Dovi Stern

I’m Dovi Stern — a battle-tested story, not just a survivor. I don’t teach transformation — I am it. Hi, I’m Dovi. I’m still here. How? Why work with me?

After stage 3 bone cancer, I now help others break free from autopilot and master their four inner currencies: Focus, Awareness, Time, and Energy. I’m a survivor, a mental warrior, and a life strategist. I was 13 years old when diagnosed with Bone Cancer and given a 5% chance of living. Enter a period that included:

A couple of doses of chemotherapy
Gruelling radiation treatments
7 hip replacements
2 knee replacements
…And lots of struggles and resilience in between. During the gift of my illness, I learned to recognise the importance of living from the inside out. Running my own brain consciously, working with my body, and making the impossible possible. I created a new reality that didn’t exist and went into remission within 8 months from stage 3 Cancer. My life’s mission and purpose were set. To learn, practice, and always remain a diligent student to any adversity and challenges that life presents. I help people get unstuck from their current realities to create new ones. Nothing should be more important to you than your life, and only when you can think differently will you introduce new choices into your reality. This process requires dedication and being okay with the unknown while making conscious choices to lead your life in the right direction. I’m here to help you create a new way of being. I haven’t learned this way of life; I’ve lived it. Speed and immersion are key. Thinking won’t get you anywhere. Dreaming won’t get you anywhere. Taking action will. I have a no-BS approach. I won’t sugarcoat the work you need to put into your new way of being journey. Change can be brutal, difficult, and uncomfortable. OR, it can be beautiful, empowering, and fun. It all depends on the reality you focus on.

15/09/2025

Making Friends with Pain

Pain is often seen as an enemy, something to be avoided at all costs. Yet pain, whether physical, emotional, or mental, is one of life’s greatest teachers. To “make friends” with pain is not to seek it out recklessly, but to shift how we relate to it. Pain shows us where we are stuck, where growth is required, and where the limits of our comfort zone truly lie. Without it, resilience never builds, courage never sharpens, and the deeper layers of who we are remain unexplored.

Training yourself daily to step into challenge is an act of self-leadership. Each time you do something that feels uncomfortable whether it’s holding a difficult conversation, pushing your body one more round in training, or sitting quietly with your own thoughts instead of distracting yourself you are rewriting the script of safety your mind clings to. Safety is valuable, but too much of it cages you in familiar walls. Pain is the key that cracks those walls open.

By intentionally leaning into discomfort, you cultivate the ability to endure, adapt, and expand. The small acts of facing pain daily cold showers, stretching past fatigue, speaking your truth, saying yes to the unknown become deposits into a bank of inner strength. Over time, your threshold for fear and resistance rises, and what once felt impossible becomes natural.

Making friends with pain transforms it from an enemy into an ally. It becomes the compass pointing you beyond survival toward growth, freedom, and the fullest expression of your life.

So, I leave you with this to explore: What pain will you choose to make your ally this week?

--- I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves.---

www.dovistern.com

27/08/2025

Vision vs. Reality: Which One Guides You?

One of the greatest lessons I learned from spending over 10,000 hours in hospital was this: Vision vs. Reality.

When doctors gave me a 5% chance of survival, the reality was clear it was game over. But I made a different choice. Hour after hour, day after day, I lived inside a vision of being healthy, alive, and healed. Eight months later, I was in remission.

The simple truth is if you allow your current reality to dictate your direction, you will remain trapped in its limits. Reality is not truth it’s simply a reflection of what you believe is possible right now. If you keep feeding that belief, how could you ever expect anything different to unfold?

Your vision is the inverse of your struggle. It’s the image of what you long for on the other side of pain. To access it, you must flip your focus, shift your self-talk, and bring energy to the future you choose, not just the one you see. Every moment, you hold that choice vision or reality.

Your guiding star is not what’s happening to you, but what you decide to create from it.

