Overnight Oats Leva Konaté and Molly Garvey

In this episode, Molly offers the mic to her co-host, Leva Konaté, a young Dutch-Malian entrepreneur and founder of Freggie. We capture a moment in time in the Summer of 2023 and talked about things that still hold true today.

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Our outlooks being shaped by the people around us, especially family
The positive creativity that can come from a multi-cultural identity
How working in Burkino Faso sparked an interest in agriculture

And of course, finding out what is the meaning of life!

Leva is now continuing his impact mission working in circular plastic. Check this and his other ventures out on Linkedin

For more information about becoming an entrepreneur driven to change the food system, check out ⁠Fresh Ventures Programme⁠ .

Georgios Kargas is a founder in residence at Fresh Ventures, a farmer, an agricultural engineer, and a farm equipment mechanic.



In this episode, Leva steps into the world of Georgios (George). George comes from a Greek farming family and has over 10+ years of experience in the cultivation of Peas, Spinach, Corn, Cotton, and wheat.



Hold on tight for this engaged conversation where we address Greek corruption, the (mis)use of EU subsidies, the obstacles to changing his conventional family farm and carrying the burden of generational problems.



Follow George on Linkedin:

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For more information about becoming an entrepreneur driven to change the food system, check out ⁠Fresh Ventures⁠.

Monique Wisse is a founder in residence at Fresh Ventures and founder of beNature.



In this episode, Leva steps into the world of Monique. Monique's entrepreneurial journey began with DOT, bridging the international and growth ambitions between clients and partners in the Netherlands and the Philippines.



A couple of years ago, Monique started her regeneration transformation. We dive into the experiences during her vision quest: fasting and wild camping for 5-days to come closer to your pure nature.



We delve deeper into a new world perspective shifting from dualism → non-dualism and we further unravel the essence of a regenerative mindset



Learn more about beNature and follow Monique's regeneration path here:

- ⁠beNature

- ⁠LinkedIn



For more information about becoming an entrepreneur driven to change the food system, check out ⁠Fresh Ventures⁠.

If you are thinking about taking the leap into food system entrepreneurship, especially from engineering, this is the episode for you.

Why? In this episode, Molly steps into the world of Melchior, a Dutch aerospace engineer who took the leap to start a business in the circular economy. After three months in the Fresh Ventures Programme, Melchior is now a co-founder of Nimble Processing, with Nita Van Dam and Karol Keane.

In our the conversation, we cover the general rollercoaster of starting a business and the specifics of moving careers, why a food processing business can have systemic change, and the unexpected benefits of a training in theatre.

⁠Nimble Processing creates organic precut vegetables bags with seasonal recipes to make good food convenient, delicious and accessible to everyone.

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⁠Nimble Processing

For more information about becoming an entrepreneur driven to change the food system, check out ⁠Fresh Ventures Programme⁠ .

Jéronimo Romero is a founder in residence at Fresh Ventures, a serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Manto.



In this episode, Leva steps into the world of Jéro. He grew up on a large Argentinian monoculture farm (>700HA) and has a dream to, one day, take over his family farm. Now with regenerative practices.



This conversation starts with his first outdoor sports venture in Buenos Aires, how he brought it to market, and eventually sold it. He shares his lessons learned through trial and error and looks back on his time as a venture capitalist.



We finish the conversation with his new venture "Manto Co" and how buying their products increases soil health.



Follow Jéro on his entrepreneurial journey:

- ⁠LinkedIn

- Manto



For more information about becoming an entrepreneur driven to change the food system, check out ⁠Fresh Ventures⁠.

In this episode, Molly steps into the world of Carolina, a Brazilian food scientist, mother and entrepreneur.

As we delve into the conversation, we learn about the different levers of change: perennial crops* in the field and venture studios in the market. We see how the drive to change the world can start with our children and are introduced to Overstory Ventures.

*Perennial crops - unlike annual crops - are crops that do not need to be replanted every year.

Overstory Ventures is a venture studio that aligns the talent, funding, structure, and resources to take new crops to market that can advance regenerative agriculture. In partnering with Fresh Ventures, Overstory also creates a values-aligned venture-building bridge between the agricultural innovation hotspots of Minnesota in the US and Netherlands in the EU.

To follow Carolina's journey, check these out:

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Overstory Ventures

For more information about becoming an food system change entrepreneur, check out Fresh Ventures Programme.