so just two words in Hebrew before we
get going with the presentation lilsalt
layer is layer Marilla oof very nice at
voley Mejia Shubham like shovelin
so totem Bella so totem besides him
so for me at the end of the day it all
comes back to where we begin from I was
born forty-three and two months or years
ago in England and I grew up in the
South of France I grew up in Monte Carlo
a very typical childhood that is
absolutely nothing you think of and
everything you can’t imagine it’s early
memories of mine and this was a very
fond moment in my life is going wanting
to go out on a bicycle all of us ride
our bikes it’s a symbol of freedom it’s
a symbol of childhood for me riding my
bike meant taking my bicycle from the
back of the apartment and going down in
the service elevator crossing the street
delicately at the zebra crossing going
down the marble elevator shaft crossing
the tunnel coming out of the other side
going down the hill all this of course
with a guidance and then coming to this
round circular after about 25 minutes
walk where I was allowed to ride my bike
when I finished riding my bicycle and
had a nice cold drink I then walk my
bicycle back now to some of us that’s a
very strange situation because that is
ultimately a box we all live and start
our lives in confined it’s different
kinds of confines it’s different
boundaries everyone views them
differently but what’s important to
understand we all come from different
confines in our life these are comfort
zones these are what we believe in this
is what we lean on as we spend our days
and go through our life but what about
those that want to come out of these
confines
and break the box that is the moment in
life when you are actually starting to
dare a box is a comfort zone a box is
guidelines a box is what we know but at
the end of the day it’s about daring and
taking opportunities to go to the next
level so as I mentioned I had this
unique childhood I loved my childhood
just don’t get me wrong it definitely
defined a lot of my character but I
remember a very special moment when I
was 8 years old when I was 8 years old I
knew what I wanted I wanted to try
something new and I wanted to go to
boarding school too many of us that
sounds pretty crazy why does an
eight-year-old want to make such a
difference but I wanted to try something
new
my confine had been too narrow for me so
I wanted to do something else what is
important with wanting before you dare
is knowing what you want because you
have to have a clear idea in mind if you
want something new if you want something
different that is fine but that is an
understanding that you are embarking
upon something that he’s gonna take you
out of your box so at 8 years old I went
to but child to boarding school for a
year and that was an amazing experience
in itself for those of you that have
read Harry Potter it wasn’t quite like
that but it did have many similarities
but if we press forward a little bit
with my life when I was 20 I did another
stage in my career and I had finished
the army which is something you do
naturally here in Israel and I had been
interviewing to be a an executive
assistant remember I’m 20 years old I’ve
not yet started my life and as part of
the interview this great gentleman came
up to me with a piece of paper and that
piece of paper was all in Hebrew and the
first test that I was given was
translate this please fine I don’t know
if any of you of you and being yet in
administrative roles it’s a natural role
that first test in the job and I spent
the next 15 minutes
manually remember I’m a little bit older
than some of
manually translating the document this
gentleman comes back into the room with
a felt-tip pen at the end to test me and
of course everything was ticked
perfectly because I’m a natural English
speaker but then when he nodded his head
I took the pen from him and I said if I
may be so bold I would do this
differently I’m 20 remember I’ve been a
week in my career and I rewrote his
document I said that should be the
heading that should be the footer and to
be quite honest this is a bit boring
I would snazzy this up now I remember
that his only comment to me was but I
have a Harvard MBA and I turned around
to him and I just smiled because I
didn’t know differently I was trying to
make a difference
well fast forwards a week I of course
had the job but what I’m trying to get
at here with you is when you’re given an
opportunity every step of your life is
ultimately an opportunity so grasp it
six months later I already had a
different boss and I remember he gave me
this document and I had typed it all up
nicely for him in English a little bit
of linguistic Corrections a bit of
grammar and I came to him and I gave him
his document back and he nodded and he
was very happy with the document but
then I went like this and I gave him a
second document and I said your document
is fantastic but this is how I would
have done it what’s changed whereas
before I was recommending now I’m being
proactive I’m taking the initiative and
I am in essence creating my own future
what is important to understand from all
of this is that everything that you are
going to do in life is actually going to
be an opportunity a few years forward I
was on maternity leave I have two
fantastic children and I was came into
the office as many of us do as mothers
to show off our children to our peers by
now I think I was already more senior in
the investment world and the CEO called
me into the room and said to me I want
to promote you to be vice president when
you come back when you’re more than
ready you will be a vice president
our firm and I want to give you a new
position now there’s a lot of great
stories behind that in itself but the
basic point was is I needed to go home
and decide how to take control of my
future because at the end of the day
when you’re on maternity leave you are
this form of intersection and I took
that position not only that I also went
on and did my MBA at night while during
the day to continuing my job so that’s
another point I’d like to be taken away
here is along the way you’re gonna reach
many junctions that your mind and your
heart are going to speak in totally
contradicting fashion I personally am a
huge believer that your instinct is
always right your first decision with
regards to any step of the road you’re
gonna take along the way is actually
probably gonna be the most correct one
and if it’s not you can change no
decision is not reversible especially in
today’s society it’s a world of
opportunities so you need to grasp it to
the maximum today I love talking about
sawing because at the end of the day
it’s about enjoying what you’re doing
it’s about taking that initiative
following it through and when you’re not
feeling you’re riding high then that is
the exact moment that you need to move
on but what is the most important part
of sowing it’s the people you saw with
as you move up to your path in life you
are going to be surrounded by people at
the end of the day it’s about the people
that you ride with and chooses your
running mates they’re gonna define a
large part of what you’re going to
become they’re gonna define who you’re
gonna be and they’re going to define
your success when you start a position
in life you have a business card the
business card has a title upon it the
more you’ve changed the boundaries of
that role expand and grow it then you
will become even more but an even more
important point which comes now to
solving is every time you meet someone
take a moment and think what can I do
for that person
instead of moving forward with your hand
and saying what can I take from him if
you move into a relationship a new
interaction or new contact from the
place of I want to be part of this I
want to help you but when that person in
years to come
needs to reach back out and you need to
ask him something he will always want to
help it is always better to someone to
be indebted to you rather than you being
indebted to someone so at the end of the
day choose some amazing running mates
even some funny ones on this visual
there my dear friend Lily pulled
together for me and the running mates
are those that are gonna make you the
success you aim to be I love this
picture because this is the picture of
some entrepreneurs around a bout of an
event that we recently hosted all these
people decided to make a decision they
came out the box they decided what they
wanted they dared coming out of that
comfort zone they most probably failed
they came back into their comfort zone
and started the whole cycle again and
they are on their way to becoming some
of the most dynamic entrepreneurs out
there an entrepreneur is not someone in
a box
it’s someone that pushed his way out of
it and is leading a future and as I said
it’s also about the team you build
around you it’s about the people to work
together on the way to helping you go so
thank you you