Honest reflections from women building their businesses

I had been avoiding the conversation about where the business was heading because I did not know what answers I wanted. The Vision Session gave me room to think without pressure. Valentina asked the kinds of questions I had been asking myself but had not sat down to answer. I left with two clear priorities and the written summary has been on my desk ever since.

Three months with Camila in the Growth Companion program shifted how I think about our operations. She helped me see where we were spending energy that was not coming back to us. The pace was reasonable — we adjusted one month when things got difficult with a client and she was completely calm about it. That flexibility mattered.

We were at a point where our team had grown but our processes had not kept up. The Foundations Study was exactly the right thing — we came out of it with a roadmap that was realistic rather than ambitious in an unhelpful way. The team alignment session was the part I had been most nervous about. It went better than I expected.

I was sceptical about consulting in general — it always felt like money spent on things you could figure out yourself. The Vision Session changed my mind a little. It was not about being told what to do. It was about someone helping me hear what I was actually saying. That distinction matters. I am thinking about doing the Growth Companion next year.

Working with Lucía over three months helped us develop a clearer way of talking about what we offer to buyers. That sounds small but it had been a recurring difficulty. She also helped us look at two partnership opportunities with more structured criteria than we had been using. We did not pursue either, but the process was useful regardless.

We did the Foundations Study when we were thinking about adding a new service line. The finance review was sobering in a useful way — it helped us see that the timing was not right yet, and what we would need to get there. I appreciated that they did not just tell us what we wanted to hear.