What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the versatility that it gives me because no two days are the same. I also enjoy the creative freedom it allows me to have. As a natural born performer, I have always been using my voice and storytelling skills to help express…
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The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Teresa Laurita
What is the thing I love most about my job? What I love most about my job as an established artist is the challenge with myself, the opportunity to always have to deepen many aspects of study and knowledge of many subjects. I love to see pictorial and literary works come out of my mind…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nina Osmanova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a ballet dancer, what I treasure most is the chance to embody different roles – to step into other lives, to feel and express emotions that might not even be mine, yet somehow become a part of me. Each character adds something to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Rafaela Cespedes Balongo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I like most about my work is when I start painting and I look at the blank canvas, that’s when my imagination starts to work, I visualize images that come and go to my head and I have a ritual of looking at…
The Heroine’s Journey of Giorgia Mancini
What I love most about my work is that it comes entirely from within me—it’s aunique and deeply personal expression of who I am. Through it, I explore the fullrange of human emotion, uncover truths about life, and tap into endlesspossibilities. In doing so, I not only transform myself but also create space forothers to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Veronica McLaren
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the ability to express myself freely through my art. I also enjoy hearing other people’s thoughts and interpretations of my work. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is simple – being with my loved ones in my safe…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elske Höweler
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am lucky enough to have two jobs I enjoy doing. In my job as an IT consultant in software testing (which is the one that pays my mortgage), I love working with programmers and business stakeholders to create the best end product possible….
The Heroine’s Journey of Liz Hogg
What is the best thing that I love about my work?There is no end to learning and self improvement What is my idea of happiness?Starting a family, love flowing freely, not “working”, just doing music stuff I want to do and focusing on momhood What is my greatest fear?Being unloved & alone What is the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Dominika Zamara
What is the best thing that I love about my work? There are many aspects, I start by saying singing, music is a universal language, people of different ethnicities and or social backgrounds united by the emotions that we transmit, joy, sadness etc, depending on the scene that takes place in a work. And we…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tara Owens
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love making a difference in other people’s lives, it gives me great joy to inspire others to be the best version of themselves. I love the creative freedom process, visualizing an idea then watching it gently unfold. When I am writing an article…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lara Oreskovic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work? There’s more than one, but if I have to choose, let’s say a wide feeling of freedom, which you don’t usually have in everyday life, and experimenting with materials, mediums, and ideas, exploring how my inner self is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Joneen Nielsen
What is the best thing I love about my work? Freedom. What is my idea of happiness? Painting. . What is my greatest fear? Death What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? Seriousness. Which living person in my profession do I most admire? Mahsa Karimi. Visual Artist. What is my greatest extravagance? A…
The Heroine’s Journey of Diana Paola Borgia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Beyond the mere act of coding, what truly captivates me is the intellectual challenge of transforming abstract concepts into tangible solutions. It’s the alchemy of taking a complex problem, dissecting it, and then meticulously crafting an elegant algorithm that not only resolves the issue…
The Heroine’s Journey of Natasha Langridge-Thorpe
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love having the opportunity to craft new worlds featuring a cast of diverse and complex characters. I love crafting entire universes where I can bend the rules of reality and see my vision come to life. I also find it enjoyable to create…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jasmina Kulaglich
What is the thing I love most about my job? The expression of my creativity and my freedom. Music comes from my innermost being, it is my life, my existence. What is my idea of happiness? Being at peace, sharing happiness with others, helping them if necessary, sharing music, living in the sunny place (it…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lisa Lappi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my job is the creative process and working out solutions. I love to explore both in life and within my work, I’ve never felt grounded to one form of art. I’ve more so had to focus on my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Mehrnam Rastegari
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Creation, Life, Diverse Community, and Flexibility all exist in music. The best one is creation. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is like little sparks coming occasionally; if we’re lucky, we get more of those hitting us. What is my greatest fear? Before, it was not being…
The Heroine’s Journey of Farrah Schwab
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Watching people find their voice and really believe in the power of what they have to say. What is my idea of happiness? Access to peace, sun, a healthy and thriving body mind and soul for myself and my loved ones What is my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ilaria Berenice
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom to express myself without limits and to transform emotions into something visible and tangible. I love that my art can evoke deep feelings and create connections with people, even from a distance. What is my idea of happiness? Being fully immersed in…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nadiya Galagan
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For 14 years now I have been living, dancing, in the literal sense of the word…I often have breakfast and lunch on the floor in the lotus position, practice stretching and dancing individually, or with a group in the dance hall. Or—even like this—close…
The Heroine’s Journey of Yana Medow
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the freedom to explore my emotions through abstract colors. Each stroke of the brush feels like a meditation, allowing me to connect deeply with my inner self. The vibrant hues and spontaneous forms create a…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laura Guoké
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Freedom to choose the subject of the work and be the director of the entire process. Through my work, I better understand my inner world and what is most important in this life. What is my idea of happiness? It changes over the years….