So I ask you: are you living by your reality… or your vision? Because one keeps you confined, and the other sets you free.
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I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength.

🌐 www.dovistern.com

25/08/2025

In Case You Missed This 👇

Tomorrow, I’m sharing One Story. Five Life-Changing Lessons.
It’s not polished or sugar-coated.
It’s raw. Real. And designed to make you rethink the way you live, today.

🗓 Tuesday, 26th August
⏰ Choose your time:
09:00–10:00 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/SNQstlQpQjWBrXgN1NmOCw
19:30–20:30 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/MLPEgYkHRHuoFlM9MXoAYw

I never planned to spend 10,000 hours in hospital.
Nine hip replacements. Two knee replacements. One above-the-knee amputation.And a stage 3 aggressive bone cancer diagnosis that tried to write me off.

But those hours gave me lessons no book, podcast, or quote ever could:

• Rebuilding self-trust when life feels uncertain
• Turning pain into power
• Seeing time, energy & identity as life’s real currencies
• Moving forward when you feel stuck
• Understanding that resilience = presence, perspective & purpose

If you’ve ever felt stuck, defeated, or unsure how to move forward this is for you.

👉 See you there.

I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves.

www.dovistern.com

21/08/2025

What Happens When You Finally Pause at a Stop Street

On my way home this evening, I stopped at a quiet street corner and gave myself permission to pause. Not to rush. Not to plan the next thing. Simply to be.

And in that stillness, the mountain in front of me spoke louder than any thought in my head. It wasn’t trying. It wasn’t competing. It simply was a masterpiece shaped by time, effortlessly beautiful in its presence.

Two things struck me:
1: Magic is always hiding in plain sight; we just need to slow down enough to notice.
2: Too often, we live with our heads buried in routines, thoughts, and noise forgetting to look up and see what’s waiting just beyond our self-made clouds.

What we’re searching for isn’t always hidden. Sometimes, it’s right there, ready to be felt, seen, and experienced if we give ourselves the chance.

So here’s your gentle nudge: lift your eyes, pause for a moment, and take it in.

The view might just shift everything. 🌍✨

--- I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves.---

www.dovistern.com

19/08/2025

I never planned to spend 10,000 hours in hospital.
Nine hip replacements. Two knee replacements.
One above-the-knee amputation.
And a stage 3 aggressive bone cancer diagnosis that tried to write my ending.

Those hours didn’t just take from me.
They gave me something - lessons, that no book, podcast, or motivational quote could ever teach.

In those corridors, between the beeping machines and the 3 a.m. silences, I discovered how to:

• Rebuild trust with myself when life felt uncertain and why self-trust is the foundation of confidence and change.

• Turn pain into power by reframing setbacks, struggles, and challenges.

• Recognise that time, energy, and identity are life’s real currencies and how to invest them wisely before it’s too late.

• Move forward when you feel stuck or defeated, drawing from lessons learned in the hardest places.

• See that resilience isn’t about being tough it’s about presence, perspective, and purpose in the middle of chaos.

On Tuesday 26th August, 09:00 -10:00 & 19:30 – 20:30, I’ll be sharing it all in a live 45-minute webinar: “What I Learnt from Spending 10,000 Hours in Hospital.”

This isn’t a polished highlight reel.
It’s raw. Real. And designed to make you rethink the way you live, today.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, defeated, or unsure how to move forward this is for you.

📅 Pick the time slot that works for you:
Tuesday 26th August, 09:00 -10:00 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/SNQstlQpQjWBrXgN1NmOCw

Tuesday 26th August, 19:30 – 20:30 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/MLPEgYkHRHuoFlM9MXoAYw

One story. Five life-changing lessons.
See you there.
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I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves.

🌐 www.dovistern.com

12/08/2025

THE ONE PROMISE CHALLENGE™

I’m starting this because I’m tired of watching good people smart, capable, big-hearted people break their own promises every single day.

