Gift biz unwrapped episode 182 hands down.
Speaker:The biggest challenge that every single woman entrepreneur has is that
Speaker:we are in our own Wait,
Speaker:attention gifters,
Speaker:bakers, crafters and makers pursuing your dream can be fun.
Speaker:Whether you have an established business or looking to start one
Speaker:now you are in the right place.
Speaker:This is gift to biz unwrapped,
Speaker:helping you turn your skill into a flourishing business.
Speaker:Join us for an episode packed full of invaluable guidance,
Speaker:resources, and the support you need to grow your gift biz.
Speaker:Here is your host gift biz gal,
Speaker:Sue moon Heights.
Speaker:Hi there,
Speaker:it's Sue And thank you so much for taking a little
Speaker:bit of your time and spending it with me today.
Speaker:You are going to be,
Speaker:Oh, so glad you did.
Speaker:The topic we have coming up is a little bit different
Speaker:than what we normally talk about on this podcast,
Speaker:but really significant and important for all of our success as
Speaker:entrepreneurial women.
Speaker:But first I want to make sure you're familiar with my
Speaker:free Facebook group called gift biz breeze.
Speaker:It's a place where we all gather and our community to
Speaker:support each other.
Speaker:I've got a really fun post in there.
Speaker:That's my favorite of the week.
Speaker:I have to say where I invite all of you to
Speaker:share what you're doing,
Speaker:to show pictures of your product,
Speaker:to show what you're working on for the week,
Speaker:to get reaction from other people and just for fun because
Speaker:we all get to see the wonderful products that everybody in
Speaker:the community is making.
Speaker:My favorite post every single week without doubt,
Speaker:wait, what aren't you part of the group already?
Speaker:If not,
Speaker:make sure to jump over to Facebook and search for the
Speaker:group gift biz breeze.
Speaker:Don't delay.
Speaker:Come join us in gift biz breeze today.
Speaker:I believe every single one of us as women who are
Speaker:thinking about starting a business or are already on the way
Speaker:would admit that the joy and the excitement also comes with
Speaker:fear and anxiety and stress.
Speaker:How do you deal with this?
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:gift biz listeners.
Speaker:I have been anticipating this conversation for ever.
Speaker:I want to introduce you to Katie commits us.
Speaker:Katie is a mom,
Speaker:wife, podcaster and business strategist.
Speaker:She's also an adventurer,
Speaker:seeker and change maker.
Speaker:Katie has committed to brightening the light of women around the
Speaker:world. This is accomplished in two ways.
Speaker:First through her biz women rock community,
Speaker:which supports women entrepreneurs and most recently through meditation for women,
Speaker:which are guided meditations that are specifically created with the special
Speaker:journey of a woman in mind.
Speaker:The meditations are tools to help reconnect with the divine wisdom
Speaker:already inside of each of us so we may live our
Speaker:own extraordinary lives.
Speaker:Katie, welcome to the gift biz unwrapped podcast.
Speaker:Sue, thank you so much for having me here.
Speaker:I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker:I am so excited too and I kind of feel like
Speaker:I don't know if I believe in divine intervention,
Speaker:but I do.
Speaker:I've been following you for a while and you and I
Speaker:recently met up in person and you told me about the
Speaker:meditations and I'm like,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:my audience needs to know about this and that's why we're
Speaker:here today.
Speaker:Perfect timing.
Speaker:So yeah,
Speaker:that wouldn't have been the conversation if we had,
Speaker:we met in person six months before.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:Well I start off in a little bit of a different
Speaker:way because I have a lot of creative people here.
Speaker:So I would like you to describe yourself through the way
Speaker:of a motivational candle.
Speaker:So if you were to create your own candle by color
Speaker:and quote that speaks who you are,
Speaker:what would it look like?
Speaker:So I'll start with the quote and then describe the candle.
Speaker:So the quote is a pretty common quote that I think
Speaker:a lot of your listeners will know and it's the quote
Speaker:that goes,
Speaker:she believed she could.
Speaker:So she did.
Speaker:And my candle would be a bright white light and this
Speaker:is something that you will get about me as you listen
Speaker:to my meditations,
Speaker:I talk about the white light in all of us.
Speaker:My name Katie actually means pure and my middle name is
Speaker:Lou short for Lucille.
Speaker:And that means light.
Speaker:And I really feel like who I am in this world
Speaker:is just a bright white light.
Speaker:And so those two things together is very much symbolic of
Speaker:what I feel like I'm here to do and what my
Speaker:highest and best use really is.
Speaker:So I'm curious,
Speaker:did your mom know and have this vision for you?
Speaker:No. There's a really funny story about that.
Speaker:We were talking about this last night,
Speaker:she got my name,
Speaker:she thought my name was going to be Julie,
Speaker:which is the name of my little sister.
Speaker:And so they were driving to the hospital ready to have
Speaker:me thinking maybe it's Julie,
Speaker:and they heard a radio station.
Speaker:I was born in Tucson,
Speaker:Arizona, and there used to be a radio station called Katie
Speaker:Katie. And she heard it on the way up to the
Speaker:hospital and she's like,
Speaker:Oh Katie,
Speaker:that's a good name.
Speaker:Let's do that.
Speaker:So she changed it right at the last minute.
Speaker:Oh totally.
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:well that ended up working out really well.
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:that's fine.
Speaker:So did you ever tease your sister and say,
Speaker:Hey, I almost had your name?
Speaker:Well, it's funny.
Speaker:No, because it's just like,
Speaker:I'm not a Julie.
Speaker:Like I'm definitely not a Julie.
Speaker:That's not me.
Speaker:And that's so her.
Speaker:So you know,
Speaker:like everything works itself out.
Speaker:Everything does.
Speaker:That's so true.
Speaker:My mom told me that she was going to name me
Speaker:Virginia. That does not fit for you.
Speaker:I'm like,
Speaker:thank you.
Speaker:Not that I have any problems with Virginia is mine.
Speaker:Yeah, it was not a fit for me either.
Speaker:So I totally get that.
Speaker:Well I want to start by just talking a little bit
Speaker:about biz women rock cause I don't know how you started
Speaker:that at all.
Speaker:I've been following you.
Speaker:I know a lot.
Speaker:I'm listening to your podcast,
Speaker:but I really don't know what initiated all of that.
Speaker:Can you share that with us?
Speaker:Yeah. So it's worth noting obviously with the quote that I
Speaker:have on my candle,
Speaker:I don't know when or how this desire or inner knowing
Speaker:that I am here to impact women into sort of specialize
Speaker:with that niche.
Speaker:Right. I don't know why that exists.
Speaker:Maybe it's cause I have a feminist father,
Speaker:a very matriarchal,
Speaker:very powerful mother,
Speaker:very opinionated mother who's amazing.
Speaker:But I was always very lucky to be surrounded by amazing
Speaker:feminine energy.
Speaker:And just from a little girl knew that I loved women,
Speaker:wanted to connect with women,
Speaker:impact women,
Speaker:bring women together.
Speaker:Combine that with,
Speaker:I was,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:30 I think I was 30 years old when I first
Speaker:became an entrepreneur for the first time and that entrepreneur journey
Speaker:looked like a business organization that my husband and I ran
Speaker:together. And so it was a local company called the Tampa
Speaker:Bay business owners.
Speaker:It's much like a chamber of commerce but just for entrepreneurs.
