COVER AND INSIDE PHOTOS COURTESY OF GMA NETWORK Reality: The eldest youngster of distinguished lawyer and GMA Community Chairman and CEO Felipe Gozon is devoid of the broadly accepted psychological phenomenon, that's, the First-born Syndrome.Pursued, confirmed and legitimized by Austrian psychotherapist and founding father of Particular person Psychology, Alfred Alder, this unconscious advanced is deemed to emerge as early as a child's childhood or the second they encounter a scenario the place they really feel the necessity to compete for his or her guardian/s' consideration and consequently win their approval. A fifirstborn daughter, Annette Gozon-Valdes escaped the pressures that always include being named a profitable father’s ‘junior,’ but in her personal has demonstrated the identical model of truthful, caring and high quality management her ‘senior,’ lawyer Felipe ‘Henry’ Gozon, had lengthy established as chairman and CEO of large media conglomerate, GMA Community. The set off could be so simple as the arrival of a second sibling or in toddler playgroups. The syndrome then progresses by one's school-age years, turning into most pronounced in maturity, particularly amongst eldest kids who select or are compelled to observe a profitable guardian's footsteps.And whereas largely left unsaid in psychology books or papers, a double whammy is more likely to happen if the kid is known as after the guardian, ergo given the suffix "junior.""Fortunately, I couldn't be named after my dad," joked Anna Teresa Gozon-Valdes, firstborn of GMA's revered head honcho. However whereas she doesn't deny her father "brainwashed" her to change into a lawyer since she was eight years previous, Annette — as Atty. Gozon's de facto "junior" is fondly referred to as at dwelling and work — fortunately shares she neither felt any strain from her father nor the necessity to beat or duplicate his sterling achievements as soon as she enrolled in his alma mater, the College of the Philippines School of Legislation. Carbon copy. Identical to her well-loved and far revered mom, Anja Teresa Sofifia Gozon Abrogar aced Administration Engineering on the Ateneo de Manila College, graduating a notch larger as Magna Cum Laude over the summer season, with out strain from her idols — mother and Lolo Henry, after all "It's my father's happiness to see his kids reach what we do," acknowledged the eldest of three skilled siblings — one in Medication and one other additionally in Legislation. "However he would by no means badger us about finding out or getting good grades as a result of he finally believes that while you go to high school, it's not likely the data or data that you just retain that's essential however the self-discipline of studying, which you have to to do your finest for the remainder of your life."Even then, Annette's profession profile so far can already maintain its personal aspect by aspect with Atty. Gozon, Senior's {qualifications}. Simply as her father's resume notes he's a UP Legislation graduate who positioned 13 within the 1963 Philippine Bar Examination, secured a Masters of Legislation from Yale College, and went on to change into the nation's main skilled within the subject of aviation legislation and a luminary in enterprise and company follow — his eldest's impressively lists the next:Annette was a valedictorian in each grade faculty and highschool at Colegio San Agustin. She stored her outstanding streak by school, graduating Cum Laude from certainly one of Ateneo de Manila College's crown-jewel programs, BS Administration Engineering.A dutiful daughter, she pursued Legislation as her father requested in UP, however after all, going for the grand slam. Annette graduated each Valedictorian and Cum Laude for her batch. And, whereas she could not have gone to Yale for her Grasp of Legal guidelines like Gozon, Sr., Gozon, Jr. acquired hers from Harvard.Purely skilledGranted that Annette had been spared the pressures of a firstborn namesake, in addition to the intimidation of her father's brilliance as a scholar and practitioner of Legislation, one would gamble — psychologist or not — that the First-Born Syndrome would nonetheless meet up with her in the actual world.However once more, in speaking to the 49-year previous junior associate on the Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila legislation agency; former UP School of Legislation Affiliate professor (Taxation and Authorized Historical past); and concurrent GMA Community, Inc. Company Secretary, Programming Marketing consultant to the Chairman/CEO, GMA Movies, Inc. president, and GMA Kapuso Basis trustee — The Sunday Instances Journal is compelled to right any such assumption.Sure, Annette is as aggressive like every firstborn or profitable profession particular person is, however by no means in a privileged means, based on her friends — even when she is the daughter of a senior associate at her legislation agency and all of the extra of a community large's topmost normal.Simply as she appears to anybody who meets her, GMA rank and file personnel proudly attest that Annette is as pleasant, accessible and caring as she seems."Ms. Annette works simply as laborious as anybody at GMA; and even when she doesn't need to, she's like a mother to all of us, particularly by the pandemic," shared a clearly impressed younger division supervisor whereas establishing this Sunday Instances Journal Zoom interview with the woman boss. After the triumvirate of Gozon, Duavit and Jimenez — GMA’s three largest inventory holders — it looks like a girl’s world on the main media empire with an virtually all-female lineup of division bosses, however Gozon- Valdes (rightmost, seated) — right here with the corporate’s vice presidents, prime actor Derek Ramsay (heart, seated), and his supervisor Jojie Dingcong (heart, standing) — takes delight within the skilled group of her community, the place promotions are made, by no means primarily based on connections and gender, however trustworthy to goodness functionality. Although nonetheless floored each time, it's now not stunning for "Ms. Annette" to exit of her strategy to cease an worker within the hallway — be-masked and all — to ask how they and their households are dealing with the pandemic. She can also be all the time current at company-organized R&Rs...