Best Day Ever: A conversation with business coach (and sailor!) Michelle Casazza

Episode 19: The one where we’re on a boat.

Michelle Casazza is a former DTC finance VP turned business coach. She is now the proud founder of Matria. Matria’s mission is to empower and invest in women through coaching, community, and capital. And although her primary focus is the female experience, her insights are truly for everyone. She is also an experienced sailor and her life on the water brings a whole set of insights to the conversation. (She even recorded this podcast aboard her boat!)

If you watch only one episode of Best Day Ever, this is it. It’s not industry specific. Simply stated, it’s about showing up for yourself for personal and professional growth. Who doesn’t need a little more of that?

Some of Michelle’s wisdom, on achieving balance:

Balance is achieved over a lifetime. There are gonna be times in life that we need to lean into certain areas and we need to give our all to something. And so I don’t think that it’s fair to ask someone to achieve balance every day. Look at it in the long term. What are you focusing on now? Are your goals aligned with who you are? And then give yourself that permission to really be out of balance for a bit, knowing that you’re going to come back. You can’t sprint your entire life in a business. It’s up to you on your journey, to continuously be thinking “how and where do I balance?”

Balance is about life integration. What I’m understanding now is that the more we can integrate what we love into what we do for work and bring value to the world with those two things together, the more balance happens naturally. 

Balance has everything to do with your physical health. Are you sleeping well? Are you eating well? Are you hydrating? Are you moving your body?

For me, I achieve balance by focusing on the joy of it all. Running several businesses is honestly a very joyful, very big puzzle for me to solve. And if I approach my work with that perspective, which then turns into ownership and agency, it becomes a super rad game.

We talked about objectivity, risk and so much more. We’re also planning a part two on facing fears. If that floats your boat, let us know in the comments. ⛵️

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