I write to unite the community — and coach to help you come home to yourself.

I'm Marcela Killin. Productiverse started as a quiet background project in 2021 — a space to explore what it means to live an integrated, authentic life without flattening the human experience.

I moved from São Paulo to Canada with my life in two suitcases, and I've spent the years since learning what it means to carry two worlds at once. I've built a career in the non-profit and social impact sector, become an entrepreneur, become a mother, and learned — slowly, and not always gracefully — that a life built to look responsible from the outside can quietly stop fitting the person living inside it.

That's most of what I write about. Identity, capacity, belonging, burnout, and the unglamorous inner work of building something that actually fits.

Two things true at once

Productiverse holds a deliberate contradiction. Productive universe and productive verse. Productivity and presence. Melancholy and gratitude. I don't think we have to choose between the version of ourselves that achieves and the version that feels — and most of the harm I see in productivity culture comes from insisting that we do.

The coaching

Alongside the writing, I train and practise as a coach: Therapeutic Coaching, informed by Alex Howard's model, and Life Purpose Coaching, informed by Rebecca Campbell's Work Your Light® model. Sessions are 1:1 and virtual, pro-bono while I'm certifying, and supervised until I graduate.

Coaching is not a substitute for professional mental health care, and I'll say so plainly if what you need is something else.

Elsewhere

I also run Complexly Simple, which is where my professional consulting work lives. Productiverse is the other half — the reflective half.