DO YOU HAVE A ROLE MODEL OR LIFE MOTTO?

Energy flows where your attention goes.

What was your most powerful learning moment?

My coaching training in 2012/2013 – a very intensive time with a lot of self-reflection and inspiring exchanges, which I still benefit from today.

WHAT CAN YOU NOT LAUGH ABOUT?

Derogatory behavior and communication.

What was the last beautiful thing you bought?

A plane ticket to my favorite city, London – very optimistic for the pre-Christmas season of 2021.

What is that one book that will stay with you forever?

My diaries 😊 No one should read them but me. Basically, it’s hard for me to part with my books, but I like to lend or give away books that have given me a lot, e.g. A Little Life, Homo Deus, ...

WHEN DO YOU FEEL ALIVE?

In nature: In the forest, by the sea or on a mountain top – and in conversations that are meaningful and inspiring.

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?

In a very existentialist way, that we as human beings are condemned to freedom – and have to decide for ourselves what makes our life meaningful and how to live a good, fulfilled life. Over and over again.

What is your peaceful place?

My reading chair in the living room – in the morning the place to meditate and for the first coffee, in the afternoon for reading, in the evening occasionally with a glass of red wine.

What was your last good deed?

I got into the habit of “trash walks” last year – my husband and I regularly walk through the nature conservation area around our corner with two gribber tongs and collect what doesn’t belong there. It’s a wonderfully tangible feeling!

What was your last dream abaout?

In the last year, a lot about traveling and the various beautiful places I’ve been able to visit in this world and hopefully can again – especially New Zealand and Patagonia.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?

My first musical passion was for heavy, loud, low-pitched guitars – and has continued to enrich and branch out. I basically like intense, emotional music that can be loud or soft, the main thing is that it is moving.

BEGINNING OR FINISHING? WHICH IS HARDER?

To stop.