ABOUT ME the story so far

I’ve always seen and known things before they arrive.

As a child, I knew two things without being told: that I was an artist, and that I was here to help others remember something. I just didn’t have the words for it yet. For most of my life, I searched for them in all the usual places—the right career, the right title, the right version of success. I spent seven years in advertising, shaping stories for some of the world’s largest brands, quietly building my own world, ICI ET NU, on the side. And all the while, my body was trying to tell me something I wasn’t yet ready to hear.

It took over a decade of chronic illness—and a complete unraveling of the life I’d built—for me to finally listen. What I found in that unraveling became the whole of my work: that everything I had been searching for, out in the world, had been within me the entire time.

That is the thread through all of it. The books, the film, the essays, the gatherings, the brand—they are different languages for the same truth. I’m not here to teach anyone what to think, or to hand them a formula. My gift has always been translation—taking something wordless, a feeling, a knowing, a quiet truth, and rendering it into language and experience that people don’t just understand, but feel in their bodies. It’s the closest I’ve come to naming what I do: a kind of transmission artist, working across forms, pointing always at the same thing—the divinity already within you.

I am a three-time best-selling author. A screenwriter. A poet. A teacher, a speaker, a guide, a performer. The founder of ICI ET NU and the creator of PORTAL. But beneath all the titles, I am me —someone who sees, and shares it, so that others might remember what they already know.

What I know, more than anything, is that God is recreating the world through each of us, moment by moment—and that our divine assignment is simply to love, to give, to serve, and to become so fully ourselves that God is more clearly revealed through us. That the answers were never out there. That healing, love, clarity, purpose—they were always within. And that when we remember this, when we stop performing and start being, we give everyone around us permission to do the same.

That’s the work. That’s the whole of it. And the promise beneath all of it is this: creating a life aligned with the one your soul came here to live.

— Karin Hadadan