About Me, Liva
If you're curious about who's behind these offers, you've come to the right place.
Well, hello, I’m Liva.
Originally from Madagascar, I was born over 50 moons ago, a true and tested GenXer, under a nascent dictatorship. But I digress - although, that too shaped my approach to life.
My work is deeply rooted in the nervous system, understanding how it profoundly shapes your well-being, clarity, and capacity to create the life you desire. I have been a certified Leadership Coach for 17 years now, and have invested over 20 years in personal development. I've had the privilege to be trained in an array of modalities, including traditional Western approaches, Far Eastern, African, and Oceanian ancestral wisdom. This diverse approach allows me to offer a truly unique and deeply effective path to restoration.
Having lived and worked across 13 countries and being fluent in multiple languages, my global perspective enriches every aspect of the retreats and offers I host and run. I'm here to create a space where you can truly let go, reconnect, and rediscover your inherent balance, with a rich, integrated approach to transformation. My background as a financial journalist, diplomat and former branding agency owner has sharpened my ability to navigate complexity and facilitate profound insights, no matter your path. I've lived many lives.
I've been published and featured in numerous leading publications around the world over the past 20 years, sharing insights on women's roles in business, avoiding burnout, women's well-being, technology and anxiety management, personal growth, business leadership, expat life, storytelling and more. You can read some of the features by clicking HERE
The Shift
To go into more details, my journey truly started shifting after surviving 9/11. I slowly stopped climbing and started listening. It became my superpower. From there, I helped leaders find their way back to themselves — no longer just leadership but also holistic coach, and soon adding nervous system regulation. That part, I fell in love with during peri-menopause. Working with humans who want to live from inner peace rather than constant performance is my thing. I rely on neuroplasticity, ancestral wisdom, and the quiet, often forgotten, practices that actually create lasting change.
The Farmhouse Alchemy
Seven years ago, I bought a 16th-century farmhouse in France's Loire Valley and began restoring it myself - alone, clueless but with grit, one stone at a time. The physical work with my hands did something surprising to me: it gave my nervous system the grounding, peace and joy in a way years of meditation hadn't. I finally was back to myself after the big hormonal change occurred.
Making things. Being offline. Moving slowly. This is what, without fail, continuously grounds me, anchors me, soothes my soul.
The courses and the retreats, both in their formats and content, are exactly what I wish I myself could have counted on when I needed them most. Spaces in time where exhausted women can stop performing, make things with their hands, and remember what rest feels like. Small groups are my jam because intimacy changes everything.
You seen nothing happened overnight, that's a myth. Things take time, we take time. Rushing won't make anything go where it's meant to go anyway. It's like the farmhouse, a work in progress, slow, steady, beautiful, peaceful. The beauty is mostly in the path, the journey. I'm honored if you choose to share part of yours with me.
And you have noticed by now, I love telling stories, I love sharing. That's also who I am at my core and what gives me the capacity to recognize and be present to other people's stories.
PS: Work, Ethics, and Money
Oh yes, I just said the dirty word, ooooh! But no, seriously, it's only dirty if things aren't ethical. What matters to me is building a sustainable ecosystem where people can actually afford to work with me while I meet my financial needs. Fair pricing attracts the right people, builds community, creates word-of-mouth. Women deserve all the beautiful, happy and sweet things and it's time.
In that spirit, I've been regularly using Kiva to finance women-led projects in parts of the world where funding is really hard to come by. And the money I make is spent on the farmhouse work.
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