Christine Curran
Appearances
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Being a leader is really important how you navigate through that with personality types and, you know, things that are happening in people's personal lives too. And so trying to find that healthy balance where it's about helping them, you know, grow and be the best version of themselves.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I mean, I think every successful person says the same thing. Just get started. I mean, you have to just start. You know, there's levels to it and everyone's journey is different. Some get started really fast and it just goes really positive. And some people it's a rocky up and down and they. fail five times before anything starts to take off for them.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Yeah, you know, it obviously starts with yourself, right, your first. And the first has always been, you know, my daughter and being able to provide a wonderful lifestyle for her as a single mom. And that turned into then helping other women and wanting to see other women be able to thrive and survive. And now it's become really a global movement and just how many lives can we impact.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
No matter what it is, if you are always working consistently every day, putting some type of effort towards an end goal, you will reach that goal. I don't know when, it could be 30 days, it could be three years, but you will reach that goal. And what I've learned, because all I've done is work for myself and all of my things are entertainment projects,
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
that I come up with an idea and then I actually have to go out and execute that idea and monetize that idea. And what I've learned for me personally is that sometimes these ideas come and I don't actually execute them for two to three years on average for the majority of these projects because of the size of the projects and based on what I have workload wise on my plate.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
So, um, you know, I say just get started and work every day towards it. Baby steps until you can get there. If you can go faster, if you have the finances and the resources to go faster, go faster. But I work seven days a week. I don't feel like I work seven days a week. I take a couple hours for my kid. I take a couple hours for my boyfriend. I,
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I'll go to lunch with my mom, but then I'm back to work. I wake up and I'm doing two or three hours of work and then I'm taking a couple hours for something else and back to work. So, you know, work as you feel work when the creative flow is there for you, because that is very important. You know, there's no schedule for an entrepreneur.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
It's like when you are really in the zone, you should definitely take advantage of that and put out that that effort.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
yeah absolutely i mean like i was saying you know with the creative flow you have to do things you know as they're coming to you so sometimes i wake up at three o'clock in the morning and i work you know whenever something comes to me i'm feeling inspired you know that's a really big part of entrepreneurship because you are your boss you know what i mean there's no one telling you okay you have to be there at nine
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
and you get off at five. So you can work as many or as little hours as you want, but it's really about what you're putting behind those hours. If you're feeling tired and you can't perform, like there's some days I'm like, I just can't edit anymore. I can't think, my brain's not on anymore, I'm tired. So I just stop at a certain, there's no set time. So I just stop and I take a break.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And when I feel good, I'm back at it. So it's really, you have to be your own cheerleader and your own boss and your own inspiration. And, you know, a lot of times following people that inspire you and watching them will help inspire you again, because I follow a lot of people on social media and I just randomly see like somebody post something. I'm like, that just motivated me.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Absolutely. We are just going a million miles an hour, and it's such an exciting time right now. So we have the Dining Empire, which is our app, our network, and we have all these new shows under that. So we have Dining Divas Florida, New York, California, and Texas. We have four chapters.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And that's really my because right now. And it's what's transformed into my because, you know, from starting to just seeing women what I can do and how I can change lives. And it's just me and my team are just really passionate about that. And so we're really excited for what we're building and what the future holds.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
We also have the Destination Divas, which was our travel channel series last year and now going full streaming this year. We're going to be on 15 streaming platforms, including Pluto, Tubi, Peacock, Google TV, Apple TV, and many, many more for us by us network. And then we have all these new shows. We've got the...
