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EP28: Solo episode with me: My Personal journey in Regeneration and Highlights of the RDP so far
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“I believe that the best way to inspire change is to live it out loud.”
In this special solo episode, I’m doing something new: every two weeks, I’ll be sharing personal insights and lessons from the field to help you make your business—and your life—more regenerative.
To kick things off, I’m telling my own story: how I went from a conventional path to designing landscapes, projects, and businesses that serve both people and the planet. I also highlight some of the most powerful moments from past episodes—so if you’re new here, this is the perfect place to start.
Expect reflections on soil, strategy, slow growth, and how small decisions can lead to big impact over time.
If you’re ready to build something meaningful, grounded, and truly alive—this one’s for you.
Explore these valuable resources to further your journey in regenerative design:
Discover more about Regenerative design at Paulownia Landscape Architects. https://www.paulownia-la.com/.
Dive into the Twelve Laws of Nature and unlock the secrets of harmonizing with our planet at https://www.12lawsofnature.com/.
Fulfill your garden aspirations with expert guidance from the Garden of Your Dreams masterclass at https://www.gardenofyourdreams.com/.
Ready to take actionable steps towards your dream garden? Book a complimentary 30-minute training session with Matthieu for immediate results: https://calendly.com/garden-of-your-dreams.
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Transcript
Introduction to New Podcast Format
00:00:01
Matthieu Mehuys
Hello, this is another episode of the Regenerative Design Podcast and this week we're doing something different. I decided to change it up a bit and do every week a solo episode where I will be teaching you certain areas in my podcast about how you can make your business more regenerative, how you can have a better impact in the world and how you can create a better regenerative business as
Host's Background and Episode Guide
00:00:24
Matthieu Mehuys
well.
00:00:24
Matthieu Mehuys
So, As I want to do that, I actually want to take the opportunity today to first introduce myself because it's been over a ah year that we've had the podcast and I'll talk a bit more about myself.
00:00:38
Matthieu Mehuys
And then what I also want to do today is I'll go through um the overview of the episodes since we've already have 27 episodes, I think. Yes, we do have 27 episodes. So this will be the twenty eight And I want to walk you through the highlights of the episodes so that if you're new to the episode, you can go and ah based on the information that I'll give you, you can go and listen to some of these other episodes. So that's what I want to do today to help you find ah episode that suits you best.
Mathieu Mehuys: Inspiration from Nature
00:01:13
Matthieu Mehuys
So yeah, let's kick it off with introducing myself. So my name is Mathieu Mehuys. I'm an award-winning author of the book 12 Universal Laws of Nature. um And I've written this book from the idea that when we can understand how nature works...
00:01:29
Matthieu Mehuys
We can use that knowledge to be better in our business. We can be better at growing our plants in our garden. We can be better as a land developer. Pretty much anything that has to do with outdoor spaces, in essence, it's about everything in a way.
00:01:45
Matthieu Mehuys
So that when we understand how the nature works, we can use that to our advantage and get the most potential out of your of your land or out of your property. So that's where this...
00:01:56
Matthieu Mehuys
book originated from and just to give you my backstory I grew up on a family farm my still today my brother and my father are farmers and ever since I was a child i was extremely fascinated by plants how on earth it is possible that if you have a tiny little seed and you put it in contact with the soil, that it can grow into a magnificent plant. Like for me, that must have been between the age of three and to five.
00:02:23
Matthieu Mehuys
I was so fascinated about it because I grew up with my father on the farm and every year in early spring, we would walk out on the field as he had just sown his field.
00:02:34
Matthieu Mehuys
We would walk to the middle of the field where it seems like nothing was growing. We would remove a little bit of the soil to see that that the seeds were sprouting and that always was a great sign because then the crops start to grow and it it can be a ah good year, a good harvest.
00:02:51
Matthieu Mehuys
So that was I was just fascinated by that. How that how is that possible? like Even so that you can have food from it, but also you kind of can have a huge tree over time, obviously. like how ah How on earth was this possible?
00:03:05
Matthieu Mehuys
And then I went on and by the time i was six or seven, I had a teacher at school and we had ah a small vegetable garden on our in our school.
00:03:16
Matthieu Mehuys
So this teacher would teach us how to seed, how to harvest, how to grow food, how to ah propagate, how to make cuttings, all of the stuff. on And I found it so fascinating that I came home um from school and I told my parents, hey, I'm going to start my own vegetable garden.
