November 21, 2024 • 31 mins
What if you could create a dining experience that not only tantalizes taste buds but also nurtures the planet? Join us as Aguilene Benicio, the visionary and CEO behind 'Breathe' in Marbella, shares how she transformed her passion for hospitality and nature into a pioneering restaurant that seamlessly blends elegance and sustainability. Aguilene reveals her innovative approach emphasizing how meaningful business drives success and sparks industry-wide change.
Embark on a journey with us as we explore the impact of Breathe's partnership with Lightspeed's carbon-free dining initiative, led by Marvin Baker. Discover the extraordinary milestone of planting 80,000 trees in countries like Tanzania and Senegal, fueled by patrons' generosity. Through Aguliene's reflections, you'll feel the personal fulfillment of contributing to environmental conservation and nurturing a sustainable future, one tree at a time.
Balancing leadership with personal wellness is an art, and Aguilene shows us how she manage's life. Tune in to hear Aguilene's empowering and the inspiring message as this episode's honoured guest.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In this episode, I'm speaking to CEO and founder of
Breathe.
Breathe is one of Marbella'stop leading restaurants, and
behind it is a CEO who's makingchange, and her leadership style
is truly inspiring.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Everything, when it becomes meaningful, becomes
powerful.
Having a meaning for thebusiness is what I believe is
the key of the success.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello and welcome to the James Granstrom podcast
Super Soul Model Series.
In this episode, I'm speakingto CEO and founder of Breathe,
one of Marbella's top diningrestaurants.
Ceo and founder of Breathe, oneof Marbella's top dining
restaurants, and with its sistercompany, soul, I'm speaking to
(00:56):
the CEO and founder, agalineBenicio, and what makes this
episode so inspiring is becauseAgaline's mission is one of
conscious leadership and the wayshe's also changing the face of
the restaurant industry.
So welcome to the Super SoulModel Series.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for inviting me for
this.
It's always nice to express abit.
You know what we are doingrelating to business and for me
personally, the base of thebusiness has been my intuition
(01:28):
from day one.
Yeah, I believe the success isbe able to somehow help living
beings in nature and I alwaysbeen very lucky to have this
player, good player ofcommunication with people yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So tell us a little bit about your background, tell
us a little bit about.
Tell us a little bit about yourbackground, tell us a little
bit about how your journey began, because before you create
these beautiful restaurants thatyou have in Marbella and if you
don't know, marbella is abeautiful little town in
southern Spain and it's nottropical, but it sure feels like
(02:01):
paradise here and what Aguilinahas created is this beautiful
few restaurants in this area,particularly this one that we're
in today, which is Breathe,thank you, and it's got this
lovely blend of nature, mixedwith modern chic, mixed with
elegance, and it's renowned forits great service.
But what started you on thisjourney?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well before Breathe.
I did work for the hospitalityindustry in Marbella, starting
from the very bottom and eversince the beginning I always
have this natural flair and veryeasy way of communicating with
people Basically this naturalthing about public relations and
(02:45):
marketing.
I always loved marketing.
It was my passion.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And in the beginning just being in the right place.
And then I got to know theinvestor and I had my other
business partner involved.
So I had the right people andthe right moment to start
something.
And it's funny becauseeverything got synchronized from
the beginning, like a sort ofmovement universal flow, where
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things start to come together.
In the beginning the ideawouldn't be to open such a big
place, but eventually so howmany square meters is this
restaurant?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Because it is very big and, for the guys on YouTube
, I'm going to show you the sizeof the restaurant we're dealing
with.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The whole building is about close to 5,000.
Wow Because we have parking for111 cars.
We also have a large machineryroom downstairs where we have
our sustainable machinery, wherewe heat the building the cold
months and we can cool it forthe hot months.
(03:50):
Yeah, so we have geothermalsystems.
We also do our waterpurification, so every water
that you drink at Breeze, wehave those moses systems that we
clean the water.
Here we also have a storagewhere we store the water from
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the rain and also what's left,the wastage, from those moses.
It's about 11,000 liters andwith this water we then use for
the irrigation system of our8,000 plants that we have here.
So with 8,000 plants in therestaurant yes, we plant between
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small and large trees and wehave a massive vertical garden
here, another one in air,another one on the street yeah
so we have a lot of meters ofvertical garden that we we have
our own source of water forwatering those plants as well so
amazing hearing all of thesesort of things that you're doing
(04:55):
, like with the water and andand not wasting anything.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But what I wanted to know is what, what actually led
you to on this journey ofleadership, because before you
actually, you know, set thisplace up, there had to be
something within you that wasdriving you.
So just tell us a little about,about your background, so we
can understand, like theaudience can understand, what
drives a person to want tocreate something that's
successful, but also with a bitof heart, because that's what
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you created here.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, coming from Brazil, you know, I've always
been very attached to nature andthen coming to Spain, in the
beginning I did work for thehospitality industry and I
remember when I got into therealization of Breathe, I had
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the venue have we have theinvestor, and I was thinking, it
was something inside of mesaying, oh, something connected
with the four natural elements,something connected with nature,
because you have a large venueand you, you know.
Obviously the idea was to havea large and busy venue and and
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from my heart I said, oh, itmust be something to do with
nature.
I mean, people love nature.
At the time I wasn't really, Ididn't really have the idea of
the tree planting yet, butlittle by little I started
getting sort of impulses oh,nature, all the four natural
elements the, the water, thefire, the air, the earth and
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then came into the actualexecution of the project.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And then somehow the whole circumstance started
putting people in front of me,like one of the main builders
said, oh, maybe the geothermalsystems can be good, and then we
went to visit geothermal systemconstructions in barcelona and
we start learning about thegeothermal and then uh, and then
(06:54):
said, okay, maybe we should tryit.
