Do you every-day life conversations feel exhausting? Are you sick of the fast, shallow small-talk? However, you also struggle to create deep, honest and fulfilling discussions with your friends, colleagues – or even strangers on a networking event? Imagine, you would always know how to keep a conversation going – instead of experiencing an embarrassing pause, this moment of silence that feels like forever! Even if someone would attack you verbally! How? You just need to know some small...

… that you can directly apply in your everyday life! What makes us so afraid to speak in front of others? Studies even have shown that more people are afraid of public speaking than are afraid of dying! For many years, I was very shy and always super nervous when I had to speak in front of others. Both my body and my voice were shivering, I was sweating like hell and was just worried that anyone can think badly about what I am saying or how I look like. It was a fear of being...

+++ Free webinar how NLP improves your conversations on 7.12.2023 at 18.00 Helsinki time Limited spots! Reserve yours here: https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/improve-your-every-day-life-communication-with-the-help-of-nlp-tickets-762922290107?aff=oddtdtcreator +++ Why are you here? What is your purpose in this world? Was there a blueprint for your soul from the moment of your birth? It is getting spiritual! This episode is the second part of the interview with Katharina, who has migrated to...

+++ Free webinar how NLP improves your conversations on 7.12.2023 at 18.00 Helsinki time Limited spots! Reserve yours here: https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/improve-your-every-day-life-communication-with-the-help-of-nlp-tickets-762922290107?aff=oddtdtcreator +++ Do you have the feeling “I have to change my life!”? Have you ever thought about quitting your 9-to-5 job, moving to a tropical place, starting your own business and living in your own flow? Katharina Poetzl did exactly that!...

“I am different than the others. I don’t fit in.” – Yes, that might be true. But there is nothing wrong with you! You just have a personality type that is different from the people around you. Understanding your own personality is crucial for accepting yourself and building up a healthy self-esteem. And seeing your personality described in written words will bring you a lot of ‘Aha!’ moments and insights that you can use in a job interview – but also in dating 😊. In this episode I introduce...

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming is used by psychologists, therapists and coaches - while also politicians are blamed to use it to manipulate their audience! Since May 2022 I am a certified NLP practitioner myself and this education has made a huge impact how I communicate with people around me. In this episode we create the fundament for a better communication: active listening. You will learn two important tools for better listening – backtesting and paraphrasing – that you can...

Talking about our own emotions makes us authentic and breaks the barrier to build up connections with other people. You can understand an “emotion” as “energy in motion”. Physically, it is a neuronal reaction in our brain which then spreads over the body – and this process takes only 60-90 seconds. Why are we then stuck for hours in negative feelings like sadness, anger or frustration? In this episode you learn how to break out of a circle of negative thoughts and emotions! The podcast...

Do you often have the feeling that your self-esteem is on a low level? Are you not confident to show yourself, to speak up and to demonstrate your skills and talents? In this episode you learn, how you can increase your self-esteem and self-confidence by a simple but powerful exercise – based on self-awareness! The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars: 1) Self-confidence and self-esteem 2) Managing your emotions 3) Concrete communication techniques based on...

“If others would just see who I really am and what I am able to do, they would value me so much more!” – Do you know these thoughts? Do you have the feeling that you are too shy and you keep hiding your true self – your true characteristics, your true emotions, your strengths and weaknesses, your values and your biggest talents?! What do you need to show your authentic self with all your characteristics and talents? Because you can learn it! You can learn step-by-step to develop the...

*** If you are listening on Spotify, please answer the short survey! - Thank you!*** “How can I get better in the things that I do? How do I know what to improve?” You always have the chance to give feedback to yourself! Self-reflection means that after doing a task, hosting a meeting, giving a presentation, or recording a podcast 😉, you can always analyse yourself: what was good, what was bad, what can be improved, what were mistakes that you can learn from. In this episode you learn...

“Sorry, I have my menstruation. I cannot attend this business meeting – I want to rest!” Have you ever said that at work to your boss? Have you heard it from others? Would you be judged as unprofessional, too sensitive and weak? Do you even judge yourself when you have your period? In this podcast episode, I talk with Carmen Lorenzana who became a menstrual educator and fertility coach after she suffered from an irregular cycle and was diagnosed with PCOS. I have never talked to a person...

When you apply to a job – wouldn’t it be cool to know what the recruiter thinks about your application? In this episode you have exactly this possibility! Marina Ponomareva shares her valuable knowledge, insights and experiences from working as a recruiter. She will answer the questions Where can you find the best open positions? What does a recruiter focus most on in a CV? What is more important – the CV or the cover letter? Can you disqualify yourself from the beginning if you have...

