Alicia Castillo Holley is an international author and speaker who coined the term “Wealthing” as a systematic approach to creating wealth. She has been an advocate for change in the way education and businesses are conducted around the world.
Born in Venezuela to fascinating parents, she grew up first in a rice growing region -Acarigua- and later in a small town – El Limon. She spent a year in upstate New York as an exchange student in 1976, and came back to El Limon, until 1994, when she left her country. She has lived in Boston, US; Nyon, Switzerland; Santiago, Chile; Houston, US; and Perth, Australia, and travels around the world twice a year on speaking engagements.
She started her professional career as a young scientist, presenting her first paper at 16, becoming class valedictorian and working with plant cells. In 1989, she entered the corporate world leading as the head of product development department at Plantagro, a Bayer-Shell Joint Venture. In 1993, she took a self-funded sabatical to work for the Opera House and a year later moved to the USA to study a Master’s Degree in Business Administration a Babson College. Having lost all of her savings to the Venezuelan Bank Crisis, she arrived in Logan airport with two kids, two boxes and two suitcases. In 1997 she started Chile’s first Center for Entrepreneurship, and in 2000, Chile’s first privately held seed capital fund. In 2005 she semi-retired and focuses on researching, speaking, writing and philanthropy. She is an avid reader and traveler.
Alicia has started 9 companies and 1 non-profit and consulted and coached hundreds of business owners and scientists. She is married and has two children: Daniel Chapellin and Sara Chapellin – also an author.
Words are like the genome, to be interpreted, not to be followed. Alicia Castillo Holley
The best gift of life is energy. Alicia Castillo Holley
We are made of cosmic stuff. Our cells have bits of planets, and we are here to do something: what? Alicia Castillo Holley
We cannot create wealth without sharing it. Alicia Castillo Holley
Nobody loves you like do you, be your best friend. Alicia Castillo Holley
Life doesn't have to be perfect to be great! Alicia Castillo Holley
The value of knowledge resides in its use, not in its control. Alicia Castillo Holley
Happiness is inside of you trying to get out, not outside trying to get in. Alicia Castillo Holley
Nobody has to lose for us to win. Alicia Castillo Holley
I work with individuals who want to use their lives to build a legacy.
The areas where I focus is wealth creation and passion.
I was aware of wealth creation when I moved out of academia into the corporate world: we had better jobs, access to highly professional individuals, up to date technology. We were given many training options, we paid taxes, we got vacations. In a year I saved enough to begin building my house. I was puzzled: who can they afford to do that? then few years later the company closed and I was again puzzled: how do we prevent this from happening?
Then I studied Entrepreneurship at Babson College and I began crafting models so we create wealth, not redistribute and not destroy it.
This is my site Wealthing
I stumble across the area of passion by serendipity. One of my children had depression and we worked relentlessly to overcome that. And we made it. I realized that many people were unhappy with their lives, that they were not living fully or with passion and that there was much to do.This has grown from a family guide to a book to a system and into the corporate world, yes, because we all need happier people.
This is my site Falling in love with your life
I also have a blog: www.aliciacastilloholley.com