Siempre se puede volver a empezar | Eulàlia Sans Serramitjana | TEDxUFRO Women

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Eulàlia Sans Serramitjana shares her journey of overcoming the fear of failure and embracing change, ultimately leading her and her partners to successfully start a business creating fortified herbal teas in Chile, emphasizing that it is always possible to start anew.

Key Points: Eulàlia Sans Serramitjana emphasizes that it is always possible to start over, change direction, or fail without it signifying the end. Her scientific passion began very young, leading her to pursue a Master's and Doctorate in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Barcelona, focusing on oral infection pathogens. The speaker realized she was moving away from her passion for science when her research results were not as expected, causing her motivation to decrease. She moved to Chile in February 2020, just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic began, which presented a challenging environment for her new endeavors. She co-founded a company with two commercial engineer partners to create Bico, a fortified herbal tea with vitamins and collagen, aimed at improving the well-being of the Chilean population. The speaker highlights that their success came from taking things step-by-step, starting with prototyping and minimum viable product production on a small scale. Her greatest achievement was realizing that what seemed like a setback (the unexpected research results) was actually an opportunity to reorganize her path and pursue entrepreneurship.

Context: Eulàlia Sans Serramitjana presents her personal and professional narrative at a TEDxUFRO Women event themed 'Trayectorias de Frontera' (Frontier Trajectories). She recounts her background in clinical microbiology, the emotional challenges she faced when her academic research results were disappointing, and the pivotal decision to pivot from academia to entrepreneurship after moving to Chile just as the pandemic hit. Her talk centers on resilience, embracing change, and the belief that failure is an opportunity for reorganization.

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