Petra Zlatevska
How tapping into connection and community create impact: International Women’s Day 2022
How did you mark International Women’s Day this year? After two years of lockdown-induced live events, it was a thrill and honour to MC...
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Petra Zlatevska
- Mar 25, 2022
How to UNplan your life and still pursue your passion purposefully
Have you ever wondered how people muster the time, patience and chutzpah to write that book, found a new business or start a brand new...
Petra Zlatevska
- Apr 3, 2020
Free childcare? Yes please! When it takes a global pandemic and an economic meltdown for what is alr
We are in the middle of a global pandemic and an economic meltdown. The only thing that needs to happen next is for an asteroid to come...
Petra Zlatevska
- Oct 8, 2018
My summer podcast recording in Goethe’s hometown. And oh, a heatwave.
Grey clouds, never – ending airplane noise and Plattenbau* . These were my common associations with Frankfurt am Main. Like most intrepid...
Petra Zlatevska
- Oct 4, 2018
A few days in Melbourne beyond laneways, coffee + AFL: as MC for a block…chain party at the German B
I have always had a secret crush on Melbourne. As a student I would relish the chance to head down for a uni conference, catch a few...
Petra Zlatevska
- Sep 15, 2018
A New Type of Writing Assignment
” You need to write what ?” asked my mum. Like all things 21st century, if you can explain a new-fangled project or something rather...
Petra Zlatevska
- May 16, 2017
Post-maternity leave in Germany (the second time round): The New Normal
“If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” sang Frank Sinatra about New York. So far, no musician has produced a similar song...
Petra Zlatevska
- Jul 12, 2016
The first 180 days as a foursome: A new parenting manual
My little baby turned 6 months old today. I’m sitting here watching the sun-set over the Mediterranean Sea at Fréjus in France,furiously...
Petra Zlatevska
- Dec 8, 2015
Confessions from the gyno’s chair: What it’s really like to start maternity leave in Germany…2 weeks
Whoever said maternity leave was easy obviously did not start their 36th week of pregnancy in soupy 5° C, surrounded by Stollen,...
Petra Zlatevska
- Sep 18, 2015
Darkness and Light. Time and Place in the life of a refugee
His body, lying flat. His arms and limbs, lifeless. This was the picture of that little boy whose life was taken by the sea, a little boy...
Petra Zlatevska
- Aug 18, 2015
After 6 years of living in Berlin, these are the 31 things I’ve learned so far
“What are you going to do about a job”, she asked “You can’t even speak German”. This was the repetitive, daily conversation I had with...
Petra Zlatevska
- Jan 3, 2015
New work – Cover Story in Renegade Collective Magazine “Lean In/Getty Images Collaboration to remove
It’s available in hard copy all over Australia, at Barnes & Nobel in the US, lots of other places around the world (including oddly,...
Petra Zlatevska
- Dec 30, 2014
Why German ‘Parent Time’ (Elternzeit) is the new maternity leave
What is it really like to experience maternity leave in Germany ? Do all German mums bake Apfelstrüdel all day ? Do all expat mums work...
Petra Zlatevska
- Nov 23, 2014
A tale of two Germanies – East, West and in between
I had originally intended to publish this post to time in with the 25 year Fall of the Berlin Wall celebrations on 9 November. Yet I held...
Petra Zlatevska
- Jul 10, 2014
It’s ok to bawl in the Bäckerei and a few other things Berlin taught me about Motherhood (Part One)
Thought I’d disappeared, gone to a kibbutz or started an underground urban gardening co-operative the last few years? Not really. Truth...
Petra Zlatevska
- Jun 18, 2014
Blog resurrection
New posts are coming soon! My blog archive is being migrated from the former hosting platform. In the meantime, have a read of my work as...
Petra Zlatevska
- Apr 14, 2013
Nice day for a white Wedding : Berlin’s ugliest but most charming suburb
„Wo ick wohne? Wie alle feine Leite, Berlin W. hinten mit en ‚Ding‘! –?? – Na Mensch, vastehste nich, Berlin Wedding!“ – Hans Ostwald,...
Petra Zlatevska
- Jun 21, 2012
A Slice Of Expat Life – Ziva
A few months ago during the cold, dark Berlin winter, there was a little ray of sunshine that brightened it up. The lovely Valerie Khoo,...
Petra Zlatevska
- Mar 31, 2012
Better Urban Living- my blue wings April 2012 Column
(First published in blue wings magazine,Sanoma Magazines, Finland) In his 2007 book ‘Affluenza’, British Psychologist and Author Oliver...
Petra Zlatevska
- Mar 27, 2012
Why You Should Take a Career Sabbatical: Guest blog post on the hugeYesisYes blog
(First published on yesisyes, March 2012) How many times have you been sitting in your office with a full in-tray, an annoying boss...
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