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Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨

At 34, I walked away from comfort to start over in NYC. I stopped living next to my life and chose what felt like home instead. Height years later I live in Hawai'i where I help people embrace who they actually are and build lives that feel like theirs.

The Friends I Carry Across Time Zones

Aug 21, 2026

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8 min read

The Friends I Carry Across Time Zones

Part II: How friendships evolve, vanish and find us when we choose a different life.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Finding My Own Frequency

Aug 14, 2026

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5 min read

Finding My Own Frequency

This Week, I Asked Myself How I Can Show Up in Full Energy and Power

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Do We Lose Friends, or Do We Just Stop Pretending?

Aug 7, 2026

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7 min read

Do We Lose Friends, or Do We Just Stop Pretending?

What I've learned at 43 about people-pleasing, the friends who left, and the ones who came back.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
When Paying the Bills Was Enough of a 'Why'

Jul 24, 2026

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4 min read

When Paying the Bills Was Enough of a 'Why'

The thing that held me together when everything felt hard

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Vision Board Lab: save your spot for July 28th

Jul 17, 2026

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1 min read

The Vision Board Lab: save your spot for July 28th

"July is for shaping the future" - Chani Nicolas

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Vision Is the Between

Jul 10, 2026

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3 min read

The Vision Is the Between

On how what I truly wanted had a way of finding me anyway

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
What Comes Before the Dream

Jul 3, 2026

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6 min read

What Comes Before the Dream

On the steps we skip, the walls we hit, and the quiet relief of finally seeing yourself.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
A 'Why' Grounded in My Heart

Jun 26, 2026

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5 min read

A 'Why' Grounded in My Heart

How in every personal project there is someone slowly daring to become visible.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Waiting Room of a Life Not Yet Lived

Jun 19, 2026

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5 min read

The Waiting Room of a Life Not Yet Lived

The years I spent stuck looked like living, until a small shift changed everything.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Steep Path Into the Marvelous

Jun 12, 2026

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4 min read

The Steep Path Into the Marvelous

A walk through a botanical garden in Hawaii that unfolded into a meditation on beauty, history, and what it means to live close to the earth.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
There Is No One Way to Heal

Jun 5, 2026

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7 min read

There Is No One Way to Heal

My personal journey through years of healing and personal development and how doing the work helped me build the life I have today.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Pain That Learned to Call Itself Anger

May 29, 2026

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4 min read

The Pain That Learned to Call Itself Anger

A reflection on the anger that has become a way of living for so many, the generations of pain it carries. And what it would mean for all of us to finally choose something different.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Way Light Falls on a Different World

May 22, 2026

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6 min read

The Way Light Falls on a Different World

A reflection on how we mirror each other without looking.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Life That Grew From Leaving

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

The Life That Grew From Leaving

Eight years after leaving everything behind, a reflection on distance, becoming, and the self that waits.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
BREATHING peace

Apr 17, 2026

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4 min read

BREATHING peace

On returning to the quiet the world taught me to forget

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
When the System Breaks Everything (Including the Good Spaces)

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

When the System Breaks Everything (Including the Good Spaces)

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Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Roots of Guilt We Didn't Plant

Apr 3, 2026

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9 min read

The Roots of Guilt We Didn't Plant

A gentle look at the weight we inherited, and the quiet relief of putting some of it down

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Beautiful Rebellion of Choosing Ourselves

Mar 27, 2026

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12 min read

The Beautiful Rebellion of Choosing Ourselves

On main character energy, the kind that's quiet, brave, and heartcentric 💗

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨

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The Years We Haven't Processed Yet

Mar 20, 2026

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10 min read

The Years We Haven't Processed Yet

A reflection on the pandemic, written by candlelight during a hurricane in Hawaii

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Beautiful Things We Buried to Keep Going

Mar 13, 2026

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9 min read

The Beautiful Things We Buried to Keep Going

A story about feminine energy, survival mode, and what I learned when I finally started listening.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Slow Art of Becoming Enough

Mar 6, 2026

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6 min read

The Slow Art of Becoming Enough

My personal story about self-love, comparison, and finally listening to myself.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Only Validation That Set Me Free Was Mine

Feb 27, 2026

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6 min read

The Only Validation That Set Me Free Was Mine

A personal story about truth, approval and finally trusting myself

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
The Signs You Keep Ignoring

Feb 20, 2026

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6 min read

The Signs You Keep Ignoring

On asking for what you want, learning to recognize the answer, and believing you deserve it

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
When Did We Stop Dreaming?

Feb 13, 2026

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9 min read

When Did We Stop Dreaming?

How we lose ourselves in seriousness and responsibility, and how to find our way back.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
A Love Letter to a World I Had to Fall For

Feb 6, 2026

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8 min read

A Love Letter to a World I Had to Fall For

How seeing everything from nowhere changed my view of anything.

Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
Nina B. • The Empowerement Coach✨
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I’m Nina, an empowerment coach and transition guide. From Switzerland to NYC to Hawai‘i, I’ve built a life by choice, not chance. Now, I help women rewrite their own rules, trust their courage, and create futures that feel unapologetically theirs.

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