Lindsey Simcik
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Yeah, we coined this phrase called clearing conversations. So this practice where there's usually something funky in the air. We're kind of feeling like something is off.
And we will schedule a walk and a walk because I think sitting down across from each other, staring into each other's eyes can be very intense and kind of activate the body in a way that doesn't really support honesty and flow in a conversation. So oftentimes we'll go on a walk. We're moving our bodies.
We're next to each other and we're able to look at each other, but also like give each other a break. Yeah. And our intention in these clearing conversations is to bring truth and respect, to be a great listener and really have it be an experience of us against the problem rather than Chris does the issue. We got to get to the bottom of it. And that's really helped us because we all have egos.
It's a thing.
And so when you approach a problem, it's easy to be like, you know, you did this to me and you made me feel this way. But in these clearing conversations, we are very intentional to use I statements. The story I'm telling myself is that you don't care about this part of the business and I have to take it all on by myself.
Yeah, I think getting clarity on that is really important for any business in general and for really any business partners, especially. For us, the way that we delegated roles happened naturally, but happened very early on. So my experience was in the corporate. I worked in finance management consulting, and I actually was doing some brand deals on the side as a blogger.
And in sharing these I statements, I'm able to see under the hood of like, what's been turning in Krista's mind. And then I'm able to say, oh, wow, if I believe that I would be feeling that way too. And it just gives us an opportunity to not only share our experience, but then to listen.
And Lindsay was an actress. She worked at SoulCycle. She was an amazing performer. She knew a lot about production. She knew a lot about performance. She brought a lot to the table from... the aspects of the business of creativity that I didn't really have access to. So early on, I was like, I'm going to take on more of the business strategic part because that's where I was living before.
You know, I think both of us are really great listeners and we listen with our heart rather than our minds thinking of what to say next. So the clearing conversation I think is essential for any friendship, any business partnership, any marriage as a standard in a relationship.
Okay. And then Lindsay brought more of the creativity. So when we started building the business, it was like... both of us working together. And then we saw where we were fitting naturally and we claimed the domains. And over the years, we had to reclaim domains of where we are and where we work because we were trying to overlap for quite a bit. And that doesn't really support us.
You know, it doesn't really help for us to both be two cooks in the kitchen. So I'm more strategy. I'm more of the partnerships. I'm more of the overall ideas that we have that move the business forward. And Lindsay is so helpful with the creativity. She's so helpful with the relationship with the team. She's a great communicator with the team.
So there's just stuff that she's naturally good at that she brings to the business.
I know, honestly. You know, I've been thinking about this.
Well, I think what's so interesting, you know, when we started Almost 30, we were going through a very specific time in our life and the show has evolved as we have evolved. And I think with that evolution too comes our own very unique gifts and how they want to be expressed in the world.
So Krista has an incredibly successful coaching business, retreat business, and so many of her gifts that could not be truly fully expressed in almost 30, are now being expressed through those businesses. And I'm exploring this new season of my life of motherhood and what that might look like in a community and brand sense. So thankfully, we've always just been very, very supportive of the other.
And I feel like it would only benefit the business, you know? You know, her succeeding or me succeeding is only benefits our business that we have together. But I think what's been really beautiful about the way that we've evolved is we've always been like sovereign. You know, I think early on, we were just doing everything together. We were so just embedded in one another.
And we kind of had moments where we're like, okay, we are aware that this could be for a season. This could be for a time period in our life. We don't want to be so naive to think that we're going to want to be in business and financial business together for the rest of our lives. So investing in each other's businesses in that way, we have put money into things together.
I think where the conversation comes in between us is, okay, we're in a season right now, currently in real time of being very full on with book and almost 30. And candidly, I don't have a lot of energy to pour into new mom on the block or anything like that. And so we've had moments where we're like, okay, we're deciding to be full on.
We have made investments in businesses together that are longstanding, but it's like, I don't think for me personally, it feels truthful for me to be embedded with one person forever financially or dreamily. wise, I just like to do a lot of things. I like to create a lot of different things. I like to be my own person. I never want to be boxed in anywhere.
We're going to kind of pull back on our other things a little bit and just really be focused here. And I think that's important and important to share what's tough about this. So what you're struggling with in your own lanes of your own business. Yeah. Because I think we can create stories in our heads about, do they want to like go pursue that fully?
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