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Founder-CEO - lead trip guide

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Luc van Poelje spent well over 15 years managing cutting-edge internet technology businesses from publishing technology companies like Sanoma, Elsevier Science, to developing a cutting edge gaming platform (with Patrick de Zeeuw from Startup Boot-Camp), Genealogical science portals to financial high tech event companies like Ticket Script (Eventbrite) and Paylogic (ID&T). He was an internet consultant, entrepreneur, projectmanager and international marketing manager running project teams of 30+ across different tech & R&D companies (TNO) on multi million euro projects in very competitive fast paced international corporate environments. His visions paved the way for innovations and new business concepts.
Before he traveled the world over 10 years. Living with head hunters in Borneo and climbing mountains on 3 continents and ocean sailing on his own yacht. He started adult life in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. He is a Iraq veteran and trained in Arctic, jungle and mountain warfare and survival.

Luc is the founder of Psychedelic Insights. He is now a plant medicine advocate, entrepreneur, ocean sailor, mountaineer, and rain forest explorer. Above all, he is a dad to his daughter Sam (14). His life (choices) changed after psilocybin and Ayahuasca experiences in 2013. Luc ran ”De OplaadFabriek”, a mental health education service for 4 years, including (walking) therapy and lifestyle coaching, and was a public speaker on mental well-being, especially in youth prisons where he gave 40+ talks on emotional health.

Luc founded Psychedelic Insights to offer qualified trip guides the opportunity to serve clients in an optimized setting and with science based protocols. The aim: Professional and experienced staff, providing psychological guidance of psychedelic experiences. Luc has guided over 250 clients himself. Psychedelic Insights mission it to provide safe and responsible access to mind expanding healing compounds for personal transformation, healing and growth.