How Revolution, Migration, Career Loss & Illness Redefined Who I Am with Veronika Bubenickova

What happens when every familiar structure in life—country, language, health, even career—shifts at once? In this conversation, Czech-born guest Veronika Bubenickova traces a life shaped by transition. From growing up during political upheaval to rebuilding from scratch in the UK, to facing a sudden breast cancer diagnosis at the height of professional success, her story unfolds as a continuous study in adaptation and self-understanding.

Veronika reflects on:

• Childhood memories of a revolution and the quiet fears that children absorb when adults can’t speak openly.
• Emotional patterns inherited from families that had to stay silent for generations.
• How 9/11 triggered an early spiritual awakening and a search for meaning.
• Leaving a secure banking career after a financial crisis, moving abroad, and beginning again.
• Learning English, rebuilding her identity, and later finding a spiritual community.
• The diagnosis that changed everything, and the deliberate choice to combine medical treatment with mental focus, spiritual practice, and self-directed healing.
• The role of imagination, visualisation, and the Silva Method in staying centred through chemotherapy and surgery.
• Losing work during treatment, redefining what “purpose” means, and transforming the experience into a calling to help other women.

This episode is not only about survival but about agency—the slow rebuilding of one’s own authority after systems, borders, and the body itself have all been shaken.

Key Takeaways

• The unspoken fears of childhood can shape how we respond to later crises—until we name them.
• Medicine treats the body, but mindset and community support the terrain in which recovery happens.
• Identity can be rebuilt. 
• Preparation hides inside experience. 
• Support requires clarity - knowing how to ask for help.
• Purpose often begins in the aftermath. 

About: Veronika Bubenickova is a Transformational Breast Cancer Coach and Therapist, survivor, advocate for holistic breast cancer prevention and author of Diary of a Soul Reborn. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, she turned inward and upward, choosing to heal through an integrative path that included plant-based living, energy healing, emotional trauma work, and vision-led spiritual growth. Her diagnosis became a catalyst for radical transformation, awakening a new life purpose: to help others navigate the breast cancer journey with courage, clarity, and compassion. Today, Veronika supports women facing cancer, offering personalised coaching, therapy sessions, community healing circles, and powerful online programs that honour the body, mind, soul, and heart. Her unique framework inspires others globally to not just survive, but truly thrive.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 5:21 Childhood in the Czech Republic after revolution & the shift from Communism
• 13:50 Emotional disconnection, generational trauma, and early coping
• 20:16 Career Path and Financial Crisis
• 25:46 Spiritual Awakening Post 9/11
• 34:49 Migration to the UK – language barriers, humility, and integration
• 42:14 Returning to professional life and rediscovering spirituality
• 46:46 Lockdown reflection and relationship changes
• 56:01 Breast-cancer diagnosis and the decision to combine science + spirit
• 1:07:03 Chemotherapy, job loss, and redefining support & boundaries
• 1:16:58 Visualisation, Silva Method practice, and mind-body focus
• 1:26:59 Coping with Physical Changes
• 1:30:02 Cancer free & empowering others through experience
• 1:37:41 Advice - Constructive Support for Loved Ones
• 1:40:44 Daily mindset practice tool
• 1:44:05 Closing