My story – from doing to being

By quitting my job in diplomacy and moving to Bali in 2012, I made a radical shift from doing what world thinks is successful, to discovering my own personal values. Via inner guidance, my passion and purpose I underwent personal transformation. Instead of a being high achieving robot, doing what society thinks I should do, I begun defining who I am by simply being and doing what I love.

It was an amazing journey, a big school of life. Coming to the amazing island of Bali with only my partner and a few people I knew I had all the time in the world to completely change my life. I took the time to develop my creative side.

I had to unlearn doing things from the right side of the brain and switch to be guided by intuition. My purpose unravelled by spending time doing what I love – practicing creativity, dance, singing, writing, building dicipline of positive habits.

I studied dance as the method of self-expression and self-healing (and self-love ritual) for 6 years. Some of the trainers I worked with are Spirit Dance Soul Song with Ellen Watson, 5 rhythms, Biodanza, ecstatic dance and contact improvisation. I studied dance exploration with Tina Bayley, former ballerina, dance choreographer and priest from Narwastu Cultural Community on Bali. Jane Chen for singing.

After getting to know myself better, I went for career change.

My old life & education

I studied English language and general linguistics and few years later, inspired by working on EU projects I graduated from another Master. This was Interdisciplinary European Integration – International relations in short, which I had the pleasure to take in Warsaw, Poland. One of the best years of my life, going back to school at the age of 29.

Previous to coming to Bali, I spent 10 years working for Croatian government in event management and public outreach. I was managing events and leading NATO and EU membership campaigns on national level as a public diplomacy expert.

When I first came to Bali, I worked in online marketing for What’s New Bali. Bosting their SEO 300%. Furthermore, I volunteered on board of Bali International Women Association as fundraising officer and PR. Eventually I delved into entrepreneuship – started my consulting business – helping coaches, and therapists create successful retreat programs for their clients.

While serving those amazing professionals and colleagues, I realized this is what I really want to do and ever since I have been studying personal transformation, integrating this precious knowledge and practicing serving others with my gifts.

I completed Reiki healing training I and II, Theta healing and NLP practitioners and master practitioner level. I also completed online Mindfulness training at University of Leuven and Facilitator’s posture by Start Results Ltd.

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Find BELOW two podcast interviews of Iva and her story – what made her leave diplomacy and move to Bali and what is body wisdom, and how you build a strong mindset with self-love habits.

Topics I love to talk about if you want to interview me:

1.  Community as a business model
2.  Importance of mentorship for sustainable growth
3.  How to make people organize themselves, reinventing communication stalemates in your company
4.  Self-love for building strong entrepreneurial mindset.