“The impossible just takes a little longer.” Connie Ansaldi shares her mindset for achieving goals.

In a world still torn between old paradigms and new narratives of leadership, Connie Ansaldi, founder and CEO of Cux, an emotional operating system that combines artificial intelligence, analytics, and training to drive organizational and personal reinvention, positions herself as a voice that not only anticipates what is coming but actively works to shape it. Her presence at the ninth edition of the Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Award, organized by LA NACION, was much more than just participation: it was a statement of principles. During a sincere and powerful dialogue with José Del Rio, the newspaper's editorial secretary general, Ansaldi unfolded the multiple layers of her identity as an entrepreneur, communicator, and, above all, as a woman who embraces discomfort as a tool for evolution. “If you don't leave feeling uncomfortable, I haven't fulfilled my mission,” she said almost in passing, but with a forcefulness that served as the backbone of her entire speech. One of the things that is clear when she answers each question is that Ansaldi does not shy away from complex spaces. On the contrary, she seeks them out. "Most people live in comfort zones. In my case, it's the opposite. I live by exposing myself to discomfort, and only occasionally do I choose places where I'm comfortable,“ she says with a smile that never leaves her, no matter what the topic. ”I like it when the experience runs through your body. I don't care if it hurts, if I'm scared, or if I make mistakes,“ she says, a firm believer that mistakes, ridicule, and fear are not enemies, but allies in the construction of the self. Another thing that is clear: her logic is not exactly ”normal" (or what society perceives as such). When asked how she gets through critical moments, her response, anticipating that her method probably doesn't make sense to some, was as follows: "When faced with a difficult moment, I try to lose consciousness and move forward. I think that often, by overthinking, people lose touch with their feelings. And I'm a big fan of feelings," she explains. For Ansaldi, the goal is the journey, and she travels it open to whatever may happen, even when it alters the original plan. On that path, her grounding force is those around her. “I try to surround myself with and learn from people who are ten times better than me, so they can teach me every day.” She acknowledges that women make up a large part of her personal and professional circle. From her grandmother Elqui, a Holocaust survivor, to her best friend—who died of breast cancer and knew her intimate diary—Ansaldi named women who marked her life with love, bravery, and courage. "My life is marked by powerful women to this day. I love working with women." Publicly and self-perceived as multifaceted, Ansaldi observes that multiplicity is the defining trait of the female gender. "My name contains many different mamushkas. Women have historically had this multiplicity of lives and roles. From the very beginning, while men went hunting, with that sole mission, women were left with multiple fronts to cover: making sure the fire didn't go out, that the food didn't burn, that the children didn't kill each other, that the men returned safely... From the beginning, women have had a 360-degree view of things and a special sensitivity to realize what lies beneath.“ ”Trained in the media for more than two decades, hers is not improvisation: it is technique imbued with authenticity. "Twenty-two years of media training allow me today to give lectures to millions of people around the world without batting an eyelid. I'm there, standing firm,“ she says. In an increasingly polarized society, where hate speech spreads at digital speed, Ansaldi proclaims with ironic laughter: ”Jesus has haters. Mother Teresa of Calcutta has haters. Imagine if I, a mere mortal, don't have any. I don't expect anything else. I don't get caught up with the haters. It only bothers me when they're based on lies.“ Ansaldi does not offer an aspirational model of perfect success; what she proposes is leadership based on feeling, on embodied experience, and on the courage to make people uncomfortable, with the power of someone who doesn't need to ask permission: ”I'm not afraid of ridicule, or of looking bad, or of making mistakes. But I do need to feel what I do in my stomach and on my skin.“ ”Inconveniently intelligent, poetically rebellious, and insufficiently slutty." That's how I would describe the title of her autobiography.