Transitioning From Corporate To Entrepreneur With Ryan and Kristi Holt

 

Leaving the corporate world and venturing into entrepreneurship can be a liberating experience, but it also comes with a lot of unknowns. Place on top of that the responsibility of looking after a growing family and you’ve got one heck of a balancing act, indeed. But the freedom that comes with entrepreneurship makes it all easier, provided that you are doing what truly resonates with you. That is exactly the case with Kristi and Ryan Holt’s transition. Kristi has been an entrepreneur years before their marriage, but Ryan has been spending the first years of their family life as a stereotypical provider with a well-paid job. There was one catch though – it stressed Ryan so much that he cannot be truly present for his family and it has affected Kristi as well. Things started to lighten up considerably as they made the shift that allowed them both to do their own thing while being the most hands-on parents and spouses that they could be. Listen in to their story as they grace the show with their presence together with host, Matt Kelly.

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Transitioning From Corporate To Entrepreneur With Kristi And Ryan Holt

I’ll tell you a little bit about BalancingUs. This is a podcast I’m starting. It all started with the relationship that my wife and I have when we started our company, CatTongue Grips. We started working on it, launched it. She was a stay-at-home mom. She jumped in and is our CEO and she’s running the company. It’s unbelievable. I was like, “I didn’t know you have this inside of you.” She is happy and fulfilled with having her mind on a business item such as this. It’s filtered into our relationship. Our relationship has grown because we can communicate not only about our home and our life, our kids. On the business end of things, we bounce things off of each other, the pluses and minus, the ups and downs, all that stuff.

I got thinking and learning about how not all women have that type of support from their husbands to join the workforce, do what they want to do if they do want to have a career. I’m an advocate for saying that there are an infinite amount of advantages to having a wife that, if she does want to have a career and wants to work, support that effort. Join in as a team so that everything is in balance at home and your kids benefit from it. They’ve got two completely happy parents that are communicating and fulfilled and can share things with the kids that they didn’t have before. That’s how this thing got rolling.

I want to bring to the forefront wonderful couples, like yourselves, that we all go through our challenges. I know you guys have four kids and I can’t wait to hear about that and how you balance everything in your home and your lives. I’m going to have a database of podcasts where other couples can go to and they can read them and say, “That was cool what that couple did and I see why that worked. We’re not doing that. Let’s try and implement that.” You can introduce yourselves and promote an interest that you have. We’re going to start with Kristi and then Ryan, we’ll get to you.

My name is Kristi Holt and I have the privilege to be an entrepreneur for all of our marriage and prior to it. It’s been the second thing in our lives. My specific interest in life right now and has been for a long time is about emotional intelligence and self-awareness. I’m super excited about what we’re doing and extremely passionate about it and how it affects our lives, the lives of others and especially our kids. We’re honored that we have some information in that area.

Ryan, I understand you started your own power solar business.

A little history about me. I worked in Corporate America years ago. After that, I transitioned into our solar company years ago and we did that together as a self-install type of company. A little darker history about myself through that season of life, I found myself in a little bit of depressional state. I ended up working more on mental health than anything together. As I transitioned out of that space, we found more of our emotional health come and go our lives together and moving more in that direction. I’ve never been happier with that decision. We moved the direction to where we’re at right now.

It was the corporate world that started to wear on you and that’s when you went into a dark place. Did you guys have kids at that point also?

Yeah. We had our family and everything. It was more internally dark than anything and it probably affected my family and kids as well. I needed to do some self-healing and looking in deep on what was most important to me in life.

Kristi, you’ve been an entrepreneur before your marriage and for a long time. Is that when you encouraged Ryan to say, “Let’s try something different here. The corporate thing, you’ve been in it for fourteen years. Let’s see if we can try something different because I love this side of a career and see if it works for you?”

