Dear Mishka

19/06/2026

If you felt yourself nodding, or quietly feeling seen, the Dear Alchemist membership might be the very place your soul is calling you to next.

Imagine a room filled with soul-led entrepreneurs walking this path together. Not another course for the pile, but a circle of healers, coaches, and creators tending soul and strategy side by side, so the work you keep putting last finally gets held. This space was built for you.

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08/06/2026

Happiest of birthdays to my little brother, who according to his beard is not so little anymore. 🎂

I am so proud of the man you have grown into. So smart, so funny, so genuinely caring of the people around you. Watching you evolve has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

From being too nervous to call in a Chinese food order in high school to the poised, thoughtful communicator you are today in both your personal life and your work, the growth is honestly astonishing. I could not be more proud.

You are turning the page to a new chapter right now and I cannot wait to read it with you. Whatever is on the next pages I already know it is going to be extraordinary because of the person you have become.

Here is to health, adventure, continued growth and more travel together as a family. The world is better with you in it.

Love you so much. Happy birthday. 🌊✨

27/05/2026

Topped up on Vitamin Sea. 🌊

My soul needed this more than I knew. A few days in Sipadan and the ocean did what it always does, it put everything back into perspective.

There are entire worlds down there waiting to be explored. From the tiniest nudibranch no bigger than my fingertip to the most majestic sea turtles gliding through the water. Every creature a reminder that life is infinitely more layered and more beautiful than what we can see from the surface.

It’s wild to think I that I used to deeply fear the ocean, and now diving has become one of my favorite hobbies. This is why I keep saying yes to the ocean every single time she calls. 🐚



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30/04/2026

A couple of days ago I went diving and I came face to face with so many nudibranchs. 🐌 🌊
If you do not know what they are, they are tiny multi-colored sea slugs. And they are possibly some of the most extraordinarily beautiful little creatures I have ever seen up close. The colors, the formations, the fact that something so small and so intricate exists at the bottom of the ocean, whether anyone ever notices it or not. I was completely mesmerized.
Diving has become one of my favorite activities. For me it’s about what happens to my whole system underwater. Everything slows down, breath becomes my anchor. The noise of the world disappears completely. It is the most meditative flow state that I know.
And moments like this one, hovering completely still next to a creature no bigger than my pinkie finger, reminded me that presence is not something you achieve, it is something you return to again and again in the places that ask you to be nowhere else but here.
The small things are not small at all. When we slow down enough to appreciate them, they become everything. 🐚

23/04/2026

I took this photo last week as I was exploring the streets of Saigon and I could not keep it to myself.
These orchids stopped me in my tracks. And the longer I looked at them the more I saw something I needed to hear.
On the same branch you can see buds that have not opened yet. Blooms that are fully alive and radiant. And flowers that have already had their moment.
We spend so much time focused on what has not bloomed yet. The offer that is still forming. The audience that has not arrived yet. The version of ourselves we are still growing into.
And sometimes we linger on what did not work out. The thing that wilted before it could flower the way we hoped.
But if we are not careful we miss the orchid that is fully open right now, breathtakingly beautiful, asking only to be noticed.
What is blooming in your life and your business right now? Not what is coming. Not what did not make it. What is here, open, and alive right now that deserves your full attention and your deepest gratitude?
Take a moment today to really see it.

10/04/2026

Today has been one of those days that fills you all the way up. 🌊
Morning surprises from my family and my love Emil, dancing on the beach, a cooking class, a boat ride, and the most beautiful company. I am so full of gratitude I barely know where to begin.
A couple of days ago I sat down and wrote out my biggest expansions from this past year, the things I am most grateful for, and the list just kept going. It made me think about the younger version of me and how shocked she would be looking at this life. Shocked by the beauty she could never have imagined. And shocked by how different it all looks from what she had pictured. But mostly just so deeply, beautifully surprised.
Birthdays make me reflective. They remind me to slow down and really look at what I have been gifted in all aspects of life.
I am spending this birthday with four of my favorite people in the world!
According to Jewish tradition, on your birthday you carry an amplified power to wish for others. Your soul is at its most elevated, and the blessings you send out carry extra weight. So if you read this all the way to the end, this blessing is yours. 🌸
I wish you joy. I wish our world peace, and may it begin from within each of us. I wish your life to be filled with beauty, creativity, and flow. And I wish you the resilience and presence to truly enjoy every season of the journey!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for every birthday message, every kind word, every bit of love sent my way today. I am overwhelmed in the most wonderful way.
With so much love and gratitude 🙏🏽

27/06/2023

26/06/2023

“ look deep into nature and then you’ll understand everything better.” -

Spending quality time with the ocean always brings me back to myself. What does that for you? !

18/06/2023

Happy Father's Day to the man who has been my inspiration, my challenger, and my biggest cheerleader. .gabriel you have taught me invaluable lessons. Today, and every day, I celebrate you and the incredible father that you are. I'm so grateful to have you in my life. Cheers to you, Dad! 🎉👨‍👧‍👦