Orla Collective

Our Contributors

Linda Dieschbourg

Founder, Community Manager & Contributor

Plant-based health geek and foodie. Spiritual, non dogmatic, positive mind. Laid back indie lover and hippie spirit with an ever-expanding wanderlust. Slightly obsessed with her container veggie garden. Also graphic designer/illustrator in love with geometric tattoos and Wes Anderson movies.

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David Mourato

Co-Founder & Contributor

Vegetarian and almighty animals & nature lover. Cultivates himself with meditation on his everyday busy lifestyle. Geek designer and multidisciplinary musician, he loves preparing colourful dishes to eat with a good independent movie.

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Heike Jacob

Contributor & Team Partner

Heike is an energetic, colourful being in love with vibrant raw food, yoga, travelling and living as simple as possible. She finds her peace and inspiration in nature and everything that tickles her senses. She likes to experiment creatively with music and food. She sings, teaches music but also caters lovely healthy dishes.

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Alix Rassel

Contributor

Once upon a time there was a sad, grey, capitalist girl called Alix who worked in the boring corporate rat race. Then one night, as if by magic, Princess Consuela Banana Hammock appeared to Alix in a dream and told her to ,”EMBRACE THE MADNESS!” Now Alix is a Joyful Vegan, Yogini, Buddhist who loves the Environment and spends her time Saving Animals. She also has a penchant for dressing up and an Obsession with Unicorns! – TRUE STORY…..Well sort of 🙂

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Nicole Olenskaia

Contributor & Podcast Host

Full time animal lover, part time pasta eater. Healthy and mindful living enthusiast,bookworm and music appreciator . Passionate for traveling and everyday up for hiking. Ready to give up anything for living in the mountains. Vegan, beginner yogi, ambidextrous, multipotentialist and proud Gryffindor. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

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Debora & Jerry Wagner

Contributors

Debora and Jerry pursue a healthy lifestyle by reinventing healthy, organic, foods into great recipes. Both take inspiration from their travels as well as from vegetarian and vegan foods. Since February the family has grown with a cute little baby girl. They want to raise their girl with this conscious for nature and wellbeing. Furthermore, they have installed their Flow Hive to produce their very own honey.

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Stéphanie Castelain

Contributor

Has gone GMO free for over 10 years, wheat free for more than a year. She loves to create healthy ,seasonal and yummy recipes which some of them are shared on her blog. She is working on a holistic healthy lifestyle and is training in holistic nutrition, holistic pain management and child nutrition. She is a dreamer and one of them is that everyone would have the possibility to make informed and conscious choice when it comes to food.

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Elly Verduyckt

Contributor

A foodie with a passion for ‘honest’ food. Loves to cook from scratch, bake with love. She got the love for food from her grandparents, her granddad was a baker who only used ‘real’ products and her grandma cooked every day from scratch for the whole family and the employees. She and her family started to eat vegetarian as a new years resolution and they didn’t look back since. She never thought she would love to sew and knit, cause she hated it as a child but is now keen on making as much of the clothes for her daughter herself. She works as a free lance script supervisor .

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Maud Hansen

Contributor

Maud loves all things Yoga. On her mission for more kindness and love she explores meditation, chanting and other spiritual practices. Aiming to live a healthy, fulfilling and happy life, she is learning to embrace her perfect imperfection. She loves to travel and meet new people. She is a Yoga teacher in her leisure time and works in the social sector. Oh, and she loves all things British.

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Olga Arroyo

Contributor

Olga moved recently from sunny Spain to green Luxembourg. She loves all things photography, DIY and yoga and enjoys a healthy and mindful diet. In her free time, she likes being outdoors soaking in the sunshine or trying out new recipes at her cozy flat with good music on the background. She is always on the look for fantastic and far-away trips that inspire her creative streak and spark her sense of adventure!

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Alexandre Catulle

Contributor

Flexitarian gourmet and lover of forgotten home and fusion cooking. Alex avoids extreme lifestyles, and is determined in the pursuit of DIY kitchen challenges. Architect by profession and passion, he enjoys applying these problem solving skills to his work. “Being wild about original ideas and creative solutions” is his leitmotiv!

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Karolina Zych

Contributor

A positive minded Canadian who can usually be found with her hand around a cup of tea, and her nose in a book. A runner and yoga enthusiast, with a penchant for travel and adventure. A fan of scrumptious vegetarian and vegan dishes, who probably gets a little too excited about kale. Enjoys long walks through lush forests, human compassion and reggae music.

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David Copeland

Contributor

Greko-Irish descent and Luxo brewed. Farmer, Lover & Rastaman. Loves plants, especially growing them. He would plant anything anywhere – He doesn’t care if that’s your cat’s litterbox. Easygoing and positive. Travels to see the outside, sits still to see the inside.

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Lynn Cosyn

Contributor

A creative soul with a thirsty heart full of DIY-lust, based in Luxembourg and Germany. Armed with a never ending curiosity, she creates a mindful, cosy and creative lifestyle. Besides being an architect and blogger in DiY, Recycling-Design and Home Interior, she’s a professional day dreamer.

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Vesela Savova

Contributor

Certified nutritionist and founder of Go Gusto cold-pressed juices; passionate about healthy, nutritious food and mindful living. Animal and vegan cuisine lover, yoga practitioner and juicing freak. Living by the mantra that self kindness makes you kind to everyone around you.

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Patricia Tompers

Contributor

In the process to change her lifestyle into a waste free way of living. Passionate about taking care of the environment and her health. Encourages people to be part of a new social movement and constantly on the search for alternatives to the traditional consumption in daily life routine. Animates DIY workshops in order to promote a sustainable and eco-friendly way of life. Founder of the social network community No waste & sustainable living – Luxembourg.

