Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Envy gets a bad rap. We're taught it's something to be ashamed of. You're supposed to push it down, scroll past, and pretend you didn't feel that twinge when someone posted the holiday, the career move, or the life you didn't know you wanted. But what if that twinge is one of the most useful pieces of information you've got? This week I'm joined by Suzy Rosenstein, life leadership coach, host of W...

Scared you'll go after the thing, miss, and feel like it was all for nothing? This one's for you. Recording from my leopard-print dressing gown after a huge week, I'm getting a little fired up about why so many of us never start the thing we keep circling. Usually it isn't the goal that stops us. It's the question we're asking about it, and what we're afraid we'll do to ourselves if we fall short....

The day this episode comes out, my dear dad, Vince, turns 70! So to celebrate the big milestone, I've dedicated this episode to Dad and 7 lessons I've learned from him that have shaped me to become the woman I am today. I love you, Dad. 

Pedestrian safety ruffles more feathers online than almost anything else I talk about. Who knew? Most of the comments on my advocacy posts are beautiful. Some stop me cold. And my first instinct is not calm, graceful or enlightened. It's to crack my knuckles, open my notes app and write a three-chapter rebuttal, complete with an appendix. Maybe you know that feeling. Maybe it's not a comment secti...

I've had a last minute speaking gig come up, so this episode is short yet heartfelt as I share a passage I recently read that puts into perspective what being 'rich' really means. ❤️ To learn more about how I can speak at your next event visit: https://www.kategladdin.com/speaking  

  Everyone tells you to think big. Set the goals, picture the future, dream about where you'll be in five years. Most of the time, that's great advice. But when something sudden and painful knocks the ground out from under you, that same advice can be exactly what makes it feel impossible to breathe. In this episode, Kate shares the simple shift that's helped her through some of her hardest days....

There are three words most of us say every single day without noticing. They're small. Polite. They sound like humility. They sound like consideration. One of them sounds so much like good manners that you'd feel rude leaving it out. And every time you use them, you hand over a little bit of ground. Not dramatically. Nobody's life falls apart over one sentence. But language is rehearsal — and the...

There's an old fable I heard again recently about a water bearer and two clay pots. One is perfect. The other has a crack in it, and leaks half its water on the walk home every single day — for two years. Simple little story. But there's a line near the end of it that quietly dismantles most of the advice we get handed when life goes sideways. Because "look for the good in it" assumes the good is...

Go looking for help with how you're feeling and it's all the same promise: get rid of the anxiety. Stop the overthinking. Build the confidence. Find the motivation. Sit with what that's actually teaching us - that the feeling is the problem. That something's gone wrong. That you have to fix yourself before you're allowed to get on with your life. I don't think that's true. And I think believing it...

Jay Abasi spent over a year preparing for his TEDx talk. He walked on stage, delivered it, and the crowd loved every second of it. Then came the part nobody plans for. In this episode, Jay takes us back to the night everything changed — and the hour he spent on his office floor the next day, not reframing, not positive-thinking his way out of it, just sitting with it. From there, we talk about why...

Confidence has become the thing everyone's waiting for to deliver their 'dream' life. Once I'm more confident, I'll launch it. Once I'm more confident, I'll speak up. Once I'm more confident, I'll apply, I'll move, I'll ask. And so we wait... Here's the problem with confidence - it's fragile. It goes up when things go well and falls flat the second they don't. Which means the one time you need it...

Nobody likes being wrong. It feels like losing. So we defend our thoughts - even the ones quietly costing us the most. In this episode I'm making the case that your willingness to be wrong is one of the most underrated skills you can build. Not positive thinking. Not slapping a nice feeling on top of a real fear. Something far more useful - and far more accurate. I share the thought that nearly st...

Nobody teaches you how to feel anxious. They teach you how to make it stop. And that's the problem — because most of us aren't actually struggling with anxiety. We're struggling with our resistance to it. This isn't another anxiety toolkit. I've done the breathing episodes, and all of that still stands. These are the few things I actually use on myself and with my coaching clients that I rarely he...

