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You are more capable than you think

• Julie Fairhurst • Episode 126

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Perfectionism, fear of failure, impostor syndrome—these aren't just annoyances, they're the invisible barriers keeping ambitious women from building the businesses and lives they deserve. 

Carina Groombridge knows this journey intimately. After transitioning from mechanical engineering to mindset coaching while raising four children, she's mastered the art of helping women identify and overcome the mental blocks holding them back.

"I help you manage your brain," Carina explains, describing how our own thoughts create unnecessary roadblocks to success. Whether it's the fear of judgment, people-pleasing tendencies, or the crushing weight of perfectionism, these patterns can sabotage our progress at any level of achievement.

The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Carina explores how she built a thriving business while raising young children. Rather than conforming to traditional ideas of professionalism, she designed flexible systems that allowed her to take client calls with a baby present and adjust her schedule to accommodate family needs. This practical wisdom extends to her coaching approach—helping women design businesses that work for their lives, not the other way around.

Most powerfully, Carina shares strategies for overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries with unsupportive people, and treating yourself as your most valuable asset. Her parting wisdom resonates deeply: "You're so much more capable than you give yourself credit for." It's a reminder that success often begins with believing we deserve it.

Ready to stop letting your mind hold you back? Listen now to discover how shifting your mindset might be the missing piece in your success puzzle. Then connect with Carina through the links in our show notes to continue your journey.

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Who is Julie Fairhurst?
Julie Fairhurst – Speaker, Author, and Founder of Women Like Me

Julie Fairhurst is a champion for women’s empowerment and the founder of the Women Like Me Book Program. Since 2019, she has published 30 books and 300+ true-life stories—at no cost to the writers—giving women a platform to heal, inspire, and reclaim their power. Dedicated to breaking generational trauma one story at a time, Julie’s mission is to uplift women emotionally and financially, helping them create better lives for themselves and their families.


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Speaker 1:

Well, hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of Women Like Me, stories and Business. I'm your host, julie Fairhurst, and today I have an extraordinary woman with us. I'm really excited to have this conversation. We are joined by the remarkable Karina yay Groombridge, a certified mindset and success coach, devoted mother of three and a dynamic host of the podcast. You Are your Biggest Asset, so I love the name of that. Love the name of that podcast. Karina's path is nothing short of inspiring, transitioning from a mechanical engineering career to an empowering woman to build a thriving business without sacrificing their well-being. So you specialize in helping ambitious women. Well, we have a lot of ambitious women that are listening or watching on YouTube. So thank you so much for being here, and would you like to tell the audience just a little bit more about yourself?

Speaker 2:

Yes, so first, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here and chat with you and the audience a little bit more about me. I know you mentioned it in the intro I'm actually a mom of four now, so I should probably update some of my. I'm actually a mom of four now, so that's, I should probably update my some of my content there, but mom of four now and I, I mean I'm, I'm just obsessed with what I do.

Speaker 2:

I absolutely love it and it's so rewarding to see the changes in my clients, to see the results that they're able to create, and I mean I'm, I'm happy to dive into all of the nitty gritty of how I got here, of you know things that I help with so perfect perfect, and you're in Montreal, I am in Montreal, so we've got two Canadian gals chatting.

Speaker 1:

There we go Okay, well, why don't we start with you were in. What kind of engineering were you doing?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I studied mechanical engineering, which is totally opposite to coaching. Yeah, like you know numbers. To turning to people, what I like to say is I've really just taken my problem solving skills and numbers and like all of it and now I get to apply it to people and personally I love it. Like I love being able to like look at what someone has built, what they're looking to build, where they want to go, and really connect the dots of like okay, this is what needs to happen to get you there, and sometimes it's strategies, a lot of the time it's mindset, it's what's going on in your head to help you get there, which is something that I had to learn, because, coming from engineering, that's that you don't get taught that, no, no, and this is, yeah, like you say, completely different.

Speaker 1:

But I can see, though, what you're saying about the, about the mechanical part of how it all works, and numbers and stuff, and now you're just you're taking those skills and now you're using them for betterment betterment of women, exactly.

Speaker 2:

Gotta raise up all the women. Oh, my gosh Like yes, that's perfect, so love that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, so you've mentioned being a recovering perfectionist. What is that all about?

