Gianella Guerrero

I would say my parents. My parents were very hardworking. They dealt with a lot, and besides all their circumstances and all the odds against them, they still manage to provide such a good lifestyle, or provide such a good life for us. Even during times where they didn't have anything, I know that they gave us everything that they did have. I've watched them just sacrifice everything to be able to give us a better future, and I think that's... I owe everything to them. I wouldn't be the person that I am today if they hadn't left everything behind to come and start a new life for us.

The best career advice I received was from watching a video of the owner of BPN, which is Bear Performance Nutrition. He mentioned employee retention rates and talked about how it's okay to hire slow and fire fast. I know it sounds very wrong, but he talked about how not every employee is going to be the one for you and your business is gonna benefit you. They may be a great person, but when it comes to just the job itself, not every employee can uphold the standard that that specific role is made out to be. It's okay if that person isn't made out for that, and really disconnect your emotional feelings from the actual business, because that's what really holds you back sometimes.

Never stop learning. Find a mentor, someone that you aspire to be, and keep asking questions. There's... You'll never know if a door will open unless you knock. And just don't let anything stop you. There will be times in people that will not believe in you, but all you can do is just believe in yourself, and that's really... As long as you believe in yourself, you're able to do anything, and you're unstoppable.

The biggest challenges I would say is just dealing with what we call dead season, and learning how to manage it. Because I'm in such a niche with weddings, usually no one gets married anywhere between like May through August. Because it's summer, a lot of people tend to travel. So for me, it's just a struggle on how I'm able to manage the dead season. What I'm currently doing is just learning how to still be able to attract clientele during the off-season where I can still stay busy. I mean, I know I'm still gonna be busy regardless, but it's just like almost like a standstill where I won't necessarily be doing in-person events for all this time. So then also learning like a healthy balance of learning when to rest too, just because I am the owner of the business and I'm very hands-on and I kind of take on a lot for myself. So using these months to kind of recalibrate and prep myself for a busy quarter three and quarter four.

Honesty, transparency, which I would say falls into honesty, but honesty, transparency, communication, and caring. I think that's one of my core values.