Nana Ponceleon

I attribute my success to my life experiences, including my failures. My mentors and teachers along the way have been crucial, and they've been different depending on what stage of life I've been in. My mistakes have been huge catalysts for the successes that come after I fix those mistakes. I also credit my resilience - the huge capacity that I have to keep going and transform a trauma into a positive experience. That has been key to everything I've accomplished.

The best advice I've ever received, and it's recent, is: Don't believe anything about anything in life, because most everything is an illusion. I know that's very philosophical, but it's been profound for me in how I approach my work and my life.

My vision is to create a world where men and women collaborate, cooperate, and co-create their shared world together. My advice to women would be to realize that as much as we need it, and it's fantastic that we are working towards our independence, and every day it's just fantastic to see what women are doing around the world by themselves or with women, not necessarily on the shoulders of men - we also have to understand that life itself is a balance of the positive and the negative, of the women and the male. It can't exist with one side or the other. Maybe we leaned too much to the masculine and we're paying the price for that. So, finding balance in their lives between the feminine and the masculine side of themselves would be extremely beneficial.

I think the challenge and the opportunity is, in one case, the same, which is AI. I know everybody's talking about it, but it is the truth. It is a great opportunity because it enhances and speeds up, I'm gonna say even years, what we could do by ourselves in the past. Now an individual can have output like a company like never before, and that is one of the greatest opportunities humanity has had in the history of the existence of humans on the planet. At the same time, it's a challenge, because for those who don't use it or learn how to use it, it can be extremely dangerous for their work. Some of the things that we used to do are being substituted by AI, and that goes in the coaching field and for acting. Many people now coach with AI instead of with a person. However, I still think and believe that human connection is essential and cannot be substituted by AI. There's many aspects of the human connection that AI is, at least now or in the foreseeable future, not being able to get there yet - that human side.

I value friendship, honesty, openness, and truth. I think if you value these things, friendships by default become wonderful and sustainable in time. These values guide both my professional work and my personal relationships.