Most coaches come from psychology or HR. I came from a trading desk.

For nearly 15 years I worked in international commodity markets — environments where the cost of a bad decision is immediate, visible, and measured in numbers. You learn to think fast, hold pressure, and separate signal from noise. You also learn, eventually, that none of those skills will tell you what you actually want.

I was the person who looked like they had it figured out. Driven, ambitious, operating at a level most people around me recognised as success. And I was increasingly disconnected from myself — not failing, just no longer fitting the life I'd built.

The war in Ukraine — my home country — made the question impossible to ignore any longer: What kind of life do I actually want to build?

I didn't find the answer quickly. I found something more useful: the ability to think differently. To hear myself. To decide from clarity rather than from momentum or obligation.

I left. I trained. I built something I'd actually chosen.

That's the experience I bring into every session — not as a story, but as a method. I know what it costs to think clearly under real pressure. I know what it takes to make a decision you can stand behind when the stakes are high and the path isn't obvious. And I know the particular loneliness of carrying decisions that can't be shared with the people around you.