About Miia

I've never fit particularly well into one box.

I love business, numbers and building things. I'm deeply spiritual. I'm intrigued by neuroscience. I'm claircognizant. And I'm endlessly fascinated by what human beings might be capable of.

None of those things feel contradictory to me.

If anything, my life has been an ongoing experiment in what happens when we stop assuming we have to choose between different parts of ourselves.

My first degree was in Sports Studies. Then I started again and studied finance and economics.

By 27, I was managing the largest individual open-ended mutual fund in Finland. During my nine years in finance, I moved across credit, bonds, funds of funds, real estate and equities, eventually managing growth stocks.

I loved getting underneath businesses. The numbers, the strategy, the opportunities, the people making the decisions. And spending years meeting CEOs and CFOs taught me that there's usually a lot more happening behind the numbers than you'll find in an annual report. 😉

But ultimately, investing meant analyzing, buying and selling.

I've always been much more interested in building and developing things.

So when I left finance, I didn't go looking for another portfolio to manage. I had a change of scenery, played a lot of golf (haven't touched my clubs since, so no need to invite me for a round 😆), did some consulting gigs, and started dealing with something that couldn't be resolved by Excel: my personal life and what was happening beneath the surface.

I eventually found myself in executive education, where within months I moved into developing new ventures and joined the management team.

At the same time, that difficult period in my personal life introduced me to a completely different way of looking at results: our external world, both personal and professional, often reflects what's happening within us.

And my personal life was a mess, so I had plenty to work with. 😆

I started working intensely on my own inner world and watching what happened externally as I changed internally.

A lot happened.

I went deep into my own transformation, travelling to India several times and immersing myself in different approaches to inner work, energy and transformation. I experienced and practiced many different modalities along the way.

During that time, my intuitive abilities became increasingly strong. Claircognizance, the ability to know things about people or situations without knowing how I know them, emerged as my strongest.

As my abilities developed, I eventually started using them to help other people too. What began on the side gradually became a much bigger part of my professional life, and eventually my main work.

Energy work began showing up naturally in my sessions. Later, I trained as an RTT® practitioner and hypnotherapist and went much deeper into the subconscious beliefs and patterns shaping our behavior and results.

For more than eight years, I've worked with people using different combinations of transformation mentoring, subconscious work, energy work and my own intuitive and energetic abilities.

And somewhere along the way, two worlds that might look completely unrelated from the outside became one for me.

The analytical and the intuitive.

Business and the inner world.

Results and transformation.

Today, I work privately with ambitious founders and leaders on the inner foundation shaping their performance, success and what they're able to create.

Sometimes the next breakthrough requires a better strategy.

But often it requires changing something within the person creating it.

I know there's more. I don't know where the limits are.

There are things I know today that I would probably have questioned earlier in my life.

I know that we can change something within ourselves and see our actions and external reality change with it. I know that we can receive information without consciously reasoning our way to it. And I know that there are layers to our intuition, mind, perception and consciousness that most of us were never taught to access or intentionally develop.

I know because I've experienced these things myself and spent years working with others and seeing what becomes possible for them.

What I don't know is where the limits are. And that's the part that fascinates me.

How much more can we develop our intuition? What else can we perceive that our five physical senses don't pick up? What happens as we expand our consciousness and intentionally work with different layers of our mind? What other innate capabilities have we barely begun to understand?

Ultimately:

What are human beings actually capable of?

That question is behind FITI Academy (From Intuition to Impact), the emerging academy and growing movement I founded to help people explore and develop different layers of their intuition and other innate human capabilities, and use them in their lives and work.

Not simply for the sake of developing them.

But to use more of what we're capable of to create positive change on this planet.

Three continents and counting

I was born in Finland, but apparently staying in one place was never really going to be my thing.

I first lived in the US as a teenage exchange student. I spent a year attending an American high school before returning to Finland to finish high school there too.

Years later, I moved abroad alone again, first to the US and eventually to Bali.

I haven't lived permanently in Finland since 2017, and so far I've been lucky enough to call Europe, North America and Asia home.

Someone once told me that moving alone to another country and building a new life from scratch was brave.

I'd never really thought about it that way.

By the time I made those moves, I'd learned to follow my inner guidance. And I think I was simply curious enough about what might be on the other side to trust it and go find out.

These days, when I'm not working, you'll find me walking my toy poodle, Suri, along a Bali beach early in the morning, lifting weights, practicing Yin Yoga, or listening to something that makes me think, learn or see things differently.

And my morning coffee is fairly sacred. Fortunately, Bali does coffee very well. 😆

There's also a good chance I'm thinking about business, consciousness, human potential, or whatever idea has caught my attention that day.

I still love numbers.

I still love building things.

I still love helping people create the inner foundation for extraordinary results.

And I'm still growing too. I don't think any of us is ever really finished.

And I'm probably more curious than ever about how much more is possible.