EPISODE 2: MY STORY
This one is all about my story. You’ll get to know me a lot better.
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Even though I don’t like labels (I think we’re much deeper than that) I gave it a go. In summary, I’m a New Zealander who lives in Houston. I’m a Mama and have 2 sons, a 4 yr old and 2 yr old. I am married to a wonderful man who happens to be American. I am also a life long soul-searcher and spiritual seeker. I have a Masters in Psychology. I also have degrees in Communications, Management and Organizational Psychology.
I started coaching when I was working as a Corporate Psychologist. In my consulting role I did Team Development, Leadership Development, a tonne of personality work, and Executive Coaching. I found that when working with people talking about their professional development and their personalities, you couldn’t help but move into life coaching if you were really talking about personal fulfillment. We aren’t robots and our lives and our jobs aren’t separate things. So that was where my coaching career started.
You’ll learn A LOT more about me from this episode. In summary form, here are some of the key points from my story:
- I was a highly sensitive child which I recognized that much later in life, but now I can see I have always been HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) or an Empath
- I developed a phobia as a child, and I believe it was the thing that really started me on the journey as a lifelong spiritual seeker and soul-searcher
- How I believe in spirituality that is based on LOVE, and believe it is the core message of all religions. The message is the same.
- As a teenager and into my early 20’s I had low levels of self-worth, and was looking for my worthiness in the wrong places
- I used to be a big time people-pleaser and put up with some crap
- How I managed to flunk out of Law School twice, before finally finding Psychology
- How I was drawn to Positive Psychology over Clinical Psychology, which meant that I had to go the route of Business Psychology to ultimately register as a Psychologist in New Zealand
- I discuss some bits about my career in the corporate world
- I talk about how I had reached the top of the mountain, and achieved my professional goals, yet still felt unfulfilled
- I had been on the treadmill of life, and wasn’t reflecting on if I was truly happy
- Motherhood was the thing that slowed me down, and made me question what I wanted
- I talk about how I converted to Judaism in my late 20’s, and how that process reawakened my spiritual need and gave me an outlet for the deeper questions I had about life
- We moved to the USA when I was 31 and it was around this time that I lost myself in motherhood
- My love of self-care, and recognizing how important it is, is definitely due to feeling burned out as a stay-at-home-mum
- I went through a process of rediscovering myself, and defining myself outside of the labels I used to be attached to
- I started a blog called Heart.Home.Happy. that eventually became this business, Thrive.How
- And ultimately how I am motivated by the hope that through each of us living fulfilling and happy lives, we will one by one light up the world
Things I reference in this podcast:
Join my community here to get FREE copy of the Thriving Life Mini-Guide I refer to with the super simple tips I applied to my own life to help me reconnect with myself.
How to Write Your Own Light You Up List: 4 Questions to Help You Identify the Things You Love
Book: If Life is a Game, These Are the Rules. Dr Cherie Carter Scott
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Hi. I’m Kate Snowise. I’m a Life & Executive Coach who helps people who want the good stuff out of life, get it. I believe life is about more than surviving and it being good enough. I have an MSc in Psychology (the positive kind that concentrates on what is right with you). To read more about my coaching it click here.