Ep. #7: From Teacher to SAHM to Interior Designer, and Trusting Your Intuition, with Crystal Maki
Crystal Maki is a master of reinvention. Before she was a successful interior designer, she was a teacher, a TV news producer, and a stay at home mom to her three kids. Crystal talks about how her current career is the culmination of all the things that came before it and how trusting her intuition is the guidepost that helps her make decisions for her life and work.
We chat about how doing work that you love can fill you up energetically, which ripples out to other areas of your life. How QUALITY of time is better than QUANTITY when it comes to work-life balance.
Crystal acknowledges that of course it can feel scary and risky to try something new, but NOT putting your ideas into the world is depriving it of something it needs desperately - more creativity, connection, beauty, love.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Crystal was a teacher for 10 years before staying home to raise her 3 kids.
How a spontaneous request from a friend to decorate her house was the spark that launched her new business.
What Crystal did to face her fears over the risk of starting a new business.
How tapping into her intuition is a guidepost for her she lives her life and makes decisions about her business and parenting.
How she approaches balance in her life as a working mom to 3 kids and what she thinks about kids being ‘overscheduled’
The things she does to help her tap into her intuition.
How necessity to prioritize time to be still in a world that is chronically overstimulated and overscheduled.
Her take on how she’s reinvented herself and her career. How each stage has informed the next step by helping her discover what she likes and what she doesn’t.
Her why pursuing what you want to do isn’t just for you...it’s for the overarching value that you give to the world and how that enriches women and mothers as a collective.
Her two pieces of advice for any mom who wants to take their own next step:
Write it down and be specific
Try things. Explore your strengths. Don’t just sit at home.
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Catherine Ferguson is a Life Coach for working moms. She helps high-achieving, high-vibe women create careers they truly care about, using simple concepts and tools she explores on her podcast and in her personalized coaching program.
She believes that doing work you love as a mother doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming, and that there are simple shifts you can make right now to help you move closer to your dream career by applying universal principles that you’re probably already teaching your children. She is the host of the One Badass (Working) Mother podcast and a mom of two cute but psycho kids.