00:03:34
Matthieu Mehuys
Like, where can I do it? Please help me with that.
Early Garden Design and Passion for Landscape Architecture
00:03:37
Matthieu Mehuys
And at the time, my parents were extremely busy, both with starting their own businesses. My father as a farmer, my my mother had a different business.
00:03:47
Matthieu Mehuys
And so they said, like, no, we don't have time for it. Even on the farm, we were not growing vegetables at the time. It was mostly cash crops and cattle. So that was definitely not a priority. But I persisted. And eventually they told, OK, we have this small area in the back of the garden.
00:04:03
Matthieu Mehuys
Go and do your thing so you stop bothering us in a way. So I started out and I prepared my soil. My grandmother came. She helped me to to prepare the soil. We put in some compost because...
00:04:17
Matthieu Mehuys
The soil on our family farm is so hard. It's actually located in one of the areas that about 600 to 800 years ago, it was still ocean. So um some monks in the 12th century pushed back the ocean. They built dikes and they they removed the salt out of the soil by planting specific plants because they knew that this soil was super rich. But at the same time, it's so heavy clay soil that When it rains, it becomes very muddy.
00:04:48
Matthieu Mehuys
And when it's dry, it's like concrete. So was really tough to prepare the soil, but eventually we found out a way to kind of get it better. And then I started out growing with radishes and radishes. If you want to start your own garden,
00:05:02
Matthieu Mehuys
you can You should start with radishes because it's the easiest thing ever to grow. You put some seeds, few weeks later you have radishes. So I did that. I had my early wins, my early successes.
00:05:14
Matthieu Mehuys
few weeks later I had my own radishes and I still remember it clearly how proud I was showing it to my mother. And we had our first salad from with radishes from my own garden. i was like one of the best feelings ever.
00:05:29
Matthieu Mehuys
So that's where everything started. And then I thought, okay, this is kind of easy. Let's now go and grow other stuff, tomatoes, lettuce. So I i got and a bunch of other seeds and I thought like, it's so easy. So I just spread it out all the seeds in my whole
Education and Career in Landscape Architecture
00:05:43
Matthieu Mehuys
cute little garden that I had created. And at that time, I also became fascinated about design. Like I made my um I found old stones on the farm that were just laying around and I put them in a certain way that it created like a designed garden, even though it was very basic, but it was so much fun to to create that.
00:06:03
Matthieu Mehuys
And that's where I think my fascination also for garden design came from. And then i went on. So I put all my seeds in my whole garden thinking like super easy.
00:06:14
Matthieu Mehuys
I was also doing other stuff on my on my on the farm. I actually had my own check chicken egg business. I had 12 chicken and I was selling my eggs. uh so after school i would always pick up my eggs and then it's quite funny because my brother now has a chicken egg operation as well with ah mobile hand houses and yeah you should definitely check it out it's it's cool what we've been doing on our family farm but then so i had other things to do on the farm
00:06:46
Matthieu Mehuys
And I came back a couple weeks later thinking like I had my early success with radishes, I'll come back and it's going to be full of tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, all the good stuff. But I came back and I was devastated because my garden was overgrown by weeds. Weeds that were so nasty and high, they were higher than myself.
00:07:07
Matthieu Mehuys
Like imagine a small child, weeds higher than himself. So ah I was devastated. It was like, why is this happening? Why didn't nature just help me to give the things that I want?
00:07:18
Matthieu Mehuys
And it's only why I'm telling you that is because it only later when I started studying, I did a bachelor degree in landscape architecture because I wanted to learn how to design gardens. I did a master degree in in that international landscape architecture.
00:07:35
Matthieu Mehuys
So that was more for bigger projects. And then later, i also, when I finished my studies, I did a permaculture design course in India. And then it started to click, like the reason why I had failed at this garden operation is that I didn't understand how nature works.
00:07:54
Matthieu Mehuys
And then as I did my permaculture design course, it started to click and it was mostly related that you should take care of your soil. You should cover the soil as much as possible ah by using mulches and other things that we're actually using on our farm today.
00:08:10
Matthieu Mehuys
So it's really from that early experience that I became so fascinated about gardening. I also traveled the world. I visited a lot of eco resorts, regenerative farms. And from that experience, I founded my own business. I co-founded it.
