Chasing Purpose

Kathleen takes you to the dark place: rock bottom. Nobody gets to rank anyone’s bottom, and nobody skips the dark phase. She shares her own, then turns to the other side: loving someone who hits theirs. Don’t touch someone drowning. They will bring you down. Throw them a lifeline. Support Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network ( www.w4wn.com ) pa...

Kathleen takes on an excuse we all use: they’re not ready. You say it about him, your mother, your kids. Then you do nothing to get them ready. Today she calls it what it is, shows you how to prepare people, and tells you to quit hiding behind someone else’s feelings. If a hard conversation has been sitting in your chest, this one’s for you. Name the date. Say the first sentence. Do it scared. Cha...

Everyone has a good ego and a bad ego, and your choices, your habits, and your lifestyle, your environment feed them every day. Kathleen breaks down how each one lives however, only one of them can survive. You get to pick which one. So which ego is the fairest of them all? Choose wisely Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network ( www.w4wn.com ) par...

Host Kathleen Conner marks the fall equinox with a simple truth: seasons change, and so does life, whether you're ready or not. She breaks down how easily we accept the seasons and how hard we fight every other kind of change, why falling feels like flying until you hit the ground, and what it actually looks like to name a season, grieve it, and move with it instead of standing in an empty summer...

Kathleen Conner breaks down two sentences this week: 'I didn't mean it' and the one that follows when you push back, 'you're making more out of it than it was.' Owning your intent costs nothing. Owning the impact costs something real. The size of someone's hurt is never yours to grade, no matter how good you meant it. Doctors don't take an oath to mean no harm. They take one to do no harm. That's...

Five years ago, Kathleen got on a flight thinking it might be her last drink before losing her mother. It turned into the first day of five years sober. No rehab, no intervention, no rock bottom, just a woman choosing to be present for her dying mother and never picking a beer back up. This episode breaks down what actually changes in year one versus year five, and why you do not need a dramatic c...

With their 40th high school reunion approaching, Kathleen and Wendy get real about what time actually does to you, what it doesn't, and what they'd change if they're being honest instead of nostalgic. From who they thought they'd become to what they'd tell their eighteen-year-old selves, this episode is a candid look at decades of friendship, regret, and the moments worth bottling up exactly as th...

Forgive and forget are not the same thing, and treating them as one leaves you exposed to the exact thing that hurt you the first time. Kathleen breaks down what forgiveness actually is: a release for you, not a ticket back into your life for them. Covering self-forgiveness, parents, work grudges, and why holding on doesn't prove something mattered, this episode gives you permission to put the wei...

Home is more than an address. It is where we feel grounded, connected, and restored. In this episode Kathleen and Wendy explore what creates a true sense of home, why coming home nourishes the soul, and belonging safety and presence shape the lives we build. Discover how to create a life your soul longs to return to every day. Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on W4WN Radio - Wo...

This week Kathleen breaks down overthinking as borrowed anxiety, withdrawing tomorrow's fear and spending it today. Why women get rewarded for a habit that drains them, and how to stop paying interest on disasters that never arrive. No advice you have already heard here. This is the real cost of borrowing trouble and how to close the account. Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on...

What are you carrying what was never yours to begin with? In this episode, Kathleen and Wendy explore the emotional baggage we collect through life, including expectations, guilt, other people's opinions, and outdated stories. Learn how releasing what no longer belongs to you creates space for greater peace, freedom, purpose, and presence. It's time to pack light and carry only what serves your li...

Kathleen gets fully honest about her spiritual practice: daily tarot, astrology, Human Design, chakras, spiritual guides, one hard no on ouija boards. Her case: these tools give guidance, not gospel. They inform a decision. They never make it for you. She shares how she checks in with her late father for a nudge, and calls out using a reading to stall on something you already know you need to do....

