Violetta Pleshakova, PhD
Writer, speaker and teacher exploring the return - from striving to surrender, ambition to anointing, brand to being, performance to presence.
My work guides you through wilderness seasons and offers a pathway toward depth, beauty, integrity, and God.
WRITING
My deepest work is my writing, and it lives at “This Side of Eternity” publication on Substack.
In my essays, I explore the theology of the unknown, the structural failures of the coaching industry, the return to genuine femininity, and the grief of outgrowing your own life.
Part cultural critique, part personal confession - written for fellow Deep Souls who love asking hard questions without expecting easy answers.
TEACHING
CONSECRATE
A course for deep thinkers, original minds, and neurodivergent humans who are done with performance-based business.
If mainstream marketing advice exhausts you, if "I help X with Y so that Z" formulas flatten your complexity, if you've outgrown the containers you were handed - this is the framework for building essence-centric work that honors how you're actually wired.
VESSEL
A spiritual formation journey for women who are returning to their God-given identity, receptivity, and feminine nature.
If you have been achieving, striving, and holding everything together for so long that you have lost contact with who you actually are beneath all of it - this is the path back to being a beloved daughter rather than a relentless achiever.
Coming soon - get on the waitlist for early access.
SPEAKING
With extensive experience delivering in-person transformational seminars across three continents, I am known for speaking with power, precision, and emotional range.
I speak on exiting performance culture, building true work, being neurodivergent in a world created for conformity, return to femininity, and walking with faith.
If you host conversations that go deeper than most, let’s talk.
Available for guest teaching, podcasts, and custom speaking engagements.
About Violetta
The short version
Violetta Pleshakova is a writer, speaker, and teacher with a PhD in cultural studies and 15 years of experience inside the coaching industry.
Her work sits at the intersection of personal development, cultural critique, faith, and understanding human complexity.
Through her courses and essays, she offers frameworks for original thinkers and Deep Souls who are exiting the high achievement paradigm and returning to the truth of who they are.
The full story
I was born and raised in post-Soviet Russia, an academically gifted and highly sensitive child. At 22, I moved to Germany alone to pursue my master’s degree in public policy and then a PhD in cross-cultural complex project management.
The plan had always been to work for an international organization or to become a university professor, but in 2010, I was introduced to life coaching - an emergent industry back then. The door opened for me to pursue it as a career. I became the youngest Lead Trainer at an international ICF-accredited coaching school, and traveled the world delivering transformational trainings and seminars.
My twenties were effortlessly successful, and then my thirties arrived. What was supposed to be the decade of crossing big life milestones turned into a series of profound initiations that made me question the very foundations of my existence.
Between 2016 and 2021, I lost all four of my grandparents and my father - my role model and pillar of strength. After his death, I found myself navigating the legal chaos of inheritance across three countries, while building a six-figure coaching practice, with no support system or opportunity to take a break to heal.
I had done everything right - the degrees, the career, the business, the good daughter identity - yet it did not bring me the peace, connection, or stability that my heart was longing for. I had no choice but to go deeper. At the core of it all, I found God. And from there, I could finally relax into my feminine essence and rebuild my life around faith, devotion, and truth.
I live between Cape Town (Soul home) and Berlin (business base for now), write poetic and sometimes fiery essays, go for 7 am morning walks, and consume more coffee and pizza than I should.
What clients say
“Working with Violetta has been a dream come true”.
Violetta has taken me into new levels of sovereignty and success in my work and business, and there is no going back for me. It has opened up whole new aspects of my being, allowing me to work with wonderful clients in a way that aligns with my higher purpose, while tending to my human needs and desires. It's impossible to summarize the exquisite interweaving of depth, skills, insight, expertise and embodiment that Violetta holds. I am in awe of her leadership and integrity, and her unique combination of sharp intellect and pragmatism. She offers all of this so generously, and with such grace and authenticity, as well as humility and humour. Her attunement to what each unique person in the group requires is incredibly tailored and on point. I feel deeply seen and supported by her, in all my complexity and challenges, and in my true power and potential.
Delphine, Ireland
“It was a complete game changer in how I see myself.”
The work with Violetta is deep rooted with a long-term effect. The inner shifts we made together have affected my whole life and how I be in life in a positive and sustainable way. It was a complete game changer in how I see myself.
And for me, this multi-layered experience of receiving personal support and getting a better perception of my being, my abilities and my possibilities is such a precious gift.
I felt supported and safe with her - even in intense phases. The feelingly created space of wisdom, healing, clarity and connection will keep inspiring and motivating me to connect deeper with my soul truth and essence.
Annika, Austria
“I have never had someone be so gentle yet also (lovingly) tough with me - and I think that’s the magic combo”.
I really appreciate everything you’ve done over the past 6 months for me Vi, I truly have learned so much and I feel like I accelerated so quickly in so many areas in my life. I’ve never felt as supported as I have, within this time together.
I have never had someone be so gentle yet also (lovingly) tough with me - and I think that’s the magic combo to scoot me out of my comfort zone!
You have set the bar so high for mentorship and I am deeply honoured to have had the opportunity to be in this container with you!
Danica, Canada
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