In 2014, Jan Turnovec and Ondrej Kaspar took a backpack, a bicycle, a movie projector and jumped on a plane from Prague to Pakistan. The two Czech friends were setting out for an adventure called Road Cinema Project. The plan was to cycle through a…
Watching this woman racing meant witnessing the embodied essence of “driven”. Yvonne Reynders had one simple goal: to win. All her focus was on that one particular task. No fake humbleness and doubts in her mind. She was a remarkable racer on a mission.
She was the archetype of a renaissance person. Hélène Dutrieu was a world champion in cycling, an actress, a pilot, a journalist, and that’s still not all. Throughout her life, this Belgium-born woman managed to switch from one fascinating job to another and excel at…
When you ask people what post-traumatic stress disorder is, the answer usually revolves around: “Yeah, that’s what veterans suffer from, right?” Yes, many of them do, but that’s not the whole story. The range of PTSD triggers is much wider. The disorder can be caused…