Systems Change: Personal Transformation for Global Regeneration

When I was 20, a pivotal moment arrived: I was becoming a father. Nineteen years later, as my son Ángel celebrates his 19th birthday and we experience the equinox with a new moon solar eclipse, I'm compelled to reflect on the Metonic cycle – the nearly 19-year period when lunar phases and eclipses repeat. This cosmic rhythm mirrors a profound personal and professional new cycle unfolding in my own life.

Nineteen years ago, my life was abundant. A family was forming, wealth and business opportunities from my family were emerging, and I was building a career in financial technology. I remember a youthful joy, empowered by responsibility, guided by the values of my Spanish upbringing. My entrepreneurial heritage, passed down through generations, felt like a natural path.

However, this period of abundance followed a time of significant loss. The deaths of my father and grandparents within two years left me without elder guidance. Family discussions during the inheritance process led me to distance myself and focus on my new family.

By 27, I had a successful career in financial technology but had also closed two startups. This led my family and me to Switzerland, a move that offered space for reflection. Through the Sandbox community, I connected with entrepreneurs who broadened my perspective and helped me explore my purpose.

This era of introspection, however, also brought emotional turmoil and a crisis of meaning. Unresolved emotions and a lack of skills to navigate family dynamics led to the end of my 11-year relationship; my partner and our three children returned to Spain. Alone in Switzerland, I plunged into a deep depression, experiencing panic attacks, confusion, and immense suffering. I felt forced to detach from the beautiful family life I had built and found no joy in my well-paid, stable job at UBS.

Yet, from this chaos, a powerful curiosity and creativity emerged. I immersed myself in understanding suffering and emotions through the lens of science, empathy, and compassion. Meditation became a lifeline, and compassion began to clear the ocean of suffering I was submerged in.

This profound experience clarified my desire to help others alleviate their suffering and find deeper meaning. My entrepreneurial spirit ignited Optimal XR, focusing on emerging technologies for self-awareness, empathy, and compassion. I collaborated with brilliant minds across science, art, technology, business, and coaching. We created the first virtual reality experience to teach relational intelligence based on the enneagram and organized the International Summer Symposium "Virtual Reality as a Transformative Technology to Develop Empathy" in Madrid, which led to the creation of the Empathic Reactive Media Lab at the University Autónoma of Madrid.

UAM empathic Reactive Media Lab´s research model

I also explored new blockchain-based economic models focused on Human and Planetary development, in harmony with each other and the environment, with the Proof of Love and Human Token. Simultaneously, I investigated how humans could grow individually and collectively through social art and compassionate awareness, launching the Humix Foundation during the 2018 Berlin Art Week.

Speaking at the Humix Convention during the 2018 Berlin Art Week

All of this unfolded in just two years – an incredible period. By the end of 2018, a leadership retreat introduced me to Dharma. I received the book "37 Practices of a Bodhisattva," edited by HE Garchen Rinpoche, and experienced the most powerful compassion I had ever encountered. This transformative clarity shifted my focus from entrepreneurship and emerging science to bridging and grounding these fields in Ancient Wisdom.

In 2020, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I launched Wisdom Health, a non-profit dedicated to redefining my work through the lens of Wisdom Health, anchoring values that drive innovation, leadership, economy, science, technology, art, business, and impact.

Wisdom Health luanch in 2020, during the World Economic Forum week

Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system for understanding mind, body, and spirit, teaches that any time not invested in Wisdom and Health is a waste. Wisdom Health is an invitation to restore the pure values within our hearts, in coherence with a clear and awakened mind—an invitation to invest attention in Wisdom and Health.

Wisdom + Health = Wealth

This is an invitation for a new economy that prioritizes the well-being of the whole, moving beyond individual gains at the cost of ourselves, our communities, and the environment. Wisdom Health has become the core of my being. Despite growing up in a wealthy family and achieving early success, I felt miserable and empty during my personal crisis, not because of privilege itself, but due to my ignorant relationship with it.

Wisdom Health has helped me understand my true self, independent of external achievements or failures. It has revealed the potential to expand my heart, peace, and prosperity, measured not by numbers or concepts, but by awareness, love, compassion, and good energy driving my motivations and actions.

Through my own transformation, I witness the systems I'm connected with transform—starting with my family, and powerfully extending to the global systems I belong to. While mainstream news and social media often present a different narrative, we are undergoing a global transformation where many systems are collapsing. Our individual transformations make this process more evident in our lived experience.

My daughter Ana and myself with HE Garchen Rinpoche, Garche Buddhist Institute.

Global systems are changing. Amidst the tragedies and losses that accompany this transformation, my invitation is to continuously work on yourself and support your own transformation, and the transformation of the systems you are a part of, with great care, attention, and love—like a mother caring for her ailing child.

Our community of conscious and compassionate leaders is growing daily, and my humble wish is to serve and co-create a more peaceful and prosperous world.

Join our next retreat in Bali, Bodhisattva Warriors, this December. I can't wait to meet you and transform together. Use the code Community for a 10% discount on your ticket, valid until September 30th.