How are you doing with self-worth, aging, and beauty?
On the occasion of yesterday's International Women's Day, we also interviewed our women's team Malinna.

How do you view yourself?

I'm at my happiest with my body right now, but it's not that it looks better than it ever has. I've started to show gratitude for how it serves me, even though I don't pay nearly as much attention to it now that I have children as I used to.

How do you perceive your aging process?

My 40th birthday is approaching and honestly, it scares me a little. Not so much the number, but rather the speed at which the last two decades have slipped away from me. I currently have not processed this fear and am still searching for its true essence.

How do you maintain a healthy relationship with your body?

Even though it is more challenging to perceive his needs now because of motherhood, I try to at least perceive the emotions that are going through me and observe the thoughts associated with them. These two factors immediately translate into my current physical state. As soon as I feel myself thinking negatively, regretting myself, or struggling with something, I begin to focus on my breath and consciously begin to dissolve the tension that has arisen in my body.

Your advice to other women?

Don't take it seriously. How many times have I worried, even consumed by what someone thought about what I said, did... 99% of the time, no one cared, they didn't even remember. And even if they did... So what? Nobody's perfect.

Dominika Beňová, founder

How do you look at yourself with confidence?

For me, self-confidence is about being aware of my strengths and weaknesses. I appreciate my strengths and work on my weaknesses. I don't strive for perfection in everything because my weaknesses are an integral part of me that I accept.

How do you perceive your aging?

I perceive aging positively in a certain sense. It is the passage of time that forces me to appreciate life (and to think about its transience). To make the most of it. However, internally I do not feel that I am "getting older", I only realize it when I have new gray hair.

Tea Kerla, CEO

What do you find beautiful about other people?

I have always found beauty beautiful and I am also attracted to honesty. Maybe it is the truthfulness with which some individuals can look at themselves, the ease of being, but also the authentic expression of their self. For me, beauty is the warmth with which people talk or do things that they enjoy. I love sensitivity, dreaminess and all those who are easily excitable. And the sexiest thing for me is interest – in your loved ones, your surroundings, but also in the social environment and situation.

How are you doing with self-love and self-worth?

I am already very well and content, although in the past it was a long internal process for me. With self-love, building perspective and distance from the situation, but also from myself, and also looking at myself through the perspective of other people, helped me. I also changed my inner voice, with which I talk to myself, to a much kinder and less critical one.

I now see myself more comprehensively, with both the good and the bad, and I don't blame myself. With that comes a healthy identity that allows me to feel comfortable, do things I enjoy, and surround myself with healthy relationships. Even though I already know my worth very well, I never cease to be amazed by getting to know myself anew, so to speak, in new phases of life. I believe it is a never-ending process that requires our constant attention, and honestly, I am having a lot of fun with myself so far.

Katarína Pšenak, Designer & Communication

What would you recommend to women who struggle with complexes related to their worth, beauty, and aging?

I think that a large part of our self-esteem dies on the networks. Thanks to my work, I meet influencers, which naturally disrupts the idea that networks evoke in us that there are perfect, happy, beautiful beings living on the other side of our phones. But I know, logically and factually, that it is not so and I have real evidence of it.

So I don't want to recommend that you meet influencers, but that you follow profiles that make you feel good, with whom you don't feel inadequate, who are close to you in their humanity, attitude or appearance.

How do you manage to maintain a healthy relationship with yourself & your body?

It helped me a lot to heal my relationship with food. I stopped living only on salads, but really began to nourish myself with all different nutrients, including my personal fear - sugar and carbohydrates.

When I see the food I eat positively, I know that I feel good health-wise, and so I feel good in my body, even with wrinkles. I suddenly see the whole body positively, I perceive it to a certain extent as magical, so I cannot judge the magic negatively. I actually feel the best I've ever felt, and I'm 36, both physically and mentally.

Martina Halás Vacková, PR & Communication