I studied Portuguese and became the regional sales manager for Brazil.
In the last years I also worked on my " fortune". My " fortune" also included a teenager son who inspired me to keep looking forward. I also had the " fortune" to be fluent in English, Italian and Spanish. I had the " fortune" to have experience in IT and in Sales. Something I had been looking for in Italy for the last 6 years! I was already over 40 and it all happened in a week! After that week I went back to Italy to gather my belongings with a full-time employee contract under my arm. In few months I managed to go to Dublin for a week, had several interviews. One day I was reading in a newspaper about the Celtic Tiger. In 2006 I was living in Italy thinking I was never going to leave such a beautiful country but the lack of work opportunities pushed me to look abroad. Suddenly an opportunity appears that was not in the plan, but it is so good that must be brought into the plan. This approach requires one to remain tuned at all times. His plans have 60% of the variables under control, while the other 40% he leaves for unexpected opportunities. He works with what he calls " disciplined opportunism" and the rule of " sixty by forty". What if each one of us is in charge of our own fate? How do we get to be at the right place at the right time? Luciano Pires from Cafe Brasil, a successful Brazilian podcast, has some ideas. Fortuna was responsible of the fate of all humans! Some of her symbols are the globe, cornucopia, wheel and wreath. Among ancient Romans, Fortuna was a major deity represented as veiled and blind. What does "fortune" really mean? By definition: amount of wealth, chance, prosperity, force being responsible for human affairs. In Maria's story it comes clear that the “fortune”, as she mentions, arrived after studying in a prestigious university, had Bernardo Hernandez as a mentor, and has been involved in several roles in different companies: from StepOne to Entradas, working in Spain as well as in the USA.
She used this phrase in her bio on twitter. " La suerte ayuda a los valientes", I repeat it in my head several times as I read the article about Maria Fanjul, spanish, 31 years old, recently appointed as global head of online sales for Inditex (Zara, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti) a company with €16 billion in annual revenue.
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