The Heroine’s Journey of Margarete Sorg-Rose, Composer

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the creative process itself – inventing musical ideas and the artistic challenge that comes with every new composition: Which direction will my musical idea take here? During the artistic creative process, surprising developments often arise in the details, even if I plan…

The Heroine’s Journey of Audrey Le Meur

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is its usefulness. My voice is not there to exist for itself, but to serve a message, a brand, a cause, or an idea. I deeply enjoy being a link between intention and perception, between what someone…

The Heroine’s Journey of Lirza Zaloshnja

What is the best thing that I love about my work ? I’m at the first violins at the Albanian National Symphonic Orchestra of Radio Television working there with a career of 15 years now. The best thing that I love about my job is that it never gets monotonous. Being on stage every week or even…

The Heroine’s Journey of Callie Hope

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I deeply love the idea of being part of something greater than myself, of lending my voice to messages that connect people, that carry meaning and resonate. Today, I am finalizing my showreel with a strong desire to build a portfolio that truly reflects…

The Heroine’s Journey of Marija Malinić

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is creating spaces where people slow down and naturally connect. I enjoy shaping ideas into experiences that feel real and organic. I love seeing how people, place, and story come together, and how a concept finds…

The Heroine’s Journey of Kimmy Oooh

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is real, passion, authentic. A layer of me exposed. Like my brain showing a movie. I love it because it brings neverending joy, fulfillment expression, and I don’t have to work hard at it ..it just flows my work allows me to…

The Heroine’s Journey of Amela Kurz

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom to turn emotion into something visible. My work allows me to translate feelings, ideas, and inner movement into something that others can see, feel, and connect with. That connection is everything to me. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is health, family, and…

The Heroine’s Journey of Nicholette Neilson

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is how it allows me to turn art into motion and emotion. I began my journey as a model, working with icons like Kanye West, Dapper Dan, and Marc Jacobs, learning early that movement and presence…

The Heroine’s Journey of Shauna Knapp

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  The best thing I love about my work is that it allows me to turn real life experiences into something meaningful that others can connect with. Whether it’s music, business, or creative projects, everything I do comes from a place of passion, growth, and…

The Heroine’s Journey of Oana Martisca

What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, the best relationships begin in sync. It’s like jazz—the music I grew up with—or a perfectly timed baseball double play: scoop, second, first, and out. Rhythm. That’s what I love about filmmaking—the rhythm between urgency and empathy, the pulse where truth refuses…

The Heroine’s Journey of Diana Romanovskaya

What is the best thing that I love about my work? That it allows me to connect dots: ideas, people, and technologies — and turn complexity into meaningful stories through text and visuals. Because good stories help us feel, connect, and make change happen. What is my idea of happiness? To wake up with a…

The Heroine’s Journey of Gege Rodrigues

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love my work for the freedom to express my feelings and transform them into paragraphs that will inspire generations. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is living in coherence between thought, emotion, and action. It is raising my two children with emotional…

The Heroine’s Journey of Vivian Galaxy

WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT I LOVE ABOUT MY WORK? The best thing I love about my work is the joy and deep satisfaction it gives me. Music has been my lifeline during one of the most difficult periods of my life. At a time when emotional trauma almost broke me, music kept me…

The Heroine’s Journey of Jaya Clement

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love most about my work is the quiet moment when it’s just me and the screen,  usually far too late at night. Away from expectations, validation, and the pressure of the next ‘big thing,’ I can finally slow down and admire…

The Heroine’s Journey of Ulduz Karayeva

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the endless flow of ideas in my mind, the absence of boundaries, and the complete freedom to create as I wish. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is simple: to have a…

The Heroine’s Journey of Susana Bray

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the ability to transform lives through music — not only on stage, but also through teaching. Guiding children and young people as they discover their talent, believe in themselves, and achieve dreams they once thought were…

The Heroine’s Journey of Simin Parsa

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is that it allows me to transform emotions into tangible creations. I once worked as an accountant—structured, predictable, confined within spreadsheets—but entering the world of fashion and storytelling gave me freedom. Designing clothes is not just fabric…

The Heroine’s Journey of Arpita Biswas Dasgupta

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is witnessing transformation — when art becomes a bridge between emotion and expression. I love seeing people discover their hidden creativity and confidence through colours, lines, and stories. Teaching art isn’t just about skill; it’s about healing energy…

The Heroine’s Journey of Marjorie Le Thiec

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the freedom to create meaningful experiences that unite people, cultures, and dreams. My projects give me the opportunity to build bridges between communities while shaping my own path as an entrepreneur. I love transforming ideas into…

The Heroine’s Journey of Wenlin Tan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work (creativity & productivity coaching for changemakers & creatives) is that it enables me to make a positive impact in the world using my strengths and talents. For me, work is my overarching purpose and drive in…

The Heroine’s Journey of Victoria Hart

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is that it is creation without permission. I get to follow the rhythm of my own mind — to write, imagine, and build at my own pace. Even when I collaborate with AI, it’s my spark…

The Heroine’s Journey of Françoise FUNCKE

What is the best thing I love about my work? Before I start ‘working’, which I don’t actually consider to be work, I love the state of ‘levitation’ that I deliberately put myself in before painting. It is essential for me to be in the right vibrational frequency to express myself. My works begin and…