In the beginning was a bit, abit challenging, but because a
lot of people they don'tunderstand this concept in
marbella, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But what are you talking about?
The concept of like, usingenergy?
Yes, and sort of cultivatingand recycling energy yes,
exactly so recycling energy.
Whilst there's a good recyclingsystem in like taking out the
trash and the basura here inspain, it's different,
necessarily, within business,within industry, particularly in
the restaurant industry.
(07:27):
This is why I find you reallyinteresting to speak with,
because what is your reason whythat you wanted to do this?
Because I can tell straightaway that you love the
creativity, coming up with theideas, creating the architecture
, thinking how it's going tolook.
I can tell when, if you sit herewith Aglini, you can just tell
it's radiating that.
(07:48):
But there has to be a realreason underneath.
Why did you want to do it?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I believe success is being able to help community,
support community living beingsin general, obviously including
nature, and somehow, as westarted the business, something
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that in the beginning, I have avery strong intuition inside of
me, but I didn't realize wherewe're going in regards on the
size of the sustainableapproaches, and even the venue
started to, the answers startedto come on the path and then you
do something, you feel good andthen you implement that system
and the team appreciates it, andI think it was a combination of
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a synchronization of a lot ofpeople together going to the
same direction.
I believe the whole sustainableapproach of BREEZE was
obviously the intention from dayone, but we started to learn a
lot on our path and we're stilllearning.
We're still learning a lot andit's not something that okay, we
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do the tree planting, we do thegeothermal systems, we do all
the sustainable approaches, butthat is something that is
constantly improving.
You can do more and more andmore every day.
But, just to answer yourquestion, I believe from day one
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, the idea of creating a verysuccessful venue, a very large
venue, was somehow have muchmore than a restaurant, you know
(09:47):
, a message where people canthen become better and better
and they can get inspired, theyknow, starting from the clients,
from the staff, and all of thiscreates a sort of
synchronization of energy wheresomehow people feel it, the
staff feel it, they they workhappier, the clients they feel
when they come, as soon as theycome in, they feel something
(10:09):
about this place, you know,because having a meaning for the
business is what I believe isthe key of the success.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I love that there has to be some sort of meaning.
So many times I've looked atwhat drives people the people
that I interview or the peoplethat I work with.
It's so fun and interesting tosee the reason why they want to
do it.
I want to do it for bigger thanjust making profit.
It's got to have meaning, it'sgot to affect the people.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
This thing comes down to everything in life.
Even when you have arelationship or a friendship or
whatever you do, you knoweverything when becomes
meaningful, becomes powerful,yeah and um.
And then, I believe, is this,having a meaningful, a very
meaningful concept, you know, astrong concept and an identity.
(11:07):
Yeah, I believe that was theidea from day one to create
something meaningful and with avery strong identity.
That then from that basis, fromthat core, it's much easier to
be successful for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So how would you say that your style of leadership
has evolved?
You know how is it.
You know how long has therestaurant been open for?
uh, about six years now, okay,and how would you say agaline
has evolved in her leadershipstyle?
Because you are kind of a bitof a matriarch to the restaurant
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and to the community to acertain extent, which is great.
But how do you feel like you'veevolved as a human being?
Because there's one thing to be, you know an identity.
Where you're the, you know theleader or the ceo of the
business but there's, there'sanother thing where you're like
I'm actually, people are lookingup to me yeah yeah, so you,
you've got to hold your ownlevel of yeah of integrity and
(12:04):
and all the other values.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
For me nowadays, with the experience I have today, I
would say two words Okay,authenticity being true with
yourself, express who you arebecause, and then you create a
real thing and the people theyget inspired by it thing and the
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people they get inspired by it,and it's much easier to then
influence the team or theclientele when you are being
yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, so do you ever feel like you haven't been
yourself when you walked in?
Maybe the beginning?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
was very hard.
I wouldn't say I haven't beenmyself, but it gets so busy and
you get so lost in so much work,starting from the construction,
and then it was a verystressful period during the
construction.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How long did it take to build this building About?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
two years.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, yeah, it's a massive building.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And when you're creating something innovative,
the hardest part is to try todrag that synchronicity of
people that you need all thepeople to help you to put them
in the same direction, with thesame vision as you, especially
in Marbella.
Marbella is still a small place, a village.
When you're dealing withadministration, they don't
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really understand where you'regoing with your mind and now
creating something innovative ohmy god, a sustainable building
in Marbella.
So something that was a bitchallenging then, so that
obviously takes a lot of energyfrom you.
And then, after two years ofconstruction, we opened our
doors.
(13:37):
We had hundreds of staffworking for us.
You know people learning whereeverything is, learning their
way around, and then you have tobe on top of everything the
quality of the service and thefood.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Because there are three floors.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, we started here first yeah, and then the second
one was ground, and then thethird one air so the ground is
the restaurant or the coffee,the cafe, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And then the air is the the sky bar.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's like an open, open nightclub amazing amazing,
um, so yeah, so that was uh verychallenging.
But yes, answering yourquestion, I believe authenticity
is very important and alsobeing human, you know, because
it doesn't matter how much weinvest in a business, the key
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players here, the most importantpart of the business, are the
human beings and I guess I feelvery lucky that I started from
from the bottom, so I completelyunderstand.
You know workers that startingor learning or you know it's
very it's much easier for me tounderstand, understand they need
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do you mean you feel like youcan put yourself in the shoes of
like each level, or?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
perhaps perhaps of you know the people that work
100 percent.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know when you and you understand, because you've
been there yeah it's not thesame when you learn something,
when you know something that youyou saw, but when you have been
there, it's much easier to tounderstand.
