ABOUT ME

Hello everybody, I am
IVANA PLECHINGER
the author of the best selling books At the End of the Way Only Love Will Stay & Had I known This Before. I am a motivational speaker, a radio and TV presenter, youtuber and a singer but to myself I am, most of all, a woman a mother, a queen. Welcome to my online home.

For those who don’t know me, I have been involved in various activities in my somewhat over fourty years of age; I graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb, in the 90’s I was a singer and a TV star; my hit songs Mala ptica nebeska (Little Bird in the Sky) and Pitali momci (Fellows Have Asked Me) were widely listened to and sang, and the children’s TV show Hugo – which I had been hosting on HTV for eight years – was one of the most viewed broadcasts.

For years, I worked on the weekends at Narodni (Bravo) – most listened radio station in Croatia, but what does all that have to do with whatever you came here for?

My life story sounds perfect only if you give it just a superficial look: – to be a star… All your life you strive to become someone, at a certain point you do become someone and you end up wondering: „So who am I now exactly? Why is that „someone“ – not really me?“ This is how I felt in my ideal life with a wonderful husband and two healthy talented and good sons. I was missing nothing in my life – but myself… You don’t even notice the moment in which you lose yourself. My thoughts were full of scenarios of the worst kind, until I actually summoned one such quite a dark scenario to my life…

If you want to change the
world, start with yourself first

At the age of 38 I had a cerebral stoke. Although my body was only lightly shaken by it, my spirit was fortunately heavily affected by that Stroke. It shook each of my cells with a realization that I must change something in my life. And as the ingenious Jim Rohn well put it „If you want to change the world, start with yourself first“. Although it sustained a stroke, my head wasn’t stone-hard. I have changed, I changed everything (but my husband) and I knew I had nothing to lose. I have survived – and that was a reason enough to be happy.

Two years later, all of a sudden – my Dad passed away… He was above all my friend, he was my mom and my dad, since we had lost our Mom when I was 12. That was when we thought we had lost ourselves. Today I know I was very lucky to have been brought up by an optimist for early on I had absorbed my Dad’s life credo that we were brought to this world to rejoice, despite life’s attempts to sometimes push us towards forgetting that. Perhaps it was that life code of his that made me look for a deeper sense in his departure than to simply not have him with me anymore. Those days I just couldn’t shake off the words that were reverberating in me: „Write, Ivana, you’ll feel better…“ And so I wrote, inebriated by words to such an extent that I had no patience to wait for the computer to boot… My cell phone was brimming with stories about how I am handling sadness and when I exhausted the sadness in me – I began to write about everything I have learned in life and about what made me happier …

When people closest to me read what I wrote they persuaded me to take it out of the computer and the book At the End of the Way Only Love Will Stay was published instantaneously by the Ljevak publishing house, it has been a bestseller from day one, I toured almost 90 libraries presenting it throughout Croatia, I started to shoot videos every Wednesday on You Tube…
Every day I am honored by everything I have lived through, glad that so much happiness derived from my sorrow, that every tear acquired a deeper sense and for knowing that each of my wounds hurt so that I may love myself more some day …

I am looking forward to a chance to learn together with you about feeling better about our lives …
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here and I know that together we can do anything because if I could do it then anybody at all can do it!

With Love,

IMPRESSIONS

"I really thought that I would never feel like I used to again, I simply thought that I was a hopeless case. Now I know that the Angel Retreat is my return to myself and that is why I am immensely grateful for everything!"

"I had the feeling that the book was written just for me because every sentence, every message contains the truths of life exactly as I feel them. Your book is a treasure for me in which you wonderfully simply and clearly presented everything that is life and everything that we are."

"From the moment I opened the first page with your dedication to the last page of the book that I couldn't let go of, I felt the deepest emotion that brought tears to my eyes countless times during reading."

"Thank you for every word, thank you for every sentence, thank you for every page, thank you for every chapter. Thank you for these wonderful books that I read."