Studied economics in Lisbon and Environment Management in Amsterdam. Learned very little in class and a lot out it.

Worked in sales for a Telecom startup in Amsterdam and it was eating me inside. Switched to a solar panel company to quiet my eco-anxiety. Got fired after 1 week due to Trump's 2016 election (holding company tanked in the stock market).

Got back to Lisbon and helped a newly-born tech company grow like crazy until it was acquired in 2022.

Silveira Tech: side hustle since 2017 → full-time end of 2022.

Summer ’24: Launched Mina in Lousã’s historic district - a cultural house testing ideas for Silveira and championing all things local.

Bureaucracy: Over a year in the Environmental Impact Study maze. Government sites coded by a monkey on drugs. A lot of grey hairs. Fun times!

Bureaucracy Reloaded: My mailbox’s a bingo card of licenses, court actions, and paperwork puzzles. 90% of my work time, 0% of my joy. Learning to accept and let go.

Making Mina Sustainable: Trying to get Mina to pay it's own bills. If you have the midas touch, please DM!

Quitting smoking: the longest roller-coaster ride of my life (so far)

Balance it all out: while raising 2 small daughters in an increasingly violent, sexualized and time-compressed world.

Revitalizing 3 villages turning them into an innovation meets nature hub for entrepreneurs

Regenerating 230ha of a mountain in Serra da Lousã

Long-term stays - 2 weeks to 9 months

Reconnect humans with Nature, others & themselves

Experimenting with several ideas for Silveira

Prioritizing local products and suppliers

Established as the main cultural driver in town

Re_Grow - a tree nursery + insect farm in Lousã. Food scraps from Mina feed the bugs, whose poop fertilizes saplings. Once ready, they go up the mountain to be planted in Silveira. Circular economy at it's finest!

TBA - Solving the “no housing = no workers” paradox. Building affordable rentals for local teams - still in the blueprint phase.