About Caryl Mix
“If success is costing you your peace, your time, or your sense of self—it’s not the right kind of success.”
In the late ’90s, I was running an in-home business while raising three kids, rehabbing & flipping houses while managing rentals on the side and learning business the hard way: trial, error, and a whole lot of late nights.
For the last 28 years, I’ve built multiple different types of businesses from the ground up…including a laundromat I rebuilt after being part of a $13 million renovation project, and an online brand that now helps high-achieving women create clarity, systems, and momentum in their own businesses.
And yet…for years, even as things looked successful from the outside, I was stuck in a pattern that most ambitious women know all too well.
When business was booming, my life would fall apart. When I poured into my family or my health, the business would stall. I was constantly switching roles…boss, mom, firefighter, dreamer, fixer…and wondering when it would all feel lighter.
It never did.
Because I was building everything on reactivity, not intention. I was building without real systems, structure, or clarity…and it was quietly burning me out. My health was suffering, my marriage was burning down and I felt like i couldn't keep up on the home front. The faster I built things, the further away from all that mattered most to me felt.
I realized:
If I was going to stay in business, I had to do it differently. So I went to work on my own life first.
I designed a framework to help me build success that actually felt like ME…where my goals were not only revenue-based, but included and prioritized, rest, play, health, family, relationships and celebration.
That work became the Success With Six Framework—the method that now guides everything I teach. The Success With Six Journal became the daily tool. Next Level You became the foundation. Make It Happen HQ became the support. And Growth Accelerator became the strategy for women ready to build a business they can trust.
These simple shifts changed everything.
The chaos calmed. I began to find myself again and put me back on the priority list.
The swirl of it all slowed down, and for the first time in a long time, I felt like I was in control again.
My business grew. I became clearer about what I wanted, what I needed, and where I was headed. Life felt more grounded. More intentional. More like mine.
And somewhere along the way, I realized I wasn't the only woman feeling this way.
Today, I help ambitious women reconnect with what matters most and build a life they love and a business they can trust.
Not with guilt, force, hacks, or hustle.
But through the kind of strategy, systems, structure, and mindset work that actually fits the season they're in.
I’m best at helping women get clear on what matters most, build systems that support it, create more time, generate more consistent revenue, and focus on the priorities that actually move life and business forward.
I'm a truth teller first (because sometimes that's what we need more than ideas and strategy) but I'm also a mentor that will guide you ultimately to your own truth, sharing from my knowledge, experiences and time tested wins, mistakes and feedback from it all.
My duality is what sets me apart from other coaches…I believe growth works best when strategy and self-leadership grow together. Because a stronger business without a stronger foundation underneath it rarely creates the freedom people are actually looking for.
I’m a strategist at heart and deeply intuitive. I need both and so do my clients. My superpower is blending instinct and logic to help others create growth that feels aligned and doesn't just look good on paper—it feels right for their life, their values, and the season they're in.
I work with multi-passionate leaders because I am one. I get what it means to have all the ideas, for each to feel meaningful and purposeful, and the desire to bring it all together without losing your center—or being boxed into just one way of doing things.
In business
I’ve coached my own clients for years and have coached on others’ teams. My focus is to help others find and fall in love with their own voice, experiences and story while amplifying and streamline their message, while bringing clarity, growth and a clear path through every area of their business...because your alignment is what creates momentum that lasts.
Personally
I'm family first and my family is filled with my greatest soul teachers. I’ve spent 30 years building, growing, and fumbling forward in marriage and raising my kids. And one of my greatest roles to date, is being Charlotte’s Nana. I’m learning how to love, grow, and evolve through every stage of life and we’re doing it all together.
When I’m not coaching…
You’ll find me barefoot in the garden, bare hands in the dirt, chatting with fancy roses most mornings. I’m obsessed with walking morning miles with Baylee Jayne (my wonder dog) by my side. My heart and soul is happiest in the ice cold, Maine ocean at sunrise, exploring in nature and new places alike or roller skating with my granddaughter.
I love learning about food and eating clean (mostly...but live by an eat the dessert first mentality...because hey, we only live once and duality, right?) I’m deeply committed to finding the core issues in all things, especially health and I’m not for just treating the symptoms (this philosophy carries over into the business world as well)
You'll almost always find me with a book or two in my hand at all times. I nerd out equally on fantasy novels, (I’m here for the dragons and the fae lol) gimme a beachy romance novel set in New England and I’m gone or neuroscience with business growth and development, because I need to know what makes us tick and how to infuse it into our businesses.
I guess you could call that balance....lol
I believe that success is an inside job FIRST and that creating evidence of a life well lived is success…and that your business should support that, not compete with it.
If you're ready to grow in a way that feels aligned to you—not who the industry says you should be—there's a place for you here. Whether you need a daily practice, a stronger foundation, ongoing support, or a clear strategy, I'll be right by your side.