Speaker 2:

Yes, so for me before, like before kids, before the business, I was very much like you know, everything needed to be a certain way and I wanted things to go my way. And all of that that comes with, you know, wanting to dot all the T's and like dot all the I's, cross all the T's and letting go of the perfection is something that I had to work on. I mean, if you're a mom, then you know, you know kids are not going to do everything you want them to do. It's not going to be as clean, it's not going to be as cookie cutter as if you're living on your own. But between that and business it's been a process of letting go and letting things be okay.

Speaker 2:

With the imperfection and I've noticed, especially in business, you need to just run with it and go, because if you're waiting on perfection this is something I talk about with my clients all the time of like oh, but you know I haven't tested this or I haven't, you know, done all of my research. My God, like I love and hate research at the same time. Most of the time people will just use it as like a crutch to say, well, I still need to research, I don't know enough. It's really really easy to justify that and there's so much information out there that you can go and pull from, but really what just needs to happen is you need to take action and go and then figure it out.

Speaker 1:

You are. You are so right. As you were speaking, I was remembering the very first book I ever did because I've got 38 books done now with over 180 women and the very first one I did because I'm not very detail orientated. So me and say, did you know you have 165 errors in your book? And at first I was like, and then I thought to myself you know, this is my first book, I'm just learning, and now I dare you to find an error in one of my books. But but I had to let that go because that could have stopped me in my tracks.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, and I'm sure it would stop most people in their tracks, and I love that. You were kind of like okay, like I can't do anything about that now, like let's keep going, and that's that's part of the mentality. And for me that's like letting go of the perfection of like okay, like there's going to be mistakes. Like for me, when I put out posts or content or whatever, like there's probably going to be spelling mistakes, because I don't want to reread it five times and then probably still not catch it. Yeah, I would rather just put it out and be like you can't deal with spelling mistakes.

Speaker 1:

Like it's fine, you're not my person, you can't deal with spelling mistakes like it's fine, you're not my person, that's not a problem, that's right, absolutely. And and that's I learned that that because you, everybody wants it perfect, but it, but it never is going to be perfect, that's the thing. Like it just won't be there, will always be be something else. So you just got to go with the 165 errors in your, in your book.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my goodness, but see the, the, the errors that you, that this person called out. Like that's, that's one piece of it. But imagine if you were sitting there going like, oh, but I didn't say this, oh, but I don't like how this turned out, and like that's a whole nother that's right road, that we can go down that you could have stopped yourself to be like oh, but you know, I didn't like this and I didn't like that and like criticize.

Speaker 2:

But instead you were like nope, next let's go yeah yeah, just learn and move on, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1:

So what what? A lot of women struggle with people-pleasing behaviors, so what strategy do you recommend for them to break the patterns of people-pleasing? That's a hard one for us women.

Speaker 2:

Yes, and I feel like like I don't have a short answer to that. I wish I did, I wish I did. And I feel like the in its simplest, like, if we like boil it down, it's really letting go of what other people think and like letting their what we think that they are thinking impact us.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes no-transcript.

Speaker 2:

Three children and diapers in that age at that time and it was like no, we need to put in place boundaries. We need to not let go of the people pleasing, because otherwise it's just not going to happen.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, oh yes, good for you. Boundaries are so, so important, so you keep talking about motherhood here and entrepreneurship. So how do you manage your time and to be able to excel in both of those roles?

Speaker 2:

That's a good question. So I think that it helps me that I've created a business that can work around. My schedule Like this was part of the intention when I started, when I tried to figure this out is it works around or I fit it around what I need it to. So on the days, if you know the kids are sick or if there's a doctor's appointment or you know life happens, then I arrange my schedule accordingly and typically this isn't like. Typically I don't have things that can't be moved, that or if, when I do, then you know I got my backup systems in place and and I'll sort it out. But what it looks like right now is my kids go to elementary school and daycare and I work during the days, so I work when they're in school and taken care of um and maybe like a couple of odds and ends you know, here and there, but when I started, when they were in diapers, it looked like, you know, taking a call with my baby. Yes, absolutely, and why?

