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Interviews.
Long-form interviews with women who built their own business, career and life — often in another country and from scratch. We don’t publish everyone: the editors choose the heroines. Every story is told in the first person, approved by the heroine and published on the 1st, 15th and 21st of the month.
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Women who built their business, career and family — in Russia, the US, Europe, Mexico and Kyrgyzstan. Fifteen stories told in the first person.
15Julia Lumen
A furniture factory, a gallery in Moscow and a move to Mexico
«A furniture factory, a gallery in Moscow and a move to Mexico»
14Alima Nazaralieva
From apathy to a retreat center on Issyk-Kul
«From apathy to a retreat center on Issyk-Kul»
13Anna Perepelkina
The SPAGIRY brand and what premium means
«The SPAGIRY brand and what premium means»
12Irina Levchenko
Entrepreneur · Founder of the INSAID school · Astana and Dubai
«“I’m Still a Work in Progress”»
11Olesya Abramova
Trade marketer · Author of guides for women
«When “I’ll Handle It Myself” Stops Being Something to Be Proud Of»
10Natalya Yurmanova
Founder of the Impuls Tochek women’s space · Author of two books
«When Your Life Stops Being a Case to Solve—and Becomes a Story You Write»
09Svetlana Sorokovaya
Electronics factory worker
«You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Start Living Differently»
08Olga Saeliya
Entrepreneur · Creator of the Volshebnitsy (“Enchantresses”) project
«Choosing Yourself Doesn’t Have to Mean Blowing Up Your Life»
07Galina Kozhevnikova
Massage therapist in training
«“I kept waiting for someone to notice me. Then I realized my life was already happening”»
06Raisat Kebedova
Coach · Psychologist
«The Doors That Waited Two Years»
05Inna Shikolay
Business Psychologist · Mentor to Successful Women · Creator of the Scale of a Woman program
«Stop Proving. Start Creating.»
04Natali Kruk
Psychologist · Sexologist · Somatic Practitioner · Creator of the Freedom to Be Yourself method
«“I Watched Fear Weave Itself Into My Relationships”»
03Nadezhda Gavrilina
Spa Therapist · Massage Therapist · Creator of HairVedaZ
«The Life She Stopped Putting Off»
02Varvara Shevchenko
Artist · Poet
«“So Who Am I, Really?”»
01Victory Naydenova
Founder of CLIRIUM® ME
«More Than the Sum of Our Roles»