00:08:24
Matthieu Mehuys
And that is Paulownia Landscape Architects. So in that business, we actually help people that have a property and they want an amazing, beautiful garden.
00:08:36
Matthieu Mehuys
but they also want to do it in a way that is ecological, biodiverse, that is good for the planet. So actually the main reason is creating something beautiful, um creating a paradise garden, but also doing in a way doing it in a way that is good for nature and that is sustainable in the in terms of like, it's manageable, it's easy to maintain.
00:08:57
Matthieu Mehuys
So we've got all this experience that I gathered over the years from my studies, from looking at different projects, experimenting things myself, that we now do that for other people.
00:09:09
Matthieu Mehuys
So yeah, that's like the done for me approach. And then I also teach people online how they can create their how they can create their own garden, how they can design it, how they should build it and how they can actually maintain it.
Podcast Episode Highlights: AI, Film, and Agriculture Innovations
00:09:24
Matthieu Mehuys
And the last part is quite important because it's often forgotten in garden designs.
00:09:29
Matthieu Mehuys
So, and then... I'm currently also consulting landowners and farmers how to become more regenerative and we're applying sis systems in that process. And currently I'm actually living in the Azores in the middle of the Atlantic. It's a subtropical climate with lots of opportunities.
00:09:48
Matthieu Mehuys
And so, yeah, that's pretty much what I do. I'm a landscape architect by trade, but I grew up on a family farm. So I use a lot of experience from that to apply it in pretty much any project that is related to gardening, land development, regenerative farming. So that's what I do.
00:10:09
Matthieu Mehuys
So now, as you now understand more about what I do, if you have questions, please reach out to me. you can always message me on Instagram or you can send me an email. And now what I want to do in the second part of this episode is to go through...
00:10:26
Matthieu Mehuys
the highlights of the past episodes. So the podcast has been going on for over a year, which is pretty amazing. And I had some really, really interesting guests on. So I want to give you the overview of the guests that came on so that you can go to that specific episode and listen to it.
00:10:44
Matthieu Mehuys
So the Regenerative Design podcast, I kicked it off with Raymond Aron, a New York Times top 10 bestselling author, who is also the publisher of my book.
00:10:55
Matthieu Mehuys
And we had a really cool conversation about how AI can help us to be more regenerative, which is a very important topic that I'll probably be talking about in one of the next ah solo episodes.
00:11:09
Matthieu Mehuys
Because when you know how to use AI, you can become more efficient, you can become more regenerative. So if you want to know more about why AI is so important, go and listen to that episode.
00:11:22
Matthieu Mehuys
And then in the second episode, we have we've we had Henry Gordon-Smith on. um So he is an expert in vertical farming.
00:11:34
Matthieu Mehuys
And so, yeah, it was really cool to have Henry Gordon-Smith on. And his business is the agriculture. So he really focuses on making agriculture.
00:11:49
Matthieu Mehuys
vertical farms more efficient and make make them work because there's a lot of fuzz and buzz about vertical farming, indoor farming. It's like kind of a trend or it has been a trend for many years.
00:12:03
Matthieu Mehuys
But as people are so hyped about it, a lot of projects fail so he's really helping the industry of making projects in that area ah work so it was really cool to have him on so definitely go check it out if you're interested about vertical farming and then in the third episode we had someone else on that was also really interesting so it was really about how you can actually
00:12:36
Matthieu Mehuys
So that episode, the third episode, was about the power of film. So in this episode, I actually interviewed Manny Baines. He's an award-winning director.
00:12:48
Matthieu Mehuys
And you might be wondering, what does that have to do with regenerative design or regeneration of our planet? Well, he's the director of the movie that I'm featured in or that I'm starring in. that just recently has also received an award. So the movie is called The Cure, an inside job, and it has won an award at the Cannes World Film Festival.
00:13:12
Matthieu Mehuys
So in France, it won an award for for a specific area. I think it was about health and wellness, because that's what the movie is about. So this movie... that was created by Manny Baines that is featured in episode three is really about, okay, we have a world where we see so many problems with health.
00:13:35
Matthieu Mehuys
Cancer is rising, all these modern diseases, diabetes, and we are finding it like... The film really tries to show you how health and wellness is an essential part of our life. And everybody wants to be healthy and everybody wants to be feeling good.
