Opportunities beyond a plant-based café

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• Self-Management

• Backlog

• Exit Rule

• Profit & Loss

• Essentialism, Explore, Execute & Eliminate

• Financial Independence

• Time Management techniques

• Attention Management

• Deal with Change

• Mind Mapping

• What is Enough?

• Bootstrapping your Project

• Resilience with John Fisher

• Positive Cash Flow Model

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• Find your Niche, develop a Specific Knowledge?

• Avoid renting your time. Create Wealth from Assets

• Create leverage. Make one time + Sell X times

Listen this episode on Apple, Spotify or Google podcasts. 

Question: are you an independent or an entrepreneur

• Earn with your Mind, not with your Time

• You are never going to get rich by renting your time

• Get Paid for your Judgment

• Set a High personal Hourly Rate

• Business Networking is a waste of time

• Learn to MAKE, to SELL

• Play iterated long-term game

• Cooperate with honest people

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify.

• Select ideas as a multi-passionate / polymath 

• Find Your Crew 

• Develop your Audience

• First Principles

• Fixed vs Growth Mindset

• Personal Branding

• Autodidact

• Show Your Work, the book

• Steal like An Artists, the book

• Four Agreements, the book

• Coaching, Mentoring

• Teaching, Training

• Self-Knowledge

• Cultivating Mindsets

• Set your Price as a Freelancer

• Teaching & Training

• Learning How-to Learn

• Autodidact

• Becoming a Teacher

• Storytelling

• Creating Content

• 6 Communication Tactics

• Creativity by Constraints

• Sabbatical Project

• Write Your Manifesto

• Stoicism

• IKIGAI

• Dopamine Fast

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• Plant-Based Speciality Cuisine

• SOUL Plant Food

• Pure & Simple WFPB lifestyle

• Time Restricted Eating

• Water Fasting

• 5-DAYTOX Challenge

• Fit after 40

• Hydration

• Blue Zones, the Book

• Zen Cuisine

• Green Thai Cuisine

• Water Fasting

• Active Resort

• Acute vs Chronic Stress

• Sleeping Habits
 

Listen the Blue Lotus Café Podcast on Apple or Spotify... You can check the follow-up conversations on IG TV Channel.

• What is the Circadian Rhythm?

• Look-up on the 24-hour Cycle, hour by hour 

• The effects of cycle

• How to synchronize with your internal clocks

- eating habits

- physical activities

- rest and sleep

Listen this episode on the Circadian Rhythm on Apple or Spotify.

• What is the Immune System?

• How it works?

• What strengthen the Immune System?

• Can you boost your Immune System?

• What to do / eat for a stronger Immune System?

Listen the Blue Lotus Café on Apple podcast or Spotify.

• What's the Microbiome?

• What can you eat for a healthier microbiome?

• What's the difference between probiotics and prebiotics?

• What can you do for a healthier gut flora?

• What can reveal a microbiome analysis?

• How the microbiome can support your Immune System?

Listen the episode on Apple podcast or Spotify.