When I camped outside with a bunch of friends at the age of 8 I asked a question about the universe.
It was a profound experience that nobody seemed to be interested in the question, but best of all, I got the answer for myself right then.
This experience is one of the driving forces I imagine that lead me to read ancient scripture, i.e. the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads, at an early age, journeys to India, official studies in that field, a master’s degree in divinity (did not become divine for sure), including our Western wisdom traditions, and a life long passion for meditation.
Image: with two friends in foreign lands, me to the right (I was traveling over 3 years back then, well two years out of that on a beach in Goa, India, the proud owner of a beach bazaar)
Essentially, I came to understand that nothing can bother me as long as I am focused on the question of who I “really” am.
And that question allowed me to be open-minded to whatever will happen in my life, and take advantage of opportunities as life presented them to me. I accepted a manager position of a local hemisphere newspaper chapter in Honduras, Central America, from where I moved quickly to the rank of Associate Publisher and Director of the editorial house in Buenos Aires.
There I completed my international MBA taking the courses at night and moved on to consulting businesses, appearing on TV shows, and lecturing at universities as side hustles and mostly for the adventure of it while I had a regular job at the newspaper under the US Ambassador Phillip V. Sanchez who had his office in New York while I was in Buenos Aires running the office there with over 100 people.
Image: In one of over 50 interviews in Buenos Aires, Argentina
After 13 years in Latin America, I went to live in Canada. There I became interested in internet marketing and started an eCommerce venture next to teaching online courses at Belgrano University in Buenos Aires.
With 10+ years in eCommerce, building a 6-figure business, living a colorful life with different, fascinating ventures all the time, I realized that public relations and interviews were two of the biggest passions I had, I just didn’t realize it.
I wasn’t quite ready yet to establish my PR & Podcast Booking Agency yet, I had my eCommerce store, a laptop business, so to speak, and wanted first to enjoy my life on the most beautiful beaches in Central America, mostly Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. During those 10 years, I studied intensively the world’s wisdom tradition and took up Yoga and Meditation much more seriously, hence the name for this podcast website: OM By The Beach.
Image: 10 years in Central America on the most beautiful beaches with my laptop eCommerce.
For two years I have been living again in Salzburg, Austria, where I was born, and from where I left some 30 years ago to study in New York and work in Argentina. And it is at this time that I became really determined about increasing my network of fascinating people interested in similar topics and establishing my PR & Podcast Booking Agency.
In my next years, I have planned to live 9 months out of the year on Caribbean islands and in Costa Rica because it is there that I can fully live the life I am so grateful for. Accompany me in my journey, that is all I ask.