Emma Bushin-Reimann, and the time in-between

I’ve spent a large part of my life at thresholds: In the places where one thing had ended and the next hadn’t started.
I’m British, at home in Germany. That alone is a life lived in-between: Two languages, two cultures, two ways of reading one and the same room. I know what it is to arrive somewhere and have to decode the unwritten rules before you’re allowed to belong.
And I’ve walked with people through the sharpest transition there is the one where the goodbye is final. It taught me something I’d never have learned anywhere else: People don’t get through a transition because someone explains why it’s necessary. They get through it because someone stays with them during the unspoken instead of brushing it away.
As the founder of Tallet, I guide people through their private turning points and organisations through their upheavals.
I’m not who I am in spite of what I’ve been through. I’m who I am because of it. That’s the difference I bring into every room.
What defines me: I don’t sugar-coat. I name what’s uncomfortable and let it stand. I don’t apologise for it. And I stay when others leave, because the threshold is exactly where the real work starts.