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Isabelle Bordry: Follow Your Passion!

By Elena Lysak

Isabelle Bordry is well-known in the world of the French Digital Media. At the dawn of the Internet era, she launched in France one of the once most important search engines, Yahoo! Directory.

She became the Managing Director of Yahoo ! France and General Operations Director of Yahoo! Europe.

Today, Isabelle is the owner of innovative Marketing company. She is a Business Angel and a leader of Nous Citoyens initiative in the region of Ile-de-France.

In the interview with Madame Success, Isabelle shared the secret to having a successful high-flying career and a happy family life.

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Interviews

Elisabeth Dancet: A Woman Who Will Change The Way You Think About Animals

By Natalia Yurevich

Elisabeth Dancet is a Talent Management consultant from Paris. She specializes in professional women coaching. Recently, Elisabeth made a major career change: She got involved in Animal Protection and became the director of a web documentary “Remarkable Women” about women who devoted their lives to helping endangered animals.
In the interview with Madame Success Elisabeth explained why she decided to share the stories of women who work with animals. We discussed her documentary project, what recommendations she gives to women as a coach, and how each of us can easily help to protect the environment in less than 10 seconds.

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Interviews

Magda Danysz on the Art of Success and Building the Great Work of Your life

By Olga Fromentin

Magda Danysz is the founder and owner of the contemporary art gallery Magda Danysz Gallery in the heart of the Marais neighborhood in Paris and in the center of Shanghai. Her gallery is recognized as one of the most dynamic galleries on the international contemporary art scene. She worked with globally known artists, such as Obey, JR, Miss Van, VHILS among others.  In the interview to MadameSuccess.com, Magda talked about the easy and difficult aspects of running a gallery, her work and life between France and China, the role of women artists in the contemporary art world, and why it is impossible to be available 24 hours a day.

 

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Entrepreneurial, Inspirational, Interviews

Maria Smirnova: How To Raise Beautiful Minds, Start a School, and Do What You Love

By Natalia Yurevich

Several years ago, Maria Smirnova was one of the senior financial specialists at General Electric and could hardly imagine that she would become the founder and director of three international Montessori schools near Paris. In the interview for Madame Success, Maria told us about the process of starting a school from idea to launch, shared insights about how to help every child find success in maths, and what it takes to do what you love.

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Amy Vatanakul: A Global Traveler Brings Stories to Life

By Natalia Yurevich

Amy Vatanakul is bringing life to big movies. A senior pre-visualization artist currently at Proof, Inc, has worked on visual effects for films such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2, and some other exciting productions. 

Amy and I met for this interview at Aroma Coffee and Tea, a cozy cafe near Hollywood Hills and the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, L.A. to talk about her career in Visual Effects, what it is like to work in a male dominated industry, and about her biggest passion – traveling around the world.

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Inspirational, Interviews

Kristy Arbon on Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Success

By Natalia Yurevich

Kristy Arbon is the founder and CEO at HeartWorks, an online learning portal of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion. As a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, she leads intensives and workshops around the world, coordinates online training programs, and supports new teachers’ education at HeartWorks and the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion in San Diego, California. Kristy attempted her first meditation 25 years ago. She spent the past five years exploring Mindful Self-Compassion practices and helping people to learn to be more empathetic towards themselves. Her guided meditations are downloaded thousands of times, and her self-compassion online classes are followed by people from all over the world.

In our conversation, Kristy Arbon provides some gems on how to nurture our spirituality. She gives an inside look at how she practices and how she teaches her followers to embrace mindfulness and self-compassion in their lives.

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Inspirational, Interviews

Assia Benziane: Life with no regrets

By Elena Lysak

Assia Benziane is Deputy Mayor for women’s rights and equality of the Eastern Parisian suburb Fontenay-sous-Bois. At the age of 17, she became the founder of several schools for women in Algeria. Today, this radiantly positive 26-year-old woman is actively involved in local politics. She is the elected member of the Municipal Council; she also runs her own association in France. Assia talks to us about her mission to promote equal rights and opportunities for all women and girls and she sheds light on how to live life with no regrets.

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Entrepreneurial, Interviews

Chiara Condi – Led by HER to Success

By Olga FROMENTIN

Chiara Condi is founder and president of Led by HER association, created in 2014 in Paris. The purpose of this organization is to help women who have suffered from violence rebuild their lives through entrepreneurship. Led by HER is currently a unique program in this area in France. 

Chiara is a young, dynamic Italian, who grew up in an Italian-American family. This alumnus of Harvard, Sciences Po, and LSE is an everyday changemaker in the field of female business and entrepreneurship. Chiara tells us why helping vulnerable women is an important mission in her life, how she started, and why it is important to better understand yourself and use your strengths and talents to move forward. 

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Book Reviews, Success News

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Welcome to Happy Feminist World

By Natalia YUREVICH

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wears lip gloss. She likes girly skirts and high heels. She does not hate men, and yet she talks feminism. Very beautifully, witty and rousingly. In her book “We Should All Be Feminists,” this Nigerian writer, who divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, invites us to dream and start creating a fairer world, a world of happier men and happier women through the medium of feminism.

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Blogging and Writing, Interviews

Marine Baron: The Paradoxes of Liberty

“By Elena LYSAK

Marine Baron became known in France for her book “The Lieutenant” based on her 2 years army experience. Marine was serving in the French Marine Corps and was unpleasantly surprised by the attitude towards women in the military. She resigned and a few months later published her first autobiographical book “The Lieutenant. What It’s Like To Be A Woman In The French Army“. Marine is an active woman of many interests. She is currently writing her third book. Besides, she is working on her thesis in philosophy. She also practices martial arts and plays the cello. Marine is talking to us about the paradoxes of liberty that often go together with rules and restrictions.

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