# Transcript: Diary not just of a private

## Description

Come get inspired by the story of a woman who breaks stereotypes, connects seemingly incompatible worlds, and also offers valuable insights from abroad.



Who is Petra Horáková Krištofová



Petra Horáková Krištofová is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded the Apolena Endowment Fund to support the endoscopy rooms at the gynecology and obstetrics clinic U Apolináře in Prague. In 2020, she fulfilled a childhood dream by joining the active reserve of the Czech Army, where she serves in the 91st information warfare group. She is a mother of two daughters who manages to balance business, family, and service in uniform. She shares her experiences from military training and reserve service through the blog and podcast Deník vojínky. This fall, a book of the same name was published. For her inspiring integration of career, family, and the military, she received the Lady Pro award in 2024 in the prestigious Czech 100 Best poll.

## Transcript

**[00:00:00]** [♪ Music ♪ begins playing ♪

**[00:00:26]** Hello and good day. My name is Honza Mašek.

**[00:00:30]** I would like to welcome you to the next breakfast of Brain and Breakfast.

**[00:00:34]** The first breakfast of Brain and Breakfast in 2026.

**[00:00:38]** We are entering the incredible 13th season,

**[00:00:42]** where we have not missed a single month,

**[00:00:45]** so I hope this trend will continue.

**[00:00:49]** The breakfast, in the meantime,

**[00:00:52]** when we started to develop differently,

**[00:00:55]** so you may have noticed that two years ago

**[00:00:58]** we launched a business variant,

**[00:01:01]** but today it is about the classic breakfast.

**[00:01:04]** And nothing could be done

**[00:01:07]** if we were not supported by the participants.

**[00:01:10]** So thank you very much to the Magentia Experience Center

**[00:01:13]** for hosting us here.

**[00:01:15]** We would also like to thank the participants of Frutissimo.

**[00:01:18]** Those of you who are watching us live from the library,

**[00:01:21]** unfortunately you will not appreciate it,

**[00:01:24]** but those of you who are on your way to Magentia

**[00:01:27]** can enjoy a good breakfast.

**[00:01:29]** Then there are slides, which is a part of the interactivity,

**[00:01:32]** and it reminds me that you are slowly starting to prepare

**[00:01:35]** your mobile phones.

**[00:01:37]** And there is also a QR code.

**[00:01:39]** The QR code will take you to the newsletter

**[00:01:42]** on the Red Button network,

**[00:01:44]** which is behind all of this,

**[00:01:46]** as well as many other activities of people

**[00:01:49]** who have decided to move to the Czech Republic

**[00:01:52]** through the company and business environment.

**[00:01:55]** So if you are more interested in this,

**[00:01:58]** this QR code will take you to the newsletter.

**[00:02:01]** As I said, it is important that the breakfasts are interactive,

**[00:02:04]** so if you are interested in anything,

**[00:02:07]** you can post a question to today's guest

**[00:02:10]** on slajdu.com, hashtag Brain,

**[00:02:14]** you can download the QR code,

**[00:02:17]** which you have just seen there.

**[00:02:20]** Those of you who are watching us live,

**[00:02:23]** directly in our Red Button app,

**[00:02:26]** under the window where you can see me now,

**[00:02:29]** there is a window of the slides where you can ask questions.

**[00:02:32]** I have already put the classic first question for you,

**[00:02:35]** and that is whether you are having breakfast for the first time,

**[00:02:38]** whether you are having breakfast with us for the first time,

**[00:02:41]** or whether you are having breakfast with us for the first time.

**[00:02:44]** So try to practice that it works,

**[00:02:47]** take the phone in your hand and have it there

**[00:02:50]** if you have any questions.

**[00:02:53]** I am actually always happy when the bubble expands,

**[00:02:56]** which means that when the number of people

**[00:02:59]** who have not had breakfast with us yet is the largest,

**[00:03:02]** it means that we are filling another bubble,

**[00:03:05]** and that is something I really enjoy.

**[00:03:08]** So, that was the introduction,

**[00:03:11]** and now we will somehow welcome our guest,

**[00:03:14]** our guest, Petra Horáková-Krichtofová.

**[00:03:17]** Petra, I welcome you, hello.

**[00:03:20]** Hello, Hanzo.

**[00:03:23]** Hello.

**[00:03:24]** Thank you for inviting me.

**[00:03:26]** You are very welcome.

**[00:03:28]** Before I give you the imaginary chair,

**[00:03:31]** it always seems, or sometimes it can seem,

**[00:03:34]** that the current topics,

**[00:03:37]** what Petra has been invited to, and what is happening around us,

**[00:03:40]** we say, OK, now it is the topic of the army and everything.

**[00:03:43]** However, that is not the case.

**[00:03:45]** We have been talking to Petra for a long time,

**[00:03:48]** and I am looking forward not only to the presentation

**[00:03:51]** at Vyškov and to all your adventures,

**[00:03:54]** but I am also looking forward to the next one.

**[00:03:57]** Here is the chair, and thank you very much for the introduction.

**[00:04:00]** Thank you.

**[00:04:01]** I see that the breakfast is being served to me today,

**[00:04:04]** My name is Petra Horáková-Krichtofová,

**[00:04:07]** and I am primarily a mother,

**[00:04:10]** I am a wife, I am an entrepreneur,

**[00:04:13]** I am also a philanthropist,

**[00:04:16]** and I am also the author of a blog,

**[00:04:19]** a podcast, and recently a book,

**[00:04:22]** Deník Vojínky.

**[00:04:25]** Deník Vojínky's book has 200 pages

**[00:04:28]** and describes three weeks of my life in Vyškov.

**[00:04:32]** If we described my life in the same way,

**[00:04:35]** the book would have 167,067 pages.

**[00:04:44]** Artificial intelligence calculated it nicely.

**[00:04:47]** So I hope it is plus or minus exactly.

**[00:04:50]** But I think no one would recommend such a book

**[00:04:53]** and probably no one would read it,

**[00:04:56]** because unlike Deník Vojínky,

**[00:05:00]** there is a lot of grey area and, of course,

**[00:05:03]** a lot of important moments,

**[00:05:06]** but only the grey area would be appreciated

**[00:05:09]** by a few readers.

**[00:05:12]** So in today's lecture, I will try to avoid the grey area

**[00:05:15]** and focus on the important moments,

**[00:05:18]** which you will probably find interesting.

**[00:05:21]** At the beginning, I would like to make a small disclaimer.

**[00:05:24]** I am here today as a private person,

**[00:05:27]** and everything I will say here is only my opinion.

**[00:05:30]** Thank you.

**[00:05:33]** At the beginning of everything, there was a childhood dream.

**[00:05:36]** I had a lot of classmates who wanted to be,

**[00:05:39]** for example, cosmonauts.

**[00:05:42]** I had classmates who rode on the left side of the Englishman

**[00:05:45]** and said,

**[00:05:48]** yes,

**[00:05:58]** should I take off my headphones?

**[00:06:01]** Of course, we take off our headphones.

**[00:06:04]** In Vyškov, anyway, I don't have to wear them,

**[00:06:07]** or I can't, so now I will act a bit like in Vyškov.

**[00:06:10]** I had classmates who rode on the left side of the Englishman

**[00:06:13]** and said,

**[00:06:16]** when I grow up, I will buy such a big car

**[00:06:19]** and I will take girls around the city.

**[00:06:22]** I had classmates who said,

**[00:06:25]** I will go to Africa,

**[00:06:28]** or the braver ones said, I will go to America.

**[00:06:31]** There was a student war and the borders were closed.

**[00:06:34]** I had a completely different dream.

**[00:06:37]** As a girl, I said, when I grow up,

**[00:06:40]** I will go to the army.

**[00:06:43]** Probably, my dad was behind it,

**[00:06:46]** who spoke very nicely about the army.

**[00:06:49]** He never talked about harassment or abuse.

**[00:06:52]** As a little girl, I had the feeling

**[00:06:55]** that it was a huge adventure.

**[00:06:58]** I saw myself as a 18-year-old girl

**[00:07:01]** with the boys who didn't get the blue one.

**[00:07:04]** I will go to sleep on the paland,

**[00:07:07]** we will run through the space

**[00:07:10]** and we will experience various adventures.

**[00:07:13]** My parents quickly took me out of this mistake.

**[00:07:16]** They said that girls don't go,

**[00:07:19]** but I went to the shooting club,

**[00:07:22]** I played team sports, I played basketball,

**[00:07:25]** I liked the community,

**[00:07:28]** so football, hockey with boys on the weekends

**[00:07:31]** were my hobbies.

**[00:07:34]** I asked the Art of Intelligence

**[00:07:37]** if they would draw me a little Petra as a soldier.

**[00:07:40]** I have to say that I had to talk to the Art of Intelligence a lot.

**[00:07:43]** For some reason, the Art of Intelligence

**[00:07:46]** wanted me to be a little girl in a uniform.

**[00:07:49]** But in the end, we somehow agreed.

**[00:07:52]** I think that if I had seen this photo as a little girl,

**[00:07:55]** I would have been completely done with it.

**[00:07:58]** So little Petra grew up to be a nun.

**[00:08:01]** I think I survived puberty as well as many other nuns.

**[00:08:04]** I went to an Italian-Czech high school

**[00:08:07]** and then I went to a high school in economics.

**[00:08:10]** I originally applied to Matfis for programming

**[00:08:14]** and then to WHO.

**[00:08:17]** Unfortunately, they didn't take me for programming,

**[00:08:20]** but they offered me nuclear physics.

**[00:08:23]** I had a very good relationship with our country

**[00:08:26]** and I thought that it wouldn't be good

**[00:08:29]** if I was standing somewhere in a nuclear power plant

**[00:08:32]** over those chudliks.

**[00:08:35]** So I chose a safer option,

**[00:08:38]** which is studying international politics and diplomacy

**[00:08:42]** I also met my future husband at a high school in economics.

**[00:08:45]** We got married a year after the promotion

**[00:08:48]** and our first trip to Japan came.

**[00:08:51]** We were there with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

**[00:08:54]** My husband was working in the political department

**[00:08:57]** and I was in the business and economic department.

**[00:09:00]** This photo beautifully illustrates my first feelings

**[00:09:03]** during the two months we were there.

**[00:09:06]** We were there for a year,

**[00:09:10]** but during the first two months,

**[00:09:13]** I felt something like this.

**[00:09:16]** At a high school in economics,

**[00:09:19]** we were taught about cultural shock.

**[00:09:22]** I was sitting in the back with my friends

**[00:09:25]** and we were laughing a lot

**[00:09:28]** because it was so incredible and fun.

**[00:09:31]** It has different phases,

**[00:09:34]** you can google it on Wikipedia.

**[00:09:37]** The only people who understand you

**[00:09:40]** are your colleagues at work,

**[00:09:43]** but I felt lost in Japan.

**[00:09:46]** You can see the signs on the signboard

**[00:09:49]** or on the tourist navigation.

**[00:09:52]** This is what it looked like everywhere.

**[00:09:55]** In a restaurant.

**[00:09:58]** We were afraid to show what we wanted

**[00:10:01]** because we didn't know what to do.

**[00:10:00]** We didn't know if we would get something like rice or that imaginary bat in a cookie.

**[00:10:06]** So the first two months were really very difficult.

**[00:10:10]** Adaptation was difficult.

**[00:10:12]** In the end, the body and our central microflora adapted, which was very unpleasant.

**[00:10:17]** And the work was the central point that kept me above water.

**[00:10:22]** Because it was what I knew in some way.

**[00:10:25]** It was what you could catch.

**[00:10:28]** So we enjoyed the rest of the eight months quite well.

**[00:10:31]** Anyway, Japan was a time when I first encountered the idea of ​​the army,

**[00:10:37]** because in 2004 the first units of active reserves were established.

**[00:10:42]** We learned about it on the Internet in Japan.

**[00:10:45]** It wasn't quite as crazy as it is today.

**[00:10:49]** However, we followed the legislation there,

**[00:10:52]** because, of course, we didn't read the paper news in Japan.

