I Love Failure PODCAST: Recent Episodes
Mester Catalin
The I Love Failure movement started with an idea to change people's relationship with failure. My name is Mester Catalin and in this PODCAST I will talk to people about professional failures and what they learned from them.
Magor Imre Csibi is the Head of Leadership at Trend Consult Group and leads the Leadership department at Trend Consult, with a mission to change the culture in as many organisations and society as possible.
Between 2017-2018, he was the Executive Director of WWF office in Korea, after leading for 7 years in Romania, the world's largest nature conservation organization, WWF.
About I LOVE FAILURE
In a world obsessed with success, "I Love Failure" started in Romania in 2018 to tackle the pressure of unrealistic standards. Through events featuring short talks about failures and lessons learned, it aims to reduce the fear of failure globally.
You'll discover here the best inspirational stories in the world and global community where people feel safe and supported, knowing they are not alone.
At I Love Failure, we passionately honor those in the arena—the ones who dared everything and triumphed over overwhelming challenges. In the grandeur of prestigious locations like the opera houses, we provide a stage for them to pour out their hearts, ensuring their stories bask in the spotlight they so profoundly deserve, touching hearts and inspiring the entire world.
Bogdan Putinică, Country General Manager at Microsoft România & Moldova, is a successful CEO with a 25+ years track record in creating and executing sustainable growth and scalable strategies while championing performance and leading multicultural / expertise build-up in challenging and high-performance settings – from start-ups to Fortune companies globally.
He is passionate about helping România reach its full country potential, through advancing skilling and education, digital intensity and transformative applications of tech.
About I LOVE FAILURE
In a world obsessed with success, "I Love Failure" started in Romania in 2018 to tackle the pressure of unrealistic standards. Through events featuring short talks about failures and lessons learned, it aims to reduce the fear of failure globally.
You'll discover here the best inspirational stories in the world and global community where people feel safe and supported, knowing they are not alone.
At I Love Failure, we passionately honor those in the arena—the ones who dared everything and triumphed over overwhelming challenges. In the grandeur of prestigious locations like the opera houses, we provide a stage for them to pour out their hearts, ensuring their stories bask in the spotlight they so profoundly deserve, touching hearts and inspiring the entire world.
Having been involved in the growth of over 300 companies across 23 industries, Răzvan Căzănescu founded the TBF group of companies with the aim of assisting Romanian entrepreneurs to scale their businesses on an international level.
In his 19 years in business, he has developed what is now called the TBF Management System. It's the only complete system developed by a Romanian that facilitates the management of companies ranging from 10 to thousands of employees, through measurable responsibilities, quarterly objectives, critical procedures and processes, performance evaluations, and fair compensation based on results.
Despite living by the sea in Spain, all of his business interests, and those he contributes to, remain in Romania. Răzvan has made it his mission to grow at least 10 companies over the next 40 years that will become number 1 in their respective industries internationally.
About ILF
In a world obsessed with success, "I Love Failure" started in Romania in 2018 to tackle the pressure of unrealistic standards. Through events featuring short talks about failures and lessons learned, it aims to reduce the fear of failure globally.
You'll discover here the best inspirational stories in the world and global community where people feel safe and supported, knowing they are not alone.
At I Love Failure, we passionately honor those in the arena—the ones who dared everything and triumphed over overwhelming challenges. In the grandeur of prestigious locations like the opera houses, we provide a stage for them to pour out their hearts, ensuring their stories bask in the spotlight they so profoundly deserve, touching hearts and inspiring the entire world.
Ilinca is a seasoned entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in business and real estate consultancy. She is also the Founder of Bravva Angels, a community of business angels dedicated to investing in early-stage startups led by female founders and mixed teams. Recognizing the underrepresentation of female founders in global investments, Bravva aims to encourage and support female founders with innovative ideas that enhance our lives. Ilinca’s commitment extends to being an investor, business consultant, and advocate for women in business.
About ILF
In a world obsessed with success, "I Love Failure" started in Romania in 2018 to tackle the pressure of unrealistic standards. Through events featuring short talks about failures and lessons learned, it aims to reduce the fear of failure globally.
You'll discover here the best inspirational stories in the world and global community where people feel safe and supported, knowing they are not alone.
At I Love Failure, we passionately honor those in the arena—the ones who dared everything and triumphed over overwhelming challenges. In the grandeur of prestigious locations like the opera houses, we provide a stage for them to pour out their hearts, ensuring their stories bask in the spotlight they so profoundly deserve, touching hearts and inspiring the entire world.