It was stressful, as a wife, watching my husband. He was our main supporter. He excelled at his job. He did well. We moved for his job. We lived in Salt Lake and then we moved to Las Vegas and ended up moving to St. George. Although the money was good, I noticed a lot of stress. He was overwhelmed with stress from my observation. I remember we went on a Disney Cruise and I watched him be stressed about even being on that cruise. It was hard to enjoy life through that stressful job. We started talking about it together and planning for it, which I’m glad we did. Planning for that transition, we planned about two years. A year before we made the full transition, we found the industry that we wanted to go down. Ryan researched it to death. He did a lot of research. What made that transition healthy for us was planning, the mental and emotional preparation before the job. We learned a lot.

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When you said you did planning, is this where your company came into play? Your slogan is to normalize the conversation around emotional health. Is that where that started to evolve for both of you? I would imagine together.

I would say that clearly stated is more present. Prior to that, I owned a national company that was online. This was the third business I had owned and we started that during our marriage. We had two little ones. We have a four-year-old, a two-year-old, and we started a company. That was in the beauty industry online business. I was doing that and he was in golf. We had a lot of it separate. There wasn’t as much combined in that life, although Ryan worked from home. He worked from home and we’ve been working in the same house. That’s all we’ve ever known. That transition wasn’t hard. All of a sudden he’s home. What do I do? I know some people go through that. It was not a hard transition. The hardest transition for us, once we started our business, is I still owned the other company that I was doing. He was starting with a gentleman up in Salt Lake. Maybe I’ll let you talk about that. I do think leaving corporate had an emotional effect, for sure.

When you say an emotional effect from leaving corporate, was it initially a positive effect or a negative emotional effect? Were you scared? “How is this ever going to work?” Was it super excited like, “It’s time?”

It was freeing, there’s no question with that but there’s also a lot of the unknown. For fourteen years I’ve been working for a company that you knew where your agenda was coming. You knew exactly what was to be done and then the unknown opened up. It opened up its challenges, no question, emotionally, for sure.

It’s fair to say entrepreneurship, you can’t plan for it. You think you know and even with so much experience, you don’t. I was feeling like I had all this experience. When you go into a new industry or a new business, you can have a lot of things that you’ve learned where you’re going to learn a whole new slew of things that challenge you. Our income was 100% based on us and our efforts. That’s exciting because you’re like, “We can bank on us.” The hard part about that is how long does the sales cycle? When does it convert to many of the banks that we can pay bills with? That roadmap brings a lot of ups and downs emotionally.

For us, it was learning to be that person that holds space while the other one might be freaking out. We’re lucky. There weren’t too many times that we were freaking out at the same time. It’s almost like, “You’re good? I’m going to take a minute. You seem like you’ve got this okay.” For me, Ryan was such a safe place. He kept saying, “We’re going to figure it out. It’s okay.” Sometimes it was me going, “This needs to be ready. This has got to be done. If we don’t do it in this way, then our pipeline isn’t going to be full. Our sale cycle is going to be longer or shorter.” I was trying to manage that. He would sometimes be like, “We’ve got this.” That was something I hadn’t had in the business up to that point.

I remember walking and going to a Think Tank for entrepreneurs and they had this thing on the wall that was cool. It was two graphs, a 90-degree angle. On the one side, it had a line going straight up and that was perception written underneath it. On the other one, it had a squiggly line that is crossing over everywhere and reality written underneath there.

We enjoyed working together. We knew how to do that. One of the hardest transitions, thinking back, was the identity shift and role shift. Roleplay. We had two kids. At that point, I was managing our children and making sure that they were okay. If I couldn’t do it, we hired help. We had someone else in the house. I had a nanny come in a couple of times a week. It was me managing the needs of our family. It wasn’t put on him at that point when he had his career in corporate. When he came and we started working together, that was probably, in my opinion, our hardest shift. When I say shift, we could do lots of funny words around that. Shift happens. How do you manage that shift? The identity shift from him leaving corporate, I’ll let him talk about that. That’s his story. For me, it was like, “If we’re going to work together and we have two companies, who’s going to do what?” It was stressful going through those role shifts. Observing him going through an identity shift, I had my own view on that. Of course, it was his experience.

