Hello, I'm Magda and I'm glad you're here.

I grew up in Warsaw: curious, social, and rarely still. I was a competitive athlete through primary and high school, running tracks and training daily. I chose biotechnology because I was good at math and liked chemistry: practical logic over grand passion.

But even then, I held paradoxes: insecure yet confident, gentle yet wild. I didn't know it then, but those contradictions would shape everything that followed. I graduated with a Master of Science, turned down the PhD, and followed my husband to the Netherlands without a plan.

I arrived in the Netherlands newly married, no job, no plan, just curiosity and someone who believed in me. Someone recommended a programme. I applied. And a year later I was in Delft, doing an EngD at Delft University of Technology.

I thrived. The multidisciplinary projects, cross-cultural teamwork, overseas travel for seminars and biotech tours, presenting my work. I was driven, and alive. But when I became a mother, I doubted my career path. Something shifted and I didn't know what it was.

Another family relocation, this time to Singapore, opened a space I hadn't expected. For the first time, I chose what I wanted, not what made sense on paper. I became a personal trainer, a prenatal group trainer, a yoga teacher, and trained in cognitive fitness.

I loved every moment: the teaching, the community, the aliveness of it. It was more than fitness to me. It was about guiding women through their pregnancies and postnatal period, helping them build strong bodies and resilient minds. To thrive in motherhood and in life.

Then a spinal injury stopped everything. A herniated disc kept me at home for months. For the first time, I slowed down enough to feel how fragile life is. How much of it I had been living on autopilot.

The uncertainty, ongoing pain and inability to work pushed me to work on myself for the very first time. Therapy and coaching created an awareness of who I am, how to live consciously, make better choices, and what it means to act on what matters most to me. It was then that I decided to train as a professional coach.

What I didn't fully understand then was that the thread had always been there: in the teamwork, in the teaching, in the simple joy of being with people and watching something shift. The science changed. The setting changed.

But the drive to serve, to contribute, to leave this place better than I found it. That never did. It is still a journey, but this time of authorship. And I love it.