Hello 👋🏻. My name is Ihor Drobot, and I’m Ukrainian.🇺🇦
I am a person who loves my country and national traditions. I also love traveling and discovering new things. The spiritual aspect is important to me both in life and in work. Having gone through many life lessons, I have come to clearly understand that everything that happens is a result of actions you’ve taken in the past — "you reap what you sow."

Couchsurfing came into my life in 2023 when, after living in New York for three months, I realized that I couldn’t stay there and needed to explore the country and find my city. It so happened that I spent the next nine months on the road and visited all 50 U.S. states. This platform helped me meet wonderful people and learn so much more about life. I am very happy to be part of this great community.

Let me briefly tell you about myself :)🕯️🎙️

I grew up in a small town in Ukraine, where only Ukrainian was spoken, and there were no foreigners or other cultures. To me, anyone speaking a different language seemed like something out of a fairy tale because I had never seen them. I rarely traveled to bigger cities until I enrolled in my first university. I was raised by my grandparents on a farm where we grew all our food, so I didn’t even need to go to the store to buy anything. Everything was homegrown and organic. I walked 3 kilometers to school and didn’t have pocket money, so I started working when I was about 9 or 10 years old, with my first entrepreneurial experience at 12.

However, I loved reading and would always ask my family for encyclopedias or interesting new books to learn more about the world. This helped me get into programming at a university in a larger city, and that’s when my adult life began. I was on my own, living in a city with so many different people. As an introvert, I didn’t talk much to anyone at first, but during my first two years, everything changed, and I became the life of every group I joined, making friends everywhere I went. I started organizing parties, launching small businesses with no budget, working as a photographer and model, and learning how to live on my own. It was an exciting period, especially when I started dating models and became popular enough to appear on TV in various shows.

That’s when I also started traveling more, earning money, and living independently. After returning from a trip to Dubai, I met the owner of one of the largest companies in the country, and he offered me a job, which marked the start of my career growth in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. I spent four years there, working for some of the wealthiest people in the country, studying at the same time, and running different businesses of my own. I managed to get three higher education degrees and gain excellent international experience in branding and marketing.

At the start of the war in my country, I was living in a medium-sized city, and I was 27 years old. I was one of the directors of a large factory, successfully ran my marketing business focused on the U.S., bought a great BMW, and lived in my own house. However, life sometimes makes adjustments, and now I am building my life anew, with new people, and moving forward toward a better version of myself.

Today, I’m a vegan, don’t drink alcohol, live by spiritual values, love people and nature, and run my own agency, taking on projects that bring value to both people and the environment.

That’s a very brief overview of me. I love meeting new people and am always open to conversation. If you can host me or are planning to visit, I’m always happy to connect. Thanks for reading, and I wish you a wonderful day!❤️🪽

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

This platform allows me to better understand the culture of the region I am traveling to, meet new people, and spend time in the community of local residents.

Interests

Yoga, meditation, spirituality, traveling, vegan kitchen, snowboarding, business, music.

• books
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• bachata
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• cars
• guitar
• piano
• snowboarding
• spiritual
• sports
• history
• study
• people
• marketing
• diving
• love
• spain
• ski
• god
• job
• branding
• way

Music, Movies, and Books

I really love listening to music on a vinyl turntable; it’s simply a passion of mine. The type of music I mostly enjoy is classical, jazz, flamenco and blues. I used to read a lot, and now if I come across a book that’s very important to me, I have a few dozen set aside to read. Nowadays, I mostly read fiction. Movies – that’s the most complicated question. Good cinematography is rare these days, and I’ve watched many films from the last century. If I do watch a movie, it’s mostly biographical.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2023, I spent 9 months traveling and visited all 50 states of the USA. And I found the perfect city to live in: Santa Cruz, California.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can be helpful with my knowledge on how to travel on a budget, or expensively, but I no longer enjoy such trips. I can assist in finding solutions on how to promote your business, if you have one. I can also offer guidance on how to start considering the spiritual side of life, to make it flow more smoothly. And I’d be happy to help with many other things if there’s a need and an opportunity.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will be glad to share my travel experiences, and ideas on how to live simpler and be happier.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Italy, Ukraine, United States