How tapping into connection and community create impact: International Women’s Day 2022
How did you mark International Women’s Day this year? After two years of lockdown-induced live events, it was a thrill and honour to MC...
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Petra Zlatevska
Mar 25, 2022
How to UNplan your life and still pursue your passion purposefully
Have you ever wondered how people muster the time, patience and chutzpah to write that book, found a new business or start a brand new...
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 3, 2020
Free childcare? Yes please! When it takes a global pandemic and an economic meltdown for what is alr
We are in the middle of a global pandemic and an economic meltdown. The only thing that needs to happen next is for an asteroid to come...
Petra Zlatevska
Oct 8, 2018
My summer podcast recording in Goethe’s hometown. And oh, a heatwave.
Grey clouds, never – ending airplane noise and Plattenbau* . These were my common associations with Frankfurt am Main. Like most intrepid...
Petra Zlatevska
Oct 4, 2018
A few days in Melbourne beyond laneways, coffee + AFL: as MC for a block…chain party at the German B
I have always had a secret crush on Melbourne. As a student I would relish the chance to head down for a uni conference, catch a few...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 15, 2018
A New Type of Writing Assignment
” You need to write what ?” asked my mum. Like all things 21st century, if you can explain a new-fangled project or something rather...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 25, 2018
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 25, 2018
Global Roaming: Neighbourhood favourites
Qantas Travel Insider A booming boho scene, Prussian prowess and communist influences have all collided to create the fusion of avant...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 25, 2018
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 25, 2018
Venice Art Biennale 2011 Highlights
The 54th International Art Exhibition features the works of 83 individual artists from around the world, as well as 89 country pavilions....
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 25, 2018
Rising to the challenge: 21st-century games of wit and endurance
Rising to the challenge: 21st-century games of wit and endurance By PETRA ZLATEVSKA This article was taken from the February 2013...
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 4, 2018
Dual Families: Serving Two Masters
A new law is expected to let a generation of foreigners born in Germany after 1990 become dual citizens… but what does it really change?...
Petra Zlatevska
Feb 21, 2018
Berlin’s Newest Co-Working Spot, Mindspace, Comes Of Age
Behind the scenes at Berlin’s newest co-working space. On first blush, it seems like a quintessential co-working space: there’s lots of...
Petra Zlatevska
Oct 17, 2017
How Packaging-Free Supermarket Are Changing The Way We Shop
''Bring your glass jars and paper bags. The idea of “waste not, want not” has been drummed into us since we were children. We were taught...
Petra Zlatevska
May 16, 2017
Post-maternity leave in Germany (the second time round): The New Normal
“If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” sang Frank Sinatra about New York. So far, no musician has produced a similar song...
Petra Zlatevska
Jul 12, 2016
The first 180 days as a foursome: A new parenting manual
My little baby turned 6 months old today. I’m sitting here watching the sun-set over the Mediterranean Sea at Fréjus in France,furiously...
Petra Zlatevska
Dec 9, 2015
Confessions from the gyno’s chair: What it’s really like to start maternity leave in Germany…2 weeks
Whoever said maternity leave was easy obviously did not start their 36th week of pregnancy in soupy 5° C, surrounded by Stollen,...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 18, 2015
Darkness and Light. Time and Place in the life of a refugee
His body, lying flat. His arms and limbs, lifeless. This was the picture of that little boy whose life was taken by the sea, a little boy...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 18, 2015
After 6 years of living in Berlin, these are the 31 things I’ve learned so far
“What are you going to do about a job”, she asked “You can’t even speak German”. This was the repetitive, daily conversation I had with...
Petra Zlatevska
Jan 8, 2015
Up in the Air: Feature in blue wings magazine on the new wave of Social Entrepreneurs
Happy 2015! 2014 was a fulfilling, inspiring and unpredictable year for me in many ways: re-connecting with colleagues and editors,...
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