Inward with Katie Edmonds

I had the answer. I had the knowing. I had the feeling. And I turned my back on it anyway. Twice this last year. Here's what it cost me. In this 20-minute solo episode, Katie shares two personal stories of ignoring her intuition — including the fender-bender she saw coming seconds before it happened — and the deeper pattern underneath: negotiating with yourself instead of trusting yourself. You'll...

Welcome back inward. I'm Katie. Thank you for being here for this one. Do you feel free? Not on paper. I mean in your body, in your mind, in your actual days — do you feel free? In this episode, I share why personal freedom is one of the leading predictors of life satisfaction and long-term happiness — and why so many of us who look free on the outside still feel trapped on the inside. I take you...

Welcome back inward. I'm Katie. Thank you for being here for this one. This episode is for the loyal ones, the committed ones, the finish-what-you-start ones: You are always allowed to change your mind. It is never too late. Here's the thing... loyalty to your word can quietly become disloyalty to yourself. Just because you tolerated something for twenty years does not mean you have to tolerate it...

Last Wednesday night I was exhausted. I had work to do, my schedule was packed, and all I wanted was to crawl into bed. Then Sarah told me about a sick kitten an hour away who probably wouldn't make it without us. I really wanted to say no. I said yes anyway, and it reminded me of something I think we all forget. In this episode of Inward, I talk about helping others even when you're tired, even w...

I had a totally different episode planned for today. And then I went to New York, and I walked for hours, and I remembered something I'd forgotten about myself. There's a version of me that only comes alive in New York. She walks for hours. She looks up. She wonders about everyone she passes. Where you're not walking to get somewhere, you're walking to see what you can find. In this episode of Inw...

I went to the US Open last week in New York for the men's doubles final and the women's singles final, and I came home thinking about what happens when you're down on yourself and stuck in your head. In this episode, I walk you through five lessons from courtside, including what I learned watching Aryna Sabalenka — how expressive she is when she's up and pumping herself up, and how visible it is w...

She is 99 years old, incredibly sharp, quick-witted, and has been single for 67 years — and she will tell you she has never been lonely a single day. For the very first episode of Inward with a guest, I couldn't imagine anyone else. It's my Nanny. Nanny and I have always had a special bond. We are 60 years apart, almost to the day, and I have always felt like my life is intertwined with hers energ...

How do you actually learn how to believe in yourself — especially when you question your own abilities even though you look confident? This episode is about the difference between self confidence and deep self belief, and why believing in yourself fiercely is the one thing every successful person has in common — they do it anyway, even on the days they doubt. We break down the pygmalion effect — h...

Last night I took a street I never take. And this morning, I stood in my kitchen filled with gratitude. The kind that washes over you so completely you have to stop and lean on the counter. This episode is about what that moment did to me. How it showed me how shallow my gratitude has been. How I've been walking past my own life like it's owed to me. And how a single wrong turn cracked something o...

There's a line you've probably never heard, and it's the truest thing I know about time: the last time is usually just a Tuesday. You almost never get a warning. The last time your kid reaches for your hand. The last time you sit at a table with someone who's humming a song they don't know they're humming. The last time you sleep in a house that means something. It happens quietly, in the middle o...

I thought I was the most patient person I know. Patient with my kids, patient with people, patient with the timing of my life — until the universe decided to test me. Two ordinary days of travel took me apart: a flight that went from delayed to boarding while I wasn't even at the airport, a spilled cup of coffee I'd waited too long for, and finally, a plane TV screen that wouldn't turn on — until...

It was a hundred degrees. We'd been in line for three hours. And when my eight-year-old looked at the ride, panicked, and ran — I said something I cannot take back. In this episode, I'm getting honest about the moment my word got ahead of me, and why it still haunts me even after the apology. Because here's the hard truth: the apology matters. It is necessary. And it is not the same as not having...

