• EDUCATION + TRAINING 1987- 2022
  Coaches l worked with in person: Fabienne Fredrickson, Tamer Shahin, Chris Ducker, Sigrun, and many others. Of course a gazillions tranings and study on art, psychology, neurodiversity, branding, design and business stuff.
  
  *MoMA New York 2015
  Art & Activity Strategies for Engaging with Art
  
  * Penn State University 2014
  Certified trainer Creativity, Innovation & Change
  
  * Coaching In Culture, the Netherlands 2011
  Certified Transformational Life Coach
  
   * Academy for Coaching & Counseling 2010
  Certified Transformational Mentor & Counselor
  
  * Universitas Andalas (Padang, Indonesia) 1992 - 1994
   and University of Leiden
  Indonesian Language and Culture
  Research Indonesian art
  
  * the University of Amsterdam 1987 - 1993
  MA Art History
  MA Communication Science
  
  * ARTEZ Institute of the Arts 1984 - 1987
  Architectural Design 

A. My clients are women entrepreneurs from over 67 different countries. They live all over the globe, in big cities and tiny villages, at the sea, in the mountains  . . . and they are amazing.

They are brave entrepreneurs. Being fully authentic is very important to them. Their deepest desire is to grow their business on their terms!  They dare to be different. It's not even a choice. 

Many are entrepreneurs with established businesses, making multiple 100K figures and changing the world every day. Some are just starting and are ready to take their business to the next level.

Some are well-known, and many will be well-known.

Their businesses are growing because THEY are growing. The magic mix of self-worth, consistent action, showing up, and connection is  They connect to their soul clients, or because they are leading a tribe that grows day by day.

My clients long to co-create big changes, or to take a small step towards big change. To go from feeling stuck, indecisive, and perfectionistic to that wonderful state of flow and ease, where it feels like they are the ones who are in control. Or to step into that very important next level.

While remaining fully aligned to their brave personality and their Soul's Purpose.

 They are smart - really smart - sensitive, and have a gazillion ideas, passions, and interests.  

Somehow they decided to come home to their Soul. They said “Enough is enough, I need change to move forward. Real Change.”

That took guts. And heaps of self-love. If you want to meet them come over to the The Real You Sisterhood!

Read some of their recommendations here.

1. I traveled through Asia by myself for months-long before social media and I loved being off the grid for months (this is me somewhere in Vietnam).

2.
* I found love at 40
* married and bought my first house at 41,
* became a mother at 42.
* My business went from almost broke to multiple 6-figures at 52.
*  Had my ADHD diagnosis at 60.

My son is a teenager now and seeing him grow into himself is the most amazing adventure. I'm still speechless.

3. I only use organic skincare, because we've got to take care of nature and also because it smells so good. 

4. I co-produced a Dutch documentary about the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia and traveled through Indonesia for months with two well-known Dutch journalists

5. I once looked at my vision board and realized that I had manifested everything on the board. Seriously!

6. My husband and I used to work for the same design agency. The only things we said to each other were hi and bye. For more than two years.

1. I traveled through Asia by myself for months-long before social media and I loved being off the grid for months (this is me somewhere in Vietnam).

2.
* I found love at 40
* married and bought my first house at 41,
* became a mother at 42.
* My business went from almost broke to multiple 6-figures at 52.
*  Had my ADHD diagnosis at 60.

My son is a teenager now and seeing him grow into himself is the most amazing adventure. I'm still speechless.

3. I only use organic skincare, because we've got to take care of nature and also because it smells so good. 

4. I co-produced a Dutch documentary about the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia and traveled through Indonesia for months with two well-known Dutch journalists

5. I once looked at my vision board and realized that I had manifested everything on the board. Seriously!

6. My husband and I used to work for the same design agency. The only things we said to each other were hi and bye. For more than two years.

7. When I go to the Spa the only thing I do is sit in the hot tub and look at the clouds.

8. I'm addicted to: glasses, red lipstick, opera, handbags, dresses, books (so many books) art supplies (so many) 

9. I have an indoor office and an outdoor office. When you meet me in the summer, you most likely find me in my outdoor office in my beautiful garden.

10. My art is my self-care

11. I got my ADHD diagnosis very late, it has been such a relief!

12. I believe in paying it forward and supporting women entrepreneurs with micro finances via KIVA.

A. In case anyone wonders.

Yes, this is my real name.

No, it’s not made up, it’s not my husband’s name. It’s ONE name.

Yes, there’s a coat of arms (family crest thing). Look at the fierce unicorns and lions.

No, I don’t have a title, that line ended in the early 1980’s

Yes, that’s correct, I’m from the happy bastard line.

Something with a great grandmother and a Moluccan prince/ Javanese circus director/ - depending on who tells the story - and a bastard son)

Or as my aunt says: ‘onkruid vergaat niet’ (weed never dies
So, yes, that's my real name.
About 5 centiliter of ‘real Dutch blood’ runs through my veins. My father was born and raised in Indonesia, he was born in the time when Indonesia was a Dutch colony. Meaning we are ‘Indo’s’ with a mix of Indonesian and Dutch blood.

After the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve in 1572 the French Huguenot family de Charon de Saint Germain fled from France to the Netherlands. From there they traveled to the former Dutch Indies.

Pretty soon my great-grandmother (this part of the story depends on who tells the story) had an affair with an Indonesian prince (or maybe he was a gardener). Out of wedlock, she got a beautiful brown-skinned multi-racial baby. And that’s where I come from.

My mother is half Swiss, and I was brought up with the idea that everybody on this earth is first a human being, then a cosmopolite, and only then an inhabitant of a country.