Today our member spotlight shines on Jane Meier, of Full Circle Partnerships, a marketing consultant who loves helping businesses integrate marketing with Corporate Social Responsibility. She’s the feature presenter at our May event, Doing Well While Doing Good: Demystifying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Register today!
Name: Jane MeierTitle: Founder
Business: Full Circle Partnerships
Type of Business: (B2B, B2C, B2G): B2B, B2G
Industry: Corporate Social Responsibility
Product/Service: Consulting services for companies and non-profits
Years in Business: 1
Ideal Customers/Best Referrals:
Companies or non-profits looking to strategically create initiatives, programs, and marketing in any area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Motivation for starting your business:
Loved & missed the ability to collaborate with others to create lasting impacts for our world—but needed to balance work with my family life.
Greatest challenge you faced in starting your business?
A re-emergence of my husband’s epileptic seizures —after having 2 seizures in 15 years, he’s had 7 in one year. They started just weeks after I started my business, and have affected his ability to drive, assist in childcare and provide encouragement and support.
How you overcame it:
I am still overcoming it, day by day. We’ve switched doctors and are pursuing treatments more aggressively, and have had some success already and hope for more. However, accepting the situation, adjusting expectations, solving problems creatively, and having a wonderful community of women to support me has been crucial.
Greatest learning (as relates to business) to share with others?
Resilience is key—having confidence in your business and enthusing that confidence when things in your life or business do not go according to plan.
Greatest benefit of running your own business:
Focusing on what I love to do—and creating a business around it.
Personally speaking…
Home life (spouse/partner/kids/location/pets/etc.): Husband, GK, and Daughter, Ella, 2
Childcare situation:
Part-time childcare (I know I am SO lucky!), and childcare swaps with other moms.
Greatest challenge in managing home, business, family, self?
Managing the internal monologue about if I am doing “enough” in all of these areas.
How do you handle it?
Self-care (yoga, exercise, meditation), believing in abundance, and remembering that inputs are in my control; outcomes are not.
Greatest success you had in the past month (personal or biz) and how you celebrated it:
Reconnecting with a former collegue, also a consultant, who needs to offload some work—you never know what circuitous route you will take to get clients!
Be advise or tip you ever received (personal or biz):
I think it applies to both, but given in the context of business. Show up, give people something to remember you by (an experience or a token), and write handwritten notes as thank-yous.
The one tool, resource, or toy you just can’t do without:
I hate to admit it, but my blackberry.
What’s the most effective thing you do on a daily basis to make it all work?
Set a timer. I work in 30-45 minute increments, and then give myself 10 minute breaks to do “family” activities on my task list that I create each day. It gives my brain a break, and I get lots done!
On your nightstand:
Journal, a daily devotional, a CSR book or Parenting book
Last purchase for self:
Pedicure
Favorite way to unwind:
Exercise
Best thing about being an Enterprising Mom: I love how it’s a secure place where one can discuss business AND children, and how the two intersect, collide, and dovetail at different points on the road. I love how energized and empowered I feel after meetings.
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