Speaker:And so we were facilitating education,
Speaker:we were facilitating relationships and basically creating opportunities and a membership
Speaker:based community for entrepreneurs take commune together so that they could
Speaker:be better at being CEOs of their companies.
Speaker:And so through that I just fell in love with entrepreneurship.
Speaker:I so like that became a massive identity of mine.
Speaker:My role in that company was not its founder.
Speaker:My husband founded the company.
Speaker:I came on about nine months later.
Speaker:Well my role was as COO.
Speaker:My gifts really lent themselves to organization,
Speaker:to management,
Speaker:to systems creation and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:And there was a point at which I was done with
Speaker:that role.
Speaker:Like I was ready to be a leader in and of
Speaker:myself. And I finally had the confidence after all these years
Speaker:of entrepreneurship to be like,
Speaker:I feel like I have something to say or something to
Speaker:teach or something to do here.
Speaker:And so we,
Speaker:part of what we were doing was facilitating education.
Speaker:So one day we ended up bringing in somebody who talked
Speaker:about podcasting and it was the first time that he and
Speaker:I had ever heard of this thing called podcasting.
Speaker:And it just clicked for the,
Speaker:both of us were like,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:like this is what we're doing locally.
Speaker:But this tool of podcasting allows you to do it globally.
Speaker:And how amazing is that?
Speaker:And my husband and I both have very big whys in
Speaker:this world as far as we really want to make a
Speaker:ripple in this universe with people that's meaningful for us in
Speaker:our own individual way.
Speaker:So that really appealed to us.
Speaker:So we both kind of,
Speaker:I immediately got different ideas about like,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:we could do a podcast about this.
Speaker:Mine was,
Speaker:I could do a podcast marrying my two loves business and
Speaker:women. So that's what I did and that's when I came
Speaker:up with biz women rock.
Speaker:And in the beginning it wasn't anything other than a podcast
Speaker:where I just wanted to feature really great women who had
Speaker:really walked the gauntlet of entrepreneurship and were willing to come
Speaker:on and tell their story so that other women could listen.
Speaker:Because one thing I was finding,
Speaker:which is not new,
Speaker:is that in the traditional business arena,
Speaker:the stories that we're getting featured there were very saturated with
Speaker:men, which are amazing because business is business at the end
Speaker:of the day.
Speaker:However, there's something so special and beautiful about when a woman
Speaker:shared her story because it was so multi-dimensional,
Speaker:it was not black and white.
Speaker:It incorporated family.
Speaker:It incorporated self doubts.
Speaker:It incorporated over mindset stuff like it was everything.
Speaker:So that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker:So he started biz women rock initially as a podcast with
Speaker:the intention of like,
Speaker:okay, I could see that this is a business thing.
Speaker:Right? But not really knowing what that might turn into.
Speaker:It took basically two years of me testing the market and
Speaker:myself, by the way,
Speaker:to figure out how I was going to make that into
Speaker:a business itself.
Speaker:Immediately though it launched an entire community,
Speaker:so it became more than just a podcast.
Speaker:Within one month I also launched a Facebook group and that
Speaker:gave dimension to the listenership.
Speaker:It allowed me to speak to my listeners in real time
Speaker:and hear what they had to say,
Speaker:get feedback about the shows,
Speaker:invite them on to come be featured,
Speaker:and over time it allowed me to be seen as an
Speaker:expert. It's allowed me to be seen as a leader in
Speaker:this community,
Speaker:as somebody who is super passionate about supporting women entrepreneurs.
Speaker:Eventually that evolved into me offering private coaching and strategy services
Speaker:to my women masterminds,
Speaker:live events,
Speaker:online education,
Speaker:paid communities,
Speaker:all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:Well and I think niching down for women,
Speaker:I mean women do in your,
Speaker:you were referencing this already,
Speaker:women do have unique issues within the business community.
Speaker:Yes, we do.
Speaker:Luckily not the way it was when I was in corporate
Speaker:because when I started there weren't even maternity plans.
Speaker:You know I was the first one to have a baby
Speaker:in our company and I was a relatively big company.
Speaker:They all looked at each other like,
Speaker:what do we do?
Speaker:How do we do with you?
Speaker:I have a client,
Speaker:she's like,
Speaker:I know you use the term mompreneur a lot,
Speaker:but she's like,
Speaker:I don't really identify with that because when I was in
Speaker:corporate, those two things were so separate.
Speaker:You either you are working when you're working and then you
Speaker:don't talk about your family.
Speaker:It's totally separate.
Speaker:You just show up and do your job and then after
Speaker:you clock out,
Speaker:that's when you become mom and it's so beautiful because these
Speaker:days we have so much freedom to be able to integrate
Speaker:those things.
Speaker:And that's just one example,
Speaker:but it's very different nowadays than it was 10 2030 years
Speaker:ago. It's very different,
Speaker:but the responsibilities are still there.
Speaker:So the challenges then are a lot different because now you're
Speaker:merging things together too.
Speaker:So it's a whole different environment.
Speaker:And I think you started your show I think about a
Speaker:year before I did.
Speaker:How long have you,
Speaker:has your show been going now?
Speaker:Almost five years.
Speaker:Yeah. So I'm almost on four.
Speaker:And I remember even back when I started,
Speaker:there weren't a lot of shows that were focusing on women
Speaker:and business.
Speaker:No, there was one.
Speaker:I know it,
Speaker:yeah, it was Jessica government show.
Speaker:There was one other one and then there were a couple
Speaker:of us that then launched right around the same time period.
Speaker:And then I'm very grateful for this.
Speaker:Now fast forward five years later that market is saturated and
Speaker:I'm really happy about that cause I'm like,
Speaker:great. That means more and more women are getting the messages
Speaker:that they need.
Speaker:Absolutely. So just a little bit more on this before we
Speaker:keep going,
Speaker:just because I'm curious and I think our listeners will be
Speaker:too. What are you seeing are the maybe couple of biggest
Speaker:obstacles that you continue to address with women?
Speaker:Hands down.
Speaker:The biggest challenge that every single woman entrepreneur has is that
Speaker:we are in our own way.
Speaker:And what I mean by that is the negative self talk,
Speaker:the comparison,
Speaker:the am I good enough,
Speaker:how do I really make this work?
Speaker:The self doubt,
Speaker:those are all the softer sides of business strategy but they're
Speaker:very real.
Speaker:And so so much of the work that I do is
Speaker:20% strategy and like how to and boom,
Speaker:boom, boom and logistical and 80% mindset and confidence and how
Speaker:to get beyond doing what everyone may have told you is
Speaker:totally impossible,
Speaker:but you have this drive in you to figure it out
Speaker:somehow. But there's all this gunk in the way and it's
Speaker:us like it's all of our own internal stuff.
Speaker:So hands down,
Speaker:that is the biggest challenge that comes up.
Speaker:And it comes up in soft ways and pretty obvious ways
Speaker:as well.
Speaker:And so part of what I love doing,
Speaker:what I really make a stand for is that we literally
Speaker:can create the lives and businesses that we can dream up.
Speaker:So it's just a matter of what are we dreaming about
Speaker:and what are we possibly visualizing?
Speaker:And then how do we make that a reality?
Speaker:How do we get our mind to believe that that's totally
Speaker:possible? Which is what brings us back to that quote.
Speaker:Literally. If you can just believe it,
Speaker:you'll do it.
Speaker:Yeah. You know,
Speaker:you think it's the mind.