**[00:10:55]** We found out that the army now establishes these units of active reserves,

**[00:10:59]** and that there is something like a basic training,

**[00:11:03]** and every year people go to train for a week.

**[00:11:07]** And it was written that such reserves could be used, for example,

**[00:11:12]** in the original and other catastrophes.

**[00:11:15]** Logically, in 2004 everyone thought

**[00:11:19]** that no war could come to Europe.

**[00:11:22]** My husband and I thought it would be nice to do something like that.

**[00:11:27]** Because, of course, we wanted to continue working in diplomacy.

**[00:11:31]** We knew we were going to travel,

**[00:11:33]** so we thought it would be good to have some military training.

**[00:11:37]** So we said, fine, when we come back from Japan, we'll do something like that.

**[00:11:41]** We came back from Japan, but of course everything was different,

**[00:11:45]** because after each trip, when you come back,

**[00:11:48]** you have to adapt to the Czech environment again,

**[00:11:51]** you have to do your preventive checks,

**[00:11:54]** and of course you go to new jobs or new agents who are assigned to you.

**[00:11:58]** That was the case of my husband, who stayed abroad at the ministry.

**[00:12:02]** I went back to the private sector,

**[00:12:05]** where I worked just before I left for Japan,

**[00:12:08]** which was one of the biggest mortgage brokers at the time,

**[00:12:12]** where I worked as a marketing manager.

**[00:12:15]** And it was a time when there was a big developer boom.

**[00:12:19]** I was moving among financiers and managers of construction companies,

**[00:12:23]** and it was a time that gave me a lot.

**[00:12:26]** I met a lot of successful people,

**[00:12:29]** and even then I felt like I was the biggest manager in the world.

**[00:12:34]** But then the biological clock started ticking,

**[00:12:40]** and my husband and I decided to start a family.

**[00:12:44]** In 2007, we moved on to another trip to Bulgarian Sofia,

**[00:12:50]** with our newborn daughter Sofie.

**[00:12:53]** It wasn't a coincidence.

**[00:12:55]** I told my daughter,

**[00:12:57]** be glad we didn't move to Kuala Lumpur.

**[00:13:00]** And Sofia was a completely new experience in many respects.

**[00:13:07]** I played the role of a mother there.

**[00:13:10]** It was the first time we left as a family,

**[00:13:14]** me as a partner,

**[00:13:16]** not as an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

**[00:13:19]** And logically, I had to say goodbye to my career.

**[00:13:23]** This is how we do it.

**[00:13:25]** We are partners who travel the world with our husbands.

**[00:13:28]** We are partners from the Czech Foreign Service.

**[00:13:31]** We simply have to give up our careers.

**[00:13:34]** We have to navigate between what is possible and what is not,

**[00:13:38]** what the current opportunities are.

**[00:13:40]** I knew I wouldn't be happy in Sofia

**[00:13:43]** if I was just a mother and a wife.

**[00:13:46]** So I brought a business card to Sofia,

**[00:13:48]** as well as my daughter.

**[00:13:50]** And I decided that since I was close to programming,

**[00:13:55]** as a child in high school and so on,

**[00:13:57]** I would start publishing web pages.

**[00:14:00]** So I dug into these secrets

**[00:14:03]** and during the month I had my first web page.

**[00:14:06]** When we left Sofia after five years,

**[00:14:09]** I had about 150 domains,

**[00:14:11]** and let's say 70-80 working web pages.

**[00:14:15]** And my specialization was optimization for search engines.

**[00:14:19]** So during those five years,

**[00:14:21]** I did quite well on the website.

**[00:14:24]** But where we didn't do very well,

**[00:14:27]** it was family life,

**[00:14:28]** because after two and a half years,

**[00:14:30]** my husband and I decided to contribute

**[00:14:32]** to the demographic growth of the Czech Republic.

**[00:14:34]** Unfortunately, it almost ended catastrophically.

**[00:14:36]** There was an outbreak of obesity,

**[00:14:38]** which, diplomatically speaking,

**[00:14:40]** the Bulgarians did not manage very well.

**[00:14:43]** So if I was able to transport,

**[00:14:45]** I ended up at Professor Mare's house in Prague,

**[00:14:48]** at the gynecological maternity clinic at Apollinare.

**[00:14:51]** You all know it as a maternity clinic.

**[00:14:53]** And it is the most important endoscopic center

**[00:14:56]** in the Czech Republic for women.

**[00:14:58]** For the last 60 years,

**[00:15:00]** women have been operating with hysteroscopic

**[00:15:02]** surgeries on seriously ill women,

**[00:15:04]** from oncological diagnoses through endometriosis

**[00:15:06]** to infertility.

**[00:15:08]** And Professor Mare and I decided

**[00:15:11]** to set up a grant fund

**[00:15:13]** and secure external funding for these rooms.

**[00:15:17]** Because endoscopy is a dynamic field,

**[00:15:19]** it depends, of course, on technologies.

**[00:15:21]** And technologies are advancing,

**[00:15:23]** but insurance companies cannot afford

**[00:15:25]** to finance the necessary equipment.

**[00:15:28]** So from this not-so-nice experience,

**[00:15:32]** something very nice has emerged.

**[00:15:34]** Since 2013, the grant fund has been in operation,

**[00:15:37]** and I think we have changed the lives

**[00:15:39]** of many women and many families.

**[00:15:41]** Unfortunately, in Sofia,

**[00:15:43]** it was not just about one single case

**[00:15:46]** of external pregnancy,

**[00:15:48]** but when the doctors gave us a green light

**[00:15:50]** and we were able to try demographic growth again,

**[00:15:52]** our daughter Johanka was born.

**[00:15:54]** And unfortunately, after half a year,

**[00:15:56]** they said she had a child brain tumor.

**[00:15:58]** Your life turns 180 degrees.

**[00:16:01]** That would be a separate lecture.

**[00:16:03]** However, of course, it meant again

**[00:16:05]** that some thoughts about the army,

**[00:16:09]** about military training,

**[00:16:11]** all of that went completely to the side.

**[00:16:13]** So we returned from Sofia to the Czech Republic,

**[00:16:15]** and I spent two years in rehabilitation

**[00:16:17]** and visiting doctors.

**[00:16:19]** And we tried to get back to the original

**[00:16:22]** unfavorable diagnosis, which said

**[00:16:24]** that Johanka would probably never walk again.

**[00:16:27]** So we got back to exercising.

**[00:16:30]** I also gained a decent discipline there,

**[00:16:33]** when you have to exercise five times a day with a child.

**[00:16:36]** But then came a great opportunity,

**[00:16:39]** and that was our trip to Austria.

**[00:16:41]** My husband was working there on a permanent mission,

**[00:16:44]** and his agenda was the OSCE.

**[00:16:46]** So I came there with two children,

**[00:16:48]** with Sofia and Johanka,

**[00:16:50]** and with Johanka, who was already making her first steps.

**[00:16:53]** She broke up for the first time in three years,

**[00:16:55]** so that was a huge success.

**[00:16:58]** But when we went to Austria,

**[00:17:00]** the doctors were already indicating some surgery,

**[00:17:02]** and our very skilled physiotherapist said,

**[00:17:04]** hey, wait for it, Austria,

**[00:17:06]** they are in that children's neuro-orthopedic further.

**[00:17:09]** Although Czechia has excellent health care,

**[00:17:11]** the truth is that children with cerebral palsy

**[00:17:14]** have significantly better care,

**[00:17:16]** for example in Germany or Austria, than we do.

**[00:17:18]** And we came across great orthoses there,

**[00:17:20]** which prohibit children from having to undergo

**[00:17:25]** repeated surgeries that prolong their livers.

**[00:17:28]** And you often meet,

**[00:17:30]** if you go to the DART platforms,

**[00:17:32]** you often meet children

**[00:17:34]** who want or want to have orthoses.

**[00:17:38]** And so is our Johanka,

**[00:17:40]** because Johanka, who got her orthoses,

**[00:17:43]** it was 2014,

**[00:17:45]** I filmed her progress,

**[00:17:49]** in these orthoses,

**[00:17:51]** and all of a sudden Johanka didn't need any surgery.

**[00:17:53]** So we took all the materials,

**[00:17:55]** I talked to the company that produces the orthoses,

**[00:17:58]** and we went to the Congress in Jansk Lázny,

**[00:18:00]** where they meet every year

**[00:18:02]** about Czech orthopedics and physiotherapists,

**[00:18:04]** and we showed Johanka her progress.

**[00:18:07]** So it was a bit of a failure,

**[00:18:10]** but the result is that today in Czechia

**[00:18:13]** there is already an ordination

**[00:18:15]** where children can get these orthoses

**[00:18:17]** and they are really saved by many surgeries.

**[00:18:22]** Of course, they don't always follow a surgical path,

**[00:18:26]** but this is a huge step for their lives.

**[00:18:28]** So there was a great chance for Johanka in Austria.

**[00:18:31]** For me, business-wise, it was great.

**[00:18:34]** At that time, I became a partner

**[00:18:36]** of the Plastic Surgery Clinic,

**[00:18:38]** I had a marketing and business agency,

**[00:18:40]** and besides that, I founded a mobile application

**[00:18:45]** called MAMAP.

**[00:18:51]** The application took a few months to develop,

**[00:18:55]** and my impulse to create a mobile application

**[00:18:59]** was that when I had all these pedipedias,

**[00:19:02]** it always annoyed me when I asked Google

**[00:19:05]** a question and I thought

**[00:19:07]** they were going to introduce me to a medical study

**[00:19:09]** or something like that.

**[00:19:11]** First of all, of course,

**[00:19:13]** there was a mother-child discussion

**[00:19:15]** at various discussion forums.

**[00:19:17]** And it really annoyed me that a lot of mothers

**[00:19:19]** were advising each other

**[00:19:21]** whether they should go for fetal water.

**[00:19:23]** And I thought that every pregnant woman

**[00:19:25]** should have some driving license

**[00:19:27]** or some really reliable information in her pocket.

**[00:19:30]** So again, the doctors from Apollinar

**[00:19:32]** created this mobile application.

**[00:19:36]** Vienna was a great milestone for Johanka.

**[00:19:41]** I was successful in my business,

**[00:19:43]** my husband was happy at work,

**[00:19:45]** and my older daughter was a student

**[00:19:47]** at an international school.

**[00:19:49]** But I had a balancing act.

**[00:19:52]** I celebrated my 40th birthday in Vienna

**[00:19:54]** and I said,

**[00:19:56]** look, I have a great husband,

**[00:19:58]** I have great children,

**[00:20:00]** I have a job, but I'm still missing something.

**[00:20:04]** And I thought to myself, if I'm one of the lucky ones,

**[00:20:07]** and I close the first half of the season with a 40,

**[00:20:11]** in the worst case scenario, the second half of the season,

**[00:20:14]** then in the second half of the season,

**[00:20:17]** I need to do what I didn't manage to do in the first half,

**[00:20:20]** and I know that I don't have much time left.

**[00:20:22]** And we, as people in the second half of the season,

**[00:20:24]** don't have that as athletes, right?

**[00:20:26]** That you go to the bar to have a drink,

**[00:20:28]** and you go to exercise, and you have another 45 minutes,

**[00:20:33]** and you need a set-up.

**[00:20:35]** When we have a set-up,

**[00:20:37]** it's usually just for the activities that are done in bed,

**[00:20:41]** but our greatest strength and energy,

**[00:20:46]** and everything we can do, is at the beginning of the second half of the season.

**[00:20:49]** So I went to my husband and said,

**[00:20:51]** when we come back from Vienna,

**[00:20:53]** I have my last chance to complete a military exercise,

**[00:20:57]** because when we go on another trip, and I come back,

**[00:21:00]** I will be 47 years old,

**[00:21:03]** I will be terribly old,

**[00:21:05]** I won't be able to do anything,

**[00:21:07]** my physique will be completely down,

**[00:21:09]** and such a woman doesn't belong to the army at all.

**[00:21:12]** I'll just say that today I'm 48 years old.

