Meet a Jane: Debbie Ruiz

Posted on July 22, 2009 - Filed Under Jane Thoughts, Meet a Jane, Tenacity Jane, Which Jane Are You?

debbie_ruizDebbie Ruiz is owner and Executive Event Planner at Consider It Done www.cidevents.com. Her extensive knowledge and experience in the event planning industry helps her create a unique experience for her clients. From corporate events to DJ services, whatever they need, her clients can “consider it done.”

Her first venture out as an entrepreneur was as a Mary Kay Consultant. She owned her own business and had a goal of becoming a keynote speaker, but that did not progress as well as Debbie preferred, until a window opened up. “A friend who was a successful key note speaker who wanted me to be her “booking agent,” Debbie says. “I had been planning conferences for about 6 years as a hobby, so it seemed like a natural progression to actually start charging for what I was doing and I thought it would be a great stepping stone to what I really want to do which is speaking to different groups.”

Debbie believes the best rewards are “always the ones you don’t think of.” By owning her businesses, she was able to stay home with her daughter since she started kindergarten. Her daughter is now 17. Debbie felt that, “it was so important to be home with her after school, after spending all day with children who could have huge influences on her. I wanted to make sure she stayed the beautiful, caring, compassionate girl she was becoming, and to counter balance the peer pressure in the later school years.”

She has taken the Which Jane Type Are You? Assessment and is a Tenacity Jane. Debbie thinks it fits perfectly as, “Our company name ‘Consider It Done’ says it all. I have the drive and the ‘tenacity’ to get a job done no matter how early I have to get up to do it, how long it takes to find the right combination of things or how many times I have to try to get it right. I don’t usually give up, give in or give out.”

She carefully considered advice to other Tenacity Janes and professes, “I think one of the things that us ‘go getters’ face is constantly being told we’re too competitive, we’re too determined, and even our friends sometimes use that like it’s a disadvantage. I’ve learned sometimes you have to let them see you say ‘I can’t do that.’ We don’t always have the answers though we’re reluctant to admit weakness. We love what we do, but we may not be skilled at handling the book, or reading a P&L but we know we are successful because we’re doing what we love. I believe we have a little of all the Jane’s in us at some point, it’s what makes us wear so many different hats at one time.”

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