Speaker:So it should be so easy to overcome.
Speaker:You just have to think it different.
Speaker:But it's actually the hardest thing to do.
Speaker:Uh, it is the most challenging.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:it's from the top down.
Speaker:It's the mind,
Speaker:it's the heart.
Speaker:It's the soul.
Speaker:Because our journeys as women are so multidimensional and so integrated.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:it's not just like,
Speaker:Oh, I want to grow my business to be a $5
Speaker:million business by this time.
Speaker:And then let me create the milestones and how I'm doing
Speaker:that. Like along that journey,
Speaker:life happens,
Speaker:somebody gets pregnant,
Speaker:somebody, maybe you're taking care of an aging parent,
Speaker:maybe the household is kind of falling apart.
Speaker:Maybe a relationship is falling apart.
Speaker:Maybe it's not even that dramatic.
Speaker:Maybe it's just like life is busy and it's a lot
Speaker:to keep up with.
Speaker:But we as women tend to be the CEOs of our
Speaker:lives, if you will.
Speaker:Like we tend to be the manager,
Speaker:the organizer,
Speaker:the head in charge of the lives of us and all
Speaker:of those people that we take care of.
Speaker:I don't think we win by compartmentalizing those two things,
Speaker:our life and then our businesses,
Speaker:they all have to work together.
Speaker:So that's the work to do.
Speaker:Absolutely. Totally agree.
Speaker:So let's move on now because we're talking about the mindset
Speaker:and I'm thinking that a spin off into meditation and controlling
Speaker:and strengthening your mind,
Speaker:if you will,
Speaker:so that you can overcome some of these entrepreneurial challenges.
Speaker:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker:Is that how that all played together?
Speaker:Yeah. So it's funny.
Speaker:So as you describe me before,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:at the very beginning of the show it's sort of like,
Speaker:Oh, she's good.
Speaker:Biz women,
Speaker:rock wait in the meditations,
Speaker:what? How do those two things relate?
Speaker:And the quick story behind that is that I have been
Speaker:using the tool of meditation in my own life for two
Speaker:decades at this point,
Speaker:I was first introduced to it when I took a yoga
Speaker:class in college and they did the guided meditation at the
Speaker:very end of the class.
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:wow, that was pretty awesome and just have sought it out
Speaker:and have been a seeker of more ways to consume meditation,
Speaker:to learn more about meditation,
Speaker:use it in my own life and most,
Speaker:especially in my business over the past two years,
Speaker:it has been one of the biggest tools for me to
Speaker:mostly get really connected to my inner voice and when it
Speaker:comes to business because of all these external things happening in
Speaker:life happening and those personal things of like,
Speaker:am I good enough?
Speaker:The self doubt.
Speaker:Who am I to offer this?
Speaker:Who am I to charge this?
Speaker:Is this really possible?
Speaker:What I want?
Speaker:Can I really be the breadwinner of my family just doing
Speaker:this, what I love to do?
Speaker:Can I do that?
Speaker:Meditation has become such an important tool for me to get
Speaker:clear on what it is I know my next best step
Speaker:to be versus what I feel like it should be and
Speaker:what everyone keeps telling me it should be.
Speaker:That has been massively transformative for my business.
Speaker:I really attribute the growth that I've had in biz women
Speaker:rock to me meditating and getting really clear on that voice
Speaker:so that I can hear what am I supposed to do
Speaker:and how do I continue on the path that's right for
Speaker:me versus what I see is out there and that is
Speaker:in line with what I'm here to do.
Speaker:Okay, so you know you're talking to someone who knows very
Speaker:little about meditation we talk to about that way in the
Speaker:beginning. Right.
Speaker:And I'm sure our listeners are mixed all over the board.
Speaker:You know from some people who already integrate meditation and it's
Speaker:valuable in their life and some people who are just learning
Speaker:how to spell the word like me,
Speaker:so I'm going to challenge you because I'm learning at the
Speaker:same time here.
Speaker:When you say that it helped you determine what the next
Speaker:steps are really for you versus what everyone else is telling
Speaker:you, how does that happen through meditation?
Speaker:A great question and I'll be very specific and logistical and
Speaker:practical about this.
Speaker:It is the act of getting quiet and listening and so
Speaker:sometimes for me the practical side of meditation is I'm literally
Speaker:putting on a guided meditation so that I can have somebody
Speaker:else walk me through just like relaxing my body and detaching
Speaker:from my thoughts and being able to just sort of have
Speaker:the space to listen to what is really happening inside of
Speaker:me. Sometimes it's me just putting on a timer for 10
Speaker:minutes and just being quiet and practicing,
Speaker:paying attention to my breath.
Speaker:Those two examples are very kind of sidelined,
Speaker:like it's not like,
Speaker:Oh, I'm going to do this meditation because I want to
Speaker:get clear,
Speaker:like what am I supposed to do?
Speaker:It's like,
Speaker:no, I feel stressed right now.
Speaker:I feel anxious.
Speaker:I feel like I'm not good enough.
Speaker:I feel like I'm not doing what I want to be
Speaker:doing. And there's something uneasy here,
Speaker:like I'm not at ease and so I'm just going to
Speaker:use the tool of meditation to physically breathe,
Speaker:pay attention to my breath and just be quiet and detach
Speaker:from all of these whirlwind of thoughts that we have going
Speaker:a zillion miles a minute.
Speaker:But sometimes there are things like I'm literally showing up to
Speaker:ask questions to the universe out there or whatever it is
Speaker:that you believe.
Speaker:I want to sit down and just be clear and here's
Speaker:the question that I'm asking you.
Speaker:What do I do now?
Speaker:I'm confused about what to do in my business or I'm
Speaker:confused about should I put this thing out there or,
Speaker:and I feel really anxious or scared or whatever about it.
Speaker:What can I do?
Speaker:And then you just meditation for me is the pause.
Speaker:Okay. All right.
Speaker:That's Perfect cause that enters maybe a question.
Speaker:Let me just clarify.
Speaker:I know as business women there's one thing to do and
Speaker:then there's another project and then there's another and like it's
Speaker:the multiple plates spinning at once,
Speaker:right? So you're almost on autopilot because you have no time
Speaker:to stop or all those plates are gonna crash.
Speaker:And so it sounds potentially,
Speaker:you've got to tell me if I'm right Katie,
Speaker:is that if you're meditating,
Speaker:it is a pause in all this craziness where you can
Speaker:readjust, realign,
Speaker:and determine if all those plates need to be going in
Speaker:the first place.
Speaker:Exactly it.
Speaker:That's exactly what it is.
Speaker:We kind of have to force ourselves to do it because,
Speaker:so I would imagine that you've got plenty of examples of
Speaker:this. I think every business woman does.
Speaker:How many times have you been like,
Speaker:okay, here's my 10 step plan and you just get tunnel
Speaker:vision. You get busy running on that 10 step plan and
Speaker:you're on step seven and you realize,
Speaker:here's the trigger.
Speaker:I'm not happy.
Speaker:I feel anxious,
Speaker:I'm uncomfortable and I'm snapping at everyone around me.
Speaker:Why? What's going on?
Speaker:And so if you don't take the pause to really get
Speaker:realigned, that's such a great word.
Speaker:That's exactly what it is.
Speaker:If you don't take that pause to get realigned internally to
Speaker:say, am I on the right path?