**[00:21:15]** And this mistake, or this conviction,

**[00:21:19]** that I have my last chance to join the army,

**[00:21:23]** caused us to go back to the Czech Republic,

**[00:21:26]** and the things we do again,

**[00:21:28]** the exercises, the doctors,

**[00:21:30]** but also the visits of our friends,

**[00:21:32]** whom we neglect when we are outside.

**[00:21:34]** And I went to lunch with my partner,

**[00:21:36]** who also had a dream of becoming a soldier,

**[00:21:39]** and he really went to a military high school.

**[00:21:43]** And at lunch he told me that he had just returned from a mission,

**[00:21:47]** he was probably on three or four missions,

**[00:21:49]** and he's an elite soldier.

**[00:21:51]** And at lunch, of course, I listened to him

**[00:21:53]** and asked him about everything,

**[00:21:55]** if he was sleeping on the pallets,

**[00:21:57]** and he was still sleeping on the pallets.

**[00:21:59]** So, of course, I was very interested,

**[00:22:01]** and I came home,

**[00:22:03]** and again I repeated to my husband,

**[00:22:05]** I'm going to the recruitment center,

**[00:22:07]** it was 2019,

**[00:22:09]** and I'm going to do a voluntary military exercise,

**[00:22:11]** which is a one-time exercise,

**[00:22:13]** after which, in fact, nothing follows,

**[00:22:15]** but you sort of realize

**[00:22:17]** that you have achieved your goal,

**[00:22:20]** or your dream.

**[00:22:22]** And my husband agreed,

**[00:22:24]** and I went to the recruitment center

**[00:22:26]** with a pile of papers,

**[00:22:28]** which you don't have to do today,

**[00:22:30]** because the army has a great digital,

**[00:22:32]** virtual training center,

**[00:22:34]** where you can do everything online,

**[00:22:36]** you don't have to go anywhere.

**[00:22:38]** And at the recruitment center,

**[00:22:40]** I signed all the papers,

**[00:22:42]** and the next day,

**[00:22:44]** and this is an important slide,

**[00:22:46]** this is the basis of my argument to my husband,

**[00:22:48]** that if they don't let me join the army,

**[00:22:50]** when I'm 80,

**[00:22:52]** I'm going to have this at home,

**[00:22:54]** that I'm going to have an angry old lady

**[00:22:56]** who didn't do a military exercise,

**[00:22:58]** and I think it worked.

**[00:23:00]** So back

**[00:23:02]** to the recruitment center,

**[00:23:06]** in January 2020,

**[00:23:08]** I found myself

**[00:23:10]** at the regional military command,

**[00:23:12]** where I kept a military book,

**[00:23:14]** and nothing happened to me

**[00:23:17]** on the way.

**[00:23:19]** I already knew that I would only wait

**[00:23:21]** for a phone call to tell me

**[00:23:23]** if I would be able to get

**[00:23:25]** to the spring exercise.

**[00:23:27]** But, as they say,

**[00:23:29]** the universe wants to make fun of you,

**[00:23:31]** tell it your plans.

**[00:23:33]** So we all made fun of the universe

**[00:23:35]** a lot that time,

**[00:23:37]** because COVID came,

**[00:23:39]** and everyone remembers

**[00:23:41]** what you didn't do that time,

**[00:23:43]** didn't have time,

**[00:23:45]** so I thought,

**[00:23:47]** when I have everything sorted out,

**[00:23:49]** I'll probably spend the second half

**[00:23:51]** in quarantine.

**[00:23:53]** But I didn't give up.

**[00:23:55]** I kept running,

**[00:23:57]** I didn't go to the gym

**[00:23:59]** because they were closed,

**[00:24:01]** so I worked out at home,

**[00:24:03]** I ran outside in a mask,

**[00:24:05]** and, of course, I did everything

**[00:24:07]** to be well prepared for the training,

**[00:24:09]** which I read a lot about and studied.

**[00:24:11]** I even met the lady

**[00:24:13]** who saved me.

**[00:24:15]** Anyway, she told me,

**[00:24:17]** look at the Czech TV pages,

**[00:24:19]** they made a TV series called

**[00:24:21]** Primač proved,

**[00:24:23]** and there you will see

**[00:24:25]** a real Czech military exercise

**[00:24:27]** and this is how it is trained there.

**[00:24:29]** So it was clear to me

**[00:24:31]** that it wouldn't be any fun at all.

**[00:24:33]** And that's why I worked out

**[00:24:35]** at 106 to succeed.

**[00:24:37]** In March, I guess it was March 2020,

**[00:24:39]** when my phone rang

**[00:24:42]** and it was a lady from the Czech Army

**[00:24:44]** who said, look,

**[00:24:46]** there will be an exercise

**[00:24:48]** because we soldiers need to know

**[00:24:50]** what's going on.

**[00:24:52]** But it will be a different regime.

**[00:24:54]** Originally, I persuaded my husband

**[00:24:56]** that it would be six weeks

**[00:24:58]** and in Vyškov you would go home

**[00:25:00]** from Monday to Thursday

**[00:25:02]** and return to your family

**[00:25:04]** and on Sunday evening

**[00:25:06]** you would go back to Vyškov

**[00:25:08]** so that on Monday morning

**[00:25:10]** I would have a roof over my head

**[00:25:12]** and I would have your parents here

**[00:25:14]** and I would join them.

**[00:25:16]** So from Monday to Thursday

**[00:25:18]** we would make it

**[00:25:20]** and from Thursday to Sunday

**[00:25:22]** you would take care of everything

**[00:25:24]** and then you would go home

**[00:25:26]** and we would make it in six weeks.

**[00:25:28]** And suddenly the modus operandi

**[00:25:30]** or vivendi

**[00:25:32]** was supposed to be three weeks

**[00:25:34]** without the possibility

**[00:25:36]** to leave the barracks

**[00:25:39]** but still three weeks

**[00:25:41]** is better than six.

**[00:25:43]** So my husband was nodding

**[00:25:45]** and on the 18th of May

**[00:25:47]** I found myself in Vyškov.

**[00:25:49]** Johanka was celebrating her ninth birthday

**[00:25:51]** on that day.

**[00:25:53]** And I still didn't believe

**[00:25:55]** that it was happening.

**[00:25:57]** For me it was really

**[00:25:59]** the fulfillment of something

**[00:26:01]** unreal that I had been waiting for

**[00:26:03]** for 42 years.

**[00:26:05]** And I'm not going to tell you

**[00:26:07]** the whole story of Vyškov

**[00:26:09]** which you can read in the book

**[00:26:11]** but I will touch on a few

**[00:26:13]** important points

**[00:26:15]** that caught my attention in Vyškov.

**[00:26:17]** The first one is

**[00:26:19]** physics.

**[00:26:21]** As I mentioned, I trained a lot.

**[00:26:23]** The army has its own tables.

**[00:26:25]** The army says

**[00:26:27]** how a person should be minimally prepared.

**[00:26:29]** The army tests you

**[00:26:31]** in Vyškov.

**[00:26:33]** There is an initial physical test

**[00:26:35]** which is a run for 12 minutes

**[00:26:37]** a so-called Cooper's test.

**[00:26:39]** Then there are strength tests

**[00:26:41]** which means sitting and lying down

**[00:26:43]** for the girls

**[00:26:45]** and sitting and lying down for the boys.

**[00:26:47]** So before I started

**[00:26:49]** recruiting, I ran

**[00:26:51]** and did sitting and lying down.

**[00:26:53]** I said, OK, I can go to Vyškov.

**[00:26:55]** And what was my surprise?

**[00:26:57]** 30% of the recruits

**[00:26:59]** didn't pass the physical test

**[00:27:01]** at the beginning.

**[00:27:03]** Virtually no girls

**[00:27:05]** were among the recruits.

**[00:27:07]** I think that we girls

**[00:27:09]** have a greater need to prove

**[00:27:11]** that we belong there and prepare more

**[00:27:13]** and take it more responsibly.

**[00:27:15]** But 30% of the recruits didn't pass.

**[00:27:17]** Nothing happened to them,

**[00:27:19]** they didn't do anything wrong

**[00:27:21]** but it had an unpleasant consequence

**[00:27:23]** that we had to endure

**[00:27:25]** or bear the consequences.

**[00:27:27]** It is said that each team

**[00:27:29]** is only as strong as

**[00:27:31]** one person.

**[00:27:33]** So I trained a lot

**[00:27:35]** in physical training.

**[00:27:37]** Unfortunately, there are things

**[00:27:39]** that you don't train in physical training.

**[00:27:41]** You certainly don't train

**[00:27:43]** all the activities

**[00:27:45]** you do in Vyškov

**[00:27:47]** in uniform.

**[00:27:49]** I don't know how many of you

**[00:27:51]** had an army uniform

**[00:27:53]** in your hands.

**[00:27:55]** To give you a bit of an overview,

**[00:27:57]** it is something like a jean.

**[00:27:59]** So you basically have a uniform

**[00:28:01]** with a strong jean.

**[00:28:03]** You wear a jacket,

**[00:28:05]** a jacket.

**[00:28:07]** You have a small gun on your back,

**[00:28:09]** which is about 10 kilos.

**[00:28:11]** You have two guns around your neck

**[00:28:13]** and each has 3 kilos.

**[00:28:15]** I was there when they were rearming.

**[00:28:17]** So the first gun was a Samopal

**[00:28:19]** model 58 E-Kosa.

**[00:28:21]** That's the gun I have on my shoulder

**[00:28:23]** in the picture on the right.

**[00:28:25]** That's the gun my dad used to shoot.

**[00:28:27]** The second gun was a new gun,

**[00:28:29]** a Bren 1.

**[00:28:31]** We had these two guns on our necks.

**[00:28:33]** So 6 on the neck, 10 on the back,

**[00:28:35]** this uniform, and every day

**[00:28:37]** you run up the hill on the shooting range.

**[00:28:39]** Logically, that means

**[00:28:41]** that if you didn't train,

**[00:28:43]** your finger would fall off

**[00:28:45]** and the team would have to take care of it.

**[00:28:47]** So it was really important

**[00:28:49]** to train

**[00:28:51]** to be able to catch up

**[00:28:53]** with the energy

**[00:28:55]** that you don't have when you're trained.

**[00:28:57]** What you don't train,

**[00:28:59]** those are injuries.

**[00:29:01]** I was an expert there

**[00:29:03]** because on the fourth day

**[00:29:05]** when we were walking somewhere,

**[00:29:07]** a colleague jumped a hole in front of me

**[00:29:09]** and I stepped into it.

**[00:29:11]** I bought a first-class Veyron.

**[00:29:13]** My leg was like an elephant,

**[00:29:15]** it played with all the colors.

**[00:29:17]** It was the fourth day of training

**[00:29:19]** and I sat in my room at midnight

**[00:29:21]** and I thought, what now?

**[00:29:23]** If I don't make it,

**[00:29:25]** I'll go to the hospital,

**[00:29:27]** get an IV and go home.

**[00:29:29]** If I don't make it,

**[00:29:31]** I have at least a small chance

**[00:29:33]** that no one will notice

**[00:29:35]** that I'm limping

**[00:29:37]** and that I'll manage somehow.

**[00:29:39]** So I took the opportunity

**[00:29:41]** to limp.

**[00:29:43]** Of course, I ate a lot of

**[00:29:45]** Brufen, Paralen

**[00:29:47]** and my leg was swollen

**[00:29:49]** and it was horrible.

**[00:29:51]** But I can tell you

**[00:29:53]** that if it ever happened to you,

**[00:29:55]** the first three days are horrible

**[00:29:57]** and then you get used to it.

**[00:30:00]** And I think it was very hard for me.

**[00:30:04]** And today, when I deal with physical discomfort,

**[00:30:07]** I always remember and say to myself,

**[00:30:09]** hey, was it worse than the V-ron?

**[00:30:11]** No, it was, you see.

**[00:30:12]** So that's a point for me that I come back to quite often.

**[00:30:17]** Another thing in Vyškov, which was so interesting,

**[00:30:21]** was sleep deprivation.

**[00:30:23]** That's something you don't really experience.

**[00:30:26]** Our parents, especially our mothers,

**[00:30:29]** in the Czech Republic, as far as I understand,

**[00:30:32]** mothers get more sleep than fathers.

**[00:30:34]** So we had quite an advantage,

**[00:30:36]** that we were able to endure it better.

**[00:30:38]** And we always got to bed at midnight.

**[00:30:41]** We got up at half past midnight,

**[00:30:43]** because there was a warm-up at five.

**[00:30:45]** So you have four and a half hours of sleep.

**[00:30:47]** And when we were still watching the weapons,

**[00:30:49]** two hours, it was always after rotations,

**[00:30:51]** once in a while the order came to man,

**[00:30:53]** so you have minus two hours.

**[00:30:56]** The boys would say they were falling asleep

**[00:31:00]** when they were standing in the line for lunch,

**[00:31:02]** and they would say, I'm falling asleep here,

**[00:31:04]** I have hallucinations, they complained.

**[00:31:06]** I only fell asleep in the classroom,

**[00:31:08]** which is a standard, because it's warm there,

**[00:31:11]** you sit there, so the instructor will put you up,

**[00:31:14]** or send you to wash your face.

