For people who did everything right — Bern, Switzerland

The career looked perfect. You didn't.

Insurance. Media. Global industry. Energy. Big Four. International organisations. Twenty-five years, and every job title would've impressed a stranger at a dinner party. None of them made Monday morning feel like mine.

What this is really about

You are the artist of your life.

You already know that. What you're missing isn't talent — it's the tools, or the belief that only you are allowed to hold the brush.

Three things usually take it out of your hands: the job that convinces you it's the whole picture. The fear that there's never enough money to risk anything. And — quietly, for so many women — years spent painting everyone else's life, until you wake up one day and can't find your own colors.

For the ones who painted everyone else's life first

Finding the colors you forgot.

This isn't about choosing between yourself and your family. It's about making room to live on purpose again — without setting either one down.

Start free — twelve honest questions to find where you actually put your colors down.

Step one

Rediscovery Session

One honest conversation to see what's still there, underneath the years of care you gave everyone else — and whether this is the right next step.

CHF 150 / 75 min

Converts toward the Reclaiming Program if you continue

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The Reclaiming Program

Six sessions, built on the same four honest questions as the free guide — naming what was lost, finding what's still alive, and taking real steps to pick it back up.

From CHF 2'000 / 6 sessions

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From the same place this section comes from

W.O.M.A.N.by Inga Bire

A memoir about losing yourself, and the long way back — war, exile, a marriage that took everything, single motherhood, and the moment she finally came home to herself. Written under my other name, for exactly the woman this section is for.

Currently available in English only.

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How I work

No polish. No spreadsheet. Just what's true.

Honesty over comfort

I won't hand you a comfortable half-truth. I'll help you see what you've been avoiding — clearly, without softening it.

This isn't a strategy problem

Change isn't a spreadsheet exercise. It's fear, identity, money, and the story you tell yourself to stay put. I work with all of it.

No talk without action

A good conversation that changes nothing is just a nice afternoon. Every session ends with something real to do.

The method

Four honest questions, taken in order.

01

Where you stand Standortbestimmung

An unflinching look at where you actually are right now — not where the CV suggests you should be.

02

The picture of next Zielbild

A realistic image of what "next" looks like — tested against your own values, not a template.

03

The roadmap Roadmap

The concrete, sequenced path between the two — with the gaps named honestly, not glossed over.

04

Walking it Umsetzung

You don't walk it alone. Structured support continues until you're standing in the new chapter.

For people ready to stop pretending

For the ones who already know.

For employees who know — quietly, honestly — that the job that looks secure from the outside isn't right anymore.

Step one

Discovery session

An honest first conversation. No pitch, no assessment — just an hour to say the true thing out loud and see if this is right.

CHF 180 / 75 min

Converts toward your program if you continue

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Career Transition Program

The complete process — from admitting where you stand to walking into what's next. Structured, but never clinical.

From CHF 2'400 / 8 sessions, 2–4 months

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Going deeper

Going Deeper

For people whose stuck-ness runs old and deep. More time, more sessions, no rush to a tidy answer.

From CHF 3'600 / tailored scope

Scoped after discovery session

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For the ones dreaming of their own thing

Idea Spark

You don't need a business plan yet. You need someone who can look at what you already know how to do and see the thing you can't see yourself. I won't build the company for you — but I'll help you find the one that's actually yours.

CHF 120 / single session

A spark, not a launch pad.

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Free guides

Start here, before anything else.

Three short, honest guides — no pitch, just something useful to work through on your own first.

What You're Already Built For

Finding purpose in your own evidence — for people who've done real work and want to know what it's pointing toward.

Finding the Colors You Forgot

For the ones who painted everyone else's life first — a way back to your own talent, without setting anyone else down.

How to Protect Your Mind From Being Hijacked

Four practical ways to stay present in a day built to pull your attention away from you.

Where this comes from

I collected the CV everyone dreams of. Then I put it down.

Insurance. Media. Global industry. Energy. Big Four. International organisations. I built the career that's supposed to impress you. It did. It also didn't make me happy.

For years I mistook the blockage for stability — told myself the title meant I was safe, that the past I'd built was who I had to keep being, that stepping out would cost me everything. That's the illusion. I know it from the inside, not from a textbook — because I left, at a level where everyone around me thought I was insane to leave.

Languages

German · French · English

Based in

Bern, Switzerland

Works with

One-on-one, in person or remote

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Let's talk about what's next.

Whatever brought you here — the first conversation is free of obligation.