Plenty with Kate Northrup

What happens when you become the first person in your family to achieve something no one before you ever had—and instead of feeling excited, you feel scared, guilty, or like you’re doing something wrong? In the final part of the Inheritance series, Kate explores why going beyond what previous generations experienced can feel surprisingly uncomfortable, even when it’s something you’ve worked hard f...

What happens when you build the successful life you thought you wanted—and realize you want to escape from it? In this episode, Kate sits down with entrepreneur and Return to Real author Ryan Levesque, who spent a decade building a hyper-growth company that generated more than $100 million in revenue. When a $70 million acquisition fell apart just days before signing, Ryan found himself confrontin...

What if some of your money problems aren’t really about money at all—but about emotions you haven’t allowed yourself to feel? In Part 3 of the Inheritance series, Kate explores the connection between your emotional life and your financial life. She challenges the idea that money decisions should be purely logical and explains how emotional suppression can show up as financial avoidance, overspendi...

What if the symptoms you’ve been trying to get rid of are actually your body trying to protect and heal you? In this episode, Kate sits down with detox and root-cause health expert Sinclair Kennally for a deeply personal conversation about chronic illness, mold, parasites, and what it really means to become the CEO of your own health. Sinclair shares her own journey from slowly losing her ability...

What if AI didn’t replace humans—but gave us more time and capacity to actually be human? In this episode, Kate sits down with AI expert Callan Faulkner, who has trained more than 13,000 business owners to become AI architects. Callan shares the extraordinary story behind a launch she expected to generate $4 million that ultimately crossed $19.5 million—and the financial and nervous system work sh...

What keeps you going when the dream you’ve been working toward still hasn’t happened? In this episode, Kate sits down with debut novelist Andrew Forrester, author of How the Story Goes, to talk about the ten-year journey that took him from his first finished manuscript to finally becoming a published author. Along the way, Andrew wrote multiple manuscripts, spent years trying to land an agent, had...

What if your relationship with “enough” began before you were even born? In this second episode of the Inheritance series, Kate Northrup explores the connection between the mother wound, the feminine, and money. She explains why our mother is our first economy—and how our earliest experiences of nurturing, presence, support, and flow can shape whether we feel there will ever truly be enough for us...

What happens when the identity, work, and life you’ve built no longer fit who you’re becoming? In this deeply personal conversation, Kate Northrup reunites with Regena Thomashauer—also known as Mama Gena—to explore the story behind her new book, On Our Knees, and the transformation that followed the end of a defining chapter in her life. Regena shares how she went from being $250,000 in tax debt t...

What if the life you want isn’t waiting for you somewhere in the future—it’s already available in the choices you’re making right now? In this solo episode, Kate Northrup shares a summer life update and reflects on what it means to build a life around what truly matters. From choosing a simple staycation over an expensive getaway to returning to her hometown in Maine, Kate explores how slowing dow...

What if your most challenging relationships are also your greatest opportunity for healing? In this deeply personal conversation, Kate Northrup sits down with relationship coach and author Stefanos Sifandos to explore how our romantic relationships become mirrors for the wounds, patterns, and beliefs we've carried since childhood. Together, they discuss why trauma is inherently relational, how pol...

What if your relationship with money has less to do with discipline and more to do with the ways you learned to feel safe? In this solo episode, Kate Northrup explores the surprising connection between father wounds, the nervous system, and financial behaviors. She explains why patterns like overspending, avoiding structure, or feeling overwhelmed by budgeting aren't personality flaws—they're ofte...

What happens when you stop chasing success and start following what you believe you're being called to do? In this conversation, Kate Northrup sits down with author and publisher Keira Brinton to explore the unconventional path that transformed her life—from panic attacks and financial uncertainty to building a thriving publishing company by trusting divine guidance. Keira shares how learning to r...