The Heroine’s Journey of Alexandra Hemon
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work requires me to stay constantly attuned to new creative tools and to use them with intention and purpose. It involves extensive research and staying up-to-date with emerging creative languages and fresh talents, many of whom I often collaborate with to leverage their…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nicole Meeuws
What is the best thing that I love about my work?The freedom it brings. My world is a canvas, painted in bold, vibrant colors that reflect the joy I feel inside. I steer clear of black, beige, or grey—they’re not colors, they’re moods. Life is meant to be colorful, rich, and unapologetically bright. I cherish…
The Heroine’s Journey of Paola Hüller
What is the best thing I love about my job? My work is not just a job; it’s the manifestation of my deepest passion. Every creation is a fusion of colors, shapes, and messages that I convey to people, allowing them to immerse themselves in a world that challenges reality. The opportunity to escape the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lucrecia Quaglia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am an interior designer, a cultural manager, and a tourist host, in that exact order. At the heart of my work is a common denominator: people. I thrive on collaborating with individuals and communities, designing aesthetic and functional spaces that enhance family living….
The Heroine’s Journey of Giuse Iannello
What is the best thing that I love about my work?The possibility to be totally free. What is my idea of happiness?A beautiful sunset in front of the sea, good music, good food and a person I like near me. What is my greatest fear?The death. What is the trait that I most deplore in…
The Heroine’s Journey of Daria Petrilli
Qual è la cosa più bella che amo del mio lavoro? Io amo la mia arte. Creare immagini pittoriche digitali mi permette di esprimere liberamente la mia creatività. «Rimaneggio fotografie con interventi di digital painting. Creo un collage, un tripudio di Photoshop! Avrei potuto usare anche strumenti tradizionali, ma queste illustrazioni sono nate per un…
The Heroine’s Journey of Claire Rufaro Munjoma
What is the best thing that you love about your work? It is the flexibility and freedom it gives me as an artist to express my thoughts. It has also allowed me to use a diverse of tools and materials. As a committed artist and environmental activist, I am passionate about bringing up a positive…
The Heroine’s Journey of Heike Lin Triebel
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is that I can make my path to freedom visible on my canvases. Each painting carries my thoughts, emotions, and experiences— shaped by my escape from the former GDR and the experience of a life constrained by…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Pimen
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m a horror screenwriter for films and video games. And yes, I genuinely love being scared. No jokes—it’s true. Every time I sit down to write a new story, it’s an opportunity for me to dive into one of my own fears, separate myself…
The Heroine’s Journey of Daisy van der Zijden
What is the best thing that I love about my work? That I try to create life on paper and canvas and through every detail I draw. I love to see how my work comes to life. What is my idea of happiness? That you can enjoy the little things in life. For example, I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Hiba Tariq Rana
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a jewelry designer, one of the most fulfilling aspects of my work is transforming creative ideas into exquisite pieces that hold deep personal and emotional significance for my clients. I specialize in creating customized designs, which I consider the highlight of my career,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maria Marchese
What is the best thing that I love about my work? First of all, it is essential to explain what my job is: Maria Marchese is a poet, struggling with the writing of her first novel, so also a writer; I work as an art curator, art critic, cultural divulger and art influencer. Recently, I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Eunoia Dane
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the profound opportunity to touch lives, to ignite inspiration, and to connect hearts. Through my art, my words, my ventures, and my content, I pour my soul into sharing a vision of beauty, hope, and possibility…
The Heroine’s Journey of Bahaar Anand (Bahaartistry)
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the creative freedom that painting gives me. Every blank canvas is an opportunity to bring emotions, stories, and beauty to life, and that process is deeply fulfilling. The best part of my work is knowing that my paintings become a meaningful part…
The Heroine’s Journey of Chelsea Clark
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing that I love about my work is the chance to portray different people, different characters, different time periods and different life situations. I consider myself to be a character actor and as such, I do a wide range of characters. I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Layla Fanucci
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the freedom my work allows me, the creativity to express whatever I wish, the joy of creating and finally, the sharing of the art to another. It’s a joyous full circle experience for me. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sidrah Hakim
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about what I do is that I do not feel it as work. In life, our subconscious mind is naturally drawn to performing tasks that come from within the Soul. Any function that feels heavy or unappealing, we look at it…
The Heroine’s Journey of Katarina Dodic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? This is a such a wonderful question because it asks about a sense of purpose . It is about have I made a conscious choice, to do what I do- and why. By not narrowing down to a particular profession; your question leaves me…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kristina Miltcheva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The ability to completely decontextualize myself from the current world, escaping and indulging in the present moment, not marked by anything recognizable. My work takes me away and art flows through me, enhancing the light in my aura, the connection with the Source. I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Iryna Malynovska
