We present you Gergana Pavlova and Plamen Petrov
The other participants in our romantic February "Meetings for dreamers", on which we talked about the double successes and failures with some great couples who share not only home and feelings, but also a career and workplace.
Partners in mind, spirit, body and heart, who began as a tango couple, and shortly after that, their relationship transferred in life and in business. Tango forever left a mark and reshaped their creativity and work projects as metaphor in which both of them continue to learn how to work and live together. Until 2015 they implement Google`s Business coaching program for Bulgaria through their company Equinox Partners. They are founders ofIntunity Coaches - first domestic coaching school.
Can you describe the other in a sentence?
Plamen: Emanation of naivety. If Don Quixote had three daughters, Geri would be the biggest.
Gerry: Harmony in structure and structure in harmony. And one more sentence: Plamen the "Dances with technology" Petrov can fit in one sentence - accurately, clearly and concisely - while acting and changething task after task, he has already decided what else to create and begun to create it.
Is the shared failure less failure?
Plamen: If shared failure is shared learning then, yes. If there is competition who fail more without learning - rather not.
Gerry: It depends on the attitude. And your point of view. And from the current situation. And our perception of the concept of "failure." It may be larger. Or maybe less. Sometimes we enlarge each other, and sometimes it lighter. Everything is a matter of choice, conscious or not, at the relevant time.
Do the working day ever ends when you work with your partner? How do you relax?
Gerry: Never! And what was this holiday? It was in my past life. And with a partner like Plamen I work even while I sleep! The truth is that we do not work and create. Or at least the way I perceive it. For me it is very important to have inspiration to the Foundation of the things that we create. When I do not feel or when overheated - just leave and do what comes from within me as inspiration again find me ... But anyway is also part of the creative process – so I do not rest. There is creation.
Plamen: Work is integrated in my life rather than the opposite. And vice versa. Vacationing most often is a healthy sleep - every day for at least 8 hours ... and often work itself feels like a holiday.
Which one is the most important lesson you learned from your partner?
Plamen: The lesson that patience is a rare and therefore precious resource!
Gerry: There are many lessons that I learned from him. My whole journey with Plamen itself is a lesson, a Master degree. I will share some of my favorite realizations ... there is no need to understand the other and his difference - it is enough just to accept him as he is. The mirror of the other is often the most direct path to yourself. That two is more than one, but the one which both partners create is greater and different then from just two - and often it should be listened. In order to be a successful partnership, both partners should give 100% of themselves. Nothing more, nothing less.
What do you dream to accomplish together?
Plamen: If you want to know what we think on this issue - ask Gerry.
Well, Gerry, what dreams you want to achieve with your partner?
Gerry: I recently have dreamed to make house of Intunity Coaches. Cylindrical. With rotating floors. On the roof there will be a pool, according to Plamen, or glass ceiling according to me, with a mobile helipad, why - I do not know. And there, at the top of the house will make circles in ordre to look from time to time of life and the world from another perspective. And we will have a "Nights for dreamers", too.