Would you consider yourself as a “job hopper”? What does it mean to change your job every 2-3 years because your employments are based on fixed term contracts? Marina Ponomareva loves exactly this challenge. Originally from Russia, she has studied in the Netherlands and came to Finland as a junior professional. She has followed an impressive – and very diversified – career path, working in IT, as a project manager at the Nordic Investment Bank (our common employer), leading the program...

We all use English in our every day life. But how confident are you really to express all of your thoughts, knowledge and emotions in English? And what can you do to get better? This episode is a joint record that I made together with Samantha Houston, who is originally from the UK and lives in Helsinki for two years and works as an English language teacher and presentation coach. In this episode you learn: What you can do if you feel limited in expressing yourself in English How...

“Great people make other people great, small people keep other people small.” And this is not referring to the body size 😉. There is a difference between being really self-confident and having a big ego. Are you able to award and recognize other people in a sincere and empathetic way or are you trying to push them down and make them feel guilty. In this episode you learn: What true self-confidence is and how it develops How the ego develops and what a huge ego tells about the...

Do you have this feeling that there is more in this life for you? And are you just dreaming about possible successes or do you really start going for it? Do you just want to avoid painful moments in the case that you will fail or are you brave to take a risk when there is a chance to win? In this podcast episode you learn what it means to have a growth mindset. I am sharing with you a personal story, where I had the choice to either a) Avoid a painful and embarrassing moment or b) Push...

“When I was employed, I felt like I was sacrificing my freedom. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur.” With this mindset – plus the fact that she is highly allergic to any conventional jewelry – Chiara decided to create jewelry herself and to found her own brand. Together with her business partner she developed ‘MonVes’. This brand stands for beautiful hand-made earrings, necklaces and bracelets, which are made of materials which are suitable for everyone. The jewelries flash you back to...

Do you know what happens on the 15th January every year? If you have set for yourself a great target for 2023 on New Year’s Day - do you belong to the 5% of people who are still following it? How big are your targets and dreams for this year? “If your target does not make you a little bit scared, it is not the right target” one of my mentors once said to me. But having a great target can be overwhelming, your head gets dizzy if you think about all these many, many things that you have to...

Do you allow yourself to celebrate yourself? Or are you right now facing a stressful pre-Christmas time with still too many to-do’s on your list, like baking cookies, buying presents and decorating your flat? What if you take a couple of minutes time for yourself – and instead of thinking about what is coming next, you look back on what has happened this year?! What have been your big and small successes? What are you proud of? And yes, you can allow yourself to be proud! Learn in this...

Imagine you come from Spain to Finland, you graduate here, start working for a start-up, every couple of months you are promoted and finally you have a leading role. But then you face the downside of this great career: huge responsibility, too high workload, you work 12 hours every day, you cannot sleep anymore and you could cry every day because your body cannot handle the stress. Would you quit your job? It was so impressive to talk with Lady Sanchez about her story: How she faced...

“Staying in Vietnam, I would have lived with my parents until getting married, and then I would have lived with the family of my husband.” – But if you want more in life, if you have a continuous drive for learning and developing your skills, you use the chance to study in Finland. This is what Camilla Lumi Koivu did and during the last 8 years she has made an impressive career and now works as a senior marketing specialist in a big Finnish company. It was fantastic to reflect with her on...

What do you do when you move from Portugal to Helsinki and just two weeks later the pandemic starts? When you run out of work in your remote job? – You get creative! This is what Inês did: She discovered again her passion for drawing – especially birds – and built up her own business ‘Seni Illustrations’ as an illustrator and graphic designer. Today she runs her business successfully by selling her creations as prints, postcards and pins in her own online shop and by serving business clients...

Born in Mexico, worked as a psychologist in South America, lived in an Indian ashram, learned meditation in Thailand – what makes a woman with such a background moving to Finland? In this episode Ana Lopez shares with me her great story what brought her to Helsinki and how she has successfully built up her own business as a yoga teacher and life coach. In this lively interview we are talking about: What makes Finland so different from the other 12 countries she lived in before What...

You already have the job that you ever wanted? You speak Finnish fluently? No? Are you wavering around the question what you really want to reach in life? Are you not able to keep up the motivation to work on your skills, because you don’t have a clear target? – But having a target is what keeps us going! It makes us getting up in the morning with energy, it makes us going the extra-mile on our way to success, no matter if we are students, currently unemployed, part of a team or managing our...

Imagine you go to a party or networking event, you don’t know anyone and you are really afraid of starting to talk to strangers, because after a couple of sentences of small talk, it happens what we all don’t like: This long embarrassing pause, because you don’t know what to say. Imagine you have to start a challenging discussion with your colleague or manager and you get confronted with a strange comment or even a verbal attach. And there is it again: This long embarrassing pause, because...