Grégoire Vigroux is a serial entrepreneur and business angel who has co-founded/ invested in 20+ businesses across Eastern Europe, achieving 4 exits so far. He is also the co-founder bonapp.eco & Beyond Business School.
About I LOVE FAILURE
In a world obsessed with success, "I Love Failure" started in Romania in 2018 to tackle the pressure of unrealistic standards. Through events featuring short talks about failures and lessons learned, it aims to reduce the fear of failure globally.
You'll discover here the best inspirational stories in the world and global community where people feel safe and supported, knowing they are not alone.
At I Love Failure, we passionately honor those in the arena—the ones who dared everything and triumphed over overwhelming challenges. In the grandeur of prestigious locations like the opera houses, we provide a stage for them to pour out their hearts, ensuring their stories bask in the spotlight they so profoundly deserve, touching hearts and inspiring the entire world.
Adrian Dragomir has over 20 years of experience in the online environment, he is the founder of several companies, the best known being the business intelligence platform Termene.ro. Recently, Adrian launched a new company analysis module based on artificial intelligence, StartAI.ro.
His mission is to develop business intelligence and risk management solutions to help companies, managers and professionals have access to the latest financial and legal information, correctly assess financial risk situations and efficiently manage their time and resources.
In this episode my guest is Gabriela Petrea she is a lawyer by profession, a truth-seeker, lifelong learner, teacher, humanitarian and activist at heart. She is passionate about physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, ancient knowledge especially Vedic philosophy, spending time in nature, volunteering, travelling and engaging in meaningful conversations. From this episode: “Don’t be afraid to hit rock bottom because actually the most amazing things in your life start only when you don’t have anything else to lose” “It’s not only important to have plans, it’s also important to be open to changes and to adapt to the changes in your life”
In this episode I talk to Ionut Stanimir, he is the Director of Marketing & Communication in (BCR), a leading financial group in Romania. Previously he was in charge of Corporate Communication at Erste Group in Vienna. His expertise ranges across strategic brand management and communication, public affairs, reputation management, and crisis communication. Co-founder of BCR InnovX, a top technology start-up acceleration program in Romania. Co-founder of the BCR Money School and BCR Business School, the leading financial education program in Romania.
In this episode, I talk to Alexandra Popescu-Zorica about the corporate innovation process and what it means to lead an innovation department but also about her startup failures and what she learned from them. "You can have the best process in the world but if you don't have the people to support you when you fail you can't innovate."
Alexandra has more than 14 years of experience in sales, business development, and innovation. She is now Head of Innovation in NN and has spent the last 4 years managing innovation projects. Alexandra also experienced first-hand entrepreneurship and volunteers to support startups and NGOs to apply design thinking and lean startup in their business model.
In this podcast, I talk to Andreea Stanescu about failures in HR. We cover the number one reason why people change their jobs in IT, HR recruitment feedback, and many other HR-related subjects. Andreea was in the HR business for the past 4 years, currently working as HR Business Partner for a major corporation in Bucharest.
In this episode, I have a very open discussion with Jay Melone about his journey from being a developer to entrepreneurship. The discussion is very inspirational, Jay is very open about his failures and lessons learned.
In this episode, I talk to Alex Dascalu about his startup failures, he is very vulnerable and open about them, we also talked about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and discussed Luck what it means. Enjoy!
In this episode, I talk to Catalina Banuleasa among others about failures, ux design, what it takes to make the jump from corporation to entrepreneurship, and knowing when to stop. We also talk about what it takes to create a safe to fail environment in corporations. Enjoy!
In this episode, I talk to George about failures in standup comedy, social media, we also talk about books and their power to change your perspective on the things you hate.
George's own description: As a friend of mine once said about me: you do a lot of things just to be mediocre. So I`m a comedian, copywriter, book author, blogger, vlogger, lead singer, and still not making 1 million $ a year.
In this episode, I talk to Gabriel Paunescu about failure in business how to overcome the fear of failure, and when it happens how to deal with it. In this interview, Gabriel is very open about his own failures and his advice is very inspirational. He is an entrepreneur who founded companies in France, the UK, and the US. He is very experienced in building companies and raising money with lessons learned the hard way.
In this episode, I talk to Sam Olawale about failure in business how to overcome the fear of failure, and when it happens how to deal with it. In this interview, Sam is very open about his own failures and his advice is very inspirational. Sam is an angel investor, public speaker, digital entrepreneur and online marketing specialist with a track record of building 8 figure brands through crowdfunding & e-commerce. His strategy leverages a range of tried & tested techniques to launch a new idea from scratch and turn it into a wildly profitable.