Barely 20 years old and already a Wikipedia page<

Camille Etienne, the French Greta Thunberg

At 22, the young environmental activist leads her fight on social networks, the media and with politicians and companies to adopt a lifestyle that respects the environment. To be better heard, she also does it through art.

The 22-year-old environmental activist lives her celebrity more or less well: “I am exposed for my ideas, which are disturbing. But I also receive messages from people who tell me that we have opened their eyes and that they are changing their lives. Faced with the climate emergency, Camille Etienne suspended her master's degree in business transformation at Sciences Po Paris for a year to train with scientists on ecological issues, which she then popularizes on the media and social networks. On her Instagram account @graine_de_possible, which has more than 57,000 subscribers, she indicates in her biography that she “hates Monsanto-Bayer as much as coriander”. Outside the cameras, she lobbies political figures or companies, such as Aigle or… Monsanto, on behalf of the collective of environmental activists We are ready.

She has also worked with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and participated in actions of the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion. Since her remarkable speech (“We have to dare to reinvent [the company], perhaps work less, but with more meaning.”) at the Medef summer university, companies have asked to meet her. The student sees her youth as a strength. " I do not have a choice ! And then I take everything for a force. “Even if” in one year, I became even more aware of the level of urgency in which we find ourselves, and the level of inaction of States and companies. »

“Make activism cool”

The vegan who tries to dress in second-hand or French-made clothes has fallen into activism out of necessity, she says. Otherwise, she would like to be a full-time actress. His musical performance duo Pensée Sauvage, with Solal Moisan, allows him to deliver his messages through art (and earn some money). The video Réveillons-nous made from his native Savoy in May 2020 made him known to the whole world. “There will be no political victory without a cultural victory. So we try to make activism cool. To create films where the viewer wants to become like the character, who here is an activist. And that the spectator becomes an actor.

Paul Marque, star dancer

The young man but already a great artist has just reached the ultimate level of classical dance. A look back at 23 busy years.

Paul Marque fell into the business at 4 years old. At 23, he is a star dancer. Which means that he has already touched, if only for a moment, perfection? “No, you never achieve perfection! he laughs in his graceful voice. Concretely, this means that he will play the leading roles at the Paris Opera and on stages around the world - in 2020 it was Japan, 10,000 kilometers from his hometown of Dax.

To shine so young presupposes a dazzling progression: lively, painful but radiant. When, at the age of 10, the child leaves his parents every week for his studies at the dance school of the Paris Opera, it is heartbreaking, counterbalanced by the joy of going dancing. At 17, he entered working life, without going through the terminal class. His job: dancer in the corps de ballet. The following year, gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, the Olympic Games of classical dance.

"Eternal Optimist"

The top athlete already knows, like his colleagues at the Opera, that he will have to retire from the stage at 42 and a half. He has time to think about what's next. “I am still learning. We never stop learning. And paradox: on D-Day, you have to forget everything. “We free ourselves from technique, we fully live our character. He's starred in Cinderella, Swan Lake, and has an arm's length list of desired roles. The secret of success: overcoming stress by being positive. “The day of the entrance exam, I told myself that it was the moment when I could find myself alone on the stage of the Opéra Garnier, in front of a jury made up of great dancers and an audience! "Eternal optimist", as he describes himself. Happy star.

Camille Aumont Carnel prepares the after @ jemenbatsleclito

With her Instagram account, she shatters the taboo of female pleasure but also that of the menstrual cycle. Face of the new feminist revolution, she is now working to increase its impact.

A Wikipedia page, but also a press officer, an agent, a life coach, a psychologist and soon a lawyer. The Camille Aumont Carnel company is structured. The 24-year-old, who launched the feminist Instagram account @jemenbatsleclito in October 2018 on a whim, to make men understand how female desires work, has won her bet: becoming a face of the wave of emancipation 2.0. The brands are now calling her to pay for a feminist muse oriented towards the liberation of sexuality.

