Nevena Petković

The road always leads where you need to be

I was born in Smederevo, Serbia. My parents were forty when they had me, a difference that had its advantages and its downsides. I always used to joke that I was an only child with a brother and a sister, because they both went out into the world and built their own lives while I was little.

For as long as I can remember, I was never someone who fit into the traditional education system. I didn't like kindergarten, primary or secondary school, and I left university. I never wanted, nor knew how, to do anything I saw no meaning in. I loved writing and making art, but the road carried me elsewhere, into entrepreneurship. It took me a while to understand that the road always leads, unfailingly, exactly where we need to be, and that the everyday choices we make build our life.

"First, I had to become the person I was looking to meet."

I didn't know I was going home

I came to Montenegro in 2015, with 100 borrowed euros in my pocket, to be the maid of honor at a wedding. Behind me was a Serbia where nothing was going my way, least of all love. I was a heartbroken student with no vision of the future.

That morning, when I boarded the bus to Tivat, I thought I was only going to a wedding. I had no idea I would never return home again. By a twist of circumstances, God's, I would say, home was right where I was headed. In a country that has given me only its best, I began to build a business and a home.

Nevena by the sea

Two countries, one heart

For as long as I can remember, Tivat has been my second hometown. A town I wasn't born in physically, but was metaphysically. It was at Župa beach that I learned to swim. I remember the days of Turkova poljana, when you could still drive through Pine, long before Porto Montenegro and all the brilliant things it brought to our little town.

To me, Serbia and Montenegro are sisters by birth, whose individualities I have always respected. I love them equally and both are an inseparable part of me and my identity. Nobody taught me that. It is how I feel, and I don't know any other way.

Beyond its beauty, which deserves to be guarded like treasure, Montenegro is made of its people. From day one they made me feel accepted and welcome. They helped me find my place under the sun and a sky that is nowhere else quite this blue. That is why I try to give my love back to Montenegro through the "KoKreacija" community and conversations about mental health, as well as through "One Day Charter", where I proudly create experiences for guests from all over the world to see the most beautiful things we have from a boat: the Adriatic and the Bay of Kotor.

Footsteps in the sand by the sea
Safe harbor

Safe harbor

I met my husband in 2017, because I believed there was someone in this world who was normal and made to my measure. Before that, I had to become such a person myself. In 2021 we had a fairytale wedding. But after that, the fairytale took the shape of a horror story, as we learned that parenthood would not simply be given to us. The battle for our child lasted until 2024, when we became parents. Life then gained a new dimension no words can describe. Good defeated evil after all.

I was in business the whole time: through the surgeries, the pregnancy, and later with the baby. Then, at the end of 2025, came a breaking point at the business I had spent years building. Everything that had been built came crashing down. With my family as my safe harbor, I carried on and realized it was time for something new. Something that had long been waiting for me on the road. That is when I decided that our family deserves to see me do what I love. This place is part of that decision. Welcome!

Three values
that are always there

To live our essence, our thoughts, words and actions need to be aligned. The path to that alignment is not a straight line, it is winding, like sailing the sea. And the sea is woven into my soul. From that place, I release this content like messages in bottles, hoping it will reach the right person at the right moment. In life, it always does.

Message in a bottle

Honesty

I don't write about things I haven't experienced. Everything you read or see here has gone through my life, not just theory. And through this, I want it to reach your life.

Usefulness

Every post has one goal: to give you something. An idea, a perspective or a concrete step you can apply right now.

Mindfulness

I believe life is not accidental. We build it through choices and that is possible even on days that look chaotic.

When I'm not writing, I create here

Community

Kokreacija

A space for exchange and creating together. Conversations and ideas about consciously creating our reality, because we create more easily together.

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Nautical

One Day Charter

Catamaran, yacht and sailboat rentals for day and multi-day trips, along with themed events in the Bay of Kotor.

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