Basement to CEO: How Better Questions Built a Better Business
Things worth taking away
- Imposter syndrome doesn't disappear with success — you step into your identity anyway
- Better questions changed how she leads her team and treats her clients
- Lead from worth, not from the need to prove it
- From a basement startup to a team of ten in three years — through COVID and a lymphoma diagnosis
About this episode
Gina Perrault is the founder and CEO of a multidisciplinary health clinic near Calgary — a business she started in her basement with a three-year-old, a six-month-old, and a husband on parental leave upstairs. Within three years, her team of two had grown to ten, the clinic had moved into a 2,000 square foot building on her acreage, and a non-profit had moved into the basement. Then COVID hit. And so did a rare lymphoma diagnosis.
In this episode, Gina talks openly about imposter syndrome and what it took to step into her identity as a CEO, why she finally left a secure career to start over, what coaching changed about how she asks questions — both as a leader and as a clinician — and why she believes the most important shift an entrepreneur can make is learning to lead from worth rather than from the need to prove it.
Connect with Gina Perrault: LinkedIn