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462: Building an Aligned Empire with Kasey D’Amato
1st October 2025 • STaR Coach Show • Meg Rentschler
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Discover how to build an “aligned empire,” a business and life that work together instead of against each other. Today’s guest has mastered the art of balance—not just work-life balance, but proper alignment between career ambitions, family priorities, energy management, and personal fulfillment. Whether you are just starting or feeling overwhelmed by trying to do everything yourself, this conversation will provide a reliable roadmap for building something sustainable that honors your values and ambitions. Join us to learn more!

Kasey D’Amato is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and strategic business advisor who helps business founders and corporate leaders navigate high-stakes decisions and transitions with clarity, confidence, and resilience, without burning out in the process. With over 20 years of experience across healthcare, entrepreneurship, and business consulting, Kasey brings a unique blend of business acumen, human behavior expertise, and emotional intelligence to her work. She has walked multiple career paths, including pharmaceutical sales, founding a global skincare brand, healthcare consulting, and executive leadership advisory. Kasey’s mission is to impact one million entrepreneurs and high achievers, and her core message will challenge how you think about success. She believes a dream life is within reach for those who are willing to lead with intention. You’ll discover Kasey’s “3 Whos” framework that ensures you will never have to navigate your journey alone, and why she swears by 90-day experiments instead of massive overhauls. Kasey is known for her dynamic, actionable, and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership as she guides ambitious entrepreneurs and executives to think bigger, lead better, and align their next move with both performance and personal fulfillment. 

Show Highlights:

  • Components of an aligned empire
  • Find your Polaris Point™: This is your clear “North Star” that aligns business ventures with personal life goals. Every 90 days, take a step back, assess, and recalibrate your approach. 
  • 3 areas of alignment beyond the tactical tools of your industry:
  • Self-leadership: mindset, resilience, clarity of purpose/mission, confronting limiting beliefs, and understanding that failure is part of the process (This is 80% of your success!)
  • Team leadership: communication, expectations, measures of success, setting examples, and celebrating wins
  • Industry leadership: visibility, accountability, a focus on your superpower, and consistency in how you want to be known
  • Dream BIG! “Dreams are free in the land of imagination!”
  • Implementing 90-day experiments to make progress in specific areas
  • Common objections to having alignment partners:
  • “I can do it all myself.”
  • “I don’t have enough time.”
  • I don’t have the money.”
  • Hiring with specific growth goals in mind
  • Kasey’s framework, your “3 Whos”:
  • Who are your mentors and coaches?
  • Who are your peers?
  • Who are the members of your team?
  • Kasey’s biggest takeaways about your journey, guidance, and leaning on your 3 Whos

Resources:

Connect with Kasey D’Amato: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Kasey's Decision Threshold Checklist.

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