However, her early career was far from the product placements for sex toys, period protection and other menstrual lingerie that she does on the networks: after her literary baccalaureate, she joined the great school of gastronomy Ferrandi. The observation is clear: “A macho and sexist environment. This realization is the beginning of others. “I needed representations that corresponded to my sex life, which I couldn't find in porn, or in the press, or in the series. I did not see women like me. »

728,000 subscribers

Since then, via her books, her conferences and, of course, her Instagram, where she is followed by 728,000 subscribers, she has exploded taboos. Sometimes on the rules, sometimes on the rape, sometimes on the female orgasm. “I interfere in the lives of women, I breathe micro-reflexes, micro-reflections, so as not to be ashamed of being who we are. “She also receives hundreds of daily messages on the small or big hassle of everyday life. How does she manage this responsibility? “I delegate to professionals. I know that I am neither a gynecologist nor a lawyer. »

After this dazzling success, she begins the next step. She will soon release a documentary series and would like to do a one-woman show. And the kitchen in all this? No question of letting go of his passion. She will launch a restaurant “that looks like me” within five years. In the meantime, she wants to shatter the world of gastronomy. She launched the Instagram account @jedisnonchef.

Objective: to denounce violence in the kitchen and trigger the #Metoo of catering. “We have already launched a survey and it is carnage. » To the question (so naive) of knowing if she is not afraid that this commitment against the profession will harm her for her future career, she answers, pragmatically: « In the world in which we live, if investors believe that my face can bring back money because I have a community, they will come. »

The measure she would like to see applied: leave for painful periods

Suffering from endometriosis (1 in 10 women), Camille is revolted by society's lack of understanding of painful periods. “Studies have shown that some period pain is comparable to that of cardiac arrest. I don't know a boss who would say to take a Doliprane to an employee who has suffered a heart attack. You have to recognize that pain prevents you from doing certain things. And admitting to being in pain doesn't mean you're not a warrior. The strength is the transparency of saying 'OK, today I'm bad but in two days, I'll be back to outperform'. »

Guillaume Benech, entrepreneur since the age of 14

At 21, he already has a busy career. After launching a magazine and a publishing house, he now runs Odace Media, which advises the biggest brands in their communication on TikTok and Instagram. And he just released a podcast. A must have for an entrepreneur.

"At the start, we wanted to tell stories and recreate a dialogue between the generations", says in all simplicity Guillaume Benech, 21, at the head of Odace Media, a consulting firm he co-founded barely ago. two years with Antonin Assié. His speciality ? Support brands such as Universal, McDonald's or So Press in the creation of campaigns adapted to new generations, mainly on TikTok and Instagram. "Today, we produce more than 500 editorial content against a hundred two years ago," he informs.

His young shoot now has a dozen employees - whose average age is 22 - and a strategic partner: Séverin Naudet, political adviser, ex-CEO of WeWork in France. This year 2021, Odace Media is aiming for one million in turnover. “We are also working on a documentary and a TV show”, he slips, enigmatic.

A young businessman in a hurry, who has even just launched his own podcast, Find his mentor, on the Majelan platform. In a hurry, he has been for at least ten years. At the age of 12, the young man from Rouen discovered the frenzy of writing after winning a competition organized by Mickey Mouse Magazine. It's his first time in Paris. Not his last.

Skipping school to go do TV

The teenager who is bored at school launches with another apprentice journalist L'Petit Mardi, a cultural webzine written by and for teenagers. At 14, he founded his publishing house. “I had written a book and I didn't want to wait years for an agent,” he explains. He publishes his own novels and a few books written by his relatives. The youngest entrepreneur in France at the time skipped school to appear on TV, guest on shows like Le Grand Journal on Canal+.

In 2018, he passed his baccalaureate, attempted the Sciences Po competition, failed without dwelling on it. For a year, he studied communication and political science at the University of Montreal. He is bored. “I was studying what was already my daily life, my job,” he recalls. Alas, he interrupted his studies, returned to France and embarked on entrepreneurship. Odace Media was created in June 2019. "My parents allowed me to take a sabbatical year... which is turning into a sabbatical life", jokes the one who still works 18 hours a day. For a passion, communication. Not for a degree.