Her work has been covered in publications around the world - including the Guardian, Vice, NPR, the Globe and Mail and others - StartWell member Natalia Juarez joins Qasim in the studio for this session, telling us about her journey to establishing a consultant practice that uniquely helps people navigate romantic challenges in their lives.

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Qasim Virjee 0:21

Dolla dolla bill, yo. All right, welcome back to another episode of the start, well podcast, we're really banging them out from the studio here on our King Street main campus in Toronto, Canada. I'm Qasim the CEO of start well, you can find out more information about our podcast at startled Co. If you have come to us through our syndicated partners, you can get to us again, through iTunes, subscribe, and get all the updates on demand on your iOS device. If you're on Android, I'm not quite sure how to help you. I don't know I should know that answer. I'm sure you can find us other ways. But otherwise, find us at Starla co slash community. That's where all our podcasts are archived. And with that, I will basically let my guest today, Natalia Juarez introduce herself, and then we'll jump into some of her unique career experience as a consultant, personal consultant, I would say I don't know if that's correct. And entrepreneur, what she does, is very personal with her clients. It has a backdrop of a long, interesting career path that is ancillary to what she does now, but has kind of come together. I think it sounds like to me to position her really at a good place in her efficacy as someone wanting to help people in a unique way. And we'll talk a little bit about the way that she does what she does as an entrepreneur. So with that, the seventh podcast begins. Welcome to the studio, Natalia.

Natalia Juarez 1:53

Thank you. So hi, everyone. I'm Natalia Juarez, and I'm the founder of better breakups. So what I offer is breakup coaching and dating strategy. And so I used to be a teacher, people always kind of find that interesting. Like how I made the transition, I taught for eight years, and in my last three years, I had a holistic daycare.

Qasim Virjee 2:14

What does that mean a holistic daycare? It was,

Natalia Juarez 2:16

um, well, I was a certified teacher as well, so and a yoga teacher and the parents just kind of love that. So I used to do yoga with the kids, and they just like ate really well. And

Qasim Virjee 2:26

it's what age of kids did you have under your care?

Natalia Juarez 2:30

Well, before that, it was mainly teaching kindergarten, loved kindergarten. But this kind of ties in with entrepreneurship, because when I decided to start the daycare, as a result of the fact that it was so how to find a good teaching position here in Toronto. I advertised the daycare and the majority of parents who were contacting me all had, like newborns. They were like a year old. So yeah, so I had to pivot my business. And I just hired someone who was more familiar with infants. And I, I learned as I went, I loved it.

Qasim Virjee 3:01

It's very interesting. Because yeah, the demand curve, it seems to be like this. There's more availability of kind of later, I don't know, slightly older kid programming than newborns. Newborns in early toddlers discovering this stuff. It's all very new to having a nine week old baby at home. But um, you kind of like either, there's a lot of people that seem to bring in support to their house like doulas, and night nannies, and nannies. And if you can't afford that, you know, what do you do? And even then the price might be comparable to care. But, you know, spreading the cost of care across multiple children by, you know, having a daycare or whatever. It seems to make sense.

Natalia Juarez 3:42

Yeah. And what I kind of saw was that, you know, a lot of the parents and even the parents a