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Rafał Brzoska
Founder & CEO, InPost

5# Fireside Chat, Rafał Brzoska x Zoja Giza

📅 Mar 18, 2026 Rafał Brzoska Foundation 11 MIN 353 VIEWS 39 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
O tym kiedy w głowie ma się chaos, skąd miłość do wiolonczeli oraz co zrobiłby Rafał Brzoska, gdyby mógł się cofnąć w czasie... O tym wszystkim w piątym odcinku naszych Fireside Chatów Rafał Brzoska Foundation. Zachęcamy do śledzenia nas na innych kanałach: Instagram /rafalbrzoska_foundation LinkedIn /Rafal-Brzoska-Foundation

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  1. 9:02President, if you could go back to your student years and add one subject to your curriculum, what would it be?
Rafał Brzoska 0:02 ↗
Rafał Brzoska Foundation.
Hi Zoja. Good morning. A few words about yourself. What do you do? What is your passion? And you can also say how you ended up at this foundation.
Zoja 0:15 ↗
I play the cello, so my biggest passion is classical music, but actually music in every sense of the word.
Rafał Brzoska 0:26 ↗
When did you start?
Zoja 0:29 ↗
I started in the third grade of primary school, so I was about 8 or 9 years old, and I studied at a music school in Bydgoszcz. Then I moved, thanks to the foundation, to a music school in Warsaw, and this year I've just started my bachelor's at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
Rafał Brzoska 0:49 ↗
First impression?
Zoja 0:52 ↗
Well, classic, but actually excitement. So, the first week is a bit about learning everything at once, we'll see how it goes.
Rafał Brzoska 1:04 ↗
I had the great pleasure of seeing you play live. Tell me, why the cello?
Zoja 1:08 ↗
At first, I wanted to play the piano because my older brother played it. I wanted to follow in his footsteps, like younger siblings do. But when I went to an open day at the music school, I also saw other instruments there, and I don't know what it was about the cello. It must have been love at first sight, because I dragged my mom back to that room three more times. And then during the entrance exams, I simply said I wanted to play the cello.
Rafał Brzoska 1:40 ↗
And looking back, I assume you don't regret it.
Zoja 1:44 ↗
Definitely not.
Rafał Brzoska 1:44 ↗
But for a layperson, what's harder: piano, keyboard instruments, or string instruments?
Zoja 1:53 ↗
Every instrument is incredibly difficult in its own way, and I'm not a pianist, so a pianist would answer that better.
Rafał Brzoska 2:03 ↗
But you have a brother, so I assume you can compare?
Zoja 2:07 ↗
He eventually decided not to pursue piano and became a sound director. Oh, he also composes.
Rafał Brzoska 2:13 ↗
Bravo, great. But I think piano is much easier to start with.
Zoja 2:20 ↗
Than string instruments. I can't say anything about wind instruments, because I've never had the chance to play them. But with the piano, when you press a key, you immediately get a sound. Right. With string instruments, unfortunately, you have to learn how to produce the sound, and do it nicely and cleanly. That's the biggest challenge, especially for very young children.
Rafał Brzoska 2:47 ↗
That's true. Is music for you a form of relaxation or meditation, or is it a way of expressing yourself and your emotions? Very often, when I observe musicians, I see that they don't just play—they express emotions with their whole being. What is it for you? What does music mean to you?
Zoja 3:14 ↗
It's both meditation and self-expression. I feel like when a musician steps on stage, they pour out their entire heart, laying it before the audience.

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Brzoska, R. (2026, March 18). 5# Fireside Chat, Rafał Brzoska x Zoja Giza [Interview transcript]. Rafał Brzoska Foundation. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1173513/

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Rafał Brzoska. "5# Fireside Chat, Rafał Brzoska x Zoja Giza." Rafał Brzoska Foundation, 18 Mar. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1173513/.

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@misc{brzoska2026_1173513,
  author       = {Rafał Brzoska},
  title        = {5# Fireside Chat, Rafał Brzoska x Zoja Giza},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Rafał Brzoska Foundation. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {mar},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1173513/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}