00:13:55
Matthieu Mehuys
So we go in the movie, we go through the problem statements like are there's a lot of pollution, people are eating unhealthy. So there's different practitioners in that movie.
00:14:06
Matthieu Mehuys
And I'm... kind of the odd fish in that pond because I'm not really a practitioner. So ah most people are like chiropractors, ah doctors.
00:14:17
Matthieu Mehuys
But I'm a landscape architect and I'm covering everything that has to do with regenerative farming, regenerative gardening, how important it is for your personal health to put your hands in a healthy soil, how it impacts your life, how how you feel better when you start gardening.
00:14:34
Matthieu Mehuys
So if you want to know more about the movie, you can listen to episode three. Then in episode four, we have another ah topic around vertical farming. This is an episode called Urban Harvest with alexandre Alexander Van Duen, who has a business ah that is growing strawberries indoors.
00:14:56
Matthieu Mehuys
So it's really cool to talk about that because now if you can grow strawberries indoors, you can actually produce it in areas that is difficult to produce. So for example, in Canada, where it's super cold in winter or in extreme climates that are super dry and to avoid having to import the strawberries or even have them flying in, we can have indoor farms to ah supply local communities with strawberries in this case. So if you want to know more about indoor strawberry growing, go and check that out.
00:15:28
Matthieu Mehuys
The episode five is with Nancy Ortenau. indoor and outdoor farming. So there, again, it's kind of still, we kind of kicked off the the podcast with mostly focusing on ah innovations in indoor farming.
00:15:44
Matthieu Mehuys
And Nancy has her own business in how god tower farms. So these are like towers and it's hydroponics. So it's working on water. It's a very easy, simple system.
00:15:56
Matthieu Mehuys
And she helps people set those farms up for themselves, like small if you want to do it in your home or if you want to set up bigger um farms. Yes.
00:16:07
Matthieu Mehuys
Episode six is with Dr. Jessica Dupont. who is a health specialist. So we really dive deep again into the health aspect. She has ah tremendous research on how most of the chemicals that are in our environment are affecting our personal health and how our diets are you affecting our personal health and how we can actually solve it.
00:16:30
Matthieu Mehuys
It has a lot to do with gut health. And I like to include those topics as well because our personal health is also part of creating a regenerative future. Because when we can produce regenerative food, which is good for the planet as a side effect, it's also good for our personal health.
00:16:49
Matthieu Mehuys
So it's really interesting when you go into regenerative farming, regenerative designs, there's so much like you're trying to solve one problem, but then as a side effect, you're also solving so many other problems. So that's why I'm so passionate about this.
00:17:03
Matthieu Mehuys
And the that's why this episode is very interesting to talk more about health. Then we have episode seven, which is my personal favorite. So on that episode, i have Owen Golds on.
00:17:16
Matthieu Mehuys
um And the episode is called Water is Life. And Owen is a farmer in Canada that is so knowledgeable and has all these... kind of nature-based innovations. So in a way, it's systems that have been working for millions of years, but he figured them out and he found out how he can use them to become a better farmer.
00:17:37
Matthieu Mehuys
So we really, we talk about farming, how pretty much the industrial revolution started, created an industrialized food system and how that actually is deple is still depleting our soils, which is a threat to our society.
00:17:52
Matthieu Mehuys
Because if you destroy your soils, then it's going to have a huge impact on health and society, which is currently happening. But if we can grow food regeneratively, what Owen is doing, um then it's so much better. And his episode is just so inspiring and so...
00:18:12
Matthieu Mehuys
grounding as well in the way that he has all this knowledge that he has applied on his own farm and he has people that come to his farm with stage for cancer and start eating his food and because it's so healthy they kind of heal from it or at least they're stretching their life um way longer than what people would expect so it's definitely my favorite episode about regenerative farming he's talking about some crazy um things that he came came up with with something that is called wood vinegar and biochar. Like biochar is starting to become more known. So biochar is in essence you're burning wood at a low temperature without oxygen. so
00:18:57
Matthieu Mehuys
And what it does, it creates some properties when you then mix it into the soil, it enhances the soil out so much and it can actually detoxify soils. so And then a side product from the biochar that is actually liquefied smoke because your biochar installation will create some smoke. And if you can liquefy that, then you have a product called wood vinegar.