Ryan, please elaborate on that.

The hardest challenge for me was when we shifted into this direction to see who was good at the other thing. She is brilliant in the business book. I get things done and I’m a hard worker. She’s extremely talented in many areas of the business world. That had her steering the ship. I’m being out there with people and different things. For me, growing up, it was more of toxic masculinity, “The man does this. You need to do this. Why are you allowing your wife to be out there while she’s working? What are you doing?”

 

I cared about perception at the beginning where it’s like, “Okay.” I call it the symptoms of a modern society. They truly believe that this is the way things need to be in traditional marriage and all the different things in your life. She needs to be home with the children and you need to be providing for your family and different things like that. That played a lot with me at the beginning of this role until I truly started to look inside myself and understand that it was the mind controlling the perception, controlling the environment on this. In reality, this was a woman that was brilliant at what she was doing.

On the flip side, I’m extremely passionate about my children and my family as well. I was like, “Where are my best needs to help out?” I would do the day-to-day but I also would be like, “I want my children to be extremely happy as well.” When I started to truly understand what was real and what was not by perception and get out of my headspace, I didn’t care what people thought about our untraditional set up in this way but started feeling it. To the role more of, “I know where I’m needed most here. I know what she’s talented at. Let’s support her and let her spread her wings.” I’ll take the other areas where we need to meet up.

That’s exactly the story that I’m looking for on BalancingUs. There are many couples that are reacting like you were reacting when they realize, “My wife has a lot more in her.” Being a mom is incredible, but this is more about strong career-oriented women that are also raising children and the supportive husband. When the husband realizes that, “My wife has a lot more in her than what’s being promoted here,” and agreeing that, “Let’s equal things out on the career side, on the family side,” everybody wins. Would you say your marriage is better once you had that realization and the support was equal, and you’re coming together and communicating on many levels?

Yes. We’re here with a lot of self-healing. There have been day-to-day choices that have made our marriage stronger. I don’t know and wouldn’t believe and have observed people who don’t do that work and they don’t make it. What we described was hard and it took the most pivotal point for me. I’ve learned to speak for myself. This is one of the things we’ve learned. I don’t want to speak for someone else. This is my perspective. These are my thoughts.

What he described and what I was going through myself, I also had those identity issues that I needed to work through and that perceived perception of other people. People would always ask me, “Why do you have to do this?” I have friends that said, “Why is your husband doing this? Why do you have to stress about this? Why are you doing this?” I had to get out of my own bias of what the roles are and let go of it and not judge him. Why am I doing this? Maybe I do want a more traditional this when it was hard. I unkindly threw that at him when I was in my own crap.

When you say, “Doing this,” you mean when you started or you had your business and you’re working your business and your friends are like, “Why are you doing that?”

Yeah.

That’s support from the women’s side too. I’ve heard the women here at the schools, they’re like, “She’s always working.” I’m working on changing that entire perception. I don’t care if the man doesn’t want to work and the woman does 100%, it doesn’t matter, whatever works for the two of them. If the man and woman are both wanting to have careers, I don’t care if it’s a nanny, if it’s the neighbor, if it’s grandma, whoever watches the kids. Somehow the two of them figure out how to balance it where they can watch their kids and don’t bring somebody, it doesn’t matter to me. As long as those two individuals that are in the relationship are completely fulfilled on a daily basis and happy, they are going to be a much better and happy, harmonious couple. Which filters down to the kids. The kids are going to be raised in a better environment than the other person.

We 100% agree with that.

