Jamie Van Cuyk, founder and owner of St. Pete-based Growing Your Team, a consulting firm that works with small businesses on recruiting and retaining employees. She founded the firm in 2018, after previously starting a software company. A University of Tampa graduate, Van Cuyk worked for Catalina Marketing in St. Petersburg before she started her own businesses. Growing Your Team, she says, works not only with clients — usually that have five or less employees — on hiring people, but on fine-tuning what the company needs in each position so the founder can focus more on growing the business, not being in it.
Diversion
Aerial hoops. It’s a form of dancing — hanging from the ceiling in a steel circular device that looks like a Hula Hoop. Van Cuyk, 40, takes a weekly class for aerial hoops at the A&G Dance Academy in St. Petersburg. During the classes, under the division A&G Aerial Arts, instructors teach a bevy of moves, dances and tricks, such as a bird’s nest or a crescent moon…