00:19:23
Matthieu Mehuys
but sorry what vinegar and this is a liquid that it's when you use it in your garden you spray it on your plants you use it to help germinate your plants faster you can see crazy results i've even put a video on on my youtube channel um where you can see what crazy results it has. Like plants are growing 10 times faster, 10 times as good, and it's purely nature-based.
00:19:50
Matthieu Mehuys
And what we figured out as I was interviewing him and I visited his farm, because he's also featured in the and the movie, The Cure, So, by the way, if you want to watch the movie The Cure, you have to go to the website and you can watch it online there. So go to the website www.thecuredocumentaryfilm.com or just Google it and then you can watch the movie there.
00:20:16
Matthieu Mehuys
Farmer Owen is also featured in it and we're showing some really cool stuff in that movie about farming. so But the wood vinegar that I was talking about and why it's so important is that in nature, okay, today we we have wildfires.
00:20:32
Matthieu Mehuys
And wildfires are are also a natural phenomenon. Obviously, today we have way too much wildfires. If we look at the recent things that have been happening in in l LA, ah and in so many places on the world, there's wildfires happening.
00:20:47
Matthieu Mehuys
Often they're also manmade. But even in nature, before humans had such a big impact on nature, the wildfires would occur just because it's too hot or if of or or something happened that a fire started.
00:21:02
Matthieu Mehuys
And when that happens, what it does is that it sets free smoke into the atmosphere. And then what way what they discovered or Owen discovered as well, that in the last two years, there was a big fire in in Canada and there was a lot of smoke moving over to New York and to Toronto.
00:21:23
Matthieu Mehuys
You might remember some images of like New York looking completely in a so in a golden smoke. which is kind of an apocalyptic image. But that smoke that also came over to his farm, it's when it reached his farm, it started to rain down.
00:21:40
Matthieu Mehuys
And what he saw is that when the rain came down, the plants were growing so much faster after it. Even in the next week or two, trees were making new shoots. So it's a kind of a way that nature is able to recycle itself and that the energy that was lost through the fire is now in the atmosphere as smoke and then it drains down and it it gives a signal to existing plants to grow more, to grow faster, because there has been a wildfire. So it's creating a balance again.
00:22:13
Matthieu Mehuys
So from that knowledge, he uses this wood vinegar to stimulate plant growth and to signal to plants like it's okay to grow faster now. So it's really, really interesting. So if you want to know more about that, definitely go and watch that episode.
Episodes on Architecture, Biochar, and Regenerative Techniques
00:22:28
Matthieu Mehuys
Then in episode eight, I have Jeff Kramer on. He's about sustainable solutions for ah global water and food security. So he's like an inventor who's coming up with some crazy inventions, how to um harvest in a way sustainable energy because energy is abundantly available there's wind there's cold there's warm that there's so much energy around us but it's more about like how can we capture that energy and he he has some really cool inventions and technologies to harvest more energy or
00:23:03
Matthieu Mehuys
to also make it usable more, to make it more usable. Then we had episode nine, Ryan Cullen. He's a um ah market gardener.
00:23:14
Matthieu Mehuys
So market gardening is really about small scale food productions that you can sell vegetables locally locally in a regenerative way. And you can actually really create a good business from it. So he's ah he's been working with Jean-Martin Fortier, who's more known in that space as a market gardener. So yeah, it's quite interesting if you would say like, I'm considering to start growing my own food and even making a business out of it or starting my own small regenerative vegetable farm, go and listen episode nine.
00:23:55
Matthieu Mehuys
Then on episode 10, we had Kate Faddis, again from Canada as well. And she is an expert in policymaking about global um soil health to create a more sustainable world. So she's working for some instance institutes in Canada. So if you want to learn more about how institutes are also creating a better world, then definitely go and listen to that.
00:24:22
Matthieu Mehuys
Episode 11, Sam-Eric Rutman. He is a hospitality expert. So even in my own business, we' we're working in some hospitality projects, hotels, eco-resorts.
00:24:34
Matthieu Mehuys
And he's a long expert in that. And I wanted to get his advice on why it is important for the hospitality industry to focus on creating unique, sustainable, ecological services.
