ISEEINYOU & OKSANA DRIBAS
Interview from Oksana Dribas, creative producer, director and founder of the OKO.EVENTS agency.
If I ask you about the brightest points in your career, what would you tell?
The brightest points are victories and falls! In some cases, even global losses, serious losses.
I am currently 45 years old. And I remember the moments in my childhood ... at that time everyone lived very poorly and I had a godfather who often traveled abroad. And one day he brought me a doll from Germany, which was wearing knitted leggings and a turtleneck, a suit in bright purple with red splashes. The doll was slightly smaller than me.
The brightest points are victories and falls! In some cases, even global losses, serious losses.
I am currently 45 years old. And I remember the moments in my childhood ... at that time everyone lived very poorly and I had a godfather who often traveled abroad. And one day he brought me a doll from Germany, which was wearing knitted leggings and a turtleneck, a suit in bright purple with red splashes. The doll was slightly smaller than me.
ISEEINYOU & OKSANA DRIBAS
Interview from Oksana Dribas, creative producer, director and founder of the OKO.EVENTS agency.
If I ask you about the brightest points in your career, what would you tell?
The brightest points are victories and falls! In some cases, even global losses, serious losses.
I am currently 45 years old. And I remember the moments in my childhood ... at that time everyone lived very poorly and I had a godfather who often traveled abroad. And one day he brought me a doll from Germany, which was wearing knitted leggings and a turtleneck, a suit in bright purple with red splashes. The doll was slightly smaller than me.
The brightest points are victories and falls! In some cases, even global losses, serious losses.
I am currently 45 years old. And I remember the moments in my childhood ... at that time everyone lived very poorly and I had a godfather who often traveled abroad. And one day he brought me a doll from Germany, which was wearing knitted leggings and a turtleneck, a suit in bright purple with red splashes. The doll was slightly smaller than me.
I brought her home, undressed, put on an outfit and went into the yard. I felt very fashionable, beautiful. Children teased me, but I felt completely calm. And the second moment, when there were no pretty shoes but I had skates. I unscrewed the blade and walked to school in those white boots feeling like a superstar. The children also laughed at me, but that moment I understood very clearly that I was different. It was the first call to the fact that I am unusual.
Some kind of force constantly appeared in my life, which showed love to such an extent that I did not understand that it was about love.
I thought it was about danger, and I ran away. And these moments later in my life led me to the fact that I was able to directly look danger in the face. And this lack of fear in my career, I began to do what no one does. I'm not afraid to take risks, I'm not afraid to go into danger, because in my life there were so many deaths, a large number of losses, many situations on the verge, that I realized, in principle, that I always go beyond this line, fear is very relative history, it destroys a lot. He takes you aside, and when you go ahead without seeing him, he dissipates like smoke.
As a child, at some point, I began to replace real life with dreams, pushing myself to strive forward, no matter what. And I had such a tradition, which I then sowed both in friends and in the environment. My birthday is 24 hours of complete selfishness, I have every right to do only what I want on this day, and my friends and family should respect my choice. Because the rest of the 364 days I am directed at them. And I have transferred this to my clients. What leads clients to the fact that we do incredible projects for them that simply did not exist, could not exist before.
Some kind of force constantly appeared in my life, which showed love to such an extent that I did not understand that it was about love.
I thought it was about danger, and I ran away. And these moments later in my life led me to the fact that I was able to directly look danger in the face. And this lack of fear in my career, I began to do what no one does. I'm not afraid to take risks, I'm not afraid to go into danger, because in my life there were so many deaths, a large number of losses, many situations on the verge, that I realized, in principle, that I always go beyond this line, fear is very relative history, it destroys a lot. He takes you aside, and when you go ahead without seeing him, he dissipates like smoke.
As a child, at some point, I began to replace real life with dreams, pushing myself to strive forward, no matter what. And I had such a tradition, which I then sowed both in friends and in the environment. My birthday is 24 hours of complete selfishness, I have every right to do only what I want on this day, and my friends and family should respect my choice. Because the rest of the 364 days I am directed at them. And I have transferred this to my clients. What leads clients to the fact that we do incredible projects for them that simply did not exist, could not exist before.
In my professional activity, I have such a metaphor “mirror” that I look into a person as in a mirror in the “Harry Potter”. You look and you see not your reflection or the client. You see the world hidden, hidden, somewhere out there and I dive into this abyss and start looking for something special, lifting it out. And therefore, without undue modesty, I can say that every event I organize is the closure of a gestalt for the client himself, it is some kind of tumbler in general. Something is lived in a new way, something is remembered, and people begin to relate to their birthday in a completely different way. They begin to appreciate their celebration and want their celebration.
