A - Progress, technology, and a luxury
lifestyle
or
B - nature, safe environment and healthy planet
for our grandchildren?
Which option to choose?
Thinking about the world, dreams, and what do I
want in life - I also faced some other dilemmas:
A - Working on serious international
conferences or
B - Modeling for magazines, fashion shows,
big brands’ advertisements and acting in films?
big brands’ advertisements and acting in films?
Asia or Europe?
Economical growth and wealth or
humanity living above the concept of money?
humanity living above the concept of money?
Material or Spiritual? Education or
freedom out of school?
And I thought…
If I want both at the same time…
maybe two opposites can work together in
harmony
if I discover - what unites these opposites for
me?
So, here’s about me:
As a teenager I was interested in human nature
and chose to study two areas: linguistics (as I thought “speech” is a key that
connects our inner and outer worlds).
And photography+performing arts
(as acting is an art of creating life on stage)
(as acting is an art of creating life on stage)
In my early 20s I became the happiest person in
the world - my daughter was born. I started working - freelancing in the
subjects that I studied - as an interpreter/translator and a
photographer/retoucher (my first work in fashion).
These jobs didn’t require me to go to an office
every day, and, together with my 11 months old we started traveling. Then I
thought of living location independently and in 2008 when she was 1.5 year old
we relocated to South East Asia.
I kept studying acting, started going to
castings and auditions.
That’s when I noticed - I
don’t want all the roles... I don’t want to advertise “whatever”... I am
responsible for the messages that I deliver. Same with the interpreting: I
wanted to deliver constructive ideas…
In a while I found a general theme
that was the
most meaningful for me
and after that build all my professional
activities
around these topics:
SUSTAINABILITY •
INSPIRATION/EDUCATION • TRAVEL:
working full time as
A.- model & actress.
among my most favorite projects were: leading
parts in
advertisements for the Ministries of Tourism
- Thailand & Oman,
Educational TV shows for TV5, Thailand, & NHK,
Japan.
International advertisements for
Intercontinental, Swissotel, Eastern-Orient Express Train, and other luxury
hotels all over Asia.
And numerous works for ethical enterprises, sustainable
brands, local designers, and artisans.
B. -
As a freelance simultaneous interpreter at the
conferences:
for the UN (UNICEF, UNFPD, UNESCAP, UNPD),
Global partnership for Education, Worldbank,
- conferences on Sustainability,
Renewable Energy, and Sustainable Development Goals.
Renewable Energy, and Sustainable Development Goals.
and DANCE
I made a decision to work like as if my work
was a dance.
Dance as a flow, that requires strict discipline
Dance as a flow, that requires strict discipline
and balance between soul, mind, and body.
Dance as a Joy! Dance as a beautiful action that brings people
together!
What is this blog about:
A- the sharing economy, B- zero waste and Dance
- of lives!
Why do I care about these topics:
I’ve made a lot of research, I learned a lot
from amazing people, and I thought a lot.
I think Humanity, Progress and Nature can exist
together in harmony. I’ve made a film and wrote two books about it.
Why? Because that’s the world I want to
enter, the life I want to live.
I think, ABunDANCE is achievable, if we put
together
A, B, and Dance!
Here I’d like to share experiences, tips,
thoughts and knowledge that I gathered during these years about
Modern
Technologies, Environmental movements, and Philosophy.
This blog is for those who:
• Know
that there are some certain environmental issues
•
Overwhelmed that nothing can be done / looking for something that can be done /
checking what others are doing
• Are on
a Zero waste journey or have never heard about it.
• Have
fun with the Sharing economy / have never heard about it, or suspicious about
it
• Read my
books and/or watched my film - and said that the balanced world described there
is impossible
• Wondering "what's next" after achieving sustainability
• Want to
hear a personal experience or read some official facts about the circular
economy, sustainable development goals of the UN, the sharing economy
and see - why sustainability is a dance!
And since it’s a page about me, here’s a bit
more about the opposites that I unite in my life:
Education and out of school
Even though I’m not in school anymore, recently
I’ve taken a number of online courses from the leading Universities about
sustainability / renewable energy /sustainable fashion / the sharing economy
/sustainable cities / organic architecture.
I don't have all the answers. I still have a lot of questions.
And I keep learning more and more
every year.
My daughter has been homeschooled, unschooled,
worldschooled & never went to a school until 2018, when she turned 12, we
moved to Greece and she smoothly continued her education in a local school.
Both in EUROPE and ASIA:
I grew up in Asia, in 2008 I started traveling again,
in 2008-2016 we were based in Bangkok,
in 2008-2016 we were based in Bangkok,
2016-2017 we were traveling again, and lived in 5
different cities,
while I was filming & interpreting in 13
different cities.
Since 2017 we are based in Athens, Greece,
where I joined my partner.
I’m still working remotely with my partners in
Asia and when needed going there myself.