Speaker:Like is this really,
Speaker:I know I wanted this at step one,
Speaker:but do I want this at step seven is step 10
Speaker:really what I'm going for still?
Speaker:So if we don't take this pause along the way,
Speaker:then we can't readjust and shift and make adjustments and just
Speaker:make sure that we're in line with what we're here to
Speaker:do and what feels really good.
Speaker:And what brings us so much joy.
Speaker:There's no benefit to getting to step 10 just for the
Speaker:sake of getting to step 10 you can tell me all
Speaker:day long,
Speaker:I want an online business that is a $10 million business,
Speaker:but if you don't have a why behind it and you're
Speaker:not checking in with yourself along the way to make sure
Speaker:that that's what you really want.
Speaker:And here's why.
Speaker:Maybe things turned during that time and so you can get
Speaker:to a $10 million business,
Speaker:but if it is not the right thing for you,
Speaker:and that's when you figure it out,
Speaker:you're going to be really miserable,
Speaker:Right? Because then you've got this whole business behind you and
Speaker:you don't even want it anymore.
Speaker:Of course.
Speaker:So this literally is the,
Speaker:just checking in with yourself,
Speaker:the pause to check in with yourself,
Speaker:realign, readjust,
Speaker:make sure that you're here,
Speaker:you're showing up the way that you want to be.
Speaker:Well, I think there's another point that's kind of a light
Speaker:bulb moment here for me too in that,
Speaker:because if you have meditation as a tool in your back
Speaker:pocket for when you're starting to feel stressed,
Speaker:so like you said,
Speaker:you pause to realign or confirm that what you're doing is
Speaker:good. You just needed that break,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:the sanity break or whatever.
Speaker:But it sounds like you're more mindful and intentional with everything
Speaker:then that you're doing even when you're not meditating.
Speaker:Those two words are exactly it.
Speaker:Mindful, intentional.
Speaker:And that is back to my big belief,
Speaker:and I know yours too,
Speaker:of just living an intentional life in the world that we're
Speaker:in, that's in the space of business.
Speaker:But that's in everything.
Speaker:Like just being really intentional about how you're showing up to
Speaker:this life and what you're creating,
Speaker:who you're being and mindful so that you're conscientious about how
Speaker:you're showing up and what you're doing.
Speaker:Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker:Beautiful. Okay,
Speaker:so let's now talk about meditation.
Speaker:We talked about the purpose and the reason,
Speaker:and it can be for if in business it can be
Speaker:if you're not in business,
Speaker:but just being mindful and attentive,
Speaker:taking a pause and just aligning to what you really should
Speaker:be doing in your life,
Speaker:right? Yep.
Speaker:So if someone is now curious,
Speaker:like, okay,
Speaker:I get what meditation is now,
Speaker:how would I get started?
Speaker:Or how do I integrate that in?
Speaker:Or talk to us a little bit as if it's somebody
Speaker:like me and I first met you,
Speaker:Sue and I first had this conversation.
Speaker:She's like,
Speaker:I just don't get it.
Speaker:And I've never been able to make it stick.
Speaker:So Tried,
Speaker:I told you I've tried.
Speaker:I'm like,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:give me some to try and see if I can do
Speaker:this right.
Speaker:And it's working.
Speaker:I have to say it's working.
Speaker:I'm still a newbie,
Speaker:but it's working.
Speaker:So let's talk as if I'm a newbie brand newbie.
Speaker:I'm still a newbie plus a little step,
Speaker:maybe Baby steps,
Speaker:baby steps in order to get to the practical,
Speaker:let me start with a giant mindset shift and a paradigm
Speaker:shift. Number one,
Speaker:meditation doesn't have to look like anything.
Speaker:One of the biggest reasons people might be turned off by
Speaker:meditation or not want to even go there is because they
Speaker:think it needs to look like getting up every morning at
Speaker:5:00 AM sitting on their meditation pillow with incense,
Speaker:burning music in the background.
Speaker:That sounds actually really good to me.
Speaker:I need to be a Yogi.
Speaker:Like that's what they think it needs to look like.
Speaker:And if I don't do it everyday exactly the same way
Speaker:and get better at it and like then I shouldn't do
Speaker:it at all.
Speaker:So the first thing that I want to do is shift
Speaker:a paradigm here called meditation.
Speaker:Looks like a lot of different things.
Speaker:One of the ways that I meditate is a walking meditation,
Speaker:like I go on walks in nature because for me it
Speaker:does the same thing that happens when I'm just sitting there
Speaker:alone on my couch,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:for 10,
Speaker:15 minutes.
Speaker:Really. You can walk and meditate.
Speaker:Absolutely. That's the thing.
Speaker:Yeah, it's a moving meditation and it's because what it does,
Speaker:it's the pausing.
Speaker:It is forcing you out of the hustle and out of
Speaker:the running and it's detaching thoughts from who you are as
Speaker:a being.
Speaker:And for me the nature thing is huge because it reminds
Speaker:me simultaneously of how interconnected that I am to nature and
Speaker:to the animals and the birds I'm seeing around into the
Speaker:water. And luckily for me in Florida to the dolphins swimming
Speaker:in the water,
Speaker:like all these majestical things and it reminds me how small
Speaker:I am,
Speaker:like how big and how small I am in the same
Speaker:moment. So that's a very powerful meditation and type of a
Speaker:meditation. So number one giant paradigm shift.
Speaker:Meditation does not need to look like anything specific.
Speaker:It can be what you need in the moment.
Speaker:It can change,
Speaker:it can shift it,
Speaker:it can evolve.
Speaker:The purpose of it though is ultimately that it's a pause,
Speaker:so that's the first thing to really get.
Speaker:Okay. Gift biz listeners,
Speaker:I have to interrupt right here.
Speaker:First Katie says,
Speaker:we can meditate lying down now.
Speaker:She says,
Speaker:we can meditate when we're walking.
Speaker:She has my complete attention.
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Speaker:The second thing then,
Speaker:as far as practical stuff is it could look like this.
Speaker:It could look like,
Speaker:like I said,
Speaker:setting a timer on your clock for let's even say five
Speaker:minutes. Okay,
Speaker:for five minutes.
Speaker:I'm just going to practice.
Speaker:Breathing. Breathing is a really big tool in meditation and it's
Speaker:something that most who teach meditation really start with breath.
Speaker:And the reason why is because it's like a mantra like
Speaker:you get to focus on your breath.
Speaker:Cause most all of my meditation start with take a deep
Speaker:breath in.
Speaker:And I have heard this feedback from so many listeners like
Speaker:Katie, that that was the first deep breath that I was
Speaker:conscious of taking all day long.
Speaker:And just the tool of using our breath to literally breathe
Speaker:in deep.
Speaker:I hope as you listen to you're doing this now,
Speaker:just that has a very physical impact on us.
Speaker:And so breath is a really great tool and it's a
Speaker:great way to focus our mind and our thoughts on just
Speaker:breath. And it's such a powerful way to be in the
Speaker:now versus in all of the thoughts,
Speaker:right? And the thoughts are the anxiety,
Speaker:the what if so,
Speaker:Oh my gosh,
Speaker:I've got this to do list,
Speaker:right? So that's a practical thing is really just focusing on
Speaker:your breath.
Speaker:And you can do that in a gazillion ways.
Speaker:You can do that by listening to a guided meditation that
Speaker:helps you walk through that.
Speaker:So it sort of takes the pressure off of you,
Speaker:if you will.
