Who Am I?
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Hi
I’m Leonie
In high school, they asked me:
“What do you want to be until you retire?”
Suddenly I had to choose one passion between all my interests for the rest of my life.
An absurd question, especially for a teenager, don’t you think?
The pressure to choose made me miserable. Why settle for one passion when you have so many?
Why on earth should you
choose just one passion,
if you can have several?
Growing up, my Austrian mom raised me bilingually, and in many ways, Austria feels more like home than the Netherlands. After high school, I worked in hospitality for over a year before following an urge I couldn’t ignore—I needed to reconnect with myself and my Austrian roots. That’s how I ended up on a biological farm in Carinthia.
Farm life is endless, but in its rhythm, I found a fulfillment I’d never felt before. And it made me hungry for more.
Somewhere between the towering Austrian Alps, I realized this was just the beginning.
After spending the summer in Austria, I joined the Breekjaar program in Amsterdam, eventually making my way to Indonesia. Through WorkAway, I found a host family where I stayed and taught English in schools around the village. Seeing the culture with its poverty and struggles up close, yet still witnessing the generosity and thankfulness of the people, changed my perspective for the better.
That hunger for self-discovery only expanded when solo travel led me across South America, further deepening my understanding of the world and myself.
By writing about my experiences I began to see that it wasn’t the question that had a hold on me, but rather, it was myself. That I had the power to change it into whatever I wanted.
I’m also currently working
on my first novel.
In 2021, I found my place at Generatie Alles, a film production company in Amsterdam. I started as an office manager but quickly found myself growing into roles I’d always been passionate about—production, videography, makeup artistry, and photography. Things I had been playing with since childhood, now becoming my work.
Alongside working, I completed my studies in Concept & Storytelling and deepened my freelance work, such as makeup and videography for editorial shoots and weddings.
