Understand yourself more clearly. Choose more intentionally.
Some choices in love and work become so familiar that we stop asking why. OlaLab is a place to pause and ask what really matters to you — and which expectations you have simply carried along.
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OlaLab · LoveSmart · WorkSmart
Love and work. Different questions, with the same starting point: understanding yourself.
Know yourself. Choose intentionally.
A four-day online workshop on core values, thoughtful questions and choices in dating. Includes practical exercises and Ola’s 140-question resource to adapt for yourself.
A career that fits your life.
WorkSmart is taking shape around questions of ambition, identity and how work fits into life. Join the list to hear when there is more to share.
“Is this something I have chosen, or a default I have learned to follow?”
After years in very different environments — television, communications, creative work and technology — Ola noticed the same question returning at different points in life.
Do the things that once seemed obvious in love or work still fit who I am today? Pausing to ask creates room to choose again.
OlaLab brings together observations, questions and exercises drawn from Ola’s experience. They are starting points for finding your own answers, in a way that fits your life.
A way Ola often turns unclear questions into more deliberate choices.
Observe familiar reactions and choices. What might be happening without your attention?
Clarify your priorities, boundaries and the expectations you are carrying.
Turn an unclear concern into specific questions and options you can consider.
Start with a small change. Notice what happens when you make a different choice.
Learn from the experience, keep what helps and reconsider what does not fit.
Ola, known as olapolala, is the person behind OlaLab and LoveSmart, and is currently developing WorkSmart. Her experience across television, communications, creative work and technology informs how she approaches life’s decisions.
Ola shares perspectives from personal experience. This work is not therapy or a substitute for professional mental-health support.
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