I spent most of my life being embarrassed by my own emotions. I didn't know that about myself until I was 36, sitting in a hospital room, covering my face while I cried. In this episode, I share the story that cracked everything open — the loss of my brother Darmarcus's son Jailen, a 12-year-old who passed unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm, and what I noticed about myself in that room. Even in th...

You're scrolling. Someone you barely know just posted their new house, their new body, their relationship, their view from somewhere you've never been — and in four seconds, without deciding to, you've built an entire case against your own life. This episode is about that moment. Not how to stop it — because that advice has never once worked on a real person at 11pm with a phone in their hand. But...

A few weeks ago, I visited my aunt in Vermont. She's selling the house she's lived in for 48 years — the house her husband built before he passed, where she raised her kids, where our whole family has gathered for decades. When I walked through those rooms and saw the bare walls where pictures used to hang, I felt it. And when I asked her about it, she said something simple: She was ready for the...

Fifteen months ago, I made a decision. Not because I hit rock bottom. Not because I had a problem. Because alcohol didn't align with who I was becoming — and I was done letting it cost me the one thing I wanted most: clarity. In this episode, I get personal about why I stopped drinking, what I was actually afraid of losing, and what I gained when I got to the other side. This isn't a lecture. It's...

You slept eight hours. You ate your protein. You got your steps in. You did everything right — and you're still standing in your kitchen at 9 AM completely depleted. In this episode, I'm getting honest about the kind of exhaustion that no supplement, sleep schedule, or morning routine can touch. The kind that lives in your bones. The kind that comes not from what you're not doing — but from what y...

When was the last time you tried something you'd never tried before? Not a variation of something you already know — something genuinely new. If you can't remember, you're not alone. And it's not because you're boring or lazy or small-minded. It's because somewhere between building a life that works and protecting the one you built, you stopped being a student of your own existence. You started de...

What if the thing you are working the hardest to prevent is the exact thing your mind is quietly helping to build? In this episode of Inward, Katie Edmonds gets into one of the most important — and most misunderstood — truths about the human mind. The brain does not distinguish between a fear you rehearse in your head and a reality you are living in. Whatever you consistently give your energy to,...

Have you ever looked around at your life and had the distinct, sinking feeling that you are just winging it? This episode tackles the universal fear that we're all just tall kids with credit cards, pretending to have it figured out. We explore how the pressure to be perfect—the perfect parent, the perfect friend, the life of the party—is a cage. Through two deeply personal stories, one about navig...

A few mornings ago, I grabbed my running shoe and the inside of the heel was flipped up. It said: This Too Shall Pass. I'd worn those shoes dozens of times and never noticed it — but on that morning, when I was carrying something heavy, it was exactly the reminder I needed. In this episode, I'm sharing that moment and everything it stirred up in me. We're talking about self-doubt — that quiet voic...

You keep waiting for life to slow down so you can finally take care of yourself. When the phone stops ringing. When the alerts stop piling up. When everyone in your life is okay. And Katie needs you to hear something: that day is not coming. Life isn't going to slow down so you can catch your breath. You have to be the one who stops. This episode is an invitation — the softest, most honest one Kat...

You already know the things that make you feel good. You've felt the difference. You've seen what happens when you're on your game — when you're showing up, when you're aligned, when you're actually living the way you say you want to live. And then somehow… you fall off. Again. Not because you don't care. Not because you're lazy. But because average is contagious — and you've been breathing it in...

You think you're upset because of what happened. You're not. You're upset because of the story your ego just wrote about what it means about you. In this episode, I'm getting personal. I'm telling you about two moments that cracked me open — one was negative feedback about this very podcast that I couldn't shake, and the other was a real estate listing I lost after two and a half years of investme...

I used to be the person who would get charged the wrong amount at a store… and still pay it. Smile, say nothing, walk out. Not because I didn't notice—but because I didn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. And that pattern didn't stop at the register. It showed up everywhere. The plans I didn't want to make. The favors I said yes to when I was already exhausted. The moments where every part of me...