Community Highlights: Meet Christina Mathesius of CM Marketing & SalesConsulting Christina Mathesius

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christina Mathesius. 

Hi Christina, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Hi, I’m Christina Mathesius. I`m Swiss / German and moved 3 ½ years ago from Switzerland to Nashville. I`m an expert in marketing and sales, a business coach and trainer, as well as a keynote speaker. Today I`m focused on helping and strengthening women to live their life and dreams and get financially independent. It´s so easy if you know the tools with which you can build up your dream life and for me personally, it´s so amazing to see how women change their life and views about themselves while working with me. That´s so much fun and I also take this positive energy with me into my daily life. But there were also tough times for me and I worked hard on myself to become the women I am today. Although I can look back on a great career before I became a coach and trainer. In my former life, I have held a number of leading manager positions, including in international retail fashion. 

After the birth of my two kids, I focused my attention on my family and supporting my husband`s international career. For this reason, our family moved from Duesseldorf/ Germany to Switzerland. While abroad, I continued my career, among other things, as a lecturer for marketing and sales and went to establish my own company, CM Marketing & SalesConsulting, in 2018. In the summer of the same year, I was initiated into the Senate of Economy International. It`s a European non-profit organization consisting of executives who advise politicians on selective economic and ecologic policies. Alongside my role as vice president of the Senate of Economy USA, I continued to build up my consulting firm in Europe and the USA. In January 2021, I was elected to the board of directors of the Sister Cities of Nashville and represent Nashville in its partner cities all over the world. Hopefully, covid-19 allows us to travel soon again. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
In the summer of 2017, I received the diagnosis of breast cancer. Immediately after surgery and still during my radiation treatments, I began to train for a local half-marathon, instead of doing a chemotherapy. And that was exactly the moment when I started to change my life, thinking what I expect from my life and beginning to build up my personal dream life. There was no more time for waiting, because all of a sudden, I realized how fast my life could be over. Luckily, I got my breast cancer diagnosis in the middle of my education as a business coach and trainer. Who would have known, that I would be my first client? And so, I took all my coaching tools and brought me and my kids through the toughest time of my life. One tool was my daily running and exercising for a half marathon, which I had never done before. Three months after my last surgery, we moved from Switzerland to Tennessee and I joined the NRC, the Nolensville Running Club. Since my three operations in less than one year, I have participated in five half-marathons and in the fall of 2020, successfully completed a 100-mile-challenge. 

To motivate other women to start and live their dreams and get financially independent, I wrote a book about my experiences, titled “Miles for Life or How I left my cancer in the Swiss forest”. 

For me, it was my breast cancer, for other women it could be a divorce or death of a closed person. Everybody has to overcome their fears, obstacles, and challenges. 

In the book, I`m running a half marathon. Every chapter is one mile. I`m running in the now and have flashbacks into the past. I wrote about all my coaching tools, which I had, because I always said, that I first have to heal my soul and then my body. 

The German book which was published in summer 2021 turned into a bestseller. I`m very happy about that because we women all have such a similar story all over the world. I just wrote it down for all of us. 

What was your favorite childhood memory?
I grew up in Heidelberg/ Germany. Many of you know that city because it`s where the US military basis, the Patrick Henry Village, was based. It was the biggest headquarters of the US Military outside the US. My mum was a member of the German- American Women’s Club. And I always loved to join her and meet all these nice American ladies, who always had a smile on their face. Maybe in that time my love for America started and it was always a dream of me to live for some years in the USA. In my early twenties, I had an American boyfriend from Florida, but I was nearly 50 when I finally got the chance to move with my German husband Christian and our two kids Katharina and Lukas to the USA. 

Contact Info:

• Email: cm@christina-mathesius.com
• Website: www.christina-mathesius.com
• Instagram: christina_mathesius
• Facebook: Christina Mathesius-Pfreundschuh
• Twitter: @ChrisMathesius

Image Credits
Martina van Kann