Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Catherine Bell, founder of The Awakened Company, located in Calgary, AB, Canada.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

Our business is to ignite and sustain the fire with passion, purposefulness, and playfulness! Our clients are those who want to be a positive force in the world. We help organizations develop healthy corporate cultures, and this has a significant positive impact on their financial returns.

Tell us about yourself

My personal vision is to be and become evermore a healthy muse to radiate love, wisdom, and power in service to humanity and the planet. To really drop into the intoxicating raw reality of being so that the reality of being becomes me, and that healthy stream influences and evolves my business. Living from the inside out is key! Awakened Company was started because organizations felt dead inside, and I co-founded a profit 200 firm that did things radically differently, and I wanted to share atypical lessons learned!

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

My biggest accomplishment as a business owner is being (hopefully) an inspiring force for other people and empowering everyone our organization touches, whether helping clients go from zero to a billion or guests on our Enneagram webinars. I am a serial entrepreneur (currently Founder of Awakened Company, Co-Founder, Awakenly, and business Partner with Russ Hudson), being a mother, wife, community advocate (started Awakened Project, advisor to the Science Centre and Impact Society), and university teacher.

What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?

One of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner is dancing with and discerning what business opportunities to dive into and knowing which ideas to really bring to life. Self-care is also very hard for me, so I work on that, and part of that is not taking on too much.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

  1. Ensure you know who you have to be to get to where you want to go.
  2. Ensure your vision is articulated, clear, inspirational, AND known by everyone in your organization.
  3. Every day, write down three things you can do (some of them may be sitting on ideas) that will impact your organization.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

By working together differently, we can solve the world's greatest challenges. The invitation is to awaken ourselves, our relationships, and our organizations by focusing on what we need to energize, sustain and regenerate in each of those components.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://awakenedcompany.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awakenedcompany
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theawakenedcompany/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwakenedCompany
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bellcatherine/

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