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the freedom to express my emotions without barriers. Each canvas is an inner journey where I translate my thoughts, experiences, and dreams into colors and textures. I also cherish the connection I create with those who…
The Heroine’s Journey of Agnes Lefevre
What is the best thing I love about my work ?What I love about my work is my total freedom, in my life as in my creativity. What is my idea of happiness ?My idea of happiness : good human relations. What is my greatest fear ?My greatest fear is the loss of the people…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anjalee Liyanage
What is the best thing that I love about my work – Working with the crew and with the co actors is what I love the most in my work What is my idea of happiness? – Happiness is relative..humans cannot be happy all the time… But happiness in life can…
The Heroine’s Journey of Fabiana Formica
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing and acting are a vocation, a calling that begins deep within my soul. My upcoming memoir, Childless – A Woman and a Girl in a Man’s World is an encounter with the unknown, a journey into the underworld, a path that leads to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ana Isac
What is the best thing that I love about my work?I appreciate what I do for the opportunity to express myself, freedom and flexibility at all stages from the idea to the final implementation. In my work, there is an exchange of energy between me and the artwork being created, which gives indescribable tactile sensations…
The Heroine’s Journey of Julia Vahry
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Having built my business from the ground up, it’s allowed me to attract likeminded fun people to work for that I care deeply about. It makes showing up to work very easy and joyful. What is my idea of happiness? Curious, healthy family and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maia Sylba
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the boundless freedom of imagination and thedepth of emotion it awakens within me. It brings me into contact with unique, sensitivesouls—the artists—whose spirits are as delicate as they are resilient. Each act ofcreation becomes a path…
The Heroine’s Journey of Linda Raine
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing that I love about my work is the freedom to express myself through music and lyrics. Whether it’s a broken heart, depression or disappointment, love and joy or just a beautiful day or experience – all can be poured into a…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sofia Calvo
What do I love most about my job? Designing, sharing, and making the world a better place for future generations. I can use all areas of my education as a designer, inventor, lawyer, cultural manager, and magazine director, and work with different people and cultures. What is my idea of happiness? Love and helping others, serving, never…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sanda Masic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My favorite aspect of being a professional musician is emotion. In many ways, music is my therapy and medicine. I can always and fully express the way I feel through the art of performing. In good times – speaking through music gives me even…
The Heroine’s Journey of Daria Belykh
What is the best thing that I love about my work? In my work, what I like most is the freedom, the lightness of thought and imagination. Such an opportunity to be free in work is extremely rare. Without boundaries, imagination shows its passion and potential, expands horizons, and at that moment, everything seems possible…
The Heroine’s Journey of Annika Thue Jensen – Muralist
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Forgetting time, space and my mind when I am in a creative process. What is my idea of happiness? To be independent, using most of my time doing what I love, when I want and with whom I want. What is my greatest…
The Heroine’s Journey of Titta Kuisma – Höynäla
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m Chief Marketing Officer of a Medtech company called Kipuwex AB. The best thing that I love about my work is the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on people’s lives, to improve healthcare worldwide. Also I’m so grateful that I have freedom to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Magdalena Brzozowska
What is the best thing I love about my work? I love to convey my emotions to other people and to help them by playing my music. What is my idea of happiness? Love and peace. What is my greatest fear? I am afraid of the war. I would like to live in peace and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Vera Danilova Soprano
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It is an endless source of knowledge, beauty and happiness. There is always something new to learn and discover, music I haven’t heard before. I love the fact that there are so many ways I could do things differently and there are things I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Agnieszka Zarska
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Making music, synergy between conductor, ensemble and audience. What is my idea of happiness? Being grateful. What is my greatest fear? Getting stuck in something. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? Withdrawal. Which living persons in my profession do i…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kerry David
What is the thing I love best about my work? The thing I love most about my work is the freedom and flexibility to pursue subjects I’m passionate about – and create films around them. My last feature documentary: Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War, allowed me to dive deeply…
The Heroine’s Journey of Oluchi Nwoko
