Rare Girls

Natalia Marrugo is the first Colombian woman in the RareGirls Podcast.

Originally from Cartagena, Colombia, she recently embarked on a new chapter in her life by relocating to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

This decision was driven by her strong desire to expand her professional horizons and enhance her English communication skills.

Nati is the creator and creative director of Koló, a company that advocates for the identity of the Afro-Colombian population through fashion and image.

She is a social communicator with a Master's degree in Communication and Audiovisual Education. Over the past few years, Nati has also worked as a journalist, a television host, a motivational speaker, and a brand ambassador for various fashion brands in Colombia.

She is passionate about leadership processes, and she thoroughly enjoy exploring different cultures through travel.

Instagram: @natamarrugorios

Anvita Bhargava is an Italian & Indian virologist, living and working in Paris, France.

Apart from being a scientist, she is also a rocker, a pole dancer and occasionally a poet.

Instagram: @rock_n_pole_diaries

Maria Cheremnykh was born in Belarus and currently lives in the South Coast of Turkey and is building her life there.

Maria is an experienced Marketing leader, who’s passionate about developing new ways to engage customers with the products.

Always've been drawn to create, Maria is gathering experiences and working to start her own business.

Instagram: @m.cheremn

Pauline Pirotte is a 20 years old French Girl living in Barcelona and studying International Relations.

Pauline has lived all her life abroad: Born in Tunisia; And lived in Guadeloupe, Mauritius Island, Bali, Corsica, the United States, and now she is living in Spain.

She loves to travel, going to museums, playing beach volleyball, listening to music, journaling, spending time with her loved ones, and she enjoys learning about new cultures and events.

Family to her is the most precious thing she has. They have taught her to be herself, to follow her dreams, to fight for everything she wants in life, and to never give up.

Pauline is very interested in bringing a change in the American educational system and giving a voice to women all around the world, while fighting for equality and justice.

A quote that has changed her and inspires her everyday is from Queen: “Don't stop me now”.

Instagram: @pauline.pirotte

Mileidy Martell is from Cuba, she studied computer science and was a model, and now lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Her favorite hobby is dancing Salsa and Bachata and many other dance styles, going to the movie and learning languages.

Instagram: @milymm88

Kateryna Kostiuchenko is a dance instructor with more than 14 years experience.

Originally, she is from Ukraine, but nowadays she lives in Riga, Latvia.

In addition to being a teacher and dancer, Kate has a master degree in chemistry. She never worked as a chemist, but she is very grateful for this experience

Kate is in love with music, playing the piano a bit, she is interested in philosophy and science, yoga, skying, books and to try more and more new things.

Instagram: @Kate_style_

Ligita Kalašnykaitė is an international, Baltic lawyer, one of few Lithuanian girls participating in this Podcast. She graduated Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV & Mykolas Romeris University EU Law and Governance master studies.

She has been awarded as the most accurate employee in her job as well by the Gift of Remembrance of Lithuanian Police for her job tasks.

She has been aligning her professional career with personality development, she won the French Song Contest held for International Language Day, she has been playing piano, has been singing in Girls’ PoP Vocal Group, University’s Choir, has been organizing and conducting Music Studio concerts. She is a Bachata and Salsa dancer and is performing in Lady Style dance performances.

The idea reflecting her, inspired by T. Robbins: "The happiness is not the purpose of your life, but the growth and personal development is."

She lives in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Instagram: @ligitakls

Zeynab Garayeva was born in Azerbaijan, she has a Bachelor education is English Philology and then Business Administration at Geneva Business School.

Zeynab regularly visits for work to all middle east countries, she is based in Dubai.

She is a hotelier and tourism manager. She has sales and marketing, business development and event manager experience in the luxury hotels and travel agencies. She is an organizer and travel planner of big tourist groups. now working as international tourism manager all around middle east countries.

Zeynab loves latino dances, especially bachata and salsa, dancing latino since 2014, doing yoga and stretching.

She has her own travel company, she opened this company with only a 2000 USD budget in 2017. Then made it grow.

Zeynab is a dark coffee lover, an Italian cuisine enjoyer. She is a fan of books and films in the detective genre.

She is a classic music lover, she has classical vinyl collection, especially piano and violin duets.
She has a music education, and created her own piano composition.

Zeynab has a High heels collection, she is a stiletto lover, and has more than 150 stiletto shoes. Her favorite clothing style is the casual elegant style.

Instagram: @zeynab.garayeva

Veniz Angeles is a goal setter type of person, she appreciates everything in life.

She is from the Philippines and currently working in Dubai, UAE for 5 years.

Veniz loves to travel and loves outdoor activities. She really appreciates arts and is very much into coffee.

Instagram: @venizangeles

Emma Saci is a 20 years old living in Paris, studying cinema in a film school.

Emma lived most of her life in Barcelona, Spain. She also lived in South Africa when she was 15: She went there on her own.

Emma loves to travel, she needs to escape a lot because she needs to feel free.

Emma is a photographer and clipmaker in the French rap industry.

She also takes documentary photos during her trips. She loves to create new things, she writes poetry, takes photos, makes videos.

And she looove going to concerts, museums, conferences, and festivals…

Emma is also very close to her family. She is a very committed activist regarding the place of women in today’s society. She was in a NGO for peace education (She has travelled to Mexico, Brazil and Vietnam with this NGO).

Emma wants to change the world, because changes need to be made. “If not us, who? If not now, when?”

Instagram: @emmasaci_