Your life works on paper. So why does running it cost this much?
A structured 14-week process for expat professionals who are still performing, but keep recovering back into the same life that drains them.
Take the Career & Life Fit Check2 minutes · structured · you keep the readout either way
GENIE is a 14-week recalibration process for expat professionals whose life still works on paper, but costs too much to keep running.
It helps you identify what is actually draining you, what still fits, and what next step is responsible enough to act on.
Check the ones that sound uncomfortably familiar.
Be honest — nobody sees this but you.
Your count appears here.
Start the Fit CheckOne question, answered properly.
This isn't motivation, and it isn't a career-change service. It's a structured way to answer one question: what in your current setup genuinely fits you — and what are you maintaining out of habit, fear, or a ten-year-old version of yourself?
Most capable people never answer this. Not because it's unanswerable, but because they're too busy running the structure to examine it. That's the work we do, methodically, over 14 weeks.
What's actually draining you
Separating the job, the country, the roles you've accumulated, and the patterns you brought with you. Most people are fixing the wrong one.
What no longer fits
And what still does — so change is surgical, not total. Nothing gets dropped by accident, and nothing gets kept by default.
What an honest next step looks like
Staying differently, renegotiating, moving, or building toward an exit — with your real constraints respected, not wished away.
Clarity that can't survive your payslip isn't clarity.
It's a nice feeling. So two specialist co-pilots work alongside the core process — not as a service bundle, but as the answer to the two questions that otherwise keep your conclusions theoretical:
Career co-pilot
Translates what you discover into your professional reality — your market, your options, your sequencing. Not a CV service.
Financial co-pilot
Puts real numbers under your options, so money fear stops being the silent veto on every alternative. Not financial product sales.
The point of all three together: you never have to choose between being honest with yourself and being responsible to your family.
Five phases. One business quarter.
Long enough that conclusions get tested against real life. Short enough that it stays a project with an end date — not a coaching subscription.
Map the drain
A systematic audit of where your energy actually goes — and why rest helps but never solves.
Put down what isn't yours
Consciously decide what to keep, renegotiate, or release — instead of carrying everything by default.
Define what fits now
A concrete picture of what work and life need to look like for this version of you — usable, not a vision board.
Reality-test with the co-pilots
Your conclusions meet your professional market and your actual numbers. "What I want" becomes "what I can responsibly do."
Lock the plan
A 90-day roadmap with decisions made, sequenced, and financially sanity-checked — plus a check-in at day 90.
A defined process. Honest about where it stands.
Balázs Ujlaki — founder & coach
I'll be transparent: you won't find forty logos below. What you'll find instead is a visible method, a defined process, honest boundaries — and a coach who has lived this pattern across borders rather than read about it. After a decade working internationally, including my own burnout, I built GENIE around the exact loop this page describes.
Early clients get more of my attention than later ones ever will. That's the honest trade.
And yes — the name. GENIE is an acronym, not a promise of magic: it names the five pillars the method is built on, and the spiral you'll see across this site is borrowed from the nautilus — growth by building the next chamber, not by abandoning the shell. The full story behind the name and the framework is on the About page.
The pattern
Piotr was performing well and quietly running on reserve — recovery worked less every cycle, and "what's next?" had become a private weight rather than a question.
What the work revealed
The drain wasn't capability or even the workload itself — it was a structure built around a version of him from years earlier, maintained because it was already running.
What he decided
"Within 3 months, I paused my career, then made steps toward volunteering for a sustainability project I'd been dreaming about for years. I finally have the power to create the life I desire."
— Piotr, IVC Specialist
His decision was specific to his context. The point is not that everyone pauses their career. The point is that the next move becomes clearer once the real drain is mapped.
This is built for a specific pattern. Check yours.
This is for you if…
- Your life looks successful, but it feels heavier than it should.
- You're still performing, but recovery no longer resets you properly.
- You don't hate your work — you're just not sure it still fits.
- You want clarity before a costly career, money, or life decision.
- You want change without burning down the stability you built.
- You're ready to examine the structure, not just push through harder.
This is not for you if…
- You want a quick motivational reset.
- You want someone to make the big decision for you.
- You only want CV advice or job-search tactics.
- You're looking for a dramatic "quit everything" reinvention.
- You expect guaranteed outcomes or instant certainty.
- You are not willing to look at the structure you keep maintaining.
You don't need the answer yet. The first step is seeing whether the pattern fits — and you can't book a call here without completing the Fit Check first. That's deliberate: I'd rather lose a sale than take a client this doesn't fit.
Know what needs to change before you spend another year recovering from the same life.
Start with the Career & Life Fit Check™. In about 2 minutes, you’ll see where your specific drain may be coming from. You get the readout either way — no call required, no pressure mechanics..
Take the Career & Life Fit CheckGENIE is a non-clinical coaching framework. It does not diagnose or treat psychological conditions; it focuses on decision-making clarity and life-structure design. Sessions are confidential and GDPR-aligned. Outcomes reflect a rigorous process and honest support — never guaranteed results.