Christina Fair — Detroit entrepreneur, angel investor, and founder of Vela Rising — shares the unseen year behind her latest launch: a stuck, scary stretch where she looked successful from the outside while quietly struggling on the inside. It's a conversation about going through the hard stuff instead of around it, sitting in the liminal space, and what it actually takes to find your way back to work that lights you up.
Christina Fair is a Detroit-based entrepreneur, angel investor, and strategic operator with 25 years of experience across tech, communications, and financial services. In this episode, we talk to Christina about:
• What it felt like being the woman everyone saw as a powerhouse in the Detroit business ecosystem while quietly feeling lost professionally
• Sitting in the liminal space, including the mistakes, the hard lessons, and why she had to stop trying to force her way out of it
• Going through the hard stuff instead of around it, and what that actually looks like in practice
• Learning to go from the perpetual helper to the one asking for help
• Her new consulting company, Vela Rising, where she advises real estate brokerages and boutique mortgage companies on scaling, operations, and leadership
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Website: www.velarising.com
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Host: Karolina Powalka
Guest: Christina Fair
Editor: JAG Podcast Productions