We explore the insightful journey of Bas van den Bergh, a seasoned entrepreneur, mentor, and Maastricht University teacher. Bas reveals the critical importance of asking the right questions to align your career, business, and personal life with your core values. Discover how his experiences as a professional athlete have influenced his entrepreneurial ventures and the valuable lessons he's learned along the way. From tackling tough situations in business and personal life to understanding the unique challenges in the food and health sectors, Bas shares his wisdom on navigating these paths. This conversation isn't just about finding solutions; it's about uncovering the right questions that lead you to your own. So the foundation for your success has been laid. Discussed: How to think for yourself and show a lot of blindspots you have. How to ask the right questions to grow in your career, business, and personal life. Why it is not good to have an icon that is still living to look upward to. What it takes to become a real expert. How being a professional athlete can influence the world of entrepreneurship and by building businesses. Key lessons people should keep in mind when pursuing their career or when building a business. Why asking yourself the hardest questions will lead you to purpose and success. How to get out of hard situation when in business or personal life. Bas his ventures, careers and powerful projects he set up. Why his power of questioning people in the right way creates paths for success. His book that helps businesses to create a path of strategies to optimise success of novel projects within small companies to bigger corporations. How he became a teacher. His strategies on longevity. The common problems people have when starting with the creation of food innovations. What questions do people have when starting a food company. The questions you can use to understand your precise target market. What professionals in the food and health sector can learn from students. The first step to create a better educational system, namely in the essence of the educational system. One of the most important skills in your personal and business life that the educational system should teach you to develop. The innovation in food that in his eyes becomes the most important innovation for the future. And much more… Quote: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show! 👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ 😊 The Guest: ⁠Bas van den Bergh Contact: [email protected]

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