Description
From “I can’t do this” to “I can’t believe I just did this”
An hour before I was about to walk on stage and perform one of the most important piano competitions of my life, my instructor looked at me and said: “If I were you, I wouldn’t go in.” I was seventeen and impressionable. I walked out that door and crumbled. Defeat took over.
Lucky, my mother was waiting for me in the hall and walked with me. We stumbled upon a friend who brought me in a rehearsal room and helped me practice scales. Scales upon scales upon scales, the wave of defeat slowly transformed into constructive anger and power. The rest is history as this performance was yet my best piano performance.
That instructor – my own detractor, taught me a very valuable lesson that day that I brought and finetuned throughout my path as an entrepreneur and as a human being. Whether it was about overcoming doubt around my health or around my ability to lead and scale a company, the emotions were the same. Overcoming defeat. Feeling you way back into possibilities. Turning the “I can’t do this” into “I can’t believe I just did this.”
To celebrate the launch of my first book Becoming Untethered, join me and an intimate gathering of 100 guests for an evening on the Seine on Tuesday, June the 23rd to mark this beginning and experience the power of body-based meditations that will turn defeat into power and awe for yourself.
More than a book launch, this is a homecoming.
What’s on the Menu?
When? Tuesday 23rd 2026 starting 7 pm CET
Where? La Baleine Blanche, Paris
What? Turning “I can’t do this” into “I can’t believe I just did this”
Agenda
7:00 — Doors open, mingling, book signing, champagne
8:00 — Building Belief in Possibilities When Doubts Get Loud
8:30 — Live Meditation Practice
9:00 — Back to champagne, book signing, community, connection
Becoming Untethered
“There has to be a better way.”
This is how this journey started. I’d like to think it started in 2019 when my body staged a revolt but in truth, it started long before then. I kept hitting the milestone and it was never enough. “When I achieve this, then I’ll be happy.” The goalpost kept on moving.
Early 2019, what started as a mild injury turned into months of chronic pain. And it came bearing gifts. After dozens of medical tests and months of sleepless nights, one doctor told me: Your only way out is through meditation, and forever changed my life.
Pain became the doorway to an initiation that had been long coming. A coming home to the Self, with capital S, that no outside achievement can ever give you.
On the evening of June 23rd, aboard La Baleine Blanche in the heart of Paris, I invite you to celebrate the birth of Becoming Untethered—a book that began with chronic pain and became a roadmap for anyone who has ever whispered: There has to be another way.
Becoming Untethered weaves my own unraveling—from a pianist forced off her path to a strategy consultant whose body staged a revolt and a biotech CEO who whispered, “I cannot stop or I will die”—and finally understood why.
Each chapter weaves my journey with the neuroscience that finally explains why you can’t just think your way out of pain and offers meditative practices rooted in the body that will hold you in the moments when you can’t seem to find a way out.
At its core, this book is a roadmap to transform pain—physical, chemical, emotional, spiritual—into love. A deeper love. An unconditional love that has been sitting within you all along.