I have been communicating
since before I could walk.
My mother used to say I started talking before I was one. By three, I had taken to walking up to strangers and introducing myself by full name and age. Nobody taught me that. It was simply, as far as I was concerned, the obvious thing to do.
Words were the first instrument. The second arrived when I was twelve — a guitar my parents brought back from Spain. What I discovered, once I started playing, was that I also had a singing voice — unexpectedly good enough to give me a first career as a nationally acclaimed singer before the age of eighteen. That voice led me to Radio Lëtzebuerg — and from there into four decades of broadcasting, publishing, television, executive coaching, and public life — in four languages, in rooms where the decisions were real and the consequences followed.
I did all of it — the stages, the studios, the television, the events. Because I wanted to. Because the challenge demanded it. Because a perfectionist does not leave something undone simply because it is uncomfortable. And because, honestly, the applause was not unwelcome.
What I know about myself is this: I can hear myself. Watching myself back is another matter — and that, as it turns out, is where most people find themselves too. Because most communication does not happen alone in front of a microphone. It happens in front of other people, with a body that is saying things whether you intend it to or not. Voice is only part of the story. What you do with the rest of yourself is the other half — and the harder one.
I am Luxembourgish, born in Esch-sur-Alzette. In 2014 I founded KACHEN — Luxembourg’s first trilingual food and lifestyle magazine — and built it into the country’s leading lifestyle media company over the following decade. I have written five books on Luxembourg history, sat on the city council, and been in enough boardrooms to know exactly what it costs to speak in public when something real depends on it. A sixth book is taking shape, slowly.
I do not take myself too seriously. As you can see.
