WOMEN'S HUB DAY ZURICH

Valentine's Day is a day of joy and celebration for most people, but not for Petronela. Because on this day, she lost - out of the blue - the most important person in her life due to a misdiagnosis, knowing that the death of this beloved woman could have been avoided. 

Sometimes fate challenges our path and raison d'être. For Petronela, this day represents her turning point and the mission she embraced consequently. Through research and confirmation from global experts Petronela decided that her unnecessary loss should not be the fate of other loved moms, aunties, sisters, and women out there. 

Armed with her previous background in innovation her journey as the founder of CorDiFio Health - a digital health platform to empower women and physicians - started. 

With her talk, Petronela wants to encourage everyone to take care of their own health and that of their loved ones, as health is our greatest treasure. And since prevention is better than cure, she is trying - almost like an alchemist - to transform her challenging experience into a valuable solution for everyone. Petronela is on a mission to empower women and advance health equity - one heart at a time.

Life is full of surprises. But a life abroad? Now, that was a huge surprise for Julie! Because growing up in Springfield, Missouri, home meant living close to family. 

So, it was a big deal when she moved three hours away to go to university. And when a job opportunity popped up in another city, she moved again. The next thing she knew she was on a two-year secondment in Zurich!

Still, Julie’s transition was rough: the language, the rules, the rude (and instructive) post-it notes from Swiss neighbors! It wasn’t easy. But she soon realized that finding positive relationships was her way to feel most at home. 

That’s when Julie discovered her superpower is making other people feel at home. In fact, it’s her midwestern hospitality that inspired Julie to create a space for women to come together, find community and create their best life here.

At the WOMEN'S HUB DAY, Julie will share her surprising 24-year-long journey learning how to create a sense of home wherever you are.

Ella's story isn't one of those success stories where she explains how she got what she wanted against the odds. Instead, she is choosing to share her journey right in the middle of trying to conceive, and what it's like when things don't work out as planned. This is because Ella wants to live in a world where we can have brave conversations about societal taboos like infertility from a place of love and connection, rather than shame and guilt.

On the WOMENS HUB stage, Ella will share how trying to start a family since March 2021 has changed: her relationship with her body and her husband, the way she handles emotions as well as her idea of a meaningful life. 

Get ready for a rollercoaster of sweet, sad and sometimes funny anecdotes, and the dos and don'ts of supporting someone who is trying to conceive.

For Tanja, writing has always been the most natural way of expressing herself since she was a kid. Sharing her stories or poems with anyone, however, turned out to be a tremendous challenge for her. And somewhere along her entrepreneurial journey, her creative side eventually got buried in all the start-up world hustle. 

It wasn’t until the birth of her first child that she found out she identified as a highly-sensitive person. Since then, Tanja has rediscovered writing as a way to channel her emotions and to find what she calls butterfly moments: flashes of joy where she feels deeply connected to everyone else trying to “human” their way through life. 

With this talk, she is working up the courage to share this fragile and vulnerable side of hers with others and to spread her love for poetry.

We’ll take you on a journey to unravel our deeply rooted perceptions about ourselves & our feminine roles and destinies so that we can let go of our limitations, unlock suppressed potential and redefine what feminine power is.

Let’s connect, liberate and empower ourselves to gaze and reach upwards.

ABOUT LUCYNA

After 20 years of developing talents all over the globe, she knows exactly what it takes to be a successful international leader.

Today Lucyna liberates corporate leaders from burnout, depression and anxiety. Once and for good. Because we should never pay for a career with our health.