**[00:31:18]** Anyway, I know that parents had it easier in Vyškov,

**[00:31:24]** but it's true that there was a minority of parents there.

**[00:31:28]** An interesting thing was humor and stress

**[00:31:31]** as two sides of the same coin.

**[00:31:34]** In Vyškov, there was a lot of stress.

**[00:31:37]** People were still shouting,

**[00:31:39]** or not anymore today,

**[00:31:41]** today the exercise is about something else,

**[00:31:43]** we can talk about that at the end.

**[00:31:45]** But at that time, there was a lot of shouting,

**[00:31:47]** there was a lot of stress,

**[00:31:49]** but it was balanced by humor.

**[00:31:51]** I have never met an environment

**[00:31:53]** where there would be so much fun,

**[00:31:55]** where people would have as much sense for humor as in the army.

**[00:31:59]** Interestingly, I have never come across this information

**[00:32:03]** before I came to Vyškov.

**[00:32:05]** It's not in any TV series,

**[00:32:07]** not even in the 80s,

**[00:32:09]** when you watch Boys and Boys,

**[00:32:11]** you can't find it there at all,

**[00:32:13]** and you can't even find it in the Czech TV documentary,

**[00:32:16]** that it's really amazing.

**[00:32:18]** The first week, I had the iconic instructor

**[00:32:22]** who introduced himself to our society,

**[00:32:25]** there were 14 of us,

**[00:32:27]** he came and said,

**[00:32:29]** hello, I'm Rotmister, this and that,

**[00:32:32]** and he said, die.

**[00:32:34]** And I'm proud of that.

**[00:32:36]** And at that moment, it was clear

**[00:32:38]** that there would be no fun,

**[00:32:40]** that it would be challenging.

**[00:32:42]** And he really treated us terribly.

**[00:32:46]** I remember how we stood up,

**[00:32:48]** we were wearing those masks,

**[00:32:50]** he had them too, he was bald,

**[00:32:52]** so we could only see his swollen eyes,

**[00:32:54]** and even the veins on his forehead.

**[00:32:57]** And all of a sudden,

**[00:32:59]** I felt like 30 years ago,

**[00:33:02]** and I remembered my coach in Házen,

**[00:33:05]** who was a terrible dog,

**[00:33:07]** and we were really afraid of him,

**[00:33:09]** like eight or nine-year-old girls,

**[00:33:11]** we were shaking,

**[00:33:13]** but then I remembered my age,

**[00:33:16]** 13 or 14,

**[00:33:18]** and we already had a lot of problems

**[00:33:20]** with the girls,

**[00:33:22]** that our coach was shaking like that.

**[00:33:24]** And all of a sudden,

**[00:33:25]** when I stood in front of him,

**[00:33:27]** I said to myself,

**[00:33:29]** I don't want to end up like my coach in Házen,

**[00:33:31]** who was beaten by Pepka in 1955.

**[00:33:33]** But Pepka didn't beat the instructor,

**[00:33:36]** after our training,

**[00:33:38]** he went to civilian training,

**[00:33:41]** and now he's abroad,

**[00:33:43]** and he's doing very well.

**[00:33:45]** Anyway, the first week,

**[00:33:47]** we didn't have any fun at all,

**[00:33:50]** and because he was so tough,

**[00:33:52]** and because he was bullying us,

**[00:33:54]** and he was making it hard for us,

**[00:33:56]** after a week,

**[00:33:57]** there were about seven of us left.

**[00:33:59]** And we decided,

**[00:34:00]** that it wasn't enough for the club,

**[00:34:02]** so we split up into other clubs,

**[00:34:04]** and I found myself in a club

**[00:34:06]** where there was a lot of fun.

**[00:34:08]** There was a lot of fun,

**[00:34:10]** and I told a lot of stories,

**[00:34:12]** just to illustrate one,

**[00:34:14]** which I won't say so much,

**[00:34:16]** so I went to class,

**[00:34:18]** I was probably in the bathroom,

**[00:34:20]** I was walking around the classroom,

**[00:34:22]** and all of a sudden,

**[00:34:23]** I hear,

**[00:34:24]** Vojinko Horáková, stop.

**[00:34:25]** So I stop,

**[00:34:26]** and I say,

**[00:34:27]** what did I do again?

**[00:34:28]** And the instructor says,

**[00:34:29]** Vojinko Horáková,

**[00:34:30]** what did you do during lunch break?

**[00:34:32]** You always have a crazy Canadian.

**[00:34:35]** And I say,

**[00:34:36]** Mr. Rotmistře,

**[00:34:37]** during lunch break,

**[00:34:38]** I was looking after weapons,

**[00:34:39]** and I didn't have time

**[00:34:40]** to take them off.

**[00:34:41]** And the instructor,

**[00:34:42]** along with others,

**[00:34:43]** started laughing,

**[00:34:45]** they were throwing

**[00:34:47]** polish on my shoes,

**[00:34:49]** and it went on.

**[00:34:50]** And in this lightening spirit,

**[00:34:52]** the psychologist would say,

**[00:34:54]** that the soldiers,

**[00:34:55]** that the humor,

**[00:34:57]** the way they deal with the stress,

**[00:35:01]** or maybe he was hoping

**[00:35:03]** that they had the weapons

**[00:35:05]** after their fathers and grandfathers.

**[00:35:08]** Anyway,

**[00:35:09]** the humor and the joy

**[00:35:10]** was present everywhere.

**[00:35:12]** And this is also connected

**[00:35:13]** with the military dictionary,

**[00:35:15]** which is very nuclear.

**[00:35:18]** And when you go there,

**[00:35:20]** you basically have two options.

**[00:35:22]** And the first option

**[00:35:23]** is that you join,

**[00:35:25]** and the second option

**[00:35:26]** is that you will just respect it.

**[00:35:29]** So I joined.

**[00:35:31]** That is humor and stress.

**[00:35:33]** And the last,

**[00:35:34]** but probably the most important,

**[00:35:35]** is teamwork.

**[00:35:37]** You are nothing by yourself,

**[00:35:38]** they say in the army.

**[00:35:40]** I already mentioned it a little bit

**[00:35:42]** at the beginning,

**[00:35:43]** when I said that you run

**[00:35:45]** into that hill,

**[00:35:46]** someone will fall off you,

**[00:35:47]** and you have to take care

**[00:35:49]** of that person.

**[00:35:51]** And that's exactly it.

**[00:35:53]** It fascinates me a lot

**[00:35:54]** in the army,

**[00:35:55]** that you never leave

**[00:35:57]** your colleague lying somewhere.

**[00:35:59]** You never leave him there.

**[00:36:01]** You put him on a carrier,

**[00:36:03]** on your back,

**[00:36:04]** you take him into your arms,

**[00:36:05]** or you take him by the collar

**[00:36:06]** and you will pull him,

**[00:36:07]** but you never,

**[00:36:09]** never leave your colleague.

**[00:36:11]** And that's what

**[00:36:13]** fascinates me a lot in the army,

**[00:36:15]** because you probably won't experience

**[00:36:17]** that in any office.

**[00:36:19]** And a less romantic example

**[00:36:22]** of teamwork

**[00:36:24]** is that in the army

**[00:36:27]** there is a kind of

**[00:36:28]** uniformity.

**[00:36:30]** You know that soldiers

**[00:36:31]** wear uniforms,

**[00:36:33]** some kind of berets,

**[00:36:34]** but in addition

**[00:36:35]** to that,

**[00:36:36]** they have something else

**[00:36:37]** under their uniform.

**[00:36:38]** And that something

**[00:36:39]** in the uniform

**[00:36:40]** means that

**[00:36:41]** under that uniform

**[00:36:42]** you can have a shirt

**[00:36:43]** with a short sleeve,

**[00:36:44]** a shirt with a long sleeve,

**[00:36:45]** you can have a light thermo

**[00:36:46]** or a winter thermo.

**[00:36:48]** And you always need

**[00:36:49]** to agree

**[00:36:50]** that everyone

**[00:36:51]** should be dressed

**[00:36:52]** the same way.

**[00:36:53]** But when in May

**[00:36:54]** in the uniform

**[00:36:55]** it's 10 degrees in the morning,

**[00:36:56]** then in the company

**[00:36:57]** where there were 20 of us,

**[00:36:58]** for example,

**[00:36:59]** five people say

**[00:37:00]** they want a shirt

**[00:37:01]** with a short sleeve,

**[00:37:02]** five people say

**[00:37:03]** they want a long sleeve,

**[00:37:04]** five people say

**[00:37:05]** they want a light thermo,

**[00:37:06]** and there is Horáková

**[00:37:07]** who says

**[00:37:08]** she would like a winter thermo

**[00:37:09]** because it's always

**[00:37:10]** very cold everywhere.

**[00:37:11]** And in the final,

**[00:37:12]** of course,

**[00:37:13]** she will take a shirt

**[00:37:14]** with a long sleeve,

**[00:37:15]** which everyone is more or less

**[00:37:16]** OK with,

**[00:37:17]** but Horákový

**[00:37:18]** will be cold

**[00:37:19]** all afternoon.

**[00:37:20]** And that's what

**[00:37:21]** the team is about.

**[00:37:22]** So that the team

**[00:37:23]** can work,

**[00:37:24]** sometimes someone

**[00:37:25]** will be in a light

**[00:37:26]** uniform

**[00:37:27]** and someone

**[00:37:28]** will be in a short

**[00:37:29]** one.

**[00:37:30]** And that's

**[00:37:31]** what the team

**[00:37:32]** is about.

**[00:37:33]** So that the team

**[00:37:34]** can work,

**[00:37:35]** sometimes someone

**[00:37:36]** will be in a light

**[00:37:37]** uniform

**[00:37:38]** and someone

**[00:37:39]** will be in a short

**[00:37:40]** one.

**[00:37:41]** And that's what

**[00:37:42]** the team is about.

**[00:37:43]** So that the team

**[00:37:44]** can work,

**[00:37:45]** sometimes someone

**[00:37:46]** will be in a light

**[00:37:47]** uniform

**[00:37:48]** and someone

**[00:37:49]** will be in a short

**[00:37:50]** one.

**[00:37:51]** So that the team

**[00:37:52]** can work,

**[00:37:53]** sometimes someone

**[00:37:54]** will be in a light

**[00:37:55]** uniform

**[00:37:56]** and someone

**[00:37:57]** will be in a short

**[00:37:58]** one.

**[00:37:59]** So that the team

**[00:38:00]** can work,

**[00:38:01]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:02]** will be in a light

**[00:38:03]** uniform

**[00:38:04]** and someone

**[00:38:05]** will be in a short

**[00:38:06]** one.

**[00:38:07]** So that the team

**[00:38:08]** can work,

**[00:38:09]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:10]** will be in a light

**[00:38:11]** uniform

**[00:38:12]** and someone

**[00:38:13]** will be in a short

**[00:38:14]** one.

**[00:38:15]** So that the team

**[00:38:16]** can work,

**[00:38:17]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:18]** will be in a light

**[00:38:19]** uniform

**[00:38:20]** and someone

**[00:38:21]** will be in a short

**[00:38:22]** one.

**[00:38:23]** So that the team

**[00:38:24]** can work,

**[00:38:25]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:26]** will be in a light

**[00:38:27]** uniform

**[00:38:28]** and someone

**[00:38:29]** will be in a short

**[00:38:30]** one.

**[00:38:31]** So that the team

**[00:38:32]** can work,

**[00:38:33]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:34]** will be in a light

**[00:38:35]** uniform

**[00:38:36]** and someone

**[00:38:37]** will be in a short

**[00:38:38]** one.

**[00:38:39]** So that the team

**[00:38:40]** can work,

**[00:38:41]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:42]** will be in a light

**[00:38:43]** uniform

**[00:38:44]** and someone

**[00:38:45]** will be in a short

**[00:38:46]** one.

**[00:38:47]** So that the team

**[00:38:48]** can work,

**[00:38:49]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:50]** will be in a light

**[00:38:51]** uniform

**[00:38:52]** and someone

**[00:38:53]** will be in a short

**[00:38:54]** one.

**[00:38:55]** So that the team

**[00:38:56]** can work,

**[00:38:57]** sometimes someone

**[00:38:58]** will be in a light

**[00:38:59]** uniform

**[00:39:00]** and someone

**[00:39:01]** will be in a short

**[00:39:02]** one.

**[00:39:03]** So that the team

**[00:39:04]** can work,

**[00:39:05]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:06]** will be in a light

**[00:39:07]** uniform

**[00:39:08]** and someone

**[00:39:09]** will be in a short

**[00:39:10]** one.

**[00:39:11]** So that the team

**[00:39:12]** can work,

**[00:39:13]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:14]** will be in a light

**[00:39:15]** uniform

**[00:39:16]** and someone

**[00:39:17]** will be in a short

**[00:39:18]** one.

**[00:39:19]** So that the team

**[00:39:20]** can work,

**[00:39:21]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:22]** will be in a light

**[00:39:23]** uniform

**[00:39:24]** and someone

**[00:39:25]** will be in a short

**[00:39:26]** one.

