TO times, Just one moment to change the course of a lifetime. And for Cristina SeymandiTorinese entrepreneur, that moment materialized during the party of his birthday, The night between 27 and 28 July 2023. A handful of minutes was enough to transform One evening of joy in a public court, A recovery of the mobile phone, in a viral video, A woman reserved for a characterdespite himself, public. But the media storm that came on her, a storm that could have destroyed anyone, instead revealed her ability to make a trauma an opportunity.
Crisitina Seymandi, the night that changed everything
The story is known, almost everyone: during the party, Cristina Seymandi’s partner, Massimo Segre, well -known accountant and banker, Instead of announcing their marriage, as many expectedIn his speech he accused her of having betrayed him and declared immediately after he would leave her. A six -minute speech, filmed and became viral on social networks, which has definitely the typical discretion codes of the Torinese High Society is broken.
Seymandi’s book: Antifragile you become. Towards an authentic freedom
In a long interview with Corriere, before the release of his book Antifragile you become. Towards an authentic freedomin bookstores on May 2nd, Seymandi tells how he faced that nightmare that has overwhelmed it. Just think that the video of that moment has become, as she herself says, “more hype than the London Olympics”, being taken up by international newspapers such as the Times and El País. Seymandi then reveals that that night he slept at his mother’s house, tormented by a nightmare in which the party was relivedcomparing her to a sequence of the film “The woman on Sunday”, with all the guests who wondered who the culprit was.
What does it mean to be antifragile
The title of Cristina Seymandi’s book is inspired by the concept elaborated by the mathematician and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb, according to which anti -nurse is “The attitude of some systems to improve in the face of stress, stresses, volatility, disorder“And in the interview, the entrepreneur explains that she chose this word darkly, because it perfectly summarizes her way of dealing with life and difficulties: as an opportunity for growth, without opposing violence to violence, but rather looking for the challenge and following her dreams.
Cristina Seymandi Torinese entrepreneur, involuntary protagonist of a sort of “scandal” in Turin well, transformed him into something good for her. (@Instagram)
A life of courageous choices
Seymandi’s “anti -frying” attitude was not born with the episode of the video, but has its roots in his past. The first act of this nature, tells the courier, was the choice to study modern letters instead of jurisprudence, A decision that cost her six months of silence on the part of the father And the blocking of economic support for studies. This forced her to start working as a promoter, waitress, babysitter, also giving repetitions. An experience that, according to her, has allowed her to build her own personality as an autonomous woman.
The reaction at the time of truth
Many have noticed, in the notorious video, Seymandi’s composed reaction, who has not cried, laughed or said anything. Someone also commented: “More Turinese than that we die.” In the interview, the entrepreneur explains that he did not at all treated “Piedmontese aplomb”, but a choice dictated by his reserved nature and concern for the emotional state of his former partner. Seymandi, in the book, speaks a lot about the importance of dialogue. Which could not implement with Segre, why Since that evening he has never seen him or heard him again.
The battle against online hatred
A significant aspect of Seymandi’s experience, highlighted in the interview, It was the impact of hatred on social media. The entrepreneur, He says he has received insults of a sexist and discriminatory natureso much so as to bring the judiciary to recognize these attacks as gender discrimination. Seymandi underlines how words, sometimes, can be “worse than the barrel” and as “more fragile victims” exist who can fall into depression or, in the most serious cases, to get to suicide. His legal battle has also become a battle for those who suffer cyberbullying as an adulta category that, according to her, is not sufficiently protected by law.
Awareness and rebirth
On this issue, the entrepreneur in the interview also gives advice, To those who face a storm of insults on social media: take the distances immediately, remembering that “the social networks open and close with a click»And that who judges it, does it without really knowing the person. For example, she, she still tells the day after the fateful July 27, despite the phone full of messages, went to work normally, focusing more than anything else on the protection of the sixteen -year -old daughter.
The pain that forms
In the book, the entrepreneur dedicates the work to his daughter Geneva and his sister Raffaella, who passed away at 26 in a plane crash in Chad during a holiday. A traumatic event that deeply marked his life And which describes as a formative, claiming that “traumatic events and great abandonments form you”. So much so that, from that loss, Seymandi drew a teaching: “Every day, for me, it was one more day to live, err, correct, learn, love».
Looking to the future
Today, Cristina Seymandi has found love In what defines a “holy man” with whom he does projects “calmly, each in his home”. Has not lost confidence in men becauseas he confides to the courier, is “honest enough to recognize that when a relationship goes to roll, there is always two in two”.
At the end of the interview, the entrepreneur concludes with a reflection on the perception of women in society: “We women were labeled like fragilebut tell us fragile with everything we face, work, family, care of elderly parents, It is a way to think of managing us. I fragile are not – he says – I am anti -flow».
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