In this premiere episode, Kat and Lee dive into their journey from launching the podcast in 2021 to taking a break, and finally revamping the show in 2024. They reflect on the challenges of entrepreneurship, life lessons from past guests, and the importance of having a strong support team. The couple also introduces their new mission for the podcast—equipping the next generation with leadership skills, creativity, and a growth mindset through inspiring conversations. Get ready to embrace your own "Wildly Wealthy Life"!

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00:00 Kat & Lee reintroduce the podcast and its new mission.

01:35 Reflections on starting the podcast in 2021 and the impact of the pandemic.

04:02 Kat discusses entrepreneurship, building a business, and the importance of hiring the right team.

05:08 Insights on leadership, personal growth, and notable guests from the past episodes.

07:21 Transitioning from entertainment to teaching piano and developing life skills in kids.

13:15 Preview of new podcast topics: leadership, creativity, and empowering the next generation.

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Hey, my name is Kat,

and I'm Lee,

and welcome to the

Wildly Wealthy Life podcast.

In this show, we explore the journey of what it means to live a truly

exceptional and fulfilling life.

Each episode focuses on how a foundation of brilliant minds and

brave hearts nurtured through the arts leads to lifelong success.

Get inspired with actionable tips to foster a growth

mindset, leadership values.

and creativity and children and adults turning their potential into lasting

contributions for their communities.

We hope you embrace the challenge to shift your perspective as we equip

you and the next generation for a

wildly wealthy life.

Hey, everyone.

My name is Kat

and my name is Lee

and welcome to the wildly wealthy life podcast.

And this is our baby

smokey.

Smoky is a, uh, rescue kitten.

She was found inside a car engine.

Looks like she needs to be

rescued now.

And, uh, she had her chest burnt because she was inside the car engine.

And, uh, when we found her, she was covered in soot.

We thought that she was a, um, And we watched her and she is this beautiful,

gorgeous white flame point and Siamese kitten, red ears, red tail, blue eyes.

But anyway, that's beside the story.

If you're listening to this on your podcast platform, you have

to watch it on YouTube because you'll see how beautiful Smokey is.

So babe, uh, it is now 2024 and we started this podcast in 2021.

What do you have to say about that?

That is four years ago.

That was four years ago.

We kind of fell off the radar when it comes to our podcasting from four

years ago because of a lot of things.

We actually planned the podcast back in December of 2019.

And we already had a launch date in April of 2020, not knowing that the

world was going to end in March.

Yep.

Yep.

And then, uh, also in February, uh, my dad died, so that put the brakes

on a lot of things, took the wind out of my sails for a while, and, uh, we

still had done quite a few recordings up to that point, uh, we had another

seven, eight guests after that, and then we had to start pivoting, so.

Cat was in the stunt and dance world and she had to pivot to teaching piano.

I had recently shifted jobs as well.

And then with the pandemic, just taking on new responsibilities, being

at home, not be able to go into the office as much working with students.

I'm in higher education.

It was a lot of just changes for us.

And we had a lot of things going on at the same time.

So we had to make a decision on something to cut

for the time

being.

And what I learned though, is that.

If we had help, we probably would have been able to continue with it,

but we didn't have help at that time.

So we kind of just let the show go, although I've really felt that we got

up to 30 episodes and I really felt that every single guest we had in, in

all of those episodes were amazing.

And our old episodes are still in YouTube.

So if you want to check that out, it's still Spotify.

Uh, we had some amazing, uh, guests like Olympians, uh, stunt

women, uh, real estate investors,

power lifters, TV and movie producers, a lot,

a lot.

Yeah.

Europeans.

Americans, Canadians,

we also had Mexicans, Filipinos.

No, we didn't have a Filipino in our guest except for me in our show.

Indians.

Yeah, we did.

Aditi Shekhar was our representative from India.

That was really awesome.

So a very diverse group of people with very diverse backgrounds when

it comes to work and their pathways.

To financial freedom.

We learned a lot.

It was amazing to talk to the guests.

And now we're back doing the show.

And I think the journey from 2020 all the way to here, we have learned a ton.

Um, one of them again was like not having help and, uh.

You know, not hiring help is really difficult when you're in an

entrepreneurial, you know, side of things.

So I was doing everything myself.

And the reason why we're back doing the show is because I finally have three

assistants that I'm so happy about.

So I know that, um, my audio, uh, my, my audio guy, my podcast manager, Brian,

he's going to be listening to this.

So again, shout out to Ryan Sheena and ACE because I literally have, I'm not even

kidding, I have so much hope right now with what I'm doing in my business and

the trajectory of where I want to bring my business because I finally have help

and not just any help, but amazing help.

So right now, one of the things I'm reading is this book called

Attraction by Gino Wickman.

And it's about your entrepreneurial operating system and how it's not

really about having A players in your team, because it really doesn't matter

if you have A players if they're not sitting at the right seats.

So he talks about how you have to have the right people at the right seats.

That's it.

And I do feel like my team, every single one of them, are

pretty much in their right seats.

