Bucharest, 15th May 2023: Raluca Hagiu, Communication and PR Director at Ivatherm, Lucia Antal, Head Of Research And Development at PRO TV, Camelia Cavadia, writer and Managing Partner at Fabrica de PR and Andreea Irimia, content creator at Think Healthy, share their stories of professional failure at the XVIIth edition of Fuckup Nights Bucharest.
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The event will take place on Thursday, 25 May, starting at 18:30 at Stup. Participation is free and can only be done by registering on the Stup platform, according to availability. The event is organized by DiFine PR in collaboration with Stup.
Fuckup Nights shifts the narrative around professional failures and mistakes and stimulates creativity to find new solutions at the turning points in our careers.
FUN XVII invites 4 successful women from different fields to share their experiences with professional failure, and how they turned difficult moments into learning and growth opportunities that brought them closer to success. Raluca Hagiu, Lucia Antal, Camelia Cavadia and Andreea Irimia will help us broaden our perspectives and better understand the hidden potential of failure and the importance of lessons that come with any professional mistake. Each talk will conclude with a Q&A session, where attendees can learn more about the guests’ experiences and insights.
Diana Iosu, organiser of Fuckup Nights Bucharest, says: “When we think about success, we often forget to consider all the obstacles, difficulties and mistakes behind it, which are essential for our growth and development on all levels. If we change our perspective, failure is an excellent learning opportunity. Fuckup Nights events open up the space for conversations we hear far too rarely – successful people sharing the unpleasant things they’ve encountered along the way, reminding us that it’s human and natural to fail, and helping us understand the importance of failure on the path to success.”
The event is moderated by radio and TV journalist Julia Nagy.
Raluca Hagiu is Communications and PR Director at Ivatherm. She has 23 years of experience in journalism and communication, including 18 years as editor-in-chief. She launched Bolero from scratch and successfully managed Unica magazine, the first magazine with 100% Romanian content and the best-selling title in its segment. Throughout her career as a journalist, Raluca has conducted interviews with important personalities from Romania and abroad and participated as an accredited journalist at Fashion Week in Paris, Istanbul, Copenhagen, as well as at Cannes Film Festival, where she conducted interviews with actors and directors at the festival.
Raluca is currently the Communication and PR Director of Ivatherm, the first dermatocosmetics company in Romania. When she takes off her communication hat, Raluca is a student at the Faculty of Psychology, a Yoga teacher or an improviser performing on Stand Up Comedy stages.
Failure is for Raluca like muscle fever. It causes discomfort, pain and inflammation in the body. Of course, anyone would gracefully avoid muscle fever, if it were not impossible. But the advantage is that those pesky microscopic cracks in your muscle fibers adapt your body to the effort, make you stronger and build your endurance. Just as muscle fever strengthens your body, failure is the best trainer of muscle evolution. The important thing is to look at the trainer’s lessons as a GIFT, which helps you increase muscle mass of future success.
Lucia Antal is Head Of Research And Development at PRO TV. Lucia is an impressive presence in the media world, with a career spanning over 27 years in the industry. As Head Of Research And Development, Lucia coordinates qualitative and quantitative research projects and is responsible for the strategy and development of PRO TV’s channels. As President of ARMA and member of the I-JIC board, Lucia Antal is actively involved in the development of the Romanian and international media market, contributing to the improvement of research methods and the establishment of audience measurement standards. In addition to all her professional achievements, Lucia Antal finds balance and joy in her personal life, being a mother and a passionate skier.
Lucia says “failure is inevitable, but how you handle it can make a big difference”. Lucia believes that the attitude we have towards failure significantly influences how we handle it. If we only focus on the negative and allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by disappointment and demoralization, we will miss the opportunity to learn and improve. But if we focus on the positive and direct our energy toward finding solutions and improving the situation, we can turn failure into an opportunity for growth and progress.
