The founder behind
Pardon My Studio
Hi, I'm Anca — The founder of Pardon My Studio
Why Did I Keep Feeling There Was More Than This?
For most of my life, I did what made sense. I followed a clear path, worked in corporate environments, built a career that looked solid and secure from the outside. At 26, I had a job in a large international company, stability, structure, and the kind of security many people hope for. And for a while, I appreciated it. It gave me confidence. It gave me independence. It gave me proof that I could stand on my own.
I wasn’t unhappy. I wasn’t stuck. I just had this constant feeling that something in me was being kept on pause. That I was functioning well, delivering well, adapting well — but not fully showing up as myself. How do you explain that to someone? How do you admit that safety can feel… incomplete?
Safety didn’t mean fulfillment
I’ve never been someone who rejects structure. I value discipline, responsibility, and doing things right. Yet somewhere along the way, I realized that safety alone doesn’t automatically mean fulfillment.
Creativity has always been there for me, even when it didn’t have a name or a place. A strong sense of aesthetics. A natural attention to details. The need to shape things, to give them rhythm and coherence. In corporate roles, that part of me existed quietly, adapting, adjusting, never really leading.
And I started to wonder: what happens if I stop keeping it in the background?
I’ve never been made for staying still
Three years ago, I moved to France, to a small town near Paris. A new country, a new language, a new pace of life. Travel has always played a big role in who I am.
Moving, discovering, observing how people live, how places feel, how atmospheres are built. Being exposed to different cultures made one thing very clear to me: I don’t want a life that feels static. I want a life that evolves, that leaves space for curiosity and growth.
I’ve never been made for staying still
Three years ago, I moved to France, to a small town near Paris. A new country, a new language, a new pace of life. Travel has always played a big role in who I am.
Moving, discovering, observing how people live, how places feel, how atmospheres are built. Being exposed to different cultures made one thing very clear to me: I don’t want a life that feels static. I want a life that evolves, that leaves space for curiosity and growth.
something else was calling me.
something else was calling me.
something else was calling me.
something else was calling me.
something else was calling me.
Choosing safety and wanting more...
I continued working in a medical corporate environment, within one of the largest companies in the world — a place defined by structure, scale, and security.
On paper, it was the safe choice. And honestly, it wasn’t bad. But I kept coming back to the same feeling — that I was leaving the best part of myself out of the equation. I wanted to build something that felt like me. Something I could put my name on and mean it.
Pardon My Studio started as a question, not a statement.
What would happen if I trusted myself a little more?
From admitting that I wanted more freedom, more expression, and ownership over my work. From understanding that choosing myself didn’t mean rejecting my past, but using it my way.
I didn’t choose the easiest path. I chose the one that felt right for me. And that choice keeps shaping how I work, how I decide, and how I move forward.
From admitting that I wanted more freedom, more expression, and ownership over my work. From understanding that choosing myself didn’t mean rejecting my past, but using it my way.
I didn’t choose the easiest path. I chose the one that felt right for me. And that choice keeps shaping how I work, how I decide, and how I move forward.