My Coach Kate

Let's talk about a magical way that you can find one little thing that you are willing to do and make that magic bean grow and grow into something that helps you to enrich your life in all of the different areas. Just like the idea of 'Paying it forward' can expand exponentially to other people, this is way to expand something, but to yourself. 

Most of us have focused on a task, or been sitting at a workshop for longer than optimal. We start to get a headache or our concentration is just faltering. What is a brain break and what is the best way to get one? Let's look at all different scenarios, as they apply to both children and adults. Find the best fit for what you need at the moment, so that you can be productive again when you a...

Have you every been inside a greenhouse? Experienced the warm, sunny environment? Plants thrive in that environment. Let's jump into this analogy and see how it can apply to your life, when you are in a leadership position. Whether or not you have much of a green thumb, you will be able to see your role as a leader in a new way. 

What does your work style look like? Are you a long-distance runner? A sprinter? Let's look at a simple analogy and think about how it benefits you to work one way, and not the other. After listening to your podcast, you will be one step closer to completing that task that you have been putting off, or trying to complete, without making much head-way. 

What are wheels? They are pie charts that we are going to talk about today to create an analogy for when you should give 100% effort to something and when you shouldn't. Were you raised with the idea to give your all to everything that you do? If you were, then listen to this to think about why maybe that isn't the best idea after all, and what might be better for you. 

Happy New Year! What are the basic core beliefs in your primary relationship? If you don't know them, off of the top of your head, then come on in and listen to mine. New Year's Eve brought some deep conversation with my wife and I and we came up with our 5 most important beliefs. They will be our reminders in the new year and you can see if they inspire your own. 

You have goals; Big goals. But how are you picturing your life after you achieve your next big goal? If you are like most of us, you might be picturing the 'you' that you are now moving toward your other goals. We often forget to picture ourself as the new version that we will be after our next big goal. Here is a little secret way to give yourself the opportunity to practice being the n...

What is your life like today? Would you want to live your life today, for the rest of your life with no change? What would be the pros of that and what would be the cons? We are going to explore the idea of cost, different lenses that you use to look at your life and that you might use when it's time to make decisions, and a review of that primitive brain and the motivational triad that drive...

What is the last goal that you set that just seemed like it was staying out of reach? Why wasn't it working? You were doing the work but just not getting near that finish line. Let's take a look at one big reason why this might be. Let's talk about why you need to have a very detailed picture in mind of what it looks like and feels like to be there. How does it work to have more det...

Your parents taught you things. They told you lessons that they wanted you to learn- yes. But they also taught you lessons by their day-to-day actions. Some of these, you might even not be aware of. How can you uncover what those lessons are? And decide if there are some that are not serving you? Let's take a look at 4 categories of beliefs and examine how to change any that you want to chang...

In part 2, we will talk about planning out your next year, to fill it with moments that will make it memorable and something to truly look forward to. It doesn't matter if you like a fully packed schedule or lots of alone time and scheduled time without anything at all to do. You can plan it in the way that makes you excited and looking forward to the year. It's time to get creative and...

How do you celebrate holidays and events throughout the year? We are going to take a deep dive into how you celebrate and WHY you celebrate in the way that you do. Do you celebrate in the ways that you learned growing up? Or have you made decisions to celebrate and to plan those events and holidays in a different way than you learned? This is part one and we will focus on holidays and how you plan...

What is it that you are trying to achieve yourself right now? How have you learned what to do to get to this goal? Do you search for information on line? Tips from others? Do you create your own plan to follow? How successful is it, so far? Let's talk about why it's not working and why it's a mistake to tell yourself that you know how to do this thing when it's not working. We...

Have you ever been faced with the task of detangling a head full of hair? Where do you even start? Or maybe there is one big tangle in the back that has to come out. Let's talk about where your life has some tangles and something is just not working. Maybe you are feeling drained or like you just don't have time to do everything that you want to do or need to do. Let's come up with...

Let's talk about the board game that we are playing! As a kid, did you play Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders? What about the game of Life? Let's talk about where you are in your real life. Are you playing the game in the best way that you can? Listen up quick so that you make sure that you are playing in the way that you want to!

When was the last time that you started something new? What made you decide to make that change? Were you unhappy? Or bored? Did someone else spur you on to make a change?  Let's zoom out and look at the anatomy of making a change and starting something brand new in your life and whether or not it is worth it. 

A nice, hot bowl of soup on a winter's day. The story of Stone Soup. Your life and relationship and all the people in it. What do they all have in common? And what lesson can we learn today about what kind of soup we want to represent our best life? Join me today to discuss how to make sure that you have the ingredients that you want in your soup, and what happens when there is something bad...

We are slowly getting older day by day. This is the inevitable truth, and sometimes that feels hard to face. Whether you have lost your parents, one parent, or you are lucky enough to have both of your parents with you still, one day you will be facing this loss. Let's take a look at ways to prepare yourself to be ready to handle this circumstance when that day comes. 

What does your world look like? From your point of view? Today, we are going to take a look at your same life, your same concerns and issues and problems from a completely different vantage point. What does the world, and specifically you, look like from a bird's perspective, flying overhead and seeing everything in a completely different way? Let's compare that bird flying to the world...

How is your life these days? Do you find yourself running around and busy all of the time? Do you ever have times when you are at an event, experiencing an activity, but your brain is somewhere else? Replaying a conversation that already happened, or picturing something that is going to happen in the future? Do you find yourself missing things that are happening in the present moment? Let's t...

Have you ever done one of those Fall corn mazes? Where you try different paths, and find yourself on dead-end paths, and have to backtrack to try and find the right path that will get you to the exit? Today we are going to look at the similarities between a real corn maze and your real life. How are those two things so very similar? Where are your 'dead-end' spots where you try and reach...

Look around at the people in your life. Who is generally happy and who is generally unhappy? What if you could figure out what is going on, right down to the exact process that is causing one feeling vs. the other? What if you had the secret to being happy and you understood exactly how to get that in your life? Would you choose to be happy if you knew exactly how to create it? Listen to this epis...

Why do you do the things that you do? When you make changes in your life, is it because of external factors, or internal factors? We are going to look at some examples of changes that are made and really question why we tend to change more easily for others sometimes. What does it take to make changes for ourself? This is going to be a fun one and I am going to share a personal story of my own. Af...

How do you wake up in the morning? With an alarm clock? Do you just wake up on your own? What are the tasks that you do in the morning? Do you have the best routine that you possibly could for yourself? If you don't, this episode, you do NOT want to miss. Having the best possible morning routine just might be the biggest thing that you can do for yourself. It will make the difference between...

How do you get to a goal? We all know that we are supposed to get motivated to start on the journey, take the steps, one at a time towards the goal. But, today, we are talking about how to get to the finish line. How to transition from being ON the journey to being DONE with the journey and to 'have the thing'. Many of us get very close to the finish line and then we wonder why we get st...