You made a good point. It’s two whole people. One of the things that I was touching on is when we were going through those hard times, they were hard. I’ve kept pointing my finger at him and saying, “He makes me feel this way. Because of what he’s doing, it’s impacting my life in this way.” I gave up all of my power to say that he was responsible for my joy and he’s also responsible for my pain. That’s a lot to put on a spouse. It wasn’t until I took full accountability for how I felt and decided to be a whole person and then he did the same thing. We did it a little bit in different times. To me, that was the biggest and most lasting result that we’ve done.

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I am responsible for my happiness, my joy, my sorrow, or my frustration. I am accountable for me. You are accountable for you. The two whole people that are accountable for themselves, that is the true reason for marriage. To have a scapegoat or someone that you’re pointing out all the time or someone you’re blaming for your own feelings and thoughts, it is something you can never solve. It’s something that you can get divorced and you can get married to somebody else, but it’s still you. You’re still not responsible for you and you’re seeing that’s another relationship.

For us, we got real and said, “What are we doing? You take care of you. I’ll take care of me and then we have something to give each other.” That was huge. You also pointed out a good thing about kids. Our kids will learn that from us. You have to matter in your life. Your joy is yours. Your sadness is yours. Your anger is yours. You are responsible for how you feel, how you think, and how you act. By being that example, our kids are brilliant and amazing. Grandma, which by the way she moved in with us, has helped. It adds to their joy. It adds to their confidence. It’s not in the way. We don’t treat it that way. I had to get out of the mom guilt. I was feeling guilty that it wasn’t me taking their lunch to school.

There’s a word that you said a couple of times, which is balance, which is part of the podcast. I have a real interesting relationship with that word. To me, I picture a pie. My marriage got this much of the pie. My kids got this much of the pie. Work got this much of the pie. Now that’s balanced. I had shifted my perception a little bit and say, “I want to be peaceful in my choices. I need to maintain and keep my peace in the choice I’m making today and it might change tomorrow.” The kids are most important and work gets you over here and you have peace in that choice. It’s that constant peace in your decision and that feels like a holistic balance.

In your case, you both work from home which makes the communication easy and to see what each of you are doing in the business environment. A little touching on what you’re talking about is when the husband goes out and is working in the corporate world, like you were, Ryan, for so long, and then comes home and the wife has been at home. There’s so much from a full day to catch up on together. If she wants a piece of her pie and she wants that career type of environment to be a part of her client, she can’t have it because the husband is always gone and doing the work and she’s at home. That communication is much more difficult for a couple. There’s that underlying resentment with women towards men because men control a lot of the workplace. A lot of the hiring, a lot of the decision making, and that stuff. We’re hoping to change that over time.

I know that moms in the workplace are incredibly beneficial. That’s from my 23 years in real estate. That’s also a big part of why I started this is that I have worked with and competed against women my entire career and I know what they can do. I got educated on what happens in the corporate world a lot of times and there are women that want those types of jobs. They’re qualified. They’ve got the resumes, but they get overlooked for some reason. We’re going to figure that one out too.

When two people can have the work environment that they wanted for a piece of that pie, even if they’re away from the home, in the office building, or wherever they work, but when they come back together at the end of the day, the communication is going to be so much stronger. You both had a fulfilled day, whether it was a good or a bad day. No matter what happened in the work environment, that’s what the two of you are craving since your career-oriented people.

There’s this balance at home, over the dinner table and the kids can hear mom talking about her struggles or her wins at work along with the husband’s wins and struggles at work. What an incredible education for the kids to get versus one person that has all the work coming home and probably doesn’t want to talk about it because she doesn’t want to hear about it. She’d like to have a piece of that conversation, but she can’t add to it because she doesn’t have that experience because she’s not able to.

The trickle-down effect on both sides. The trickle-down effect, you explained it where there’s been the perception of what reality is. Are these kids missing out on something? Each other is gone at a certain time and it’s the complete opposite of what the kids have been able to observe and experience. There are two whole people with those conversations that you bring up about. I remember coming home from work sometimes and I would shut down and need to decompress. They don’t even want to be around anymore because of the stress of that.

