A story that become a brand. At 33, Irene Del Olmo went in for a routine checkup. She came out with two pieces of news that changed everything. A rare form of breast cancer. And the confirmation that becoming a mother would not be possible.

What she did next is what this episode is about.

In this conversation, Irene shares how she rebuilt her health from the inside out, spending years as her own testing ground, reading research, fine-tuning supplements, and refusing to accept impossible as a final answer. She tried fertility treatments across three countries. Nothing worked. Then, naturally, against every medical prediction, she fell pregnant. She miscarried. And three months later, fell pregnant again.

Her daughter Theodora, a name that means gift from God, is now here. And so is Birtz Nutrition, the supplement brand Irene built from everything she learned.

In this episode:

• What it feels like to lose your identity after eight months of chemotherapy
• How Irene used nutrition and supplementation to restore what the treatment took
• The moment a doctor suggested she consider getting a dog instead
• Why she went back to university to silence the imposter syndrome
• What grit looks like when every expert has already told you no

Irene is a former lawyer, founder of Birtz Nutrition, and a woman who built something real from the hardest chapter of her life.

Find Irene and Birtz Nutrition at www.birtznutrition.com

What if your shoes could be a vote for a different world?

In this episode, María Lucia speaks with Stefan Woben, co-founder of NOOCH, a 100% plant-based footwear brand built around one question: What if Mother Earth was our CEO?

Stefan and his co-founder Lotte have spent 13 years rethinking not just what a shoe is made of, but how a brand is financed, how products are ordered, how customers are kept close, and how honesty becomes the business model.

You will hear how a visit to an eco-camp in Spain started everything.

How anger, despair, and a glimmer of hope all arrived at the same time, and what they did with all of that.

How they handled a key supplier going bankrupt.

How over a thousand customers were waiting, with barely five cancellations, because Stefan and Lotte write emails from the heart.

This is a story about a perfect sustainable brand. It is a story about what it really costs to build one, and why that cost feels worth it.

Explore the brand at https://nooch.earth/

What happens when you lose the one thing your career depends on?

Judit Nagy was a news anchor in Hungary. Her schedule ran on adrenaline and early alarm calls. Then burnout arrived quietly, and not long after, a near death experience during childbirth took her voice entirely. Literally. She woke from a coma and could not speak. Surgery failed. Recovery was not guaranteed.

What she built from that silence is the episode.

In this conversation, Judit shares how chocolate making taught her patience and self-expression before she had words to speak.

She talks about the internal messages we carry from childhood, the ones that make us say yes when we mean no, and perform when we need to rest. And she gives us something practical: breathing, posture, warm-up rituals that change how we show up before we even open our mouths.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Why losing your voice can be the beginning of finding it

• How internal drivers from childhood shape the way we communicate today

• The Choco Coaching method and how the senses unlock what words cannot

• Practical breathing and posture techniques you can use before any presentation or difficult conversation

• Why your voice is your business card and your communication is your power

  
  

  Get in touch with her, here: https://www.juditnagy.info/choco-coaching