Ep 98: Mastering Leadership: Embracing Creation over Preservation with Celeste Interrante

Looking to embrace creation over preservation? MeetCeleste Interrante, CEO of Turf Envy who shares her professional insights on this topic.

MAIN TAKEAWAYS:

• Celeste Interrante, CEO of Turf Envy, tried many paths as she progressed through her career and says she had the emotional resilience by working on her personal development along with coaches to help her overcome obstacles and achieve goals with success. She admits it’s not easy and taking breaks are essential. But leading her team means leading herself. Plus, wine helps. 🍷 😜
• Retention is part of good leadership. To elevate your team, you must elevate and lead yourself first. 
• Celeste brings her coaches in to talk to her staff (financial, health, and transformative coach) and motivate them as a team.
• Alex said having a marriage counselor helps him and his wife in good and bad times. It gives them the tools. They see the counselor together and separately and it gives a whole POV.
•  People first is the right way to lead a team. Influence is key because people will start to care about each other. It’s ok to care for your leader, too. 
• Brand Pillars are essential to being authentic when making decisions as a leader. 
• Value your employees. Check on them. Care about them. Celeste explains a situation where she was advised by HR to fire an injured employee. Instead of replacing such a good employee she cared, checked on him and was able to retain him as an employee. 
• Balancing caring about your employees vs tough business decisions. Celeste had to once let 6 employees go after a big client left and while not easy she had to outweigh the dollars and cents. 
• As a leader, in-person interactions help us know how people feel through their energy. Celeste developed a hybrid-work environment. It keeps good talent and gets the work done.
• Don’t give 8 hours to your job and yourself 10 minutes to eat. Being a busy person isn’t always good for your health. It can be being a high- functioning person dealing with depression. You have to take care of your mental health and balance your work and life in a way that contributes to your wellbeing.