We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Milan Vracaric a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Milan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I was born and raised in Serbia, Europe. I always believed that being kind is the right way to live. Through the 16 years of going to school people were telling me that I am way too kind, and that I should change this. After graduating college, for the first time in my life, I actually started thinking that these people might be right. After catching myself thinking this way, I sharply refused to change my kind ways, and I made a decision to leave my home country in pursuit of an environment where I could thrive as a loving and kind human. So in 2014, I moved to the USA, where I started experiencing full blown independence for the first time in my life. I didn’t know where exactly I wanted to live, or what I wanted to do, but I felt a deep yearning for finding my genuine way of being. I started looking within, asking my self: what is step 1? I immediately felt that if I want to be sustainably loving and kind, I first have to be loving and kind to myself. So this is where my journey of a holistic health practitioner and coach started.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I was always passionate about figuring out how stuff works! Born and raised in Serbia, Europe, I finished elementary school, high school, and college (BA in engineering management) in my hometown Novi Sad, and shortly after that I came to the USA, following my ambitious intuition. I was really struggling to find my genuine way in my home country, and my decision to change environments was intuitive. Before I started paying close attention to my mind in late 2015 (inspired by the beauty of South Florida), I believed that my thoughts, emotions, feelings, and beliefs don’t affect my surroundings. I thought that what goes on in my head is completely separate from the stuff that goes on outside of it! Smoking at least one pack of cigarettes was a daily habit of mine, plus I frequently went to bars and drank heavily, and I was also obese. The bottom line is that I was not happy, and I wanted to create something that was going to make me feel fulfilled and accomplished. As I started implementing healthy habits, I went through a radical transformation: I dropped 40 pounds, quit smoking and alcohol abuse, and discovered genuine purpose in my life! I found peace, happiness, love, abundance, and satisfaction in the present moment, by simply allowing myself to be my authentic self.

My main message is that your feelings are the most important thing in your world! My way of life is studying and practicing the interconnectedness of science and spirituality. I help people with a wide range of challenges: from physical to spiritual. The solutions to all of our problems come from being our authentic self, and freely expressing this. I help people remove inner obstacles so they can embody authenticity. This is my purpose! There is no “proper” or idealistic way of living life: each of us has to find his or her own genuine path that just feels right! Through the work that I have done, I am here to help you! Thank you for being here!

I am most proud of changing my drastically unhealthy lifestyle, into a very healthy and fulfilling current way of being. I believe that the hardest thing in life is to first honestly look at your life, admit to yourself that you are unhealthy, and then consistently put in the daily work for a longer period of time and actually achieve and maintain a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. When you feel good, everything seems easy and tends to go in your favor.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Besides daily doing the holistic health practices for myself, and researching and networking regularly, what helped me the most is understanding that no matter how good I am at helping others, it is something that happens through me: that the life-force energy that unobstructedly flows though me is what is doing the healing. This being said, I believe openess to being wrong is a must. This is what helps me learn, stay grounded and humble enough so clients feel completely relaxed and open to share their deepest worries and fears, and helps me with not taking anything personally or too seriously, so I rarely experience stress.

Have you ever had to pivot?

I am actually going through a transition at the time of writing this text. Ever since I moved to the USA 8 years ago, my main source of income was restaurant serving. As I am not the best businessman or at marketing my holistic health coaching business, I still work part time at a restaurant. I have caught myself around 6 months ago being super comfortable at that restaurant, and as if I forgot that for someone that still has a lot of goals in life, it is not good to be too comfortable at what you do. Growth can only happen through discomfort. Therefore, I listened to a good friend’s advice, and I took 2 courses and a certificate for a professional scrum master (for folks that don’t know what this is, look at it as IT project management). Ever since coming from my home country Serbia, I completely forgot about my college degree in engineering management.
Interestingly, this degree directly helped me with landing a scrum master job! Life works in mysterious ways!

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.milanvracaric.com/index.html
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialmilanvee/
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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/milan_vracaric
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