The Heroine’s Journey of Antonia Drosinaki

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love all aspects of my work: theatre and film, creating new worlds, interacting with children and their innocent creativity, and above all, being inspired every day by all of this, allowing me to create. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness for me…

The Heroine’s Journey of Esther Claus

What is the best thing that I love about my work? That it brings me face to face with truth. My work demands honesty, with myself and with others. It creates space for what is often pushed aside. It’s not comfortable. It’s alive. It is my freedom to fully express myself. What is my idea…

The Heroine’s Journey of Andrea Delgado

What is the best thing that I love about my work? A: Having the ability to tell incredible stories. Not just my own, imaginary ones, or ones I wish were real, but all the surrounding stories. Stories of people who have surpassed fiction and lives so beautiful they exceed dreams. Being able to communicate all…

The Heroine’s Journey of Mariana Fuentes Berti

What is the best thing I like about my work? Breaking the rules What is my idea of happiness? This morning, with him, having tea.  What is my greatest fear? The dentist. What is the trait that i most deplore in myself? Laughing at bad jokes. ( because it’s not so much fun to laugh…

The Heroine’s Journey of Vania Santi

What is the best thing that I love about my work?The best part of my work is the flow I enter when I create, when the outside world disappears and I feel at peace. Through art, hidden parts of myself emerge, like a secret language only creation can reveal. What matters most to me is…

The Heroine’s Journey of Shushanik Droshakiryan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is the uncertainty of working between tangible material and abstract ideas. I invent everything — my crafting technique, which differs for each material I design, and my crafting tools, which I must also create, as they are unique…

The Heroine’s Journey of Lori Royce

What is the best thing that I love about my work?“How creating my artwork provides me with much peace and calm” What is my idea of happiness?” When I am able to accomplish my career goals and share my joy with friends and family” What is my greatest fear?“That I will end up with too…

The Heroine’s Journey of Marisa Milan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The most beautiful thing I love about my artistic work…it’s being an extension of myself, something I can share and spread to the world, bringing my philosophical message that comes from my Greek roots. Being able to observe how it reaches the soul of…

The Heroine’s Journey of Cristina Redondo

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the deep connection that painting creates between me and others. Through portraiture, I have the privilege of capturing something beyond the physical — an essence, a memory, a feeling. I love observing the subtle details that…

The Heroine’s Journey of Victoria Sánchez

What is the best thing that I love about my work?I love the feeling of creation, of bringing something to life from within. The constant reinvention, the act of translating an internal fire into music, movement, or transformation, fills me with purpose. I love seeing people blossom through art and recognizing their potential. I love…

The Heroine’s Journey of Jennie Montalvo-Bragaw

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing is like having a blank canvas with a brush and paint.  Only in this case, I am creating a picture using words.  The picture has to appeal to children, which requires that I put myself in the frame of mind of a child. …

The Heroine’s Journey of Dahlia Hosny

What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me it’s that it lets me express what I call the “nothingness between the lines” those quiet, invisible feelings and thoughts that are hard to put into words, or better for me to put into color, I give it a form where others…

The Heroine’s Journey of Jenna Mari Matecki

What is the best thing that I love about my work? That all of my collaborators and clients explicitly ask me about and celebrate my way of seeing the world. This is true across my experiential design studio (AMARIMA), my sculptures (Jenna Mari), and my board of advisors (The Human Board).  What is my idea…

The Heroine’s Journey of Gisele Mello

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My greatest love within art flows through many nuances, but freedom is undoubtedly the central point that makes art my best companion. This freedom is not about doing whatever I want, but about being allowed to do so, about having openness to the new,…

The Heroine’s Journey of Carmela Brunetti

What do I love most about my work?I love writing about art because it brings me happiness and a sense of fulfillment. What is my idea of happiness?Being surrounded by my daughter, my family, and doing work I love. What is my greatest fear?Losing precious moments with my family or losing the ability to create…

The Heroine’s Journey of Olena Myroniuk

What is the best thing that I love about my work?The most rewarding aspect of my work is the moment when I see that same spark ignite in my students’ eyes – the very spark that once transformed me. I love my profession because it allows me to live simultaneously across many epochs, to view…

The Heroine’s Journey of Vanessa Rusci

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is the tangible possibility of uniting artistic research with social transformation. Each project becomes a field of experimentation where visual, technological, and bodily languages intersect and contaminate one another, giving rise to new forms of awareness. I…

The Heroine’s Journey of Danielle Fray

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the creativity, the long burn of a great story arc, the instrumentation of a great character. Script writing came to me later in life and I’ve been incredibly lucky to have the peers and friends i have to achieve my niche. It’s…

The Heroine’s Journey of Magdalena Florek

What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a place marketer and painter, I love the blend of strategy and creativity. I love how one discipline sharpens my analytical thinking, while the other nourishes my imagination. Both let me tell human stories, just in different languages. I see strategy and creativity…

The Heroine’s Journey of Ketevan Anasovi

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Honestly, it’s the way people respond. Not just with compliments, but with something raw and emotional. I once met a man in his fifties who cried in front of my work — he said it brought up feelings he hadn’t touched in years about…

The Heroine’s Journey of Tammy King

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…

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…