Her First 3 Years - A podcast for women entrepreneurs
Aug 10, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
\*\*\*This is a special encore of one of the most popular episodes on the podcast on finding alignment with your business and messaging. If you've heard it before, you'll still want to listen in…
Kelsey MakaiwiGuest
Chardét RyelHost
You know, there's a few different experiences that have brought me to where I'm at now.
One of them was, you know, taking the leap years ago to move out of my home country of the United States and live in another country.
Like, I've taken risks in my life that have prepared me to take a risk when it came to work and what I do professionally.
I also, too, had a job in between being a headhunter and what I do now that I took for the more financial ...
And what I recognized a little bit at the time but I understand so much more now, I was literally sick the entire time I did that job.
And I think about how many people actually have those signals, but maybe they aren't able to recognize them, or it's a feeling they felt their whole life, and so they don't know any different.
Like, now I'm working a lot, and I'm enjoying it, and the choices I'm making to work are because I want to do that.
Like, I want to go to bed early so I can wake up energized to give it to work.
You know, when you are living With those forms of alignment, that's energy you get to give back, and not just to your work, but to your relationships, to your life, to your passions, to your hobbies.
From what you said, I mean, there's so many aspects that I think, uh, on how you have opened up to what you're doing and to the journey, and to what you're creating now.
And I always think about it similar to how, like, art is a calling, right? And there's so many ways that you could be an artist, and if you don't find the way that resonates with you, it's so much harder.
So if you're a writer, but you've been painting, or vice versa, you can be in that space but still not feel like you have found your home.
And that's where I feel like the experimenting is so important because you can know that you wanna be an entrepreneur, but it's the same thing as saying, "I wanna be an artist." There are so many ways you can express that.
You know, there's a few different experiences that have brought me to where I'm at now.
One of them was, you know, taking the leap years ago to move out of my home country of the United States and live in another country.
Like, I've taken risks in my life that have prepared me to take a risk when it came to work and what I do professionally.
I also, too, had a job in between being a headhunter and what I do now that I took for the more financial ...
And what I recognized a little bit at the time but I understand so much more now, I was literally sick the entire time I did that job.
And I think about how many people actually have those signals, but maybe they aren't able to recognize them, or it's a feeling they felt their whole life, and so they don't know any different.
Like, now I'm working a lot, and I'm enjoying it, and the choices I'm making to work are because I want to do that.
Like, I want to go to bed early so I can wake up energized to give it to work.
You know, when you are living With those forms of alignment, that's energy you get to give back, and not just to your work, but to your relationships, to your life, to your passions, to your hobbies.
From what you said, I mean, there's so many aspects that I think, uh, on how you have opened up to what you're doing and to the journey, and to what you're creating now.
And I always think about it similar to how, like, art is a calling, right? And there's so many ways that you could be an artist, and if you don't find the way that resonates with you, it's so much harder.
So if you're a writer, but you've been painting, or vice versa, you can be in that space but still not feel like you have found your home.
And that's where I feel like the experimenting is so important because you can know that you wanna be an entrepreneur, but it's the same thing as saying, "I wanna be an artist." There are so many ways you can express that.
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