
We can look at life events differently—happy, sad, or even traumatising.
If you want to move forward in life, using all learned experiences as stepping stones and opportunities for growth is helpful. Daring to do so is essential to become a Transformation Master.
If you get stuck reliving only your past events, you may feel strangled in an area you don’t want to be in anymore.
In the longer term, it can facilitate health issues, physical or mental.
Nurse and management
Nienke started her working life as a healthcare nurse. Notably, patients in transition, life and death, became the area where Nienke was serving at her top level of reach at that time. Being at service when babies were born and later a hospice nurse, Nienke was creating a safe space for whatever was happening from life to death.
In the next decade of her life, she worked in leadership positions and developed listening and action skills for leading organisations. Her capacity to ‘tune in’ to what was needed was functional but, in the end, no longer aligned with her life’s purpose. Even her BA degree and shifting organisations weren’t of any help—only a stepping stone.
Entrepreneurship, mentor, trainer, writer
Finally, it occurred to Nienke that entrepreneurship was a better fit in that decade.
Life showed it was time to give voice to what really matters in life—supporting people to find their voice and help them express themselves. Her company Presentation-Master was born
She expressed her voice by publishing several books: the Speaker Success Solution and the E.A.S.E. method to support public speaking. Speaking Leaders (Dutch) and her personal journey in life in the book My Life with Emma, Moving Mountains silence. A tribute to her grandmother, Emma.
And life evolved, so after another decade, it was time to shift again:
Nienke wrapped up her public speaking career with a TED talk, which was also chosen to be published on the official TED platform.

Heart-based Living and Phoenix Frequencies
In 2021, it was time to move on again. Nienke is faced with a life-or-death experience. That was the wake-up call to change her life direction drastically to the point of no return.
Living a heart-smart life in collaboration with HeartAmbassadors, HeartMath Institute, and the Fyera Foundation.
Her ABI helped her to listen beyond what was said. To sense what is needed in the next level.
Life prepared her for what life is now. It is time to work with what people can pick up from her now. The Phoenix Frequencies podcast expresses that, to start with, into the world.
Her personal mentoring for those who are ready to do the work is also a natural result.

Peacebuilding
Besides being a heart-ambassador, Nienke takes a stand for Peace. As a member of the Rotary e-club of world peace, she is connected with the international field of peacebuilders.
Nienke was born in 1967, a mile from the International Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands. But it took 50 years before she found herself ready to contribute to peace with programs in listening, heart-based connections and communication skills. In her 2022 program, Building Bridges- Connecting Worlds, she took her first global steps to bring peace by building bridges. She developed youth, women, and men programs to create social change and facilitated conferences and programs.
She also interviewed peacebuilders such as Dr Scilla Elworthy, Dr Betty Uribe, Sheva Carr, and Jo Berry and contributed several times with podcasts for the Geneva Peace Week.
Her friend, Daeyoung Kim, invited her to visit Korea in October 2024. This bridging East and West 2 weeks opened her heart even further for the Korean culture and people, particularly the Silsangsa Indramang Sengmyeong community in the South Korean Jiri mountains.