INTERNAL SPECIALIST OFFICE SERAFIM 023

1. How and at what moment did you come up with the idea to start your own business?
After reaching the maximum level of professional development in the conditions at that time, I no longer had the opportunity to achieve my goals: to provide all the possibilities of the most modern treatment in an adequate manner, to apply my knowledge and skills in the best possible way, after 25 years of work.

2. Have you always wanted to engage in your current activity?
I have always aspired to independently organize work in the best possible way, to bear all responsibility, to be at the forefront and at the highest level in my profession.

3. What are you proud of in your business?
I have remained true to the principles I was raised on, I have shown that by hard work, primarily by loving people, I perform my job as a doctor. I can successfully manage the business, but I haven't become "just a manager"; I have become a cardiologist! The focus of my work and life is on people! Continuous improvement, which I have the opportunity to apply in practice, investing in equipment necessary for that, I can choose consultants and collaborators whose human qualities and professional qualifications I consider the best, with patients whose interests are the sole motive of our actions. The feeling that you are there to help someone and that your whole team feels satisfaction, that each of the employees is satisfied with their living and working conditions, that they are happy to come to the clinic is unique.

4. What is the secret of your success? (List three qualities, behaviors, beliefs, or abilities)
Continuous investment in my own knowledge and skills, what I called "continuous education as a lifestyle", belief in the goodness in people.

5. How understanding has your environment been, and who has been your biggest support?
The greatest support is family, in every aspect, of course, friends, primarily entrepreneurs, with useful advice.

6. What is your guiding sentence?
Knowledge is power!

7. Do you have role models who have motivated or continue to motivate you for further work?
I am motivated by people who, through hard work over decades, regardless of circumstances, have followed their dreams, proving that "everything is possible," both in science and in sports, art...

8. What have you had to give up?
Free planning of time for rest.

9. What has driven you forward and how have you motivated yourself when times are tough?
Work, as the basic means, which not only in evolution has influenced the formation of our species, which de facto distinguishes us from other animals, which achieve only basic, biological needs, has taught us to strive for improvement, which created Homo sapiens. Work is for me the basic source of satisfaction and self-awareness. Only a conscious, fulfilled individual, satisfied with their knowledge, work that has brought spiritual wealth, most often material compensation, but also awareness of personal value can be satisfied. The essence of our existence is to achieve at least part of our potential.

10. Why is it better for a woman to be an entrepreneur rather than being employed in a company?
We won't be truly equal for a long time, in the true sense of the word, but a woman in entrepreneurship can achieve the highest level of freedom. The market is open, quality must at some point be decisive!

11. How would you advise new female entrepreneurs or a younger version of yourself?
Dream, plan, work, work constantly, follow your dreams and you will surely live them!

12. On a scale of 1-10, how challenging is it to be a female entrepreneur in Serbia?
10

13. When you are a woman in the business world, how common are indecent proposals?
I think the situation is similar everywhere when you are a woman.

14. Where exactly do you see yourself in 5 years?
In my clinic, with a good team of collaborators, as before, of course, I expect generations of young, new colleagues, and collaborators to join us.