Speaker 2:

not Well, exactly, and that was. I had to shift my mind around that because I was coming from like the corporate space of you know professionalism looks like this and you know you should be. You should look in a certain way and do certain things. And when I had my fourth baby I had my business at that point, so I didn't take as long at maternity leave. We're both in Canada, so like maternity leave looks different here, but I didn't take as long of a typical maternity leave. But once I did start working she was with me and I had support. I had my mother-in-law to help me, but for the most part she was here. So if I was like doing something on the computer she could be playing and that's fine.

Speaker 2:

If I was on calls like I'd have my mother-in-law help me if she could, and it just looked different. Yes, yeah, but it doesn't have to stop us. No, absolutely not. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I definitely come with the mentality of like, yes, I want to figure this out, like, let's go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Versus a oh, I don't, I can't and you know, take myself out of whatever.

Speaker 1:

Yes, exactly yeah. So tell us what you do for women. How do you help us?

Speaker 2:

Oh, okay, so let's see how do I help? I help you manage your brain, and what I mean by that is help you manage your brain, and what I mean by that is like I work with so many brilliant, talented women, and what we and when I say we, I mean humans in general what we tend to do is get in our own way, and this is not intentional. Nobody wants to, you know. Stop yourself from creating big success or stop yourself from, you know, going after the thing that you want. We don't do it consciously, we don't do it intentionally, but we'll put in place kind of these filters and barriers that keep us safe.

Speaker 2:

And those things can look like procrastinating or perfectionism or, you know, self-sabotaging or being like, oh, I can't because I have the kids today, or, you know, that's just not possible for me. And I help you overcome that. I help you see what is standing in your way and help you move through it, because oftentimes, like, those things are going to come up, and they can come up at all the different levels, it doesn't matter if you're you know you've reached a certain point in your business or your career and you're like this is amazing, but you still want to keep going. Those tendencies can still come back, like if you're thinking oh well, you know, it's not enough, or I don't have enough time or enough money, or enough, enough enough, you name it. There's a million different kind of offshoots of that.

Speaker 1:

When you're talking, I'm thinking to myself okay, Everything you're explaining is maybe fear-based.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and the thing is, when we do the scary things and put ourself out there, it kind of like opens us up to be vulnerable, to be, you know, to have people come at us. It's kind of like celebrities, I mean, they kind of get shoved into this, but celebrities like, they'll be in the public eye and not everybody's going to like them and they're going to throw stones and they're going to say things and and some people might get there and be like like this is what I thought, like let's, let's hide, or you, you kind of stay hidden because on some level you're afraid to get there. Like imagine, you know Oprah like I feel like she's like a generally liked person, but there's for sure you know what I hate Oprah club out there.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I know a lady that hates Oprah and I'm just like yes, I know a lady that hates Oprah and I'm just like what she's spectacular, but yes, I know, I know right.

Speaker 2:

But all of that to say like if Oprah let that get to her, like the people not have gotten to the point that she's at, she wouldn't be able to have created what she has created. But most of the time, like the things that are stopping us, they're not super obvious Most of the time, and sometimes they are and we just don't know how to move past them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I belong to quite a few networking groups in my area and and you and you can hear that when people are like there's so many little things that they put a wall up to sort of stop, you know, and but fear, fear-based, I think is is probably most of it is what's coming up, and and fear of judgment, for sure. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I have a. I have a background 34 years of sales and marketing, of which I've, I've, I retired last year, and so you know when you're in sales, excuse me, you have a lot of rejection. So when I got the email about the 165 errors in my book, my first thought was my goodness, she counted them all. Wow.

Speaker 2:

That's a lot, wow, but I love that. That was your first thought. But you like, you built that up, like you built up the thick skin, as people call it, of like it's not going to bug me.

Speaker 1:

And well, it does bug me, but but I I know that that you have to do what you have to do to get there. So I was in real estate and I remember I couldn't look and I stopped myself from reading the real estate newspapers because all you know the oh 20 listings and all this and all these awards and blah, blah, blah, and I remember it would shrink me and it would make me feel inferior because I wasn't that good yet. And then but, and so I told myself I'm not reading these magazines or these newspapers anymore and I just stopped and I think that for me, was a huge lesson Just focus, focus, focus. Don't look at what everybody else is doing, don't focus on what's going to make you feel less, and just move ahead.

