You think you're building your business.
But somewhere along the way, the business starts building you.
Christina Olivarez hit her ten-year mark and called it the hardest year of her career. Her husband was laid off, her body was recovering from major surgery, and the funding for the conference she'd poured seven years into disappeared overnight.
For the first time, she asked herself a question that changes everything: if no one was watching, what would I actually build?
This conversation is about the identity work underneath scaling. The grief no one warns you about. The self-trust that has to come before the team, the pricing, the visibility.
If you've ever felt successful on paper and quietly misaligned underneath it, this one is for you.
What You'll Hear:
Why does hitting a major milestone sometimes break you instead of freeing you? [00:02:00]
What happens to your revenue when your nervous system can't hold your expansion? [00:03:00]
How do you move through the grief of not being where you thought you'd be by now? [00:17:00]
Who do you actually have to become to lead yourself when everything is falling apart? [00:19:00]
Why does becoming visible feel like such a threat, and what's really underneath that fear? [00:22:00]
What does values-based visibility look like when it feels risky to be seen? [00:27:00]
How can you start speaking up as a leader without doing the big, all-or-nothing version? [00:31:00]
What's the most common leadership struggle Christina sees in her clients? [00:33:00]
Resources:
The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
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Christina Olivarez is an award-winning Strategic Leadership Coach, TEDx speaker, and host of the Unapologetically Visible™ podcast, whose work has been featured in USA Today, CNN, and by the San Antonio Business Journal as a Top Executive Coach. She helps established Latina and Women of Color founders recalibrate their identity, authority, and visibility so their business reflects who they've become, not who they had to be to survive.
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