ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS FOR LIFE

Two inquiring sisters from another mother bring different perspectives to the table, united by the same commitment:

Tested Ideas, Zero Bullshit, Ultimate Freedom.

Jelena (ava) ristic

Undomesticated Free Thinker.

Cultural Code Shifter.

Polyglot.

Investigative Skeptic

Alchemist.

Founder

Lived Experience

  • Growing up in Ukraine, relocating and rebuilding my life in Austria

  • Opening gateways to understanding people, cultures, and word views through fluency in 5 languages

  • Navigating university, immigration, entrepreneurship, financial uncertainty, and personal reinvention by practicing growth over comfort.

  • Cultivating a lifelong fascination with the invisible forces that shape how people think, feel, and connect through the study of psychology, rhetoric and spirituality

  • Traveling widely in pursuit of a richer experiential understanding of the world.

  • Consistently value driven to maintain alignment between personal and social progress

  • Honoring human connection, through creating work that is both intellectually rigorous as well as emotionally resonant.

Lived Experience

  • Living a rich, adventurous, active, and beautiful life with a congenital heart defect after undergoing experimental open-heart surgery as a child.

  • Driven by a lifelong desire to honor and live every moment to the fullest.

  • Teaching across cultures, languages, and ways of thinking for nearly three decades.

  • Defying a prognosis of permanent physical disability through medical tourism, determination, and an unwavering refusal to accept imposed limitations.

  • Reinventing my life and career in midlife through immigration, service, beauty, and creative work.

  • Cultivating a lifelong devotion to Flamenco as both an artistic discipline and a way of inhabiting the world with passion, presence, and soul.

  • Creating, engaging with, and preserving art, beauty, and a rich spiritual life intentionally through the conviction they are essential to the flourishing of our minds, bodies, hearts, souls, and the societies we create.

ALexandra (Sasha) podDoubnaya

Intuitive Entrepreneur.

Psychology Enthusiast.

Polyglot.

Spiritual Pragmatist.

Synthesist.

Creative Partner

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