Speaker 2:

I actually find there's two ways to go about that. You chose one path of like I'm just going to put up a barrier, I'm not going to look at it. And the other path is to change your mind about it, like to be able to look at it and see something differently Now, I don't encourage that every time and see something differently. Now, I don't encourage that every time. Sometimes it's just easier to like, you know, blinders on, Like I'm not going to, I'm just not going to look there. But for the cases or the instances where we can't just shut it off right, Like maybe it's a loved one who, every time you talk about your business, they you, you know shut it down or they're not encouraging or whatnot, Sometimes we can't always just put up those barriers.

Speaker 2:

And sometimes you have to work to shift how you're thinking about it. So I just wanted to point out like there's kind of like the two different paths that you can go down. There isn't one right or wrong? But there's there's two options available.

Speaker 1:

Well, absolutely. If you're dealing with family members and you're hearing, go get a real job, and what are you doing, and all of that kind of stuff, yeah, you can't put the blinders up, because that's just going to create more friction.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I would say in that case boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. We want to put up like boundaries, put those out there.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yeah, for sure, yeah. So what are some common limiting beliefs that you help your clients reframe?

Speaker 2:

Good one, okay. So the fear of failure is a big one, like the kind of striving, wanting to strive for more, but being afraid that you're going to fall.

Speaker 1:

This is a common one.

Speaker 2:

This is a common one. Another one that I talk a lot about is this idea of being enough. So whether it's being enough or having enough, enough time, enough money, enough resources, and we can kind of get stuck in that like it's not enough zone. If you will, and if you can't move, if you can't figure out how to move past it, then it doesn't matter what level you get to, like you know the next level, the next, as you climb the ladder, so to speak, whether that's in business or life or whatnot, it'll just keep coming back. So what we do together is to support you to overcome that limit, that barrier, and sometimes that'll look like you know, changing it forever and never getting to that point again. And sometimes it'll look like being like oh okay, I see what's happening here and I see how this like not enough is coming up again as I've reached this new level and like, okay, here's how I'm going to deal with it and here's what I'm going to do next.

Speaker 1:

So strategies, yes, very strategic.

Speaker 2:

Strategic, it's understanding your brain, and so much of it is just the awareness of what's happening, because most of the time we can't see it. But for me as a coach, it's really easy for me to see it. In my clients, in whoever comes into my orbit, I can see what needs to shift for you so that you can continue to move further, faster, and that's the part that I really like, can pull out and give you strategies and tools for it.

Speaker 1:

And isn't that really the essence of coaching? What you just said is that we go in blocked and you are able to see the whole picture and then help us to gently, gently or not gently, whatever that person needs, but to start to unravel those blocks. Yes, yeah. What do you think about belief systems from families and those kinds of things? Do you find that many of your clients struggle with those kinds of blocked or limiting beliefs?

Speaker 2:

I think we all carry something with us from, you know, childhood, from all of the experiences that you know we've had up until now in our lives.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and for me, is it serving you or is it not? And if it's not serving you, like because we all have it, we all have, you know, we all have it, we all have, you know, we see different things, we've heard different things, we've experienced different things, and it's just is it helping you to get where you want to go or is it hurting you? And if it's hurting you, then it can be changed, like it can be shifted, and that it comes from like a having a growth mindset of you're not fixed in a certain way, like if you, you know, have always thought, I don't know, like, oh, I'm not a morning person. You've always thought that, up until now, on an offer that you could change that if you wanted to, yes, this was literally something I had to change for myself because I had kids, I had a corporate job, I had my business and I was like you know what? I'm going to be a morning person right now. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2:

This is the season of my life that I'm going to figure this out, wow.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's. I love how you said you can change it if you want to, and it's so true. Yeah, it's not truth.

Speaker 2:

We take it as truth but it's not actually like like facts. Like if you went to a judge and a jury and you shared what's going on in your brain, they'd be like that's nice, it's, it's not a fact. Like it's a fact that you know it's whatever temperature outside and that is something that can be proven. But all of the stuff that's like swirling around in your brain, most of it, majority of it, is not actually truth, but we take it in and like we absorb it as if it is. I just wanted to offer that, like you know, you could, you could test that yes, I always, uh, my, tell my, my boys, that's not percept, that's your perception.

