For a long time, I thought something was wrong with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trained as a media designer. Studied communication science. Worked at a university, did Marketing for Professor Meffert, went freelance. On paper: everything right. In my gut: a constant unease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sat in structures that worked for other people, and quietly wondered why I never really felt at home in them. Not the wrong environment. Not the wrong people. Something in me just didn’t fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came a conversation with a coach. No big event, no revelation “just” a coaching session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asked me one question: “What do you really want?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I answered. He listened. And asked again: “What do you really want?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I answered again, deeper this time. He nodded. And asked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same question. Over and over. Not to frustrate me. But because he knew: the first answer is rarely the real one. Only when you can no longer dodge it, when all the polished explanations run dry, the inner truth comes to surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What hit me wasn’t the question itself. It was that he saw something in me that I couldn’t see in myself. He didn’t coach me. He held space, space I did not allow myself to own before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At some point he said: “Write an application.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Me: “For what?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Him: “For the thing you actually want to do.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n That application – that’s who I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the path there wasn’t a straight line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were stones on the road. Doubt. Uncertainty. Moments where I wanted to stop or take a wide detour around the hard parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I learned not to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not because I’m particularly brave, but because I understood that the stones aren’t blocking the path. They are the path.<\/strong> Every stumble, every difficult phase, every decision that took courage, it brought me exactly to where I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And what does success mean to me? Not revenue. Not reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being there for myself and for others. That’s it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m Niv, a bilingual career and leadership coach based in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I work with professionals who feel stuck, are navigating a career change, preparing job applications, building their network, or stepping into leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have coached over 200 Clients across Germany and Europe, I’ve seen one thing over and over: most people already know what they want. They just need someone to help them hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not with ready-made frameworks. But by asking the right questions again and again, deeper and deeper until you find your own answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exactly the way my coach once did for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re a professional in Berlin, Barcelona or anywhere and you have the feeling that there’s more in you than is currently coming out:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Book a free 30-minute clarity call <\/strong><\/a>\u2014 no commitment, just clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And check out my <\/a>Career Coaching Page <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n PS: Why Berlin and why Barcelona, I\u00b4ll tell you next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From marketing to coaching \u2014 a Berlin-based bilingual career and leadership coach shares the one question that changed everything. Book a free clarity call.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Honest Path: Why I Became a Career Coach in Berlin & Barcelona - Career & Business Coach Berlin | Niv Now","description":"From marketing to coaching \u2014 a Berlin-based bilingual career and leadership coach shares the one question that changed everything. Book a free clarity call."},"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-51341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-change","tag-leadership"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51349,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51341\/revisions\/51349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niv-now.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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