I am telling them one of the things I tell them is you are in your

seats because you are good at what you do at this particular things.

But I also want you to be a Swiss army knife, meaning, you know, if

someone is out and we need to jump in, you need to be able to shift roles

and switch gears if I need you to.

So I'm just really thankful for that.

Um, anything that you learned out of your journey of the podcast

into now in the last few years.

For myself, I just really enjoy seeing the guests grow.

Every single one of the guests in some way, shape, or form has, uh, grown.

I think one of the biggest ones I've watched is Erica.

Erica, what's up?

Erica Kohlberg.

Yep.

Uh, from lawyer to YouTube superstar and, uh,

4 million followers.

Now, when we interviewed her, she was,

I think 20, 000, 30, 000.

She was at like a hundred thousand when we interviewed her.

I think,

I don't know.

We go way back.

Other people make transitions also.

So we've seen some of our, uh, Uh, podcast guests, uh, who were on this,

um, independent wealth journey kind of shift and go after something more,

uh, meaningful for their own lives.

Uh, they added members to their families.

They've had, um, new homes, first homes, second homes, third homes, multiple.

Properties, Gino and the boys have, uh, blown up over on the East coast

with different properties that they've been managing and running

with.

Yeah.

That's a great episode.

You guys, if you ever check out our podcast, Gino Barbaro,

the he's a family man.

It's just amazing to kind of, he's got like what, five kids, I believe, right?

Yeah.

Uh, it's just, it's just amazing.

And he's a real estate investor.

Matt

Faircloth.

We ended

up partnering with him on a syndication deal on a 256 unit

apartment building in Kentucky.

So that was really cool to kind of have those relationships

form through the podcast.

So we're excited now to form new relationships, meet new people, um,

with our new podcast that's coming up

and continue with our friends and people that we know.

And actually, I just realized, I said, you know, meet new people, but

Oh, hold on.

Yes.

What have you learned

in

the last four years?

What have I not learned in the last four years?

Let me tell you.

I feel like I'm learning so many things.

It's ridiculous.

So, 2020, happened.

I was already teaching piano before 2020, but 2020 was really the full blown.

This is what I do now.

I have stopped doing the entertainment thing, and I went full force

into teaching piano full time.

And in a year and a half, I was able to grow this my studio

from zero to 75 students.

So that was incredible.

And think about Where do

you have students?

From around the world, all over the world.

Europe, we have some European students.

Point out where

your students are.

Um, we have a map behind that.

She doesn't know

geography at all.

Shut up and be

on the spot.

It's

the best to watch.

It's in Switzerland.

It's

somewhere here.

Where's Italy?

Italy is there.

We went there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And

then what's above it early?

Um, uh, Switzerland right there.

See, there's even like a thing there.

Cause I did go there.

I performed there in Switzerland, guys, long, long time ago.

Um, so yeah.

So anyway, I learned that entrepreneurship is nonstop.

24 7.

It's your own thing.

It's like, yeah, I don't want to work for a boss.

I want to be the boss of me.

And then guess what?

You're a slave to your own business.

Okay.

But however, um, it doesn't have to be that way.

And I am now learning that it does not have to be that way.

And I'm really excited about the growth that's coming because

as I said, I now have help.

Um, I've shifted.

I'm actually in the middle of shifting my business model from,

you know, just a piano teaching.

Model, which is really what I feel I've been teaching is not just piano.

It's really life skills to these kids.

I feel like they are getting coaching on what it means to be committed, how to be

consistent, their creativity, you know, that aspect of that, but realizing that

the thing that I enjoy the most teaching is life skills and just, I keep telling

Lee that I can't believe that as children, we were never taught How our minds work.

So understanding that we have a conscious mind, a subconscious

mind that are our brains can go in so many different directions.

If we don't control them, if we don't control our thoughts, it can control us.

And by the time you know kids turn 67 teenagers and into teenage years,

they have so much comparison in them.

They doubt so much they they lack confidence.

And so realizing that I really love teaching that part, I'm actually shifting.

My whole programming into teaching life skills like it's a life coaching

for kids, but through music education still, but really, really having

that exercises and talking points and stories that I can teach them that

can help them understand their mind.

So I'm excited about that.

I talked to me about lessons and how to teach kids how to say no to peer pressure.

Um, there's lessons, uh, teaching kids on what integrity is all about.

Um, what is.

Responsibility taking ownership for your actions.

And the other lesson that I'm really excited about teaching is this lesson

on power shifting, like shifting when a situation comes your way.

And it's not something that you really expected.

Like, it's an unexpected event, right?

You have the power to do.

shift it to, to switch your mind frame about it.

And so I'm excited about that because I just feel like it's going to

change the lives of a lot of kids.

And, uh, what better way to teach that than through storytelling and music?

I think it's going to be incredible.

I think some of the things that we're looking forward to in this next

season is just bringing in the creativity and leadership into this new season.

And we found guests that all come from different backgrounds.

Different creative backgrounds are used creativity in the roles

that they're established in.