Speaker 1:

That's not necessarily true. It's how we see it and you see that in in siblings, as they, you know, they get older and they've got the sibling rivalry we got going on in our house and but it's that, that's not. That's just your perception of what happened. But I can tell you that's not really what happened and so I think it's. It's sorry.

Speaker 1:

I just was thinking about a stepsister of mine, because my mom went through a trauma and you can see the Julie Fairhurst story behind me there and I wrote my own, my life story and my stepsister read it and she messaged me and she said how come I didn't know about this?

Speaker 1:

And I said, well, I don't know, because you were young, you know, and there were things we don't talk about and you know. And then she said something to me that just blew my mind. She said I thought she hated me and I said she didn't hate you, she hated herself. But the wake up call for me was we just go on through life, we have no thinking everybody's okay and this is good and this is good, but their perception. So she didn't understand why my mom was the way she was, so she just assumed her perception was something completely different, which now she understands was not true and hopefully she can heal from that. But to think that she went on 20, 25, 30 years thinking that and so, yeah, like we need to question ourselves sometimes especially for the things that aren't serving us.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, if something's like really like eating at you or really bugging you, maybe it doesn't actually have to be that way. And this is one of the things that always makes my clients laugh when we talk about putting in place boundaries and like what do we need to clean up, especially like in business terms, but also in life terms. And I always ask them like what's bugging you? Like what's the thing that's really like like nagging at you? And oftentimes most people have like, have like like an instant of that that thing. Yeah, and that's where we start, because that's the thing that they think maybe can't change or that they think is you know, this big, enormous problem, when really it just takes a few tweaks and they're like oh, my God, this is so much better. Why didn't?

Speaker 1:

I do this earlier Exactly, yeah, yeah, we could just make it way more than it really is. So, for women that are feeling overwhelmed by starting their business or scaling their business, what initial steps would you suggest that they should take? Hmm?

Speaker 2:

Hmm, the thing that I like to do, if it's like just me sitting down with a pen and paper, is I like to just kind of get it all out and and write out like oh well, I'm overwhelmed with this and there's this and, like you know, basically like brain dump everything that's going on, and then I kind of just like let it sit for a minute. Yeah, okay, like this is, you know what's going on, this is what's happening. And usually what I try to do next is say, okay, like how can I make this easier on myself? Like how could this look differently? Maybe something can be paused. Maybe, you know, you can ask for support.

Speaker 2:

Maybe is like physically get up, move, do something different so that you can clear your head. And when you come back to sit down after you've, you know, dumped out everything in your brain, then it's like you're looking at it with fresh eyes and I mean I can give like there's like an endless amount of things that you can do to support yourself. Between going and talking to like call a friend, like hey, I need to vent, or go for a walk or have a bath, whatever thing that works for you, but taking the time to do that, and then coming back to whatever it is that you're working on and going okay, like I got this, I can do this. And going okay, like I got this, I can do this, and it really helps to kind of like calm your nervous system and just like chill a little bit when you're feeling that overwhelm. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And I think, too, that we, as women, tend to do or want to do, everything you know, and I've recently had to learn that, yeah, it's easier to reach out for help on the things that you're struggling with. So I can do some pretty techie things these days. It took me a long time to get there, but I'm not perfect, but I got some stuff going on. But when it takes me four days of my precious time to figure out something technical with a website and then I get a hold of somebody and say, can you fix this? And they have it done in three hours, we need to let go. Yes, because that brings me down. And now that's putting me back on what I'm not on track. I'm frustrated.

Speaker 2:

And but you're also working, like you're not working in your genius zone, right, like you're kind of like playing over here and that's nice, like you could do it, you could figure it out, you're a smart person. But if you just delegated that to begin with, then you would keep that bandwidth for the things that you are really good at and that you enjoy and that, like, fill you up.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I love that. Do you help women find what their genius at?

Speaker 2:

Um, I can do that. Oftentimes when women come to me, they kind of like they've got that down and they're like all right, this is where I want to go. But if, if anyone who's listening is like kind of feeling lost, kind of feeling like they're not sure, this is literally what I had to do for myself, because had you asked me 10 years ago what do you want to do with your life, I would have said I don't know. Like, what are you passionate about? I don't know. And I did not have an answer. And it was only when I had kids that I was like you know what? I need to figure this out, because I don't have an answer.

