My Journey: Escaping Survival to Embracing Service

Like many, my life in Germany began with a need to escape a past and to find my footing. 

From the age of 18 (November 2007), I spent five foundational years working in my family’s glitter factory in Thüringen: a journey that started with cleaning toilets and evolved into international business planning.

My ambition was clear: to become a top-tier corporate CFO, gain independence, and get approval from my late father and other family members. This led me to Berlin, where I successfully earned a dual Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in International Finance, spending a decade climbing the corporate ladder in finance with big-name companies.

I achieved the external symbols of success: the straight A's, the prestigious CV, the "accepted" life, but I was deeply unfulfilled and out of balance. 

My drive was rooted in external validation and the need to survive, focusing only on what I could take and get rather than what I could give and experience.

The turning point was March 2020: The global pandemic forced me to pause, look inward, and confront the truth: I was living a life for others, not my higher self. This awakening led me to scrap my finance career entirely by the end of 2020 and embark on a new mission: moving energy for a more socially sustainable city.

My Offering: Empowering You to Thrive and Contribute

My unique experience navigating complex German bureaucracy, overcoming several mental illness diagnoses, mastering the language while working in Hoch Deutsch in corporate environments, and overcoming grief, gives me a distinct perspective.

I know the uncertainty, stress, and isolation that can block an immigrant's path. I am here to help you move past these barriers by focusing on internal clarity and community action.

What I Do:

I serve individuals and groups in Berlin to:

• Define Your / Their Vision: Get clear on what you truly want from your Berlin chapter, beyond just the job or the visa, to ensure you are creating the life that is true for you.

• Find Balance and Belonging: Transition from a mindset of hustling and surviving to one of peace and fulfillment, rooted in your genuine values.

• Create Lasting Impact: Connect your personal values with tangible, collaborative, and sustainable projects that strengthen our shared home.

Where I Currently Serve:

I actively serve in building our Berlin Village through amplifying, giving strategiy advice, and showing up where it's needed for aligned initiatives throughout Berlin:

• SEKIS (Self-Help Contact and Information Center): Supporting internationals by increasing visibility and accessibility to vital mental health support resources and peer-support groups in English.

• Das Baumhaus: Contributing to a hub of self-determination, service, and sustainable collaboration.

• WahlheYmat: Sharing perspectives and empowering struggling immigrants to find their voice and connection.

My Preliminary Advice

For the Berlin Newcomer: Take the time to get clear on your vision. Ask yourself: Who do you want to be when your Berlin chapter has ended or when it has matured many years down the road. Commit to that vision and begin the step-by-step process of creating it by choosing what is true for you, and the rest will follow...your external world will materialize if you stay the course.

For Everyone Else (Moving to Berlin, having been here a while, or immigrating elsewhere): Don't move here without a real desire to respect the culture, the natives, and to harmonize with them and what already exists before you got here. Learning the language is an enriching opportunity. See where you can serve both yourself and the greater good that is our home, Berlin.

You can do more than you think you can

AND

You are much further along than you think, as well!

I look forward to connecting with you and hope you enjoy looking around at the rest of my website.

Support me financially, so that I can keep expanding on my service and do my part! 

You can gift me money directly or book one of my services!

Thanks in advance!

Where does your money go? Your financial support covers my living expenses while I contribute my skills to people and organizations who are building a post-capitalist world and making a tangible impact...personally, ecologically, culturally, and socially...in Berlin and globally.