On my birthday, I always give myself a gift from something that I either cannot afford from a material point of view, or it is some kind of country that I have never been to. New York was one of those unattainable places for me.
On my birthday, I always give myself a gift from something that I either cannot afford from a material point of view, or it is some kind of country that I have never been to. New York was one of those unattainable places for me.
And this tradition was created by one of my clients. One day he asked: "What do you want? I want to fulfill your dream, I do not want to give any material values, but I am ready to pay for any desire”. Since childhood, I dreamed of going on a cruise on a big liner, like in the movie “Dynasty”, and taking a ride along the Caribbean coast.
He replied: "Okay, no problem, I'm ready to pay you for this cruise, but you also have to do something for this, get a visa yourself, buy a ticket to America, and I will fully pay for the cruise, the level of cabin that you want and etc."
We met at an event about a month later. I already released this story, and he told me: "Look, you have a month left to get a visa, otherwise you will miss your dream.
Choose whether you want it or not?" And I got a visa and went on a trip, then, quite spontaneously, I flew from Miami to New York, and fell in love with this city, and thought that I wanted to celebrate 35 years in New York. For 35 years, I flew to NY. Before that, I went to the bank, took out a loan for 10,000 dollars (400,000 rubles, as I remember now). They ask me at the bank: "For what purposes do you take out a loan?" "I'm flying to New York and I want to have money."
I flew there for two weeks, completely alone, I was walking among the pictures from the films. I lived in Manhattan, walked around and realized that I had a dream within a dream. I think: “What a thrill”, I understand that I want to move there and everyone starts dissuading me “Why? You are already successful, why are you doing this? I haven't moved.“
After 10 years, I understand that I deceived myself and certain situations that followed showed me that I had betrayed myself. Although at that moment it seemed to me that I was doing everything right.
But no matter what, I have many victories in my life, I win prestigious awards, we do some incredible events, the first in the world rented an entire city in France for the event.
And I had situations when I realized that it couldn’t get any worse, and then it led, on the contrary, to deep acceptance and it was a victory over myself.
- You spoke so interestingly about moments from childhood, and one detail really hooked me: how we understand our uniqueness, and we accept it. Was it the acceptance of your otherness that led you to the fact that you realized yourself in a rather non-standard way?
- Yes.
Once, I wrote this phrase: “Everything that is natural and expresses itself is beautiful.” It seems to me that you are just the kind of person who expresses himself. Tell me how did you find yourself? After all, people often face difficulties in this area of life.
- I just went somewhere all the time.
He replied: "Okay, no problem, I'm ready to pay you for this cruise, but you also have to do something for this, get a visa yourself, buy a ticket to America, and I will fully pay for the cruise, the level of cabin that you want and etc."
We met at an event about a month later. I already released this story, and he told me: "Look, you have a month left to get a visa, otherwise you will miss your dream.
Choose whether you want it or not?" And I got a visa and went on a trip, then, quite spontaneously, I flew from Miami to New York, and fell in love with this city, and thought that I wanted to celebrate 35 years in New York. For 35 years, I flew to NY. Before that, I went to the bank, took out a loan for 10,000 dollars (400,000 rubles, as I remember now). They ask me at the bank: "For what purposes do you take out a loan?" "I'm flying to New York and I want to have money."
I flew there for two weeks, completely alone, I was walking among the pictures from the films. I lived in Manhattan, walked around and realized that I had a dream within a dream. I think: “What a thrill”, I understand that I want to move there and everyone starts dissuading me “Why? You are already successful, why are you doing this? I haven't moved.“
After 10 years, I understand that I deceived myself and certain situations that followed showed me that I had betrayed myself. Although at that moment it seemed to me that I was doing everything right.
But no matter what, I have many victories in my life, I win prestigious awards, we do some incredible events, the first in the world rented an entire city in France for the event.
And I had situations when I realized that it couldn’t get any worse, and then it led, on the contrary, to deep acceptance and it was a victory over myself.
- You spoke so interestingly about moments from childhood, and one detail really hooked me: how we understand our uniqueness, and we accept it. Was it the acceptance of your otherness that led you to the fact that you realized yourself in a rather non-standard way?
- Yes.
Once, I wrote this phrase: “Everything that is natural and expresses itself is beautiful.” It seems to me that you are just the kind of person who expresses himself. Tell me how did you find yourself? After all, people often face difficulties in this area of life.
- I just went somewhere all the time.
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