Most conversations about manifestation focus on changing your thoughts. But what if the real reason your affirmations aren't working has nothing to do with your mindset? In this solo episode, Kate Northrup shares the missing piece she believes is absent from nearly every manifestation conversation: the body. Drawing on decades of studying manifestation—from listening to Abraham Hicks cassette tape...

What if manifestation isn't about trying harder—but about becoming more coherent? In this expansive conversation, Kate sits down with meditation teacher and founder of Ziva Meditation, Emily Fletcher, to explore the relationship between meditation, manifestation, neuroscience, and what Emily calls "the field." Together, they unpack the idea that everything we create in the visible world begins in...

What if everything you've been taught about menopause is incomplete?  In this special mother-daughter conversation, Kate sits down with her mom, Dr. Christiane Northrup, to unpack decades of research and clinical experience on hormones, aging, and women's health. Together, they explore why menopause is not a disease to fear, but a powerful biological transition that can support greater wisdom, vit...

What if the reason your creative project is taking longer than expected isn’t because you’re doing it wrong—but because it’s changing you in the process? In this deeply personal episode, Kate takes listeners behind the scenes of the book she has been writing for the past three years and the surprising lessons the process has taught her about identity, creativity, timing, and trust. Reflecting on t...

What happens when the thing consuming most of your time is producing the least amount of your results? In this inspiring case study episode, Kate sits down with longtime entrepreneur, author, and women’s health educator Nicole Jardim to unpack a business breakthrough that completely changed the way she works, leads, and grows her company. Nicole has spent more than a decade building a trusted bran...

What if the most important thing you do during a launch is absolutely nothing? In this deeply personal behind-the-scenes episode, Kate shares the unexpected story of what happened during the final twenty-four hours of her biggest launch of the year—and why spending the last day lying on the couch reading a novel may have been the strategy all along. After becoming physically ill the night before c...

What actually makes an online business work today? And why are so many entrepreneurs still struggling—even with more tools, AI, content, and strategies than ever before? In this expansive and deeply honest conversation, Kate sits down with longtime entrepreneur and business educator James Wedmore to unpack the timeless principles behind sustainable online business growth, why most people overspend...

Are online courses actually dead? Or are most people simply building them in ways that no longer work? In this solo episode, Kate pulls back the curtain on the behind-the-scenes numbers, strategy, emotional reality, and nervous system dynamics of her latest Relaxed Money launch—which crossed the $2 million mark at a time when many online business owners are panicking about the future of digital ed...

What if success isn’t actually freedom? And what if the business you built to give you more life slowly became the thing consuming it? In this deeply honest conversation, Kate sits down with entrepreneur, author, and BossBabe founder Natalie Ellis to talk about ambition, motherhood, nervous system healing, identity, and what it really means to build a freedom-based business. Natalie opens up about...

What if an investment could be both financially irrational… and deeply worth it? In this episode, Mike Watts returns to Plenty for part two of our behind-the-scenes Airbnb series, where we pull back the curtain on the actual numbers behind our Maine short-term rental project. And yes — technically, we’re currently underwater on it. But this conversation isn’t just about profit margins or renovatio...

What if the thing keeping you from receiving more money, love, or support isn't strategy — but how safe it feels to open your heart? And what if worthiness isn't something you earn… but something you decide? In this episode, I sit down with Suzy Ashworth for a conversation about receiving — money, love, visibility, support — and the courage it takes to stay openhearted in a world that can feel pai...

What if building a new stream of income didn't require perfection — just a willingness to learn as you go? And what might open up if you let yourself experiment with money in a way that feels creative instead of rigid? In this episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes with Mike as we share the real story of launching our first short-term rental property — what worked, what surprised us, and what w...

What if the feeling that there’s “not enough” isn’t actually true—but something you’ve been taught to believe? And what might shift if your relationship with money became rooted in sufficiency instead of scarcity? What if scarcity isn’t a reality—but a story we’ve all been living inside? In this episode, I sit down with Lynne Twist and Sara Vetter for one of the most expansive conversations we’ve...