Currently, um, they have excellent leadership skills and capabilities

and are going to be coming to you guys to help showcase what it means

to be a awesome creative leader, but also how to live your honest and true.

Wildly wealthy life, and we're really excited for this upcoming season.

Yeah, I think what I also realized, babe, is that how blessed are we that

right now we haven't even reached out to other people that we don't know.

All I did was go through my phone, go through my friends in Instagram,

and I was able to list out 80 people.

I'm not even kidding.

80 people.

That our potential guests, because these 80 people have been successful

in what they do, whether it is in the arts, in real estate, in their

own businesses, in their lives as parents, uh, it's just incredible that

I have, we have 80 people that we're reaching out to just from our network.

Just from my phone.

We haven't even tapped into your phone yet.

There's a large library of people that we're hoping to bring to you

guys so that you have just different points of view and little nuggets

that you're going to be able to steal.

Cause we're all on a different journey and every step, every glance that we take,

every breath that we make, it's, it's leading to that next phase of our life.

And we're looking to really just deepen and strengthen

that for you as best we can.

And.

Yeah.

We're just really excited about bringing the best of the world to you guys.

Yeah.

So the old angle of the show, uh, it's still wildly wealthy life.

The show is still widely wealthy life.

So the old angle of the show is really exploring financial freedom

through intentional generosity.

So that's why a lot of the guests that we had on the show are guests who are either

on their trajectory towards financial freedom, or they're already there.

We have had guests who are literally like, they're like, we don't

literally don't need to work and we don't want to, but they are working

because They love what they do.

And what we loved about those guests is when we asked them, you know, what they're

doing for generosity, they, they've given so much, I mean, I still remember

Michelle Bosch, she was one of our very first guests, she is a land investor and

because of her financial freedom, she put up a school in Central America and

really just gave back to her community.

So I just love that our guests have.

A heart for service and a heart for generosity and the shift this time, as

I said, it's still wildly wealthy life, but the shift this time is just really

actually focusing more on what does it mean to be able to equip our kids to live

their own version of wildly wealthy life.

So in our show this time around we will be asking our guests questions

about leadership skills How did they learn these leadership skills?

Did they learn these as kids?

Where did they have mentors that really helped them when they were kids?

What were the mindset shifts that they had to do when they were

children all the way to adulthood?

We talked about how How can we develop brilliant minds and kids and brave

hearts through creativity, through the arts, because I believe that

the arts really give us that voice.

It's a way to be able to speak your own truth, I think.

And so it's really amazing to be able to speak to our guests.

We've already recorded some episodes and we're so excited to share them with

you, because I realized, at least in my work that I do, and I know, Babe,

you do a lot of work with students as well, although yours is more higher

education, so they're a lot older, but I mean, it's still the same.

The, the, the students that you deal with, even if they're at higher

education, they're older, they still have self limiting beliefs.

They have confidence issues.

They have,

yeah, I've with 20 years of education experience, just being in

higher education with bachelor degrees.

And now most recently working in a business school for

master's programs, the level of.

Doubt, fear, frustration, just not knowing, you know, what that next

phase is in life, uh, can be pretty crippling for a lot of people.

And it's, um, having a coach, having somebody behind you, kind of edging you

along, moving you forward, but also you really have to turn that switch on inside.

It's finding that internal switch that, that fire within finding a way to let that

burn bright so that you can overcome a lot of the obstacles and challenges that are

out there in life that you have to face.

Now, the other thing is, is that.

I think that creativity, pressing into the arts, whether that's

painting, drawing, building models, um, dance, gymnastics, playing music,

piano, guitar, whatever, um, a lot of the different thought processes

and just different ways of looking at the world through unique perspectives

really helps shape, uh, great leaders.

Um, in the business world or just in life itself, uh, I've seen so many

times different challenging situations come up for different companies.

And then you have somebody where there's just.

Different mindset, different, um, upbringing, different training that

is able to look at this particular problem from a unique perspective.

And then all of a sudden finds a solution for it.

And it's just incredible to see.

And we're really excited about this set of guests that we have, because

we have guests from all Facets, uh, painters, dancers, drawers, animators,

voice actors, actors, producers, directors, finance people, just a

wealth of different backgrounds that we've just been associated with.

Some of them are like students that I know that have grown up, that are moved off

and gotten into different companies like Guess, Marvel, Disney, and um, bringing,

being able to connect with them again and, and give them a, a, a piece of Podium

to kind of like share their thoughts and their hearts with you guys is, is

really exciting for this upcoming season.

Yeah, so we really hope that you join us and check it out because

we're just so excited that we finally are able to keep this show going, um,

because we have, um, so stay tuned.

Um, we're releasing five episodes, uh, right off the bat.

So as soon as you're done with this, you can go to the next and

the next and the next and the next.

And then after that, it will be one episode per week.

And, uh, we're excited about that.

So.

Stay tuned and make sure you check out the show.

Yep, and we hope you guys have an amazing, wildly wealthy life.

Woo!

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