Found next to litter bin in early childhood – today she is a successful spiritual adviser
Large cars and a fast-moving career. Rikke Hertz has been there, but a family crisis provided impetus for her to change her life substantially. She has since taught spiritual leadership to more than 1,000 leaders, including in the financial sector.
A leader under extreme stress
Childhood aside, many will likely recognise the life she describes as an adult.
Her career was moving fast, she had become a senior partner in a consulting company and felt like this:
“I was under extreme stress. I was obsessed with the number on my large, black car parked among all the other large black cars in the car park. I was nervous all the time, slept terribly and had a short fuse – I was on my guard: wasn’t my colleagues stealing my customers? I instilled fear and was a really bad leader.”
At its worse, she found herself occasionally having to pull over on her way to meetings. She would throw up, take two pieces of chewing gum – and drive on.
Escaping the ego trap
A family crisis, which tore everything to pieces, changed it and seriously questioned the life she was living.
“In my search for other possibilities, I reached out to spirituality,” says Rikke Hertz.
When she opened herself to spirituality, she started working consciously with gratitude, love and generosity. In her own words, she gave her ego the boot and passed the role as CEO to her soul.
“When I started letting my soul guide me, I wasn’t suffering at all. I've made lots of mistakes since, and my payment card has been eaten by a machine, but I stopped being so super scared of what people thought of me. Before, I always had to prove and justify my being.”
And her ego sometimes does show its face.
“I have been caught in the ego trap many times since. When it happens, I feel unrest and tension in my body, and I quickly shift the focus to the things I’m grateful for,” says Rikke Hertz.
Withdrew her pension funds
14 years ago, she withdrew her pension funds to start her own business, offering teaching in, for example, spiritual leadership. More than 1,000 leaders have been trained by her.
“It was a long struggle for me to find my right career path. But I succeeded,” she notes and says that she continuously receives feedback about the effect of her teaching and counselling:
“Leaders say they experience a significant difference in their leadership and life; that they experience serenity and peace to be who they are.”
Sense how you really feel
To Rikke Hertz, spirituality is the belief that there is something greater than herself.
“I’m a coach and apply my rational brain, my spiritual abilities and my intuition when I advise people.”
She believes that everyone can learn to use their intuition, their gut feeling. In fact, everyone is already using it, but it can be upgraded with training, for example by means of meditation and by listening to what it is telling us in different situations.
“Once you become aware of your intuition, you can choose to follow it or not. Consciousness is like a chicken: You can’t put it back in the egg.”
And it is just as well, finds the spiritual counselor, as a lot may be gained if you give your intuition more leeway.
Rikke Hertz encourages you to experience it yourself through trial and error – emphasising that everyone can learn it:
“You can learn to listen to your inner GPS – your intuition – your consciousness.”
More about Rikke Hertz
Rikke Hertz has more than 25 years of experience with management, leadership, clairvoyance and spiritual development.
She has published four books and participated in several TV shows and podcasts.
Since 2010, she has run her own business and has taught thousands of people how to implement spiritual leadership in their lives, master their energy, become more conscious, brave and listen to their intuition.