Speaker:That's why I love guided meditations and or you could literally
Speaker:set a timer and just say,
Speaker:okay, for five minutes I'm just going to practice breathing.
Speaker:And by the way,
Speaker:there have been seasons of my meditating life where five minutes
Speaker:for me,
Speaker:maybe I've gotten 30 seconds of what I would describe as
Speaker:sort of like thoughtless peace.
Speaker:So the other thing to really know about meditation is that
Speaker:they call it a practice for a reason.
Speaker:The practice of meditation,
Speaker:because there's no such thing called,
Speaker:Oh, I'm going to turn on my clock and I'm going
Speaker:to be in Nirvana and look like the Buddha for the
Speaker:next hour.
Speaker:No thoughts are always happening.
Speaker:It's a matter of constantly training and retraining your mind to
Speaker:get out of thoughts,
Speaker:be present and just be here now,
Speaker:if that makes sense.
Speaker:Do you get better though at eliminating the distraction?
Speaker:Because I know,
Speaker:first of all,
Speaker:I don't even feel like I know how to breathe because
Speaker:when I do deep breathing,
Speaker:then all of a sudden I can't breathe right now.
Speaker:Like am I never going to be able to breathe right
Speaker:again for some reason?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:So I'm getting more comfortable with that.
Speaker:I think it's just like working out.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:if you haven't worked out in 10 years and you show
Speaker:up to running a 10 K,
Speaker:it's not gonna be pleasant along the way and it's going
Speaker:to be really painful.
Speaker:But if you just show up every day saying,
Speaker:no, what?
Speaker:I'm gonna start to walk today,
Speaker:the walking gets a little easier.
Speaker:Pretty soon you're like,
Speaker:maybe I'm going to try jogging for a couple minutes.
Speaker:It's that.
Speaker:It's a practice so the breathing gets easier and then does
Speaker:the attention and the focus get easier?
Speaker:Then over time too,
Speaker:the answer's yes,
Speaker:but it's two steps forward.
Speaker:One step back.
Speaker:It's just like business.
Speaker:It has to do with life and there are seasons of
Speaker:life that I have been in that have been ridiculously stressful
Speaker:and anxiety producing and I'm going through a lot and believe
Speaker:me on those days,
Speaker:I mean I'm still practicing meditation,
Speaker:but my mind is still zooming and then there are seasons
Speaker:of my life where I feel little less stressed and a
Speaker:little bit more in flow and okay,
Speaker:I get to that place of ease a lot more often.
Speaker:So the answer is yes,
Speaker:you absolutely improve.
Speaker:You absolutely have more and more moments of that pause and
Speaker:that clarity and you get more out of it as you
Speaker:go along and it's never perfect.
Speaker:Oh, I'm so relieved.
Speaker:Yeah, it doesn't need to be perfect.
Speaker:I think that's the biggest myth.
Speaker:This is really important for me to say.
Speaker:I know just by nature of having this conversation,
Speaker:I'm coming across as a meditation expert.
Speaker:Please believe that I am not,
Speaker:I am literally a consumer of meditation.
Speaker:Someone who believes in meditation,
Speaker:who has educated myself on education.
Speaker:Don't get me wrong,
Speaker:like I've been to Buddhist centers to like go through regular
Speaker:classes, not only to learn about meditation but experience it.
Speaker:I've been part of group meditations that we meet on a
Speaker:weekly basis.
Speaker:Like I've been in this world but I am not a
Speaker:certified meditation.
Speaker:I don't have that plaque.
Speaker:I've not been teaching yoga for 20 years.
Speaker:Like that ain't me.
Speaker:I am a regular woman and the reason that I created
Speaker:the meditation for women podcast was because I was like,
Speaker:I want more women to have access to this tool in
Speaker:a nonthreatening,
Speaker:totally relatable way,
Speaker:just like me because I'm just like you.
Speaker:So I guess the point being is that part of,
Speaker:I feel what I'm doing with this entire brand,
Speaker:not only this podcast,
Speaker:but the whole network that's behind it is making it more
Speaker:accessible to women because our journeys are so unique and special
Speaker:and so it's debunking a lot of this stuff that it
Speaker:needs to look like this thing.
Speaker:Exactly. All the time.
Speaker:You and I were talking about like,
Speaker:Oh, does it need to be this daily practice?
Speaker:I'll be very honest with you.
Speaker:There are seasons of my life where I don't meditate.
Speaker:It just doesn't happen for maybe a couple of weeks or
Speaker:even a couple months.
Speaker:And then there are seasons of my life where I'm meditating
Speaker:multiple times a day because that's what I need.
Speaker:But this goes back to the idea of really using it
Speaker:as a tool to get in tune with us so that
Speaker:we know and we become really intuitive and conscientious and intentional
Speaker:with who we are and what we need and what we
Speaker:need to best take care of ourselves and how we're showing
Speaker:up in this world.
Speaker:Beautiful. Well,
Speaker:I have to say,
Speaker:and that's probably why I'm sticking with it,
Speaker:because the very first one that I listened to of yours,
Speaker:which was the first one,
Speaker:I listened to,
Speaker:the intro,
Speaker:which you know,
Speaker:you were laying the groundwork and then the very first meditation,
Speaker:I was so relieved when you said it wasn't sit up.
Speaker:It's like get comfortable.
Speaker:Whether that's sitting or lying down.
Speaker:And I'm like,
Speaker:okay, I'm already loving this Because I can like,
Speaker:yeah, I do a lot of meditating.
Speaker:Lying down.
Speaker:That's where I am.
Speaker:That's my favorite pose,
Speaker:if you will.
Speaker:Okay. So we're talking about meditation and the value that it
Speaker:provides to women overall.
Speaker:Yes. But as we spin it into entrepreneurs,
Speaker:it making sure,
Speaker:number one,
Speaker:that you're driving to a goal that really is going to
Speaker:fit you and that you're going to like when to get
Speaker:there. And also making the journey more palatable along the way.
Speaker:Because I think it brings a level of peace when you
Speaker:get out of control.
Speaker:Yeah. And clarity.
Speaker:So let's now chat some more specifically about meditation For women.
Speaker:What does that really mean?
Speaker:What's the podcast about?
Speaker:How can people get involved?
Speaker:What do you do as a new meditation person?
Speaker:And I can give you like a list of questions,
Speaker:but I think I forgot the first one.
Speaker:So let's start with meditation for women.
Speaker:What specifically is it?
Speaker:So meditation for women is a podcast that you can access
Speaker:for free on whatever podcast listener you are listening to Sue's
Speaker:show on right now.
Speaker:What happens when someone brand new gets there?
Speaker:What should they be doing?
Speaker:So number one,
Speaker:you're going to see immediately a library of all of the
Speaker:meditations that are there.
Speaker:I have deliberately named the meditation kind of how I listened
Speaker:to meditations and how he searched for meditations,
Speaker:which is what am I feeling right now?
Speaker:Or what do I want to feel that I'm not feeling?
Speaker:So really use them as a catalog to say,
Speaker:what do we need to hear right now?
Speaker:And so I've labeled them titles such as start your day
Speaker:with gratitude.
Speaker:You're in a fight with your spouse,
Speaker:you are enough.
Speaker:You are extraordinary.
Speaker:That's a good one.
Speaker:I love that one.
Speaker:I think that's my favorite.