We’ve done both of this. We could change multiple times. Once we’re both balanced in that area, the kids, when someone sees a need in the family, everyone picks up that missing piece, and then it helps elevate that side. Those dinners and those discussions have all been more of a positive and a higher vibration versus one person decompressing and the other person feeling resentful. On the energetic side, it’s transpired to our children where they can feel more of the positivity from a more aligned and a higher vibrating couple that have been both whole and fulfilled.

I’m super grateful for where we are now. Anyone reading this, we want them to know that this comes with a lot of self-awareness and a lot of work. It’s a lot of daily choices. It’s small choices every single day and being aware of not only yourself but the other. What Ryan was saying is how many times we’ve swapped this role. We have a solar company and then I took a job. I went into the corporate world for three years. That was a huge shift for us. I had so much more compassion for those days. When he would come home from work, he would want to decompress. I’m ready to throw the kids on his lap and I want to go to the grocery store, “Please, I’ve got to go. I want to leave. I don’t want to be here for a minute. I need some space. By the way, I want you to come with me because I like an adult conversation. I don’t want you to talk about anything that I can’t relate to.” It was a frustrating time but then there’s also the peace in it. It’s not always that way.

 

When I left, he also had a lot of compassion. When you’re home all day, there’s no one telling you that you did a good job. There’s no ROI at the end that you’re like, “Let’s go celebrate.” There’s no email that you got sent saying, “That was a great conversation. I can’t wait to catch up again.” Those are fulfilling that you get outside of the home, that interaction. At home, you don’t get that. Also, that perception of what’s happening at the office versus what’s happening at home. Since COVID, we started working at home together. When I was gone, there was this like, “She’s got lunches.” I was in business development so I did a lot in lunches. I had a lot of social. Here he is at home going, “How’s that life outside there? I hope it’s fun for you because this is hard and this suck.” I wrapped it into a big bow.

Sometimes trying to see the other perspective and understand that you’re perceiving something that isn’t reality. Like entrepreneurship looks like a straight line but in reality, it’s little squiggles. The perception I received on his end was, “You’re going to lunches. You worry about networking. Are you working?” I felt so much stress providing, making sure we have this, making sure we have that, making sure all these connections matter and it goes somewhere, and we create business and income. Seeing that from the other side is extremely helpful. Knowing that the other side exists and trying to get outside your own head, it’s hard to do. You can do that if you start finding compassion versus that resentment.

That’s incredible, what you spoke about. One thing I’ll elaborate on is the housework. It’s something that is interesting to me because there’s this major block about men wanting to do dishes, wanting to do laundry, do some cleaning around the house. When you say those things, it sounds like it’s easy. Why should I do it? It’s easy. You’ve been doing it for so long. When you dig in and start doing it, it’s a lot of time to do it.

We have two kids. There are four of us. We cook dinner a lot at home and there are a lot of dishes afterward. All the stuff that we made the food in, the stuff we ate and drank from, all the silverware, it’s piled up after every meal. The husbands are like, “Why would I do that? It’s easy. You can keep doing it.” If we realize, “Let’s give ourselves 45 minutes to do this,” then we’ll give ourselves enough time to not feel pressured or rushed. We understand the process and what it takes to do it.

I always put on some music in the kitchen. It’s a therapeutic thing for me. I’m like, “I’m doing the dishes tonight.” I know it’s going to take me 30, maybe 40 minutes to clean everything up. This stuff does take time and this is why women want help with it at the house. It’s not as easy as, “I’ll do the dishes.” It’s brainless. It’s repetition. You’re saying there’s no reward for it. There is no pat on the back. There’s no, “You did a great job with that tonight.” There is none of that with those types of chores. I want to try to make it cool to do the dishes and do the laundry. It’s like, “It’s a cool thing.” I also look at it as exercise. I’m standing on my feet. I’m bending over. I’m rubbing and cleaning stuff.

