Hey, I’m Carla

I was born into a very traditional British family but grew up in sunny South Africa. As a child I was brought up to be seen and not heard and so I was a very diligent, quiet and obsessively perfectionist (story for another day LOL) child.

As I got older this persona just didn’t feel right and I started to voice my opinion more… and boy did I! I have never been rude or disrespectful but I tell it like it is, because that’s how I wished everyone would treat me. Weirdly this got me really far in the corporate world…well until I wouldn’t play the political game of course.

When I first moved to the U.K I came to experience a whole new culture that I wasn’t used to. I found myself holding back a lot in order to conform to social norms.

For ages I did this, but then I realised that I wasn’t being true to myself, my voice mattered, and I wasn’t going to be ashamed to be 100% me going forward!

Before I decided to design my life the way I wanted to, I spent most of my 20’s, and even into my 30’s following the path that I thought I was expected to take.

The career path, the rising up the ranks, the playing the corporate game (which I wasn’t very good at I might add), the safe, structured life that I was brought up thinking was the path to success…and ultimately happiness.

I found myself jumping jobs a lot because I thought it was the company that was the problem or the role, but it wasn’t until I started to expand my inner work practices and ended up in hospital with a ruptured artery in my stomach from stress that I discovered that I WAS THE PROBLEM!

Man did that know me for six! ( I love sport so you may experience a few more of these analogies from me I’m afraid)

But the reality hit me hard…this stressed out, overworked, depressed, lonely, unhappy version of me was created by me.

So I started to unwrap my story, and noticed all the glaringly obvious ways that I had made choices that didn’t align with me. I made choices based on what others expected, or what I thought they expected.

Unwrapping my own story led me to designing my life on my terms. Creating a business where I get to help people unwrap their own stories and live their best lives. Creating the opportunity to live and work from a tropical island. Creating the freedom to visit friends and family all over the world. Creating a person I love inside and out.

I’m not special, I just got real with myself and did the work and you can too!