Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Olena Mytruk. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Olena, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Risking taking is a huge part of most people’s story but too often society overlooks those risks and only focuses on where you are today. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – it could be a big risk or a small one – but walk us through the backstory.

To me, “Taking a risk” is not just words, it is in fact a really big part of my life. I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t made several very important decisions, which at the time didn’t make much sense, but now looking back it’s like they all were pieces of the puzzle that is now finally completed.

In 2015, after 8 years of marriage, I realized that my marriage wasn’t working for me anymore. There was no connection, passion and/or mutual respect. The issue was – we had a 3-year-old daughter. I spent many months trying to figure out what to do. I kept telling myself that my daughter needed a family. But I also knew that, more than a family, she needs a happy family and a happy mom. And eventually I made decision – I filed for divorce. And never regretted it for a second. (Fast forward to today, I am happily remarried to the best partner and best father to our daughter!)

Couple years later I moved to the US from Ukraine. My company offered me a transfer, and at first I refused it. It was during the time when I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life – where I wanted to live and who I wanted to be. So again, I had to give myself time to understand what I REALLY wanted. And one day I woke up and I knew that moving to the US would be the right decision, and even being a single mom of the 5-year-old didn’t scare me, even though many of my friends told me I was crazy. (If I hadn’t done it, I would’ve never met my husband.)

Finally, a bit more than a year ago, I decided to pursue my passion and to start my own business, despite having an extremely successful 16-year career of an executive in the global multi-billion-dollar company.

The most important thing I learned throughout all these years is how important it is to listen to yourself and to be brave to pursue your dreams. Only then we can really create our very best lives!

This is exactly what my business is about – I help women from around the world to become intentional about their lives, to get clarity about their goals and dreams in life and to find the courage to pursue those dreams.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

There is something very important that I learned not so long ago, and I think so many of us miss it (I did too!)

With your social media presence, or any other type of marketing, it is essential to meet the audience in their state, not ours. And here is what I mean by that.

So my business is all about personal development. And I know from my personal experience that particular tools, such as journaling, can be very helpful. But there are people out there who don’t even realize that they have a problem that needs to be fixed by journaling, and so if I try to recommend journaling to them they will just ignore my post because they will not know that it relates to them.

And so, before we recommend and solutions, it’s important that we create the awareness around the problem itself! And then, once the person is aware that there is a problem, they will be much more receptive to the solution that you are offering.

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

This is something that my corporate job has taught me. So, my company develops software for other big companies – we provide teams that in many cases work alongside the customer’s teams. And the most productive, most efficient teams are always the ones tightly integrated with the customer’s teams and ones that are aware of the customer’s goals and vision.

The thing is, the highest level of motivation and therefore morale comes where we know not just what our tasks are, but WHY we work on these tasks. When we share the ownership of the end goal, when we know what vision we are working toward, we are much more likely to do our best.

So my advice is to always make sure your team fully understands the company’s vision and priorities, and ideally takes ownership and responsibility for it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://olenamytruk.com/
• Instagram: @omytruk
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/olenamytruk
• Twitter: @omytruk
• Other: https://thebreverie.com/