Chris Castillo is the founder of Empowered Achievers, a career coaching and development company focused on helping driven professional women craft careers that they love. Originally coming from the corporate advertising industry where she worked on clients like Google, YouTube, & Expedia, she traded in the agency life for the world of talent development & culture. She transformed her own career into something she loved, and is passionate about getting rid of the “Sunday Scaries” for each one of her clients, too.
Chris works with individuals and companies alike, through both her custom coaching program as well as corporate trainings. She is a thought-leader, with articles in Thrive Global and features on sites such as Business News Daily and HelloGiggles.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“All of the mindset stuff, I’m sure this is common to a lot of entrepreneurs but the internal hurdles of oh my gosh what if I don’t make enough money to sustain this or what if I do this publically and everyone’s going to know if I don’t do a good job, a lot of those fears”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Book by Carol DweckFavourite Quote:
“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is going through some kind of battle”
Recommended Online Resources:
TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Make your end goal who you want to be not what you want to do because so often I see people put these end goals that are really tactical things like I want to make partner by the time I’m 35 or I want to do this and then I’ll be able to accomplish this other thing and really these outward objectives but the problem with that is when you have this external metric, if something changes, or you realise you no longer want that thing, it feels like your world is falling out under you, instead if you look at here’s who I am at my best and I’m constantly going to focus on being the very best version of myself, the steps on that road can change and it doesn’t feel jarring, it doesn’t feel terrifying as long as you’re still doing things that are in line with the best version of yourself”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Castillo:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I am very comfortable not being the expert and actually putting people who work for me forward. I don’t need to know all the answers, and I don’t need to be the one who’s out there up front.” Sandra E. Peterson
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Castillo:
- “You can lift other people up and ultimately that’s going to be best for everyone as a whole”
- “We can get so focussed on doing and delivering and our stuff that we forget to bring others along for the journey”
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