Meet Cristina Pop

We were lucky to catch up with Cristina Pop recently and have shared our conversation below.

Cristina, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
I believe that our purpose is having this human experience, We don’t need “greater” purpose than that. So our purpose, we have it already, just by living here on this Planet.

I was sitting at my desk in a skyscraper in Paris. It was early in the morning, the sun was raising up slowly and the beautiful Parisian light was coming through the window. I was hearing the noise of the air-conditioning in the background and the rhythmic tap of my pen on the desk. I looked through the window and saw the skyline of Paris revealing itself in the early morning sunlight. I took a sip of my coffee, It tasted so bitter. And in that moment I knew. I knew clearly in my body that this chapter was over.

It took me another couple of months until I quit my job in the corporate world, but once the decision was made, everything unfolded beautifully. I moved with the man I loved to a different country and started everything from scratch. I was not speaking the language, but I was full of hope and confident that I will find my purpose.

I trained as a coach and opened my practice in the beautiful city of Vienna and thought that “that was it- I had found my purpose”. Clearly, my purpose was to help other people. And no one disagreed with me.

Fast forward, 7 years later, here I was again: looking through the window of my living room into the luscious garden. I was hearing my daughter play in the background, my son giggling with his toys. I took a sip of my third coffee since this morning and realised it’s only 9 am. I was trying to write an article for my blog about motherhood. I was writing a passionate article about how important motherhood was for me. For sure, this was my true purpose. And no one ever disagreed with me.

Coaching, motherhood, creation, creativity, helping people, getting involved in changing the world my children will live in- are these my purpose? They are. And at the same time, only by existing here and now, I have my purpose. This existence is my purpose. Life is already the purpose.

And if we already have our purpose, just by being born here, then maybe, we don’t need to be in constant seek for more. Maybe we can enjoy being in this existence. And then, the question becomes: how do I want to spend my time on this Planet?

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
You are 3 decisions away from your dream life. And one thing I know for sure, is that these 3 decisions are within you. My magic is to help you find them, make them and then give you the tools to implement them in your life.

So this is what I do. My magic is to help you find the magic within you.

I have developed my own method, the THRIVE Formula to help my clients find the magic within them and live a thriving life.
I work with women only since I have started doing this work 12 years ago.

I believe that we need more women who THRIVE in their lives. More women who don’t need to hide their handbags when they leave their offices “early” to pick up their children from the nursery. I believe we need more women who build businesses that THRIVE financially. I believe we need more women who don’t reproduce the culture of overwhelm and busyness in their leadership, in their careers, in their lives.

At the moment, I have two programs: EMERGE- from caterpillar to butterfly and ALPHA (for women entrepreneurs: business done the feminine way)

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Intuition. The balance between yin/yang (feminine/masculine energies). And curiosity.

Your intuition is already in a conversation with you. The more we quiet our minds, the more we can hear our intuition.

The yin/yang balance is already present everywhere where nature is. The more we observe nature and its cycles, the more we can balance these two energies within ourselves.

Curiosity. This is how we were born. Little children are curious by nature. The more we connect with that playful energy inside ourselves, the more we can stay present and curious. And in this state of presence and curiosity, we attract beautiful opportunities.

Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?
My THRIVE Formula.

Each time I find myself in a challenging situation, I go back to the basics, I go back to my THRIVE Formula that I have created and that I teach to my clients. I identify what are the 3 decisions I need to make. It has never failed me.

And the first step is to always ask myself: what is within my power in this situation? what can I control? where do I need to release the illusion of control?

When we cannot control external circumstances, we can always remind ourselves that we can decide how we respond to these external circumstances – this is where our sovereignty resides.

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Erna Drion

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