The path to my own truth.

April always feels like a fresh start to me. Four years ago, I closed my shop. April 2022. From there, I moved on to working on a project-by-project basis. I didn’t have a plan. My intuition has always been my plan. That was followed by a period of complete reset, both physically and mentally. Nobody had told me that would happen beforehand :-)

For twenty-five years, it was mainly about work. Just carrying on. Perhaps also so I wouldn’t have to really feel everything. My coach once said: ‘You are an intelligent woman. You have everything within you, except the confidence to go beyond your fear.’ And that was it. Fear.

Breaking patterns. Letting go of old layers. I often felt like the ‘black sheep’ within a loving family. Now I see that as a strength. Not verbal, but strong in feeling and seeing. High sensitivity and creativity have brought me to where I am now. From surviving to living.

Today I work on new projects from a place of calm and intuition, from the inside out. We live in a time when masks and ego are giving way to authenticity. For me, that is the essence of entrepreneurship. Love for the craft. Passion. I am grateful to have been able to build a name for myself: Ante Quercus, since 1997. Like a tree. Rooted.

I’m sharing this because I always find the story behind a business the most inspiring.

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I’d love to think along with you _ Patricia