A couple of years ago, when AndyLife was born, I didn't know much about structure, formats, or interview techniques. The only thing I knew for sure was that I wanted to talk to women who inspired me. Women who had migrated reinvented themselves and were building their lives from love, faith, or resilience. With that intuition and without much knowledge, I organized a short season of live interviews on Instagram. Did I have media experience? No. What was a follow-up question? No, either. But I was eager.
Today, after an intense—and transformative—week in which I conducted five interviews for a journalistic project, I can't help but look back fondly. This has undoubtedly been a personal record. Not only because of the number but because I now have fundamental tools that I didn't have before: I know how to formulate interviews, how to extract important information without losing empathy, how to turn a conversation into a report, and above all, I know that communication goes beyond reporting... it's an ethical responsibility.
Furthermore, I did interviews in English. And that was simply unthinkable for Andy a few years ago. It would have scared me; it would have sabotaged me before I even started. But here I am. Learning. Living the process. And every time I complete an interview, I grow a little more. I'm not just collecting stories but also crafting my own.
This journey has taught me that interviewing isn't just a work tool but a form of active listening, connection, and recognition. It's opening the space for others to speak, and you become a channel instead of seeking prominence.
And it's precisely in this process that Andy-Writes has taken shape. Today's loose idea represents a new season and a renewed profile of who I am. Andy-Writes has become a portfolio, yes, but also a living testament to constant progress. It's a space where I gather lessons, mistakes, progress, and all those small victories that sometimes go unseen but that make a difference.
That's also what AndyLife is: a space where we learn to listen, to speak from the heart, and to tell stories that truly deserve to be told. Today, as a communicator in training and as a woman who continues to develop, I understand that interviewing is also about healing. It's also about growing.
