What is the best thing that I love about my work? “I love the process of transformation, the ability to take “unseen energy,” and transform it into something tangible. Whether I am layering gold hues and 3D textures on a canvas or architecting the UI/UX for a wellness platform, I love the moment where chaos finally…
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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…
26 January The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: The Power of Your Story
The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: The Power of Your Story “Your story is your life,” says Peter. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories — of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about ourselves, our creative business,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shobana Gomes
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the idea of crafting great stories that resonate with people’s lives, and when the stories educate, inspire, and entertain, as in the Faction genre (facts & fiction) I write, I feel I have accomplished my writer’s portfolio in a great way. What…
The Heroine’s Journey of Heloisa Prieto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Storytelling has always been the path of sages and healers. I love spending hours crafting a new narrative or retelling an ancient one, several times I try to combine both by weaving plots in order to generate a timeless space. Writing takes me to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Stephanie Jo Cox
What is the best thing I love about my work? The best thing that I love about my work are the moments that I feel altogether musical, scribbling lyrics, recording melodies, fingers fumbling and tripping over the keys and stuttering lyrics, then it all comes together. I produce, edit, redo, add tracks for other musical ideas…
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…
02 February The Heroine’s Journey: Create Your Own Legend
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris is a journey in Paris with Peter de Kuster who is dedicated to teaching skills not covered by the regular education system – skills that develop creative confidence and encourage to make money doing what you love as creative professional. By travelling a world city with stories of creative heroes…
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…
09 Feb The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What is Your Brand Story?
The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What is Your Brand Story? Your story―how its meaning resonates in the public heart and mind―is your most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few professionals really know how storytelling works, how to manage it, and how to use storytelling strategically. Presented by best-selling author Peter de Kuster this groundbreaking one day…
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…
Online Heroine’s Journey: Hello Storytelling!
The Heroine’s Journey: Hello Storytelling! Learn the foundational skills and mindsets of business storytelling Develop a common language and understanding of business storytelling across your organization. This flexible, online experience introduces non-storytellers to the concepts of the storytelling process and offers business storytellers (in design, innovation, creativity, advertising, marketing, communication, PR) a tried-and-tested approach to…
The Heroine’s Journey of Yael Cherni
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The alchemy of collaboration — when minds, hearts, and rhythms align to create something that didn’t exist before. What is my idea of happiness? Slow mornings, deep conversations, movement, laughter, and a night that ends in candlelight and jazz. What is my greatest fear?…
The Heroine’s Journey of Sandra Zemor
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is the gift to accomplish my soul mission to share light, Joy with others, and to heal the hearts. What is my idea of happiness? To be joyful for no reason … What is my greatest fear? Wars Which living persons in my…
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…
Online Heroine’s Journey: Stories for Change
Stories for Change Create change with quest stories who cause movements, not mandatesNo matter what industry you’re in, no matter where you sit in an organization, change can come from you. Learn how to create a movement to catalyze change in your organization or network by mobilizing people around a shared quest story. Follow the…
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 Grima Irmudottir
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is that filmmaking allows me to witness the world with uncommon attentiveness and to honor stories that might otherwise remain invisible. I cherish the intimacy of listening observing and shaping fragments of reality into something that breathes…
Online Journey: Storytelling to Lead for Creativity
Learn of The Heroine’ s Journey Peter de Kuster’s personal leadership storytelling philosophy and methods. You’ll learn how to lead with vision, through stories, through culture, and alongside your team. Gain storytelling techniques to guide others through uncertainty using the process of experimentation and shift the culture by tapping into beliefs and behaviors that support…
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…
16 February The Heroine’s Journey: Testdrive Your Dreamjob
Testdrive Your Dreamjob Yes, you can try your hand at the business of your dreams without risking your present job or business, your next mortgage payment, or your kid’s future. In Testdrive Your Dreamjob you will discover how meeting your rolemodels – can be the first step toward making that dream come true Revolutionary 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…
Stories for Innovation
Stories for Innovation is at the heart of what Peter de Kuster is known for—human-centered storytelling. This seminar, an in-depth focus on the first phase of business storytelling, will ground you in the needs of the people you’re creating for. In this course, you’ll develop empathy for your customers and surface insights for creating products and…
Stories for Creative Collaboration
Effective collaboration is about more than harmonious agreement or efficiency. Today’s complex challenges require teams to navigate ambiguity, unearth bold ideas, and embrace a new way of working—one that harnesses the power of diverse perspectives and creative thinking to push past the obvious, safe solutions to the truly innovative ones. Gain the skills and techniques…
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…
23 February The Heroine’s Journey: The Heroine’s Confidence
Creativity and innovation are like muscles – the more we use them, the stronger they get. As kids we were all creative, but over time, so many of us were discouraged in our creative endeavours and eventually focused our energies on more traditional pursuits. In the Heroine’s Journey project I will remind you that creativity…
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…
Online Journey: Storytelling for Strategy
Strategy is often portrayed as a thinking exercise—a set of decisions and plans made by a small group. But strategy is brought to life by the people in every part of an organization every day in the power of their storytelling . Engaging the people critical to both creating and activating your strategy is an element…
Online Journey: Stories To Lead Complex Projects
When it comes to complex projects, unexpected challenges and changing timelines are expected. Great leaders embrace this complexity—they don’t try to control it. They understand that people—the team and stakeholders—are key to successful project outcomes. In this course, you’ll learn how to balance logic and intuition to guide others with the powers of your storytelling…
09 March The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: A Therapeutic Story
Writing a new story. A journey through Paris following the work of famous Paris artists like Henry Cartier Bresson A story about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope, about imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down But it is also a story about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning And…
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…
16 March The Heroine’s Journey in Paris: What Story Are You Living Now?
Book your spot now The most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself and ask the question, What Story Are You Living Now ? In this learning journey we will help you navigate this question with a personal and playful approach. Renowned storyteller Peter…
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,…
13 April The Heroine’s Journey in Rome: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
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 Iryna Dihtiarova-Deslypper
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing is liberating. I feel free to create any kind of world inhabited by divergent characters and ruled by laws other than those of physics, logic, or entropy. These worlds do not exist – until or unless I bring them into existence through writing. …
The Heroine’s Journey of Elina Ojakangas
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about painting is being able to express myself. I use painting as a way to communicate, express thoughts and feelings where words fail. What is my idea of happiness? A sense of calmness. For a very long time I confused pleasure…
04 May The Heroine’s Journey in London: What Story Are You Living?
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have made archetypes – the stories, myths, themes and symbols that unconsciously influence our lives – a familiar concept. This Heroine’s Journey goes a step further providing a measurement tool to uncover and harness the transformational power of archetypes. Using the Heroine’s Journey ‘What Story Are You Living? questionnaire…
The Heroine’s Journey of Agnieszka Ejsymont
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the moment when a blank canvas stops being just fabric and becomes a living space full of emotions and stories. I love that magical “in-between” state – when my hand paints faster than my mind can catch up with my heart. What…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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