Follow Your Dreams without Being a Hopeless Dreamer

In the past few months, we’ve all been through the agony of lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. For Ana Billian, this is not the first time she experienced what we today call “these unprecedented times.” Back in the early 1990s when a civil war in her home country changed everybody’s life forever, lockdown meant sharing a tiny shelter with as many people as could possibly fit in. As Ana says, “There were days when everybody would have appreciated a little bit of social distancing.” In this episode, we discuss how this experience shaped Ana’s professional path, from living and working across the globe to founding her online career platform, Great Career Studios. In Ana’s words, “Life is too short not to follow your dreams. And it’s too short to be a hopeless dreamer.”