Um.
So, yeah, I think it'simportant to be able to inspire
people but, at the same time,understand their needs.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Sure, because when we meet other people's needs, it's
kind of like your needs get metas well, don't you?
Because happy staff no doubtcreates a happy product or a
happy service, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So yeah, absolutely, because you're going invest with
, you're gonna invest inmarketing, you're gonna, you
know, improve, you're gonna,you're gonna have an amazing
dish or a beautiful selection ofwine, but the connection, the
final connection with yourclient is your stuff yeah you
know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So they are the the most important thing, most
important part of the businessnow there's another part of your
business that I'm fascinated by, because I met actually a alien
in in a breathwork sessionlooking to help ourselves by
doing some breathwork.
And I had a previous get someoneI interviewed a while back and
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he was our teacher and what Ifound fascinating was, at the
end of that breath work, said I,I leant over and I and I was
looking at the people in theroom and I just felt like, well,
I must speak to this lady.
And we ended up having aconversation and this leads me
to why we're sitting here todayactually, and it's your passion
(16:34):
for how you're giving back inyour business and this finds I
find really inspiring and itjust shows me like the cycle of
how we can really contribute andgive back when we're succeeding
, and it's just this beautifulcycle yeah and it's about your
passion, yeah, uh, for beingable to to give back by planting
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trees.
Tell us a little bit about thatand how that works with your
business and how you even cameinto that in the first place
yeah, well, when we started,because of the philosophy of the
business and the concepts, uh,with a name like Bree.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, yeah so somehow everything was already
orchestrated by the universe,but I started to learn day by
day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A little bit Sure.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
In the beginning, with our concept, this identity,
we started to work with ourEPOS system.
It's basically the system thatyou use for sales.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What's it called?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
EPOS.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
EPOS, the one from Australia and New Zealand
originally.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, not that, but it's a type of EPPOS.
What we do is the cell systemscalled Lightspeed, okay,
lightspeed, and somehowLightspeed said oh, we're doing
this project carbon-free dining.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Would you like to participate?
And we start to investigateabout it and learning about it.
I got to know Marvin Baker,which is the founder okay, and
then from is he?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
what nationality is Marvin Baker?
He's British.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh, he's British, okay so we started from day one
support this project, okay andyeah, and I was still still
doing six years later and wejust reached the milestone of
planting 80,000 trees last week.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Last week.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And whereabouts are you planting those trees for the
audience, so that they have?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We have in developing countries.
Okay.
We've done in Tanzania.
We're still doing some inTanzania, but now we're starting
a very large project, support avery large project in Senegal.
So that's very exciting becausefor me it's like that intuition
, that thing telling me that, oh, you're only starting If you
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tell me where I want to go.
I want to look back one day andbe responsible for the planting
of millions of trees.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Lovely.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's where I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So there's certain proceeds of your business that
goes to planting trees.
That's how it's going.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, what we do.
When the clients they order thebill, we add one euro and 25
cents in the bill, optional, andthe clients can can then plant
a tree with that donation.
Some clients they ask to plantmore and we also have an
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independent site where peoplecan access and donate more trees
, which is BreezeGiftedTreecom.
People can access and they canchoose the amount of trees, the
type of trees and they candonate.
They can go, they can find inthe Google Map where the trees
are and you can see that yourtree is actually being planted.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You can actually get on the flight and fly and go and
see.
So what I will?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
do on this episode.
I'll just make sure that wehave the link in there so that
if you are inspired, as I am, toplant some trees, and then you
can see that your tree isactually being done, because
that's actually quite animportant part, because there's
one thing to have this goodwillto say I want to plant it, but
it's also quite nice to see theevidence that it's actually
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being done.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Absolutely, and follow up yeah, and you've
contributed to that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
There's something quite beautiful about that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's amazing.
It's the same thing when, forexample, I have a little small
avocado tree in my garden.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I planted about two years ago.
It's a baby tree.
It's going to be a few years.
You know how it is.
The soil here in Spain is verydry.
It takes a bit of time.
The other day I was sitting inthe garden about a month ago and
I look at the tree and I lookat the tree and I saw four
avocados hanging the tree.
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Oh, my god, I've got my sourceof avocados now.
You know, like the trees, yourbaby, but I know in one or two
years time I'm gonna have thatsource of avocados.
Yeah, and I don't know.
It's just because we are partof it.
No, like a lot of times, thehumans, they don't realize, they
disconnect themselves witheverything in this, but in
reality we are a part of allthis force and we are integrated
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to it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's why when we do something like this, when we
plant a tree, instantly we feelbetter.
So, basically, have youactually felt that feeling?
Because this is reallyimportant for the audience when
you do something good you canactually feel that feeling
inside of you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For me, for example, I think, as I mentioned in the
beginning, I keep persisting onthis like the success of being
able to help humans which Iinclude in the living beings and
nature, be able to support that.
That is what success is for me.
And just to answer to yourquestion for me, wake up in the
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morning and think, okay, I'vegot this beautiful business.
I've got over 200 peopleworking for this company.
We receive close to 300,000visitors every year.
Okay, this is great, but itbecame an institution, became a
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toll for something much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah.
And that, for me, is whatinspires me, and and it makes my
my heart jump, so do you thinkthat some of the guests that
come for the most amazing foodhere, by the way, do you think
that some of the guests actuallyknow the philosophy?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
well, I think a lot of them, because that's come
from you, right?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
so the philosophy came, come, comes from you, your
idea.
But then you're like right?
Do the people that actuallycome and enjoy the exquisite
food here and it is exquisite dothey know what they're
contributing to?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I think a lot of.
