From Burnout to Balance: Chulpan Piotrovskaya’s Journey in Belarusian Show Business

Chulpan Piotrovskaya is a renowned TV host, director, and producer. A few years ago, she was a workaholic, working around the clock. Many aspired to be like her—a successful, self-made woman. But at one point, she realized that living life to the extreme was neither sustainable nor necessary. Chulpan openly shares her experience with the career race, how she managed to step off this unnecessary treadmill, and find a balance between work and life.

Discovering Life Beyond Work

Previously, I thought that excelling in my career was all that mattered, and everything else would follow. But I realized that this was a deception. It’s great to live a multifaceted life and express oneself in various ways. So, I am a passionate and enthusiastic person.

I have developed several diverse hobbies that, finally, are not related to my profession. For example, I graduated from a pottery school and now engage in sculpting and ceramics. Surprisingly, I have found a deep connection with clay. It’s my material to such an extent that I could bathe in it. Working with clay is a meditative process for me. I immerse my hands in clay when I need to restore my energy and be alone. I don’t care about the outcome; the process is what matters.

Overall, I love the world. I discovered this recently. It turns out that the world is quite benevolent towards us; it’s just a matter of how we treat it. I started relating to my surroundings with conscious love. Of course, it was not easy to begin with, but it’s easier and more exciting to live this way in all aspects. As the practice of recent years has shown, every person in our life is there for a specific, and definitely cool, reason.

I am very glad that in the last three years, I have managed to step beyond the boundaries of my profession. Because, as you correctly noted, if you google my name, you will find a lot of information about my career path starting from the age of 15, but practically nothing about me as a person. It’s not that there was no time for life and personal development—I just didn’t allocate it. Now I try to do the opposite. It turns out that life does not revolve solely around work.

Realizing the Need to Slow Down

For five years now, I have been working with excellent teachers (it’s something like psychotherapy, but broader). They quite harshly made me think about the fact that I can stop working whenever I want.

Before, I thought differently. It seemed that after five more concerts, I would definitely start resting. But when one project ended, others followed, and then more and more.

I looked at all this and thought: