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For many years, I lived in a world built on logic.
As a CFO in international corporations, I mastered the language of performance: KPIs, forecasts, strategy. I was respected, relied upon, and often admired. But somewhere deep inside, a subtle tension grew. It wasn’t stress. It wasn’t doubt. It was something quieter… a sense that there was more.
Not more success.
But more depth.
More truth.
More life.
I ignored it for a while, as most high achievers do.
But life, in its mysterious wisdom, has a way of cracking open what’s no longer aligned.
For me, the turning point was not a single event, but a slow unravelling. A gradual peeling away of the masks. And eventually, a homecoming to parts of myself I had long forgotten, intuitive, embodied, wild, ancient.
I stepped out of the boardroom and into the unknown.
I became a wisdom keeper, a shaman, a guide.
Not as a rejection of business. But as a radical deepening of it.
What I discovered and now teach is this:
We all possess two non-physical senses that can transform our way of living and leading.
They are:
✨ Awareness
✨ Perception
These are not mystical abstractions.
They are competences.
Human competences.
And when we cultivate them, we tap into a level of intelligence that far exceeds what we learned in any school.
When we develop awareness and perception, we gain access to the quantum field, a dimension of consciousness where ideas emerge, where clarity returns, where creativity is unleashed without force.
Suddenly, solutions appear.
Burnout fades.
Synchronicities guide us.
And we begin to live, and lead from a deeper place.
A place of knowing.
My path may sound unusual.
From spreadsheets to sacred rituals.
From financial statements to fields of consciousness.
But I am here to say, with humility and confidence.
If this is possible for me, a highly rational, educated, business-trained woman, it is possible for anyone.
For any leader.
For you.
You do not need to abandon your intellect.
You only need to expand it, to include what is unseen, felt, intuited.
To become more whole.
And from this wholeness…
- your impact expands.
- your relationships deepen.
- your decisions align with something far greater than fear or control.
This is why I created The Scent of Knowing: a four-day retreat for women and men who feel the pull to reconnect with themselves and the field of life.
Held in a beautiful and intimate place in nature, this retreat is not a seminar.
It is a sacred container.
- A remembering.
- A softening into your inner wisdom.
- A celebration of the senses, physical and beyond.
Through ancestral rituals, deep meditations, guided inquiry and deep presence,
you will open the doors of perception and rediscover the scent of your own knowing.
This is not about learning more.
t is about unlearning what disconnects you from your true knowing.
t is about returning to your innate power, your inner leadership, your creative field.
If you’re reading this and feeling a quiet yes,
a resonance in your chest, a stirring in your gut,
then I trust you know this is for you.
🌀 The Scent of Knowing
🗓️ Nov. 20 to 23rd, 2025
📍 L’Hort de Sant Cebrià, Carrer Sant Pere Pescador, 24, 17474 Torroella de Fluvià – Girona, Spain (Catalonia)
✨ Write to me to learn more and reserve your place: sjunod@athena-ioe.com
Simone Junod
Founder, Athena InsideOut Education
Wisdom Keeper • Leadership Mentor • Former CFO
PS: Do you want to uncover all your talents? Are you seeking more meaning? It takes only one step: join us 💜