We are very, very fortunatebecause we do have a very strong
local clientele.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So people who've been here for 20 times or, you know,
like local, local professionals, people that live in Marbella,
but of course we also have thetourists, people who don't know
Marbella.
They came, they came here andobviously we are in a good
location.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Because in the summer it's absolutely packed all the
time, non-stop.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I guess a lot of people they don't have the time
to have that education, yeah,but I believe more and more and
more, more people are getting toknow our philosophy and as the
time passes, with my ambition ofplanting more and more and more
and more trees, I'm sure we'regoing to always make more and
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more and more noise about it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, I know you all make some noise about it, yeah,
so what do you think the thefuture of the business is?
I know you'd like the trees areimportant, but what would you
think the future is of what youknow?
What would you like your legacyto be?
More of now, because it's quiteI guess I want to reframe the
question a little bit.
Being a leader, you're also amom.
How do you manage all of this?
How do you manage sort of the200 people?
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How do you manage, you know,being a mom at the same time?
How do you manage to take careof yourself, because you do have
to take care of your wellness?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
100.
Balance.
I think that's the words.
I mean.
Obviously, we are a boss here.
You will now have the actualmake things happen.
Yeah, also, I feel very, veryprivileged to have an incredible
team.
That is this is the future ofthe business.
I believe the team because wehave people with extreme
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potential here, people whodemonstrate that they can do a
lot more than initially wethought they could.
I mean, we give them theopportunity and people always
surprise you.
The balance I mean you have tohave the action and be the boss
here, of course, but then I'mstill a woman.
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I still have my vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
For sure I have my partner.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I have my daughter.
So, at home, I want my partnerto put the fire on and pour me a
glass of wine or a cup of tea.
I want to keep thatvulnerability as well at home.
I want to be a mom.
I want to spend time with mydaughter.
I want to keep thatvulnerability as well at home.
I want to be a mom.
I want to spend time with mydaughter.
I want to read bad stories withher, you know.
So you have to have thatbalance and understand that.
(25:39):
Okay, now is the time for this,now is the time for that.
Now is the time for me to turnoff my phone.
I want to go to my pilatessession.
You know, I think it'simportant to make a plan and
understand where and how you'regonna devote your energy.
People call this timemanagement.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I would call energy management that's a good one,
yeah, because managing yourenergy is essential to your
well-being, isn't it?
And if you're low on it, sowhen you have a low energy day,
how do you come back from that?
Because this is great forleaders, right?
So people aspiring to beleaders, maybe even women.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Meditation.
Meditation is very important.
Once you have that noise andyou're not feeling well, you
stop.
Okay, I'm going to stop now forI don't know 20 minutes and I'm
gonna have this moment for me.
I'm gonna take my shoes off,I'm gonna walk on the grass, I'm
gonna connect a little bit withmyself.
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As nature, let's reset, becauseif you are having that bad day
and you're confused and if youkeep going without reboot,
normally it only gets worse.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
For sure so did you realize that early in the
business or did it take you somechallenges?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No, no no, no, we've been to challenges, you know,
not only business challenges.
We all go through lifechallenges as well, we all go
through life challenges as well.
But that's the beauty of takingthat opportunity of having
challenges and get those littlepieces of you and put it
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together and come back andrebuild yourself again.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Can I just say I really love the way that you've
used the word challenge withopportunity, because sometimes
we look at them and just go ohno, but you actually see it as
like an opportunity to rebuild,to recreate.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, 100 percent.
I mean I think like anythingreally, you know, like sometimes
you need that little push toget out of your comfort zone and
I believe challenges in life is, at the moment you don't see it
(27:58):
why me and why I'm living this.
And why, is this happening andafter a while, you realize that
without the circumstances, youwouldn't direct your journey
into a much more successful andmuch more powerful path.
It's a very strong sentencefrom Oprah saying turn your
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wounds into wisdom.
And it's important becausewithout knowing the dark, how
can you appreciate the light?
You know.
So this is uh.
This is important because thefact that you, you, everything's
okay and you're going, notgoing to any, any, any
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challenges or anything's goingwrong, doesn't mean it's not
going wrong.
You know, I think it'simportant to see the challenges
as an opportunity.
You know, and we all go, andwhen I don't, I don't believe
that any, any human being thatdoesn't go through challenges.
You 100% get there because oneway or the other yeah so what do
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you would you like your legacyto be?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
what are you working on creating a legacy for
yourself?
Well, I.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I want to plant as much trees as I can and I want
to help as many human beings asI can.
Um, like when you ask about thefuture of the business, I'm not
sure exactly where we're goingor what I can say.
I know we're going all what Ican say.
I know we're going in anincredible direction because we
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have this synchronicity ofincredible human beings working
together with us, who a lot ofthem.
I can see them becoming verysuccessful in life and I'm very
grateful they are here, becauseI know that I'm going to witness
a lot of them doing extremelywell, hopefully with us, but are
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they going to do well anyway?
So I guess this is our future,our team, and I can see us going
very far because of thispowerful energy we get from them
.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Lovely Well, aglène.
It's been amazing speaking withyou today.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I just wanted to say have you got any last words that
you'd like to share?
You know, with the peopletuning in today, is there
something that you think thatyou know, a message that you
could share with the audiencethat would?
Perhaps I'm leaving in a moreoptimistic, inspired place.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, well, being a woman and being a leader, I've
learned that my most powerfultool is my intuition.
So a lot of times you think, oh, this is right, I should do
that.
And then maybe you have youknow, somebody said no, no, you
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should do this, especially whenyou're dealing with so many
people.
