GENNADY GOROVOY: “I BELIEVE IN YOUR TALENTS!”

OCA Magazine: Please tell us the most important things about yourself and your creative work. What is your creative and life credo and motivation for your creativity?

Gennady Gorovoy: Hello to my new and old friends. My name is Gennady. I grew up by the principle “Live and let live”. We all are different, but also the same- most people want a good life- without wars, etc. So, as a poet and speaker, my way is to talk and give people hope that everything will be okay, and that we must unite. Also, the law of transparency helps a lot. Be yourself- polite, nice to people, and we will change the world for good reasons.

OCA: How did you choose your path and who is your role model in the creative field or in life?

GG: I grew up listening to the songs of Vladimir Visotsky and Alexander Rosenbaum. They are my role models. But I also love The Beatles, Elvis, Freddie and many others. When I grew up and started traveling the World and living in other countries, I met our Vice President Marat, Radislav Gandapas, Lisa Nichols, Gil Peretz, Tony Robbins, Maestro Tabriz Shakhidi and Yuri Managadze and many other great and talented people, some of whom I proudly call my friends.

OCA: What is your main achievement(s) or positive impact on the world in 2024–2025?

GG: Being in Central Asia, talking to the nicest people, doing projects together, doing my old project with an amazing Marina Alyassova “Faces of Guild”- interviewing Guild members and promoting them. Also, with Guy Shtolz and Natasha Gerasimova, we did an Israeli Coaching championship, together with our Guild. Next year we’ll be in amazing London. Last year, we’d been in Uzbekistan, participating in the World Coaching Championship. We also flew to Khiva and Nukus. WOW!!! One of the greatest experiences in my life.

OCA: What is the main feature that makes you and your art/work unique?

GG: Being the Man of the Big World, I can understand different cultures and to be a bridge between them. Sometimes little explanation about cultural differences can avoid huge misunderstanding (in a good case) or, God forbid, even war. I write about experiences in life, seminars, travel, people who are different or just lyrics or anti-war poetry. As a motivational speaker, I write about success and ways to achieve it.

OCA: Please tell us about the events or projects of the Eurasian Creative Guild (London) and projects you have already participated in and how does ECG influence your creativity and success in your work?

GG: It’s easier to say about projects I haven’t participated in. While living in Moscow, we met with Marat and organized offline events. During pandemia Elena Bezrukova, me and other great people were organizing online events and lectures about business training. In London, I helped Marat organize meetings and events for people, as well as participating in them. In Bulgaria, I gave some lectures and helped organizing an event; in Asia, I was an Ambassador and met hundreds of the most amazing and intelligent people. I am not talking about flights, seminars, hugging each other near lakes, declaring poetry in Borovoe, going to museums in Tajikistan with the marvellous family of Shakhidi… It’s my amazing life. Soon, I will become rich and will have more opportunities to be with Guild much more.

OCA: How do you think the creative professions have changed and how has the role of art in the development of the world changed in the face of modern realities?

GG: Huge difference. In the former USSR, famous poets, writers, artists or filmmakers were superstars, not less. Their quality of life was amazing, compared to regular people. But it was censorship. Now everyone can write and promote himself. There are websites, places to meet and read your poetry for friends, Guilds that give you an opportunity to mingle with great professionals, as well as regular people. I believe in freedom. Not everybody is Remark or Emil Zola, but everyone should have a place to see and to be seen and heard.

OCA: What would you wish for the members of the Guild and other creative people who are just starting their careers?

GG: Never give up. There are always nasty people who will criticize you. But there are many more intelligent people who believe in you and your talents. In Hebrew, the words “critic” and “buried” are from the same letters. It’s so easy to make a young person feel bad about himself, so just find the right people who know how to talk and explain. Nobody was born genius, but some got there somehow. Why not you? And each one can write me to support and believe in your talents. Don’t be shy. I BELIEVE IN YOUR TALENTS.