Espresso Encounter with Angelo

Show notes

Please note: This is my first out-of-studio episode, and the audio is not quite at my usual standard. As a perfectionist, I hesitated to release it anyway....but here it is. Not perfect, but truly the best first espresso encounter I could have wished for.

In this cozy espresso chat at Super Mountain Market, Angelo shares why he rarely drinks coffee (too strong) but loves making it for others. He talks about finding a real sense of home in the Engadin, and how living close to nature has softened his nervous system, shifted his creativity, and quieted city-style FOMO. We also get into his daily practices— meditation, breath-work, and visualization—shaped by books The Power of Now and Becoming Supernatural. He opens up about connection, choosing love over fear in creative risks, and a compliment that genuinely moved him. Plus: a sneak peek at his upcoming mushroom-inspired jewelry collection.

Connect with Angelo De Luca:
https://www.instagram.com/angeloxdexluca
https://www.angelodeluca.ch/

Books Mentioned:
The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza

Show transcript

00:00:03: Hello and welcome to the very first episode of Espresso Encounters.

00:00:08: I'm currently in the sunny Angadin, And today i am having coffee at Supermountain Market A very cool concept store In some rates!

00:00:16: Im super excited To have Angelo An amazing artist on my show Today.

00:00:23: Hi Angelo Thank you for taking The time to meet over Espresse Encounter.

00:00:32: We actually need a coffee

00:00:33: afterwards.

00:00:34: Yeah, with pleasure.

00:00:35: My first question to you is what's your name and what are you very curious about

00:00:41: lately?

00:00:43: My name is Angelo de Luca.

00:00:45: I'm very curious where this interview will bring us.

00:00:50: If we talk about coffee how do YOU take your coffee?

00:00:55: To admit that...I don't drink coffee really much because it gives me too much power for myself a lot of pleasure to make coffee for other people.

00:01:05: That's beautiful, and now I think that is more meta-level question what brought you here in general?

00:01:14: To the beautiful Angadin or super mountain market...

00:01:18: Well first it brought me love Of course!

00:01:22: And also i think probably was my destiny to arrive here because my dreams and also it's the first place where I really feel at home.

00:01:33: That's beautiful!

00:01:35: Is there something you are enjoying more than you expected?

00:01:42: Yeah, i can say... The relationship with nature is something that now shaped me in my creativity but also in mine life because I'm surrounded by so much nature And this is unexpected, beautiful.

00:01:59: it counts you down a lot.

00:02:01: It makes you feel how little you are and so all your problems, how unnecessary they are comparing to the nature that's still gone.

00:02:11: whatever happened to yourself.

00:02:14: Do have a belief that changed your mind over the past few years?

00:02:22: Let me think maybe how necessary was always For example, in a city or always... In certain contests almost to getting a FOMO.

00:02:34: A year where you are just surrounded by the nature but also beautiful people on holiday It's something that actually value much more for me.

00:02:45: nowadays

00:02:47: I think when we feel most alive it is pretty clear.

00:02:51: But if there was some moment like your true self

00:02:56: I think when i wake up and do meditation, this is a moment where... ...when I connect deeply with myself.

00:03:04: It's something kind of special for me!

00:03:07: I really feel my self.. When Im in the nature sometimes I try to turn off my mind And to connect with my nature.

00:03:14: Then it actually very nice.

00:03:17: Is there some thing you particularly do?

00:03:19: When world outside feels too fast or...?

00:03:23: too loud, is there like a ritual or something you do regularly?

00:03:28: For example I love to listen to music.

00:03:35: Or be at home...I have to say it's very precious for me because i'm never at home Because I always work and meet some collector or guest of our shop.

00:03:48: so.. I am often busy but really love to be at home or with my friends.

00:03:56: Is there something you're currently saying?

00:03:59: yes too, from the bottom of your heart?

00:04:03: Maybe in a new collection!

00:04:05: So when I speak about my craft and decide how to develop certain products... ...I can feel that an answer is coming more from myself than mine.

00:04:17: It's like

00:04:19: this one…

00:04:20: When i have a gemstone on

00:04:22: hand What is it so special, what makes your current collection so

00:04:26: special?

00:04:28: But I have to say my new collection that's coming in a few days.

00:04:34: It's about mushrooms which are one of the favorite foods for me.

00:04:39: It was a collection that came out very spontaneously and apparently now this new trend is mushrooms from last year because they were fashion shows about this mushroom, so I'm a bit surprised.

00:04:55: But especially because the shape of the gemstone that we engraved as a mushroom creates actually an intimacy.

00:05:05: and even if it's just a mushroom but when you look at them something is very intimate And...I like

00:05:12: it!

