Kristine Miguel shares her story of trading a traditional accounting career for love - but not the way you think! I was curious about her transition from her linear CPA career path to starting her own business based on love, financial education, and empowerment. We discuss the challenges she faced and the lessons she learned while creating her intentional career; and some thoughts on spirituality and the coaching industry.

I’m your host, Karen Styles, Career + Life Coach and owner of Flow + Fire Coaching. Ready to create your Intentional Career? Schedule a call with me.

My guest is Kristine Miguel, owner of Caritas Company. She’s a Chartered Professional Accountant, mom, small business owner and all-around financial hype woman. She offers startups, entrepreneurs and side-hustlers an approachable way to face their fear around money and combat overwhelm so they can build and grow a financially sustainable business. 

Interview Highlights:

[2:00 ] Kristine falls into an accounting career because of her love for math.

[3:30 ] Accounting as a linear path, and Karen’s wish for an “easy” path when experiencing career angst.

[8:11 ] 10 years into her career, Kristine starts to question if she wants to do something else, and gets frustrated with things like IFRS standards.

[14:00 ] Kristine gets jealous of (and inspired by) a CPA who carved her own path.

[15:46 ] What’s the meaning behind Caritas Company?

[17:00 ] Surrendering to a greater power, love as a number one value and, oh my goodness are we still talking about accounting careers right now?

[22:00 ] The people who inspired Kristine on her path.

[26:58 ] The advice Kristine ignored (to her benefit).

[30:00 ] The advice or support Kristine would give to her past self.

[35: 28] Why feelings about work matter, why we suppress those feelings - especially as women, and speculate on how it might be different for men. 

[37:27 ] When having a coach can help, why a coach was the first person Kristine hired. Kristine ponders coaching and we discuss whether coaching should be regulated.

[43:43 ] Karen goes on a tangent about the difference between coaching, consulting, and mentoring.

[48:32 ] Kristine’s talks about her career crush, Lisa Zamparo

[52:09 ] Kristine’s business offerings.

Resources:

• Kristine Miguel - Caritas Company : Website | Instagram
• Slay the Mic / Jam Gamble - Website | Instagram
• Trudi Lebron - Website | Instagram
• Trudi Lebron’s podcast - Business Remix - Should Coaching Require Certification?
• Rising Tide - Website
• Lisa Zamparo | Website | Instagram 

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Transcription - Trading Traditional Accounting for Love with Kristine Miguel

Karen: I'm Karen Styles. And this is the Intentional Career Podcast. I talk to all kinds of people who take all kinds of paths to work they love. I'm a career and life coach and owner of Flow + Fire coaching. If you're ready to create your Intentional Career with the support of a coach, schedule a call with me.

There's a link in the show notes, or you can go to intentionalcareer.co and click the blue “Schedule a Call” button.

Today on the show. My guest is Kristine Miguel, owner of Carita's Company. She's a chartered professional accountant, mom, small business owner and all around financial hype woman. She offers startups, entrepreneurs, and side hustlers and approachable way to face their fear around money and combat overwhelm so they can build and grow a financially sustainable business.

Welcome, and thank you so much for being here, Kristine.

Kristine: Hello, hello!

Karen: So excited to have you here.

Kristine: I'm so pumped. Yeah. Thank you for having me.

Karen: Yeah. I wanna start with, “how it started, how it's going,” or that's the overview of what we're going to have today. So you're an accountant, a CPA. Take us back to how that started for you or what made you pursue accounting as a career path?

Kristine: Oooh.  I kind of fell into the accounting path, mostly due to my love for math. Okay. So growing up math was my favorite subject in school. I did so well in math. Like it's ridiculous when I think about it. And so I wanted a career. In math or something to do with numbers. Yeah. And I also being the oldest child of four kids, I was always like the leader, the leaders slash I was always, my parents left me to teach my siblings, whatever it is they wanted me to teach.

I was very comfortable teaching. And being bossy and I love math. And so I actually wanted to be a math teacher coming out of high school. I'm not sure if you remember that feeling where you're like, oh, okay. High school kids are. Or not the best. So I don't want to be around with people. Like I don't want to teach people like me, not me necessarily, because I was such a good kid.

I'm saying that was sarcasm obviously, but I was just like, I don't know if I want to work in a school, necessarily. So when I was applying for university, I exited out of the education portal and I was like, Ooh, people say you should get a business degree because it's so versatile.

So I went into the business degree portal instead, and I found I was like, what has something to do with math? And so it was like finance and accounting. And I was like, oh, I don't really want to do finance. Oh, let's just do accounting. So I just applied for it. I got accepted and yeah, that's where I started and how I fell into this.

Karen: That's interesting because... accounting wasn't obvious for you.

Kristine: No, I didn't even know what it was really.

Karen: Yeah. Yeah. And that kind of makes sense. Like when we're young, you're really only exposed to at least for me, I wasn't exposed to that many career paths. Like doctors and teachers and whoever's in your life, but, sometimes you don't know what's available to you. The thing about accounting is that it's pretty linear. Like when I think of linear, always talk about accountants and make broad generalizations. And, back when I was an executive recruiter,when I was recruiting accountants, I remember cause I was going through my own career angst and I remember being jealous of that linear pa...