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
the diva the decor diva with perla leachy which is so exciting the wine diva we have america's next bikini chef which is going to be a competition show for women living a healthy lifestyle yes the women will be wearing bikinis with a really cute apron um when they when they um serve their dishes but it's going to be it's really really awesome that's going to be premiering
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
We have our very big premiere party coming up March 23rd to the 25th here in Fort Lauderdale. So if you can be in town, definitely show up. We've got lots of influencers, celebrity guests. We're going to be showing all of the shows that we shot last year that are going to be airing this year. Red carpet, glitz, glam, all the fun. So it's going to be a really awesome event.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
You can find out more about that at events.diningdivastv.com. And then besides all of that fun stuff, right, we also have the Diva Network, which is our self-development mastermind portal. It's a virtual network. It's global. We just launched in Africa, which is super exciting. We've been launched for about two months here in the United States. And all over the globe.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I mean, we have members from Germany and Australia and just people everywhere that join in every week. And Adora Evans runs the Diva Network. She is one of our Texas and Destination Divas. She's been with Napoleon Hill Foundation for 23 years. studying under Don King and Dennis Waitley. She's thrown massive events with Les Brown and all kinds of very powerful people.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
We just did an event in the Exumas with Lisa Nichols for one of our Mastermind episodes that we do every year. So it's really a powerful place to come and have community and meet new people. We've already had people raise money inside of our network. We had one Girls getting $1.3 million from connections in our network.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
We have another one that just got an $8,000 contract, a monthly contract, and with money on the back end as well. We've had somebody made $5,000 in just a few weeks just referring people into the Diva Network. So there's just so many opportunities if you're trying to expand your business. We have resources. We have resources.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
community we have you know high high level people that come and speak like Jeff Hoffman just spoke the billionaire that founded Priceline like people that you spend tens of thousands of dollars to get into a room with and they're right there virtually with you for as low as $97 a month you can be a member we also have a free portal so you can come join for free too just to kind of get your feet wet and get a couple of things that way too a couple nuggets that way so we love to have anybody around the world that you know is all about positive and
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
impact and changing lives and you know good community amazing amazing so we'll make sure that we have a link to that in the show notes and descriptions christine where can people find and follow you christine curran you can find me anywhere on the internet yeah c-u-r-r-a-n christine curran yeah but um would love to follow you back and just shoot me a little message that you heard me on mick unplugged and i will follow you back
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Well, it sounds like you're going to be cooking for me is what I heard on the show.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
There was a show we wanted to do called Barbecue Boys. I'm just saying.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Yeah, I mean, modeling was something I did part-time when I was in college. And I realized that I could actually make more money doing that than having a full-time job working for someone else. So I never worked for anybody. I went straight from college into modeling, acting, and interviewing celebrities. And I started getting asked to book other women. Like, hey, do you have any friends?
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I need more promo models. I need more of this. well, if I'm going to do that, I might as well get paid for doing that. Right. So I created my own company right out of college called Fort Lickerdale Entertainment. And I booked over 800 women in 13 years for all kinds of things from fashion shows and music videos and promo jobs and entertainment. So it was very successful.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I had my very famous jello shot girls that we had people fly in from L.A. and shoot TV shows about us. And I
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
did almost a million dollars in cash in my 20s doing that and it was just a really great i helped a lot of college girls a lot of single moms and it was great for me as a single mom and it was a really great lucrative experience in my 20s but from there i just realized what do i want to do like the girls are getting younger I'm getting older. I don't want to book models forever.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And, you know, I don't want to model myself forever. So I was like, I really like production. I like storytelling. I like to be able to just kind of get into an audience's mind and head and be able to like inspire them or, you know, persuade them for something. And so it was really about storytelling for brands and inspirational storytelling was what I really was passionate about.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
so the women empowerment token was started during covid when all the restaurants were shut down i couldn't film dining divas and we were everyone was jumping into all these different things ppe crypto just all the entrepreneurs were trying to figure out what's next right and so we jumped into that and i created the token with my partner jared knowles um the token it did really really well like did 1800 it was just it was a wild experience but like all people jumping into crypto we didn't know a lot about it
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
So we've learned a lot of lessons throughout that. We're actually working on a revamp of that to partner up with our Diva network, which is on blockchain. So that is very, it's in pause mode right now. We're on building on the sidelines for that right now. But I will definitely circle back with you on what we plan on doing with that here in the near future, because it's an exciting project.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And it's something I think we were a little early to, but we're definitely going to be revamping that and bringing it back. So stay tuned.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Yeah, I mean, I wanted to – I was tired of watching women fight on TV. So I wanted to create a show that brought women together. And, you know, what's a better way to bring people together than over a meal, right? So food brings people together. And right now in today's age, you know, food and travel are the two things AI can't take away from the human experience.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
So I really wanted to tap into that industry of food and travel, but I wanted to be more modern and hip because I feel like that's really lacking in – the food travel space, you know, you've got the food network, which the average viewer is 65 and you've got travel channel. That's only showing 5% travel shows. Now they're doing all these ghost stories.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And I just felt like there was no network that was really catering to like the young business professionals that are traveling the world, working remote, living the best life, loving food and travel and just that lifestyle. So I wanted to create a network that really encompassed that. And that's where the Dining Empire was born.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And the Dining Divas is the flagship show that we've been doing for seven years. So I built the network around the show because at the time we were on CW and then we were on WeTV and then we were on Travel Channel. But working with these networks, they were not easy to work with. And I felt like there was just a lack of support from the network. So I was like, I'm going to build my own network.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
