Meet Jacobo Parages | International speaker, profesor, mentor, ultra swim chellenger

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jacobo Parages and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jacobo, is there something that you feel is most responsible for your success?
Persistence Having the right attitude
Avoid fear.
Humility behind my failures and also on my small victories
Commitment with myself and specially with others
Thinking positive
Trying to be useful to others
Understanding that change is inevitable and we have to deal with it and grow from it.
Not fearing failure. Understanding failure as inevitable and as a step towards success
Learning from my success
Team work and having the right persons at my side
Hard work
Effort
Commitment
Understanding the importance of sacrifice
Being passionate in what I do
Hard training and study
Being able to move out of my comfort zone
Trying to understand and reach my real limits

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
Marketing and communication professional with experience in the companies UNITED BISCUITS – TETRA PAK – KA INTERNAIONAL – BOULANGER – IMPACTO SERVICIOS DE MARKETING DIRECTO. In 2010 I founded the agency Aubyn Comunicación and in 2013 I created CONTROL ACTIVO, a company dedicated to the control of advertising actions pioneer in Spain.

I am now an international speaker, motivational speaker and also a teacher at business schools and universities, I considers it a priority mission to offer conferences on overcoming, motivation and achieving challenges, to help both work teams in companies and anyone looking for keys to success,

At the age of 28, I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a very painful chronic rheumatological disease. In addition, he overcame a malignant tumour in 2013
I took on my situation as a challenge and twenty five years later I am a marketing and communication expert with 25 years of experience and despite my illnesses, I have been able to swim the Strait of Gibraltar twice (Spain to Morroco) , the 40 kilometres of the Menorca channel, and the Euro-Asia crossing (Kastelorizo – Kas). He have swum three continents together. My leitmotiv is “we have no limits”.
This is why my activity today is as an international speaker, university and postgraduate profesor, and mentor.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would take you to see the historical buildings of the city, then I would take you to the most secret places that I know but that are not on the tourist itinerary, to discover the secrets of the city, so that you would have the opportunity to get in touch with the “real” people of the city or the country. A typical meal of my country would not be missing and would bring you in contact with the culture. We would also go to a traditional music venue.
My aim would be to bring you in contact with the architecture, the people, the gastronomy and the music of the country. A totally cultural route

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Difficult to answer since there s many more than just one. Viktor Frankl and his book: Man in search of meaning
My family
My trainer
So many human being that with their silent example have inspired me on overcoming difficulties and reaching important goals in life.

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Image Credits
I have the rights for using the photos Pablo España Jacobo Parages