We had the good fortune of connecting with Cheri Maestas and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Cheri, how has your perspective on work-life balance evolved over time?
When I was young and single I just worked and worked and worked. Then I was a single mom for some years so I really focused on jobs that would allow me flexibility to be a great mom and great employee too. Now, my daughter is a young adult, doing fabulous so I am back to working, working, working BUT I try to work really hard AT work so I can play really hard with my husband and family when I am off. I think balance flows from year to year, season to season, day to day even too and just being aware of this and adapting is key.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
As an insurance agent in this day and age, it’s harder to stand out but what I do think I am more passionate, in just straight educating. Especially women. I want clients to ASK the questions, SAY they don’t understand, ask more questions. With insurance being vital and important, I want them to KNOW what to get, why to get it and what it will help them with! I landed in insurance via a leader in a previous chapter of life recruiting me softly until the time was right (read = bad apple time) and his encouragement that my success would lead me to more success and my desire to help people would still be met, just in a very different way. Switching careers at a milestone birthday has been quite the undertaking. I feel like the firehose is shooting at me most every day! I try to lean into others who offer help and guidance and take one hour, one day at a time. I KNOW I can do this!

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I would drive us out to all the best small Rocky Mountain towns: Breckenridge, Ouray, Telluride, Silverton, Nederland and we would eat only at local, hole in the wall places. No chains on trips! We would hike and sightsee, talk and relax.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I have had the privilege of having SO many great leaders over my years (we won’t talk about the couple bad apples mixed in there too) so I will name Kathy, Sandy, John, Maggie, and Nicholas.

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