If you're the kind of person who can spend a week deciding which restaurant to choose or what colour to paint your nails — this one's for you. I'm tight on time this week, so this is a short, punchy one. But it's built around something one of my coaches said that completely flipped how I think about indecision — a single line that turns the usual story about why decisions feel so hard on its head....

I nearly fell off the reformer. I was mid-Pilates class listening to David Epstein on Modern Wisdom when he said something so back to front I had to hear it twice: if you want to be more creative, don't give yourself more freedom. Give yourself fewer options. And then he explained why - and it cracked open something I've been teaching for years without ever having the words for it. So I went down...

"I don't have time." "I'm just being realistic." "Now's not the right time." "Who am I to do that?" Here's the uncomfortable truth: every one of those is fear wearing a disguise. Fear rarely shows up with a name tag. It dresses itself up as busyness, as being realistic, as gratitude, as "that's just not me" - sneaky little excuses that sound so responsible you never think to question them. And so...

You had the idea. You were  buzzing. "I'm going to launch the podcast / become a speaker / learn Spanish / finally chase the thing." Then you actually went and tried it - and felt like absolute rubbish at it. I know that feeling intimately. I once gave a resilience talk so badly that I sat in my car afterwards and bawled my eyes out, thinking who am I to be doing this? I'm not cut out for it. Turn...

Some seasons of life just happen  to you. The trip gets cancelled. The diagnosis lands. The person you love is suddenly gone - and none of it is fair, and none of it is yours to fix. That feeling - like life is happening to you and you've got no say in it - is, to me, the worst feeling of all. So this week I'm sharing one question I've reached for in my hardest, loneliest, most unfair moments. Fro...

  For a few weeks earlier this year, I was convinced I was about to lose everything I'd built here in the US — and have to start my whole life over on the other side of the world. This episode is about what happened in my head during those weeks — and the one shift that pulled me back out. I'm getting into why our brains bolt straight to the worst-case scenario (it's not a flaw — it's your brain t...

Have you ever told yourself you'll go for the promotion, post the thing, start the business, or finally put yourself out there... once you feel confident enough? This episode is your gentle wake-up call. I'll be honest with you, this past week was a heartbreaking one. I open up about the sentencing in my mum's case and why I went quiet for a bit. But I also share a conversation I had with a CEO th...

After seven years of visas, green cards, forms, fees, and sleepless nights, Kate has news. Big news. The kind that comes with a standing ovation, her dad flying in with a day to spare, and one very emotional Aussie standing in a room of 49 other immigrants from 23 different countries. But that's just the opening pep talk. Because then Kate gets into something she's been quietly using on herself fo...

Ever spilled your coffee, gotten one snippy email, and ten minutes later found yourself catastrophising the entire trajectory of your life? Yeah. Same. There's a name for what your brain is doing in those moments — and most of us have no idea it's happening. But once you can spot it, there's a one-sentence flip my coach taught me that changes everything. It pulls you out of the spiral fast, and it...

Are you in the middle of a big change right now? A loss. A diagnosis. A divorce. A restructure. A move you didn't choose. Or just the slow, uncomfortable feeling that the version of life you built isn't fitting you anymore. Here's what nobody tells you about going through hard change — surviving it isn't the same as transforming through it. You can come out the other side just shaped by what happe...

Are you exhausted from doing all the things, checking all the boxes, and still feeling like you're drowning? You're not broken. You've just been sold the wrong version of resilience. In this episode, I'm breaking down why "staying positive" and "bouncing back" is actually heightening your stress—and what to do instead. What you'll learn: The #1 thing stealing your energy (and how to set boundaries...

Ever catch yourself thinking, "Why am I like this?" Too much. Too quiet. Too emotional. Too in your head. What if the thing you criticize yourself for most… isn't a flaw at all? In this episode, I unpack a powerful reframe that challenges the way we try to "fix" ourselves. Because what if your so-called weakness is actually a strength that's just been turned up too high? If you've ever called your...