We keep our word to others, but when it comes to ourselves? We bail. We push it to tomorrow. We justify it away. And every time we do, we chip away at our own trust.

This isn’t about willpower. It’s about identity.

Because if you can’t trust you, nothing else sticks.

So for 7 days, you’ll choose ONE promise. One thing you will keep alive every single day, no matter what. Small enough to do, big enough to matter, meaningful enough to impact you.

Not for them. For you.
To prove that when you say you’ll do something you damn well mean it.

We start Monday, 18 August.

One promise. Seven days.
DM me “I’m in” with your email and I’ll send tips to keep you on track.
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I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength.

🌐 www.dovistern.com

07/08/2025

Welcome to the 1 Promise Challenge 🔐

Welcome to the start of something deceptively simple… and deeply powerful. 💥

This challenge isn’t about more goals, more pressure, or proving anything to anyone. 🚫🎯

It’s about rebuilding something most people don’t even realise they’ve lost self-trust. 🤝🧠

For the next 7 days, you’ll make one promise to yourself. Just one. ✋

And you’ll keep it alive, every day. No shortcuts. No guilt. No perfectionism. 💪❌😇

This is your chance to show up for yourself in a world that constantly pulls you in every other direction. 🌪️🌍

Because when you keep your word to you, you don’t just get things done You begin to trust yourself again. That’s where confidence, momentum, and real change begins. 🚀🧭✨

DM me “I’m in” with your email address and I’ll send you some pointers to keep you on track. 📩✅

We start Monday 18th August. 🗓️

One promise. Seven days. Let’s see what happens. 🔁👣🔥

"I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves."

🌐 www.dovistern.com

05/08/2025

AI vs. All-Inside: The Two Paths to Power

We live in a time where AI (Artificial Intelligence) promises to revolutionise everything our work, our choices, even how we think. It offers speed, efficiency, and precision. A digital oracle trained on the knowledge of the world. But as we rush to plug into this external power source, many forget the most advanced system already exists you.

Call it All-Inside.

This is the path of turning inward toward focus, breath, awareness, and consciousness. It's slower, yes. Quieter. But infinitely more profound. Where AI gives you answers, All-Inside helps you ask the right questions. Where AI optimizes performance, All-Inside awakens presence. Where AI thinks for you, All-Inside helps you feel you.

Artificial Intelligence expands outward.
All-Inside deepens inward.

AI can write your emails, plan your calendar, maybe even guide your business. But it can’t heal your trauma. It can’t teach you to breathe when panic hits. It can’t ground you in the stillness beneath chaos. That’s the work of All-Inside.

AI helps you interact with the world.
All-Inside helps you integrate with yourself.

This is not a battle between machines and spirit it’s a choice of where you start. External data may spark ideas, but only internal wisdom leads to truth. Master your inner technology your focus, breath, energy, time, and attention and you unlock clarity that no algorithm can replicate.

Because in the end, it’s not how smart your tools are that shapes your life.
It’s how present, aware, and aligned you are.

So, by all means, explore what AI can do.
But never forget the deeper revolution lies All-Inside.

"I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves."

🌐 www.dovistern.com

31/07/2025

The One Habit That Changes Everything

We’ve all heard the gospel of self-help: wake up at 5AM, meditate under a Himalayan pine, have an ice bath, and devour a book before breakfast. Sprinkle in some kale, 10k steps, and a gratitude journal and boom, life transformation. Right?

Wrong.

But underneath it all, you can have the green juice, the gym body, and a bookshelf that screams “I’m evolving,” and still feel stuck. Still not where you want to be. Still chasing, scrolling, procrastinating.

Why?

Because all those things are ornaments. Nice-to-haves. But there’s one non-negotiable habit that trumps them all and it’s this:

Do what you said you were going to do.

That’s it. No magic morning routine. No productivity p**n. Just integrity to yourself.

