Achieve Financial Balance in Your Entrepreneurial Life and Your Personal Life

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today my guest is Christiane Constantino. She's an author, speaker, and a business coach. Christiane, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Adam, for inviting me. All right. So we got a lot to talk about today. A lot of business owners, a lot of entrepreneurs that watch this show and talking about achieving financial balance and your entrepreneurial life and your personal life, I'm excited to get input from you on how to do this. And also to share that with my audience. But before we do that, we'll start this episode, the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So at Mission Matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's what we do. Christiane, what mission matters to you? Oh, what mission matters to me? I would say the economic development and the entrepreneurship has always been at the core of my mission. So that's why I created 6DT Consulting. So I can help entrepreneurs master their own financial management and build a sustainable and thriving business. You need money to start a business. So you need to manage it. So, yeah, well, well, great having you on today. And I guess just to get us going here, Christiane how did you get started as an entrepreneur? Like where'd all that begin for you? I would say began when I was about. 18 years old. I went to the university and then I started my bachelor's degree in computer science and got pregnant. So the second semester was too tired to, so I wanted something easy to learn, you know, so I decided to learn accounting. Hold on. You wanted something easy. So what do you do for fun? And I'm just, so I started with accounting. And then it was a bit difficult. So I went to admin, so I did my bachelor's degree in administration. And after that, I did my post university degree in the corporate finance. And finally, I did a master's degree in management just to it's called an executive MBA. So just for me to, to better understand my clients, because I work as a A portfolio manager at the big corporation in the province of Quebec. So I want to better understand the process, their their operations, they're not just the finance aspect, because it's not just money, you know, there's people behind the numbers, you know, so I want to understand the whole aspect of the business. So that's why I did two years and two years full time study and working those both. So just. Better understand the business owner. So I think I did pretty good. I think I like when you had those multiple roles you were doing, like, like what kept you strong during those times? Those don't sound like very easy years, like trying to keep the, you know, managing the family, multiple positions, all these other things, like what kept you strong? What kept me strong is it's resilience, you know, because when I was very young, I had disease called it's rheumatic fever. So damaged a part of my heart. So, and after that, overcoming that challenge in life, I decided that, you know, nothing matters. There's no obstacle for me that would matter. So I always make sure. I start my day like with an objective in mind, 10, 10 objectives, not more than that, because nobody can do more than that. So I'm happy to get through two or three. You said 10, go ahead. So I start with 10 and then after that, I break it down that I've read the book. What is it called? Eat that frog first from Brian Tracy. Oh, so you break, you take the ugly one, the ugly frog first, and you start with it. That job you don't want to do and then you just do it. So put that aside and then you can achieve anything. So that's what I do is I, I just break it down into small pieces. So, you know, you can't eat an elephant in one day. So you've got to start somewhere. So you can start with the nose or the, the legs, you know, so it's time. So, so for me doing a master's degree was like a big elephant to eat, you know, years of preparation and everything, but you know, you've got to, And I've got tools to do it. Like I use my agenda to, to fix all these objectives. So I write it down on a piece of paper and then I put it in my agenda to make sure it does balance with my day. and I understand. So at what point, like when you, so you're working in corporate, you're doing this. And at some point you decide that you're going to kind of go that entrepreneurial route. Like how, how did that happen? How did it happen? It, I think it did happen just by I, I had great bosses, but. When I was doing my MBA, one of my boss decided to retire. He left us with a new guy. So, but the new guys. It's kind of young and everything. And I did my master's degree to make sure, like, I wanted to do more into the economic development. I wanted to tak

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