00:24:46
Matthieu Mehuys
spaces So we're really talking about that and how to apply it in the hospitality the industry. And that brings us also to episode 12, where when I interviewed Celine Vadam, who is a wellness and hospitality expert.
00:25:00
Matthieu Mehuys
So she's helping people globally around the world to set up their hotels, to make unique hotels that are different than what's currently already available.
00:25:11
Matthieu Mehuys
So she's even she has even worked with the Four Seasons. So she's like hospitality designer in that sense. So she really helps her clients from a to Z how to set up hotels.
00:25:23
Matthieu Mehuys
hotel businesses eco resorts so that's also interesting then we have ernest furtado episode 13 he's working in the real estate industry and how sustainable developments can help so then we had episode 14 g gillingham he's the one of the co-founders or co-owners he's not the co-founder of Onnit Sciences, which is a biostimulant product.
00:25:50
Matthieu Mehuys
So if you want to know more about biostimulants and his story, go and listen to that. Then we have episode 15. That's definitely one of my other highlight episodes with Jeremy McLeod. He's an architect from Australia.
00:26:04
Matthieu Mehuys
who is really focusing on sustainable architecture and how he can build projects that have a ah way less ah way better impact on the environment. So decreasing the footprint, using local materials, coming up with really interesting new designs that can help people to live more sustainably.
00:26:29
Matthieu Mehuys
and to also make it affordable because he's he's been doing that with his business. He also has a nonprofit and where they're actually developing buildings in Australia because there's a high demand or there's too little buildings. And so what his mission is, he wants to avoid people to go out and chop down the natural forest in Australia because they're under a lot of threat.
00:26:55
Matthieu Mehuys
So the way he says that it's the best solution is to make cities or at least cities in Australia more densely built because oftentimes people are living on a very big footprint and sometimes that's okay to do that. But if we can make more dense buildings,
00:27:15
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in urban environments, then it makes it more affordable. We can also have more public parks that also are positive for the environment. So yeah, really inspiring story and definitely one of my highlights.
00:27:28
Matthieu Mehuys
Then episode 16, a bit of an odd one, but really nice episode with Ivan Kutterbach, who has a ah sports brand for something that is called Pickleball. And he's with his business in creating equipment for this sport called pickleball he also wants to have a contribution on the environment so i thought it was a really cool episode to also show that even if you're not directly in the regenerative business or if you're not directly impacting um the environment with with your product or services you could still make some changes in in your business model
00:28:10
Matthieu Mehuys
that will help to create a greener, more sustainable and more ecological future. So really cool episode to show like even if you even if you're not in that specific industry, then there's still huge opportunities to have a different edge in the market as well as more and more consumers are now demanding that you have a positive impact on the environment.
00:28:34
Matthieu Mehuys
So, and then episode 17, that's also another highlight, Bill Wyatt, ah Biochar and Beyond. he This is another amazing episode where he's Bill has started a lumber. he his He has like 300 years of a legacy of lumber people in his family.
00:28:56
Matthieu Mehuys
So, and what he saw in the lumber industry in the US is that there's so much green waste. So they cut down the trees, even if it's done sustainably and they replant the forests all the time. They have so much green waste and those, because from cutting the wood, so you have all the wood chips and all the leftover pieces,
00:29:16
Matthieu Mehuys
And those material materials started piling up years over years over years. And he saw like this is really becoming a problem because we can't really do much with it. There's no demand for this product.
00:29:28
Matthieu Mehuys
So then he decided to look into biochar or he just he came across it. So now he's helping ah people around the world that have a lot of bio waste to use that bio waste to create biochar.
00:29:41
Matthieu Mehuys
ah and other products related to so we can then reuse that in farming or in gardening so really interesting episode if you want to dive deep into bigger scale biochar operations definitely go check out episode 17.
00:29:58
Matthieu Mehuys
Then we have episode 18 with Nurse Ruth. And Nurse Ruth is it's a really amazing story because Nurse Ruth, as the name says, she's and she has been a nurse for over 50 years.
00:30:12
Matthieu Mehuys
And as she was getting to the retirement age, instead of taking her retirement, she decided to start her own business and to start...
