Grit & Wonder

Es gibt so Menschen mit denen beginnt und endet ein jedes Gespräch immer mittendrin - wie ein Sprung in einen nicht versiegen wollenden Fluss an Gedanken, Erkenntnissen und Inspirationen. Genau so geht es mir mit Nicola! Und diesmal haben wir finally aufgenommen! Voilá. Es hätte dafür auch keinen besseren Zeitpunkt gegeben können. Nicola hat zusammen mit Jakob Carl Sauer den Dokumentarfilm „to Clo...

Believing in one’s own work is like paying rent. Only if you hold space for it, do you give it a chance to grow.  Only if you think it’s worthwhile to invest in it, you will. In this episode, I zoom in on HOW to actually practice this powerful skill on purpose. I talk about how believing in your work looks and feels differently depending on where you are in the creative process. I dive into doubli...

Ein offen freudiger Blick unter die Oberfläche und ins Herz der Schaffenswelt der Wiener Modedesignerin Jana Wieland mit eigener, gleichnamiger Brand; Sprach-Schmankerl inklusive: Interview in oberösterreichischem Dialekt. You are welcome :D Mindestens so wichtig aber - das Gespräch ist ein schlüssellochgroßes Guckloch in 20 Jahre tiefe Freundschaft, die uns seit zart-ungestümen Teenage Jahren ver...

EMBODIMENT. It’s one of those big, ominous terms that’s being thrown around a lot these days—creating just as much confusion about what the heck it actually is, and discomfort about what it might mean to practice it. Good News: we all got a body - so getting started is as simple (and equally complex :)) as sitting, walking, talking, breathing. And I will walk, talk, breath you through it! Here’s w...

In dieser Folge bin ich On the Mics mit der fabelhaften Anna Riess: einer Wiener Künstlerin, die Kunst, Handwerk und Design auf einzigartige Weise verbindet. Ihre Arbeiten aus Keramik, Textil und Metall sind nicht nur Objekte – sie erzählen Geschichten. Wir sprechen über:
 Wie Architektur, Poesie und Mutterschaft Annas künstlerische Stimme prägen
 Die Spannung zwischen Funktionalität und Kunst – k...

You’re creating, you’re sharing, you’re putting yourself out there—so why does it sometimes feel like the attention you get just bounces off? Why do we crave being seen but struggle to feel it when it actually happens? This episode is NOT about how to be seen (spoiler: you’re already doing that). It’s about the deeper, trickier part—letting it in. 🌀 Do you allow the love and recognition you recei...

Welcome to the Grit & Wonder Podcast, where we explore the alchemy of creation. Whether you’re an artist or working in the corporate world, we all share the same desire: to create something meaningful, impactful, touching. Something that reminds us of our humanity.  Hosted by artist and business consultant Mirjam Sögner, this show delves into the magic that happens when spark and vision are pa...

For all of us it is a different one.
 That most feared, unwanted, gut-wrenching emotion. 
 To be clear - there is a huge variety of feelings that no one would consider pleasurable. And most of us would rather not feel any of them.
 I even like to think that its a 50/50 cake: and half of our human experience is constituted by countless shades of "uncomfortable".
 
 But there is this ONE feeling tha...

I am sure you have also already hit your head at one of the million metaphorical, flashing billboards that yell at you how important it is to carve out YOUR space, corner or niche as an entrepreneur or freelancer.  Endless claims are made about what is the best way to set yourself apart from the masses.  In this weeks episode I wanna real-talk to you though about how leaning into your uniqueness (...

Whenever you got a lot on your plate - a very normal reaction would be to increase SPEED when trying to shove the stuff off your table. I mean - you are stressed because there are too many things, right? So, it’s just basic math that DOING MORE will get you faster to the end of that seemingly unsurmountable list. Which would finally cause that much needed relief to kick in. And - YES. If you were...

You know that you have entered the incredibly vast, intricate and devious realm of psychological games when PLAYING is anything else but FUN.  We all have been there.  That moment when you realize that you have been sucked into someone else’s malicious plot.  You feel tricked, betrayed… and stuck AF. Coz no matter in which direction you might move - someone will get hurt, something will break.  Yo...

Encountering a … PROBLEM - involuntarily sets off the urge to get rid of it. ASAP. We want to have it solved - NOW. Not actually because the problem is a problem - but because we usually feel a tremendous amount of tension when considering something an ISSUE.  Their existence inflicts pain - and our reptile brain wants to get out at any cost.   Thanks to this perceived threat our brain is lightnin...

