Christina Florand

The Confident Retirement Podcast with Brett Kris Flammang and Mark Picchi Episode 004 Christina Florand

Christina Florand is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family and Civil Court Mediator and a Qualified Arbitrator. She has an educational background and degree in Psychology and Criminology. She studied at the University of South Florida and has been a Mediator for 11 years. She added Arbitration services to her practice 3 years ago. Prior to that, she had experience as owner and operator of a small business. 

She previously facilitated a program called C.M.A.C.S. that was taught to children requiring guidance in the realms of conflict management and avoidance, as well as coping skills that can be used throughout their lifetime. She also co-developed and facilitates a workshop for the last four years at the Women's Resource Center called: You are Worthy! Learning to Raise Your Own Bar! 

She enjoys traveling the world, yoga, and being the proud parent of a fourteen-year-old daughter. All of these experiences as well as building houses, businesses, and going through a divorce personally, have given her valuable experience in managing and relating to a variety of mediation cases.

Listen to this dynamic The Confident Retirement Podcast episode with Christina Florand to know more of how mediation and conflict resolution can help with you at some point in your life.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

-Christina shares to us how she got to the mediation field, including what she loved to do when she was a kid.

-Christina explains what meditation is and what are the misconceptions in her industry.

-What does she enjoy about mediating?

-Christina shares what is being overlooked in mediating and a really satisfying moment for her in mediation.

-What is Christina’s first memory of money and what she passed on to her daughter? And any negative or positive effects of money in terms of disputes that she encountered?

-What would be Christina’s dream job if not mediation and what would she be splurging on if given the opportunity?

-What’s Christina’s biggest achievement for her, and how she facilitated the programs she worked on?

-What are Christina’s challenges in the business and how she stays up to date with the news.

Connect with Christina Florand:

Website: https://www.florandmediation.com/

Phone number: (941) 228-8150

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Kris and Mark

Website: https://www.lpfadvisors.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristopher-flammang-lpfadv/

Twitter: @kflammang

#MarkPicchi

Highlights:

[06:55-07:21]

“What I really love, not just about this profession, but just life in general, is helping people to empower themselves to make their choices. So, when we put things into somebody else's hands, sometimes we regret how that how that came out. So, I feel like as a mediator, I can really help people to stay in control of the outcome.”

[20:57-21:33]

“Well, money gives us a sense of security, but our relationships do first and foremost. I think when an important relationship stops giving us the security that you really needed. I think our next go to is like, Okay, well, money gives me security. So, I've now lost that sense of stability that I had with this relationship. Now, kind of let me see what I can do to manage the money part of it. No right or wrong there. I think it's just a very natural human nature thing that we do.”

[38:29-38:44]

“So instead of wanting to say, “Well, but this is what I want, and this is what I want, and this is why this is what I want,” if you can change that and flip it and try to understand why it is what they want. That's the starting point of getting to the other side.”

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