Some Answers Stay With You…For a Lifetime.

My Real Journey Began Behind the Scenes.

I never actually wanted to be on stage myself. What fascinated me far more was what happened behind the scenes. In those moments when people took off their masks and were simply themselves.

For many years, I had the privilege of meeting extraordinary people, listening to them, and asking them the same question. And I carried their perspectives into my own life. Then, at some point, something happened I never expected.

Step by step, the person behind the stage became the person on the stage.

Today, a Hollywood team is developing that very journey for the big screen.

Coincidence?

Or did this story perhaps begin much earlier?

It All Began Much Earlier.

In this photo, I’m holding my Schultüte—the traditional German school cone children receive on their first day of school. Back then, I had no idea where my journey would one day take me.

I only knew one thing:

I was curious. Curious about people. Curious about stories. Curious about life.

Maybe that’s how every great journey begins.

With a single question, long before we know where it might one day lead us.

My Education Began Behind the Scenes.

While others spent their vacations on the beach, I often found myself backstage at concerts, inside arenas, or sleeping on tour buses. Not for work—but out of pure curiosity.

I invested my free time in meeting extraordinary people and learning from them. People who could make thousands of people sing, dance, laugh, cry, and marvel—all within the space of two hours.

Where did that ability come from? What made them so powerful as a different kind of leader?

That’s exactly what I wanted to find out.

The Biggest Experiment of My Life.

A few months later, I was sitting alone in a hotel room in Hamburg. In front of me was a coaching program. One question wouldn’t leave me alone:

“What is your goal for the next three, five, and ten years?”

I thought about it. At that point, I had given just two talks. And yet, one thought kept coming back to me:

How can I speak about achieving goals if I don’t have a goal of my own that truly challenges me?

I opened Google.

“What’s the next bigger arena?”

Porsche Arena Stuttgart. 6,000 seats.

My boss, Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Würth, always talked about Vision 2020. So I borrowed the year.

On March 24, 2020, every seat will be filled.

I wanted to prove that an ordinary person could achieve an extraordinary goal by consistently applying the principles of successful people.

I documented every step. Every decision. Every doubt. Every success. Eventually, it was meant to become a journal. A blueprint that would give others the courage to pursue their own goals.

So I booked the arena and started selling tickets—exactly 2,020 days before the event. And within the first year, we sold our first 1,000 tickets.

I also left the secure job I’d had for 24 years. The adventure had begun.

There was just one problem…

Twelve Days.

For six years, I had been working toward this one day.

March 24, 2020 was supposed to prove that an ordinary person could achieve an extraordinary goal.

Then the call came.

Events around the world were being shut down. Twelve days before the premiere, the City of Stuttgart prohibited the event from taking place.

Six years of preparation.

All my savings. My time. My life’s dream. My career as a speaker. My plans for a tour.

Gone.

At least, that’s what I thought.

In those first few hours, it felt as though it had all been for nothing. Not just the arena. Six years of my life. I cursed life. God. The whole world.

What if bad things really do happen to good people?

What I didn’t know then was that life was teaching me one of the most important lessons of my journey.

But it would take me several more years to understand it.

Maybe Change Doesn’t Begin with an Answer.

But with a New Question.

A Question Became a Home.

Over the years, all those encounters, experiences, and stories have grown into a place where this journey continues.

Not with ready-made answers.

But with people, new perspectives, and genuine human connection.

If you’d like, come along.

and sparring that anchor transformation in daily life.