**[00:39:27]** So that the team

**[00:39:28]** can work,

**[00:39:29]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:30]** will be in a light

**[00:39:31]** uniform

**[00:39:32]** and someone

**[00:39:33]** will be in a short

**[00:39:34]** one.

**[00:39:35]** So that the team

**[00:39:36]** can work,

**[00:39:37]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:38]** will be in a light

**[00:39:39]** uniform

**[00:39:40]** and someone

**[00:39:41]** will be in a short

**[00:39:42]** one.

**[00:39:43]** So that the team

**[00:39:44]** can work,

**[00:39:45]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:46]** will be in a light

**[00:39:47]** uniform

**[00:39:48]** and someone

**[00:39:49]** will be in a short

**[00:39:50]** one.

**[00:39:51]** So that the team

**[00:39:52]** can work,

**[00:39:53]** sometimes someone

**[00:39:54]** will be in a light

**[00:39:55]** uniform

**[00:39:56]** and someone

**[00:39:57]** will be in a short

**[00:39:58]** one.

**[00:39:59]** So that the team

**[00:40:00]** can work,

**[00:40:01]** sometimes someone

**[00:40:02]** will be in a light

**[00:40:03]** uniform

**[00:40:04]** and someone

**[00:40:05]** will be in a short

**[00:40:06]** one.

**[00:40:07]** So that the team

**[00:40:08]** can work,

**[00:40:09]** sometimes someone

**[00:40:10]** will be in a light

**[00:40:11]** uniform

**[00:40:12]** and someone

**[00:40:13]** will be in a short

**[00:40:14]** one.

**[00:40:15]** So that the team

**[00:40:16]** can work,

**[00:40:17]** sometimes someone

**[00:40:18]** will be in a light

**[00:40:19]** uniform

**[00:40:20]** and someone

**[00:40:21]** will be in a short

**[00:40:22]** one.

**[00:40:23]** So that the team

**[00:40:00]** There were little kids in rubber jackets, rolling around in puddles and puddles.

**[00:40:04]** And I said, you can't do that.

**[00:40:06]** A child is supposed to stand up and hold a raincoat.

**[00:40:09]** And when it's raining, he's supposed to sit at home on his back.

**[00:40:12]** And they were rolling around in puddles.

**[00:40:14]** So I went home with the thought that now there would be a tough negotiation.

**[00:40:19]** And of course, I built it all up.

**[00:40:21]** I didn't want to go to Finland, but I'm going.

**[00:40:23]** Because you voted for me.

**[00:40:25]** The older daughter said, hooray, there will be an international school.

**[00:40:28]** The younger daughter said, yes.

**[00:40:30]** The sister said, international school is great.

**[00:40:32]** So I want that too.

**[00:40:33]** In addition, Finland again offered great opportunities in medical care.

**[00:40:37]** And we could really only go to the EU countries,

**[00:40:40]** because nowhere else in the world would they be able to get medical care.

**[00:40:44]** And my husband was happy that he could go to Finland,

**[00:40:47]** which is an interesting region in terms of security policy.

**[00:40:50]** So they voted for me 3 to 1.

**[00:40:53]** So I said, hey, at least I have to get out of it.

**[00:40:57]** So I came home.

**[00:40:59]** Of course, it started as a tough negotiation.

**[00:41:02]** And we agreed with my husband that once a year

**[00:41:06]** I would be able to come and train with an active reserve.

**[00:41:09]** Just for your information, I flew to London eight times.

**[00:41:12]** So with a beautiful salami method,

**[00:41:15]** I realized that today I am part of an active reserve.

**[00:41:21]** So we went to Finland.

**[00:41:28]** It was a blessing that we arrived there in the summer.

**[00:41:35]** It wasn't such a shock.

**[00:41:37]** However, before we boarded the plane,

**[00:41:40]** I managed to go to the recruitment center

**[00:41:42]** and sign the application for an active reserve.

**[00:41:45]** And I even managed to have a conversation with the military police,

**[00:41:48]** to which I sent a CV.

**[00:41:51]** And I also sent a CV to the command of the Cybernetic Forces

**[00:41:55]** and Information Operations in Brno.

**[00:41:57]** That's because my colleagues, diplomats, told me

**[00:41:59]** that they are interested in people who live abroad

**[00:42:03]** and have the experience.

**[00:42:05]** I called the military police.

**[00:42:07]** They gave me a CV.

**[00:42:09]** And they immediately offered me a very prestigious position,

**[00:42:14]** but as a soldier of the city council.

**[00:42:16]** And I said, hey, that's great.

**[00:42:18]** It's interesting that in 42 years you can get such a great job

**[00:42:23]** in an area that you only dreamed about before.

**[00:42:29]** But I'm going to Finland and I want to be an active reserve,

**[00:42:33]** or we just won't get along.

**[00:42:35]** So I stayed to swim in a pool,

**[00:42:38]** where they put the potential recruits,

**[00:42:41]** so that if there was a vacancy for an active reserve,

**[00:42:43]** they would let me know.

**[00:42:45]** And so I went to Finland.

**[00:42:48]** I still didn't have a place,

**[00:42:50]** because Brno and the Cybernetic Forces didn't call me.

**[00:42:54]** And in the first week I caught a cold in Finland.

**[00:42:57]** It was great, so I had a feeling

**[00:42:59]** that it wouldn't be so bad.

**[00:43:02]** But the cold came quickly.

**[00:43:04]** It comes with the autumn in Finland.

**[00:43:06]** And the winter came.

**[00:43:08]** And I watched it a lot.

**[00:43:12]** The winter in Finland is really tough.

**[00:43:15]** Here I raise my adaptability to minus 25 degrees

**[00:43:21]** and I catch fish.

**[00:43:24]** At this time, when I caught the fish,

**[00:43:27]** Brno called me,

**[00:43:29]** saying that they would like to have a conversation with me.

**[00:43:33]** And it happened.

**[00:43:36]** And I got a place in a newly created group in Olomouc,

**[00:43:40]** because I was interested in the fact

**[00:43:43]** that I can make graphics, web pages,

**[00:43:45]** that I can edit videos.

**[00:43:47]** And I became a part of an information battle group,

**[00:43:53]** where I am still active.

**[00:43:56]** The first winter in Finland was quite tough,

**[00:44:00]** because I found out that when it snows,

**[00:44:04]** the fishermen won't leave.

**[00:44:06]** And it won't be an excuse to write thumbtacks

**[00:44:09]** because they won't leave.

**[00:44:10]** It's a standard.

**[00:44:11]** So when it snowed for the first time,

**[00:44:13]** my husband and I took shovels.

**[00:44:15]** We took a 60-meter-long road to a bigger communication

**[00:44:19]** so that we could get there by car.

**[00:44:21]** And we continued on the highway to school.

**[00:44:23]** We lived on an island,

**[00:44:25]** so we got to school on six frozen bridges and on the highway.

**[00:44:31]** And I come to school and tell the parents and teachers,

**[00:44:35]** Jesus Christ, it's terrible.

**[00:44:37]** And they say, what's terrible?

**[00:44:39]** And I say, the snow is terrible.

**[00:44:41]** And they say, don't you have winter tires?

**[00:44:44]** And I say, I have winter tires.

**[00:44:46]** And they say, what are you talking about?

**[00:44:48]** And I realized that in Finland,

**[00:44:51]** people don't rely on someone doing something for them,

**[00:44:55]** on someone clearing the road for them.

**[00:44:57]** In the end, the driver will leave,

**[00:44:59]** but only after it's cleared,

**[00:45:01]** so that everyone can get to work in order.

**[00:45:04]** It doesn't snow and there are traffic accidents.

**[00:45:08]** It doesn't happen there.

**[00:45:10]** It just snows, so everyone drives slower

**[00:45:12]** and everyone gets to work in order.

**[00:45:15]** For example, the ice cream.

**[00:45:17]** A week ago, you had an ice cream here in the Czech Republic.

**[00:45:20]** I watched it on TV.

**[00:45:22]** In the news, it said,

**[00:45:24]** emergency, hospital, broken legs.

**[00:45:29]** Well, the ice cream came again in winter.

**[00:45:32]** It always comes three times a year,

**[00:45:34]** or three times during the winter.

**[00:45:36]** But no one takes off their winter tires.

**[00:45:39]** Everyone tries it,

**[00:45:40]** if it doesn't snow this year,

**[00:45:41]** because it's a little less than last year.

**[00:45:43]** And it doesn't snow.

**[00:45:45]** You get hurt.

**[00:45:46]** In Finland, in November,

**[00:45:48]** we take off our winter tires and put them in the snow.

**[00:45:51]** It's just not possible there.

**[00:45:53]** When there are some unfavorable conditions,

**[00:45:55]** you don't want to prepare for them.

**[00:45:57]** In fact, my daughter put on a rubber jacket.

**[00:46:00]** My daughter put on a rubber jacket,

**[00:46:02]** just like all Finnish children do.

**[00:46:04]** So she put on a rubber jacket,

**[00:46:06]** because children in Finland, at school,

**[00:46:08]** no matter what happens,

**[00:46:10]** when it's minus 25, they don't have to go outside.

**[00:46:12]** The temperature there is, I think, minus 15 degrees.

**[00:46:15]** So no matter if it snows, if it snows,

**[00:46:17]** no matter what happens,

**[00:46:19]** children go out in rubber jackets.

**[00:46:22]** So my daughter went out in a rubber jacket with an assistant.

**[00:46:26]** And then they go back to school,

**[00:46:28]** take off the rubber jacket,

**[00:46:30]** and continue their education.

**[00:46:32]** Finnish children still go there.

**[00:46:34]** On weekends, after work,

**[00:46:36]** they just take off their winter tires and go.

**[00:46:39]** No matter if it's raining or snowing,

**[00:46:41]** everyone is still moving around

**[00:46:43]** and doing something for themselves.

**[00:46:45]** So for me, Finland was a really interesting experience.

**[00:46:49]** In a country that,

**[00:46:51]** when it comes to adaptability,

**[00:46:53]** it has a very hostile climate.

**[00:46:58]** It has a bad position on the map.

**[00:47:02]** If you look at who it has its eastern borders with,

**[00:47:05]** it has 12,000 kilometres,

**[00:47:07]** it has Russia, which, historically,

**[00:47:09]** has repeatedly attacked Finland.

**[00:47:11]** Of course, then comes the Finnish approach to defense.

**[00:47:16]** That's what caught my attention in Finland.

**[00:47:18]** Of course, it's a mandatory military service.

**[00:47:20]** I wouldn't want to copy-paste something in Czech,

**[00:47:23]** but I like the fact that no one doubts

**[00:47:26]** that the country must be prepared to defend itself,

**[00:47:30]** against anything.

**[00:47:32]** We had a soldier in the family,

**[00:47:34]** my older daughter, Sophie,

**[00:47:36]** who is now an adult.

**[00:47:38]** So she had her boyfriend in the military service.

**[00:47:43]** And he used to come to our house on leave.

**[00:47:46]** So whenever he came, I sat him down in front of me

**[00:47:49]** and asked him,

**[00:47:51]** do you have the food?

**[00:47:53]** What did you eat? What did you have on you?

**[00:47:55]** What did you do? Who gave you orders?

**[00:47:57]** I was very interested in everything.

**[00:47:59]** And I found out that in three weeks,

**[00:48:02]** I had a week's worth of food in Vyškov.

**[00:48:06]** And the poor guy had a minimum of three meals

**[00:48:10]** during nine months.

**[00:48:13]** And the soldiers have to be able to cope with that.

**[00:48:16]** It's really hard for them.

**[00:48:18]** There is a lot of fuss.

**[00:48:20]** They really have to be prepared.

**[00:48:22]** It's something we don't know at all in the Czech army.

**[00:48:25]** So they really have a lot of pressure.

**[00:48:27]** And no one complains,

**[00:48:29]** and no one doubts it.

**[00:48:31]** And I also asked my daughter,

**[00:48:34]** what do you say to that,

**[00:48:36]** that your son is leaving you for the military service?

**[00:48:40]** And she said, look, that's great.

**[00:48:43]** She had an even older son,

**[00:48:45]** and she said, I'm glad he will learn to defend our country too.

**[00:48:49]** So for me, Finland was a great learning experience.

**[00:48:57]** I got a different perspective,

**[00:49:02]** how to deal with discomfort,

**[00:49:06]** how to live in a society.

**[00:49:10]** You really have to rely primarily on yourself,

**[00:49:15]** try to do what I have to do myself,

**[00:49:19]** and not wait for someone else to do it for me.

