The journey isn’t always straight, but it is an adventure!
My name is Angela Mondor, and I am also known as The Geeky Girl – I work with business owners to create processes, implement systems, save time and manage their teams.
I am married to an amazing man for over 29 years and we have two outstanding adult daughters. My dream was to be home for my children, and when they were little I did that by running a home daycare, and then, later on, I started Geeky Girl.
The early years…
I am a serial entrepreneur who has been interested in business ownership since long before I was 18. I learned early on that working a J.O.B. was not as financially lucrative as working for myself. I tried to build businesses with direct selling from the time I was 18 until I was in my 30’s. That type of business wasn’t working for me, but I learned a lot of great things about running a business from those experiences.
Finding the right J.O.B.
I was involved in a company for six years that had an amazing culture of growth, leadership and those things created an environment that was much more than just a J.O.B. I realized the importance of the business structure and the value in hiring the “right” people. From the top to the bottom the company culture was the centre of what we did every day and it was evident in the health and wellness of the employees to the experiences that our customers received.
I ended up going to work corporately when my youngest was about three. I had an amazing opportunity to work with a company that taught me a lot about business. I was with this company for five years. I worked in customer service, sales and IT. It was while working with this company that I was given the opportunity to take both levels of Covey.
I moved on from there to work with a sister company in their IT department and continued to study and learn about business and how each of the sister companies functioned under the parent umbrella.
The last day…
My last corporate J.O.B. was working as an office manager in a car dealership. This was a terrible career move and the main reason why I ended up starting Geeky Girl in the first place. I remember the last day very clearly, My desk was so covered in paperwork that there was barely enough room for my keyboard and mouse, it was stacked as high as my computer monitor and every time I needed to write a cheque for a supplier, I had to check with the controller to see if there was enough money in the account to send it out. I was called into the controller’s office and there were two other people in the room as well. One of them was someone I trusted, and the other was someone who could make paperwork disappear, but not do it correctly. I was told that starting Monday they were going to be coming into my department to help me get caught up. I knew this was the end, the last straw. It was as if everything after that statement fell on deaf ears.
It was late afternoon on Friday, I packed up my desk and never returned!
Geeky Girl is Born…
I began Geeky Girl in 2009 to do what I did corporately, which was fixing computers, printers, networking, running cables that sort of thing.
I needed to learn how to market myself and began the journey of learning about social media. The more I learned about it, the more my IT clients would ask me about how to use it, and how it worked.
I then transitioned my business from fixing computers to providing social media management and training to business owners.
As I was providing coaching and training to business owners about social media I also noticed that I had other knowledge from running my own business and from my corporate business experience that I was offering them.
I began working with an organization called Futurpreneur Canada in 2016 as a mentor. I am proud to be able to provide my skills and expertise from the many years of business experience to start-up business owners.
Officially in 2018, I transitioned Geeky Girl once again to provide Project Management services.