Sure, and eventually you alwaysrealize that intuition was the
truth, because I believe theintuition is a toll that the
universal forces give to you foryou to use to lead you to the
right direction.
So all I can say is like yourintuition is powerful, so make
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sure you're always there for it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Fantastic.
Thank you for joining me today.
You're this week's super soul.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Thank you, that's very nice.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
If you enjoyed this episode, please consider liking,
subscribing and sharing,because it really does help
reach more people.
Thank you.
In this episode, I'm speaking to CEO and founder of
Breathe.
Breathe is one of Marbella'stop leading restaurants, and
behind it is a CEO who's makingchange, and her leadership style
is truly inspiring.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Everything, when it becomes meaningful, becomes
powerful.
Having a meaning for thebusiness is what I believe is
the key of the success.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello and welcome to the James Granstrom podcast
Super Soul Model Series.
In this episode, I'm speakingto CEO and founder of Breathe,
one of Marbella's top diningrestaurants.
Ceo and founder of Breathe, oneof Marbella's top dining
restaurants, and with its sistercompany, soul, I'm speaking to
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the CEO and founder, agalineBenicio, and what makes this
episode so inspiring is becauseAgaline's mission is one of
conscious leadership and the wayshe's also changing the face of
the restaurant industry.
So welcome to the Super SoulModel Series.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for inviting me for
this.
It's always nice to express abit.
You know what we are doingrelating to business and for me
personally, the base of thebusiness has been my intuition
(01:28):
from day one.
Yeah, I believe the success isbe able to somehow help living
beings in nature and I alwaysbeen very lucky to have this
player, good player ofcommunication with people yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So tell us a little bit about your background, tell
us a little bit about.
Tell us a little bit about yourbackground, tell us a little
bit about how your journey began, because before you create
these beautiful restaurants thatyou have in Marbella and if you
don't know, marbella is abeautiful little town in
southern Spain and it's nottropical, but it sure feels like
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paradise here and what Aguilinahas created is this beautiful
few restaurants in this area,particularly this one that we're
in today, which is Breathe,thank you, and it's got this
lovely blend of nature, mixedwith modern chic, mixed with
elegance, and it's renowned forits great service.
But what started you on thisjourney?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well before Breathe.
I did work for the hospitalityindustry in Marbella, starting
from the very bottom and eversince the beginning I always
have this natural flair and veryeasy way of communicating with
people Basically this naturalthing about public relations and
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marketing.
I always loved marketing.
It was my passion.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And in the beginning just being in the right place.
And then I got to know theinvestor and I had my other
business partner involved.
So I had the right people andthe right moment to start
something.
And it's funny becauseeverything got synchronized from
the beginning, like a sort ofmovement universal flow, where
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things start to come together.
In the beginning the ideawouldn't be to open such a big
place, but eventually so howmany square meters is this
restaurant?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Because it is very big and, for the guys on YouTube
, I'm going to show you the sizeof the restaurant we're dealing
with.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The whole building is about close to 5,000.
Wow Because we have parking for111 cars.
We also have a large machineryroom downstairs where we have
our sustainable machinery, wherewe heat the building the cold
months and we can cool it forthe hot months.
(03:50):
Yeah, so we have geothermalsystems.
We also do our waterpurification, so every water
that you drink at Breeze, wehave those moses systems that we
clean the water.
Here we also have a storagewhere we store the water from
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the rain and also what's left,the wastage, from those moses.
It's about 11,000 liters andwith this water we then use for
the irrigation system of our8,000 plants that we have here.
So with 8,000 plants in therestaurant yes, we plant between
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small and large trees and wehave a massive vertical garden
here, another one in air,another one on the street yeah
so we have a lot of meters ofvertical garden that we we have
our own source of water forwatering those plants as well so
amazing hearing all of thesesort of things that you're doing
(04:55):
, like with the water and andand not wasting anything.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But what I wanted to know is what, what actually led
you to on this journey ofleadership, because before you
actually, you know, set thisplace up, there had to be
something within you that wasdriving you.
So just tell us a little about,about your background, so we
can understand, like theaudience can understand, what
drives a person to want tocreate something that's
successful, but also with a bitof heart, because that's what
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you created here.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, coming from Brazil, you know, I've always
been very attached to nature andthen coming to Spain, in the
beginning I did work for thehospitality industry and I
remember when I got into therealization of Breathe, I had
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the venue have we have theinvestor, and I was thinking, it
was something inside of mesaying, oh, something connected
with the four natural elements,something connected with nature,
because you have a large venueand you, you know.
Obviously the idea was to havea large and busy venue and and
(06:04):
from my heart I said, oh, itmust be something to do with
nature.
I mean, people love nature.
At the time I wasn't really, Ididn't really have the idea of
the tree planting yet, butlittle by little I started
getting sort of impulses oh,nature, all the four natural
elements the, the water, thefire, the air, the earth and
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then came into the actualexecution of the project.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And then somehow the whole circumstance started
putting people in front of me,like one of the main builders
said, oh, maybe the geothermalsystems can be good, and then we
went to visit geothermal systemconstructions in barcelona and
we start learning about thegeothermal and then uh, and then
(06:54):
said, okay, maybe we should tryit.
In the beginning was a bit, abit challenging, but because a
lot of people they don'tunderstand this concept in
marbella, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But what are you talking about?
The concept of like, usingenergy?
Yes, and sort of cultivatingand recycling energy yes,
exactly so recycling energy.
Whilst there's a good recyclingsystem in like taking out the
trash and the basura here inspain, it's different,
necessarily, within business,within industry, particularly in
the restaurant industry.
(07:27):
This is why I find you reallyinteresting to speak with,
because what is your reason whythat you wanted to do this?