00:05:13: Will there be different colors in your very colorful

00:05:17: collection?

00:05:18: Not very colorful..but more about

00:05:20: the shape

00:05:21: brownish, beige reddish or let's say autumn color and with gold.

00:05:28: And a bit of green for the emeralds.

00:05:32: Mushroomy!

00:05:34: It is mushroomy.

00:05:36: Angelois there are small habits that improve your life immediately?

00:05:44: Well for sure meditation visualization through my mind, to my soul and through the universe.

00:05:56: This really helps me a lot also reach every goal that I put in my path always And if i can visualise it this became reality and ninety-nine percent of time this happened.

00:06:10: Is there special technique or someone who introduced you?

00:06:14: Or how did you manage to incorporate into your?

00:06:19: I have to say, i wrote some books like for example one was Eckhart Tolle.

00:06:28: it's a beautiful author.

00:06:29: A very particular special soul and he brought them at book called The Power

00:06:35: of Now.

00:06:37: another one was Joe Dispensa.

00:06:40: He wrote the book.

00:06:41: The name was becoming supernatural.

00:06:44: I

00:06:44: have to say those were two big guidelines, i did some retreat and a particular technique is... To feel..to wake up before you do everything Before you take your phone and check your emails or stuff when your mind still clean You need to start breathing And after that you need imagine the space between your eyes or the space between your ears, like this nose of fifteen centimeters around your nose.

00:07:15: Or in your neck and the beat on your heart And after you go to a place called nowhere where there is no past nor future You are not overthinking how it's going to happen This or base your opinion what was in your past.

00:07:30: Just shape your dream life.

00:07:35: And after you need to connect this with a positive emotion.

00:07:39: So imagine that... You want something like, I don't know, a Lamborghini!

00:07:43: You want the Lamborghini.

00:07:44: so you have to be inside of a Lamborghinis and feel the leather of the surfaces and the smell, you change gears.

00:07:56: You turn on lights... So it feels like if its reality that your already have this car.

00:08:02: And after ask yourself how would I feel If i already had a car?

00:08:07: Maybe full of love, joy, enthusiasm.

00:08:14: This is enough!

00:08:15: You don't need to think about how are gonna get Lamborghini Universe will bring to you and this happened

00:08:21: always.

00:08:22: It's beautiful And it's beautiful to listen to you because your voice changed when he described the emotion.

00:08:29: Yeah, that was a beautiful.

00:08:31: thank-you for sharing.

00:08:33: When was the last time?

00:08:34: You felt truly connected to someone and why do think so

00:08:40: I have To say with the fact that we ever shopped by FD opportunity to connect there with many people of course with some soul.

00:08:48: It's very easy because you resonate.

00:08:50: You are in the same resonation and so, you connect kind of quickly.

00:08:54: it is like if you recognize each other with some soul.

00:08:58: its more difficult Because they protect themselves more or sometimes their victim of their ego but often I have likely a capacity to see through reached the point where there is a beauty.

00:09:17: But for me it's very beautiful to connect with another soul, particularly with Mario's soul or my friend's soul.

00:09:27: It was very nice.

00:09:30: Was there any risk you did take and what did he give?

00:09:37: A risk that I took depends.

00:09:41: There are many risks that I take every day when i choose because you know, When you produce yogurts You also have the risk of the cost.

00:09:48: So maybe think oh this is gonna work and Maybe don't sell these pieces.

00:09:54: This could be difficult.

00:09:56: But if we do not take the risk We dont get to enjoy it.

00:10:02: And If focus on fear problems, but if you focus on the love that you put in doing things it actually comes love as well under different

00:10:15: shapes.

00:10:16: So yeah usually my risk is my jollery and... But its also my pleasure.

00:10:23: Do feel like there was a risk your life did not take?

00:10:27: And maybe he taught something still positive way.

00:10:30: Maybe sometimes You think I could have taken this path I could have gone this direction, like... ...I would've accepted the job instead of doing another one.

00:10:42: But in the end we are part of a painting that is not completely clear on our view.

00:10:48: it's just partially dis-painting and doesn't exist!

00:10:53: It couldn't be done or done because what you did was meant to be And brought me here.

00:11:02: so means really necessary.

00:11:05: Is there a compliment you remember?

00:11:08: That I received.

00:11:11: But... It's not a compliment, but precisely that i remembered.

00:11:19: few days ago A guy my father died and this guy I don't want to say it's my, let's say new father.

00:11:28: But he is a guy who has a role in life and him and his wife they do not have children so i'm like their adopted child.

00:11:37: And the way how we said oh im very proud of you.

00:11:42: this really touched me alot In regards for compliments.

