About us
A small team, A big vision.
Behind La vie quoi is a small team with a big dream: to help everyone live their lives fully, understanding as soon as possible that their future is in their own hands.
We truly believe that by becoming more mindful and intentional with ourselves and our lives, we can become happier, freer, and more fulfilled human beings, and get to live a life true to us and our dreams.
Our mission
We create practical, effective and accessible notebooks, methods and tools that we wish we'd had in our hands earlier in our lives, to learn what we don't learn at school, to overcome the obstacles in our way, to handle life with mindfulness and grace, and to focus on what really matters; tools to learn about life, in short.
Through life. Together.
We are Sylvanie and Suzana
Nice to meet you!
French and Bulgarian, we met in 2017 at a fast-growing Berlin start-up. Working at an incredibly hectic, stressful pace, we both found ourselves slipping into a day-to-day life in which we were gradually sacrificing everything that should have been essential to us: our free time, our hobbies, our health, our sleep, and even our relationships with family and friends.
The inevitable eventually happened: our bodies said, “Fuck off!” and we were both diagnosed with burnout a few months apart.
(Ok ok it sounds a bit dramatic, but we promise it gets better)
The Problem
As we fought to get back on our feet, a whole host of questions began to emerge:
When are we going to have the time and energy to fulfill ourselves and our dreams?
Is this really what life’s about? Getting up every morning exhausted, working until it gets dark, and going home looking forward to going to bed?
Looking forward to the weekend and vacations but then finally spending them catching up on sleep, feeling guilty instead of relaxed?
And we’re supposed to do this day in, day out, until we collapse into retirement?
What the fuck is going on?
*insert dramatic genius music*
The idea
We realized shortly after this existential crisis that we weren't alone. Not at all, actually.
Because of the pandemic, cases of burnout were exploding worldwide, people were quitting their jobs en masse, and mental health was no longer a taboo subject.
Many were starting to realize that they didn’t want to live to work anymore, with no time for their own dreams, they didn’t want to watch their lives go by feeling trapped in a routine they didn’t really choose, waiting for weekends and vacations to take care of themselves and dedicate time to pursuing their dreams.
Ok, but what do we do, then?
The journal we dreamed of
Our first product
Tomorrow starts today is our compass to check daily that we’re going in the right direction, that we stay present in our life and fully appreciate it. It guides us each day to implement tiny steps to reach our dreams.
Much more than an ordinary gratitude notebook, this is a complete 6-month journal to help you live more intentionally.
Business is Business... really?
Our Values
Happiness is doubled when shared
For each product sold, we donate €1 to one organization - we partner with organizations that support causes close to our hearts, such as education and human rights.
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No planet B
Our products are made (with love) in Europe with FSC certified paper and energy produced from renewable resources. We are CO2 neutral - and still working on having the best processes to respect and protect our planet.
Our commitments
Seeds of love
Because each order means the world to us, we make sure to give our whole heart in everything we do. We make products with all pour love and give a particular care to every single order.
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