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love that I can tell stories and create characters and new worlds through my paintings. What is my idea of happiness? I am happiest when I’m doing what is important to me and seeing it progress. What is my greatest fear? I have…
The Heroine’s Journey of Basuti Gerty Bolo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a space scientist and certified space science and technology supervisor, I am passionate about exploring the universe and its interactions with the Earth’s environment. My work is fascinating, requiring critical thinking and deep exploration to understand the complex dynamics at play. I am constantly…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ivana Damnjanovic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Pioneering & Trailblazing. Disseminating and facilitating. Some context is due: (i) Standing on the frontier of next-gen travel experiences through academic and market research in the broad and complex topics of sustainable, regenerative, and transformational travel (economy). Showing how travel can be a pathway…
The Heroine’s Journey of Catherine Anushka White
What is the best thing I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work as a musician, especially as a violist, is the boundless creativity and expression it allows me to pursue. The viola’s rich, warm tone provides a unique voice that can convey a wide range of emotions. This expressive…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lindy Damen, CEO EVRgreen Studio
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Every week I speak to many environmental heroes and see amazing developments and innovations. There is so much going on. I am much more hopeful than if I would only hear the news. I feel less alone in caring about and working for a…
The Heroine’s Journey of Halina Bartoszek Rosa
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the ability to transform cultural heritage into contemporary art forms. My journey as an artist allows me to blend traditional motifs with modern designs, creating unique pieces that resonate with a diverse audience. Each creation,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Perri Sussman
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love being able to become different characters in different situations. I am able to transform myself into someone else through the music and the story of opera. I love expressing these characters in different languages and exploring different time periods. I love sharing…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marita Zacharias
What is the best thing I love about my job? I am a painter and I love the independence of my work. What is my idea of happiness? For me, happiness is a kind of inner satisfaction that lasts over a long period of time. What is my biggest fear? I am not a fearful…
The Heroine’s Journey of Rosa Carbone
What is the best thing that I love about my work? La cosa che più amo del mio lavoro è vedere ciò che immagino diventare progetto prima e realtà dopo. Adoro riuscire ad analizzare le esigenze dei miei clienti e trasformarle in qualcosa di reale. Molte volte ho a che fare con persone che non…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ely Prudence Kinczyski
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To EX-ist. My first self-acceptance therapy, the one that allows me to best release my emotional burdens, to better explore myself, analyze myself, adapt, control myself. The biggest choice of my life, the most courageous as well as the most wonderful, a journey where…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laurence Genevet
Photo credits: Olivier REMUALDO What’s the best thing about my job?Constantly discovering new worlds What is my idea of happiness?I’ve decided to be happy, it’s good for your health (Voltaire) What is my greatest fear?It’s pointless, I avoid being afraid. What character trait do I deplore most in myself?my impatience Who are the living people…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tiisetso Tlelima
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my job is being able to make-up stories and create characters that audiences can connect with. What is my idea of happiness? In the past I always used to think if I could just have a house of my own,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shoma Banerjee
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Art has been my passion for always but have been a teacher for last 25 years. However last year with almighty support my passion became my profession. now I am a professional artist based in Dubai. hence there is everything to love when your…
The Heroine’s Journey of Katerina Sigala
What is the best thing that I love about my work? First, I consider it a blessing that my hobby became my profession. Through my work I can express myself and that is something rare today. What is my idea of happiness? To not keep the bad feelings. I feel we must have space for…
The Heroine’s Journey of Fatimah Binta Gimsay
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s truly seeing stories come to life. Nothing beats the feeling of seeing the words on paper brought to life by talented human beings. I’ve been fortunate to work with like minded individuals and they constantly inspire me to do better. What is my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Yuliia Zhyliuk
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I find joy in the smallest details of my craft—like experimenting with fresh paints and blending them into unique colour palettes each time. There’s something magical about the scent of crisp, new paper straight from the store. Through my art, I have the opportunity to express…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sophie Rankin
What is the best thing that I love about my work? ……… Getting to be creative and become a different person each day whilst exploring the mind of someone else! What is my idea of happiness? ……..Feeling positive and utterly content within my surroundings and achievements and knowing my loved ones are happy and healthy. What is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Masha Karmanova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Once, I organized an exhibition for one of my finest artists in Rome, and everything went awry from the plan. Starting from personal life circumstances that allowed me only two days in Rome instead of the planned ten, just to set up and open…
