Episode 12

Entrepreneurial Mindset: How To Use Your Transferable Skills to Leave a Toxic Work Environment and Build Two Seven-Figure Businesses with Kristin Binford

What if the skills you stopped trusting in a toxic work environment are the ones clients would pay you for?

In this episode, I’m joined by Kristin Binford, who spent over 10 years in corporate marketing, before leaving corporate America to run Haue Valley Weddings, her wedding venue business near St. Louis, full time.

Kristin was one of the women I learned from when I started my business. We talk about returning to work after maternity leave to a toxic boss and how within a year, she’d lost confidence at work. To start a business while working full time, she ran the venue from two hours away on a four-day workweek.

You’ll learn:

• How to know when to quit your job, and why 45 bookings were enough in a market with more couples than venues
• How to start a wedding venue business on family land when none of you have ever run one
• How to start a coaching business from what you already know, and hiring the right people for what you don’t
• How to leave corporate America on your own timeline, and the conversation that let Kristin choose her end date
• When to quit corporate job hunting and bet on yourself
• How a bad boss teaches you one of your most useful transferable skills
• How an entrepreneurial mindset helped Kristin cover payroll without letting anyone go
• How a mom entrepreneur runs a business with her kids in childcare from day one

If you’ve ever dealt with corporate burnout in a job you worked years to get, searched “leaving corporate job” or “should I quit my corporate job”, or wondered whether what you know could be a business, this episode covers the numbers Kristin used to decide.

You can do hard things for yourself, too.

ABOUT KRISTIN BINFORD

Kristin Binford spent over 10 years in corporate marketing before leaving to run Haue Valley Weddings, the wedding venue business she built on family land near St. Louis, full time. She grew it from 19 weddings a year to more than 100, and ran it from two hours away on a four-day workweek before she gave up her paycheck. Find her at kristinbinford.com and hauevalleyweddings.com.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Kristin online: kristinbinford.com
• Haue Valley Weddings: hauevalleyweddings.com
• Watch the full conversation on YouTube

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So glad you’re here. I’m Sarah Janzen.

Corporate ladder-climber turned 7-figure entrepreneur. Inspiring and helping other women make their own successful leap. Taking my Fortune 500 sales. & marketing experience + Master Coach credentials to help other women with the clarity, confidence, and strategy to build a business they love.