00:30:25
Matthieu Mehuys
building hospitals and now she's also on a mission to start ecological developments that we're actually starting to work on together to create
00:30:38
Matthieu Mehuys
homes where people can of different generations can live together and so that it becomes something that is really about elderly care but is instead of putting our elders in retirement homes which she tells me i can't use that word because it's an awful word and i agree so that we want to create multi-generational communities where people from different generations are living together And we're building that model based on the blue zones of the world.
00:31:09
Matthieu Mehuys
So in the world, there's a few blue zones and blue zones are areas where people live well over 100 years old. And so it's really interesting that we can use the science from blue zones to start now creating developments, regenerative developments, because a big aspect of the blue zones are community gardens, community events, public spaces where people can gather.
00:31:35
Matthieu Mehuys
So yeah, it's a really exciting episode to be inspired ah even at like when you finished one career that you can still make a huge ah change in your career or continue growing in in your business or that it's actually never too late to start your own business, more specifically your regenerative business in this case.
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Matthieu Mehuys
So and then we have episode 19 with Louis de Jaeger, who is also a dear friend and he's really a food forest specialist. He's created and numerous numerous amounts of documentaries.
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Matthieu Mehuys
He has been gaining a lot of attention ah worldwide even because he really focuses on making landscapes more
Decarbonizing Shipping and Sustainable Business Models
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Matthieu Mehuys
edible. He's also a landscape architect like myself.
00:32:21
Matthieu Mehuys
So it's really cool to see what if you want listen to an episode about two plant geeks talking about plants and food forests and how we can create a more regenerative world as a landscape architect and definitely go listen to episode 19.
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Matthieu Mehuys
So then we're at episode 20, and I think this is really a very interesting episode as well with Alexander Savarez, who has also a long has a long history in the maritime industry.
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Matthieu Mehuys
Already his grandfather grandfatherfa was building ships in Belgium, and that company continued to live on and is currently known as CMB Tech. And what he is focusing on, which is quite amazing and and crazy in a way, that he wants to decarbonize the maritime industry. So global shipping and this well like the global shipping industry is is one of the more polluting industries in the world that we're shipping things across the world.
00:33:22
Matthieu Mehuys
um so that we can have our amazon packages delivered in less than a day or or how crazy it is even today how fast you can get certain things so a lot of those things are done which with international shipping and that is has a really big implication on our environment so he's really on a mission to decarbonize the shipping industry over time because it's something that you can't do overnight but he's already built some ships that are running on hydrogen and ammonium so if you really want to know more about his business he's the CEO of the company and yeah that was a really interesting and inspiring episode as well
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Matthieu Mehuys
Then episode 21, Parker Condit. He's a ah health specialist. He's a personal train trainer. And he's also using regenerative principles in his business as to how you can be more regenerative as a health coast health coach.
00:34:20
Matthieu Mehuys
And he's actually, ah he was also one of, or he is one of my clients. I actually taught him the whole regenerative design process. notion so I really explained in a program that I have I really taught them like okay what does regenerative design mean like it's really a buzzword today but it seems like it's becoming this word like sustainability or green that everybody is now starting to use but what does it actually mean and how can you really create a regenerative farm a regenerative business like what are the principles what how is what is it based on
00:34:57
Matthieu Mehuys
So i I was teaching him that and then he came onto my show to talk about that experience and also how he's now coaching people around the world based on a lot of the things around health and wellness.
00:35:12
Matthieu Mehuys
Obviously, it's exercise and all those things, but also in... food and how we can actually help to have more regenerative food being consumed because that has a huge impact on the future of our planet then we're nearly at the current episodes but we still have a few left so then i had matthew lasco on he's a expert in in the us s for finding grants because in the us there's many grants for for certain projects like if you want to start a community garden if you want to support even to find local plants for free or you're looking to get subsidies for certain projects that you want to work on he has he has actually a business that helps people to find those grants
00:35:55
Matthieu Mehuys
and it's very affordable. So if you want to know grants in the US ah to help start your project, then you can listen to that. And then i had lee Stewart on, who is trying transforming sustainability into business success. So as there's a growing demand of like, okay,
00:36:15
Matthieu Mehuys
people need to be more sustainable. Any business pretty pretty much has to start doing that. And a lot of businesses are overwhelmed with that. Like, how do you actually do that? And how do you efficient how do you do it efficiently?