The Heroine’s Journey of Michelle Eades
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love the most, is it can take my mind to anywhere I want to be What is my idea of happiness? My daughter is my happiness, I am so proud of her. But give me a beach, where I can listen…
The Heroine’s Journey of Karina Vazhitova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What captivates me about working with luxury brands is not just their products themselves, but the entire experience they offer. From the moment you interact with a luxury brand, whether it’s through their impeccably designed storefronts, meticulously crafted packaging, or personalized customer service, there’s…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jane Dieu
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love how people react to my paintings. Everything about creating them brings me a lot of joy, but the very best part is seeing the look on my customers face when they see the painting for the first time, or reading their review…
The Heroine’s Journey of Larisa Ruy
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Possibility of transformation of the unconscious and translation into a real product. Sometimes there are not enough words to convey a certain process or feeling. The picture helps with this. And, of course, endless freedom. Frames are the most terrible thing that society has…
The Heroine’s Journey of Célia Alturas
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to tell stories through my artistic expression (sound, images, writing, acting) without thinking whether I’m: doing good or bad; educating or miseducating; pleasing or unpleasing… Simply giving my voice as if I was downloading a parallel existence, that is shared through me…
The Heroine’s Journey of Jenna Gray
One of the coolest aspects of my work is how it lets me really get personal and artistic. I have all these different avenues to express myself, whether it’s through digital painting, whipping up some 2D animations, diving into video editing, or even mixing all three together into something wild. It’s like having a whole…
The Heroine’s Journey of Ruxandra Tâmbu-Gribincea
What is the best thing that I love about my work? About my work, I love myself, because is there where I found my soul and I understand my feelings. My work allows me to be who I really am. What is my idea of happiness? To enjoy what I love, to do what I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tatiana Vlasko
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the process of bringing a concept to life. It’s a real magic, to bring the initial sketch to the final product you see people wearing, and the ability to empower emerging designers to realize their…
The Heroine’s Journey of Isa-Aura
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have been guided by a passionfor music since my adolescence. It’s allowed me to constantly renew myself, avoid thepitfall of routine and carry out different projects, sometimes even simultaneously. Somewould say of me that I have always led parallel lives. I have always…
The Heroine’s Journey of Tanya van Keulen
What is my greatest passion in my work? I like to contemplate the diversity of life and society. Additionally, I enjoy paying attention to the well-being of others. These two aspects come together when I engage in genuine and sincere conversations with clients and partners about what concerns them in the here and now. When…
The Heroine’s Journey of Catherine Belkhodja
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To the extent that I happily navigate between several professions, depending on places and times, what I appreciate most about my work is the extreme freedom that I allow myself. In order to prepare for this mobility between my different passions, I studied –…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cécile Joseph
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have an extremely hybrid and unformatted profile: I’m a professional dancer and I’m also a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with a degree in economics and a Master 2 in business law. I sometimes jokingly say that I’m a schizophrenic, because I…
The Heroine’s Journey of Simone Manojlovich
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s about doing what’s not expected. I put my heart in everything I do. What is my idea of happiness? Freedom. I very much value my freedom to express. What is my greatest fear? Only the loss of a loved one. What is the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elise Maitre
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is sharing with the audience, constant research, self-improvement, and meeting and working with very different people. What is my idea of happiness? My conception of happiness is to love and be loved, to pursue the career…
The Heroine’s Journey of Lidia Mikhaylova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am a lucky person because my life has given me the opportunity to try different fields of activity and live several lives in one. In my pre-American life, I was a corporate lawyer and was involved in some awesome projects. Having emigrated to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Polina Lebedieva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am very captivated by the complexity and integrity of the art of conducting. It is a constant challenge to understand a work accurately and to interpret it credibly. Finding all the necessary tools and keys to unlock the mystery of a particular work,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Melany Hill
What is the best thing that I love about my work? There is nothing like my work, and there are many best things about it. But throughout the years something stays the same. The surreal feeling I get, true happiness, a sweet hug of safety even when I am being my most vulnerable. Like every…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Mezentseva
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, the absolute best part of my work in acting and filmmaking is the whole experience – from stepping onto the set, meeting new faces among actors, crew, and directors, to the excitement of seeing our creation on TV, in theaters, or online….
