About us
We are Katharina and Samdani Shaik-Moest.
We met in 2015 in Montenegro in southern Europe. We are now married with two children. We’ve been traveling and living in different parts of the world together since we met. Between the two of us, we’re incredibly blessed that we have traveled to 65 countries around the world so far. We experienced first-hand how people and cultures around the world dream about creating a life that fulfils their goals and enriches the limited time we all have on this earth. We shared our time with hundreds of people from all walks of life. Our own deep desire to seek deeper meaning of life, took us on an incredible journey of understanding, knowledge, discovery, and inner peace.
With this understanding along with our own experience in the corporate world, social work, volunteering, management, engineering, yoga, meditation, travels, and many other areas of life, we decided to share our understanding and support those who are on their own life journeys to achieve their goals, seek happiness, be healthy & fit, and help them understand deeper meaning and purpose of their own lives.
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Katharina (Kathi) is a Certified Health & Fitness Coach and a Certified Running Trainer. As part of her training and certification, she completed over 150+ hours of study, underwent 30+ hours of training under experienced health and fitness trainers, completed a thesis titled “How to be fit and healthy after pregnancy.”, and did over 120+ hours of practical coaching so far with positive results. She teaches what she follows for her own health and fitness goals along with the fitness routines she discovered to get fit after her own two pregnancies.
Kathi was born in the Alps of Innsbruck in Austria. She’s been a health and fitness enthusiast since her childhood. She participated in many track and field events and won several medals at state level championships. She took climbing courses at University of Vienna (Austria) and in Belgrade (Serbia) and enjoys climbing. She also took a course in volleyball and enjoyed playing it with her friends and family.
Kathi has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) in Austria. In her late teens, she spent time in the slums of Nairobi in Kenya volunteering for an NGO. She also lived in Lausanne in Switzerland as part of her social work training. After getting her degree, she worked at an organization in Vienna that supports domestic abuse victims. After about three-and-half years, she quit her job and moved to Serbia to study the Serbian language at the University of Belgrade.
Music is a big part of Kathi’s life. She plays flute, piano, ukuleke, guitar, and she also sings. Kathi speaks many languages. She speaks English, German, and French fluently. She also speaks conversational Spanish, Serbian, Hindi, and Swahili.
Kathi is currently traveling and living in different parts of the world for the past seven years with her husband, Sam and their two children, Nora and Nina.
She coaches online and in-person. Kathi offers Coaching in both German and English languages. Visit our Services page to read more about Kathi’s services.
Samdani (Sam) is a Certified Professional Life Coach and a Certified Happiness Coach. He is also certified by Sivananda Yoga Ashrams as a Hatha Yoga Teacher(200 Hours) and Certified by BFI Innsbruck as a Swedish/Classic Massage Practitioner (250+ Hours).
Sam was born in Kadapa in southern India and later changed his citizenship to the United States of America. Since his childhood, he’s been very keen on trying to understand the purpose of everything that happened around him. His curiosity and inquisitive nature helped him dive deeper into everything he did in his life.
Sam has a Masters Degree in Engineering from the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in India. He worked in Technology and Management Consulting for over 14 years working for Big 5 firms like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Deloitte Consulting US. As a Director of IT at a national bank in San Francisco, he strategized and built from scratch four departments (Change Management, Quality, Infrastructure, and Outsourcing) which now have 100s of employees with multi-million dollar budgets. During the 14 years of his career, he interviewed 100s of people and coached and mentored many people across various IT departments. He also coached many managers, engineers, and management aspirants from various walks of life. During his career he always tried to strike a balance among economics, vison of companies, technology, and needs & aspirations of employees. Even though he was very successful in his career, at the core of his heart he was yearning to understand and experience other aspects of life beyond the analytical and logical aspects of the mind that is deeply ingrained into engineering and management consulting that he was working with so far.
In 2013, at the peak of his career working as a IT Director in San Francisco, he quit his job, sold his house, donated/sold all his belongings, and just with a backpack, started the journey to understand the deeper meaning of life and explore aspects of life other than engineering, management, and consulting.
He backpacked alone to 30+ countries, studied various major religious scriptures, read most of the well known spiritual scriptures of India, underwent Yoga Teacher Training at an Ashram and gained his Yoga Teacher Certification and also trained as a professional Massage Practitioner in Austria. He is an active practitioner of various forms of Meditation for the past 25 years including Vipassana and Mindfulness meditation.
This intense search to understand LIFE arose in him a deeper understanding about various aspects of life and gave him absolute clarity about human suffering and opened the door to an understanding that leads the way towards freedom. He understood the struggles of the mind, its desires, its need for achievements, its need for security, its need for change, its need for finding solace in god, and many other aspects of our human condition. He met many people over the decades with whom he shared his understanding and helped them transform their life towards unlimited possibilities.
With his knowledge, experience, and understanding of various aspects of life including — technology, consulting, organizational behavior, people management, backpacking, yoga, massage, meditation, and life in general; he supports others achieve their own life goals (whichever area it may be) by combining his diverse life experience, knowledge, and his own understanding of life.
He met Kathi a year-and-half years into his solo journey in 2015, and what started as a solo journey soon became a partnership of adventure, joy, happiness, and mutual enrichment. They were joined by their two children along the way.
Sports were a big part of Sam’s life. He played cricket, volleyball, and table tennis during most of his school days. He enjoys learning new things. He enjoys taking photos of travels, blogging about their travels, and writing and discussing about every aspect of life.
Sam is currently traveling and living in different parts of the world for the past nine years with his wife, Kathi and two children, Nora and Nina.
He coaches online and in-person. Visit our Services page to read more about Sam’s services.