Your gut isn't magic, it's pattern recognition moving faster than you can explain it. Kathleen breaks down a real method for reading it: Look at what you actually observe, Listen for tone and pace, and Feel the signal your body sends first. Learn why the feeling alone is never the verdict, it's the alarm, and how checking it against what you saw and heard is what separates earned intuition from fe...

In this raw, deeply personal episode, Kathleen breaks down why the standard you allow is the standard you receive. She shares the friendship that quietly slipped away, and the lesson her father never finished teaching her. Kathleen explores what happens when loyalty to others and loyalty to broken promises with yourself become the same blind spot. A conversation about noticing what you have been a...

Your constant need to be right is costing you everything. Kathleen breaks down what winning looks like — people withdrawing, relationships emptying, love dying — and why every argument you win is a person you're losing. This week we're talking about the choice you're making in every moment, what losing the argument actually gives you, and why closeness is the only victory that matters. Chasing Pur...

There is a moment between what someone says and how you respond. That moment is everything. Kathleen breaks down the trigger-reaction cycle and how to find The Pause — the space where you actually get to choose. This week we're talking about what happens when you cannot pause, what pausing sounds like, and how one second can change a pattern that has been running your entire life. Chasing Purpose...

Kathleen breaks down what respect actually means. You cannot argue someone into respecting you. You cannot explain your way into their understanding. Respect is not something you prove — it's something you claim. This week we're talking about the case you've been building for your own worthiness, why it never works, and what happens when you finally put it down. Chasing Purpose is broadcast live T...

When you're triggered, your body knows before your mind catches up. Kathleen breaks down what alignment actually is — it's a feeling. Calm. Clear. Balanced. Not a strategy. Not something you build. Something you return to. This week we're talking about what it costs you to stay displaced from yourself, and why the real power to stay centered starts in your body. This is about staying here, inside...

Say cheese. Two words. A lifetime of conditioning. Smile. Look happy. Make it easy. Social media didn't create the performance — it just gave it a filter and an audience. Personal brand photographer Tanya Boggs has watched women through the lens for years. Now she and Kathleen Conner dig into what it really costs to keep performing — and what it takes to stop. Not posed. Not filtered. Lights. Came...

Most women are waiting. Waiting for the right moment, the right permission, the right version of their life to show up and hand them a reason to move. In this month’s conversation, Kathleen sits down with Wendy Harrop to talk about agency — not the grand gesture kind, not the dramatic life overhaul kind, but the daily practice kind. The small choices nobody sees that add up to a life that actually...

The world updated every operating system except love. We still follow the same script our parents followed and their parents before them. In this episode Kathleen asks the question most women have been managing into silence — did you choose your lane or did you drift into it? Traditional patterns versus relational connection. The platform is yours. Both lanes are real. The jump is overdue. Chasing...

We are fluent in what everyone else is doing wrong. We have zero interest in what we might be doing wrong. In this episode, Kathleen gets direct about the patterns we run on autopilot, the feedback we explain away, and the moment we realize we are the common denominator. Not a shame spiral. A door. The one sitting on the other side of every pattern you are exhausted from repeating. Chasing Purpose...

Love isn't what someone says to you — it's what they do. In this episode, Kathleen Conner breaks down love as a verb: past tense, present tense, future tense. The record, the practice, the intention. Why attention is not intention. Why someday is not a plan. And why the most important object of your love has been missing from your sentence your whole life. Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesday...

You are winning Oscars for shows that bombed. Kathleen Conner tells the story of a client who collected awards daily - Best Wife, Best Mother, Best Professional - for performances nobody believed. Everyone knew the show failed, but they kept clapping. When she walked off stage, her family panicked, friends left, her marriage ended. Not because she failed. Because she stopped acting. This is about...

Women are experts at deflecting compliments - minimizing, joking or brushing them off entirely.  In this episode, Kathleen and Wendy explore why receiving recognition feels uncomfortable, where the reflex comes from, and what it costs us to keep shrinking.  If you've ever struggled to simply say "thank you", this conversation will hit home.  Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on...