We met in the beautiful park yesterday morning, greeted early by the sun and the curious chickens 😅. We fuelled up and we reconnected after a summer break away. Marta and Tania led us through a conversation about joy— a topic which @Tania Timkova had selected intentionally as a foundational place from which to start. So many important insights were shared, like that joy is absolutely crucial, but our businesses don’t need to be our only or main source of joy, and that there are mundane, joy-less tasks in business, but if we can remember the greater purpose in those, we can find joy in fulfilling the purpose. Beautiful conversation, and one that I resonate with deeply and reflect on on a daily basis. Then we had an absolutely beautiful introduction circle, with some new faces and some treasured community members. We were all inspired by each others’ work, and some of us found comfort in the “messy middle” and the unknown, together. We finished off with each person sharing something that brings them true joy, which was another opportunity for deeper connection. What a joy this was, thank you all who attended and to my fellow ambassadors @Ana Amaral and especially @Tania Timkova who hosted like a bosssss! 😘😍💜 See you Sept.17 at Luna House! 😘😘😘

Hello all, I'm celebrating with you all an important day for me: I launched the website of my project Fire & Flow to support women in science develop leadership skills in harmony with their wellbeing. 🎉🤩 👉🏼 https://www.fireandflowbyana.com/ Fire & Flow brings together the feminine, with its creativity, aliveness, softness and intuition with the action, power, focus and ambition that all leaders want to have. It's about knowing when to act and knowing when to rest in our road to success and fulfilment. I am mostly targeting women in science, as I built most of my career as a scientist in Biochemistry and Biology, but happy to support any entrepreneurs who feel aligned with my vision and mission. Have a look and please share with anyone you might think can benefit from my work. Thank you!! 😊🙏 PS - I have a cool free resource - my Energy Check Quiz - that you can use to monitor how you feel and learn about the kind of rest you need. Let me know if you try it out! It pops up when you open the website.

Hello lovely ladies, Nina Simone and I would love to know more about you as leaders, to tailor content and offers for the community that is truly helpful for you, please find a second to participate in this quick poll. 🫶🏼

Hello ladies! I need some help/advice. I want to choose an email marketing tool that I can use to open a wait list for a program I am running in the late summer, and then continue to use to build a list outside of Substack (my current newsletter) and I'd love to hear about which ones you use. I've been thinking of using Mailerlite, as my web designer suggested, but she also mentioned I need to register an official email address with my website domain and it seems a bit complicated and an extra cost. So, my question to you is, which email marketing do you use that is cheap and easy to set up? And if you have an email with your website domain, how/where did you get it? I am quite newbie to these matters so any input will be valuable! Thank you!! Ana

I was born in Barcelona and have called Portugal home for the past 5 years. My path here has been anything but linear, and I’ve come to see that as one of my biggest strengths. I spent over 25 years as a teacher, starting with preschoolers, then training in Montessori and founding a bilingual Montessori nursery at 28. Later I moved into teaching English to adults, specializing in in-company training. Alongside my career, life was teaching me its own lessons. I married at 22, had my son at 24, and divorced at 27. I’ve always been driven, curious, and hungry to grow, and even in my early twenties I knew there was more to life than working hard to pay the bills. I wanted to understand myself, my relationships, and what real fulfillment looked like. Years later, in a second marriage that also wasn’t right for me, I decided to train as a nutritionist; health has always fascinated me. At the same time, I started personal therapy with a Gestalt therapist, mostly to help me figure out whether to stay married or not. Three months in, I knew: Gestalt was my calling. I walked away from nutrition school and spent the next 3 years training as a Gestalt therapist. It changed everything. I’ve now been a therapist for 10.5 years, and I truly found my ikigai. Working 1:1 showed me how powerful this work is and also how limited my impact could be one client at a time. So I set out to build a group program that could reach more women. I’ve been developing it for the past 3 years; the women who’ve been through it have loved it, and I haven’t yet cracked how to bring it to a bigger group. I know in my bones this work can transform hundreds of lives — that’s the mission I’m here to fulfill. 🙏