The positive side of this is we’re balancing this up so that the wife can go and chill out after dinner or play with the kids and do homework with them. My wife does all of our homework. I’m dyslexic and so is my son. There’s nothing funnier than a dyslexic guy trying to tutor a dyslexic kid. That’s not going to work. His homework has ramped up. My daughter does all of her own stuff. She’s as smart as my wife. She’s doing all the homework with them. There is a switch in our house. If you’re doing all the homework with them, I’ll take on the chores of the dishes all the time. I’ve been doing laundry for a while.

It’s one of those things where if it’s understood that, “This isn’t fun,” if we make it fun and that it’s an exercise, a time on our own to think while we’re doing it because it’s brainless. You don’t have to think about it. Think about whatever thoughts you have in your head and give yourself enough time to do it so you’re not rushing. It’s not like, “There’s a ballgame on in ten minutes. Let me get through the dishes.” You’re not going to get through them in ten minutes. Make sure you give yourself enough time. Couples have to come into the household to make everybody harmonious and do things correctly.

I’d like to comment on that because that’s been a big thing for me as well. We’ve been programmed for so long, the traditional responsibilities of the household. I like your point of making it fun. Truth be told, it’s not fun. I’m a laundry king. I’ve done so much laundry. What shifted with me was a mindset. If it wasn’t fun for me, why am I expecting her to do it? I truly started to understand we’re a team versus goals. Collectively, we have the same passion or dream. We chose this life together to accomplish this dream. The more that we can look at it as teammates versus this is the traditional role of a woman and a traditional role of the man, to be honest, when I started, I didn’t know how to do any of it. I have become efficient in all of it. I don’t mind cleaning now. The laundry, it’s a little tedious for me but I do it. If she sees there’s laundry needed to be done, she hops in and gets it done. I see there’s laundry to get done, I do it.

We shift in a thought process of like, “We’re a team and not a man does this, and a woman does this.” When you truly think about how deep-rooted that is with many people, it becomes a programming and it becomes an operating system. I observe it all the time where some men will see the dishes or something like that or cleaning after dinner and the first thing they do is they go and sit down, “That’s what we do.” I do not connect with that at all anymore. We’re a team. We do this together. It becomes a natural response once you start realizing, “We are in it together. It’s not you do this. I do this.” We’re collectively trying to accomplish the same thing.

Also letting go of it in yourself. For example, maybe one day I work a lot and then I’ll come out of the office. I have to have my own awareness around my own perception. If I see he’s sitting on the couch and I go start doing laundry or catching up, I’ve even seen him say, “I barely sat down. I’ll get it.” I’m like, “No. You’re good. I’m doing something mindless for a minute to come off of this.” I love this conversation because it was hard to get here. It’s work to get there. It’s hard to get there. I love that he says as a team and you’re like, “It’s not my responsibility or your responsibility. This needs to get done.” There may be something like, “You’re better at that so you do that and I’ll go do this.” You seem like you enjoy doing that. He enjoys yard work. I don’t. He does the yard work. Raise your hand if you love laundry for six people or do you love dishes?

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Nobody does.

We found what each other loves and then we try to say, “Either one of us like to do this. We should get it done.”

It’s not going to go away. If you’re going to eat, there are going to be dishes. It’s one of those things. This has been awesome. You two are an amazing couple. I appreciate you sharing what you’ve shared. I always like to wrap up with one question and we’re at that time to do that. What’s fun about this question is this time, something exciting happened. I saw it on the news. You’ve got a shot at naming one woman from any period of time in US history and she’ll have a statue of herself made and put in a prominent location for everybody to enjoy for the rest of time.

Before I get to your answers, in Central Park, they unveiled the first-ever statue of real women. There are three pioneers on the women’s rights stuff. It’s Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth. There’s a new statue in Central Park of three women and it’s the first there. I started getting on this when I was doing some research and looking around. The latest figures I could find from the Smithsonian is within our country, there are 5,000 statues of men memorialized and 400 of women. Now we have 401. I thought it would be cool to balance that and allow where people are traveling and going to wherever and this and that to learn a little bit more about some prominent women from our history. With that, do you guys have an idea of somebody that you would want to set forward for that?

