Visionary
Reframe the problem, make the future feel real, answer the skeptic, and ask directly — out loud.
A pitch that lands in Spanish moves in six beats: gancho, contraste, puente, detalle, objeción, llamado. Hook by reframing the problem — el verdadero problema no es X, sino Y — then bridge to the future with imaginemos por un momento and ground it in one concrete vignette: una mañana cualquiera, a person, a place, something de carne y hueso. Fold the skeptic's objection into your own speech before they raise it: entiendo la reserva, parece utópico y sin embargo. And close in second person — cuento contigo — never with an abstract summary.
Below: the phrases for each beat of the pitch, how Mexicans and Argentines push you to make it concrete, the clichés that make a funder stop listening — and a way to deliver the whole pitch out loud to a listener who has heard every deck before.
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Regional Spanish
Textbooks teach one word. Locals use several — pick your region's and stay consistent.
| English | Mexico | Argentina |
|---|---|---|
| picture it | visualízale: amanecemos y de repente… | imaginate un país donde… |
| make it concrete for me | aterrízamelo, dame el ejemplo de a pie | contámelo con olor y con cara |
| are you in? | ¿le entras conmigo? | ¿te prendés? |
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Isabella
Your conversation teacher for this pack
In the Visionary lessons you're pitching a long-horizon vision to Isabella, a veteran impact-fund principal: cool, analytical, strictly usted, comfortable with silence — she has heard every cliché in the deck, quietly stops listening at corporate jargon, and sets her pen down the moment she stops believing you. A corner office over the city, one document on the desk, twenty minutes before her next call. She cuts in with eso suena utópico, asks you to describe your future from the point of view of someone harmed by it, and offers half the funding for half the scope. You have to keep the vision alive through all of it. Out loud.
Blank mid-sentence and nothing bad happens — she waits. That's the practice, without unnecessary judgement.
Finish the 6 lessons and Visionary is yours — earned, not given.
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Quick answers
Reframe before you propose: imaginemos por un momento, then name the real problem — el verdadero problema no es X, sino Y. In Argentina you'll hear the flip as pará un segundo, ¿y si le damos vuelta? The hook is a new angle, not a product feature.
Own the objection instead of swatting it: entiendo la reserva, then no es ingenuidad, es método. Dismissing doubt with superiority loses the room — the vision convinces when the skeptic feels heard, so integrate the doubt and answer it with evidence.
Aterrizar la idea — ground it in one everyday vignette: en esa nueva realidad, una mañana cualquiera una persona en Lima habla con fluidez con su colega en Berlín. One concrete scene per abstract adjective is the working rule; audiences remember people, not adjectives.
Hollow corporate filler — sinergias, disruptivo, próxima generación — is where experienced listeners stop listening. Replace clichés with images: trazar el camino, dar el salto, abrir una puerta, something the listener can see.
With a direct, second-person ask — never a summary in the abstract third person: que esto no quede en palabras, depende de nosotros dar el primer paso, y para eso cuento contigo. Colloquially: ¿le entras conmigo? in Mexico, ¿te prendés? in Argentina.
