About me, and perhaps a little about you too
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Around 50, we can begin to see the threads running through our lives: what we’ve cared about, what we’ve learnt, what we’ve kept coming back to. Some experiences we treasure; others we would never have chosen. As I share my story, you may recognise something of your own, and what you want to carry into your next chapter.
You know this in your bones
There comes a point when you can no longer ignore what drains you, what matters to you or how much you’ve compromised to keep everything going. You may not know what comes next, but you’re beginning to trust what you feel.
For me, that has meant choosing more carefully: the work I take on, the people I spend time with and what I give my energy to. I want room for peace, creativity and joy, and a life I can wholeheartedly say yes to.
 How I got hereÂ
I was born on land that should be Palestine, raised by a hippie mother and lived in four countries before I was twelve. We eventually settled in TĂĽbingen, Germany, but freedom and travel have shaped my choices ever since. I became self-employed at twenty-six and have stayed that way.
For many years, I worked in exhibition design and temporary architecture, including World Expos in China and Japan. I coordinated large international teams, bridged design and construction, and found practical solutions when plans met reality. I loved the variety, the travel and bringing something into being. But over time, professional success and personal fulfilment grew further apart.
That work taught me to see possibilities, work with what was already there and give ideas a practical shape. I didn’t know then how much I would draw on those skills to redesign my own life.
Finding my way through the muddy water
 For years, I wore busyness like a badge. I was full of ideas, sketching entire business plans I never intended to pursue and looking outside myself for reassurance that I was doing enough.
Then perimenopause and the loss of my mother changed everything. The future became difficult to imagine, and life lost its colour. I called it my muddy water phase: the harder I tried to see a way forward, the more I stirred things up. It began to clear when I allowed myself to become still.
During that time, I found Human Design and the Gene Keys. They gave me a language for things I’d sensed about myself but hadn’t understood. I began experimenting with what I learnt, noticing what worked in my actual life and giving myself permission to make different choices.
I learn through experience. I try things, sometimes get them wrong, and bring what I’ve learnt into my work. My own transition taught me how important it is to leave room for a new direction to emerge before trying to turn it into a plan.
I’ve also been called too much, too different and too direct. These days, I value my ability to see things differently and ask honest questions with care. Sometimes a question helps you recognise a desire you’ve struggled to put into words. That’s a part of my work I love.
Today, as a Life & Legacy Designer, I guide women around 50 and beyond, wherever they find themselves on the menopause spectrum. We bring together your lived experience, natural gifts and what matters to you now, and explore how they can shape your life’s work. That might become a business, a creative project or a different way of living and contributing.
I want women to have room to take their desires seriously, give their ideas a chance and choose how they contribute. Our experience deserves to be part of what shapes the world. My work is to support you in finding the form that contribution takes for you.
I’m also a Certified Business Coach through Evercoach by Mindvalley, alongside thirty years of self-employment and the lived experience I bring to our work.
If you recognise something of yourself here, explore my Life’s Work Floorplan and see where you’d like to begin.
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