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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When Identity Changes Quietly: On Becoming, Letting Go, and Learning to Trust the In-Between
There is a moment in every transformation that is almost invisible. It is not the moment we decide to change.Nor the moment others start noticing. It is the moment when we realise, quietly and with a little surprise: Oh… I have travelled a long way. That moment has...
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...
Excellence Without Self-Punishment: Finding Balance Beyond Perfectionism
Striving for Excellence… or Trapped in Perfectionism? This past week offered me a humbling reminder of something many of us struggle with — the delicate line between striving for excellence and falling head-first into perfectionism. I felt it emerging very clearly as...
Why It Is Important to Care and Not to Care
On fierce love and being serious Over the past few days, this idea has been resonating deeply with me. It lies at the very heart of coaching — and of how I understand life itself. So much of our work in coaching is about reclaiming agency: not going through life...
From Toughness to Tenderness: Redefining What It Means to Be Resilient
This week I have been reflecting on resilience — what it truly is, and what it is not. We admire it so much that it almost feels sacred: the capacity to stand strong, keep going, push through, and rise above. But what if that version of resilience, the one we’ve been...





