The good kind of cold I have just returned from a short strategy retreat in Helsinki with Minna- my business partner on Flourish Financially. We went there to think, to plan, to breathe, and to look at Flourish Financially from a little further away. And as often...
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Emotional Intelligence & Agility
Enthusiasm Is Not Naïve. It Is How I Choose to Stay Alive.
Let me share something with you, simply, honestly. I had one of those moments recently. Not a dramatic revelation, more a quiet internal click. The kind that gently rearranges things rather than shaking them apart. I was listening to an interview with a filmmaker, and...
Can your planning really be your best ally?
Or what if organising your time was also an act of self-respect? Let me ask you something, friend to friend. Have you ever spent a long time crafting the perfect plan for your week, colour-coded, well thought through… only to feel strangely resistant, heavy, or...
On Authenticity, Alignment, and the Courage to Be Seen Without the Mask
I have been thinking about authenticity a lot lately. Not the Instagram version.Not the corporate slogan.Not the well-meaning but vague injunction to “just be yourself”. What I mean is the real question behind the word — the one that feels tender, sometimes...
Science’s Big Problem Is Influence, Not Trust — And Why Emotional Intelligence May Be the Missing Link
Why is science not reaching people in the moments that matter most? For years, public debates have been fuelled by a familiar refrain: “People don’t trust science anymore.” But a growing body of evidence — including a recent article in Nature by Larson & Bersoff...
Intuition & Emotional Intelligence: A Rational Alliance
This blog article was inspired by the piece I wrote in French in the Janette Magazine Issue 109 dated December 2025 pages 52-53. We often speak of intuition as if it were a mysterious impulse — a flash of insight that comes “out of nowhere”. In everyday conversations,...





