What if the calm you’re searching for isn’t something you need to create—but something that emerges when you stop fighting reality?

In this episode of The Freedom Pivot Podcast, I’m joined by Caroline Thor, a professional organizer and KonMari consultant who supports families—especially those navigating ADHD and neurodivergent family life—in moving from constant overwhelm to grounded clarity.

Caroline’s story is a powerful reminder that entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be built on control, hustle, or rigid planning. Instead, it can be designed around radical acceptance: accepting what is, honoring nervous system needs, and building systems that support real life rather than idealized expectations.

This conversation explores what ADHD and entrepreneurship look like when you stop trying to “fix yourself” and start designing your business around who you actually are and the life you’re living.

• What radical acceptance really means and why it’s foundational for sustainable entrepreneurship
• ADHD and entrepreneurship: why traditional productivity advice often fails neurodivergent founders
• How to build a business around neurodivergent family life and unpredictable days
• Why calm systems matter more than motivation or willpower
• The connection between home environments, mental health, and entrepreneurial clarity
• How Caroline’s own freedom pivot led her to build a business that fits her life, not the other way around
• Letting go of shame and designing systems that work with your brain, not against it

About Caroline Thor

Caroline Thor is a Professional Organizer, KonMari Consultant, wife, and mother of three (neurodivergent) kids. Drawing from her personal experience and professional expertise, Caroline specializes in helping families create organization systems, habits, and routines that truly work for their families.

She believes a tidy, functional home can transform mental health and well-being, especially for families navigating ADHD and autism. As a KonMari Consultant, she follows Marie Kondo’s principles, focusing on sparking joy and creating spaces that support an ideal lifestyle.

Caroline also hosts the popular podcast Living Clutter Free Forever, where she shares practical decluttering advice, organizing tips, and strategies. She also runs the growing online membership Clutter Free Collective, supporting families in getting their homes decluttered and organized.

• Podcast: Living Clutter Free Forever
• Instagram: @caro.thor
• Membership: Clutter Free Collective

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What happens when life collapses under you — when the relationship you trusted turns toxic, and the future you imagined disappears overnight?

In today’s episode, Heli Katajamäki shares her powerful story of navigating a life crisis, rebuilding from the ground up, and creating financial freedom through entrepreneurship.

Heli is the founder of Avec Heli Events, a boutique agency producing high-hospitality executive events across Finland, the Nordics, Europe, and the Middle East. But before she built a thriving international business, she faced the painful reality of leaving a toxic relationship, raising a small child alone, and starting over with nearly nothing.

This conversation is about what it really looks like to turn pain into purpose — one honest decision, one client, one act of courage at a time. Heli opens up about:

• the moment she realized her life was built on lies
• how entrepreneurship became her lifeline out of crisis
• rebuilding self-worth after emotional manipulation
• choosing financial independence as a path to safety and freedom
• the long, nonlinear healing journey after toxic dynamics
• finding purpose through service, connection, and meaningful work

If you’re navigating your own crisis, questioning your worth, or trying to imagine a life beyond survival, this episode is a hopeful reminder that the story isn’t over. Freedom is possible — and you don’t need perfect circumstances to begin.

Heli Katajamäki is the founder of Avec Heli Events, a boutique event agency specialising in high-hospitality executive events across Finland, the Nordics, Europe and the Middle East. After rebuilding her business and financial independence following a toxic relationship, Heli has grown her business to serve companies seeking thoughtful, intimate and commercially impactful customer and leadership events.

Heli has produced events for major Nordic and global companies across multiple industries. Her signature approach blends warm hospitality, strong project management and a deep understanding of how human connection shapes business decisions.

Learn more about Heli: Avec Heli Events website LinkedIn Heli on Instagram

If you’re ready for your own freedom pivot to build a business that aligns with who you are, not who you’ve been told to be — I’d love to support you.

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What if not knowing isn’t a problem to solve… but a portal?

In this behind-the-scenes episode, I’m taking you inside my real, unpolished process of letting go of control and learning to surrender to uncertainty in my business.

This isn’t a strategy breakdown or a step-by-step framework. It’s a field note from the middle of the unknown — the place I usually only talk about after clarity arrives.

Right now, I’m in a season where the next steps aren’t clear, timelines are shifting, and the path ahead doesn’t have the tidy edges my mind would prefer. And instead of forcing clarity, I’m practicing something far more uncomfortable… and far more powerful:

Not knowing. Letting go of control. And trusting what I can’t yet see.

In this episode, I’ll take you behind the curtain and share what this actually looks like — the thoughts, the fears, the quiet miracles, the resistance, and the deeper intelligence that shows up only when we stop trying to outrun uncertainty.

If you’re in a moment where your logic wants a plan but your intuition whispers “slow down,” this one is for you.

• What not knowing actually feels like inside my body and business
• Why your mind fears uncertainty and reaches for control
• How I’m practicing letting go while still running a business
• The difference between “waiting” and “surrendering”
• Why slowing down doesn’t mean losing momentum
• The hidden intelligence inside uncertainty
• How the unknown becomes a portal for intuition, alignment, and direction

This is not a polished story with a beginning and an end. This is a living moment, a behind-the-scenes share from a season of dismantling old structures, following intuitive breadcrumbs, and relearning what it means to trust the deeper rhythms of my work.

Ready to build a business where intuition and strategy support each other? Book a 1:1 → Business Intuition Workshop Connect on Instagram → @curious_hannele

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