The Heroine’s Journey of Rebecca Tarabocchia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to portray other people and to tell their stories. And the best think about my work is that I get to explore and go to places I normally don’t. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness to me is peace. What is my greatest…
The Heroine’s Journey of Oddisea Mal
What do I like best about my job? There is spirit, freedom and liberation in my works. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness means reaching infinite light and deep joy, reaching unlimited divine knowledge, being with family and loved ones healthy and alive. What is my biggest fear? Fear is from my mind and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cristiana Turchetti
What is my idea of happiness? The very concept of happiness can be misleading. But welcoming flashes of happiness every day, even from small things, is my discipline and my art. What is my greatest fear? My greatest fear is wasting time on insignificant things. It happens and when I notice it I blame myself….
The Heroine’s Journey of Paola Marchi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the ability to engage observers and make them feel that they are part of a reality that unites us all. What is my idea of happiness? happiness is a temporary state of being, a moment…
The Heroine’s Journey of Clotilde Cavaroc
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I can say Spielberg is a collegue! Jokes aside, I like engaging in a constant creative process, immersing myself in writing short films, series, posts, chronicles and theater plays (love humor & comedies). Each project can spread over months. The thrill lies in the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anna Lind’Up
What is the best thing that i love about my work ? The best thing I like about my job is the wonderful encounters, the sharings rich in emotions and learning, whether professional or personal. I can vary all the tools and skills I have at will, so I never get bored, I always learn…
The Heroine’s Journey of Joanna Borrett
What is the best thing that I love about my work? When composing is going well it feels that the music is almost writing itself. You are in touch with your intuition and instinct, and that’s exciting. What is my idea of happiness? Being with people I love. What is my greatest fear? For no…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kahina Afzim
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love sharing something spiritual with other musicians and the audience What is my idea of happiness? love and sharing What is my greatest fear? my biggest fear is losing my loved ones What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? my…
The Heroine’s Journey of Natasha Popova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Involvement in the world of Art, the opportunity to create, the opportunity to communicate with talented people. I have the privilege of communicating with art connoisseurs – collectors who are not only guardians of art, but also patrons of artists. These are incredibly interesting,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Julia Kalman
What is the best thing that I love about my work? You know what’s delicious about my work as a writer and literary translator? Creativity. It’s like a frosty, white lava cake that just melts and multiplies in front of your eyes. And it spills over, you know? Once, it even led me to conceive…
The Heroine’s Journey of Clara Couturet
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I like best about my job as an actress is the possibility of participating in films that take us to see the world differently. What is my idea of happiness? I associate happiness with a form off inner peace. Picture credits: Zhang…
The Heroine’s Journey of Isabel Natacha Weiss
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, work is about building, crafting something, finding the language that suits the idea. In life, what I prefer to do is to think. With my students, I love it when an awakening occurs – an awakening of their immense abilities, an emotion…
The Heroine’s Journey of Najoua Najoua
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love most about my work is the frame into which images are integrated. This dimensional space in which all the palettes of feelings and emotions telescope, inviting us to dream or reflect. Making films, whether in front of or behind the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Susana Shakti
What is the best thing I love about my job? Help people to improve their lives by healing their painful experiences and to help them get to know themselves, so that they can find their inner peace, by empowering them through music, healing sounds and meditation. I am an Holistic Coach and composer, an expert…
The Heroine’s Journey of Charlotte Goeders
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What really gets me excited about my job is how versatile it is. I get to dive into all sorts of projects and connect with a diverse bunch of people. The ever-changing nature of my work gives me a fresh perspective, and I genuinely…
The Heroine’s Journey of Alissa Doubrovitskaia
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I work in cinema and dance. In both cases, what I love about my work is that you can focus on any subject, the question that interests me is “how do you treat the subject you are working on?”. Which approach or point of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cristina Cavalli
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To be in contact with so much beauty every day, being sure that I will find something new every moment, even in works I played for ages. What is my idea of happiness? Live like the truest, highest expression of yourself as a human…
The Heroine’s Journey of Suzanne Baily
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m very lucky that I am a company director of a small but successful digital media agency, and have been for almost 26 years now. There are four of us in the company, and one of my co directors is my husband and best…
The Heroine’s Journey of Blayze Collins-Perucchetti
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have always loved being creative. I always tried to bring this to my work in film sales, but since moving to acting I have really been able to let my imagination flow. Working with limited information to create a walking talking living being….
