Shruti Rekhi has spent her whole working life around words. Writing them, then speaking them. Now, mostly, listening.

She started in newspapers in Delhi, where the job was finding the story underneath the press release. Radio followed, and stayed for nine years. She produced New Delhi's number one breakfast show, then moved into programming, deciding what an entire city woke up to. Somewhere in there the work won awards. What it actually taught her was subtler: how to tell when a person is speaking their own words, and when they are performing someone else's.

Barcelona arrived in 2014, and with it six years in marketing and communications across a startup and a multinational. New vocabulary, same instinct. Ask the second question. Wait through the pause.

Now she coaches women who moved countries and felt smaller. Some of them come with one specific thing they have never said out loud. Others come because everything has gone slightly grey and they can no longer pinpoint the reason. She works with both, and she is unusually good at telling which is which within about twenty minutes.

She is an ICF Credentialed ACC coach, certified through IEPP in emotional intelligence, mindfulness and positive psychology, with more than two hundred coaching hours and five-star google reviews. Sessions run in English, Spanish and Hindi, online or in Barcelona. Always with tea, and occasionally with tissues.

A student of journalism and sociology, a writer at heart, Shruti also plays the role of CFO (Chief Family Officer). When not coaching, she's usually spotted playing with her two small boys who are unimpressed by all of the above, in the kitchen managing protein macros, or at the pilates club.