Speaker:That's my most popular one,
Speaker:by the way so far.
Speaker:Oh it is?
Speaker:Yeah, by far.
Speaker:Yeah. And so labeling these,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:you want to talk about the marketing aspect of it,
Speaker:labeling. These are very deliberate on my part.
Speaker:Yeah. I could have a shocker meditation,
Speaker:but it's like if somebody doesn't know,
Speaker:shocker us and they're not really interested in that or don't
Speaker:know what that is,
Speaker:I want it to be like,
Speaker:what do I need to feel?
Speaker:Or what am I feeling that I want to get rid
Speaker:of? And so my job then is to say,
Speaker:okay, that's the title that I need to live.
Speaker:So if you're new listener to it,
Speaker:go there,
Speaker:try one out and what message do I need to hear
Speaker:today? Or what kind of thing do I need to have
Speaker:in my ears and go listen to it.
Speaker:And it always starts with a little bit of a message
Speaker:for me and then goes into some sort of a visual
Speaker:guided meditation.
Speaker:That's what it is,
Speaker:the purpose of it.
Speaker:And I think that you could hear just from listing a
Speaker:few of the titles,
Speaker:it is very specific to the women's journey and I don't
Speaker:know any other way to talk.
Speaker:I'm a woman.
Speaker:That's what I know,
Speaker:that's what I identify with.
Speaker:And so truly I am creating these meditations based on my
Speaker:own experiences,
Speaker:based on what experiences I know that the other incredible women
Speaker:in my life have experienced.
Speaker:And so there are themes that we all are experiencing.
Speaker:And so I really try to create meditations that are in
Speaker:line with those themes.
Speaker:And thus I believe making them very specific to the woman's
Speaker:journey. I think that's so valuable for all of us too,
Speaker:because this podcast is about being on an entrepreneur too.
Speaker:So you're pulling from your community of women entrepreneurs and their
Speaker:challenges and all of that,
Speaker:and your personal life,
Speaker:maybe your friends,
Speaker:and those are the purposes,
Speaker:if you will,
Speaker:behind each meditation.
Speaker:Totally. I'll give you this example.
Speaker:I just got back from a vacation right now and it
Speaker:was horrible.
Speaker:It was not relaxing or not rejuvenating and I'll spare you
Speaker:the drama of it.
Speaker:But one of the big reasons was because there was one
Speaker:of the people that was on vacation with us was incredibly
Speaker:toxic and impacted me immensely.
Speaker:Like I took on that energy and it was just really
Speaker:draining. So out of that,
Speaker:I created a meditation called how to shield yourself from toxic
Speaker:people. There is not one woman I know who would raise
Speaker:her hand going,
Speaker:yep, I need that.
Speaker:Like I've totally had that.
Speaker:I have had the energy vampires.
Speaker:I totally have toxic people in my life or just experienced
Speaker:a toxic thing and I need to know how to do
Speaker:that. That's how it flows,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:like, okay,
Speaker:yes, that's what I need.
Speaker:I need that.
Speaker:Absolutely. And I could see that even in business,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:you were on vacation,
Speaker:which is a bummer because when you're on vacation,
Speaker:you're supposed to be on,
Speaker:and I hope you meditated a lot just to get out
Speaker:of that zone.
Speaker:I've had experiences like that too,
Speaker:but I could see that,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:when you have a client or you get a nasty email
Speaker:or something,
Speaker:because unfortunately all of us get those from time to time.
Speaker:Anytime you step into any public eye,
Speaker:things are gonna happen like that.
Speaker:Right. And it's those like you can have a million good
Speaker:messages and then just one,
Speaker:it only takes one to shoot you down.
Speaker:One comment from someone who's not nice,
Speaker:most of the time they're ridiculing things of yours that they
Speaker:would never do themselves.
Speaker:Right. So it's all talk,
Speaker:but Oh my gosh,
Speaker:Katie, I see how helpful that could be.
Speaker:I actually know somebody has that episode live yet?
Speaker:No, not yet.
Speaker:I already know someone who needs that.
Speaker:It should be live by the time We go live with
Speaker:this interview.
Speaker:So yes,
Speaker:go look for that one.
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:So are you like looking at your life all the time
Speaker:then and figuring out what the new topics are or do
Speaker:you have a list already?
Speaker:I'm curious for the future.
Speaker:Yeah. So I'll just give you,
Speaker:so from a business perspective,
Speaker:like how I was kind of in creation mode when I
Speaker:first had this idea,
Speaker:I did a brain dump of like what topics could I
Speaker:talk about so that I could really solidify them.
Speaker:Oh my God,
Speaker:I had a list of hundreds basically.
Speaker:Right. Well you got a lot of work to do.
Speaker:I mean it's not that,
Speaker:it's just like if I asked you to do the same
Speaker:thing, you would be able to do it in a heartbeat.
Speaker:What have I experienced?
Speaker:What little moments have I had that I need to pause
Speaker:from or that I need to hear message about?
Speaker:So I have that list that I pull from,
Speaker:but in addition to that I'm having an in the moment
Speaker:experience and my nature of who I am as a content
Speaker:creator throughout all my experience is really what am I experiencing
Speaker:in this moment?
Speaker:How do I then translate that into something that can then
Speaker:help other people?
Speaker:I mean that's literally what I do in my business for
Speaker:biz women rock and now I'm channeling it in a different
Speaker:way here for the meditation for women podcasts,
Speaker:so in business that might have looked like how to be
Speaker:in tune with what makes you so special because I just
Speaker:had an issue that really challenged me where I'm comparing myself
Speaker:to somebody else.
Speaker:So I needed to get super clear on how I am
Speaker:my own unique self in special and separate from the whole
Speaker:crowd and that's something that I would then translate into marketing
Speaker:or even product for the biz women rock community.
Speaker:I'm literally doing that exact same thing and that exact same
Speaker:process here for the meditations.
Speaker:It's just naturally kind of how I am a content creator
Speaker:and how I process things.
Speaker:Actually as a person and it just happens to come out
Speaker:as content.
Speaker:Love it.
Speaker:Okay, so we're catching you,
Speaker:Katie, kind of at an interesting point in time because you
Speaker:are an experienced and successful entrepreneur with biz woman rock.
Speaker:You've identified another angle.
Speaker:Now biz women rock doesn't go away.
Speaker:It stays.
Speaker:Nope, it's still here.
Speaker:But meditation for women is something now that you have on
Speaker:and It's still very new.
Speaker:How many episodes do you have out right now?
Speaker:That's a great question.
Speaker:I think 10 10 or 12 as of right now,
Speaker:we're going to be about,
Speaker:I don't know,
Speaker:two months into it.
Speaker:I think by the time that this goes live,
Speaker:this is kind of a test question.
Speaker:I'm kind of testing this out as as we talk about
Speaker:it, but you've got a lot of experience now you're starting
Speaker:something new and you get a feel for the response,
Speaker:and I think it's been favorable from everything that I've heard
Speaker:so far.
Speaker:What's your mindset of the progression of meditation for women?
Speaker:Oh, that's such a good question.
Speaker:Okay, so the mindset is this,
Speaker:because I think I know where you're going as far as
Speaker:the position I'm in.
Speaker:Yes, I'm super experienced.
Speaker:Yes. I feel super confident and very strategic about everything that
Speaker:I'm doing and what I'm building out with this.