Whenever we take on a bigger project, lead larger teams or move into more complex work-territories it very often puts us in a „everything-is-a-life-threatening-calamity! If I don´t act NOW we will all sink and die“-state. Leading to exhaustion, self-doubt and a lot of bad decisions. Let’s say you are a really good sailor in the Mediterranean Sea and have decide to now embark on a new journey out i...

We all know that there are galaxies between the involuntary perception of those hissing sounds bubbling out of someones mouth in the form of words and actually extracting MEANING from this noise.  MEANING that when woven in the service of wanting to understand someone or something deeply can lead you through the labyrinth of chatter to the core of a matter. The underlying cause, drive, motivation,...

In this episode I wondered - what if those GO-TO solutions that our brain comes up with when facing a difficult situation are the exact reason for our stuck-ness?  The source of what creates MORE OF THE SAME. And Probably more of the current problems as well? The strategies that have served us well, the stories we tell about ourselves (like… I am not disciplined enough) - they totally work sometim...

Remember as a kid when you really wanted some candy before dinner? And your mom would not let you have some because… it does not make sense. And you don’t NEED it.  As grown ups - many of us still relate to our WANTS as if there was a mom telling us off for desiring what we don’t actually NEED. How this is playin out then in our inner emotional landscape is us today looks like spending lots and lo...

WISH DAY is a practice I developed for everybody who wants to re-calibrate their relationship with their own DESIRES, WISHES and WANTS by feeling safe around having them in the first place!  WHY? Coz the reality of how most of us think about our desires stems from a deep distrust in our ability to be with them and / or fulfill them in a way that does get us in trouble and sounds something like:  „...

We keep To Do Lists in the hope that one day we will be DONE.  It’s a tool we often religiously use in the hope to finally be on TOP of things not noticing that our list have long taken the seat at the steering wheel ruling US.  In this weeks episode we will explore what your subconscious mind is convinced you will FEEL like once you have completed all your tasks (it is one of our favorite places...

No - this is not a manual on how to be LESS insecure!  If this is what I were offering here - I would agree with your story, that insecurity is a problem. And this is where we will begin in this weeks episode: Wiggling a little at that deeply rooted believe that insecurity is UNPROFESSIONAL.  If this is you I would love to offer you following questions (for the sake of the wiggling): What is YOUR...

This is an invitation to meander with me and ponder about the non-linearity of timelines (or then… time waves, vortexes and spirals) that the magic act of CREATION holds for us.  And - yes I am also talking to YOU, with the so-called non-creative, practical business!  (If you need to continuously adapt and change to shifts in the market - you are also CREATING!)  What is mostly talked about is the...

„I don´t know!“ Such a common place And oh! how I love this phrase - for the mere fact that, depending on how you use it, it can mean a lifetime of agony or the doorway to the most unexpected findings emerging from the unknown.  What makes the difference is the story you tell yourself about YOU, when you don’t know.  Do you think you should? It´s definitely not comfortable to lean into the space t...

We love to fantasize.  You have been imagining that moment a million times.  And its gonna be perfect.  That moment - when it will feel RIGHT to get started, or take that next big step.  And right meaning … you finally believe you can actually make it.  Ironically - that waiting… for the moment when you are fully sure of yourself and your future success  is a guarantee for NOT EVER moving an inch...

For those of you who want to learn how to coach yourself - the Podcast Miniseries is hereby continued!  (Go to:  #8 Facts versus story - PART 1 #9 Feelings are Wealth - PART 2 If you want to start at the beginning - they are building up on each other!)  And also - HELLO New Years Resolution that you set eagerly hoping that the midnight bell will randomly give you that damn WILLPOWER to finally tur...

Business relationships can feel like marriages oftentimes. I mean - you would not be the first one if you spent MORE TIME with your founding partner than with your spouse….  And one thing I hear  A LOT when people consider starting or struggle to continue such a partnership: „I need to be able to trust them.“ Such a lovely, innocent sentence.  YES - trust is crucial for any committed relationship....

I am convinced that the obsessive pursuit of success can cast a spell on you that causes you to loose the ability to move your geniousness-muscles and that prohibits access to those yummy parts of your brain where the creative juices are flowing.  This usually happens when success seems to be the only alternative to FAILING.  And when failing equals DEATH to our nervous system - we are in fact fig...