Because I can tell straightaway that you love the
creativity, coming up with theideas, creating the architecture
, thinking how it's going tolook.
I can tell when, if you sit herewith Aglini, you can just tell
it's radiating that.
(07:48):
But there has to be a realreason underneath.
Why did you want to do it?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I believe success is being able to help community,
support community living beingsin general, obviously including
nature, and somehow, as westarted the business, something
(08:15):
that in the beginning, I have avery strong intuition inside of
me, but I didn't realize wherewe're going in regards on the
size of the sustainableapproaches, and even the venue
started to, the answers startedto come on the path and then you
do something, you feel good andthen you implement that system
and the team appreciates it, andI think it was a combination of
(08:40):
a synchronization of a lot ofpeople together going to the
same direction.
I believe the whole sustainableapproach of BREEZE was
obviously the intention from dayone, but we started to learn a
lot on our path and we're stilllearning.
We're still learning a lot andit's not something that okay, we
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do the tree planting, we do thegeothermal systems, we do all
the sustainable approaches, butthat is something that is
constantly improving.
You can do more and more andmore every day.
But, just to answer yourquestion, I believe from day one
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, the idea of creating a verysuccessful venue, a very large
venue, was somehow have muchmore than a restaurant, you know
(09:47):
, a message where people canthen become better and better
and they can get inspired, theyknow, starting from the clients,
from the staff, and all of thiscreates a sort of
synchronization of energy wheresomehow people feel it, the
staff feel it, they they workhappier, the clients they feel
when they come, as soon as theycome in, they feel something
(10:09):
about this place, you know,because having a meaning for the
business is what I believe isthe key of the success.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I love that there has to be some sort of meaning.
So many times I've looked atwhat drives people the people
that I interview or the peoplethat I work with.
It's so fun and interesting tosee the reason why they want to
do it.
I want to do it for bigger thanjust making profit.
It's got to have meaning, it'sgot to affect the people.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
This thing comes down to everything in life.
Even when you have arelationship or a friendship or
whatever you do, you knoweverything when becomes
meaningful, becomes powerful,yeah and um.
And then, I believe, is this,having a meaningful, a very
meaningful concept, you know, astrong concept and an identity.
(11:07):
Yeah, I believe that was theidea from day one to create
something meaningful and with avery strong identity.
That then from that basis, fromthat core, it's much easier to
be successful for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So how would you say that your style of leadership
has evolved?
You know how is it.
You know how long has therestaurant been open for?
uh, about six years now, okay,and how would you say agaline
has evolved in her leadershipstyle?
Because you are kind of a bitof a matriarch to the restaurant
(11:41):
and to the community to acertain extent, which is great.
But how do you feel like you'veevolved as a human being?
Because there's one thing to be, you know an identity.
Where you're the, you know theleader or the ceo of the
business but there's, there'sanother thing where you're like
I'm actually, people are lookingup to me yeah yeah, so you,
you've got to hold your ownlevel of yeah of integrity and
(12:04):
and all the other values.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
For me nowadays, with the experience I have today, I
would say two words Okay,authenticity being true with
yourself, express who you arebecause, and then you create a
real thing and the people theyget inspired by it thing and the
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people they get inspired by it,and it's much easier to then
influence the team or theclientele when you are being
yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, so do you ever feel like you haven't been
yourself when you walked in?
Maybe the beginning?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
was very hard.
I wouldn't say I haven't beenmyself, but it gets so busy and
you get so lost in so much work,starting from the construction,
and then it was a verystressful period during the
construction.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How long did it take to build this building About?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
two years.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, yeah, it's a massive building.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And when you're creating something innovative,
the hardest part is to try todrag that synchronicity of
people that you need all thepeople to help you to put them
in the same direction, with thesame vision as you, especially
in Marbella.
Marbella is still a small place, a village.
When you're dealing withadministration, they don't
(13:17):
really understand where you'regoing with your mind and now
creating something innovative ohmy god, a sustainable building
in Marbella.
So something that was a bitchallenging then, so that
obviously takes a lot of energyfrom you.
And then, after two years ofconstruction, we opened our
doors.
(13:37):
We had hundreds of staffworking for us.
You know people learning whereeverything is, learning their
way around, and then you have tobe on top of everything the
quality of the service and thefood.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Because there are three floors.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, we started here first yeah, and then the second
one was ground, and then thethird one air so the ground is
the restaurant or the coffee,the cafe, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And then the air is the the sky bar.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's like an open, open nightclub amazing amazing,
um, so yeah, so that was uh verychallenging.
But yes, answering yourquestion, I believe authenticity
is very important and alsobeing human, you know, because
it doesn't matter how much weinvest in a business, the key
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players here, the most importantpart of the business, are the
human beings and I guess I feelvery lucky that I started from
from the bottom, so I completelyunderstand.
You know workers that startingor learning or you know it's
very it's much easier for me tounderstand, understand they need
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do you mean you feel like youcan put yourself in the shoes of
like each level, or?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
perhaps perhaps of you know the people that work
100 percent.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know when you and you understand, because you've
been there yeah it's not thesame when you learn something,
when you know something that youyou saw, but when you have been
there, it's much easier to tounderstand.
Um.
So, yeah, I think it'simportant to be able to inspire
people but, at the same time,understand their needs.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Sure, because when we meet other people's needs, it's
kind of like your needs get metas well, don't you?
Because happy staff no doubtcreates a happy product or a
happy service, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So yeah, absolutely, because you're going invest with
, you're gonna invest inmarketing, you're gonna, you
know, improve, you're gonna,you're gonna have an amazing
dish or a beautiful selection ofwine, but the connection, the
final connection with yourclient is your stuff yeah you
know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So they are the the most important thing, most
important part of the businessnow there's another part of your
business that I'm fascinated by, because I met actually a alien
in in a breathwork sessionlooking to help ourselves by
doing some breathwork.
