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This one's a little messy. Not a surprise, given how messy January has been. I wanted to bring it to you even though it's messy, because it's real too. It's about real things that really matter. You're here, reading and listening, so I think they’ll matter to you as well. Thank you for being here with me. I'm glad to be here with you. Love, Kay Nuts & Bolts Got a question for this coming Tuesday's...

Today’s show brings in an important idea when cultivating a positive money mindset: being curious about what we are really good at and enjoy doing. How we feel about money will improve as we do more and more of that which we are really good at and enjoy doing. Hope you enjoy this one! I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the most important person who will hear your responses to th...

How we spend our time, and how aligned our days are spent with how we wish to spend them, is directly influenced by the kind of money mindset we have. Today I’ve got a couple questions to help you get a sense of this alignment for yourself. I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the key person who will hear you, is you. So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journ...

I HAD NO IDEA how negative my money mindset used to be. Lack was the word that best describes it. Over several years I’ve opened more and more to feeling abundance. Even with all that growth, 2025 blew the absolute doors off of any abundance mindset I’d ever had. Between the dream home and property my life partner and I now live on, and the up-leveling of service that I have been able to provide w...

Happy new year! For this episode I share three questions that have been super helpful for me in envisioning a wonderful 2026. I share my responses to them… With such curiosity about you. I wonder how you would answer these questions? Here are the questions: 1. A Magical Three from this year’s Year Compass : “I will have the power to say no to these three things.”… What are your three things? 2. &...

Well, here we are at the end of a fascinating and pretty buckwild year! I have got a quickie self-care practice for you today, and a game that we can play together all throughout 2026. (The link below is where you can play.) Happy 2026, dear friend. I hope it's an awesome year for you. You deserve it. And you rock! Love, Kay This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...

On 23 December 2022 I sustained a head injury that took me many many months to recover from. I spent half the following year in physical therapy supporting my eyes to work properly again. The head injury permanently changed how I engage with print and reading. It had one other, very beneficial, effect: at the hospital I was told “You need lots of rest. If you want to get truly better from this you...

Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us … To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves. This week we bring our focus to feeling okay even amidst those who do not. Hope it's helpful. Sending you love today

This game came in really handy when my eardrum ruptured over Thanksgiving week! It was great to have a little reminder that even on the worst days, there's still good around when we look for it. THANK YOU to my dear friend and colleague Dr. Alice Ackerman for the game. Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us … To take into our...

Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us , if I’m being honest… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves. In this one, we’re seeing how it feels to celebrate a creative win. Sending you love today

Hello fellow fun seeker! Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us , if I'm being honest… To take into our days and say "I love you lots!” to ourselves. In this one, we’re practicing a simple noticing: what do I need right now? If possible, we're giving it to ourselves. Sending you love today

There are a couple F bombs! So maybe headphones or listening away from sensitive ears are good choices for this episode today. I love when it happens that stories that I hadn’t really been intending to share just present themselves as what feels right to say in the moment. It turns out that taking you into my art means taking you into my LIFE over this last year-ish, a time of disruption, growth,...

Greetings friend! I'm geeking out a little bit today on something that's been both a passion of mine and my professional work for more than three decades: human dynamics, the study of how humans interact with each other. We human beings are fascinating creatures. We can seem very unpredictable to someone who’s not inside ourselves. We can even seem unpredictable to ourselves at times. Over the las...

Greetings friend! I'm just back from a transformative and restorative retreat in northern Spain where I got some essential solo exploration time and also took part in a lovely and amazing group retreat offered by friend-of-the-podcast Monique Giroux ( here's her website so you can get to know her better!) and spent with some truly amazing women. Today's episode is about an important part of my lea...

Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, I Am Not My Thoughts . We hope that this will be a super helpful episode for you on your journey. Enjoy! * Would you like to be part of our final Tools Chat coming up in November 2025? Email...

Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, The Law of the Universe . A note for paid supporters: with my travel this past month I have drafted, but not yet finished, the chapter of my forthcoming book that should have been yours in O...

Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of "lost" Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It's about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today. This was done as a LinkedIn live back in Spring 2025, so the production and sound quality is a little different than what you’re used to… But we hope that this will be a super helpful episod...

Greetings! Today's episode is the first-ever chat with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss regarding the tools that we developed together as I was training to solo-hike across northern England in 2023.This was done as a LinkedIn live back in Winter 2025, and I hear a little bit of nervous energy in my voice as we get rolling in the conversation. I wonder if you'll hear that as well? Today we chat...

Greetings! It’s time for another chat with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss regarding the tools that we developed together as I was training to solo-hike across northern England in 2023. Today you’ll hear about a tool we call Periods. Not commas . Back when Andrew was my coach and I was training to cross northern England on foot, this was the first tool that my brain was able to take in. It's b...

I am excited to bring you this one, an update as the upheaval settles after my life partner and I relocated from where we just kinda ended up… to where we really wished to be. Paid Supporters: Your Chapter Is Here

Greetings! It's time for another great conversation with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss regarding the tools that we developed together as I was training to solo-hike across northern England in 2023. Today you’ll hear about a tool we call Negative Thoughts are Opportunities for Growth . It’s a conversation that will feel relevant and helpful, if you've ever been derailed by the thoughts inside...

Today's episode is another one that I have been WAITING FOR SO LONG to bring you! Please welcome Jeff Lamb , creator of the Pathfinders original podcast series and cofounder of Pathfinders for Good, which is all about celebrating and supporting everyday heroes. This episode is uniquely done – I get to bring the wonderful framework that Jeff developed for the Pathfinders show, on him! The result is...

Greetings from Maine, USA, where I LIVE now, after 28 years of trying! I am OVER the MOON and sharing this short update celebrating dreaming, doing, and changing systems. It was recorded on my epic 1 mile walk to the mailbox this morning! I'll be back a little later this week with an interview that I'm super excited to bring to you :) In the meantime, if changing systems from a place of feeling go...

Greetings friend! Today's a quick update on what-all is happening around here.. and gets into a bit of what 'here' means for my life partner and I right now! Here's the poem that I read for you in this episode: The Taste of Freedom I couldn’t find a fork Or oil Or salt. The pan had been packed. Couldn’t make my preferred breakfast No eggs Quinoa Avocado Available even if I could. So I ate my break...

Today's episode is another one that I have been WAITING FOR SO LONG to bring you! Please welcome Mike Michalowicz , the author of many best-selling books, one very formative one for me and which we talk quite a bit about today, Profit First . Mike specializes in helping entrepreneurs and creative people figure out their financial stuff in a way that is truly life changing. It's changed my life, an...