**[00:49:22]** Because if I don't prepare,

**[00:49:24]** someone else will have to save it.

**[00:49:27]** That's how it is in Finland.

**[00:49:32]** When the year was 2022,

**[00:49:36]** and there was Russian aggression in Ukraine,

**[00:49:41]** it was understandable,

**[00:49:44]** that we prepared all the evacuation kits,

**[00:49:47]** and the Finns have it all prepared.

**[00:49:50]** It surprised me that they even have anti-nuclear covers

**[00:49:53]** under every house.

**[00:49:55]** It's a building law.

**[00:49:58]** It's a building law.

**[00:50:00]** It's really inspiring to see how Finns are adapting to dealing with danger and potential,

**[00:50:09]** not too positive, moments that may come.

**[00:50:16]** In addition to being inspired to adapt to various discomforts,

**[00:50:27]** during the long winters in Finland, I launched a daily military blog,

**[00:50:34]** because I was doing exercises in Vyškov.

**[00:50:39]** Every evening I made notes of what we did that day.

**[00:50:44]** I published the notes on Facebook in my closed account,

**[00:50:49]** so that only my friends could see them.

**[00:50:51]** I'm not a fan of social networks, I don't like how people behave there.

**[00:50:56]** But I have my Facebook account closed,

**[00:50:59]** and I have my co-workers from Základky,

**[00:51:01]** who have had their cars for a long time,

**[00:51:03]** and have been to Africa and America.

**[00:51:06]** We are still in touch, and we talk about how we live there.

**[00:51:11]** I showed my co-workers, friends and colleagues from work

**[00:51:15]** what it looks like in Vyškov.

**[00:51:18]** It caught everyone's attention, and there were a lot of comments.

**[00:51:21]** So I said, let's make a daily military blog,

**[00:51:25]** so that at least people know what it looks like in Vyškov.

**[00:51:28]** I received a lot of questions.

**[00:51:32]** That's because in 2021, the army didn't do a lot of research.

**[00:51:38]** There wasn't a lot of information.

**[00:51:40]** So first there were a lot of questions about what it looks like in Vyškov,

**[00:51:43]** if it can be done, and if there is still death there.

**[00:51:46]** I said, no, it's not there anymore, it's fine, go, it's great.

**[00:51:49]** Then the structure of the questions changed a bit.

**[00:51:53]** It wasn't just the questions anymore,

**[00:51:55]** but suddenly it was a kind of gratitude.

**[00:51:57]** Either it was that thanks to the podcast or blog,

**[00:52:01]** they prepared well, or on the contrary,

**[00:52:04]** they wanted to tell me that it was great,

**[00:52:07]** and that I encouraged them to make their dreams come true.

**[00:52:12]** I also did a podcast on the account.

**[00:52:15]** It was, I guess, the third Finnish winter.

**[00:52:18]** The winter is always long.

**[00:52:20]** So I decided to do a podcast,

**[00:52:22]** and the book came out in the fall,

**[00:52:24]** and I wrote it during the last winter.

**[00:52:26]** So I wrote the book in the fall at this time.

**[00:52:30]** About three years ago, I created an Instagram account.

**[00:52:34]** I really don't recommend it, but I created it.

**[00:52:36]** It was an open account,

**[00:52:38]** and I suddenly gained a lot of fans,

**[00:52:41]** and the feedback intensified.

**[00:52:48]** I just added two random things.

**[00:52:51]** I just copied what people wrote to me,

**[00:52:54]** and suddenly I found out that thanks to the fact

**[00:52:57]** that I went out with it,

**[00:52:59]** a lot of people don't have the barrier

**[00:53:01]** of the dream they have to fulfill.

**[00:53:04]** A lot of people think that they want to join the army

**[00:53:07]** or at least try it.

**[00:53:09]** And what surprised me a lot

**[00:53:11]** is that it's not just people my age or women

**[00:53:14]** who said, hey, Horáková was there, so I'll go too.

**[00:53:17]** What surprised me a lot was that

**[00:53:20]** once, for example, they wrote to me

**[00:53:22]** that they were boys, 13, 14, 15 years old,

**[00:53:25]** boys who wanted to join the army.

**[00:53:27]** And when they said it at home,

**[00:53:29]** their father said, you're a moron.

**[00:53:32]** And at school, their teacher laughed at them.

**[00:53:35]** And suddenly they had a feeling

**[00:53:37]** that communication with me

**[00:53:39]** is the only safe environment

**[00:53:41]** where they can talk about their intention

**[00:53:43]** or their dream.

**[00:53:45]** At one point, it was a very strong group

**[00:53:48]** of feedback,

**[00:53:50]** that they were boys who were basically

**[00:53:53]** looking for some encouragement or advice.

**[00:53:56]** I'm not a child psychologist,

**[00:53:58]** what can I say to them?

**[00:54:00]** But I said, hey, make sure you study well,

**[00:54:03]** because if you can't do it now,

**[00:54:05]** for example, at high school in Moravia,

**[00:54:07]** if you can study well,

**[00:54:09]** then you can go to UNOP, University of Defense.

**[00:54:11]** The army won't run away from you.

**[00:54:13]** If you're 18 years old,

**[00:54:15]** and you go to school,

**[00:54:17]** if you're a car mechanic,

**[00:54:19]** you'll get a great job in the army,

**[00:54:21]** you can go to training at any time.

**[00:54:23]** So definitely don't throw the flint into the gutter.

**[00:54:26]** Try to pick up your parents on the opening day,

**[00:54:28]** for example, to the Moravian kindergarten,

**[00:54:30]** to the high school.

**[00:54:32]** Anyway, study well,

**[00:54:34]** be careful at school,

**[00:54:36]** because today the army is moving forward,

**[00:54:38]** and it's not just about fighting from behind,

**[00:54:41]** it's about being smart and clever people.

**[00:54:43]** So that was one group.

**[00:54:45]** And now, when I published a book,

**[00:54:47]** I was really interested in one comment

**[00:54:49]** under the photo.

**[00:54:52]** It was a photo of me and my book,

**[00:54:55]** this is how I hold my book,

**[00:54:57]** Danny Kvojinky,

**[00:54:59]** and there was a comment,

**[00:55:01]** good day, I read your book,

**[00:55:03]** it's really great,

**[00:55:05]** you're great, you did it.

**[00:55:07]** So I wrote a private message,

**[00:55:10]** that's relevant,

**[00:55:12]** and I wrote that I was interested

**[00:55:15]** in whether you bought a physical book

**[00:55:17]** or an e-book,

**[00:55:19]** and of course, thank you for the nice comment.

**[00:55:21]** And the answer was,

**[00:55:23]** I didn't buy the book,

**[00:55:25]** it's in our class.

**[00:55:30]** So I wrote,

**[00:55:32]** can I ask how old you are?

**[00:55:34]** And the relevant lady wrote,

**[00:55:37]** 13, I'll be 14.

**[00:55:40]** And the lady added,

**[00:55:42]** you know, three girls from us

**[00:55:44]** are going to Moravská Třeba,

**[00:55:46]** and I might be the fourth.

**[00:55:48]** And that really surprised me.

**[00:55:50]** Everyone asks me,

**[00:55:52]** how many books have you sold?

**[00:55:54]** I'd be grateful if one book

**[00:55:56]** surrounded the whole class.

**[00:55:58]** So those are really insignificant things,

**[00:56:00]** how many books I've sold.

**[00:56:02]** I'm not a scholar,

**[00:56:04]** I can never get rich on that,

**[00:56:06]** that's why I didn't do it.

**[00:56:09]** But I can say,

**[00:56:11]** that it's never too late

**[00:56:13]** to make your dreams come true,

**[00:56:15]** and that on the way,

**[00:56:17]** you can discover a lot of interesting things.

**[00:56:21]** I also put a photo here,

**[00:56:23]** on the slide,

**[00:56:25]** that's my standard photo.

**[00:56:27]** I don't make the posts

**[00:56:29]** where I would post anything,

**[00:56:31]** I don't have anything,

**[00:56:33]** so I don't make postings,

**[00:56:35]** I make these ordinary photos,

**[00:56:38]** and I was surprised

**[00:56:40]** that one such photo

**[00:56:42]** can have 161,000 views.

**[00:56:47]** And I realized

**[00:56:49]** how thin the social network is,

**[00:56:55]** that I have the potential

**[00:56:57]** to influence a lot of people,

**[00:56:59]** a lot of their lives.

**[00:57:01]** That's what I think about

**[00:57:03]** very intensively now.

**[00:57:05]** It's nice, of course,

**[00:57:07]** when you come to a place,

**[00:57:09]** to a foreign country,

**[00:57:11]** and a girl comes to you

**[00:57:13]** and says,

**[00:57:15]** hello, I'm the one

**[00:57:17]** you wrote that time.

**[00:57:19]** And she says,

**[00:57:21]** you know,

**[00:57:23]** I ended up here

**[00:57:25]** and I'm very happy.

**[00:57:27]** And that's great,

**[00:57:29]** but I don't know

**[00:57:31]** if in five years

**[00:57:33]** I'll be able to do

**[00:57:35]** everything I never planned.

**[00:57:37]** It's just a side effect

**[00:57:39]** of my husband saying

**[00:57:41]** I have to go through military training.

**[00:57:43]** So this has a kind of

**[00:57:45]** relief,

**[00:57:47]** which, I have to say,

**[00:57:49]** surprised me a lot,

**[00:57:51]** and maybe even surprised me.

**[00:57:53]** In conclusion,

**[00:57:55]** I had a tattoo,

**[00:57:57]** unfortunately it's gone now,

**[00:57:59]** I lived in Vysočín,

**[00:58:01]** but I didn't have one in Vysočín,

**[00:58:03]** and I didn't have one in Russia either.

**[00:58:05]** So it's still worth it,

**[00:58:07]** the fifties are coming,

**[00:58:09]** but I didn't have one in Russia,

**[00:58:11]** and I didn't have one in Russia either.

**[00:58:13]** So it's not advice,

**[00:58:15]** but it's kind of my words.

**[00:58:17]** You can take something from them,

**[00:58:19]** or you don't have to take anything

**[00:58:21]** from them at all.

**[00:58:23]** So point one,

**[00:58:25]** it's never too late

**[00:58:27]** to make your dreams come true.

**[00:58:29]** Whether you're 30 or 60,

**[00:58:31]** but if you have a dream,

**[00:58:33]** make it come true.

**[00:58:35]** I lived in the wrong idea

**[00:58:37]** that the only moment

**[00:58:39]** was when I was 42

**[00:58:41]** and I had to go through military training,

**[00:58:43]** because then it wouldn't work.

**[00:58:45]** It would work now,

**[00:58:47]** in the finals,

**[00:58:49]** if I really wanted to,

**[00:58:51]** and I have colleagues who are 50,

**[00:58:53]** they run better than a 30-year-old soldier,

**[00:58:55]** and this is not about age at all.

**[00:58:57]** So make your dreams come true.

**[00:58:59]** Maybe you'll just open it up

**[00:59:01]** and say, hmm,

**[00:59:03]** or they'll open new doors for you,

**[00:59:05]** like they did for me,

**[00:59:07]** and there will be a hundred other doors behind them,

**[00:59:09]** and you'll discover a world

**[00:59:11]** you didn't expect to exist in,

**[00:59:13]** or that will fascinate you so much.

**[00:59:15]** So that's point one.

**[00:59:17]** Second, a good thing

**[00:59:19]** can come from many twists and turns.

**[00:59:21]** I declared it

**[00:59:23]** at the Apollo Foundation,

**[00:59:25]** and at my daughter's orthoses,

**[00:59:27]** too.

**[00:59:29]** It's so powerful,

**[00:59:31]** not everyone gets to such extremes,

**[00:59:33]** but just the fact that

**[00:59:35]** they don't take you

**[00:59:37]** for a conversation,

**[00:59:39]** where you agree

**[00:59:41]** and don't succeed,

**[00:59:43]** I think it's not necessarily

**[00:59:45]** a bad thing at all.

**[00:59:47]** It just means that

**[00:59:49]** doors will open somewhere else for you.

**[00:59:51]** Third,

**[00:59:53]** it's good to create and support

**[00:59:55]** rescue networks.

**[00:59:57]** That's where the Apollo Foundation comes in,

**[00:59:59]** but I have other things to say about that, too.

**[01:00:00]** I didn't talk about them, because it would make the lecture more intense.

**[01:00:06]** I am, where I work, whether it's the army or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

**[01:00:15]** we have been a part of the Czech Foreign Service for more than 20 years,

**[01:00:19]** I somehow get involved in the areas where I work.

**[01:00:23]** At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I am the chairwoman of the Association of Family Members.

