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This week’s guest is Klara Hascakova, an Oxford educated systems designer whose work helps women reimagine the structures of their lives so they can live, lead, and create from a place of inner truth.

I first encountered Klara through her appearance on the podcast In My Non-Expert Opinion with Chelsea Riffe. What initially drew me in was the way she spoke with humor and openness about her approach to “gamifying” life. At first, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. The world feels so heavy, why would we turn it into a game? But something in her tone felt like a gentle invitation. Perhaps, I thought, we are somehow capable holding complexity while still making room in our lives for creativity and play. Given how emotionally heavy my work in reproductive health and doula care can be, her perspective felt like a refreshing palette cleanser, something that brought a sense of lightness and clarity.

I reached out to Klara, curious to learn more about who she is and what she offers and discovered that she was in the final months of her first pregnancy. It felt kismet that we were able to record this conversation while she stood at the threshold of motherhood.

We explore the ways in which our cultural systems, especially those related to health, productivity, and identity, often overlook the needs, rhythms, and realities of women. While this can be disheartening, Klara offers an imaginative path forward: one in which we use intuition and play to re-design the ways we care for ourselves and one another. Her work gently asks: What would it look like to build systems that nourish rather than deplete, ones that support wholeness rather than demand performance?

This conversation is for anyone seeking a more humane and liberated way of being, especially those who live and work within systems not built with them in mind.

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3:28 Not fitting within systems

4:51 Inner work to counteract external harmful systems

6:38 Pregnancy as a transformation into the sensual feminine

8:26 The duality of the “mother” archetype

10:11 Unlearning myths and allowing for unpredictable experiences

12:18 Name patterns, numerology, sounds, and our energetic identities

22:53 Numbers, integration, and energetic maintenance work

29:41 How to be powerful and loving in systems that don’t love

30:30 Intuitive knowing and self-understanding through name patterns

32:11 We need connection, not self-fixing and technology

36:15 Shedding inherited roles & family systems

Paid Extended Interview (Behind Closed Doors, our subscriber community) includes:

40:27 Money name patterns & wealth beyond money

41:54 Pleasure and presence in pregnancy and motherhood

47:03 Perceiving ourselves as the magical beings we really are

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