I know what it's like to be paddling as hard as you can and still drifting, unsure which way is home.
Hi, I'm Ines Curin your Enneagram and Integrative Coach.
I work with business owners and individuals who are exhausted by the same patterns and desperate for the inner peace that keeps slipping out of reach.
For years I said yes to everything that came my way, new business ideas, business connections, friendships, even going out when all I really wanted to do was stay home. Not because I wanted to. Because I didn't know how to say no, and I was terrified of missing out.
And underneath all of it, I had no idea who I actually was. Confident yes. Capable also a big yes. But who was I under all the layers of doing?
Then the Enneagram came into my life at a moment when I was genuinely asking for a shift. What it revealed then still moves me today, and every day since it shows me something new.
I remember thinking: I wish everyone could have this.
That's why I do this work now. So that you can pick up your own oars and find your way home.
The Beginning:
Barracuda Surf
Barracuda Surf & Streetwear my first business. Built from nothing.
By every measure it should have felt like I made it. But it didn't. I didn't. I felt like I fluked it.
There was an emptiness sitting right underneath the achievement and I couldn't understand why.
Inside I felt like an imposter. I kept asking: how did I get here?
I was good at what I did. I was working hard. The business was a success. I was not.
I didn't have language to describe what was wrong. I just knew that this business I built, it didn't feel like mine.
The Pivot:
Girls Talk Business
I chose Girls Talk Business over university. An online Community for over 9000 business woman offering a membership program to expand confidence.
It was a deliberate choice. I needed an outlet, a place to play, to learn in real time, to find the parts of myself that had been left unfinished.
For the first time I gave myself the freedom to make mistakes and let that be okay.
What I didn't expect was what I would see in the women who showed up in my community I built.
Nine thousand of them.
And underneath every question about revenue and strategy and growth was the same thing I was still learning myself.
How to say no and mean it.
How to set limits that came from values rather than fear.
How to stop building what looked successful and start building what felt true.
I was giving freely to everyone who needed me.
Support, time, presence. But at what cost to myself?
Eventually I knew. It was time to stop. And go inward. No community. No distractions. No more solving someone else's problems. No more building. Just stop and focus on me.
It was the one pattern that I could finally admit to myself I had kept avoiding. Showing up for myself.
The Shift:
The Enneagram
The Enneagram found me when I was out of answers. For the first time I could see the currents that had been pulling me off course.
And once I could see them, I could decide to change direction.
But the map alone didn't move me. I needed a way to actually navigate it.
So I built one.
C-OARS is the framework I created from years of doing this work on myself and then with clients.
Five stages that take everything the Enneagram reveals and turn it into real lasting change. In your business. In your relationships. In the way you see yourself and what you're worth.
I stopped swimming against the current. I picked up the oars.
Now I help others do the same.
My Approach
Every client arrives at a different point. That is exactly where I meet them.
It starts with a 30 minute discovery call. No agenda, no pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are right now. For many clients this is the first time someone has truly listened, not to fix them, not to advise them, but to understand exactly where they are. That's where trust begins. And trust is everything in this work.
From there we move into three sessions that give you a home base, a clear structure you haven't seen before, one that offers reasons and answers you can choose to see and follow. Each session builds on the last, and between sessions we stay connected on messenger or WhatsApp. These conversations between sessions are where the real work often happens, in the moments as they're actually unfolding, not just in the session room.
The Enneagram is the map we use throughout. C-OARS is the framework I created to navigate it.
For some there will be moments that shake them enough to start navigating on their own. For others the deeper work happens in the months that follow, as life keeps presenting new moments to practise what we've uncovered together.
Our goal is always the same. An internal foundation built from self trust.
Either way, the oars are always yours. That's always been the point.
What I Believe
Most people come to me with a business problem or a relationship problem. What we find is always something much more personal. A lack of inner peace is causing both.
You're not stuck because you lack strategy. You're stuck because the strategies you've accumulated have become a way to stay exactly where you are. Something to do. Something to fix. Busy work that feels productive but keeps you from looking at what's actually going on underneath.
That inner peace we all search for comes from the pause. And the pause is often the very thing we are not courageous enough to take. We live in a busy world full of distractions that keep us from tapping into the answers we already have inside us.
My job is to bring that pause to you... so you can feel safe enough to find it and learn to trust it on your own.
My Qualifications
Enneagram Training
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Level 1 Training with Beatrice Chestnut & Uranio Paes (San Francisco)
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Enneagram of Awakening – Module 1 Facilitation Training (Australia 2019)
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Ongoing study and practice since 2018
Business Background
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Founded and ran Barracuda Surf (retail business)
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Built Girls Talk Business – Online Community (9,000+ members)
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20+ years experience in business ownership and operations
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Deep understanding of the pivot point – when success arrives and something still has to change
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Have sat in the same seat as every client I work with
Coaching Practice
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Creator of the C-OARS framework
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Zoom or in person sessions
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Deliberately small practice (up to 5 clients at a time)
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Online and in person workshops
If something here has landed - don't ignore it.
That recognition you feel when you read something that names exactly where you are? Pay attention to it.
A discovery call is 30 minutes. We talk about your business, what's not moving, and whether what's underneath it is something I can help with. No pitch. No pressure.
If it's the right fit – I'll help you into the boat.
