From Housewife to CEO (speaker #8)

A fashionista, a mother, President and CEO of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc is our last speaker. She is super kalog. She told us that honestly she didn't prepare anything but only her outfit for tonight.  ^_^

Ms. Chiqui Escareal-Go was graduated with double degree in AB Communication Arts and BSC Marketing Management (Accelerated Program) at DLSU. She also finished her M.A. English Language and Literature Teaching Degree at the Ateneo de Manila University and currently taking up her MA Anthropology course at the University of the Philippines.

photo credit: Ms. Pia Manalastas

To start with, she is an entrepreneur and managing Mansmith and Fielders, Inc., the leading marketing and sales training company in the Philippines for 27 years. They specialized in marketing and sales training. The company was started as an hobby of Mr. Josiah Go, her husband with hash tag hugot. Her husband was a brand manager prior becoming an entrepreneur and she learned to become an entrepreneur from her husband as well as the lakas ng loob.

To learn more about the life of Ms. Chiqui, her background is more on Filipino. Her father was a former Judge in Sandigan Bayan that passed away last year and her mother was a typical housewife. They are seven in the family and she was the fifth.

Destiny was send her to study in DLSU and she was active in DLSU extra curricular. She has good background and credentials. However, during her time, it was freeze hiring so she can't find the right job and that's the reason why she got married at the age of 22 and became housewife for 10 years. The big challenge was when she got married to a Chinese. She never put her husband in a situation that he need to choose between her and his parents. She was really blessed, typically if parents are pure Chinese they won't agree their son to marry a Filipino.

It inspiring to know that being a housewife for 10 years, she got a part time work in insurance and she can closed 90% of her clients. And the reason for it, she has an excellent prospective skills in selling insurance. She will only go to her clients who will surely buy an insurance from her and who will pay annually. Her husband never help her in selling insurance. And lastly, I admire her for being a true mom, even she's busy, she always think of her children. 

Ms. Chiqui encourage us to become an entrepreneur. She said being an entrepreneur is the key to many things. And being an entrepreneur you are not dependent on the economy and you will learn a lot from the business.

She emphasized that the role of a leader is to know the problems and provide solutions as well as to know to train people. Some people are very hard to learn, and as a leader it is important to be patient in training people. In able to do their job effectively on their own as much as possible.



References:
http://mansmith.net/
http://www.freemanagementbook.com/1/post/2014/03/patience-is-extremely-important-when-training-employees.html