And I had a previous get someoneI interviewed a while back and
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he was our teacher and what Ifound fascinating was, at the
end of that breath work, said I,I leant over and I and I was
looking at the people in theroom and I just felt like, well,
I must speak to this lady.
And we ended up having aconversation and this leads me
to why we're sitting here todayactually, and it's your passion
(16:34):
for how you're giving back inyour business and this finds I
find really inspiring and itjust shows me like the cycle of
how we can really contribute andgive back when we're succeeding
, and it's just this beautifulcycle yeah and it's about your
passion, yeah, uh, for beingable to to give back by planting
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trees.
Tell us a little bit about thatand how that works with your
business and how you even cameinto that in the first place
yeah, well, when we started,because of the philosophy of the
business and the concepts, uh,with a name like Bree.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, yeah so somehow everything was already
orchestrated by the universe,but I started to learn day by
day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A little bit Sure.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
In the beginning, with our concept, this identity,
we started to work with ourEPOS system.
It's basically the system thatyou use for sales.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What's it called?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
EPOS.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
EPOS, the one from Australia and New Zealand
originally.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, not that, but it's a type of EPPOS.
What we do is the cell systemscalled Lightspeed, okay,
lightspeed, and somehowLightspeed said oh, we're doing
this project carbon-free dining.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Would you like to participate?
And we start to investigateabout it and learning about it.
I got to know Marvin Baker,which is the founder okay, and
then from is he?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
what nationality is Marvin Baker?
He's British.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh, he's British, okay so we started from day one
support this project, okay andyeah, and I was still still
doing six years later and wejust reached the milestone of
planting 80,000 trees last week.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Last week.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And whereabouts are you planting those trees for the
audience, so that they have?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We have in developing countries.
Okay.
We've done in Tanzania.
We're still doing some inTanzania, but now we're starting
a very large project, support avery large project in Senegal.
So that's very exciting becausefor me it's like that intuition
, that thing telling me that, oh, you're only starting If you
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tell me where I want to go.
I want to look back one day andbe responsible for the planting
of millions of trees.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Lovely.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's where I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So there's certain proceeds of your business that
goes to planting trees.
That's how it's going.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, what we do.
When the clients they order thebill, we add one euro and 25
cents in the bill, optional, andthe clients can can then plant
a tree with that donation.
Some clients they ask to plantmore and we also have an
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independent site where peoplecan access and donate more trees
, which is BreezeGiftedTreecom.
People can access and they canchoose the amount of trees, the
type of trees and they candonate.
They can go, they can find inthe Google Map where the trees
are and you can see that yourtree is actually being planted.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You can actually get on the flight and fly and go and
see.
So what I will?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
do on this episode.
I'll just make sure that wehave the link in there so that
if you are inspired, as I am, toplant some trees, and then you
can see that your tree isactually being done, because
that's actually quite animportant part, because there's
one thing to have this goodwillto say I want to plant it, but
it's also quite nice to see theevidence that it's actually
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being done.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Absolutely, and follow up yeah, and you've
contributed to that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
There's something quite beautiful about that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's amazing.
It's the same thing when, forexample, I have a little small
avocado tree in my garden.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I planted about two years ago.
It's a baby tree.
It's going to be a few years.
You know how it is.
The soil here in Spain is verydry.
It takes a bit of time.
The other day I was sitting inthe garden about a month ago and
I look at the tree and I lookat the tree and I saw four
avocados hanging the tree.
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Oh, my god, I've got my sourceof avocados now.
You know, like the trees, yourbaby, but I know in one or two
years time I'm gonna have thatsource of avocados.
Yeah, and I don't know.
It's just because we are partof it.
No, like a lot of times, thehumans, they don't realize, they
disconnect themselves witheverything in this, but in
reality we are a part of allthis force and we are integrated
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to it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's why when we do something like this, when we
plant a tree, instantly we feelbetter.
So, basically, have youactually felt that feeling?
Because this is reallyimportant for the audience when
you do something good you canactually feel that feeling
inside of you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For me, for example, I think, as I mentioned in the
beginning, I keep persisting onthis like the success of being
able to help humans which Iinclude in the living beings and
nature, be able to support that.
That is what success is for me.
And just to answer to yourquestion for me, wake up in the
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morning and think, okay, I'vegot this beautiful business.
I've got over 200 peopleworking for this company.
We receive close to 300,000visitors every year.
Okay, this is great, but itbecame an institution, became a
(22:25):
toll for something much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah.
And that, for me, is whatinspires me, and and it makes my
my heart jump, so do you thinkthat some of the guests that
come for the most amazing foodhere, by the way, do you think
that some of the guests actuallyknow the philosophy?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
well, I think a lot of them, because that's come
from you, right?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
so the philosophy came, come, comes from you, your
idea.
But then you're like right?
Do the people that actuallycome and enjoy the exquisite
food here and it is exquisite dothey know what they're
contributing to?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I think a lot of.
We are very, very fortunatebecause we do have a very strong
local clientele.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So people who've been here for 20 times or, you know,
like local, local professionals, people that live in Marbella,
but of course we also have thetourists, people who don't know
Marbella.
They came, they came here andobviously we are in a good
location.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Because in the summer it's absolutely packed all the
time, non-stop.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I guess a lot of people they don't have the time
to have that education, yeah,but I believe more and more and
more, more people are getting toknow our philosophy and as the
time passes, with my ambition ofplanting more and more and more
and more trees, I'm sure we'regoing to always make more and
(23:50):
more and more noise about it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, I know you all make some noise about it, yeah,
so what do you think the thefuture of the business is?