**[01:00:29]** And there, for example, I get involved in the care of mentally ill children.

**[01:00:33]** Because the way we travel, not every child can handle it as well as our children can handle it.

**[01:00:40]** And, of course, here in the Czech Republic, there is a lot of talk about the fact

**[01:00:45]** that there is a very poor approach of children to psychological and psychiatric care.

**[01:00:50]** And our children in the foreign service have it more difficult,

**[01:00:56]** because they are constantly being torn out of the children's groups,

**[01:00:59]** they have new homes all the time, they have to get used to different cultures,

**[01:01:02]** different languages, different climates, and so on.

**[01:01:05]** And so today, thanks to this project that I founded,

**[01:01:09]** when our children need consultation with a psychologist, a psychiatrist,

**[01:01:13]** they basically have it the other way around.

**[01:01:16]** And because the soldiers who travel abroad with their families,

**[01:01:20]** they travel to a much smaller extent than we do from the Czech Foreign Service,

**[01:01:25]** so the soldiers don't have this kind of association.

**[01:01:28]** So we can actually offer this care to the children from the families of soldiers,

**[01:01:34]** or actually lend it to them, because they don't have any such rescue networks in the army.

**[01:01:41]** And the army has, of course, its own rescue network, but it doesn't work for children.

**[01:01:47]** It's the Solidarity military fund.

**[01:01:50]** You meet every fall, at the end of October, at the beginning of November.

**[01:01:57]** There's always a collection for military veterans.

**[01:02:00]** You can buy a digimag.

**[01:02:03]** I'm a big supporter of the Solidarity military fund,

**[01:02:06]** because I think that a person shouldn't be a black passenger wherever they go.

**[01:02:11]** And my profession, which I'm proud of,

**[01:02:14]** two years ago, my colleague and I created Digimag.cz,

**[01:02:21]** where you can buy these digimags digitally,

**[01:02:25]** if you don't meet a soldier on the street who will physically sell them to you.

**[01:02:29]** So I'd like to repeat the sentence,

**[01:02:35]** it's good to create and support rescue networks,

**[01:02:38]** because you never know when you'll need the rescue network yourself.

**[01:02:42]** And the last one, you don't have to be afraid of unknown situations.

**[01:02:47]** It's true that in life you meet or get into situations you didn't expect,

**[01:02:52]** that you can't be prepared for.

**[01:02:55]** But in the end, I think a person will eventually find the resources to adapt to them.

**[01:03:01]** A person sometimes looks for what they can find when they need it.

**[01:03:04]** I looked in Vyškov, and I looked elsewhere.

**[01:03:08]** So if I'm really the lucky one,

**[01:03:13]** who finished her first half of her life at 40,

**[01:03:18]** and now I'm the lucky one who recently started playing the second half of her life,

**[01:03:22]** then I think I can say that I play the second half of my life

**[01:03:29]** with a much less fear of what's to come,

**[01:03:33]** but with a much greater need for possible discomforts

**[01:03:39]** and unexpected situations that can come in the near or distant future,

**[01:03:47]** so I can prepare for them.

**[01:03:50]** Thank you for your attention.

**[01:03:58]** I'm coming to you.

**[01:04:00]** I'm coming to you.

**[01:04:03]** You can't leave your headphones here.

**[01:04:09]** Thank you very much for the lecture.

**[01:04:12]** Maybe it's a bit clearer to you now why I invited Petra,

**[01:04:18]** because it's not just about the army,

**[01:04:20]** but the preparedness and the story in general are fascinating to me.

**[01:04:25]** I'll come back to what you said about Finland,

**[01:04:29]** and how they work there.

**[01:04:31]** I just had a discussion with a friend who was moving to Denmark,

**[01:04:34]** and he described to me that he was on an operation with Kiel,

**[01:04:38]** and how it works there.

**[01:04:40]** So I deduced from that that they have a very good, robust system

**[01:04:48]** and are ready to help you,

**[01:04:50]** but they leave you to take care of yourself,

**[01:04:55]** and if you can't do it anymore, they will.

**[01:04:58]** I thought that was very nice.

**[01:05:00]** And that's how I see it.

**[01:05:03]** I have a feeling that we have a bit of a social system

**[01:05:07]** set up so that someone will take care of us,

**[01:05:10]** that we are still holding hands,

**[01:05:12]** and that's something I would like to see in my sons,

**[01:05:18]** in some way.

**[01:05:21]** So there's a question there, and that's another reason why I invited you.

**[01:05:26]** What do you think the army can do to the young men now?

**[01:05:30]** Why men?

**[01:05:32]** Do you mean the Czech army?

**[01:05:35]** Yes, yes.

**[01:05:36]** And I'll tell you why.

**[01:05:37]** Why young men?

**[01:05:38]** Because now I'm again in some kind of photo studio,

**[01:05:43]** and we're looking at what the young people are doing,

**[01:05:46]** and how they're lost,

**[01:05:48]** how there's no ritual,

**[01:05:50]** how groups like Incel are formed,

**[01:05:53]** and there's this toxic masculinity,

**[01:05:56]** and I have a feeling that something like that is missing.

**[01:05:59]** And I don't want to say that it's the army,

**[01:06:01]** and that you have to take up arms and fight,

**[01:06:03]** but some kind of service,

**[01:06:05]** something that I think can be the goal for some people.

**[01:06:08]** So that's why the young men can do it.

**[01:06:10]** I knew you were going to jump right in.

**[01:06:12]** Of course.

**[01:06:13]** But what can you give them?

**[01:06:15]** I don't know if I'm the right person to answer this,

**[01:06:19]** because I have two daughters.

**[01:06:21]** If I had sons at home,

**[01:06:23]** at the same age,

**[01:06:24]** today Johan is 14,

**[01:06:26]** Sophie is 18,

**[01:06:27]** maybe I would be able to answer them as a founder.

**[01:06:32]** Anyway, I generally say that we underestimate

**[01:06:37]** today's young generation.

**[01:06:39]** I had two girls in my podcast,

**[01:06:42]** who were maybe 20 or 21 years old,

**[01:06:45]** and they had it all in their heads.

**[01:06:48]** They knew exactly why they were going to active activities,

**[01:06:50]** why it was important.

**[01:06:56]** And I thought it was completely normal,

**[01:06:59]** or completely clear,

**[01:07:00]** that these girls had to graduate from active activities,

**[01:07:02]** that they belong there,

**[01:07:04]** that they have it in them.

**[01:07:09]** And when I think about these guys,

**[01:07:12]** I'm surprised when you look at the DVC,

**[01:07:14]** the volunteer military exercises for students,

**[01:07:16]** which are being held every year.

**[01:07:18]** Last year it was the pilot,

**[01:07:20]** this year it's being repeated,

**[01:07:21]** but the number of places is increasing.

**[01:07:24]** There is a huge interest in it,

**[01:07:26]** and we are not able to...

**[01:07:28]** Take the fact that we don't know what the DVC is,

**[01:07:30]** that it exists at all,

**[01:07:31]** and so on.

**[01:07:32]** Try to describe it.

**[01:07:33]** How does it work?

**[01:07:34]** For students who are 18 years old,

**[01:07:37]** volunteer military exercises are being held in the summer.

**[01:07:40]** Now there is a deadline to register.

**[01:07:43]** I don't really follow it anymore.

**[01:07:45]** But it's an exercise that is held in the summer.

**[01:07:49]** It's taught to students,

**[01:07:51]** who are already adults.

**[01:07:55]** They complete the exercise there.

**[01:07:58]** It's four weeks long.

**[01:08:00]** And it's adapted to the fact

**[01:08:02]** that they are students.

**[01:08:04]** I've seen how they are equipped and armed.

**[01:08:07]** So, of course, if they were given things

**[01:08:10]** that I used to exercise in,

**[01:08:12]** they would probably refuse it.

**[01:08:14]** Because it's a young generation

**[01:08:16]** who wants the modern army

**[01:08:17]** and wants to experience the modern things.

**[01:08:19]** So I've seen that they have great helmets,

**[01:08:21]** and clothes that we didn't have in high school.

**[01:08:24]** And they do it in a very modern way.

**[01:08:26]** I've even seen them go rafting.

**[01:08:28]** So I can already see how they go

**[01:08:30]** with the instructor.

**[01:08:31]** So they do it in a different way.

**[01:08:33]** I think they do it in a more fun way.

**[01:08:35]** But there is a drill.

**[01:08:36]** There is discipline.

**[01:08:38]** They teach a lot of things.

**[01:08:41]** As I said, the army can't satisfy the interest

**[01:08:44]** at this moment.

**[01:08:46]** So I wouldn't underestimate

**[01:08:49]** today's young men

**[01:08:51]** if they weren't completely army-type.

**[01:08:56]** And, of course, the pathologies

**[01:08:58]** you mentioned,

**[01:08:59]** I don't know if this is exactly

**[01:09:01]** the army's medicine.

**[01:09:02]** But it's always been said

**[01:09:04]** that the army does exercises, guys, and so on.

**[01:09:06]** I think everyone contributes to a certain extent.

**[01:09:10]** And I'd like to have more capacity

**[01:09:14]** so that the Czech army

**[01:09:17]** has the opportunity to offer

**[01:09:19]** as much experience as possible

**[01:09:22]** to as many people as possible.

**[01:09:25]** In Finland, every year

**[01:09:27]** there are 20,000 recruits,

**[01:09:29]** which is an incredible number.

**[01:09:31]** You're now in Tallinn.

**[01:09:33]** I think it's a bit more explosive there.

**[01:09:38]** Have you noticed anything new?

**[01:09:40]** Is it similar or the same?

**[01:09:42]** Tell me.

**[01:09:43]** I'm not a big fan of talking about

**[01:09:46]** something I don't know very well.

**[01:09:48]** We were in Estonia,

**[01:09:50]** we swam there in the summer,

**[01:09:52]** so we were there for about five months.

**[01:09:55]** So I don't know much about it yet.

**[01:09:57]** Of course, I know that there is a military service there,

**[01:09:59]** they have what they need.

**[01:10:00]** as a home defense, which is something like a backup.

**[01:10:04]** And I know, of course, that they don't take it lightly.

**[01:10:08]** An interesting thing is that they are trying to pilot a drone control course.

**[01:10:17]** Children will learn to control drones in high school.

**[01:10:21]** I was very interested in that.

**[01:10:23]** They have already trained a few teachers who will teach it.

**[01:10:27]** And that's something I was really interested in.

**[01:10:31]** That's great. That's interesting.

**[01:10:33]** Someone is asking if you ever regretted deciding to join the army

**[01:10:41]** when you felt that you were not sufficiently prepared.

**[01:10:45]** I definitely didn't regret it.

**[01:10:48]** The first week was very difficult with that iconic instructor.

**[01:10:53]** But I took it as a challenge.

**[01:10:57]** And I definitely didn't regret it.

**[01:11:00]** Then came the second week and the third week with the normal instructors.

**[01:11:04]** And I said to myself that it was very difficult.

**[01:11:06]** How to increase the reputation of the Czech army at home

**[01:11:09]** so that it is respected abroad.

**[01:11:12]** I had a lunch with Katka Bernard, a new army colonel.

**[01:11:17]** Every time I met someone from the army,

**[01:11:21]** he was a very intelligent, super-straight-forward person.

**[01:11:25]** And I understand that the communist army makes fun of it.

**[01:11:31]** But you yourself say that there was a person there who was against it.

**[01:11:36]** So that we don't have to say anything.

**[01:11:39]** So how can we show that the army is different,

**[01:11:44]** that Vyškov and Trímáč are a little different,

**[01:11:47]** and that it is modernizing everything around us?

**[01:11:51]** I think it has been going on for a long time.

**[01:11:54]** People who follow the Czech Republic's army network

**[01:11:57]** see a lot of the exercises and activities the army does.

**[01:12:03]** The army has shown it repeatedly during the life-threatening disasters.

**[01:12:08]** It has shown it many times on missions

**[01:12:10]** where our units were always equal partners with other allies.

**[01:12:16]** We have an excellent reputation abroad as soldiers.

**[01:12:20]** So if at home someone doesn't look at the army nicely,

**[01:12:25]** I am rather surprised,

**[01:12:27]** because I think that nowadays the army has a good reputation.

**[01:12:35]** I definitely recommend following the Czech Republic's army social networks,

**[01:12:40]** because there are not only the Czech Republic's official armies,

**[01:12:45]** but also individual units, whether they are special forces

**[01:12:49]** or whether they are a large underground force.

**[01:12:52]** The army has a lot of networks, a lot of profiles.

**[01:12:58]** So follow them.

**[01:13:00]** I think that a person who follows them will get the impression

**[01:13:03]** that we are a modern and functioning army.

**[01:13:06]** What has changed the most during this time?

**[01:13:10]** As a base, I felt it in the army,

**[01:13:14]** because we are constantly rearming,

**[01:13:18]** so of course we have more modern weapons.

**[01:13:23]** We exercise more, at least my unit.

**[01:13:26]** We exercise more, we connect more.

**[01:13:31]** I have experienced exercises where a lot of the individual units,

**[01:13:35]** as well as the base members,

**[01:13:37]** mix with each other and exercise.

**[01:13:40]** So I think this is moving forward a lot.

**[01:13:43]** And of course, the equipment is also changing.

**[01:13:46]** It is already being shown to us at various meetings,

**[01:13:50]** what else we are building.

**[01:13:52]** So we know that things are in the process.

**[01:13:54]** Of course, the implementation is sometimes slow,

**[01:13:57]** but these are things that the army cannot completely influence.

**[01:14:01]** So something is definitely still going on,

**[01:14:03]** and we are definitely moving forward.

**[01:14:11]** I have a question here.

**[01:14:12]** I have been waiting for this for a while,

**[01:14:14]** so I will ask you about it.

**[01:14:15]** How do you see the current deviation of the Czech Republic

**[01:14:17]** from the strengthening of the security of the state,

**[01:14:19]** both in terms of cybernetics and in terms of equipment

**[01:14:21]** and personnel?

**[01:14:23]** Are you talking about yourself?

**[01:14:24]** I will not comment on that.

**[01:14:26]** Okay, thank you.

**[01:14:31]** I often encounter the fact that when the word conflict or war is mentioned,

**[01:14:39]** people imagine tanks, equipment, soldiers shooting at each other, and guns.

**[01:14:46]** The cybernetic or information domain is equally important.

**[01:14:51]** When you look at the states you have visited,

**[01:14:55]** what do you have to say about that?

**[01:14:57]** Do you have any comments on that?

**[01:14:59]** I cannot speak Finnish, but I try to translate the Finnish profiles.

**[01:15:09]** I am not a cybernetic.

**[01:15:10]** I am in the information war,

**[01:15:12]** so the information war is more like my domain,

**[01:15:15]** although my specialization is the production of media.

**[01:15:18]** But I have to say that I am surprised

**[01:15:21]** how much it is possible in the Czech Republic

**[01:15:24]** to forcefully let the various bots and artificial accounts

**[01:15:30]** comment on the official accounts of the Ministry of Defense

**[01:15:36]** or other institutions.

**[01:15:38]** You can really see that there is a lot of discussion,

**[01:15:42]** that there are comments that are not written by people.