Speaker:And I'm also a newbie and I'm also kind of in
Speaker:the space where I'm like,
Speaker:ah, this is all brand new because this as a podcast,
Speaker:if we're looking at it from that point,
Speaker:is very different than biz women rock podcast.
Speaker:I don't know that anyone's done this before.
Speaker:Not to what I'm talking about.
Speaker:No, we're here talking about the meditation for women.
Speaker:That is the first of many podcasts that I'm launching under
Speaker:the brand of the women's meditation network.
Speaker:So this is big.
Speaker:I mean it's pretty big and it exists out there.
Speaker:I mean obviously podcasts,
Speaker:networks exist out there and subsets of all these different shows
Speaker:exist underneath them.
Speaker:And even in the meditation space there are a couple different
Speaker:networks, but like what definitely what I'm doing is its own
Speaker:special place and so everything is really new.
Speaker:How I marketing is new,
Speaker:how I'm approaching it.
Speaker:So the mindset that I have to have right now is
Speaker:twofold. Number one,
Speaker:I want to run it a thousand miles a minute because
Speaker:I am ridiculously obviously really passionate about the impact of this
Speaker:entire brand and of each of these individual meditations and mostly
Speaker:of the individual women who are listening who get impacted pretty
Speaker:deeply and consciously on the other end of these podcasts.
Speaker:So that fires me up,
Speaker:girl. And like I know all of your listeners can identify
Speaker:with when you are fired up about your business.
Speaker:You don't want to do anything else.
Speaker:You want to run it a thousand miles a minute.
Speaker:Yeah. And there's like no stopping you.
Speaker:There's not except you ought to because you need to make
Speaker:sure to clarify right road,
Speaker:right during the pauses of meditation.
Speaker:Right, which I absolutely do.
Speaker:But what's mixed in that is that at this moment I'm
Speaker:seven months pregnant with our second kid and so we have
Speaker:almost three year old toddler right now.
Speaker:It's such an exciting time.
Speaker:It's very exciting.
Speaker:I have an amazing husband who is also an entrepreneur in
Speaker:his own right.
Speaker:He was phenomenal and doing his own things.
Speaker:Like I have a life that is outside,
Speaker:but related to this project,
Speaker:so I can't run at a thousand miles a minute right
Speaker:now. And physically,
Speaker:by the way,
Speaker:just from being seven months pregnant,
Speaker:there are definitely energetic things that I,
Speaker:I'm running slower than I would normally be if I were
Speaker:not pregnant.
Speaker:Yeah, but you're balancing life.
Speaker:Well, that's exactly,
Speaker:and by the way,
Speaker:this is totally a snapshot of everything that we've talked about,
Speaker:about our woman's journey here in business.
Speaker:Right? Right.
Speaker:For me,
Speaker:it is a massive mindset practice to have the vision,
Speaker:to want to run it a thousand miles a minute,
Speaker:to have all that passion and to give myself an immense
Speaker:amount of grace.
Speaker:If I'm only on like step two of where I thought
Speaker:I'd be at step like 55 right now,
Speaker:right? Yeah,
Speaker:it's okay then I'm at step two is totally okay.
Speaker:And that's by the way,
Speaker:part of what my current meditation practice is about.
Speaker:It's okay,
Speaker:grace. Katie,
Speaker:you're here.
Speaker:You're now,
Speaker:there's something to be learning along this journey,
Speaker:even though you're moving at two miles an hour versus a
Speaker:thousand miles an hour that you really want to be moving
Speaker:at. So that's one thing,
Speaker:that's a massive mindset thing and that's really about being present
Speaker:for this journey.
Speaker:The second but big one is how big this really is
Speaker:and what this really means for who I am in this
Speaker:world and what I'm here to do.
Speaker:This is big.
Speaker:I mean this is really big and there's an entire story
Speaker:that goes behind why I launched this network and I told
Speaker:that story on a recent solo episode on biz women rock
Speaker:and it's really,
Speaker:really vulnerable and just totally out there.
Speaker:Will you give me that link so that I can put
Speaker:it in the show notes?
Speaker:Absolutely. But it tells a very vulnerable and real story about
Speaker:how I was totally on a different path at the beginning
Speaker:of this year with biz women rock.
Speaker:I got pregnant and that shifted everything.
Speaker:And so this is what came out of that.
Speaker:And so one of the biggest aha moments was when I
Speaker:started talking about this and my husband and I get so
Speaker:much credit for sort of putting this idea back in my
Speaker:head. I'd had this idea for the meditation podcast back in
Speaker:January, but didn't do anything with it.
Speaker:And so during this time of like,
Speaker:what am I doing and I don't know what's going on,
Speaker:and we just found out we were pregnant,
Speaker:that kind of changes everything.
Speaker:He was the one who reflected this idea back to me.
Speaker:Well what about that?
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And so he made a statement to me that is really
Speaker:the core of this mindset,
Speaker:which is Katie,
Speaker:you have always been really passionate about really helping women light
Speaker:up from the inside out.
Speaker:You've been doing that through business for all these years and
Speaker:that's awesome and you're doing great job doing that and what
Speaker:you're talking about with this whole meditation network that spreads your
Speaker:ability to do that so much further,
Speaker:that really is in line with what you're here to do
Speaker:in the world from everything that I know about you.
Speaker:And that is a big mindset shift because right.
Speaker:I believe in the bigness of it and that's terrifying and
Speaker:also invigorating.
Speaker:And also I need to keep myself humbled and grounded in
Speaker:order to be in the moment of doing that.
Speaker:Just one step at a time,
Speaker:if that makes sense.
Speaker:Yeah, it does.
Speaker:And it's interesting too that you had to hear affirmation because
Speaker:I think you kind of knew it in yourself already,
Speaker:but to hear someone else say it to you that,
Speaker:that someone else is identifying that also for you had to
Speaker:be so like it just blossoms everything.
Speaker:Oh it does of course.
Speaker:Cause you're like,
Speaker:okay, yeah,
Speaker:you see it too.
Speaker:Okay. Yeah,
Speaker:that's that.
Speaker:It's right.
Speaker:It's not just my imagination.
Speaker:Exactly. It aligned them like,
Speaker:yeah, it clicks like,
Speaker:yes. Okay,
Speaker:cool. I got it.
Speaker:One more question on this end.
Speaker:Now that you're developing something else,
Speaker:in addition,
Speaker:are you feeling more confident or do you have the same
Speaker:concerns and questions and I won't say self doubt,
Speaker:but just thoughts of how everything is going to go as
Speaker:you did when you did biz women rock.
Speaker:Yes and no.
Speaker:It's a different phase I would say because I now about
Speaker:a decade of entrepreneurship under my belt and specifically with biz
Speaker:women rock five years of that,
Speaker:I feel really confident in who I am as a business
Speaker:person, as a strategist,
Speaker:as somebody who can see what's ahead and plan for it
Speaker:and organize it and what's possible.
Speaker:Like I feel really confident about that so I don't have
Speaker:the same who am I and what am I doing?
Speaker:And I don't know what people want for me that like
Speaker:I don't feel that like I definitely felt in the beginning
Speaker:of biz women rock the hiccups if you will.
Speaker:And by the way,
Speaker:there's definitely been the self doubt,
Speaker:but that's been in the form of like the who am
Speaker:I? I'm not a Yogi.
Speaker:Like who am I to give guided meditations and that's still
Speaker:comes up every once in a while.