I know you'd like the trees areimportant, but what would you
think the future is of what youknow?
What would you like your legacyto be?
More of now, because it's quiteI guess I want to reframe the
question a little bit.
Being a leader, you're also amom.
How do you manage all of this?
How do you manage sort of the200 people?
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How do you manage, you know,being a mom at the same time?
How do you manage to take careof yourself, because you do have
to take care of your wellness?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
100.
Balance.
I think that's the words.
I mean.
Obviously, we are a boss here.
You will now have the actualmake things happen.
Yeah, also, I feel very, veryprivileged to have an incredible
team.
That is this is the future ofthe business.
I believe the team because wehave people with extreme
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potential here, people whodemonstrate that they can do a
lot more than initially wethought they could.
I mean, we give them theopportunity and people always
surprise you.
The balance I mean you have tohave the action and be the boss
here, of course, but then I'mstill a woman.
(25:09):
I still have my vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
For sure I have my partner.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I have my daughter.
So, at home, I want my partnerto put the fire on and pour me a
glass of wine or a cup of tea.
I want to keep thatvulnerability as well at home.
I want to be a mom.
I want to spend time with mydaughter.
I want to keep thatvulnerability as well at home.
I want to be a mom.
I want to spend time with mydaughter.
I want to read bad stories withher, you know.
So you have to have thatbalance and understand that.
(25:39):
Okay, now is the time for this,now is the time for that.
Now is the time for me to turnoff my phone.
I want to go to my pilatessession.
You know, I think it'simportant to make a plan and
understand where and how you'regonna devote your energy.
People call this timemanagement.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I would call energy management that's a good one,
yeah, because managing yourenergy is essential to your
well-being, isn't it?
And if you're low on it, sowhen you have a low energy day,
how do you come back from that?
Because this is great forleaders, right?
So people aspiring to beleaders, maybe even women.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Meditation.
Meditation is very important.
Once you have that noise andyou're not feeling well, you
stop.
Okay, I'm going to stop now forI don't know 20 minutes and I'm
gonna have this moment for me.
I'm gonna take my shoes off,I'm gonna walk on the grass, I'm
gonna connect a little bit withmyself.
(26:38):
As nature, let's reset, becauseif you are having that bad day
and you're confused and if youkeep going without reboot,
normally it only gets worse.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
For sure so did you realize that early in the
business or did it take you somechallenges?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No, no no, no, we've been to challenges, you know,
not only business challenges.
We all go through lifechallenges as well, we all go
through life challenges as well.
But that's the beauty of takingthat opportunity of having
challenges and get those littlepieces of you and put it
(27:19):
together and come back andrebuild yourself again.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Can I just say I really love the way that you've
used the word challenge withopportunity, because sometimes
we look at them and just go ohno, but you actually see it as
like an opportunity to rebuild,to recreate.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, 100 percent.
I mean I think like anythingreally, you know, like sometimes
you need that little push toget out of your comfort zone and
I believe challenges in life is, at the moment you don't see it
(27:58):
why me and why I'm living this.
And why, is this happening andafter a while, you realize that
without the circumstances, youwouldn't direct your journey
into a much more successful andmuch more powerful path.
It's a very strong sentencefrom Oprah saying turn your
(28:20):
wounds into wisdom.
And it's important becausewithout knowing the dark, how
can you appreciate the light?
You know.
So this is uh.
This is important because thefact that you, you, everything's
okay and you're going, notgoing to any, any, any
(28:41):
challenges or anything's goingwrong, doesn't mean it's not
going wrong.
You know, I think it'simportant to see the challenges
as an opportunity.
You know, and we all go, andwhen I don't, I don't believe
that any, any human being thatdoesn't go through challenges.
You 100% get there because oneway or the other yeah so what do
(29:01):
you would you like your legacyto be?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
what are you working on creating a legacy for
yourself?
Well, I.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I want to plant as much trees as I can and I want
to help as many human beings asI can.
Um, like when you ask about thefuture of the business, I'm not
sure exactly where we're goingor what I can say.
I know we're going all what Ican say.
I know we're going in anincredible direction because we
(29:30):
have this synchronicity ofincredible human beings working
together with us, who a lot ofthem.
I can see them becoming verysuccessful in life and I'm very
grateful they are here, becauseI know that I'm going to witness
a lot of them doing extremelywell, hopefully with us, but are
(29:51):
they going to do well anyway?
So I guess this is our future,our team, and I can see us going
very far because of thispowerful energy we get from them
.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Lovely Well, aglène.
It's been amazing speaking withyou today.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I just wanted to say have you got any last words that
you'd like to share?
You know, with the peopletuning in today, is there
something that you think thatyou know, a message that you
could share with the audiencethat would?
Perhaps I'm leaving in a moreoptimistic, inspired place.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, well, being a woman and being a leader, I've
learned that my most powerfultool is my intuition.
So a lot of times you think, oh, this is right, I should do
that.
And then maybe you have youknow, somebody said no, no, you
(30:43):
should do this, especially whenyou're dealing with so many
people.
Sure, and eventually you alwaysrealize that intuition was the
truth, because I believe theintuition is a toll that the
universal forces give to you foryou to use to lead you to the
right direction.
So all I can say is like yourintuition is powerful, so make
(31:07):
sure you're always there for it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Fantastic.
Thank you for joining me today.
You're this week's super soul.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Thank you, that's very nice.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
If you enjoyed this episode, please consider liking,
subscribing and sharing,because it really does help
reach more people.
Thank you.
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