**[01:15:47]** In our country, people do not clean up,

**[01:15:50]** do not administer and let the algorithms of social networks

**[01:15:54]** force them to create things that you really do not want there.

**[01:15:59]** I did not experience that in Finland.

**[01:16:02]** When I looked at the profiles of various ministries

**[01:16:05]** or even daily newspapers,

**[01:16:07]** I saw that there are no such excesses.

**[01:16:11]** This means that this strange information war is not fought there.

**[01:16:20]** I think that we should be inspired by that.

**[01:16:23]** We should really take it.

**[01:16:25]** We should not say, for example,

**[01:16:27]** that there is freedom of speech, so I will let the bots do it.

**[01:16:30]** It does not exist.

**[01:16:31]** I would erase it all.

**[01:16:33]** It would be obvious that it was not written by people.

**[01:16:36]** Of course, there is always criticism,

**[01:16:38]** and you have to face it.

**[01:16:40]** You cannot force these algorithms that you do not want there.

**[01:16:45]** If I were a person,

**[01:16:49]** and now I would say,

**[01:16:51]** I would like to study more about it,

**[01:16:56]** maybe I would like to get into such an exercise.

**[01:17:00]** What kind of commitment do I make?

**[01:17:03]** Where do I get to?

**[01:17:05]** What will it mean for me?

**[01:17:08]** When you go to Vyškov?

**[01:17:10]** Yes.

**[01:17:11]** Well, you take up the duty of defense.

**[01:17:14]** You are an oath-bearer.

**[01:17:18]** You take up the duty of defense.

**[01:17:21]** This also applies to those who have a voluntary military exercise.

**[01:17:25]** You become an exercised citizen of the Czech Republic.

**[01:17:28]** So, of course, if the security worsens

**[01:17:32]** and the government decides to deploy an army,

**[01:17:37]** you have to count on being one of the first to be declared.

**[01:17:41]** We are talking about the formal part now,

**[01:17:44]** but when it comes to modern self-development,

**[01:17:47]** you go to Vyškov,

**[01:17:49]** and in your...

**[01:17:51]** I do not know how old you are.

**[01:17:53]** Quite old.

**[01:17:54]** So, in your quite old age,

**[01:17:56]** you take up this exercise.

**[01:17:58]** I think it will mean a lot to you.

**[01:18:01]** You really broaden your horizons,

**[01:18:05]** because you have to work with people

**[01:18:08]** you would not normally meet,

**[01:18:10]** or you would not even choose as a colleague.

**[01:18:13]** Maybe you would not even go for coffee with some of them.

**[01:18:16]** So, it is definitely an enrichment in many ways.

**[01:18:21]** And, of course, you are a sportsman.

**[01:18:23]** So, you will not enjoy it so much today,

**[01:18:25]** because Vyškov is designed to be managed by everyone.

**[01:18:28]** Because it is interesting to have as many supporters as possible.

**[01:18:31]** I do not want the coach to be strict with us,

**[01:18:34]** but I do want them to absolve everyone,

**[01:18:37]** and not just the injured ones.

**[01:18:41]** So, as a sportsman,

**[01:18:43]** when you go to Vyškov,

**[01:18:45]** you say to yourself,

**[01:18:46]** OK, I want to do this,

**[01:18:47]** because I want to enjoy it.

**[01:18:48]** So, I will take this bag here.

**[01:18:49]** It will be a bit easier for me.

**[01:18:50]** So, you will take two bags,

**[01:18:52]** and maybe you will improve your physique a bit during Vyškov.

**[01:18:58]** So, in the case of the original and so on,

**[01:19:01]** I am also authorized, right?

**[01:19:03]** Not only when this is announced here.

**[01:19:05]** Yes, of course.

**[01:19:06]** When they are original,

**[01:19:07]** they have to decide again

**[01:19:08]** whether we will be involved.

**[01:19:09]** But usually it is...

**[01:19:11]** I understood, for example,

**[01:19:13]** with the last original ones,

**[01:19:15]** that it is often so logistically complicated

**[01:19:18]** to call the sponsors,

**[01:19:19]** that we will usually not make it,

**[01:19:20]** that the soldiers will be able to call them.

**[01:19:22]** And we would like to be involved a lot,

**[01:19:24]** because the sponsors want to be useful,

**[01:19:26]** they just want to train.

**[01:19:27]** And there I understood,

**[01:19:29]** that there were only a few sponsors,

**[01:19:31]** who got involved,

**[01:19:32]** and the others did not.

**[01:19:35]** But it is, of course,

**[01:19:36]** one of the activities,

**[01:19:37]** where it is definitely counted with us.

**[01:19:39]** So, it takes six weeks,

**[01:19:40]** or you can divide it into three and three weeks, right?

**[01:19:42]** Yes.

**[01:19:43]** Today's exercise in Vyškov

**[01:19:45]** means six weeks in Vyškov,

**[01:19:48]** because you can divide it into three and three.

**[01:19:51]** You can't leave the barracks.

**[01:19:53]** This is just...

**[01:19:54]** Again, I am blowing into the microphone.

**[01:19:57]** You can't leave the barracks,

**[01:19:59]** you have to...

**[01:20:00]** You just don't look at your home.

**[01:20:04]** And you sleep in the new building, not where we were.

**[01:20:08]** So it's still the palandas.

**[01:20:10]** If you want palandas, there are still palandas today.

**[01:20:13]** And you sleep maybe after 10.

**[01:20:15]** So it's so convenient that you enjoy your teammates.

**[01:20:20]** Teammates and teammates?

**[01:20:23]** Well, we first thought that there are no common bedrooms.

**[01:20:27]** They are not in Vyškov.

**[01:20:29]** But when you train in a unit, they are there.

**[01:20:31]** We had common showers.

**[01:20:33]** A friend just joined us from a training.

**[01:20:37]** He saw some girls and boys there.

**[01:20:40]** A question that interests me a lot.

**[01:20:43]** Good day.

**[01:20:44]** Do you think that the Czechs as a nation

**[01:20:46]** are naturally willing and able to defend the country

**[01:20:48]** and thus themselves against military aggression?

**[01:20:52]** Yes, I think so.

**[01:20:54]** I think they are able.

**[01:20:58]** And I think we will get there

**[01:21:01]** when it comes to breaking bread.

**[01:21:04]** Now people say, I wouldn't go.

**[01:21:06]** Or I wouldn't go anywhere.

**[01:21:07]** But I don't know where.

**[01:21:08]** If something happens, I think the Czechs

**[01:21:11]** won't have to wait for an open hand.

**[01:21:13]** Because they will have a problem with us.

**[01:21:15]** So I think most people will join in some way.

**[01:21:21]** It doesn't necessarily have to be in uniform.

**[01:21:27]** So I really believe that the vast majority of people

**[01:21:30]** have the American soul in them

**[01:21:32]** and that they would defend their country.

**[01:21:35]** I am an optimist.

**[01:21:38]** But when you were talking about Finland

**[01:21:45]** and how the mother is proud that the boy goes there,

**[01:21:50]** I have a feeling that it's not quite the case here.

**[01:21:53]** It's a different thing.

**[01:21:56]** You know what?

**[01:21:58]** Those old men, those boys,

**[01:22:00]** they really fought against the Russians.

**[01:22:03]** And it's been going on for generations.

**[01:22:05]** And not going to war is just a shame.

**[01:22:08]** It's just not possible.

**[01:22:09]** And we don't have the old men here who fought.

**[01:22:12]** We didn't fight.

**[01:22:14]** And I have a feeling that maybe that's why

**[01:22:19]** people don't really care that much about it.

**[01:22:25]** But I always say that historically

**[01:22:29]** we have always looked after our territory.

**[01:22:32]** When someone came there and started catching bats in our forest,

**[01:22:35]** we chased him away.

**[01:22:36]** Because that's our territory.

**[01:22:38]** He got in there and started taking women and children.

**[01:22:42]** And we always had it in us

**[01:22:45]** that we were defending it.

**[01:22:48]** And today I have a feeling

**[01:22:50]** that people don't really realize

**[01:22:52]** that we don't have the bats today.

**[01:22:54]** But we have our democracy here,

**[01:22:57]** where we live, where we study,

**[01:23:00]** where we build the environment

**[01:23:02]** so that we can have a barbecue over the weekend

**[01:23:05]** and ride our bikes

**[01:23:07]** and go to Croatia, to the sea.

**[01:23:10]** But that's not a given.

**[01:23:12]** So if we want to protect these bats today

**[01:23:16]** and allow our children to study freely,

**[01:23:24]** to have free access to information,

**[01:23:27]** to be able to experience what we experienced,

**[01:23:31]** we will have to think about

**[01:23:34]** whether we are willing to do something about it.

**[01:23:36]** For example, to defend the territory.

**[01:23:38]** Would you recommend a compulsory six-month service for young people?

**[01:23:50]** I see that they lack independence and the ability to survive.

**[01:23:53]** I studied VG and VVTS myself.

**[01:23:56]** Personally, I think that a form of compulsory training

**[01:24:01]** will probably be inevitable.

**[01:24:04]** I think it's like a compulsory war.

**[01:24:07]** I think something like that should happen.

**[01:24:11]** Certainly not for too long.

**[01:24:14]** It could only last three months, for example.

**[01:24:16]** But I don't have enough information,

**[01:24:20]** or I know that we don't have enough capacity.

**[01:24:24]** So because I don't have enough information

**[01:24:28]** to analyze it,

**[01:24:30]** I can't give you a concrete idea.

**[01:24:33]** But personally, I think that a form of compulsory training

**[01:24:37]** should probably be possible.

**[01:24:40]** When we were preparing,

**[01:24:42]** we were also talking about the physical changes

**[01:24:46]** of children and young people versus how it was.

**[01:24:49]** And you said that your daughter is often better than any boy.

**[01:24:55]** So try to tell me something about this.

**[01:24:59]** For example, I have a friend who is a bodybuilder.

**[01:25:05]** And she tells me, for example,

**[01:25:07]** that we don't do push-ups because we don't want to hurt anyone.

**[01:25:11]** And it seems to me that we've gone too far,

**[01:25:15]** that our children won't do push-ups.

**[01:25:18]** Or the fact that families spend weekends in an aquapark.

**[01:25:23]** It seems to me that it makes no sense at all.

**[01:25:28]** Of course, it teaches children to swim,

**[01:25:30]** without any discussion, to the pool, fine.

**[01:25:33]** But I think it's better, and Finns should do it,

**[01:25:36]** to spend time in nature,

**[01:25:38]** to take your children to the woods,

**[01:25:40]** for example, to sleep in the woods.

**[01:25:42]** We took Johanna with us and went to the woods.

**[01:25:44]** Johanna experienced sleeping in a sleeping bag,

**[01:25:47]** we were making fire in Finland.

**[01:25:49]** So of course she experienced it too.

**[01:25:52]** And I think that today's children lack this.

**[01:25:55]** You should be physically fit,

**[01:25:58]** more resilient,

**[01:26:00]** it's raining, go outside, but dress up.

**[01:26:03]** You can't expect a nice weather in Finland.

**[01:26:06]** You wouldn't go out and enjoy anything.

**[01:26:09]** But I have a feeling that in the Czech Republic

**[01:26:12]** we are with the physicality of children

**[01:26:14]** and with the demands on them,

**[01:26:16]** and that we have changed a lot.

**[01:26:19]** You started your breakfast by saying

**[01:26:21]** that you need to fulfill your dreams.

**[01:26:23]** What's the next goal you're looking forward to?

**[01:26:27]** I wouldn't say that I have a goal I'm looking forward to,

**[01:26:32]** but we talked about it,

**[01:26:34]** I asked you if you go swimming,

**[01:26:36]** I would like to learn how to crawl.

**[01:26:38]** So maybe I'll learn how to crawl in my 50s.

**[01:26:42]** You will.

**[01:26:43]** You think so?

**[01:26:44]** Definitely.

**[01:26:45]** So we'll see.

**[01:26:46]** So I would like to learn how to crawl.

**[01:26:50]** Peťo, thank you very much for your speech.

**[01:26:53]** It was great.

**[01:26:54]** Thank you very much.

**[01:26:56]** You can clap if you like.

**[01:26:59]** Thank you for the invitation.

**[01:27:01]** Thank you.

**[01:27:05]** Thank you for the questions you sent.

**[01:27:08]** Now we'll switch to the slide

**[01:27:10]** where you can see how you liked the breakfast.

**[01:27:13]** Please give us some feedback.

**[01:27:15]** You can also use the word that comes to mind

**[01:27:18]** in connection with the breakfast.

**[01:27:20]** I'd like to know what came to your mind first.

**[01:27:24]** It's good not to keep things to yourself

**[01:27:27]** and sometimes to talk about them with someone.

**[01:27:30]** Because there are always some moments

**[01:27:33]** that come to mind.

**[01:27:34]** I have several of them,

**[01:27:35]** I have a lot of notes.

**[01:27:36]** It's good to share.

**[01:27:37]** So I challenge you,

**[01:27:39]** if you want to talk about it with your team

**[01:27:42]** or with someone from your family,

**[01:27:44]** do it.

**[01:27:45]** It's great.

**[01:27:46]** We'll continue to do this.

**[01:27:49]** We'll meet Petr on the 4th,

**[01:27:54]** I think it's the 2nd,

**[01:27:57]** at 11.30 p.m.

**[01:27:58]** I'll invite a few more people.

**[01:28:00]** It's a closed discussion,

**[01:28:02]** so if you'd like to discuss the topic

**[01:28:04]** more in depth,

**[01:28:05]** without a camera,

**[01:28:07]** without recording,

**[01:28:08]** this is the right place.

**[01:28:10]** So I offer.

**[01:28:13]** Well, of course,

**[01:28:14]** there are more breakfasts here.

**[01:28:16]** As I said,

**[01:28:17]** Brain and Breakfast Business.

**[01:28:19]** Two worlds of communication.

**[01:28:22]** Non-violent communication,

**[01:28:23]** resolving conflicts, etc.

**[01:28:25]** It's full of pressure in today's fast times.

**[01:28:28]** I think it's another necessary thing

**[01:28:30]** that we should have in our backpack.

**[01:28:32]** So the business breakfast on the 10th

**[01:28:34]** will be with Sandra Fryrichová.

**[01:28:36]** We're starting other events.

**[01:28:39]** Find balance with Alíška Ramešová,

**[01:28:41]** who was also a guest at Brain and Breakfast breakfast,

**[01:28:44]** so you can look at her in the archive.

**[01:28:46]** It's a balance

**[01:28:49]** so we can take care of our important things,

**[01:28:54]** well-being and adaptability,

**[01:28:57]** not only in the physical world.

**[01:29:00]** At the same time,

**[01:29:02]** there's a series of events

**[01:29:04]** about digitalization.

**[01:29:06]** Dita Formánková, Kuba Heikenwalder

**[01:29:09]** and Michal Schreyer joined forces.

**[01:29:12]** For me, they're heroes

**[01:29:16]** who put their heads together

**[01:29:18]** and created something

**[01:29:20]** that I think will be really good.

**[01:29:22]** So if you want to move forward

**[01:29:25]** in digitalization

**[01:29:28]** in what is and will be a moving world,

**[01:29:31]** visit us.

**[01:29:33]** Knížky měsíce is another project

**[01:29:36]** in the Red Button network.

**[01:29:38]** Before I go on and on,

**[01:29:40]** I'll skip to the most important part,

**[01:29:42]** which is another breakfast.

**[01:29:44]** On February 19th,

**[01:29:46]** we'll look at the world

**[01:29:48]** with a person I really like.

**[01:29:51]** David Navrátil is coming.

**[01:29:53]** He's an analyst.

**[01:29:55]** He's a dedicated person,

**[01:29:57]** full of data and studies.

**[01:30:00]** It will show not only how the world is broken, but also how it can be fixed.

**[01:30:06]** So if you want to join us for another breakfast on February 19th at 8.30,

**[01:30:12]** either here in Magenta or at Televizní obrazovky.

**[01:30:15]** Petya, thank you again. Thank you for taking the time to be here.

**[01:30:19]** I will be looking forward to it. Have a nice day and goodbye.

**[01:30:22]** Goodbye.