Business Consulting

You guyyyysssss happy 2017!!!! There are soooo many things I feel like I need to catch you guys up on and I promise I will in the very near future!

It’s the beginning of the year so everyone’s dreams and ambitions for the year are high (as they should be). So many of my followers are people in business or are wanting to start a business so I wanted to share something that has been really helpful to me from the beginning- my business consultants at We Are Curio.

For starters, they have no idea I’m writing this post and have never even asked me to promote them, even though they have helped me so much and deserve so much credit.

Ok so my experience:

Something I have really struggled with since starting The Balance Culture is where The Balance Culture ends and Kirstin begins. I love my business and all the parallels between us but we are definitely two different entities. I have dreams and visions for The Balance Culture and where I want to take it, but I also have dreams for myself personally and goals in my personal and professional life outside of BC that I want to pursue. I can easily neglect myself and go 100% BC getting into a psycho work mode but since hiring Hillary and Jason with Curio they have not allowed this to happen, literally saving me and my biz.

When I first hired them we did a lot of empathy work. This was basically them getting to know me in every way. How I make decisions, my strengths, my weaknesses, where I wanted to take things, and how hard I was willing to work. They wanted to understand the operations of The Balance Culture but they really wanted to understand me. One thing they told me in our first meeting was “The Balance Culture will only be as healthy as you are”. Shhhiiiii when they said that, I was like oh my gahhh they are so right, I immediately wrote them a check and signed the contracts, not really but kinda really 😉 .

I quickly understood that I couldn’t neglect myself and get to the places I wanted to go on my own and everything was getting so much bigger than me. I needed an army and they became my army. In our sessions they wear twenty different hats, everything from problem solvers, to idea provokers, revamping our branding, as well as being my therapists. Like for real, I might have had a meltdown or two that they have talked me through and got me out of whatever weird space in my head I was in 😉 (shout out to you guys!) .

I won’t lie to you guys, some of what they have done for me I probably could have done on my own but because of their help I got there A LOT faster and with a tonnnnnn less mistakes. That problem was solved faster, that idea was put into action faster (or shut down quicker because I was getting ahead of myself 😉 ), or whatever meltdown/ negative place I was in I came out of quicker so I could be a psycho for a lot less time (win for everyone!). One thing I hate more than anything is wasting time, it is a serious pet peeve of mine, so when I hired them and realized I could save time and get done what I needed to faster. I was so in. Done and done.

Having both Jason and Hillary and the different things they bring with their own personalities has really helped as well. I tend to think more like a guy. I compartmentalize and am more pragmatic in my thoughts but my leadership style is more like Hillary (I can be a hard a**, sorry Hill but we are). They have so much experience to pull from and this helps me feel not so alone. They are always honest with me and give it to me straight, which I appreciate because if I am hiring you for help I don’t want you to make me feel good, I want to get ish done.

So here’s my plug for them. If you don’t even have an idea yet of what you want to do or what it looks like and need help navigating that, hire them. If you have an idea but are stuck and don’t know how to get it off the ground, hire them. If you have a full blown business and want to take it to the next level, hire them.

Here’s their info:

Email them at info@wearecurio.com

website: www.wearecurio.com

You can compromise in a lot of areas in life and probably get away with it but you are never allowed to compromise on your dreams, got it?