00:11:47: usually I like a lot when people does compliments to my jewels that they are beautiful instead of me because, when i receive compliments... ...I feel very embarrassed and I don't know how to deal with this emotions

00:12:01: yet!

00:12:03: Who or what is right now the center of your universe?

00:12:11: This particular question.

00:12:12: Because actually The Center Of The Universe It's Ourself For each life we are.

00:12:19: We are at the center, but this sounds like an answer very egoistic.

00:12:26: I am the centre

00:12:27: of my life!

00:12:28: But in the end... This is probably the truth because each one of us is able to decide how his own life has to be and so every one of you is a centre for your own life.

00:12:45: I'm the center of my Life Beautiful.

00:12:49: Because I can't choose the life of someone else, and nobody can live

00:12:53: my life.

00:12:56: It's beautiful!

00:12:58: Is there something you're currently learning in a harder way than what it would be or is that just started to learn right away from scratch?

00:13:11: There are things where i'm actually learning many things every day.

00:13:15: so one thing with difficulties is how to handle emotions, because sometimes I can be very impulsive.

00:13:25: Sometimes i get really on fire and maybe I should consider

00:13:31: counting ten twenty

00:13:33: even thirty before.

00:13:35: but also learning in my job.

00:13:40: when for example or when I suggest that Joe was for a special order, I should learn to ask first my craft what is in mind as possible.

00:13:51: Because if you say yes this Joe also became reality and this could become a nightmare!

00:13:58: And also...I'm learning through many mistakes not many but several mistakes last year..and at the time that I'm going to lose the floor under my feet, but it actually was really necessary... ...to become a person who I am and became better professionals.

00:14:18: And learn better through my errors how to be more precise or safe in my position.

00:14:27: So you're not having coffee with anyone?

00:14:29: But if could serve coffee for someone Who would like your shop to have coffee with?

00:14:39: I don't know.

00:14:40: I would like to have coffee with someone who is already

00:14:44: dead and

00:14:45: came back, so i'd ask how was it?

00:14:47: What's on the other side of

00:14:49: this

00:14:50: book.

00:14:51: Could be anyone!

00:14:52: It could also be many different things because maybe for you in another side we find grass.

00:14:59: but if I'm just light or someone else no... We don't know Because we do not have a sure answer.

00:15:06: But if there has been somebody whose life I would like to have an expert of deep sea, and an expert in deep space.

00:15:14: And an alien.

00:15:17: An alien will be the most beautiful thing at all!

00:15:19: What

00:15:19: would you ask

00:15:21: it?

00:15:21: Him or

00:15:23: her?

00:15:23: Damn...

00:15:24: I'd ask how is he?

00:15:28: How's his other planet?

00:15:30: His nature?

00:15:33: The gravity?

00:15:34: The flowers?

00:15:35: If there was something physically that he brought something?

00:15:40: or how is the connection, what they

00:15:43: do?

00:15:44: If they go to school.

00:15:45: Yeah if you have a job and if there's moment of togetherness...if I do meditation but you don't have so many questions

00:15:55: It would be amazing Exactly!

00:15:58: He was

00:15:58: famous artist.

00:16:01: And Do You Grow Older?

00:16:02: That will be interesting to know.

00:16:04: Oh yeah oh can you grow younger?

00:16:06: Oh,

00:16:06: really?

00:16:07: We never know.

00:16:09: So for the year ahead what does success mean to you?

00:16:14: Success means that I reached a goal in my way and of course it also makes me a lot more money which i care...I have to say but i want to achieve practically is go home or to go for dinner, any way afterwards with a big smile printed on my face and getting excited about the next chapter.

00:16:45: Now you can choose between three options.

00:16:49: what are you trying to relearn?

00:16:53: Or unlearn?

00:16:56: What I would like to learn is everything about quantum physics.

00:17:04: What I would like to unlearn is who i am, the possession and also what became The Ego.

00:17:13: And...what was the third word?

00:17:16: Re-learn!

00:17:21: Maybe a lot of chemical things

00:17:25: that we

00:17:25: forgot or many historical thing where started were gone.

00:17:30: now If your future self could leave you a sticky note today, what would it say?

00:17:39: Don't

00:17:39: worry.

00:17:40: It's gonna work out amazingly!

00:17:42: And one last question is... What should I ask the next person that i'm having

00:17:49: on my podcast?

00:17:52: That's an interesting question also because I don't know who will be in the next

00:17:55: one.

00:17:56: Maybe you can invite someone or you wish to be on

00:17:59: the podcast.

00:17:59: maybe What could be the experience who transform it in self and what guides himself on everyday life?

00:18:09: Thank you so much for that beautiful conversation, Angelo.

00:18:12: My

00:18:12: pleasure!

00:18:13: It was a pleasure thank-you.

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