So that's what we've done. And now we just got a partnership with FUBU, the For Us Bias Network. And that's really just, you know, we're catapulting. We're actually on set right now with one of the new shows, The Decor Diva with Pearl Alici. She's been traveling the world for 40 years, working with sultans and
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
in dubai and doing all kinds of amazing projects so when you say interior design on a whole nother level this is perla so i'm really excited about that show we've got the wine divas we've got dining dudes coming we have the lahama tv boys in miami these guys are like very awesome urban chef and a production guy that are just awesome foodies running around miami with some of the coolest people so we're really bringing that hip um modern food travel type of style
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
That sounds like a fun show. We're going to have to explore that together.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Oh, snap. Well, then we might have to create a new show for that.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Yeah. The stress of the shows. It's definitely a more positive impact, you know, and inspiration focused because we have all these great people that come join us. And Irvine was on our show once also. Yeah. all these great people that come on that are founders, CEOs, and it's like you learn from them over a meal.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And so you get their authentic self because a lot of times when you're doing business interviews or with a microphone, it's just a different type of energy versus when you get them sitting and they're relaxed or having a glass of wine and they're dining with you and then they forget the cameras are there and then you really get their authentic self on camera.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
So it's really nice and it's really making people comfortable to talk authentically too.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
You know, I think I can cook, but you know, there's always a beg to differ on that, right? My daughter may say otherwise, but my, listen, that's why my boyfriend, he cooks, you know? So I'm like, I don't have to cook. I get fed at work. I get fed at home. I get fed everywhere, you know? So I like to dine.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
I like to be, I feel like I work so hard that cooking is such a, it's a workload for me, you know, where some people enjoy it as therapeutic. For me, I really like the dining experience.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Oh, I super appreciate that. You know, leadership is challenging in some ways because well, especially for me, because I am the CEO of the company, but I am the youngest person. I mean, I only have like maybe a few people that are younger than me in my company. So majority of people are ten, 20 years my senior.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And, you know, so being a leader is really important how you navigate through that with personality types and, you know, things that are happening in people's personal lives, too. And so trying to find that healthy balance of how to be a leader versus a boss. You know, I was a boss in my first company when I booked all the models. I had all these young women working for me.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And it was just like, this is what you do that versus leadership now where it's. about helping them grow and be the best version of themselves without my guidance, more of just me supporting them. But when it comes to accountability, it's very important to always be accountable for your actions, your words, you know, how you make people feel, just how they show up.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
You know, it's just accountability is the the gateway to, you know, a successful company, because if you can't be accountable as a leader, you can't expect your team to be accountable for you either. So, you know, I just I always find it fascinating when people want to always push off blame on other people and never be accountable for their own actions and words.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And so I sometimes I'll take time and I'll sit back and be like, well, how did that come off? Or how did that maybe take myself out of my shoes and say, how does somebody else feel for that? The way I came to them or the way I spoke to them or the way that I handled this particular situation. So I like to be accountable for my actions. I think it's really important part of personal growth.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Well, that was quite the intro. I'm doing fabulous. Thank you.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Well, you know, I have my Monday calls with my corporate team and, you know, always just being very transparent with things on where I'm coming from, maybe how I'm feeling about a certain situation.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Like just those kind of things help with accountability because then they can be more understanding of maybe where your stress levels are at or why you're very focused on something and maybe not as personable that day. Like instead of like, oh, how's your mom doing? And I'm like, hey, listen, I really need to, you know. And so when they're understanding where you're at that week,
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
then it makes for an easier transition for just the flow of energy. So everybody's kind of on the same page and they're like, okay, I understand where my leader's at this week so we can all be accountable for what does she need support in? Because I can tell maybe she's a little stressed this week or maybe she feels like a lot of pressure. What can I do to help relieve some of that?
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
And so it's really about being transparent with each other and just being really open because that really helps lead into the right direction. final result.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
That is a great, that's a great question. Now, recently I just had an injury and I do, I think it does come a lot from stress. Before this new year started, you know, I had really good routines of what I was doing, taking my walks on the beach. You know, doing my gratitudes in the morning. I listen to when I go to bed every night, I listen to frequency music, right?
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
For if I need healing, if I'm not feeling well, I put on healing frequencies. If I need abundance or I need positive frequencies, whatever it is that I'm really suffering or needing at that time, right? I'll put on it. I go to sleep with that all through the night. So I have all these little things that I do, right? And I always go to the gym. I love to work out.
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
Working out is so great for the mind. And I just, when this new year started, it was so wild, chaotic, all positive, but just so much was happening that all my schedule, all my things got messed up. And I feel like that's why my injury happened. Like I woke up one morning about 10 days ago and just had severe pain all
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
all the way down my arm and I've had to go to the hospital and I've done holistic doctors and shamans and like biohacking and all of these things, right? And I do, I really do think it's from that. So I think that having a routine for your stress levels and when you're a high performing CEO,
Mick Unplugged
Christine Curran: From Model to Media Mogul
and you have a lot of people and a lot of energies around you, controlling those energies through meditation, frequency, your gratitudes in the morning, praying, taking silent time for yourself throughout the day, getting out in nature and walking. I mean, so, so helpful, honestly.