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 under ten, flipping rental property on the side, and learning business the hard way: trial, error, and a whole lot of late nights.

Since then, I’ve built multiple businesses from the ground up…including a laundromat I rebuilt after a $13 million renovation, 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 started designing a framework to help me build success that actually felt like mine…where my goals weren’t just revenue-based, but included rest, clarity, health, family, and joy. Joy for me…my own interests and heart. That work became the foundation for the Success with Six Journal and later, my full framework that now fuels everything I teach inside Next Level You and Make It Happen HQ.

That’s when things changed.

The chaos calmed. The swirl stopped. My business grew, my life finally felt mine again....and I started helping other women do the same.

Today, I help other ambitious women stop spinning and start building...intentionally. Not with hacks or hustle. But with strategy, systems, structure, and mindset work that actually fits the season they’re in.

Women who work with me are often:

  • Holding up a successful business and an entire life

  • Great at making things happen, but craving a better way

  • Smart enough to know they don’t want to scale stress

  • Ready to do the work, but need a plan that feels like them

I help them clarify their mission and vision, build systems that support it, and get consistent with what really moves the needle.

I'm a truth teller first (because sometimes that's what we need more than ideas and strategy) but I'm 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. 

But also...I’m a strategist, at heart...but I’m also deeply intuitive. My superpower is in blending logic and instinct to create aligned growth that doesn’t just look good...it feels right. I work with multi passionate leaders because I am one. I get what it means to have many ideas, deep purpose, and the desire to bring it all together without losing your center.

I’ve coached individuals and on teams, to help others reconnect to their mission, find and fall in love with their own voice and story, amplify, simplify and streamline their message, and bring clarity to their brand story...because your alignment is what creates momentum that lasts.

I'm family first and my family is the greatest joy of my life. I’ve spent 30 years building, growing, and fumbling forward in marriage and raising my kids…learning how to love, grow, and evolve through every stage of life together. That experience shapes everything I teach about connection, clarity, and sustainable success.

You’ll find me barefoot in the garden, chatting with fancy roses most mornings. I walk morning miles with Baylee Jayne (my wonder dog) by my side. My heart and soul is happiest in the icy Maine ocean and I have my granddaughter convinced that we are part mermaid, so mermaid things it is. 

I love learning about food and eating clean (mostly...but live by an eat the dessert first mentality...hey, we only live once and duality, right?) I’m deeply committed to finding the core issues in all things, especially health and Im not for reacting or just treating the symptoms (this philosophy carries over into the business world as well) You'll almost always find me with a book two in my hand at all times...i nerd out equally on fantasy novels, neuroscience and business growth and development. I guess you could call that balance....lol

I believe living well and 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 like you...not like who the industry says you have to be...there’s a seat for you here and I'll be right by your side. 

Will all this, what i know for sure is....You don’t need more ideas. You need structure, clarity, a plan that honors your life and to gather all the moments that are meaningful, that matter and to build and create your way…on your terms....so if building intentional success is where you are at..let’s build it together and let's make it happen.