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 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…
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 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 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,…
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 in Vox Lux
The moment is unnerving: 15-year-old Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) lies in bed with a man she just met, a man much older than she is who is drifting in and out of pill-induced unconsciousness. A piece of silver fabric is wrapped around her throat, and her eyes are smudged with mascara. She looks very young and…
The Heroine’s Journey in Belle
When he lectured on literature at Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov referred to Jane Austen’s 1814 novel “Mansfield Park” as a “fairy tale,” a term he did not use disparagingly. He also obliquely noted that none of its fairy-tale romantic doings would have been possible were its characters not somewhat affluent, and that the source of the money that…
The Heroine's Journey Today 