We are so proud to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on this show.

As a kid, Nancy Reyes was focused on daily survival.

She stumbled into advertising as an account manager, and two decades later,

her drive and expertise earned her the title of president at TBWA, an international ad agency

that prides itself on disruption. Sitting in her offices on Madison Avenue, we talked about

the college prep program that she says saved her life, what she's

learned from failure, and what it takes to go from good to great.

Nancy, I was going to ask you if this was the office where you do Don Draper-style presentations,

but we're really just in an office office.

This is an office office.

There's no Don Drapering in here.

It struck me as I was walking over here from 30 Rock where I work both how near we are to Long Island City and how far you've come

from where you grew up. Your dad drove a taxi, your mom worked as a housekeeper. What did you learn from

them about work?

Work ethic, work hard all the time, and then you see the rewards of that hard work.

The hours of a taxi driver are, you know, whenever there's demand.

And I remember my mom would never say no to cleaning a house. So there was some days where she would clean three houses in the same day, three to four houses in the same day, which is just

an enormous amount of cleaning. I did learn that everything feels better when you earn it.

That is to me the best immigrant lesson.

And that has carried me my entire life is I want to know that I earned it.

And if I put the hard work in, then I can say this is mine.

I've heard you say that you retrospectively realize you never had the time or space to think about what you wanted

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