Speaker 2:

And that is not good enough. If I want to teach my little people to follow their dreams and do something that they love and you know make money and support people like, I need to figure out how to do all that. Yes, if anyone is listening, going like, oh, like, I need to figure it out for myself, like, yes, I can help you with this please, yeah, like, yeah, you need, you need that kind of kick in the butt or like light bulb moment to be like, okay, I'm going to figure it out.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think that there's that, with such a population of baby boomers out there that are all in the, you know, retiring it's now, what do I do?

Speaker 2:

And I think that, and I think what I want to say is like, oh, my goodness, you have so much wisdom and so much life experience that if you, you know, like you said, what is your passion and then go with that, there's so much, there is so much, and like also not get caught up in the I'm too old or I don't know or I'm not good at this, like those are just all ways that we can limit ourself, yeah, rather than saying like I really want to figure that out or I really want to. You know, go do this thing. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yeah, I remember when I hit my 25 year mark in my career, being burnt out and, oh, what am I going to do? What can I? What, what, what can I possibly do other than what I'm doing? I've been doing it for 25 years, live and breathing it. I don't have a college, diploma, degree, phd, like what could I possibly do to replace my income? And blah, blah, blah, blah blah. I really struggled with what to do. And then this I would never have thought in a million trillion years that this is what I would be doing. So I just you know this is what I would be doing. So I just you know I'm encouraging everybody that might be listening to to you know, contact you and and sit down and and get you to help them flush it out, because there's, there's stuff, we all got good stuff. You just need to flush it out.

Speaker 2:

You need to get it out, exactly.

Speaker 1:

And I can tell you like.

Speaker 2:

It's not a straightforward path. It's not like oh, here's your answer on a silver platter. That's not how it works, but you do just need to start taking action towards figuring it out.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, and I think and isn't that the key? Just taking action, even baby steps, one step at a time. Just get out there and start doing it.

Speaker 2:

But even like, even if it's not the quote unquote right thing or right direction, you you can take it as information, as data to be like okay, I don't like this thing, and it actually helps you get closer to the thing that you do like.

Speaker 1:

When I first thought of writing or well, I was told that I should be writing, but anyway, I thought I needed to write sales books for salespeople and coach salespeople. And I did do that and I still write sales books more for female entrepreneurs now. But that wasn't what I was supposed to do. This is what I was supposed to do Women's stories. But so it's so true what you just said, like it made me go oh yeah, yeah, it just you're going to be led into where you should be, if, or you can go kicking and screaming, yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes or not go at all, like not take the action, and that's sad To me.

Speaker 1:

That's sad. Yeah, yeah, wow. Well, I have really enjoyed our conversation thus far. Now I love to ask my podcast guests a few questions, just to get them to know them a little bit better. Do you mind if I throw them at you, of course? Okay, all right, here we go. So my first question is if you could travel anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go and why would you go there?

Speaker 2:

Honestly, there's so many things on my travel list oh, it's so good. Such a good question. I can name you like 20 places. I would say probably fiji, to those little huts that have like the glass bottoms and that you can see the water underneath. That's. That's always been on the bucket list. I haven't made it that far yet but that's on my bucket list.

Speaker 1:

I haven't got there yet either, but oh my goodness. Yeah, oh, I can feel it.

Speaker 2:

I can just like sitting by the water and like relaxing, but that sounds absolutely lovely right now, although I have taken a lot of trips that were like crazy adventure travel, which I also love, so it just depends on the day.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh, that's beautiful, okay, so what's your favorite way to unwind after a busy day and I'm really interested in hearing this, because you have a busy day every day, I do have a busy day every day?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that is a great question. I find it it's something that you know I don't get to take too much time for myself. Uh, usually I will either go out and take a walk doesn't happen too much at the end of the day, usually that's like a middle of the day kind of thing. Um, go out and take a walk or call my friends or probably like sit with my journal and write those are, those are like my go-tos, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, just like mentally yes.

Speaker 2:

Mentally like yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay. So do you have a favorite motivational quote that keeps you going?

Speaker 2:

I'm usually terrible with quotes. There is one that I like which is also applicable. Also appropriate because you know Canadian, but Wayne Gretzky, and you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Speaker 1:

Oh my goodness, I love that one love that one?