Camelia Cavadia is a writer and Managing Partner at Fabrica de PR. Born on 10 May 1969 in Bucharest, Camelia graduated from the Zoia Kosmodemianskaia Philology-History High School and has a degree in philosophy and journalism.
She has a 22-year background in television (at the most important TV stations in Romania, Pro TV and Antena1), and since 2017 she is co-founder of Fabrica de PR Communication Agency.
She debuted in literature in 2015, at Trei publishing house with the novel “Vina”, with which she would participate the following year (2016) at the “Festival du premier roman” in Chambéry, as a laureate from Romania. In 2016, also published by Trei, she released her second novel “Masks of Fear”, which was later released in England, reprinted and published in over 10,000 copies. In 2018, the same publishing house published the novel “Purgatory of Angels”, which writer Radu Vancu called “a moving document of a world of missing children”.
This year, Trei Publishing House has published “The Soul of the World”, a collection of 12 true stories from a fantasy world.
Camelia believes that failure means something different to everyone and there are no people with perfect lives, but it’s all about how we let obstacles affect us.
“What may be a major failure for me may be just a minor unfulfillment for another. But however big or small they may be, in my opinion, the important thing is to learn from our failures and not repeat the mistakes over and over again. Because, at the end of the day, failures are what shape us, but they are not what define us. Worse than failure itself, I find the fear of failure can be paralyzing. And when you don’t even try, you can’t expect to succeed,” says Camelia.
Andreea Irimia is a content creator on the Think Healthy platform, where she promotes and advocates by example a healthy and active lifestyle through movement, nutrition, mindset, getting out in nature and out of the comfort zone. A former competitive athlete and nutritionist, she started this lifestyle 7 years ago when she was almost 100kg, suffering from anxiety, burnout and smoking. She took it one step at a time and in 3 years managed to quit smoking, lose 30kg and most importantly change her perception of her body.
She learned about herself that she can change people’s energy by giving her energy, so she set out to give that “better” forward through all her projects. She promotes movement of all kinds through a project called #1month1challenge, where she tries a new sport every month and documents the whole process to help people understand what that sport entails.
“I discovered fairly early in life that failures or things that don’t go our way or are hard are actually turning points to what we need to do and from which we learn about ourselves. And I don’t think we could achieve anything we set out to do without those turning points. They are elementary”, says Andreea.
Fuckup Nights Bucharest is part of a series of events taking place globally in 215 cities from 62 countries around the world. The events change the paradigm of professional failure and are equally aimed at small and large entrepreneurs, corporate workers, freelancers, and students.
Previous editions of Fuckup Nights Bucharest are captured here: Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol VI, Vol X, vol XVI.
Partners of the event are: Stup, FAN Courier, Radio Guerilla, Complice, Sandler Training România, Fonduri Structurale, Techcelerator, Bizilive, Learning Network, Psychologies, Cooperativa FruFru, IQAds, SMARK, IQool, SocialPedia, Revista CARIERE, ClujHub, ROTSA – Romanian Tech Startups Association, Savoir Events Academy Urban Monkey and Sabina Cornovac Online.
Details about the event are available on Facebook.
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About DiFine PR
DiFine PR is a full service communication agency that combines the team’s solid experience of over 20 years, both nationally and internationally, with the satisfaction of creating success stories. In addition to full PR, communication and business consulting services, the agency also organizes technology and business events (e.g. NASA Space Apps Challenge, TechFest, Fuckup Nights Bucharest). The agency’s current portfolio of clients includes NN, Sodexo, Alexandrion Group, Stefanini, Black Sea Fund, GapMinder VC, startup accelerator Techcelerator, Seedblink, Growceanu, Goldring, Restart Energy, Tema Energy, Romcab, Sodexo, Cognite, Bitcoin Romania, Tradesilvania, Undelucram.ro, ClujHub, bpv Grigorescu Ștefănică, and over 100 tech startups.
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Diana Iosu
Corporate Communication Senior Advisor, DiFine PR
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