There are a lot of influential women, no question. For me, I’m extremely impressed with the society of Native Americans. For me, I would put up some statues of some Native American women because I think they’ve had an incredibly alive life.

They started things. Still, a lot of their traditions we could learn from today.

I continually read a lot about their traditions. I’m super impressed by the type of women they were. Rosa Parks, to me, she stood up. Everyone has their thing with COVID, but she decided to stand against the norm. I love that concept. We say the word programming. We say there’s conscious space and we talk a lot about being aware. To me, she stands up for complete awareness and what she should ask for in life. She stands for women asking for what they want. There is no reason a tired woman needs to walk to the back of the bus. She stood up and said, “No. I’m tired. I’m going to sit down, and I deserve to do that.” That went completely against the norm. There are rules. We took our son to kindergarten masked and it was hard. I wanted to be like, “Don’t do it.” This is not acceptable. I’d like to see more of that. She’s brilliant to stand up and say, “We’re not doing this anymore. It’s not healthy for humanity.”

I agree with that. It’s absolutely baffled me when I learned about the differences and struggles and mostly corporate world and that kind of thing between the men and the women because we are equal. We started on this planet together. We’ll be on this planet forever and together. We walk side by side. We marry. We have children. We raise the kids. What is going on? There’s not equal opportunity for both sexes across the board for whatever they want to do.

I love what you stand for, Matt. Thank you so much for doing this podcast because we live and breathe it. We have to get it more out there and have people feel comfortable being themselves.

It’s for the benefit of everybody, 1,000%.

 

She’s a podcast critic. She’s always asking me. To be honest, I started my own space, my own privacy.

Thank you. I appreciate that very much. My wife and I, since starting CatTongue, we’re learning on our feet as we go. We’ve got a phrase in the house, “We live in the uncomfortable zone.” That resonated with me.

I do want to do a plug if it’s okay because we’ve talked a lot about choice and a lot about emotional awareness, self-love, and caring enough about yourself and your desires to be on purpose. What helped us is to learn these things and to continue to learn these things is understanding ourselves, self-awareness. What do you want? What is your purpose? What is your true essence of self? How can you show up in the world in your best version of you? That’s why we have Vibeonix. Vibeonix is a voice technology tool that helps people see themselves and start to feel into the life that they desire and get in alignment with their thoughts, feelings, and actions to truly live their best lives. We’re passionate about that. If anyone wants to help in that area, we welcome people to use the tool. We are a B2B. We work a lot in HR, which is fun. We work a lot in the corporate space and then a lot in the personal growth space. We would love to help anybody that is looking for a tool.

It sounds like a mission-driven company. That’s solid.

It took us fifteen years and, for me, a lot of different tribes, we couldn’t be happier about the impact that we see it’s making in the world.

How satisfying. That’s incredible. Thank you both very much. I appreciate it. It’s not for me, it’s for the people that are going to read this. They will clearly learn from your experiences and what you’ve shared with us. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Matt.

I appreciate you.

 Important Links:

• CatTongue Grips
• Kristi Holt
• Ryan Holt
• Vibeonix

About Kristi Holt

Kristi Holt is is a bootstrap entrepreneur, wife, and mother of 4. After years of personal experience and research in neuroscience and human behavior, she went on to build an innovative voice technology that uses the vibration of your voice to give biofeedback on your emotional and mental wellbeing.

Her self-awareness technology brings many to know and observe what they feel and how their thoughts, feelings, and actions create the life you desire.

Her business strategy has radically transformed businesses and the lives of those who have used her tool. Her tool sheds light on emotions and how to build a healthy relationship with each one of them to help people along their self-awareness journey.