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Karin Velicka

Karin Velicka

Slovakia-based certified life coach (Mindvalley), NeuroSomatic Breathwork facilitator, and author of "Dear Me Letters"; former European Central Bank finance professional and squash player.

Sep 16, 2026

22:13
What type of coaching do you do?
22:15
I am into life coaching and I honestly love the work.
22:20
It's more about kind of looking at our own patterns in our life and looking at our limiting beliefs and how we can actually go through them.
22:31
And how we can reframe things in our life.
22:34
So I love working with usually my clientele is ambitious professionals.
22:41
And I can really see that, you know, I used to work in finance and I was a very high achiever.
22:48
And it's funny that sometimes you attract the type of people that you are.
27:34
And with your coaching, do you have like an online platform or how do you go about first reaching clients, like reaching out and finding the clients? And then once you, you know, secured them, how do you go about working with them as far as creating, whether you create a tailored plan just specifically for them or do you have like an overall plan or how does that work?
5:35
But when you, uh, look at stress that can remain stored in the body, uh, what does that actually mean for our viewers and our listeners?
5:44
listeners?Yeah.
5:46
We have not really learned how to close the stress, so the loop of stress.
5:51
So very often we go through a certain situation that can get us to a high s- level of stress, and this adrenaline is going to live in our body unless we discharge it, so unless we actually let it go and release it.
6:08
And that is what I'm working in, either in breathwork or in somatic, uh, sessions, which means that we are actually learning how to close the loop of stress.
6:20
And you can imagine it that very often we are carrying different stress in our lives, for example, stress from workplace, stress from family environment, or stress that is happening something in m- our friends group.
6:35
And you can see it as if you had Google Chrome and you had many different tabs opened, and that's how you can view stress.
11:32
Speaking of calm down, uh, a lot of people talk about self-sabotage and lack of discipline, but how much of those two things can possibly be coming from a stress response?
25:14
Like, what do you recommend that somebody does when they're in that situation?
25:19
Yeah, that's such a beautiful question.
25:21
Thank you for asking that because we all, especially as you said, when we are at the beginning of building a business, that is such a vulnerable place as well, because there's so much fear of the unknown.
25:34
There is so much uncertainty and we don't really know how to get things done in the most productive way as we wish for them to become.
25:45
And what I would say is always looking back towards what we have already accomplished because very often we are setting these high expectations of ourselves.
25:56
And what I have really found on my own journey is that I don't see what I have already done and I don't give myself the credit for it because one thing is tangible change, but then we also need to bring the nervous system and the intangible change into the question that we can set up Things that are productive, that are tangible, that we can work on.
26:19
And that there is a certain plan, but we also need to bring into the discussion the emotional part.

5 MINS LATER

31:37
So if you could, could you share us, share with us a little bit about your story and what you went through?
5:20
So what's something that you can tell him or her that might help with this, uh, dealing with guilt and shame perhaps of changing si- uh, transitioning?
5:33
Yeah.
5:34
Maybe I will s- first speak about my own feelings and then tie it to what people can do with it.
5:40
But honestly, the first part of it is that I have spent five years at a university learning about all of these different topics.
5:50
Then I spent four years doing the work of finance, so I have dedicated nine years of my life in finance, and also po- posing myself as a professional in finance, so who am I to change to something, something that is so different? And it felt like 180, going from very structured, maybe even a rigid environment, to something that is so open and free, coaching, breathwork, so it's the exact opposite.
6:19
And this guilt was I spent so much time working on myself, and I wanna throw it away.
6:26
That was my f- first thought.

9 MINS LATER

15:39
But I would like to hear your thoughts about those two situations, and, uh, how can one benefit from, uh, breathwork?

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