00:36:27
Matthieu Mehuys
And how can you actually make it an opportunity rather than like something you have to do and that becomes an expense in your company how can you actually use the fact that we need to be more sustainable we need to be more greener like there's no way around it if you're not thinking about that in your business you'll become way less competitive because it's like something you really have to do um there's several reasons legally there's there's implications but also like
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Matthieu Mehuys
Consumers are demanding it more and more ah as I explained before. So if you want to know how to make your business more sustainable, go and check that out. Lee Stewart from Australia.
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Matthieu Mehuys
And then um we have Bert Terhardt. also from Canada. We had a really cool and long conversation about um a lot of things. He's a sailor who has sailed the world, um who has sailed around the world.
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Matthieu Mehuys
And he's been doing a lot of research on the maritime health of of our planets. And then we talk about how that... how that has an impact globally. So if you want to know more about the oceans, the health of the oceans, and why that is such an important topic, you can go and listen to that episode.
00:37:46
Matthieu Mehuys
And then we have episode 25. we still have 25, 26, 27. And then we'll wrap it episode 25 really about creating... and then we'll wrap it up so episode twenty five is with um is about really about creating a world that is more sustainable.
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Matthieu Mehuys
So it's an episode where I interview someone who is a leading expert in regenerative, sustainable ah developments.
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Matthieu Mehuys
So that's really and interesting episode as well. and that yeah this is with frederick puyo who is the ceo um which he calls not chief executive officer but the catalytic enabling officer of a jpegs group a group that is focusing on and numerous regenerative and sustainable developments around the world and then we have episode 26
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Matthieu Mehuys
twenty six
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Matthieu Mehuys
which is an episode with Brandon Barnum, who is a community expert. So he has a company where you have
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Matthieu Mehuys
Homeowner, his business is actually called HomeownerAssociation.com, HOA.com. So in America, there's homeowner associations for communities.
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Matthieu Mehuys
So he's really focusing on helping homeowner associations, how to engage their communities, how to build their communities better. So his that episode is really about regenerative communities, building communities that are here to last. And we talked about numerous topics like how we can create greener ah communities, how can we enhance public and semi-public spaces.
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Matthieu Mehuys
And then in episode 27, which is the last one other than this one, is an interview with Justin Schneider from Australia again. So we had a few people on from Australia.
00:39:53
Matthieu Mehuys
And that episode is really cool because Justin has a business where he produces supplements um that are made mostly of mushrooms and are supernatural.
00:40:06
Matthieu Mehuys
And he's producing them in a way that is producing the highest quality supplements. And why I interviewed him, other than that he's helping to produce mushrooms, which is a very sustainable way of producing food and minerals and supplements, because other supplements might be way more chemical, is that other than the fact that he's having a positive and impact on the world with that, with his company called Forest Superfoods,
00:40:35
Matthieu Mehuys
So it's already based on um like with his supplements, we can actually plant more forests as these mushrooms are often produced in those kind of environments if they're grown naturally.
00:40:49
Matthieu Mehuys
And then, but more importantly, what he's doing is with every order that when somebody orders supplements, doesn't matter how much for what price they order, he donates one supplement.
Podcast Mission and Future Episodes
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Matthieu Mehuys
dollar for nature conservation so he's helping trusts in australia to acquire lands so that when those lands are acquired they can put them in a trust in a conservation trust so they can actually never be uh when it stays in that trust they can never be chopped down or or the trees cannot be cut down as it's now legally part of that trust and you can't destroy forests that are protected privately So that's a really cool episode as well.
00:41:31
Matthieu Mehuys
And that's the last episode, episode 27. twenty seven So yeah, i'm very I've been very excited and blessed to have all these amazing people on my podcast that are really...
00:41:44
Matthieu Mehuys
leading authorities and creating a more regenerative and sustainable way. And that also what I find so interesting about it is that it moves away. And that's one of the reasons why I founded this podcast is that we are now moving away from the paradigm that our world is in such a bad state, which still it is, but we have so many opportunities and so many ways that we can actually create a healthier, a greener, more prosperous world.
00:42:13
Matthieu Mehuys
that is still gonna like we're building a planet that is livable for many generations to come so yeah that's what i wanted to talk about thank you very much for listening to this episode and we'll keep it going next uh or next week there will be a normal episode and then the week after it will be another solo episode where i'm gonna be focusing on teaching you something about how to create a more regenerative future so thank you and see you in the next