Live a Life Full of Pleasure - Katrin with Love
Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Katrin Maslenkova, Owner of Katrin with Love Inc., located in Toronto, ON, Canada.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
I help women feel glowing, happy, and confident and create their dream relationships. Specifically, women whose 24/7 rollercoaster ride between highs and heartbreak has planted a seed of worry about the future. Who feels a sense of disappointment in the knight-in-shining armour that those fairytales promised... Whose all-is-good-on-the-surface-but-something-is-missing-between-US cry for help that has been building up inside them. A longing for what they know they desire but are starting to doubt they deserve... Women who are looking for a love life makeover! To be Liberated In Love.
Tell us about yourself
Back in the day, if you had told me I'd be helping people live a life full of play and pleasure, I would have created an excel spreadsheet outlining why you must have me confused with someone else. On the top of that list would be the #1 reason why this career change wasn't for me - I wasn't living a fun or fulfilling life myself! And some days, my experience of painful sex (vaginismus, in particular, a type of panic attack in my vagina) plus the disconnection to men that came with that had me convinced I never would.
Today, what motivates me every day to do what I do is the difference that I notice between now and then in the quality of my own relationship and love life. Also, the memory of how little support I found in the medical community when I was experiencing pelvic pain - how alone and confused I felt. How angry I was with my body then. And the desire to be a light in the darkness for so many women struggling with a private pain, whether with their bodies, relationships, or sex lives.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
My biggest accomplishment as a business owner is to have helped women find the loves of their lives, reignite the spark in their relationships, have their first orgasms, say goodbye to sexual pain, and get pregnant after years of struggle with conception. To have been right by their side as they transitioned from having sex lives that only brought them pain and disappointment into ones rooted in safety, curiosity pleasure. Now having a sexual experience that they were finally excited about, even to share with their girlfriends! In general, I am proud of guiding women into feeling glowing, happy, and confident again!
What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?
For me, it is staying true to your nature in the development of the venture, despite the pressures from the outside world. There are so many guiding marketing and business strategies out there, some of which are incredibly helpful, but only if you trust yourself enough to discern which ones are right for YOUR genius.
That's to say that the very same guidance that I share with women about uncovering their authenticity and turning up the volume on their voice is applicable to the business world! And so is listening to the wisdom of the inner alpha (masculine) and omega (feminine) energetics that lives within each of us - allowing both to play together and in union.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Start before you're ready. Trust your inner guidance more than anything. And infuse play and pleasure into how you do things!
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.katrinwithlove.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/by.katrin.with.love
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrin.with.love/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrin-maslenkova-5a429732/
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