Speaker 2:

yes, and that is the truth, even in hockey. Well, I mean in hockey and in life, right like you miss a hundred percent of the things you don't take action on. So, yes, love that love that.

Speaker 1:

I needed to hear that one today, so that's a good one, okay, what about a favorite book that inspires you?

Speaker 2:

oh, so many good ones. I like Think and Grow Rich. That was a good one.

Speaker 1:

That's my favorite Very good. Yeah, yeah, love it. Love that one. It was written a long time ago, but the truth, the lessons, it's just amazing. It's amazing that he was thinking like that way back then. I know.

Speaker 2:

I actually I listened to it on audio because I find it for me it's easier when you're like doing the dishes, walking whatever. But yeah, that's definitely a good one, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Wow, okay, two more. If you could have dinner with any woman in history, who would it be and why?

Speaker 2:

Ooh, any woman in history, oh, that opens the door to like so many brilliant women. I'd probably say Taylor Swift right now, and I'm not even like a huge Swifty, but I just admire so much of what she has built and the devoted fans and how she has, you know, gone and marketed herself and just shown up and because I believe, I don't know I I don't know her, but I just feel like she's like a genuinely good human as well, which for me, like this, is an important part oh no, of course, yeah, yeah, and I watched her documentary, did you see it?

Speaker 1:

uh documentary or like the show oh, maybe it was the show, I don know, but it was like a document. But it was about her life, I don't know. Maybe it was a show yeah, it was on Netflix. But she had to have a lot of oomph inside of her when that happened. When she won that first award and what's his name? Rudely came up on stage and took the microphone and said Beyonce should. I mean, that could have crushed anybody, and I think it did crush her for a little while.

Speaker 2:

I mean that would be normal, but it's how you bounce back. That's the part that really matters.

Speaker 1:

Yes, absolutely, yes, absolutely Okay. And the last one if you could whisper one truth in the ear of every woman who's struggling right now, what would you say?

Speaker 2:

you're so much more capable than you give yourself credit for oh don't?

Speaker 1:

we all need to hear that? I know, right, all of us, all of us, oh, that that's love, that one. Well, I have just, I've just enjoyed this so much and, um, oh, I just want to mention one more thing, one more thing before, before we. Your podcast is called you Are your Biggest Asset Podcast. Now, I think I know you know why, but why did you name that, your biggest asset you?

Speaker 2:

were your biggest asset. So this is something that I've talked about for years because, I mean, what I work with with women is on their brain and I truly like, 100% believe that we, you, are your biggest assets, Like we are all our own biggest asset. And no matter how smart, no matter how knowledgeable, no matter how capable you are, if you're not treating yourself like your biggest asset and I mean, I'm a mom of four and like wear all the hats I know how easy it is to put yourself last and, to you know, serve yourself last and get dressed last and be out the door Like I know how it, how it works. And for me, this is like a reminder to all of the women out there you are your biggest asset and if you want to, you know, reach the success the you know, whether that's financial or or personal or whatever that you are after, it starts with you Like, first and foremost. So that is where that title comes from and it's really.

Speaker 2:

The podcast is really designed to support women in business who are looking to scale, who do want to, you know, grow and expand and put more good out into the world, and I want to make sure that you're taking care of yourself along the way, because that's what's going to result in, you know, the growth in everything that you want to bring to life. And I've seen this on repeat with all of my clients, where they actually have more time for themselves, they actually take better care of themselves and they're seeing bigger results. Like it's not. It's not magic. It sounds magical when you're like in it, but this can be possible for everyone and that's what I want to bring the audience into.

Speaker 1:

I love that so needed, so needed. Well, everyone. If you want to speak to Karina, then what you need to do is go to the details section of our podcast and our YouTube page, and you will find details there on how to reach out to her. We'll make sure that her podcast link is there as well. So if you want to reach out to her, you want to find out more about how she can help you, or just tune into the podcast, you'll be able to do that there. Well, I really appreciated you doing this. Is there any last words you'd like to say out there to the listeners?

Speaker 2:

The only thing that comes to my mind is like I love you and keep going Like you got this.

Speaker 1:

Oh, beautiful, thank you. Well, thank you everyone for tuning in again to the Women Like Me Stories and Business Podcast and if you've tuned in, make sure that you subscribe and we'll see you again next time. Bye, everybody.

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