The Heroine’s Journey of Cátia Martins
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Most of the films I’ve made so far have been without a technical team, so, the best thing I might love about my job of making films without a technical team is probably the creative freedom. I can have total control over all aspects…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maurane Raud Bontemps
What is the best thing I like about my job?I met my soul mate What is my idea of happiness?Be healthy, surrounded by loved ones, live next to my lover, get married, succeed professionally, live my life to the fullest, travel What is my greatest fear?Losing a loved one, separating myself from my companion, the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Devanshi Kar
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is that it gives me the creative freedom and the joy of sharing skills with my kids is a daily delight. With a passion for imparting knowledge to young minds, I find pure happiness in witnessing the spark…
The Heroine’s Journey of Dipanjali Pal
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’ve always been fascinated with language and words, I love the way they help build a world. People from all around the world are connected with this very notion of language and what better way to get to know more people and their world…
The Heroine’s Journey of Cécilia Montengo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is the feeling of being where I need to be. I feel like I belong here, that I’m in the right place and that feeling fulfills my heart and makes me happy. I also love the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Celina Griffith-Johnson
What is the best thing I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is that it is something that can create very drastic change in the world. The ideas I have regarding my work are very cost effective, and not a bandaid approach to prevalent issues not only in the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laura James
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have freedom to pursue my heart’s desire. It is a privilege to use your God given abilities as your full-time job. Through my work I get to connect with people – not just with pleasantries and light conversation but on a deeper, more…
The Heroine’s Journey of Gianna Internò
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My creativity, which I make available to the world. My ability to read a person’s soul and to design in accordance. To derive inspiration from nature and to translate it into fashion. To highlight the human figure through colours, modelling, embroidery, fabrics, decorations. What…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elmira Khoobbakht (Moohel)
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I can fly and float in my strange hallucination without limits or weakness. I love to show the power of the mind with my surreal paintings. It’s amazing to discover your inner layers through art. What is my idea of happiness? It’s different every…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sophia De Francesca
What is the best thing I love about my work? It’s incredibly empowering to have a vision, something you’ve not seen before, or know exactly how to execute just yet, but through trial and error, can figure out, eventually perfect, then evolve. “Mistakes” can lead to new and exciting directions as well. There are decisions…
The Heroine’s Journey of LÔre Gautry
What is the best thing I love about my job? The whole part of inspiration, of creation, which is a work of experimentation, of introspection, is like a kind of inner journey, which gives free rein to my deep inspiration, to my part of innate intuition, to the subtle, imperceptible world, where I’m like cut…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marijana Previsic
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing gives me freedom; I’m always having formidable time construing a story, choosing a narrative. It is a profound and analytical activity. I like to play with words, to investigate the words. As a journalist, I used to write for magazines. But writing for…
The Heroine’s Journey of Fernanda Olivares
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The variety of experiences I have as an artist where everything becomes valuable and life changing. I would say that the possibility of traveling worldwide, speaking to different audiences, and making a change on them, as well as knowing myself better through the work…
The Heroine’s Journey of Mariam Vardanyan – Actor, writer, director
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best aspect of my work lies in the profound connection I forge with the enigmatic realms of the unknown, a realm that resonates authentically within me, unattainable elsewhere. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness, for me, resides in the poignant experience of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Laura Mazard
What is the best thing that I love about my work? It is freedom ! I’m actually doing two occupations. The one which is feeding me is speaker guide. I’m explaining our heritage and conducting projects in relation with cities, castles and museums…. That’s something I do as a Freelance so I can schedule my week…
The Heroine’s Journey of Kathinka Pasveer
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is my life, my life is my work so I absolutely love everything about it. Not only performing, practicing myself, doing sound projection, but also working with other musicians, answering questions about performance practice, working at the Stockhausen-Verlag, but also packing the…
The Heroine’s Journey of Antoinette Kelly
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a visual artist, one of the best things about my work is spending so much time alone painting and listening to music in the studio. Luckily I enjoy my own company! Creating scenes from my imagination is a constant source of enjoyment and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Olimpia Stavarache
What is the best thing that I love about my work? In my work as a screenwriter, director and film producer, I adore the fact that I invite actors to do what they like most, to step into the shoes of new characters, to exercise their creativity, to do what they really love. The same…
The Heroine’s Journey of Brenae Lay