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Anna Katina

Contributor

Twin based in Luxembourg and Brussels majoring in advertising. She started hunting hidden places and interesting faces when at the age of 15. Today she’s a freelance photographer specializing in portrait and documentary as well as blogger in fashion, health and lifestyle.

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Gaia Buratti

Contributor

Gaia is an italian 28 year old girl who moved to Luxembourg 4 years ago to work in an investment fund. She loves practicing sport, mainly cycling, which she tries to do at agonistic levels and spending time in nature, hiking, mountainbiking and swimming. She recently embraced a plantbased lifestyle and got passionate about organic, natural and healthy food and spirituality. While quitting processed foods, she learned to do a lot of things herself, such as flour in her awesome little home mill. Baking healthy, sport-friendly cakes without eggs or sugar also became her passion, and she particularly loves making bread with natural yeast or sourdough!

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Andreina Guenni

Contributor

Mindfulness enthusiast and yogi passionate, she is a Venezuelan journalist that believes in the healing potential of breathing and hugs. Strongly attracted to culture and literature, she embraces the power of details and is constantly nurturing her curiosity. She finds eating a unique pleasure, as well as traveling and sharing smiles. When it comes to spirituality, she is just around the corner trying to learn all that she can.

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Anabel Stender

Contributor

Ann-Kristin Haga Øvreeide

Contributor

Ann-Kristin has a huge passion for interior, styling, photography, diy and travels. She is a style junkie and finds pleasure hunting for vintage and secondhand treasures around Europe, seeing beauty in most things. Her taste is broad and could be described as eclectic, bohemian and chic with a touch of scandinavian simplicity.

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Florence Weiser

Contributor

Florence is an illustrator currently based in Belgium. She lives and works in a fairytale trailer in the middle of a magical garden, where she gathers most of her inspiration. She believes that the best way to act “green” is to be careful about what we put on our plate. She loves to eat and cook, always trying new vegan and often raw recipes, aiming to convince sceptics that there’s a way to truly enjoy healthy food that’s actually delicious!

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Sabrina Foley

Contributor

Born and raised an Island girl in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Sabrina catapulted herself to Europe a few years ago. Her life goal is to reconnect the body, mind and soul with our environment through mindfulness in actions, be they cooking with organic foods, ethical travel and minimising her carbon foot print.

Elisabeth Beckers

Contributor

Coming from the cultural field, she loves art – especially scandinavian design and photography. She is passionate about food, nutrition and gastronomy and enjoys cooking healthy, wholesome food in her lovely kitchen. After her time in Paris, she moved to Vienna where she tries to live a mindful, happy life. Enjoying long walks in nature and her yoga practice, she loves going to markets as well as travelling to discover new cultures and culinary delights.

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Nancy Grandjean

Contributor

Nancy is passionate about sharing the health benefits of living foods and showing just how delicious raw food can be! Her aim is to inform and demonstrate the benefits of a plant based diet and to introduce healthy, delicious raw food options. She encourages small changes that will give you more energy, greater health and a happier longer life! Nancy’s expertise and tools will help you prepare and eat delicious real foods! “Fresh, organic, vegetarian, and simply raw; the food your body was designed to thrive on”.

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Anabela Valente

Contributor

Anabela is passionate by travel and photography. It was during one of her trips that she started questioning her food habits. Looking for ways to lead a healthier and happier life, she has recently found out the pleasures of growing her own vegetables.

Marianne Da Silva Cardozo

Contributor

Runner with a tropical spirit, constantly looking for sunshine. Passionate about healthy food. Particularly obsessed with nut butters, which triggered the creation of her fulltime job: Nux. Unconditional love for coffee, tea and sweaters.

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Aneta Siejka

Contributor

Passionate about healthy lifestyle and beauty around her. Absolute foodie – loves discovering new tastes, textures and colours, as well as experimenting with various crazy ingredients. Enjoys simplicity and mindfulness. Always happy to try out new things and do something creative. Whenever possible she is out in the sunshine, taking photos and smiling to people. Her mind stays in Luxembourg, but her heart belongs to her hometown on a breezy Baltic coast in Poland.

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Laure Thuillier

Contributor

A loving vegetarian, passionate about animals and especially her dogs. She’s born in Luxembourg, but her heart is in the Netherlands, a country that she admires for its natural beauty, and its respect for people and animals. She loves to live closely to nature, go on long walks, inline skating and photography.

Christophe Jordao

Contributor

Christophe aka Chris, also known as Quantys on social networks, considers that the world would definitely be a better place without capitalists. He believes “you are what you eat” and in the power of changing eating habits by not abiding to the junk that major corporations make us eat, as a responsible consumer. He’s a health nut who gets his boost by running and also wants to inspire others to do so.

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Anna Maria Turcato

Contributor

Anna Maria is an Italian girl from Verona who loves to travel, learning something new wherever she goes. She’s been a vegetarian for 35 years and a vegan for the last 10 years, and fell in love with raw food after a trip to California. She strongly believes that a clean, plant based diet can benefit all of us and make us happy. Although she’s worked in different fields such as music, art, theater and fashion, nutrition and cooking have always been her main interests. She is now cooking around her way around the world, especially in yoga retreats where she can combine her passions together: healthy food, yoga practice, travel and meeting people from all over the world. Wanderlust is her favourite word!

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Julie Conrad

Contributor

Passionate about design, enthusiastic about a lot of things. Every day needs to be filled with good vegetarian food, music and friendly people… and work! Day and night job: independent product designer. Socially minded, gadget geek and a little head in the clouds sometimes. Or always.

Olo Kostko

Contributor

Coffee geek. Traveler, who always misses tourist attractions in order to find a proper vegan food, street art and coffee. Vinyl collector and worst dj that you have ever heard.

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