Ainola Terzopoulou
Journalist, NLP wellbeing coach
certified pilates instructor & yoga teacher
Life after 50 can bring challenges, but these challenges are opportunities for new beginnings. It’s not about looking younger, but about looking and feeling our best. Let’s make this phase of our lives the most beautiful and powerful, with grace, confidence and inner glow.
“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born,” said French designer Karl Lagerfeld. I am Ainola Terzopoulou, journalist, former beauty editor at “Gynaika”, “Praktikti”, “Vita” magazines, NLPwellbeing coach, pilates & yoga instructor and I believe that 50 is not just a number. When you have lived half a century, 50 becomes a milestone. What comes next? Is reinvention an inevitable process, or can we find grace and strength in who we already are, whether we are 50, 60, or 70? I believe that we can live a healthy, creative and fulfilling life at any age.
For me, 50 is not just a milestone, but a traffic light that invites us to think deeply about our choices, our feelings, our beliefs, our changes and our adaptations. Managing our lives after 50 is not limited to the obvious changes – such as menopause and the aging of our bodies – but also includes deeper, psychological and existential searches. It is up to us how we respond to these changes and discover new aspects of ourselves.
And a few words about me. I grew up in a publishing and journalistic family that in 1950 published “Gynaeka”, the first Greek women’s magazine that marked the field of press. I am a journalist, creator of the website www.livelifewell.gr, former beauty editor at the magazines “Gynaeka”, “Praktiky” and “Vita”, editor-in-chief at Disney magazines, responsible for “Terzopoulos Books” and for the founding of Cosmos Books.
I am also a certified teacher in the Pilates method by Alan Herdman, bodyArt by Robert Steinbacher and in yoga 200-RYT Yoga Alliance, certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master & New Code Practitioner specialized as a wellbeing coach.
At the same time, I am the proud mother of a son and with many diverse interests. Curiosity is my driving force and consciousness gives meaning to everything I do. I like to learn new things, I feel pleasure when I create, I feel joy when I offer. I believe that character, values, influences and choices determine the things we choose and the life we want to live. Let us be grateful for what we have and strive to live with positivity, optimism and realism, embracing ourselves as we truly are.
Teamwork.
Alexia Svolou
Health Journalist. Chemist. Biochemist
Let me introduce myself! My name is Alexia Svolou and I am a health journalist with academic studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Completing my student life at Moraitis School, I studied Chemistry, graduated with honors from the Chemistry Department of the University of Ioannina and did a Master in Science in Biochemistry at University College London in the UK, which is among the top 10 universities in the world. After working in the pharmaceutical industry for a few years, I did another degree in Journalism, and naturally I was immediately won over by Health Journalism, which at that time had begun to become a separate “entity” within news and to claim the interest of the public.
I have been working as a Health journalist for 26 years and have collaborated with newspapers, magazines, free press, sites, television and web TV. Regarding Eleftheros Typos, where I worked for almost 20 years, at Liberal.gr, where I informed citizens for three years, the three years of the pandemic, about all scientific issues related to the coronavirus, with reports that each had over 1 million views, LIFO, one of the strongest free press information on the site Lifo.gr, insurancedailynews.gr together with Medly.gr, which have written their own path in insurance and information on insurance issues and health issues.
I have faced and am facing health issues with the deep knowledge that my academic career gives me, but I also face them as a mother, as a woman and as a responsible citizen of the country. I speak and write English and French as a native speaker and I deal with all health issues, scientific, health economics, health policy, mental health issues, violence between minors and adults, addictions, child abuse, violence against women, anything that deals with physical and mental health and well-being.
At the same time, I collaborate with all stakeholders in the health sector (pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, diagnostic centers, private clinics, as well as institutional ones (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health, KESY, Expert Committees, etc.). During the pandemic, I conducted countless interviews with distinguished scientists and wrote many reports on all those hot topics that we discussed and are discussing daily (such as vaccination, monoclonal antibodies and the lessons of the covid 19 pandemic).
In addition, at a particularly critical juncture (2023-2024) I worked in the press office of the Ministry of Health and dealt with the major reform that is taking place in mental health with the financing of the Recovery Fund. There I handled communication with citizens for the 106 new mental health structures that our country has acquired, thanks to this great reform project, which has swept mental illnesses under the carpet and brought them to light.
In addition to my professional career, as a journalist I participate in voluntary actions that alleviate inequalities between citizens in Health. Thus, I have taken part in donation trips to the remote islanders of the Aegean and Symplesis Groups, I have taken part in the Open Embrace missions, I help the Smile of the Child, I am a helper in animal welfare organizations and I have adopted many stray animals. I am married with a son, of whom I am incredibly proud. My son shares with me the love for volunteering, strays and sports. We ski together in the mountains and in the sea, he plays basketball, I play volleyball, we play tennis and rackets together, we swim and he will become a captain like me when he grows up.
We always said that I have two children, Jason and reporting. The world needs to learn what is happening – about everything that affects health – objectively and scientifically documented – and be inspired by people who have something important to say. This is ultimately the job of a journalist: To find the truth, the essence, to analyze it, to popularize it and to convey to the world stories that are worth telling and to inspire our fellow human beings. That's why I'm particularly active on social media where I tell stories, share the unique stories of people I meet on my travels, visit the small islands where I am an honorary citizen, and meet special people who have something to say and can inspire children to become better people who will build a better world.