All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
Nike has done it again, now with a particularly powerful idea: find your greatness. Instead of just applauding sports idols, what if we decided to get moving and start our own? The winning case is on the Cannes Lions site just a [...]
Evian ignites our inner child: While Evian won a Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions last year, I connected a couple of dots and decided to write about the inner child in all of us. Check out the commercial that triggered this [...]
Life-saving creativity! Every year and from all over the world, creative ideas stand out for both their genius and their transformative capacity. Here between one opportunity and another, I want to briefly leave you with two life savers. The first comes from [...]
Values that promote prosperity: in a practical simplification, there are two types of countries: those that prosper and those that do not. Apply the concept also to companies, institutions, families and all types of human organizations. Some advance and others stagnate or [...]
A Fuego Lento: this is my 1,650th blog post, a life experience I have enjoyed since April 2005. In writing I have taken my mind to the gym, propelled by the energy of my fingertips on the keyboard, and with each exercise [...]
If you are 28 years old or younger, you are creative, you want to emerge and you are not afraid of competition, you have until Monday to sign up for the Costa Rican contest to enter the global competition that will be [...]
The video included in this post summarizes the experience of last October 31, where many of us shared the idea of creating an irresistible space and a relevant environment to learn more about God. Designed particularly for people who don’t like churches, [...]
The Ojo de Iberoamérica awarded a brand new regional Gold to “Puppy” by Protecto, reaffirming what many of us thought: in the last Pregonero Darío Lanis, Alejandro Aguilera and Miguel Ángel Barahona excessively punished a winning piece, for sending a message to [...]
Little can be added to a week in which I enjoyed Tribu winning the first Grand Effie in Costa Rica on a Thursday, successfully organizing an Ignite on Saturday at Jazz Café Escazú and then seeing it win a gold on Monday, [...]
What a happy surprise! We entered a case in a category -Non-Profit- and won two Effies: 200% effectiveness. Unexpected! Also very happily received for “Osa en tu piel”, a campaign we built together, one step at a time, with the support, collaboration, [...]
After several years of efforts by ASCAP, the Costa Rican association of advertising agencies and commercial communication companies, the Effie has arrived in Costa Rica. Undoubtedly, it will be to celebrate creativity that delivers tangible, measurable and proven results. Here is a [...]
Most people don’t have a problem with God, but many have a problem with church or religion. Therefore, we want to share a dream, a vision: to create a relevant environment to connect with God and achieve a close relationship with Jesus. [...]