Keeping your word isn’t glamorous. It won’t get you likes. No one will clap when you quietly follow through. But inside? Something seismic shifts. Every time you honour a promise you made to yourself, your self-trust compounds. Your confidence grows. Your identity sharpens. You stop negotiating with excuses.

Think of it like this: every broken promise to yourself is a micro betrayal. Every kept one? A vote for the person you say you want to become.

So forget perfect systems. Forget waiting for motivation. Over the next few days, just try one thing: follow through on what you say especially when no one’s watching.

It’s the simplest habit.
And the hardest.
But it’s also the one that will quietly change your life from the inside out.

No guru required. Just your word. And the courage to keep it.

"I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength and to honour the hardest promise of all: the one they made to themselves."

🌐 www.dovistern.com

29/07/2025

The Power of Battle: What My Struggles Taught Me About the Human Spirit

The photo you see below isn’t AI-generated. It’s real. A snapshot of my journey filled with battles, setbacks, and scars, both visible and hidden.

And yet, these battles didn’t break me. They revealed me.

There’s something sacred about being in the thick of a fight whether it's against illness, loss, doubt, or despair. It forces you to dig deep, beyond your comfort, beyond what you think you have in reserve. It’s like squeezing an orange you believe you’ve given all you’ve got, and then, with just a little more pressure… more comes out.

That extra drop? That’s your spirit.

The way you choose to see your battles shapes the story you live. Will it be one of victimhood or one of courage? Fear or love? Pain or power? These polarities light and dark, good and bad always exist side by side. The path you walk depends on the choice you make within.

Most of life doesn’t happen to us it rises from us. Your inner world becomes the lens through which you experience everything else. That’s why self-awareness isn’t a luxury; it’s survival. The more you understand your own triggers, values, and truths, the more clarity you’ll have when life hits hard.

Don’t be seduced by the shiny stuff the wants, the likes, the highs. They’re sweet but fleeting. What sustains your soul are the quieter victories: digesting a fear, offering a kind word, showing up when it’s hard. That’s the real wealth.

So I ask you how have your greatest battles shaped the way you see yourself? What did they uncover that ease never could?

In the end, battle doesn’t just toughen the spirit.

It introduces you to it.
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I coach modern warriors to face life’s hardest battles with inner mastery, unshakable courage, and conscious strength

🌐 www.dovistern.com

25/07/2025

A simple, powerful pause to help you come home to now — where your peace, clarity, and joy actually live.

In just 15 minutes, you’ll:

🧠 Break out of autopilot
– Shift from mentally drifting to consciously arriving.

🧘 Regulate your emotions
– Catch yourself before reacting — and choose calm instead.

🌿 Create inner stillness
– Quiet the background noise and return to your centre.

🌞 Feel the joy of now
– Life feels better when you experience it, not just rush through it.

📍 Tuesday 29th July & Wednesday 30th July | 12:00 – 12:15
🎟️ One simple registration. Your invite arrives like a pause button in your inbox.

👉 Register here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/2x5abq3oSTqTa6PK9S0Z_A
Because peace isn’t found in the future — it’s found right here.
Let’s meet there.

24/07/2025

✨ Join the 15-Minute Meditation Drop-In

A short but powerful morning reset to clear your head, calm your body, and reconnect with the you beneath the noise.

In just 15 minutes, you’ll:

🧘 Quiet the overthinking mind
– Make space for clarity, calm, and fresh insight.

🎯 Sharpen your focus
– Train your attention like a muscle — so you respond instead of react.

😌 Lower stress + sleep better
– Just a few mindful minutes a day helps reset cortisol and deepen rest.

🔍 Build real self-awareness
– Stillness gives you access to choice, not just habit.

📍 Monday 28th July & Thursday 31st July | 06:15 – 06:30
🎟️ Register once — and let your calendar do the remembering.

👉 Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/21zNFY-fSUKvsBSpNQga-w

Because peace doesn’t need to take hours — sometimes, it only takes 15 minutes.

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