I finished the first module of resilience and adaptability at McKinsey Forward Program. The most important insight is I lived through an exclusive traumatic life experience that forced me to become resilient and adaptable and through the life-learning process I made almost all the conclusions on my own that I studied in this module. I am very thankful that my chaotic experience now is structured and framed with business words and categories. So, I studied adaptability and res

On the first day of a full-scale invasion, I realized my mom had already metastases and I did not have any other decision to help her but only flee to another country to save her life. 

After more than two years of inner fights and resistance to change I surrender to health issues and just accept life as it was, trying to adapt to new conditions and rules. After several weeks of my acceptance, a new life test occurred - early morning 24th February 2022 the full-scale invasion into Ukraine began. 

It was very uncertain, unpredictable, and challenging for me. It was a full blackout when I was numbed, my body was numbed, my mind was numbed. 

What feelings do you have when you hear the word “anxiety”? Is anxiety about weakness or strength, vulnerability or courage for you? Do or d

In the chaotic and turbulent world full of uncertainties in the manifestations of wars, floods, fires, earthquakes, cancer, deaths,

I was born in an average Soviet Union family, poor and deeply brainwashed with fear and soviet rules. My sister and I were rebels, my mom...

Today is the 40th day since you passed away. It looks like that only last weeks I ultimately understood that you are not here anymore in

I live in a small city in Germany, Germans used to live in cities with 9.000, 20.000, 40.000 people,

After 2,5 years I ultimately changed my refugee visa for a working visa in Germany. Today I went to Landratsamt, showed my ID document,

This year's TEDx Nuremberg topic is "The Power of Uncertainty", and I thought "Wow, that's particularly my topic. Who if not me!?!?!?

Today is the 20th of June, which is World Refugee Day. The day when people all over the world honor refugees, people who were forced to flee

On February 24, 2022, at six in the morning, my father called me. It was the day when everyone got a phone call.

Today I wanted to cover a completely different topic, but when I opened social media in the morning, I realized that February 4 is World

I am very attached to the philosophy of Franz Kafka "the beauty of failure" and accept it as one of the powerful instruments for

Today is January 19, 2024, and I am 40 years old. Today is the day when I celebrate life because I am alive! Today I want to talk about the

Approaching the total darkness that the human brain perceives as a challenge and even a threat to life, we are approaching ourselves,

This question is very intimate and individual and everyone can, of course, decide in their way.

The actions of any terrorist group are always the same: to act unexpectedly, by surprise, quickly and powerfully,

In September 2019, the moment of no return came, the moment when the way it was before my life never would be again.... I got very sick.