Speaker:But I've actually made it useful for me as a PowerPoint
Speaker:topic. No,
Speaker:this is why this is,
Speaker:I should continue to do this.
Speaker:Right. So that stuff,
Speaker:it's more in the background,
Speaker:kind of that negative self talk or like the hesitations of
Speaker:like, I don't know about this but I have very little
Speaker:of that.
Speaker:It's humble confidence is what I have right now,
Speaker:knowing that I am at the beginning of a new journey
Speaker:and also that I've also traversed a pretty good journey so
Speaker:far so I'm totally in the right spot to be ready
Speaker:for this journey and I'm going to learn a heck of
Speaker:a lot more as I continue it.
Speaker:Beautiful, humble confidence.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Okay. Let's finish up here with any other final comments you
Speaker:have for people who might be interested in learning more and
Speaker:participating and listening to the podcast.
Speaker:Any final direction on how to approach it?
Speaker:Yeah, so the first thing that I would say is go
Speaker:listen, go listen to all of the totally free meditations that
Speaker:are there for you on the podcast itself.
Speaker:If you don't want to listen on your actual podcast player,
Speaker:you can go to meditation for women,
Speaker:podcast.com and all of them are there as well.
Speaker:And then I actually do give away a totally free five
Speaker:days of free meditations.
Speaker:Oh, that must be new.
Speaker:Yeah, but that you'll find that on the website.
Speaker:If you just go to meditation for women,
Speaker:podcast.com you'll find it there.
Speaker:But you could go to meditation for women podcast.com
Speaker:forward slash five days and just opt into that and that'll
Speaker:give you a meditation every day for five days.
Speaker:How does that work?
Speaker:Does it come through an email or something or,
Speaker:yep, it comes through email.
Speaker:These are different than what's currently on the podcast.
Speaker:These are very specific ones in there specifically for getting yourself
Speaker:into the practice of it.
Speaker:And so every single day you'll get an email really early
Speaker:in the morning,
Speaker:but you can listen at any time and it's just like,
Speaker:okay, here's your daily meditation.
Speaker:They'll be anywhere from five minutes to maybe 15 minutes and
Speaker:it's a really easy to digest.
Speaker:And the idea is just to get you in the habit
Speaker:of saying,
Speaker:yes, this is for me today.
Speaker:Yes, I'm going to do this today.
Speaker:So that's available for you.
Speaker:Totally free.
Speaker:And the idea is just to give you more of a
Speaker:taste of it,
Speaker:whether you've been meditating for 20 years plus yours and just
Speaker:kind of want a new fresh way to experience them,
Speaker:or you're totally brand new and maybe a little skeptical and
Speaker:like whatever,
Speaker:I can't get into this.
Speaker:This is my challenge to have you actually just try it
Speaker:and do it just like you're doing Sue.
Speaker:Oh yes.
Speaker:Well, I'm already doing it with the podcast,
Speaker:but I'm definitely going to dive into the five days too.
Speaker:I want it all.
Speaker:I want to know all of it.
Speaker:So we've been talking a lot about getting into your inner
Speaker:self, identifying,
Speaker:getting clear,
Speaker:pausing, breathing,
Speaker:all of that.
Speaker:And now I'm kind of going on the same vein,
Speaker:but now we're going to do something more law of attraction,
Speaker:Katie. Okay.
Speaker:Yep. I'd like to present you with a virtual gift.
Speaker:It's a magical box containing unlimited possibilities for your future.
Speaker:So this is your dream or your goal of almost unreachable
Speaker:Heights that you would wish to obtain.
Speaker:Please accept this gift and open it in our presence.
Speaker:What is inside your box?
Speaker:What's inside of my box is the transformation beyond those things
Speaker:that keep us personally imprisoned and small.
Speaker:So if really the gift is a gift for every single
Speaker:woman on this planet to be transformed beyond those thoughts of
Speaker:self doubt,
Speaker:those what ifs,
Speaker:all of those boulders have responsibilities on her shoulders so that
Speaker:we can transform into the space of really letting our individual
Speaker:lights shine.
Speaker:Not in comparison to one another,
Speaker:but in really lighting each other up so that we can
Speaker:live lives that are big in whatever we describe that to
Speaker:be. That's for me too,
Speaker:by the way,
Speaker:like that is a big reason why I continue to do
Speaker:this cause that's what I continue to strive for is how
Speaker:can I transform beyond this worldly personal internal battles that I'm
Speaker:going through so that I can get to the cream of
Speaker:what I'm really here to do and how I'm here to
Speaker:serve and how I'm here to connect.
Speaker:So that is a gift that I want to pull out
Speaker:of this box and give away to every single woman.
Speaker:That's beautiful because it is,
Speaker:it's a gift for you,
Speaker:but you're sharing it with everybody else and that's all that
Speaker:you're about.
Speaker:That's exactly what the meditation for women is all about.
Speaker:Yeah. My daughter's included.
Speaker:Like that's a really big thing.
Speaker:We're about to have another little girl,
Speaker:so I'm like,
Speaker:how can I give my daughters the gift of,
Speaker:I mean they're going to go through their own self doubt.
Speaker:Of course.
Speaker:That's part of like growing up it builds character,
Speaker:but like how can I give them the next transformation,
Speaker:the next level of freedom to be themselves and to express
Speaker:themselves fully.
Speaker:That's what this is.
Speaker:Beautiful. I absolutely love it and I love how you've niched
Speaker:down. I mean we've talked,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:in the entrepreneurial world we talk a lot about not being
Speaker:so broad,
Speaker:but really niching down what you're doing to serve a specific
Speaker:group of people and that's what you're doing here too.
Speaker:All of this falls into place here.
Speaker:How best could our listeners get in touch with you?
Speaker:Either if they want to know more about biz women rock
Speaker:or we've talked about the meditations.
Speaker:I think already,
Speaker:but we're are two places that you'd want us to go.
Speaker:One for biz women rock and one for the meditation.
Speaker:So for the meditation it would be that same website that
Speaker:I had commented on before.
Speaker:So meditation for women,
Speaker:podcast.com for biz women rock.
Speaker:I would recommend going to biz women,
Speaker:rock.com forward slash group and that is a direct link to
Speaker:the private Facebook group that I have where I have over
Speaker:five women who are all women entrepreneurs,
Speaker:very high driving,
Speaker:purposeful, a mixture of all different types of businesses,
Speaker:but they're all there to live out businesses that they're passionate
Speaker:about. And so that's where I live mostly.
Speaker:So it's free to join,
Speaker:so you're absolutely welcome to come and join that group and
Speaker:just start interacting with me there.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Katie, you have given us such a gift today.
Speaker:Just you know,
Speaker:learning more about meditation.
Speaker:Those who already are doing it have a whole new Avenue
Speaker:now that they can go by with all of your meditations
Speaker:and those who are new.
Speaker:I think the whole idea of pausing in a day is
Speaker:something we can all use and I love that you can
Speaker:pause and walk at the same time.
Speaker:That is so perfect.
Speaker:Yes, you can.
Speaker:Once again,
Speaker:thank you so much and when we hang up,
Speaker:I want you to know that you've done a lot of
Speaker:good for my listeners and I really,
Speaker:really appreciate it,
Speaker:so thank you so much.
Speaker:It was such a gift to be here.
Speaker:I really love that you have this community and you have
Speaker:this platform to be able to share your gift and I'm
Speaker:just, I feel so honored to Be a part of it.
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