#11 - Christine and Tolis Lerios: Creating serendipity, the importance of soft skills, and fostering open communication

Christine Lerios is a startup veteran with over two decades of experience running operations and marketing efforts for small businesses in the technology, finance, healthcare, and non-profit sectors. Her early career was centered around marketing, but since then, Christine has become a consultant, and mentor and embarked on many entrepreneurial adventures alongside her husband, Toli Lerios - including being on the team that founded Alabama's first residential treatment center for eating disorders. Tolis, Christine’s husband, is a former mentor, serial entrepreneur, engineer, and past co-founder of various successful start-ups that later on went on to be acquired by companies such as Microsoft or private equity!In this episode, we discussed leaving doors open and creating serendipity while learning to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty. We also talked about cultivating transferrable skills and how to foster open communication in relationships.