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about the work I do as a freelance writer is helping a company target its audience and build its brand. I also enjoy assisting clients to achieve their academic goals. I love the freedom to work from home and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nanoucha
The Heroine’s Journey of Nanoucha van Moerkerkenland What is the best thing that I love about my work?Freedom. What is my idea of happiness?Trust. What is my greatest fear?Aggressiveness. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself?Anxiety. Which living persons in my profession do i most admire?Patrick Besson. What is my greatest extravagance?Having…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elham Mbeygi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being free in thoughts and feelings and expressing them in the form of pictures or stories. What is my idea of happiness? A green land with healthy and happy residents What is my greatest fear? My biggest fear is forgetting love and kindness. A…
The Heroine’s Journey of Maxine Thangavelu
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about the film/entertainment industry is the ability to bring to life the vision and beauty of a story that has the power to help change and inspire What is my idea of happiness? For me happiness is complete peace knowing…
The Heroine’s Journey of Elikem Dzokoto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is love about my work at the European Union is the intercultural environment. It is extremely exciting to exchange with colleagues coming from all the corners of Europe. The exchange of diverse ideas is creating synergies therefore leading to innovative thinking that is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Angelique Mégane Paméole
What is the best things idea bout my job? What I like most is the feeling of mirroring the character I play, which often reveals a little- known aspect of my own personality. It’s like returning to the interior of an atom; we access the vast field of creation where everything reveals itself with its…
The Heroine’s Journey of Rossella Lorenzo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Stories have always been part of me, of my life. I believe that through acting, writing and filmmaking I can live many different lives in the duration of one and thanks to my stories I can achieve the hearts of people. These arts make…
The Heroine’s Journey of Mimma Viglezio
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love mostly about my work is the creativity that surrounds it. This keeps me alive, young and relevant. I also love that my days and activities are always different and diverse. Everyday can bring a surprise. What is my idea of…
The Heroine’s Journey of Zina Torab
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Acting in different roles provides me the opportunity to live different lives. Going through diverse characters in different life stories while I live my own life is an amazing experience. This part is the most interesting one for me while there are other appealing…
The Heroine’s Journey of Virginie Gribouilli
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Sculpture is a way for me to express myself, to convey my emotions and my thoughts about the world. My sensitivity is expressed through my work, and I love working with my hands. The most satisfying thing is to start from nothing, and create…
The Heroine’s Journey of Christina Korovila
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’ve always loved telling stories, discovering and exploring myself and others through research, and delving into human behavior because it helps me understand the world in a more empathetic way. I’m becoming passionate about doing that, so I think that’s what makes me love…
The Heroine’s Journey of Magda Sypniewska
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is most beautiful is also what makes it difficult. Music is an art, a continual research, always perfectible, beauty is never an acquired skill! And at the same time, the closer we get to it, the more attractive it is and makes us…
The Heroine’s Journey of Annie Samuelson
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Bringing a new piece of art into the world through the process of creating provides an unparalleled joy. The part I love the most is how I am able to surprise myself in what I can accomplish. What is my idea of happiness? My…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sabrina John
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me as a (screen)writer the best thing is creating worlds, characters, and stories, that hopefully will entertain and move people, just like television shows and movies make me happy or sad. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is sometimes hard to find….
The Heroine’s Journey of Aline Gorisse
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being a music composer and improviser, what I love most about my job is having moments where I work alone in my inner world and others where I meet wonderful, passionate people who teach me a lot and not only music stuff. What is…
The Heroine’s Journey of Francisca Braga
What is the best thing that I love about my work?Both in visual arts and music, what I love the most is creating. And I’m happy when these creations find a response and other people identify. I’ve always liked drawing, painting and music, and within this universe I find moments of mental calming, of connecting…
The Heroine’s Journey of Marie- Virginie Dru
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Feeling as if I am living other peoples’ lives. When I am writing a book, I travel far away, discover fascinating places, meet weird people. When I write, I sometimes cry, I sometimes laugh. It is strange how we can be moved by our…
The Heroine’s Journey of Anja Kuttner
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to share music through concerts. Taking the audience along different atmospheres and feelings. I am a pianist and perform as recitalist, chamber musician and art song pianist. I love it when people tell me after a concert the music emotionally touched them….
The Heroine’s Journey of Gaaratwe Mokhethi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work allows me to connect to the most creative parts of who I am. I’m required to always be on my A game as I have to keep up with trends that are ever changing and evolving. I work in spaces where I…