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My name is Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Castillejo, I was born in Madrid in 1962. I am Catholic, I believe deeply in God and in our future eternal life. I have six wonderful children, six brothers and sisters on this Earth and two in Heaven, waiting for us with our parents. I have been an orphan since I was 11 years old. All these circumstances in my life are supports that, without a doubt, help me, have helped me and I am sure will continue to help me to be optimistic, strong in life and trust in the future, even though sometimes it is difficult. <\/p>\n
I like the countryside, I like the sea and enjoying nature. My childhood took place between the fields of Toledo and Andalusia and it is in the countryside where the best memories of my childhood come from. I discovered the sea on the Cantabrian coast, fishing on the Abra Bay<\/a>. I have enjoyed it mostly in the Balearic Islands, especially sailing around the coast of Mallorca, of which I am completely in love.<\/p>\n I learned to appreciate Nature as a whole in a special way while traveling through the State of Maine. There, I spent some of the happiest summers of my life, climbing the Rocky Mountains<\/a>I have ever known and sleeping for weeks under the canopy of the stars.<\/p>\n I'll never forget how we were camped at the water's edge on the Allagash Lake<\/a>Lake, to which we had arrived after pushing the canoes upstream along the river of the same name for more than three days, one really special night, we saw crossing the sky, from side to side, shot through the stars, the famous Halley's Comet<\/a>. It is an experience that is forever etched in my memory.<\/p>\n I also have, as I will be able to explain in another section of this Blog<\/a>I have several titles: some apparently deserved and others simply received. Of all of them, the one I feel most identified with is that of entrepreneur. Since I finished my studies in Philosophy in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University<\/a>and then my MBA at the Instituto de Empresa de Madrid<\/a>I have not stopped undertaking projects. Some have ended with success and others with failure. I can assure you that I have learned from all of them.<\/p>\n An important part of my current work is carried out outside Spain, in different parts of the world. In all these trips, for years and for a long time I have been accompanied by a character of whom I also feel very proud. A character that is becoming, almost unintentionally, an ambassador of Spanish talent around the world: Pocoyo<\/a>. But there are many other things to tell.<\/p>\n